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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. Tim Bentley in with
Speaker 2: me today. Now we have one with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Happy Friday to everyone out there, yours truly, mister Greed.
Speaker 3: Two shoes back for the double header. Second part of
Speaker 3: the doubleheader. Yes, thank you for doing here yesterday. Let's
Speaker 3: play two, baby, Let's play two Part two, Part two?
Speaker 4: Are you paying him overtime for this today?
Speaker 2: Let's move on to the show. I don't talk about
Speaker 2: that breaking news.
Speaker 5: He's gone.
Speaker 6: That's the breaking news.
Speaker 3: Starting going with some Arizona athletics.
Speaker 6: We can laugh about it, though.
Speaker 4: One laughing right now. I can see him.
Speaker 3: I'm having a great time. It's Friday. Women's volleyball beat
Speaker 3: Northern Colorado in the and IVC. They're gone to the
Speaker 3: championship game.
Speaker 6: They were like ten in row eleven roll.
Speaker 3: They started at eleven and a finished eleven and stopped.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure where they play it. They haven't come
Speaker 3: out with it. But last night they did beat Northern
Speaker 3: Colorado three to one. I think it was in the
Speaker 3: third set they dropped in. Yeah, I think they put in.
Speaker 3: This is fantastic for them.
Speaker 2: I saw Dia Barnes already kind of politicks for crowds
Speaker 2: like they did in the in the wn I T No.
Speaker 4: I think it's great, it's exciting.
Speaker 7: I have a soft spot for the you know, the
Speaker 7: secondary quote unquote sports. You know, these the volleyball players
Speaker 7: across country, the track kids, the tennis players. I love
Speaker 7: when they have success like this. I mean just it's
Speaker 7: fun to watch the kids get excited. You know, this
Speaker 7: big deal. You know you're playing for You're in the
Speaker 7: run for a national championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this. This is a team I think
Speaker 3: that only won nine games last year. They have only
Speaker 3: lost nine games this year. It's a little bit of
Speaker 3: a reverse for them. But so on ESPN, there's this
Speaker 3: story the Duke lacrosse accuser admitted to publicly that she
Speaker 3: made up the story eighteen years ago.
Speaker 7: Somebody, Yeah, two thousand and six and seven, and she's
Speaker 7: in jail. I read you know, I mean, she's been
Speaker 7: in jail since twenty eleven because she murdered her boyfriend.
Speaker 7: Oh really yeah, and so really yeah, she made up
Speaker 7: the stories. It was on a podcast, I think, yeah,
Speaker 7: you know it's a Let's Talk with Cat podcast. Made
Speaker 7: up the story wasn't true. She wanted the validation from people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a tough spot. You know.
Speaker 7: Again, you know, young young kids, you know, remember that
Speaker 7: that was a big deal eighteen and that was kind
Speaker 7: of pre social media, pre you know all this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was right right right, and the race and
Speaker 6: all that stuff was crazy.
Speaker 4: Tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good weekend of men's college basketball coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Got some good matchups. Texas A and m Number seventeen
Speaker 3: plays number eleven per Due in the Indie Classic. Sean
Speaker 3: Miller and his Xavier team going to Cincinnati, number twenty
Speaker 3: two Cincinnati, of course, UCLA and Arizona duking it out
Speaker 3: up in Phoenix Footprint Center. Arizona Stake is playing Florida
Speaker 3: in the Holiday Hoopsgiving event. They've done well, yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean she was eight and one, Florida's nine and one.
Speaker 3: See if they the Sun Doubles had the games their
Speaker 3: first loss. Ten Number one Tennessee takes on Illinois. I
Speaker 3: believe that's at Illinois YEAP Farm Center.
Speaker 6: With Kylin Boswell.
Speaker 3: Gallen Boswell, former Arizona Wildcat Zaga takes on You Call
Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame series in New York City
Speaker 3: and then creaton plays Alabama and.
Speaker 6: Galusa, creating the team that's just knocked up walk Kansas.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I predict that Alabama's going to crush him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's Alabama.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh. The more good matchups in the NBA. We got
Speaker 3: the NBA Cup this weekend taking on the Bucks.
Speaker 6: Golden State Warriors got screwed a couple days ago.
Speaker 2: Sure you were here, right, didn't Then the NBA say
Speaker 2: it was said it was a good call.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: So the teams for the championship tonight, the end tournament
Speaker 7: or the semi finals?
Speaker 5: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow at two thirty, the Hawks take on the Bucks
Speaker 3: six thirty the Rockets, who beat the Warriors on a
Speaker 3: good call.
Speaker 4: I think the players get paid a few extra bucks,
Speaker 4: right if they went.
Speaker 7: I mean that's kind of why they so's they'll take
Speaker 7: it seriously, right yea.
Speaker 3: The Rockets take on the Nuggets six thirty. Team Oble Arena,
Speaker 3: Las Vegas to the NFL. Some updates on injuries people
Speaker 3: coming back, people not coming people not playing at all. Uh,
Speaker 3: which included last night's game between the Niners and the Rams.
Speaker 3: Demandra Campbell left at I believe halftime and just did
Speaker 3: not want to play last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said, they said that he looks like he'll
Speaker 2: be cut sometime soon.
Speaker 7: He didn't like watching all those field goals. There was like,
Speaker 7: what fifteen field goals? It was like four and threes
Speaker 7: it was.
Speaker 3: There's six six total field goals made.
Speaker 6: It was raining pretty heavily to win it.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, but uh, speaking of Thursday night football, the
Speaker 3: Rams did beat the Niners four field goals to.
Speaker 4: Two, beat him four to two soccer match.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins did release veteran ride receiver Odell Beckham Junior today. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He appeared in nine games, seven cancers, I think something
Speaker 3: somewhere around that. But he's on the market now.
Speaker 6: He probably won't play anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, if this team team that needs wide receivers
Speaker 2: cut you, and he's he's older than you too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's or just a little.
Speaker 4: I looked for him.
Speaker 7: I looked up to him for advice about aging. You know,
Speaker 7: he's Oh God, I don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 7: to him. I mean, is I mean somebody.
Speaker 3: Don't for Argentina.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: Catches the football with one hand, now, dude, come on, man.
Speaker 3: And then they do it looking backwards or on their heads.
Speaker 3: You can do it all.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I think I think he'll get one more team just
Speaker 3: to the playoff run. With the playoff run, that's what
Speaker 3: I think. Team like I think that. I know it's
Speaker 3: it's hard to say, but I feel like the Chiefs
Speaker 3: would go and get someone like that.
Speaker 6: Chiefs just didn't. He was in with them before.
Speaker 7: I think that the Chiefs might, you know, just just
Speaker 7: to have a little be a little deeper and you know,
Speaker 7: into the playoff run and keep some of those people healthy.
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden he catches a super Bowl win,
Speaker 3: he touchdown, and then he goes off into the.
Speaker 6: Right in your book, not me, okay.
Speaker 3: Uh So the Steelers ruled out George Pickens today. Uh
Speaker 3: They got their match against the Eagles as well as
Speaker 3: the Shawn Elliott, their safety and defensive end Larry uh
Speaker 3: Ogang Jobe I hope I said that right. The Packers
Speaker 3: without JayR Alexander for their matchup against the Seahawks. Jonathan
Speaker 3: Allen could return this season. They're hopeful but uncertain as
Speaker 3: of right now. The Bill's rookie wide receiver key On
Speaker 3: Coleman is to make his return versus the Lions. That
Speaker 3: should be a good matchup the Bills and Lions, the
Speaker 3: Chiefs said. The Hollywood Brown is set to return to practice.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if that will materialize into anything, so
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens with that. Marshall Latimore is going
Speaker 3: to make his manager's debut against his former teams in
Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints. What else I got? Arizona is set
Speaker 3: to hire Marshall's Seth Doge as a new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's they announced that today in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Or so, right, So how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know. Is a quick fix probably will happen. Well,
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Guess what.
Speaker 6: Who's the head coach?
Speaker 5: Where?
Speaker 3: Who's the head coach?
Speaker 5: At? Well?
Speaker 6: They're not changing changing that, okay, never mind, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Like'm joking.
Speaker 2: Of course, this may be just doesn't apply, but it
Speaker 2: does because I want to be funny, lipstick.
Speaker 3: Kind of pig.
Speaker 6: Who's the coach? Who's the boss?
Speaker 4: Right, does does he bring a flair? Does he bring
Speaker 4: a he's got to bring some innovation? Does he bring
Speaker 4: something that that appeals to Noah? I mean I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's what's we.
Speaker 2: Don't Okay, nice, nice, Uh, I've been married once. I'm
Speaker 2: not doing it again.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to find an analogy for I can't. I can't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to do that.
Speaker 4: No, but did they did you know?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: So no is your best player? I mean we've seen.
Speaker 6: You're hoping that that offense that he has.
Speaker 4: And does he bring to some people say, hey, we
Speaker 4: hired this guy from Marshall?
Speaker 5: Is you know?
Speaker 7: Do are there some receivers out on the market that
Speaker 7: want to come play with No?
Speaker 6: How do they fit?
Speaker 4: And how do they fit? Do you want to make
Speaker 4: a run at it?
Speaker 2: Somebody said on the internet, Okay, who put it out
Speaker 2: of stuff that in in his offense at the Marshall
Speaker 2: the quarterback around forty of the time.
Speaker 3: Do you want your quarterback running forty percent?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: I don't want my quarterback round that's my knee just
Speaker 7: popped out thinking about it.
Speaker 6: And who's your quarterback?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Do you want running for the dollars? Okay? So, how
Speaker 2: does that fit? How does that fit? How does that
Speaker 2: shoe fit? Mister Albundy? Yep, the sales the shoe salesman.
Speaker 7: Well maybe maybe it's maybe we'll just pay eight million
Speaker 7: dollars next year.
Speaker 6: What was that minimum wage you were making?
Speaker 7: I meant when I worked at the copper mine, I
Speaker 7: made seven dollars I got. I've worked my way up
Speaker 7: to seven dollars now double minimum wage because wage was
Speaker 7: three fifths.
Speaker 6: Came back with an eye black underneath. Yep, we'll see,
Speaker 6: We'll see.
Speaker 2: I'll I'll wait because we'll see how it all looks.
Speaker 2: And they're gonna have to go after some crazy talent
Speaker 2: from the portal.
Speaker 6: We don't know how that's gonna.
Speaker 3: Look either, crazy talent while also trying to keep some
Speaker 3: of the guys if they can right whatever's left.
Speaker 6: Do you and I'll ask jadis do you want the
Speaker 6: guys that left back?
Speaker 5: Are you know?
Speaker 3: Do you want to back?
Speaker 4: Not really easy?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I might be in the Jay's school of you know, like, hey,
Speaker 7: let's hey, you know what we talked about this. You
Speaker 7: know you are an adult and we're going to treat
Speaker 7: you like an adult. I root for you, But if
Speaker 7: you don't want to be here right now. Good luck,
Speaker 7: you know, good luck because you're not you know, well.
Speaker 6: You brought up the point with you silly.
Speaker 2: And then there's gonna be a lot of times when
Speaker 2: you're going to face an old teammate or are you
Speaker 2: gonna face it old?
Speaker 7: It's gonna have more and more and more, you know,
Speaker 7: and it'll be you know, it'll it'll be the same storyline, Oh,
Speaker 7: you know, so and so led us up last time
Speaker 7: or so so as a score to settle, but.
Speaker 3: Of scores to settle. Some more coaching hiring. Houston is
Speaker 3: set to hire a Florida defensive coordinator. Austin Armstrong is
Speaker 3: their defensive coordinator. I don't really know a lot about that,
Speaker 3: but okay, someone not someone off of the defensive coordinator carousel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, there's plenty of a lot of those guys.
Speaker 3: Come on. Alabama's Justin Hayes. Haynes running back is set
Speaker 3: to enter the transfer portal, as well as or Michigan
Speaker 3: quarterback Alex org. A lot of people thought he was
Speaker 3: going to be the starter going into this year, but
Speaker 3: he was now they went through their whole rotation of quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: I believe this year. But we'll see what happens for him,
Speaker 3: as well as the running back bole season starts.
Speaker 6: What's up Tomorrow? Who is it?
Speaker 3: Jackson State? South Carolina State in the Cricket Celebration Bowl
Speaker 3: ten o'clock ABC. South Alabama takes on Western Michigan in
Speaker 3: the ISS for four S Salute to Veterans Bowl seven o'clock.
Speaker 7: What is the Cricket Salute the Cricket Solutions Ball Celebration Bowl,
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Speaker 7: great games in the Cricket Celebration Bowl.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: I'm excited from.
Speaker 7: The years and years of amazing games.
Speaker 3: And then of course America's game maybe taken on Army.
Speaker 2: So for some reason, I just got to text about
Speaker 2: your microphone. Maybe you're not talking it into it as well,
Speaker 2: but it's not they're not hearing you as much. Maybe
Speaker 2: put it up a little sure, put up your yeah
Speaker 2: or not output it? Maybe yeah the thing there? Yeah,
Speaker 2: mayvy taken on Army. Oh, that should be a good game.
Speaker 2: That should be a good game.
Speaker 5: Both.
Speaker 3: Early on in the season, a lot of people were
Speaker 3: talking about how this might be a playoff implication game.
Speaker 4: I was written for that too. I thought that would
Speaker 4: have been fun, you know, let's just shake it up
Speaker 4: the share.
Speaker 3: But obviously that's not happening. Something that I just came
Speaker 3: across Randy Moss. Uh did he say? What came out?
Speaker 3: He is a cancer survivor?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Because he said he was all right, he's taking time up.
Speaker 2: Did he say what he has and he's already.
Speaker 3: He just says, Uh, he says he's a cancer survivor.
Speaker 4: So you know that that means a lot of things.
Speaker 6: Yeah, That's that's why I'm kind of puzzled.
Speaker 4: You know, that means a lot of things.
Speaker 7: He might have been going through some treatment and he
Speaker 7: just isn't remission. Now you know that he's tested, says
Speaker 7: there's no sign of cancer in his body. So he's
Speaker 7: a cancer survivor. You know, it kind of depends what
Speaker 7: he was diagnosed with.
Speaker 6: He didn't say what.
Speaker 3: So he is being treated for cancer in his bile
Speaker 3: duct between his pancreas and liver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he had this for a while, didn't say
Speaker 2: anything until recently.
Speaker 7: Right, because he stepped down our last week or last
Speaker 7: week and he you know, chemo kicks your butt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you did, you have the dig by tail
Speaker 2: stuff too. He declared self preeting clear of cancers?
Speaker 3: Did they I didn't. I didn't see that. He was
Speaker 3: hospitalized for six days and was released today.
Speaker 6: So I was gonna say, you know more about that,
Speaker 6: because you know what that stuff is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know, so I'm a cancer survivor. I
Speaker 7: was diagnosed with non non Hodgingens lymphoma at stage four
Speaker 7: and so it's you know that you're rooting for remission,
Speaker 7: no sign of cancer, and so.
Speaker 2: With the possibility that coming is there always a possibility
Speaker 2: of coming back.
Speaker 7: Well for some cancers, some cancers you can cure, quote
Speaker 7: unquote cure. Some cancers they put into remission and then
Speaker 7: you get to your five years.
Speaker 4: I'm at.
Speaker 7: I was in remission in twenty eleven and I still
Speaker 7: go to the doctor once a year to see where
Speaker 7: you see where I'm at. I took a lot of
Speaker 7: a lot of drugs for about four years.
Speaker 4: I tell people I took a lot of drugs in
Speaker 4: the sixties.
Speaker 6: Well he was in the eighties.
Speaker 7: It was in the two thousands, but I you know,
Speaker 7: but it's it's so anyway, good for Randy, because that's
Speaker 7: a you know, cancer is a scary word.
Speaker 4: And so you know, to get to that point of
Speaker 4: remission is a wonderful feeling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know a lot of people have gone
Speaker 3: through and hey, we're way over there, Senor for sixteen,
Speaker 3: who's coming on next?
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, Jesus, I'm going to stay for two
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Speaker 6: So have your questions prepared.
Speaker 4: Mister Tim, All right, I'm ready to go and.
Speaker 6: See if you can get out of his picking prediction
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Speaker 3: Because he hasn't talked to me. I can, okay do it?
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Speaker 6: I'm Steve Ravera.
Speaker 2: In today with me is Tim Bentley and now we
Speaker 2: have mister Jiggins Unice on the other side. I'm glad
Speaker 2: he's on the phone, is ye yelling at me and
Speaker 2: trying to punch me and stuff.
Speaker 15: Well, I'm calling you out. Pretend that I'm in a
Speaker 15: in a hole.
Speaker 5: In my picks. I'm doing okay, I'm not doing great.
Speaker 2: It's nothing like last year. Well, if you're going to
Speaker 2: compare that this year, the car drives at least, No,
Speaker 2: you're holding me. You're five and a half back.
Speaker 15: You're gonna have to ye, I'm five and a half back.
Speaker 5: Is that right?
Speaker 15: Look, you have one bad week, I have one good week.
Speaker 5: And I'm all over you again. I'm not worried about
Speaker 5: it at all.
Speaker 7: Whatever gets you through the day. He's showing me out
Speaker 7: his computers, and it does. It does not look it,
Speaker 7: you know what.
Speaker 5: That's all it takes. That's all it takes. This thing.
Speaker 5: They're still but is this six weeks weeks left in
Speaker 5: the pool? Okay, sixth week left. Anything can happen. You
Speaker 5: just got to anything can happen.
Speaker 4: One game a week over him and you make it back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, Yes, that's all. That's all.
Speaker 15: It starts this week.
Speaker 6: It starts easy, easy, Okay, no cool.
Speaker 2: We're going to make the predictions on the other side
Speaker 2: of the break here.
Speaker 6: You're you're my you're my guest today.
Speaker 2: Uh So, in about fifteen minutes or less, they're going
Speaker 2: to announce the new offensive coordinator. Your thoughts on him.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know him much and I didn't I
Speaker 5: didn't look him up. But the reaction I've gotten some
Speaker 5: people who I do talk to about football and who
Speaker 5: know a little bit of football are very happy, you know,
Speaker 5: sort of a modern offense kind of guy. I think
Speaker 5: that was the the.
Speaker 15: The criticism on on the offense.
Speaker 5: Is that it was old school, uh Dino Babers, you know,
Speaker 5: an older uh you know offensive coordinator has been a
Speaker 5: lot of time since he called plays, and the that
Speaker 5: the offense was unimaginative. And I think that was the
Speaker 5: criticism that we heard all season long, with especially with
Speaker 5: the talents that that they had, at least from the
Speaker 5: skill position side.
Speaker 15: And so this guy is apparently.
Speaker 5: Considered more of a modern offensive kind of guy. So
Speaker 5: we'll see. He's young, but we'll see, uh, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, Marshall had a good season and and so
Speaker 5: you know, I think I think it's a I don't
Speaker 5: know if you call it a home run higher, but
Speaker 5: certainly a higher that people can look at and say.
Speaker 15: Okay, you know, let's see what happened.
Speaker 6: What type of offense does he runs?
Speaker 5: To be right, he was an air raid kind of guy.
Speaker 5: But I did read that they actually ran the ball
Speaker 5: more this last year than they threw it. So really,
Speaker 5: when you think about it, sounds kind.
Speaker 15: Of like, well we say about rich Rod, right.
Speaker 5: Because rich Rod's offense was known as sort of an
Speaker 5: air raid, you know, spread front, go fast thing. But
Speaker 5: really the running game was what made that offense, you know,
Speaker 5: and I you know, Exhibit A was that five hundred
Speaker 5: yard rushing performance they had against a su and what
Speaker 5: that was the twenty sixteenth season when they hadn't won
Speaker 5: a pack ten game, packed club game all season and
Speaker 5: ran ran ran up of five hundred yards on AFU
Speaker 5: with a wide receiver at tailback.
Speaker 15: So rich Rod's offense, the misconception is that they threw
Speaker 15: it all over the field.
Speaker 5: They really don't. They really try to run the ball well.
Speaker 2: And I think it sounds like, this is the thing
Speaker 2: kind of guy you don't want your quarterback running.
Speaker 5: You certainly don't. And if it's and if it's still
Speaker 5: no Offacita next year, you know you're not going to
Speaker 5: be running him a whole bunch anyway because he just
Speaker 5: don't want him to be anyone. He's not. He's not fast,
Speaker 5: and he's not you know, I mean he was able
Speaker 5: to he's is like what they say about Tom Brady, right,
Speaker 5: and not compare him tom Brady, but the sense that
Speaker 5: he has a good pocket chance and so he can
Speaker 5: move around. But you're not going to run him on
Speaker 5: the read option on a regular basis, No, No, I
Speaker 5: just want to keep him low right and right.
Speaker 7: We were talking earlier that you know, this hire is
Speaker 7: it with an eye to you know, obviously to the future,
Speaker 7: and you know, and you're trying to be you know,
Speaker 7: attractive to you know, incoming students and kids on the market.
Speaker 7: You know, so you got to have like, hey, this
Speaker 7: is we're looking ahead, this is this is a shiny
Speaker 7: new offense.
Speaker 4: You come in and we've got we got something cool.
Speaker 4: What do you think about that?
Speaker 15: Well, that's exactly it.
Speaker 5: Look, you know, guying, you know, there's so much more
Speaker 5: at stake now, Okay, with the athletes, because they feel like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm going to go make some money at you know,
Speaker 5: the university of A B, C or D. But I
Speaker 5: keep wanting to keep making that money afterwards, and I
Speaker 5: need to go to a place where I've got a
Speaker 5: chance to do both. And and you know, if everyone
Speaker 5: wants to compete for players and good players, it's going
Speaker 5: to have to show that, Yeah, you can pay them
Speaker 5: while they're here, but they also want to have an opportunity,
Speaker 5: I mean opportunity for after the fact.
Speaker 15: I mean, why was Jed.
Speaker 5: Fish getting so many guys because they had all these
Speaker 5: you know, NFL contacts and you put the guys into
Speaker 5: the NFL. That's what guys are looking for. Now. The
Speaker 5: money aspect of it has gotten so big that now
Speaker 5: guys want to go to a place where they can
Speaker 5: make money.
Speaker 15: For a period of time. You know, they're four years,
Speaker 15: four or five.
Speaker 5: Years at a school and maybe a few years after that.
Speaker 15: So and they're going to want to be in an
Speaker 15: offense that gives them that opportunity.
Speaker 2: So I know your answer, but I'm asking anyway, So
Speaker 2: of the hundred guys who have left actually thirty or so.
Speaker 6: Do you want any of them back? No, that's what
Speaker 6: I thought.
Speaker 15: Well, how many times have you heard me say, Steve,
Speaker 15: if you don't want to be here, then I don't
Speaker 15: want you.
Speaker 6: What did I tell you? I told the guys is
Speaker 6: exactly that, if.
Speaker 5: You don't want to be here, then then go go.
Speaker 5: You know, uh, Kean Burnett, all those guys, get out
Speaker 5: of here. If you'd rather be somewhere else than go
Speaker 5: somewhere else, I'd rather. I feel like somebody who's here,
Speaker 5: who wants to be here, will play harder, will give
Speaker 5: you more, will pay more attention in the film room,
Speaker 5: We'll do more of the work. We'll do more of
Speaker 5: the of the of the physical work that they've got
Speaker 5: to do. From a training standpoint, if you if you
Speaker 5: want to be here, if you don't want to be here,
Speaker 5: if you've got one foot out the door or one
Speaker 5: eye looking somewhere else, I think that diminishes your effort tremendously.
Speaker 15: So a bunch of those guys are really good players.
Speaker 5: Trading Stoops and and and all those guys you know,
Speaker 5: Jacob Miners, They're all good players. I love them while
Speaker 5: they were here. But if you don't want to be here,
Speaker 5: then then go get the hell out of.
Speaker 3: Here, right.
Speaker 7: Some of those kids, you know, just have four or
Speaker 7: five years to make the name Jay, like you're saying,
Speaker 7: you know, rarely are they going to make the NFL.
Speaker 4: So they got to you.
Speaker 7: Know, pick and shoes, right, so you know, go, yeah,
Speaker 7: good luck to you, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Good luck.
Speaker 15: And I'm not I'm not. And I don't know if
Speaker 15: it sounding.
Speaker 5: Like I'm Madison, I'm not, you know, most again, getting
Speaker 5: back to the whole money thing, it's changed. Somebody out
Speaker 5: there is in their ears saying, you know what, go
Speaker 5: here and you can make some more money. Go here,
Speaker 5: you can make some money. Go here, you can make
Speaker 5: some more money, you know. And then maybe maybe there's
Speaker 5: something going on inside that they didn't like, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe they didn't like the level of coaching.
Speaker 15: Maybe they didn't like Blann na.
Speaker 5: Quina, you know, and then that's kind of crappy thing
Speaker 5: to say, but you know, maybe there's you know, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying that they just didn't feel like
Speaker 5: the coach was going well, but the attention to the program,
Speaker 5: all those things. Maybe they just think that there's a better.
Speaker 15: Opportunity somewhere and if you think there is, you.
Speaker 5: Go find it. More power to you.
Speaker 7: But on the flip side too that you know, somebody's
Speaker 7: gonna look at Arizona and say, hey, there's an opportunity.
Speaker 7: Now there's playing and there's and there's playing time over there.
Speaker 7: And they brought in this the new OC. So that's
Speaker 7: my spot. So I think, you know, as you proved it,
Speaker 7: we can do it exactly exactly.
Speaker 15: And you know, and I think back to when.
Speaker 5: Mike Stukes got there and the program was so bad,
Speaker 5: but you know.
Speaker 15: And it took him, took him a while to get
Speaker 15: it going.
Speaker 5: I think they had a couple of three and eight
Speaker 5: seasons in the first couple of years. But you could
Speaker 5: tell immediately immediately that that that that the team was
Speaker 5: in much better shape. And why was that Because Mike
Speaker 5: Stups was out there selling playing time. And that's what
Speaker 5: and that's what uh, Brent Brandon can do. And you know,
Speaker 5: get a staff in here, get a guy like this
Speaker 5: guy from from from Marshall, and get your guys out
Speaker 5: there and start pounding the payment and get not just
Speaker 5: high school recruit but go out there on the transfer
Speaker 5: uh you know, in the transfer port guys want.
Speaker 15: Guys are looking for places to play, and.
Speaker 5: Then if you can back it up with a little
Speaker 5: bit of money, they'll come here again.
Speaker 15: As you pointed out, Tim, look what Ahu did in
Speaker 15: the year.
Speaker 2: Well I was just going to kind of go there,
Speaker 2: but so now hearing that, I would assume though, it's
Speaker 2: going to be very daunking to get to get to
Speaker 2: replace the guys who have left under whatever circumstances you
Speaker 2: just said, and to get even better ones to come
Speaker 2: here to play.
Speaker 5: Yes, no it is, but it's not like they can't
Speaker 5: be done. And a lot of guys have shown that
Speaker 5: it can be done. How did b Yu get so
Speaker 5: good so fast? How did Iwa State get so good
Speaker 5: so fast? How did you know again ASU get so
Speaker 5: good so fast? How did two years ago, three years
Speaker 5: ago PCU gets so good so fast? Because it can
Speaker 5: be done, But you know what you've got to you
Speaker 5: kind of got to hit the jackpot, right, you got
Speaker 5: like I feel like what happened with Brennan. This is
Speaker 5: the other guys that he went and got. They just missed.
Speaker 5: They missed on a bunch of guys.
Speaker 15: You know, and then they had all the injuries. So
Speaker 15: there's a lot of factors.
Speaker 5: That go into this, but you just got to find
Speaker 5: the right combination of guys. And that's exactly what ASU did.
Speaker 5: They just found all the guys that A you turned
Speaker 5: to spit chunk of the roster over last year. But
Speaker 5: they just got the right guys. And so it's it's hard,
Speaker 5: but it's not undoing. I mean it can be done.
Speaker 6: Kind of like you catching me on the you'll picks. Well,
Speaker 6: that's for another exactly.
Speaker 15: You know what, you have one bad week, even I'm
Speaker 15: all over.
Speaker 5: You, right, I mean, look seriously, but look look.
Speaker 15: At what happened when there was.
Speaker 5: Going in a s U. They're gonna have, you know,
Speaker 5: one bad off season recruiting wise, injuries and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: A s U had one good season and the program
Speaker 5: is slipt over it. I can make it sound simple.
Speaker 5: It's not simple, but it can happen that fast, and.
Speaker 2: It did, and you're hopeful, and you're hopeful. Okay, so
Speaker 2: let's this is exactly. Let's forget about football for a second.
Speaker 2: Let's go to basketball. Okay, what about tomorrow. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be tough. I think they could very well lose tomorrow.
Speaker 5: They can lose.
Speaker 15: UCLA is always they can always lose the U s
Speaker 15: l A.
Speaker 5: They have lots of bad U c l A team. Uh,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna quote what somebody said to me
Speaker 5: on a can I say? Can I say piss on
Speaker 5: the radio somebody.
Speaker 15: I'm trying to look at where somebody somebody just.
Speaker 5: Said they can't be pissed tomorrow. They just can't. You know,
Speaker 5: do they need to win?
Speaker 15: It depends on how it looks.
Speaker 5: But you know they can't. It must not look like
Speaker 5: piss for sure.
Speaker 15: It's what somebody said.
Speaker 5: They can't. They can't look like they did against Wisconsin,
Speaker 5: and they can't look like they did against Duke.
Speaker 15: Right if if it's.
Speaker 5: A great game, somebody wins on a buzzer beat or
Speaker 5: at a two point game or whatever, then.
Speaker 15: You know, you say it was just better than you
Speaker 15: that day. And if you play them again, you.
Speaker 5: Might beat them, but they can't look bad doing it.
Speaker 15: There's a lot of people who are freaking out that
Speaker 15: this is.
Speaker 5: A bad team. They've got good players. I just still
Speaker 5: think that they're just figuring themselves out.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: We talked to Ben Bolt from the La Times and
Speaker 7: and he mentioned Love has a history with U C.
Speaker 7: L A when he was in North Carolina. And so
Speaker 7: they're the U c l A folks, you know, remember him,
Speaker 7: the pain of him, and they're they're keeping an eye
Speaker 7: on him.
Speaker 4: And we were talking earlier, maybe you heard, but.
Speaker 7: Does does the U of A go as Caleb goes?
Speaker 7: Or does Caleb go as the U of A goes?
Speaker 7: You know who affects who more?
Speaker 5: God? You know, that's a great question. I don't really know,
Speaker 5: I mean, because I mean, I mean, look at the difference, right,
Speaker 5: you know, when he has when he has a really
Speaker 5: good game, they play really well. But when you.
Speaker 15: Start playing well, you play well. And when you start
Speaker 15: doesn't play well.
Speaker 5: You don't. You know, you don't, you don't look good.
Speaker 15: It's sort of a little of both, right, they feed
Speaker 15: off of each other, you know. But I don't.
Speaker 5: Know what game. It was one of the games recently.
Speaker 15: And I think it was the last home game before
Speaker 15: the Southern Utah game.
Speaker 5: And I looked up on the board.
Speaker 15: Of a sudden, he had twenty points. I'm like, when
Speaker 15: did that happen? Right, So he's got to Caleb the key.
Speaker 5: He's a key, not the key, but he's a key.
Speaker 5: And if he's launching threes and he's not making three's, well,
Speaker 5: then their.
Speaker 15: Offense s butters it does, and so yeah, I mean
Speaker 15: he you know he Look when you have.
Speaker 5: An All America on your team and if he's not
Speaker 5: having a good season, that that hurts your entire team.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying he's not having a good season.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying he's not. He's not had He's had
Speaker 5: some bad games. And when you when your star has
Speaker 5: bad games, it's tough to be really good.
Speaker 6: They're trying to be nice.
Speaker 2: Today, which makes no sense to me. Someone he's having
Speaker 2: a bad season. It's not there's no mincing words with that.
Speaker 2: He's not doing well.
Speaker 4: He's already looking at the next year. Next year's football
Speaker 4: team is ready to go.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 6: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: My whole thing is Arizona's never really played well under
Speaker 2: a slow it down defense, slow down defense, slow down team.
Speaker 2: UCLA is notorious for that. Ben said they're kind of
Speaker 2: going away from that, which I think that's pretty good
Speaker 2: for Arizona's sake because they can get into transition teams
Speaker 2: haven't allowed that. And if it gets to seventy five,
Speaker 2: I think Arizona wins it if it gets the seventy
Speaker 2: UCLA winsor.
Speaker 15: Yeah, here's the thing, and what I what I.
Speaker 5: Feel like I see offensively, that got.
Speaker 6: A minute because we'll go to break and go back.
Speaker 5: I feel like they're just not sure of themselves offensively. Yeah,
Speaker 5: where do you go for movement?
Speaker 15: For shots, for stuff?
Speaker 5: And I think a big, big piece of this has
Speaker 5: been that that previous was not.
Speaker 15: Around to practice and stuff in the preseason.
Speaker 5: And that he's really just kind of getting a seat
Speaker 5: under him right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with that's that's one of the
Speaker 2: things among a few of.
Speaker 6: Them, Okay, among a bunch.
Speaker 2: Right, So okay, well take a break to come back
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the UXes and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back Toining the Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera, He's Tim Bentley, and we got one
Speaker 2: on the helm here. No we have jigins ALUs with
Speaker 2: his picks. Just were listening to the press conference with
Speaker 2: the new offensive Cordner. Pretty impressive, right, it looks like,
Speaker 2: what does that mean? Pretty impressive?
Speaker 7: You know, we're listening to Tim talk and he's talking
Speaker 7: about playing free, playing fast, getting kids out in the
Speaker 7: open field. I mean, so he's making a pitch not
Speaker 7: only to Noah to say, hey, we're going to use
Speaker 7: your talents, but he's he's talking to the kids that
Speaker 7: are in the portal and maybe thinking about making a switch.
Speaker 6: He looks like he's about twenty two years old.
Speaker 4: He does he just graduated college, and we're very proud.
Speaker 15: Of its first job out of college.
Speaker 4: We're very proud.
Speaker 5: But but you know what, Steve, that that I mean,
Speaker 5: that's that's what gets players of today excited. Like, I'm
Speaker 5: really interested to see how this Bill Belichick thing is
Speaker 5: gonna is going to sell for North Carolina, right, you know.
Speaker 15: And if he's going to run it like an NFL franchise.
Speaker 5: Where he doesn't have to be in the living room
Speaker 5: with a kid convincing him to come to play at
Speaker 5: North Carolina, then he may do just fine.
Speaker 15: But if kids still want to have.
Speaker 5: A head coach that they feel like they can relate to,
Speaker 5: that's going to be tough.
Speaker 4: I think kids do.
Speaker 7: I think parents and kids want that connection to the coach,
Speaker 7: even though it's a business and they're getting paid every year.
Speaker 7: I think parents and kids they still want that relationship.
Speaker 7: They want to know that the coach cares about him.
Speaker 7: That parents want to know that you're going to take
Speaker 7: care of my kid when I'm not there.
Speaker 6: But he's Bill Belichick, Guys, he is Bill Belichick.
Speaker 15: But okay, but Steve, how many of these kids.
Speaker 5: Were playing now really know a lot about Bill Belichick?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, I think, to be fair, I think at least
Speaker 2: more than sixty percent.
Speaker 6: You know, they know, you know his history.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know a little bit more about his girlfriend.
Speaker 5: Or then yeah, they probably hang out with his girlfriend.
Speaker 6: Well, we'll be doing the same thing at the front house.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 2: He's the dangerfield going back to school to school to school. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's let's go. Do I go first?
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, there's gonna be some hurt feelings here.
Speaker 7: I want to make sure that one we need a
Speaker 7: good space here.
Speaker 5: Is this going to be hell?
Speaker 15: No, you know what if you guys, if you guys
Speaker 15: want to crap all over my pic, feel free, he's shake.
Speaker 3: I gotta I got a group. I gotta back these
Speaker 3: up somehow.
Speaker 7: And Jay did say that I could go and have
Speaker 7: take dinner when he wins, and and so I'm rooting
Speaker 7: for him too.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 15: You're coming with us right then?
Speaker 4: Right then?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, man, okay, let me let me that's
Speaker 2: where we went the first time. So obviously I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go all pro. I'm not gonna go anything college. You
Speaker 2: by be going college? Uh, but my first one is
Speaker 2: going to be Cincinnati.
Speaker 5: Minus five five?
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you to the Titans.
Speaker 5: Against the Titans.
Speaker 15: Okay, well, then since you said that, I'll go.
Speaker 5: I'm doing that one as well.
Speaker 6: Because there's so many games, you and I might have
Speaker 6: some duplicates.
Speaker 15: Man, the pickings were slim, Steve, I know if you
Speaker 15: thought so, but I thought though.
Speaker 6: You did some of them right, pretty easy.
Speaker 2: So so we're both at Cincinnati, right, Okay, So then
Speaker 2: my next one is going to be the Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 5: Okay. I just don't want to make those guys, I
Speaker 5: really don't. And then the Buccaneers kissed me off because
Speaker 5: I will I should have taken them last week and
Speaker 5: I didn't, and and they're really I don't know. I
Speaker 5: don't even know what to think on that one. I
Speaker 5: looked at the Charge and I thought just way too
Speaker 5: much uncertainty.
Speaker 15: Just that Justin Herberts.
Speaker 5: Doesn't win games right at the end, but they need
Speaker 5: to win games.
Speaker 2: So I've seen enough of Justin Spears hate or his
Speaker 2: you know, his photo, a bit of misery this year or.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, Well I'll give
Speaker 5: you my college game. And I don't know why I'm
Speaker 5: doing this because I never get this game, right, I right, picket.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna take army. I'm gonna take army and
Speaker 5: give the six and a half. Yeah, there it is.
Speaker 5: It's over for them. I'm just gonna take it, largely
Speaker 5: because I'm gonna watch it, so I might as well
Speaker 5: have something on it. That's really the only reason I've
Speaker 5: never there's a there's a handful of games that I
Speaker 5: never get right. This is one of them. Ohio State
Speaker 5: Michigan is another one which I missed again this year.
Speaker 5: Back from Florida State was good. Florida Florida's I mean, uh,
Speaker 5: Florida State Miami. They used to play that first game
Speaker 5: of the year. I would always get that one wrong.
Speaker 5: In Texas, Oklahoma, I would always get that one wrong.
Speaker 5: So this is one of those. And so but I'm
Speaker 5: gonna take it because I want to watch it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I might think about I'm gonna can I let
Speaker 2: me pick my luck later because I'm gonna go back.
Speaker 6: I might go back to a game. Okay, put that
Speaker 6: Charger game as a lock.
Speaker 2: So so the Eagles, Eagles the Steelers, Steelers five and
Speaker 2: a half.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna take the Phillies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a tough game for me because I've
Speaker 5: done well with both of those teams. I looked at
Speaker 5: that game, and I thought that would be like, you know,
Speaker 5: having my two kids fight and having to root for
Speaker 5: one of them. So I decided not to. I just
Speaker 5: stayed away from that game. Instead. I went over to
Speaker 5: the Vikings, who are playing Monday night against the Bears.
Speaker 5: Giving six and a half to the Bears. Yeah, at
Speaker 5: home that game at seven, I probably don't go on it,
Speaker 5: but six, and I like six and a half as
Speaker 5: a number, So I'm going to take the Viking.
Speaker 2: That's a good bet. I didn't even see. I didn't
Speaker 2: go that far in my list because I already had
Speaker 2: my five.
Speaker 5: I think. I think the Bears are just bad. And I.
Speaker 7: Went to Minnesota game early on and they play so fast,
Speaker 7: and that's in that in the stadium, and it's.
Speaker 4: Just so it's Chicago's gonna get overwhelmed.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I've hit with them a couple of times
Speaker 5: over the last last few weeks, and I've been very
Speaker 5: happy with them.
Speaker 6: I should if I were a swarm man.
Speaker 5: I changed that to.
Speaker 2: So this is this is kind of my my suspect
Speaker 2: pitch pick of the week. I'm gonna go with Green
Speaker 2: Bay minus two and a half at Seattle, and I
Speaker 2: don't even know what I think, just Green Bay Packers
Speaker 2: have done well in this situation.
Speaker 6: So I'm going with Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's my kind of like what am I
Speaker 2: thinking pick?
Speaker 4: That's the Sunday night game. It's going to be raining,
Speaker 4: it's gonna you know, it's like last Night's gonna be
Speaker 4: like six field, you know, no touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, uh, this is my lock and the game.
Speaker 5: Oh and the game we both have to pick is
Speaker 5: the Bills and the Lions. So for everybody to know that,
Speaker 5: I'm taking the Broncos and I'm gonna lock the Broncos
Speaker 5: to give you four and a half. They've been good
Speaker 5: to me recently. They're they're giving four and a half
Speaker 5: to the Cults are in Denver. The Cults are an
Speaker 5: indoor team playing in Denver in December. And so that's
Speaker 5: that's kind of my logic there. And I'm gonna lock
Speaker 5: that one giving four.
Speaker 6: One just fill off his chair.
Speaker 4: One just gave a fist bump. I don't know what.
Speaker 2: He's picking them not against him one. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 2: okay with that. I'm very much okay with that. Because
Speaker 2: you're a Colt guy. Because I'm a Bronco guy. Oh
Speaker 2: and you're you're he's picking on your side. He doesn't
Speaker 2: do well.
Speaker 5: With that one.
Speaker 15: I'm not the kiss of death anymore.
Speaker 5: I haven't been the kiss of death as much this year.
Speaker 3: I'm saying yes because I'm gonna be doubling. That was
Speaker 3: my pick. Broncos win. They're in the playoffs. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: been the first time since Manning, so all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: everybody's against me. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 15: That baby, let's go.
Speaker 6: He's he's a really weird bet.
Speaker 5: All right, man, Lions and Lions and Steve, what are
Speaker 5: you doing?
Speaker 6: I'm going to go. I'm going to go with Buffalo.
Speaker 2: They need the game to stay close to Kansas City
Speaker 2: more more so than Detroit does.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna go with Buffalo. Uh. In in a game.
Speaker 2: Here, Buffalo Detroit hasn't lost in a while, right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna pick this one Buffalo.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, I'm down taking the Lions. Uh. You know,
Speaker 5: with the with a line under three for the most
Speaker 5: part is who wins the game? Uh? And the lines
Speaker 5: are home and you know.
Speaker 15: Bill, this game is in Buffalo.
Speaker 5: I'm taking Buffalo, So I mean, I think it's a
Speaker 5: it's a it's a coin flip. You know, the lines
Speaker 5: have not covered. They've won, you know, the last few times,
Speaker 5: but they haven't covered.
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 5: I think they've not covered like three times, two or
Speaker 5: three times in a row now, and I and I've
Speaker 5: had them all those times. So to two games in
Speaker 5: a row that they've not covered. But and I had
Speaker 5: them most of those times. But you know, they won
Speaker 5: those games. So all they gotta do is win. To me,
Speaker 5: all they gotta do is I'm taking I'm taking the Lions.
Speaker 2: Okay, So my other lock, my other lock. I think
Speaker 2: I want to go with the Chargers over the Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, okay, so good.
Speaker 5: That's that's when I can just completely root against you
Speaker 5: because I don't I don't have anything on that game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, here's the time when you have to catch catch.
Speaker 15: Well, this is it, this is yeah, I'm gonna pick
Speaker 15: up that point.
Speaker 4: Your life, Jay, you got it.
Speaker 3: You really got to Manny.
Speaker 5: The funny thing is, I'm gonna pick up two. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna pick up two points on you this week.
Speaker 2: You you've done actually compared the last year fantastically. Well,
Speaker 2: he's already done two perfect weeks.
Speaker 6: There were other weeks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Now, let's just focus on the posit I've had
Speaker 7: two perfect weeks.
Speaker 4: The other weeks. We don't have to talk about two perfect.
Speaker 5: Weeks exactly, man, exactly five.
Speaker 3: Let's make it three.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's go, let's.
Speaker 15: Go, let's go one. Let's go Man, Broncos. Bronco's minus four.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's let's talk to people real quick. Jay,
Speaker 2: We're going to be at the casino next Thursday, right right,
Speaker 2: would love to tap and anybody come out and hang
Speaker 2: out with us over there.
Speaker 15: It's been a lot of fun I have.
Speaker 5: We've had a good time out there. Some people have
Speaker 5: come out to hang with us and it's been cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and get them on the show. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: we're gonna try to I'll say this publicly. Uh, you're
Speaker 2: gonna maybe try to make it more on the show
Speaker 2: on Thursdays every now and again more often.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna try and come
Speaker 5: on the show, you know, once a week. It depends
Speaker 5: on my work schedule. It's kind of all over the
Speaker 5: board right now. But I'd love you know, I'd love
Speaker 5: to come and spend you know, a show with you,
Speaker 5: you know, every week, And you know, I don't. I
Speaker 5: can't make the commitment to do any more than that.
Speaker 5: But if we can, we can do it. We can
Speaker 5: do it, and I'd love to do it. It's a
Speaker 5: lot of fun.
Speaker 7: They have better Jay since you've been gone. There's better snacks,
Speaker 7: there's more drinks over here in the station, you know.
Speaker 5: And there's no and there's nobody, nobody hanging out as
Speaker 5: a qt with machete like.
Speaker 15: We had the other.
Speaker 4: It's got i mean, some peanuts right now.
Speaker 5: It's great, Yeah, Tim, that's I mean, that is an
Speaker 5: absolutely true story. I got in line. I was buying
Speaker 5: my hostess, my hostess pie with a soda, and I
Speaker 5: look and I'm in line and I did wasn't paying attention,
Speaker 5: and I look up and the guy's got a backpack.
Speaker 5: He's got a machete tucked in there, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: holy crap, what.
Speaker 6: Am I doing here? That's the reason why he's left.
Speaker 15: Yeah, this is a too dangerous man's way dangerous.
Speaker 5: So we talked about this, but yeah, yeah, Casino on Thursday.
Speaker 5: It's a monthly show over there. Uh, we'll be you know,
Speaker 5: we'll be getting ready for an NFL game.
Speaker 15: I think there'll be some Bowl games by that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that Thursday, trying to get to a couple of
Speaker 2: the great guests that to come down to to be
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, So it's fun if you had a chance
Speaker 5: to come on down just just to hang out. I mean,
Speaker 5: I mean, it's like the greatest man cave ever.
Speaker 15: So let me ask you.
Speaker 6: Before you leave, because you've got to go. Uh uh,
Speaker 6: Tomorrow's prediction.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna win?
Speaker 5: You know, Steve, Because I'm an Arizona fan, and bad
Speaker 5: things always happen in Arizona fans. I think I think
Speaker 5: wins the game.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's how I'm I think that's how I think.
Speaker 15: I think it's close. But Arizona's just not playing.
Speaker 5: Very well that I think that you got to figure
Speaker 5: themselves out, and I think that there's still a ways
Speaker 5: away from doing that. And uh and I think, you know,
Speaker 5: UCLA is a good team, but I haven't seen USL
Speaker 5: A one time this year. I'm just basing this on
Speaker 5: what I've seen of Arizona, that that they're still piecing
Speaker 5: themselves together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe they find like lightning in the bottle
Speaker 2: and see what happens.
Speaker 5: Right right, and maybe it'll maybe you know, there's a
Speaker 5: switch to get slipped and it comes together tomorrow. And
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be surprised me. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 5: Arizona one. But just you know, Arizona fan just tends
Speaker 5: to always look on the dark side.
Speaker 15: Well, it is in attempt, I mean it is.
Speaker 4: I mean for for you know, for forty years.
Speaker 7: I mean it's you know, the tastes of greatness, but
Speaker 7: then there's the dark years, right, yeah.
Speaker 5: You know, and anytime good things happen, bad things are
Speaker 5: right around the corner. And you said that that's what
Speaker 5: happened with football.
Speaker 7: Is there as Arizona fans, you know, we're wary, we're
Speaker 7: looking for the dark sound on the other side of
Speaker 7: this thing.
Speaker 5: Well, and I talked about it all summer with football,
Speaker 5: all summer long. You talked about bad season that always
Speaker 5: comes after the good season. Yep, that's what exactly what
Speaker 5: we got.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you or for your commentary.
Speaker 4: Two perfect weeks.
Speaker 15: You had two perfect weeks. We'll talk to you.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next week. I'll see you next
Speaker 2: week at a game. And then and then Thursday.
Speaker 15: All right, thanks, thanks for having I appreciated.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have time, about fifteen seconds. Oh, perfect time,
Speaker 2: thanks to him.
Speaker 5: See you.
Speaker 4: Good weekend.
Speaker 2: Maybe not next Friday one. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2: Are you will talk for me? Because the next week's
Speaker 2: a week I'll be really okay. Thanks everybody this