Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xs and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports sporteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome, go I on the ball.
Speaker 3: Here on the Fox Sports Sports comes Skim Rivera. Who's
Speaker 3: Jakes now in the house with us?
Speaker 2: Ugly Paul, I want you steal a star, Steve. You're
Speaker 2: gonna have to bring one of our big sponsors. Hey,
Speaker 2: we I asked Jay? I asked Jay, how how disappointed
Speaker 2: or whatever word, whatever word you wanted to use. No,
Speaker 2: you can't hear me. You can hear me, not even
Speaker 2: right there. Okay, okay, well we'll get this correct, we'll
Speaker 2: get this figured out, but maybe take the headphones off.
Speaker 2: You can hear us well until we get the headphones
Speaker 2: figured out. So I used I used the word with
Speaker 2: uh with a good uh with Jay. His name's j Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to forget his name. He's been gone so long,
Speaker 2: I forgot his name. Uh, you can call me Jake,
Speaker 2: just some probably late. Hey, is there a disappointment to
Speaker 2: what you've see? Disappointed or whatever word, whatever word he
Speaker 2: wanted to use. You can't hear me. You can hear me,
Speaker 2: not even right there. Okay, Okay, well, we'll get this correct.
Speaker 3: We'll get this.
Speaker 4: Figured out, but maybe take the headphones off. You can
Speaker 4: hear us well until we get the headphones figured out.
Speaker 4: So I used I used the word with uh with
Speaker 4: a good UH with Jay. His name's j Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: trying to forget his name. He's been gone so long,
Speaker 4: I forgot his name.
Speaker 3: Uh. You can call me Jake, just some probably late.
Speaker 2: Hey, is there a disappointment to what you've seen so far?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm very disappointed. I'm hurt.
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of adjitive that we can
Speaker 5: use right now in regards to where things of standing
Speaker 5: with our program. The football program was going to give
Speaker 5: the defense an opportunity to be able to step up
Speaker 5: and be able to step up and allow the off
Speaker 5: the defense to mature and grow, and but that didn't happen,
Speaker 5: and that hasn't happened. So it has put our defense
Speaker 5: in a bad situation where we got to go out
Speaker 5: there and protect the field, and a lot of times
Speaker 5: we're giving up on uh, the possession of the offense.
Speaker 5: Possessions where our defense backs against the wall, you know,
Speaker 5: northorine foolish interceptions there, the fumbles that we see here
Speaker 5: and there.
Speaker 3: That's bad for a defense.
Speaker 5: I mean a defense you know, can't go out there
Speaker 5: morale wise, you know, day in and day out and
Speaker 5: play and play out to be able to protect that
Speaker 5: and particularly a young, immature defense.
Speaker 4: When when you are you able as a as a
Speaker 4: guy who grew up playing playing defense, are you able
Speaker 4: to look at this offense and had a sense.
Speaker 3: Of what it could possibly be?
Speaker 4: I mean everybody's got that question, and I know the
Speaker 4: coaches are trying to figure it out, But what does
Speaker 4: it look like to you from where you sat.
Speaker 5: I think it's a couple of things that I see
Speaker 5: from my eye. Naturally, we got to start with the quarterback,
Speaker 5: and I think, no, personally, it's taking on a lot,
Speaker 5: you know. I think knowing himself is taking on a
Speaker 5: little extra because of the fact that you know money's
Speaker 5: in the game, you know, expectations in the game. No,
Speaker 5: along with Timac, all those guys say, I mean we're
Speaker 5: coming back to finish something we started. You and you
Speaker 5: make that statement like that, I mean, that's a big
Speaker 5: statement to make for a young man, you know. So
Speaker 5: I think he is taking a lot on his shoulders
Speaker 5: and carrying a lot on his shoulders, and then you
Speaker 5: married that with you know, some of the things that
Speaker 5: that is taking place. We lost some key players on offense,
Speaker 5: you know, some players that he relied on in the
Speaker 5: past years. We lost a great offensive lineman that he
Speaker 5: relied on that helped him to protect him in the
Speaker 5: past few years. I don't think we're running the ball
Speaker 5: the way we should be running the ball. I think
Speaker 5: they need to go to you know, control the game
Speaker 5: by running the ball first and then that know, or
Speaker 5: do what he needs to do. So you compound that
Speaker 5: with all of those different things that's taking place. Me
Speaker 5: as a football fan, you know, I see that happening,
Speaker 5: and it is frustrating. It's frustrating, and you know, I'm
Speaker 5: frustrated for the kids. I'm frustrated as alumni, and I'm
Speaker 5: frustrated as a football player. And you know the thing,
Speaker 5: but when and all of this ben said and done.
Speaker 5: I listened to Britain speak and not once has this
Speaker 5: man put anybody else or or put the blame on
Speaker 5: any but himself. So as far as a player to
Speaker 5: a coach, I gotta respect that. I totally respect that
Speaker 5: the way he's handling it as a coach and everything
Speaker 5: belongs to him. He's taking the ship to everything. Is
Speaker 5: it getting fixed? No, but at least he's still taking that.
Speaker 2: I wanted to go there because he said this to
Speaker 2: your point, he said this, not once, not twice, maybe
Speaker 2: three times.
Speaker 3: I need to coach better. Yes, I'd like to know
Speaker 3: what that means.
Speaker 5: Well, you know the fact is that you know him.
Speaker 5: His coaching is not the coaching of the kids. First,
Speaker 5: you talked about the assistance yet yeah, I mean his
Speaker 5: coaching is the coaching of the coaches, and of course
Speaker 5: they implement whatever game plans collectly together. But his job
Speaker 5: is to coach those coaches and coach them better and
Speaker 5: making sure they prepare the coaches to the players to
Speaker 5: be able.
Speaker 3: How does that work?
Speaker 2: Like you get on them to get on, but if
Speaker 2: you don't, okay, it must because just.
Speaker 5: Respects respect for a grown man.
Speaker 3: Grown I don't know once have you seen get on anybody?
Speaker 5: But it's again, it's it's it's different coaches has different philosophies,
Speaker 5: a way of dealing with things.
Speaker 3: But there's no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 5: Behind closed doors, there's words been said and words been
Speaker 5: talked about in regards to how he feel that things
Speaker 5: are happening. I mean, this is this show, this is
Speaker 5: his show. He got all the right to do these things.
Speaker 5: This is his show. And there's no doubt in my
Speaker 5: mind he's managing that way. And it's his ass of
Speaker 5: course it is not.
Speaker 3: This year doesn't get fixed. Yeah, yeah, well it can be.
Speaker 5: There asked to trust trickles down at the end of
Speaker 5: this year, he's and he has made statements where he
Speaker 5: evaluates or re evaluates, evaluates his staff damnly or gamely
Speaker 5: how you phrase it, as he should. So at the
Speaker 5: end of the year there might be some coaching changes,
Speaker 5: you know, And and I can see why.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, well, and and that's the thing.
Speaker 4: And look, you know we we all everybody wants us
Speaker 4: to get better, and you want it to get better
Speaker 4: right now. Clearly, what what we've seen in the first
Speaker 4: seven games is not something that's gonna fix in a week. Oh,
Speaker 4: by no means right, I mean you know, I mean
Speaker 4: you you've been on a team at some point that
Speaker 4: needed fixing, But I've never been on the losing at
Speaker 4: some point there was something that needed to be fixed, right,
Speaker 4: And it doesn't fix at the snap of a finger,
Speaker 4: or doesn't.
Speaker 5: No, it doesn't I mean, it's it's gonna take you know,
Speaker 5: some getting into the kids head. I mean, so it's
Speaker 5: it's not just everything on the practice field. I mean
Speaker 5: there's things again in the classroom, and there's things that
Speaker 5: I mean, you're dealing with eighteen, nineteen twenty year olds,
Speaker 5: right they got outside distractions. So the coaching staff themselves
Speaker 5: got to be able to handle those kids in certain
Speaker 5: ways just as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: And it's very easy for these kids right now to say,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm getting paid. I'm gone, yeah, And
Speaker 5: I hope I don't. I don't think we're at that
Speaker 5: stage with our team because I don't think they're getting
Speaker 5: paid that much.
Speaker 3: But we're at that stage with our team. But that
Speaker 3: could happen.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you, because you brought that up
Speaker 2: earlier than just now, and I've said this for the
Speaker 2: month or so. Then you've gotten paid upfront. You got
Speaker 2: paid up front. What's the motivation to continue to get paid?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean the motivation is you as a person
Speaker 5: first and foremost you you as a desire and the
Speaker 5: love for the game of football.
Speaker 3: Okay, and that's the true motivation behind it.
Speaker 5: And but again, you know, we we're dealing with these
Speaker 5: these young kids nowadays, that's basically it should be instant gratification.
Speaker 3: But you put water, money is done. It's done, is done,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: So, And that's what I say is the coaching staff
Speaker 5: comes into play when they get it to these kids'
Speaker 5: head and maybe the kids one or two kids thinking
Speaker 5: that way. So now it's up to the assistant coach
Speaker 5: to have those moments with those kids. You know, have
Speaker 5: those moments with those kids. And and again the best
Speaker 5: way you you you fix them this. You know, you
Speaker 5: don't play them, you just don't play them well.
Speaker 4: And then there was a whole nother, a whole other
Speaker 4: thing into the end of the equation, because look, coaching
Speaker 4: college football is hard enough as it was before all
Speaker 4: this other stuff entered into it.
Speaker 3: Right, Let's say you're Florida State fan and you're.
Speaker 4: Paying dj Ungalley million dollars a year and he's having
Speaker 4: the year that he's having and you're the coach.
Speaker 3: Can you bench him? Do you bench him? Do you?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: Whereas maybe if this wasn't a part of the equation,
Speaker 4: you would, but now can you I.
Speaker 5: Mean, and who you're pissing off if you're doing exactly
Speaker 5: because you say, ken, will you and and and and
Speaker 5: and and The number one thing that I guess the
Speaker 5: coaching staff got to think about is someone else telling
Speaker 5: that coach, no, you're gonna play that kid.
Speaker 3: Right, That's that's exactly where I'm going, right, that kid
Speaker 3: getting paid.
Speaker 5: So now now you got to you got to look
Speaker 5: at the soul of that coach. I mean, what means
Speaker 5: the most for you? Who's going to run your program?
Speaker 5: Are you going to run your program? Or the people
Speaker 5: who's seeding your dollars could run your program?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: And there are some coaches that has to go one
Speaker 5: way exactly, I have to go on down.
Speaker 3: But you know what, you know what I mean, A
Speaker 3: man is a man, you know.
Speaker 5: And and if if again, if you're the soul of
Speaker 5: a person, and you understand that your your job is
Speaker 5: to make these young men men. You know, you just
Speaker 5: don't give it to them. If they don't deserving it
Speaker 5: of it, you take it away from it. Can we
Speaker 5: get that money?
Speaker 2: Well, here's here's the problem to at a place like Arizona.
Speaker 2: They're already thin in the in the DB's area of
Speaker 2: the backfield. The light on running backs, light that quarterback
Speaker 2: you have no choice but to continue to play what
Speaker 2: you play, play.
Speaker 5: What you got to play. Yeah, because but now let's
Speaker 5: think about that. You got these kids getting this opportunity
Speaker 5: to play. Sure, okay, they're getting this opportunity to play
Speaker 5: at this point in time. So now you're developing some
Speaker 5: players that hasn't had an opportunity to get on the
Speaker 5: football field, and you you're developing players who wants to
Speaker 5: be out there for the right reason for.
Speaker 3: The playing time, but you also want to win. In
Speaker 3: this case, you had no all the choice.
Speaker 5: You got to play who you got, rightly, That's what
Speaker 5: we're dealing with.
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Speaker 4: And so when you're when you're going through something like this,
Speaker 4: and again you played on as you mentioned, nothing but
Speaker 4: winning teams, but every every team has, you know, a
Speaker 4: tough spot. And you know, one of the things that
Speaker 4: Brendan has talked about is one of the most important
Speaker 4: things they got to do is keep this team together.
Speaker 3: Yes, who's in charge of that.
Speaker 5: Coach, Head coach, I mean, I mean, first to hand,
Speaker 5: coach himself. He's the one in charge, and stand in
Speaker 5: front of his kids and let his kids have that
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Speaker 5: Man, it's up to us to stay stay together as
Speaker 5: a family. We can't let outside distraction break this thing up.
Speaker 5: And then, and I'm sure he has done this too.
Speaker 5: He has reached out the key players on his team.
Speaker 3: Those key players.
Speaker 5: He's basically going to players that's particularly maybe position wise
Speaker 5: or friendship wise, and he probably had some personal words
Speaker 5: with key players on his team to get his words
Speaker 5: to those kids, through those kids, to the rest of
Speaker 5: these players.
Speaker 3: But his own Brennan, I mean, his own coach Brennan.
Speaker 5: And you know, and the thing is, I mean just
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just something about coach Brennan that I
Speaker 5: truly believe it, and I think he's the right person
Speaker 5: in order to move this thing the right direction.
Speaker 3: Well, we got five games, so what do you see?
Speaker 3: So what do you see?
Speaker 5: Well, I see I can see that there's gonna be
Speaker 5: a change in regards to offensively. I think there's going
Speaker 5: to be a change. Okay, I think we're gonna run
Speaker 5: the ball more. We're gonna go more run heavy than
Speaker 5: what we have done in the past.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: You can see the morale out there. It's gonna be
Speaker 5: a little different in regards to the kids themselves. Is
Speaker 5: going to learn to respect the game now respect it
Speaker 5: versus letting the game just be what it.
Speaker 3: Yes, you respect it, I mean shouldn't that should be
Speaker 3: already inside you.
Speaker 5: You can lose it though, I mean you can lose,
Speaker 5: especially when you when you when you three and four,
Speaker 5: you're losing, you end up losing it. So you got
Speaker 5: to get it back and and and again. Coach Brennan
Speaker 5: is he comes from you know, he comes from that
Speaker 5: coach Tomy background, or that that that coach Tomy, coaching
Speaker 5: Tree and coach Toldy had a way of believing of
Speaker 5: creating the family. You know, and if if you can
Speaker 5: keep the nucleus of the family going, I mean, you
Speaker 5: can get some games, you can win some games.
Speaker 3: Just all that alone.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of of what has to happen
Speaker 4: here is that, you know that you're almost caught the
Speaker 4: intangible stuff. Do they need to do some things scheme
Speaker 4: wise and stuff like that? That, Yeah, I mean, they
Speaker 4: got to change what they're trying to do because of
Speaker 4: what they're trying to.
Speaker 3: Do isn't working. So they aously got to do that.
Speaker 4: But I think more than you know the I think
Speaker 4: the ability to do that lies in the want.
Speaker 3: To do that.
Speaker 5: And that's where it starts. Off the field. You create
Speaker 5: the want in the kids first, right, okay? And you
Speaker 5: I mean, and you you get them to start believing
Speaker 5: in the fact that you know what I mean, we
Speaker 5: went down a dangerous role here, you know, So how
Speaker 5: do we fix this based on us?
Speaker 3: First? How we fix us first?
Speaker 5: And once you fix yourself and the football can get
Speaker 5: back into to play.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: And this week is probably the best week to start
Speaker 5: fixing it because West Virginia is in worse shape than
Speaker 5: we are, you know, as far as players, which.
Speaker 2: Is scary sometimes if they don't play well and they
Speaker 2: lose or whatever, then you're in.
Speaker 3: Then you there's there's issues.
Speaker 5: And and that'll be and and that example that's gonna
Speaker 5: tell us what team we're dealing with it at this
Speaker 5: point in time, what you said, as Steve said, we're
Speaker 5: going in, We're going to the eighth game, and we
Speaker 5: still almost feel like we don't know.
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Speaker 3: He's his own.
Speaker 12: As you know.
Speaker 3: Even even there, the shoe shot guy is missing field goals.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well let me go to that.
Speaker 4: Let me go to this because I've been thinking about,
Speaker 4: you know, you lose and one of the one of
Speaker 4: the issues that I think that is big for this
Speaker 4: team is you and you mentioned it too, is the
Speaker 4: holes that were left behind by some players who left.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Every team loses players like that, and it's the teams
Speaker 4: that have guys you know coming back up, you know,
Speaker 4: to fill those holes. But it looks like there's these
Speaker 4: gaps are still there for Arizona. I mean, you've played,
Speaker 4: you played on the team that you know, you you
Speaker 4: were there the year after your brother Ricky had gone,
Speaker 4: you know, two time All American all that the big
Speaker 4: hole to fill correct and you guys found a way
Speaker 4: to fill that. But you know what, what does a
Speaker 4: team go through when they have to do that, when
Speaker 4: when all of a sudden a place that was solid
Speaker 4: for them no longer is and it's a work in progress.
Speaker 5: Well, you don't go in with the mindset that you're
Speaker 5: going to replace the person that's being replaced.
Speaker 3: And I think right now.
Speaker 5: It's kind of hard to replace Morgan, right, I mean,
Speaker 5: I mean that that kid was I mean first round
Speaker 5: drop pick, you know, so that aspect of it, So
Speaker 5: you don't mean so you got to work around that
Speaker 5: aspect of it, and you know, and hopefully you can
Speaker 5: coach that next kid up to least be half of
Speaker 5: what your what Morgan was or more so that's the
Speaker 5: hardest thing you I mean, you you just got to
Speaker 5: go in that mindset again, coach the kid that's there
Speaker 5: and not try to turn that kid in the kid
Speaker 5: that you missed.
Speaker 4: H from the Morgan to the cow when you know,
Speaker 4: to the tight end right again. Four guys from the
Speaker 4: offense in the NFL.
Speaker 5: And and the thing too, I think one of the
Speaker 5: other things we're missing offensively too well, colin particular, but
Speaker 5: what he did last year, simple simple out routes the
Speaker 5: quick there in the middle, He'll go across the middle.
Speaker 3: We don't have that right.
Speaker 5: And if you sit down and you watch this offense, now,
Speaker 5: everything at the beginning of the season and maybe hopefully
Speaker 5: it's change, everything is.
Speaker 3: Vertical, vertical and to the side vertical.
Speaker 5: And they trying to open up as much as it
Speaker 5: can with tnat and try to drag him. But when
Speaker 5: you drag a guy and they take five seconds, it's
Speaker 5: a little too I mean, you can't, especially when you
Speaker 5: don't have a good.
Speaker 3: Left tackle protecting your quarterback.
Speaker 5: Because soon as the ball is snapped, if you watch Noah,
Speaker 5: he's turning out, you know, to you know, turning out
Speaker 5: because he's he's protecting his blinds.
Speaker 3: You know, by that time, you know the play is
Speaker 3: it can't develop that quickly, and it's deep and he's deep.
Speaker 3: It's just gone too far.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, somebody asked, why don't we throw the
Speaker 4: ball over the middle, and I said, because Noah's five
Speaker 4: foot nine and the middle is stuffed up with guy.
Speaker 4: The offensive line has not been effective in blocking blocking,
Speaker 4: and so he's backing up and backing up.
Speaker 3: He can't see over those guys.
Speaker 5: And again, if you watched last year when Noah was
Speaker 5: actually when plays was being developed, they created this this
Speaker 5: cone of lanes in the lanes around him, they allow
Speaker 5: it the center to open up, so they forced all
Speaker 5: their defenders to go out, allow him to step up
Speaker 5: into his past.
Speaker 2: Right, that's not big different And you can see that
Speaker 2: there easily see I see that. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think the ball he's running for you never see that. Now,
Speaker 2: let me let me ask you. Maybe you haven't. Maybe
Speaker 2: you haven't. Have you gone to a situation where you
Speaker 2: had to play for a new coach after playing for
Speaker 2: one for a while, and and I'm sure, I'm sure
Speaker 2: to the human nature, you got the new coach in
Speaker 2: and at some point, whether it was in spring or fall,
Speaker 2: practic just now games thinking well, he's not Jed, And
Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys who stayed he's not Jed
Speaker 2: and I don't know, I don't know. And then where
Speaker 2: do you find that to play for a guy that
Speaker 2: you don't know.
Speaker 5: And and and again, correct, No, you're very very correct,
Speaker 5: because I I was not college wise, but I was
Speaker 5: in that situation when I played pro ball and our
Speaker 5: coach got fired in the middle of the season.
Speaker 3: I actually got fired the medal a game.
Speaker 5: He walked down on the field, fired him and had
Speaker 5: moved up assistant at that time when of the assistant
Speaker 5: coach that coordinated, he stepped up, but that wasn't the coach,
Speaker 5: and that replaced him. The coach that replaced him with
Speaker 5: a coach named Ron my Higher Ron Myers. Ron my
Speaker 5: apology And so me personally, you know, I saw this gentleman.
Speaker 5: He looked like a used call shealvesman to me, all right,
Speaker 5: he had this nice shoot all yes, yes, I remember
Speaker 5: here back and I say, this man ain't gonna like me,
Speaker 5: and I'm not gonna like him. Wow, or the perception exactly.
Speaker 5: And I created that perception because that's what I saw
Speaker 5: and exactly. So no doubt in my mind what you're
Speaker 5: saying is so true. And so you got a lot
Speaker 5: of kids that believed in what Jed gave them for
Speaker 5: two years, three years, yes, you know, and that's still
Speaker 5: resonating to these kids.
Speaker 3: Hot, you know, so that is going on. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: It's like to see that it's like a stepdad. Well,
Speaker 2: you're not my dad. My dad, don't tell me what
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 4: I mean, and that may be more so than we thought, right,
Speaker 4: because these guys stayed, right, you know, they stayed. But
Speaker 4: then you know, they were staying into the unknown. And
Speaker 4: now it's kind of like maybe they're not sure now
Speaker 4: it's no longer a different guy you know now.
Speaker 5: But again, but again, when you make that statement, okay,
Speaker 5: and it ain't even you know, Coach Brennan at the beginning,
Speaker 5: he basically gave them the key to the team.
Speaker 3: Sure, and he said, you.
Speaker 5: Know, this team belonged to t MA act, this team
Speaker 5: belonged to no you know, this team belonged to Monooth.
Speaker 5: You know, those guys they said, this is all our team.
Speaker 5: Unfinished business, you know. So now you made that statement
Speaker 5: and you can't finish that.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned Manu, t Mac and Noah and Mine
Speaker 2: who's gone He's out, he's gone, tm hasn't been TMC
Speaker 2: and Noah hasn't hasn't been knowing And what do you
Speaker 2: have left?
Speaker 5: See and Steve, I keep going back to the fact
Speaker 5: that I think it's the personal pressure that they placed
Speaker 5: on y.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, really I agree with.
Speaker 5: Your pressure that they put on themselves. And you, I mean,
Speaker 5: you're nineteen twenty years old kids, and you create this
Speaker 5: pressure for yourself. Now you took this community on your
Speaker 5: shoulder because I told him this, and now you're not producing,
Speaker 5: you know, and now you got to duck your head
Speaker 5: in the community because of these things.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know when I was nineteen and twenty,
Speaker 4: I wasn't even know there was the only pressure I
Speaker 4: had was I'm I going to graduate from college and.
Speaker 3: Do have a job. Well, Noah, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: No, but it comes off as a guy who doesn't
Speaker 2: want to disappoint no one, right, and he's disappointing, so
Speaker 2: was there. It doubles the pressure and again he and
Speaker 2: he's he's taking it personal himself because he's the first
Speaker 2: one to say, you know what I mean, it's on.
Speaker 3: Me, you're I mean, that's a lot. That's a lot to.
Speaker 5: And so that's why I say it goes back to
Speaker 5: the coaching staff who's in that in that classroom with
Speaker 5: these kids at the moment, not just the head coach,
Speaker 5: but the coach himself.
Speaker 3: I mean, there there got to be a lot of
Speaker 3: me sessions.
Speaker 5: They got to be having with one on one with
Speaker 5: these kids, and you know, and and maybe they don't
Speaker 5: have the right coach on that aspect of it to
Speaker 5: have to know how to you know, get with these
Speaker 5: kids and see what's going on.
Speaker 3: So you know, you don't like to believe it. It's
Speaker 3: too so a lot. How much is it is in
Speaker 3: here ahead rather than in the ability to play the
Speaker 3: game or at.
Speaker 5: This time, I think it's all in their head because
Speaker 5: what what they the ability to play on the game
Speaker 5: has already passed them.
Speaker 3: And they're good and they're good players. We've seen it happen.
Speaker 3: So right now, it's it's upstairs, upstairs. How do you
Speaker 3: fix upstairs?
Speaker 5: Like I said, you know, you know those coaches are
Speaker 5: getting paid half million dollars, thou know they better put
Speaker 5: this psyche one on one.
Speaker 3: On figure it out. Figure out.
Speaker 4: We're here with Lamon Huntley at Soul Sports sports book
Speaker 4: at Casino del Soul having a chat about Arizona football
Speaker 4: and all the things that are coming with right now.
Speaker 4: Lamont a little bit about you know, you're in the
Speaker 4: middle of a season, you're you know, you're having a
Speaker 4: tough year. Uh, you got to keep your head up,
Speaker 4: can you isolate each game, you know, and say, let
Speaker 4: me just worry about this game and not worry about
Speaker 4: the fact that we got five games. We got to
Speaker 4: win this number of them to feel like we have
Speaker 4: a successful season. How do you how do you deal
Speaker 4: with that?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, every every coach gonna hope you do that, right, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's what they're gonna put in front of you. This
Speaker 5: is how we got to take it, you know, game
Speaker 5: by game, play by play, moment by moment. But it's hard.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's hard when you when you when you
Speaker 5: you're a competitive person and and you're out on that
Speaker 5: field weekend and week out and giving you all and
Speaker 5: the result is what we see.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 3: That's hard every week, you know, and that stays in
Speaker 3: your head.
Speaker 5: I mean, and it could be I mean, you could
Speaker 5: be playing the game and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 5: a bad moment came up that you played against someone
Speaker 5: the week before.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 5: But again, you as a coaching staff just just has
Speaker 5: to get with these kids, you know, and and and
Speaker 5: even at that moment the sideline. You know, a good
Speaker 5: coach can you know, see what's going on in the
Speaker 5: kid at the moment, and if he feel that kid
Speaker 5: is is not in tuned to the game. You know,
Speaker 5: let me get this kid, let me maybe you need
Speaker 5: to pull him out for a player or something like that.
Speaker 5: But but it's tough, man, It's very tough when you
Speaker 5: especially when you come from a ten and three or
Speaker 5: a ten or two I can three season. I mean
Speaker 5: you're coming off a big Bowl win like you were,
Speaker 5: and now this is what we're doing. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: it's a tough battle.
Speaker 3: Well we'll psychologist at it sounds easy, it is, but
Speaker 3: it's not. It's not. It really isn't. It's not because
Speaker 3: you know, it was he see, it'd be done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they would be. I mean, everybody be so we
Speaker 2: talked before you got here the last hour. The thing
Speaker 2: that disappoints me is they're not play. They're not they're
Speaker 2: getting get crushed. They're not being competitive the big scores.
Speaker 2: They're not even score first and then they and then
Speaker 2: the rest of it's done. That's what to me, just
Speaker 2: it's not right. Doesn't seem right to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, and that's hurtful for me also to
Speaker 5: see that, you know, because I don't want to use
Speaker 5: the word that giving up or get giving up doing
Speaker 5: the game because you know, I don't think any kid
Speaker 5: that get on any competitive situation and you lined up,
Speaker 5: and you line up for a reason to be competitive
Speaker 5: and give all y'all each Now, but when you see
Speaker 5: those things happening, and and you know what, maybe sometimes
Speaker 5: it's the play calling too. You know, it may get
Speaker 5: to that point where it's the play calling. It's the
Speaker 5: same old thing over and over again. I could sit
Speaker 5: in the stand and know what the next you're gonna be.
Speaker 3: It's blend.
Speaker 5: Imagine imagine what those kids are thinking. Why are we
Speaker 5: playing running this play again? We know that what the
Speaker 5: outcome was, So maybe you know whoe was calling the
Speaker 5: plays need to be more creative and makes the difference.
Speaker 2: Let me ask Jay this because he he we both
Speaker 2: covered Dictoma when you first got here. Uh, Dictomy has
Speaker 2: been romanticized a lot in recent years. Do you think
Speaker 2: it's been romanticized too much?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Well, I think it got romanticized because of what happened
Speaker 4: after the fact, right, But I think but now you know,
Speaker 4: at the I mean because at the time, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, I used to get in arguments with people
Speaker 4: because he was a friend of mine, sure, right, And
Speaker 4: I just get in arguments with people who said, you know,
Speaker 4: he's a terrible coach, he's never going to get us there, YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 4: And I would say, you have no idea, you know,
Speaker 4: and and and and that and that in the end
Speaker 4: is the truth.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 4: Now, his offenses, Look, he was known for great having
Speaker 4: great defenses and not good offenses. For people to realize
Speaker 4: is that the really good teams that he had, they
Speaker 4: were the best offenses in the Pact, in the PAC
Speaker 4: ten and so he could coach his teams, could coach offense,
Speaker 4: but he just got a reputation is not being able
Speaker 4: to So now he's back and he's yeah, he's right,
Speaker 4: and that's what. And I know there's people out there
Speaker 4: saying that, well, yeah, he's a he's a dick Toomy disciple,
Speaker 4: which means he can't do you know, he can't run
Speaker 4: an offense.
Speaker 3: I hear that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I hear that. That's why I asked.
Speaker 2: You were close to him, you knew the situation. Now
Speaker 2: it's back, and well here we are. Yeah, well and
Speaker 2: again and Dino Babers was a part of that. You know,
Speaker 2: people forget that Dino Babers was the OC for the
Speaker 2: best offense. Maybe that this well, I won't say the
Speaker 2: bit because rich Rod's offense were pretty damn good. But
Speaker 2: you know that that ninety eighteen that was a damn
Speaker 2: good offense.
Speaker 4: We only lost one game that year, Yes we lost
Speaker 4: that was that was the twelve and one team lost
Speaker 4: one game. Had had and had a great offense. But
Speaker 4: why did they have a great offense because they had
Speaker 4: great players. It had a left tackle guy named us
Speaker 4: Off Scott was an incredible tackle. He had a trunk
Speaker 4: candidate running back, and he had two great receivers right
Speaker 4: uh you know. And then Calvin E. Fan the guy
Speaker 4: who just if you didn't play well, he was just
Speaker 4: gonna beat the hell out of you, kick your ass.
Speaker 5: And he was the perspiration I would call you know
Speaker 5: that inspirations. He was the guy that was getting your face,
Speaker 5: make sure the game is going.
Speaker 4: So that had all those pieces that this team has
Speaker 4: almost none of them. What happened the next year they
Speaker 4: lost a bunch of those guys and went scenario.
Speaker 5: But you know, I mean again, Brennan, it's not a
Speaker 5: defensive guy though he's an offensive guy. I mean yea
Speaker 5: offensive minded guy from from the He played offense. He's
Speaker 5: always coached on the offensive side of the ball. Did
Speaker 5: I'm seeing I don't know. Did he coach defensive? I
Speaker 5: think we've been offensive coaches. You know every time he
Speaker 5: says so, so he should have that, you know, creativity,
Speaker 5: the imagination, you know, to make things a little different offensively.
Speaker 4: You like to think, and you know, and and and
Speaker 4: say say what you want about Jed in his carpetbagging
Speaker 4: and all that stuff. He's coached a lot of years
Speaker 4: under a lot of great coaches. I thought he was
Speaker 4: a good Ex's and O's coach. I really, did you know?
Speaker 4: He stole from everything right exactly?
Speaker 3: Did I did?
Speaker 4: I want him to be the guy running the program.
Speaker 4: I never thought he was going to run the program
Speaker 4: long term. But I have to give him props for
Speaker 4: his offensive uh play calling and the system that he ran.
Speaker 4: You see, you still see it. You see the Washington
Speaker 4: Now they're not doing as good as people, but they
Speaker 4: lost a lot of guys.
Speaker 3: They lost a ton of talent too. That's the question
Speaker 3: you had asked in the year. You know, is it
Speaker 3: the system? Is it talent? Is it coaching? I mean,
Speaker 3: what really makes a team. Well, you've seen the first
Speaker 3: year of coaches struggle.
Speaker 4: They want to and then you know, people aren't all
Speaker 4: that happy with jed up in the up in Seattle.
Speaker 4: All right, we got to take another break. We're gonna
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Speaker 3: Okay, hey talking on the mic.
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Speaker 4: Lamont Honey where at Soul Sports sports book here a
Speaker 4: casino Del Saul. We got a good group hanging out
Speaker 4: here with us. Yeah, we got a couple of a
Speaker 4: lot of having a lot of fun with Lamont Honeley.
Speaker 4: So all right, we're gonna take questions from the audience.
Speaker 4: The listener, VIC is here to ask a question.
Speaker 16: Okay, Lamott, I got a big time question. We're all
Speaker 16: talking scheme, and we're all talking this and that. Do
Speaker 16: the guys not communicate with their coaches? Like when you
Speaker 16: were playing, did you not say, coaches, isn't working. I
Speaker 16: mean even some of my baseball teams, I had kids
Speaker 16: come up to me and say, Hey, coach, this ain't working.
Speaker 3: We got to do it this way.
Speaker 16: Doesn't Noah and Tam Mac come up to them and
Speaker 16: and basically say, hey, we have to do it this way.
Speaker 3: This ain't working well. And of course they they.
Speaker 5: That communication is there, That communication always going to be open.
Speaker 5: The coaches themselves gonna encourage them because they are true
Speaker 5: eyes on the field. You know, the coaching staff are
Speaker 5: sitting sitting on the sideline, but the players are playing
Speaker 5: their true eyes on the field. So a good staff
Speaker 5: would hold up with his players and say, what did
Speaker 5: you see out there? What are we not seeing? What
Speaker 5: can we do to make a difference? Here me looking down?
Speaker 5: You know from my seats to the huddles, do I
Speaker 5: see that happen?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Is it happening? I don't know.
Speaker 5: But it should happen, you know, because again, a player
Speaker 5: knows more what's going on in the in the meat
Speaker 5: of things. When it's happening, you know much better than
Speaker 5: a coach will. And it's better to adjust. Why are
Speaker 5: you fresh coming off the field versus trying to adjust
Speaker 5: once you come out of the locker room.
Speaker 3: So it should happen. All right, We've got another question.
Speaker 3: Tell them.
Speaker 17: The last couple of years, our defense or just our
Speaker 17: team in general, hasn't had a lot of injuries. We
Speaker 17: had a really, really good weight training guy went with
Speaker 17: Jed Fish to Washington this year with a new guy.
Speaker 17: What do you think about their conditioning? Do you think
Speaker 17: the conditioning is having causing the problem with these injuries
Speaker 17: that we're getting. If you recall the last couple of years,
Speaker 17: when we got up to the fourth quarter, we were
Speaker 17: going to out hustle them we were in great shape.
Speaker 5: Right and that was that was that was you know,
Speaker 5: part of coach fish mantro is the I'll hustle, you know,
Speaker 5: play hard four quarters. As far as injuries per se,
Speaker 5: it does happen, it could happen because of the way
Speaker 5: you're training and the way you're training leading into the
Speaker 5: season and the way you train also during the season.
Speaker 3: I have met the strength coach that's there.
Speaker 5: He he does have a different philosophy as far as
Speaker 5: of coaching the kids when it comes to way training
Speaker 5: and training then what the previous coach was. So some
Speaker 5: of the injuries that that's taking place could be contributed
Speaker 5: to the way he's coaching the kids. And because there
Speaker 5: has been quite a few injuries that's that happened on
Speaker 5: the field, and then that'd be a you know, there's
Speaker 5: been quite a few just fluke injuries that's taking place.
Speaker 5: You know, Manu kicking the ground, you know, that's that's
Speaker 5: not an indication of training, that's indication of just being stupid.
Speaker 5: You know, he's kicking the ground or kicking at the
Speaker 5: ball per se. You know, a kid getting his foot
Speaker 5: stuck in the ground. Those things happen, But you know
Speaker 5: is the new strength coach. The reason why they are.
Speaker 3: I can't say yes to that because I do believe
Speaker 3: in some of his his coaching and his philosophy and
Speaker 3: his thinking of strength training.
Speaker 18: Per se ye Rennon mentioned in one of the Brennon
Speaker 18: mentioned in one of his interviews that he would probably
Speaker 18: would have to look at their conditioning and how they
Speaker 18: prepare their players over the summer and.
Speaker 3: For the season.
Speaker 5: But you know, I don't see in the kids, you know,
Speaker 5: at the end of the game, you know, hanging over
Speaker 5: look like they're out there tired and you know, out
Speaker 5: of breath or out of condition or anything like that.
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, we're in one hundred and twenty degrees.
Speaker 5: I think it is hot down field.
Speaker 3: I don't think they have another choice but to be
Speaker 3: in shape and be in condition to compete, you know.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 5: At again, like I say, I have personally met the
Speaker 5: strength coach that's here, and I just lack some of
Speaker 5: the philosophy as far as of the way he coaches
Speaker 5: the kid in regards to trying to what we call
Speaker 5: is you know, you elongate the muscle to make the
Speaker 5: muscles lasts longer, per se. And that's his thinking that
Speaker 5: his philosophy, whereas the previous coach, he just I mean,
Speaker 5: he just put a lot on the muscle, you know,
Speaker 5: and try to make it strong. You know, sometimes you
Speaker 5: can't sustain that way. So everybody got different philosophy.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to what I asked earlier with Loop
Speaker 2: tell her Loop when things go bad, even the good
Speaker 2: things go bad. And in the Guns Texas Tech, had
Speaker 2: he hit that shot, hit the kick, they might have
Speaker 2: won probably when the game and then.
Speaker 5: Things that aspire, Yeah, momentum shift, you know in regards
Speaker 5: to oh, he don't like that way. That way, so
Speaker 5: in regards to you know, that change of momental they
Speaker 5: take place at that point in time, and you know,
Speaker 5: and and it's a kick that he would normally make.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a kick that he won't make, and
Speaker 5: that could have been the whole you know, change of
Speaker 5: thinking or feeling of that that out come of that game.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, because they say this all time,
Speaker 2: do you believe in superstition? Do you think this team
Speaker 2: is is uh curse or the program? Come on, come on, no,
Speaker 2: no wait because of Halloween coming around.
Speaker 3: No, just in general, Lamont, I don't I can't curse.
Speaker 5: I mean, I I don't believe in you know the
Speaker 5: fact that you know someone's cursed because they was getting
Speaker 5: in three the previous year and now you know you
Speaker 5: can't sustain what was going on, so you cursed.
Speaker 3: It's happened a number of times. And there's other things
Speaker 3: that have happened. I mean, you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: what's going on. It's what's in front of us. It's
Speaker 3: just it is. You know, how do you keep the car?
Speaker 3: How do you create a curse? So how you define
Speaker 3: it as being cursed. That's why we need to do
Speaker 3: some research in sixty nine because.
Speaker 4: Bad things happen for no reason. Lamont, Bad things happen
Speaker 4: for no reason, and that's what's happening to us right now.
Speaker 3: Oh No, that's an all about it. You're trying to
Speaker 3: make your I'm rolling that out there, baby, I'm rolling
Speaker 3: that out that's trying to make yourself feel good about
Speaker 3: what's in front of you.
Speaker 4: No, I'm trying to make myself feel less bad because
Speaker 4: I'm not going to feel good until this thing turns around.
Speaker 3: You know, that's a good thing. You know, they don't
Speaker 3: want to feel good until it's better. All right, We
Speaker 3: got another question from Charles here, how you doing, sir coach?
Speaker 4: I just want to know how easy is it to
Speaker 4: determine throwing the challenge flag when there's a challenge flag
Speaker 4: on the field at real time?
Speaker 5: Well, again, the coaching staff is in place where they
Speaker 5: got guys up in the box and they actually see
Speaker 5: a play, and it's up to that coach up in
Speaker 5: the box to relay down to the coaching staff on
Speaker 5: the field, we should challenge this particular play. You know,
Speaker 5: most coaches you know that's on the field not going
Speaker 5: to automatically challenge it because they really can't see it.
Speaker 5: The coaches up in the box, they can see it
Speaker 5: first hand, they see the replay, so that gives them
Speaker 5: an opportunity to push down to the field and say
Speaker 5: we should challenge.
Speaker 1: This or not.
Speaker 3: You see the thing in the Texas the game where
Speaker 3: they changed that pass interference call. You didn't see that? Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what because was watching Arizona game maybe you? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: of course I was. It was it was after the
Speaker 4: game when I was over there. Just anyways, so what happened?
Speaker 4: Because I want your opinion if you'd have lost your
Speaker 4: mind as a player or even a coach on this,
Speaker 4: a pass interference call gets there's an interception, gets run
Speaker 4: by Texas, gets run inside the ten. They call past
Speaker 4: interference and and they give the ball back to Georgia.
Speaker 4: All right, fans start throwing stuff on the field, beer bottles,
Speaker 4: stuff like. There's a big delay and during the delay
Speaker 4: they changed the call.
Speaker 3: Would you have just lost your mind out of out
Speaker 3: of went crazy over something like that? I I you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: that that had been that had been ugly, you know,
Speaker 3: to see that happen when it was the game in Georgia.
Speaker 4: The game it was at Texas, Texas at Texas, so
Speaker 4: the Texas fans through stuff on the field, and Texas
Speaker 4: benefited from from that.
Speaker 3: They're trying to figure out ways to not let that
Speaker 3: ever happening, but I don't think they can. That's they're
Speaker 3: still talking about it this week, about that happening. Just
Speaker 3: let the play go, you know, you take take that
Speaker 3: stuff out of the game. Let the game be won
Speaker 3: the right. Well, all right, we got Howard with a question.
Speaker 19: Well, okay, first off, I want to wrap it up
Speaker 19: with what you said. Uh, I think there's just a
Speaker 19: lot of getting used to from the boosters traveling over
Speaker 19: to the Big twelve, and not only that, the players.
Speaker 3: It's just a new experience.
Speaker 19: And I agree with you one hundred percent, Lamont that
Speaker 19: Brent Brennan is a good guy.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 19: I think I have a good feeling about him too.
Speaker 19: It's like, we're not going to fire him how many
Speaker 19: I don't care if he inherited a good team from Fish.
Speaker 19: It's still a new experience for him. He's not going
Speaker 19: to hit the ground running. I just get wait till
Speaker 19: next year. Like you guys were saying earlier, I think
Speaker 19: it's going to be a good experience. And as far
Speaker 19: as the curse, I can answer that for a really
Speaker 19: quick This is a basketball town.
Speaker 3: Get out of here. Get out of here, and you're
Speaker 3: gonna be a desert.
Speaker 19: You're gonna dry out and die because there's no future
Speaker 19: for a football period.
Speaker 3: You in the rule.
Speaker 4: Yeah, seriously, take the mic away from that guy. A
Speaker 4: football to one controls all the budget here. Exactly whose
Speaker 4: screens are called?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. Football brings all the money.
Speaker 3: We're gonna put.
Speaker 4: Howard's picture at the door for next for our next
Speaker 4: show here, but on you know, we're we've only got
Speaker 4: a couple more minutes left.
Speaker 3: Your your your what what do you feel? What do
Speaker 3: you want to see this week? What do you feel?
Speaker 4: Besides the win obviously, but what do you what do
Speaker 4: you want to see when they're on the field as
Speaker 4: the as the game develops.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, first I want to say, come out
Speaker 5: of the tunnel, you know, show some excitement, show some energy,
Speaker 5: show some fear the opponent, and you know, I want
Speaker 5: to see start with that, you know.
Speaker 3: Offensively, I want to see them run the ball, run.
Speaker 3: I want to see them to.
Speaker 5: Really control the possession game, keep the ball in their hands.
Speaker 5: And if I think if they can control and the
Speaker 5: ball with the possession game and keep the ball on
Speaker 5: the positive side of the field, that's going to allow
Speaker 5: our defense to get in and probably play with some enthusiasm,
Speaker 5: play with some hunger, create some turnovers, you know. I
Speaker 5: mean the best thing to see, particularly when our defense
Speaker 5: is playing well, is when you see you know, Duwayne
Speaker 5: and Keena running up and down that side like like
Speaker 5: a big kid.
Speaker 3: That's what I want to see. I want to see
Speaker 3: a lot of that happening.
Speaker 5: And that's and that's the byproduct of our defense getting
Speaker 5: out there slapping in the face and making things happen.
Speaker 5: So you know, enjoy the game again. Get out there,
Speaker 5: enjoy your game. You know, have fun with the game.
Speaker 5: Coach Smith used to tell us all the time the
Speaker 5: number one things have fun. So hopefully these kids can
Speaker 5: get out there have fun again. So I just want
Speaker 5: to mention real quick.
Speaker 2: And Lamon's going to be with me on Saturday pre
Speaker 2: game at noon on the station for the eight team.
Speaker 2: It's just gonna be Lamonton and I doing some pre
Speaker 2: game on the West Virginia game.
Speaker 5: So tun Inn, you have my date. Hope you bring
Speaker 5: you lunch. We got to break as long as I've known,
Speaker 5: you haven't.
Speaker 3: Fed me yet.
Speaker 4: And uh, and I'm going to Dodger Stadium tomorrow. I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I'm going to going to game one. Man, I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I'm excited. I can't believe I'm doing this for my
Speaker 4: son and I trip of a lifetime. We're driving out
Speaker 4: of here first thing in the morning, going straight to
Speaker 4: the stadium, catch a game, look Commando Raid, spend the
Speaker 4: night and come back get ready for the West Virginia game.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: We're excited, but we appreciate, uh, everybody who's been here.
Speaker 4: At Soul Sports Casin. We're going to do this again
Speaker 4: on I think, no remember the fourteenth, We'll be back
Speaker 4: out Here'll be heading into uh another great weekn of
Speaker 4: Arizona football, Arizona West virgin In this week at four o'clock, Lamonta, Man,
Speaker 4: I got to see something, right, we got it.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I have to believe so, and
Speaker 5: I do. I mean I believe that there's something that
Speaker 5: could be come positive out of this. And and like
Speaker 5: I said, I think West Virginia probably in the worst
Speaker 5: situation that we are physically, you know, so maybe that
Speaker 5: gets in our maybe they break the curse.
Speaker 4: You know what this isn't This isn't a curse that
Speaker 4: breaks in the in the in the game. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, this was the thing where something good had
Speaker 4: to happen this year. What is considered breaking the curse?
Speaker 4: Another another ten and another ten win season after a
Speaker 4: ten win season?
Speaker 3: What everything?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I mean, I was hopeful for seven wins? Really yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean going to the season, well it's hopeful for
Speaker 3: seven wins.
Speaker 4: Well, he's still get to say here, here's what I wanted,
Speaker 4: a field good season after a ten win season.
Speaker 3: Wins this but this is not a field good season
Speaker 3: yet and wins will be yes, maybe that's a bowl game.
Speaker 3: It is a bolt. So now you know what I
Speaker 3: go through with Lamon good luck.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know, but uh yeah we
Speaker 4: it's okay. Something's good has to happen this week. Something
Speaker 4: good has to happen. We'll be on the other side.
Speaker 4: Let's say forty seven. Yeah that that, yeah, you spoke
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm course exactly all right. We've had a good
Speaker 4: time out here at Sold Sports sports Book, at Consumed,
Speaker 4: I sold Jean Vic Howard.
Speaker 3: A couple more guys walked in the door here afterwards. Sorry,
Speaker 3: I forgot your names already.
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Speaker 3: This was a lot of fun today. We're gonna pay
Speaker 3: to be here, and exactly you did pay to be here.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be here again on the fourteenth, Veronica, thanks
Speaker 4: for having us over here again.
Speaker 3: We'll see you in a in a few weeks.
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Speaker 4: thanks for having me again, Steve. This is always a
Speaker 4: lot of fun, all right. We'll see you guys in
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks.