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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box sportsporteen fifteen eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Wind the Ball here on Fox
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Speaker 3: You're Mike Quinn. Have you got Henry with breaking news
Speaker 3: for the first story.
Speaker 4: The Saints have fired head coach Dennis Allen earlier today
Speaker 4: after losing seven straight games after starting the season two
Speaker 4: and zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're going to see that a lot
Speaker 2: a lot this year. One more coaches to being fired
Speaker 2: at the end of the year.
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, there's a there's a coach you got fired
Speaker 5: after seven games. But uh, it's different, Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 5: Pros are a bit different. You gotta you gotta. You
Speaker 5: got an owner that is a billionaire. There's he can
Speaker 5: buy him out right, right, they do that. If you're
Speaker 5: an engineer, you figure out ada.
Speaker 3: I'll get there. I'll figure it out anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott will miss several weeks with the
Speaker 4: hamstring injury he suffered in yesterday's game versus the Falcons.
Speaker 3: Well that's good because he thinks his team sucks. It's
Speaker 3: like he's probably pretty happy about that. Did you see that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was They almost came back when he went
Speaker 4: out of the game.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, which, yeah, I don't know. The question
Speaker 5: is is this a talk aboution by subtraction? Yeah, no, exactly,
Speaker 5: talk about bios re worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I know.
Speaker 2: It's like guys who are paying to me, to me,
Speaker 2: you know, I used to be a cowboy ten many
Speaker 2: years ago, and yeah, you just see these guys. Romo
Speaker 2: has a lot of a nice career, as they say,
Speaker 2: but he couldn't win and they were never gonna win
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 3: They're never gonna win with Dak either. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Forty nine Ers running back Kristan McCaffrey has officially returned
Speaker 4: the practice, so he will have to be activated in
Speaker 4: the next three weeks to return the game time.
Speaker 5: Well, that should make fantasy football fans some happy. You know,
Speaker 5: the guy, the guy in front of me in my league,
Speaker 5: he picked McCaffrey. I thought I thought he was smart man.
Speaker 5: Damn yeh hasn't worked out very well for him. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be uh, it'll be interesting he comes back.
Speaker 4: The Cardinals improved to five and four yesterday with a
Speaker 4: twenty nine to nine win over the Bears.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys have surprised the heck out of me
Speaker 2: because they were not doing well and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, Murray's playing really well and they're winning games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they look really they look really good. Their defense
Speaker 5: looked really good. I didn't pay him any attention to
Speaker 5: the game. But he's coming through. I mean, come on,
Speaker 5: he's a shorter quarterback who's done well. Now yeah, I mean, well,
Speaker 5: well again, they get him out of the pocket, right,
Speaker 5: They move him around. They don't try and play him
Speaker 5: like he's a big where he's a couple is batted down.
Speaker 5: But they get him out. They get him out, they
Speaker 5: get him moving next thing, you know. But he didn't
Speaker 5: run much. So, like I said that, they looked really good.
Speaker 5: Their running game was like on fire.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Yankees pitcher Garret Cole will stay on the four year,
Speaker 4: one hundred and four million dollar contract that he previously
Speaker 4: opted out on the team worked on it and came
Speaker 4: to agreement for that contract.
Speaker 3: You're okay with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's only thirty two thirty.
Speaker 3: I see, why didn't I see you that Wednesday thirty four? Yeah,
Speaker 3: Wednesday they were still in it. They were still playing it, right,
Speaker 3: what'd you think that was a horrible game? Horrible game?
Speaker 5: His assert inning that yeah, I mean it was it
Speaker 5: was one inning, but it was yeah, it was he
Speaker 5: still picture really Oh yeah, he did great, except he
Speaker 5: didn't cover first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that inning should have been over long before that. Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know the fact that he gets in
Speaker 5: there and he strikes out those two guys, including a
Speaker 5: tawny with bases loaded, is you know, that's top level stuff.
Speaker 5: He is arguably the best pitcher, right handed pitcher in baseball. Uh,
Speaker 5: Yank Yankees bringing him back is a bit of a
Speaker 5: no brainer. Now, can the Yankee sign Soto? That's gonna
Speaker 5: be the big one?
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: The first day of college of basketball is today. The
Speaker 4: standout games we have Texas versus Ohio State and Baylor
Speaker 4: versus Gonzaga.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be a good game tonight, right will
Speaker 3: be that's in the Spokane or somewhere, no road somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know the Texas Ohio State games in Vegas.
Speaker 3: What's uh, what's Texas rated nineteen?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, they're not that high. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's in Spokane starting at eleven thirty Easterns. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Arizona women's team will start their season today at
Speaker 4: four pm against UT Arlington.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's right now, yep. It'll be interesting to see
Speaker 5: how they. Uh, you go to a lot of those games.
Speaker 5: We do go to a lot of those games, and
Speaker 5: you know, we're you know, pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: I tell you.
Speaker 5: She got those women to play so hard. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean they had they had essentially five players and then
Speaker 5: to watch volleyball players, you know, and it was like
Speaker 5: or a volleyball player and a track a track star,
Speaker 5: and he played so hard. Arguably, last year was probably
Speaker 5: her whatever better coaching jobs because of what those circumstances.
Speaker 5: But the circumstances to get there are kind of like
Speaker 5: how did this happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: How did we get to the point where we're playing
Speaker 5: five players? Well a lot of it was injuries, but
Speaker 5: a lot of it was people transferring, you know, wanting
Speaker 5: to get out of there. I mean, the word was
Speaker 5: like going, uh, you know, I'm transferring because she wants
Speaker 5: to focus on defense.
Speaker 3: I don't do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't do that. It's like, yeah, but could
Speaker 5: I get my last nil checked? Your probably exactly? Please
Speaker 5: please get a cash this thing, yes, mail me my
Speaker 5: and I is that cashier's place that you know in
Speaker 5: the corners. They have a rate check cashing place.
Speaker 4: The men's team will also start their season tonight with
Speaker 4: a a PM game against Kinesis.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hate these schedules. At eight o'clock. I'll be
Speaker 3: done writing by midnight. Yeah, yeah, well they're nothing to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I you know, as you know, I always stay
Speaker 5: up and read your articles because I'm fascinated by them
Speaker 5: looking for I mean, well, that's that's the thing about it.
Speaker 5: I mean I would like to see I'd like to
Speaker 5: see more games, but I mean eight pm start time.
Speaker 5: Come on, they gotta sell pillows and sofas at the
Speaker 5: at the place. They should get a good idea exactly.
Speaker 4: Spurs coach Greg Popovich will be out and definitely after
Speaker 4: suffering a health issue during saturdays.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 5: Really. Well, he's already prepared for the election, Pops. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: He's he's he's a bit old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but yeah not really. I don't know, is
Speaker 3: he old? He's got seventy maybe, I don't know. You've
Speaker 3: a been old? Yeah old me?
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm very old. Dare laughing my daughter. Don't ask
Speaker 5: kids if you're because you're going to be. They'll tell
Speaker 5: you the U. But yeah, pop, well, I wouldn't be
Speaker 5: coaching in the NBA if i'd been had been coaching
Speaker 5: all those many years.
Speaker 3: It's not like he's got a lot to prove. I mean,
Speaker 3: he may be sitting.
Speaker 5: There's like when he may want to get through when
Speaker 5: beyondah and make that guy you know, when when that
Speaker 5: guy starts turning it on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, that's all I got. So he got, we've
Speaker 3: got time, we got some way.
Speaker 2: Maybe take some calls you guys want to call if
Speaker 2: you agree with Jim or anybody with five two oh
Speaker 2: for one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 3: I was wondering what what Brendan said today.
Speaker 2: I didn't see much on Twitter, but he didn't fire
Speaker 2: anybody today. You said, maybe because it's because it's a
Speaker 2: bye week, right, I don't think there's a need for that,
Speaker 2: or really I really don't because it's three weeks last.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is then you reevaluate and see, uh, this
Speaker 5: is definitely undoubtedly the low point. Well yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 5: think guess what, guess what could get even worse? Yeah,
Speaker 5: exactly the low point continues to maybe get to get
Speaker 5: a watermark.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don low point.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: So so here's here's one of the problems. Like, we're
Speaker 5: not gonna we're not gonna get much lower. I don't
Speaker 5: I think expectations are are about zero. Now, well, if
Speaker 5: you're gonna get continue to get hammered. I mean you're
Speaker 5: thinking of what we're gonna get it, continue to getting hammered.
Speaker 5: I don't know any you know there there there may
Speaker 5: be people that that are like that are I'm sure
Speaker 5: there are people that are. I'm positive about the future.
Speaker 5: So let me maybe clear. I am positive about the future.
Speaker 5: I think that next year we're gonna be better. I
Speaker 5: think we're gonna be more, We're gonna be solidified. I
Speaker 5: do think that we're gonna uh that Brennan's gonna have
Speaker 5: a better team than we do this here. I don't
Speaker 5: have any expectations. You you see my face as I
Speaker 5: look at you and listen to you. Yeah, And it
Speaker 5: kills me every every time I take a look at it.
Speaker 5: So where in the world you're picking this stuff from?
Speaker 5: Where you getting this from? I think this is the
Speaker 5: horse ras that you said you picked on Saturday, you'd
Speaker 5: think the past performances. Let me look, Oh he fired
Speaker 5: five months ago, he might be able to do that
Speaker 5: same thing. Now he's gonna have a different horse. He's
Speaker 5: gonna have a different horse. The horse is gonna be
Speaker 5: different different.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? You've You've sat.
Speaker 5: There in that chair every Monday that I've been here,
Speaker 5: and you said there's a disconnect with the place.
Speaker 3: Yes, very much, there's a disconnect.
Speaker 5: If I would tell you that, I think that next
Speaker 5: year there, he is going to be better connected with
Speaker 5: the players.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have another year. It's gonna be his team. Okay.
Speaker 5: I mean he's going to bring in his players from
Speaker 5: the from the beginning. I just think that that's gonna
Speaker 5: be better. And you buy into the coaches philosophy, you
Speaker 5: buy into the system that the team is better.
Speaker 3: Em world, could you call nine one one your dad?
Speaker 3: This is not your dad. Someone kidnapped him on your
Speaker 3: way here.
Speaker 5: Come on, man, it's already don't composed to be. It
Speaker 5: happens a lot. You're asking a ton. I'm with Jim.
Speaker 3: I'm a gym, but not that far kind of right now.
Speaker 3: And I don't care. I don't know dog in the race.
Speaker 3: But it's just I've seen I've seen stuff like this happen,
Speaker 3: and you just you can't correct because it's not correctable.
Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, what the hell do I know?
Speaker 5: I just want to do this and not that I
Speaker 5: don't know. Yeah, well, but talk about it all speculations. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you talking about all you want and be wrong. That's
Speaker 5: what I'm saying and not being wrong. It's like, come on,
Speaker 5: I'm sold. We're talking sports. We don't need facts, you know,
Speaker 5: doesn't move to politics exactly. Yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: Anybody else want to call?
Speaker 2: We got about five minutes, five two oh four, one sixty.
Speaker 2: I hope to get through this the next hour. We're
Speaker 2: talking more football too. In fact, Lamont Love it will
Speaker 2: be on the show. He's the radio color analyst alongside
Speaker 2: Brian Jeffries. Uh is going to join us. I'm curious
Speaker 2: because he's not part of the team as a former player,
Speaker 2: but he's with the team. You know, he's with the
Speaker 2: team and how it affects them because you want to cover,
Speaker 2: you want to cover a team that's good.
Speaker 5: So he was on a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 5: very positive, very up be very like, hell yeah, we're
Speaker 5: right there on the cusp. Yeah yeah, we're right there
Speaker 5: on the cosp. Cusp has left the building. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what I'm saying. And I was with him, man,
Speaker 5: I was ted, truth, I was I was drinking a
Speaker 5: lot of kool aid at that point. Yeah. And you know,
Speaker 5: I think that injuries has descipated our defense. We kind
Speaker 5: of said, Okay, the defense is gonna hold us together
Speaker 5: until we get the offense rolling again. Defense, defense has
Speaker 5: left the building. There's a lot of want time. And
Speaker 5: then that's yeah, yeah, a lot a lot of want
Speaker 5: what in disregard That's why there's a lot of want
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 2: It's uh yeah, it's just it's just not good. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: a good thing for many people to this basketball season.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of people are like going, hey,
Speaker 5: let's talk. It's you know they start talking in mid September. Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: people are excited about that. Yeah, and it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be tough basketball. It's gonna be tough because
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a tough league. It's gonna be a
Speaker 5: fun league for me to cover. Because uh, this is
Speaker 5: the schedule that that you you go to the games
Speaker 5: for because you get great games there are. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: if you have season tickets, I don't think you do, right,
Speaker 5: you don't, but you know it, it'll it'll be interesting,
Speaker 5: you know, because you know we've we've got a history
Speaker 5: of going up there and you know we'll well, for example,
Speaker 5: go to the Washington's and we'll we'll beat the team
Speaker 5: that is rated, you know, ranked eighth, and then we'll
Speaker 5: the team that's one in eighteen. You know, we lose
Speaker 5: to because we have a down game. There's no down
Speaker 5: games going to be in the big if there is,
Speaker 5: you'll shame on you for showing up. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: just I've seen that too many times, Mike, and you
Speaker 5: see it. You know, if you just don't need to,
Speaker 5: you don't think you need to get up, and you
Speaker 5: have to, you got you kind of Oh that was
Speaker 5: a that was a tough one. I'm glad we're passing
Speaker 5: that issue last year? Was it issue last year when
Speaker 5: that came in and moves that hit the thirty as
Speaker 5: you hit that, it was was a last year two
Speaker 5: years ago. Yeah, That's why I didn't feel like saying
Speaker 5: that Yeah, they had no business.
Speaker 3: Company and win it. Yeah and exactly, yeah they do that,
Speaker 3: explain every Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is gonna be a fun a fun time.
Speaker 5: And what I'll tell you what will be fun is
Speaker 5: to sit there and listen to the Arizona fans who
Speaker 5: were used to going, you know, we go through the
Speaker 5: Pac twelve and we're eighteen to two or whatever, you know,
Speaker 5: and it's like going, Oh, I can't believe we lost
Speaker 5: two games even and seven. What are you talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's like that's what I'm saying. We're gonna get crushed
Speaker 5: in the tournament. We're gonna be a four seed. Blah
Speaker 5: blah blah. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna go in. We'll probably
Speaker 5: go in the tournament four or five seed, i'd imagine.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know that the already's picking us as
Speaker 5: I think a three seed the uh, but we go
Speaker 5: in there as a four or five seed, and I
Speaker 5: think we're better prepared than.
Speaker 3: What we what we have.
Speaker 2: I really like this team because there's a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of holes that were filled and good with
Speaker 2: with quality players and things that you needed. You know,
Speaker 2: you went shopping, he got exactly what he needed. To
Speaker 2: do with the job needs to get done. Talk about fit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: is Caleb better fit.
Speaker 3: With this team? That's tough. I will know until we know.
Speaker 3: I mean, we won't go there till we know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because he's gonna some days have great days and
Speaker 5: some days not even be a factor, which is good.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Is there somebody else that can be a factor or
Speaker 5: do we have we have a letdown completely? Carter Bryant,
Speaker 5: Carter Bryant, he's gonna be here's the problem. He's gonna
Speaker 5: do what Chase did. And when I talked to Jason
Speaker 5: back twenty years ago, he needs to be more assertive
Speaker 5: a take over a game.
Speaker 2: He has to because he's that quality player. But do
Speaker 2: they have it inside them that I don't want everything
Speaker 2: about it. I don't want to rough on you, father.
Speaker 2: We had people that would defer to defer to.
Speaker 5: Caleb, you know, and Caleb having an off night or
Speaker 5: something like that, and we just wouldn't have it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the uh so, uh yeah, so we'll well, we'll say,
Speaker 5: we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna go come back with Lamont love it.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rava, He's got his eye on the ball on
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox s watch Sport you fifty, I'm Steve, you'r Mike
Speaker 2: yet Henry with us.
Speaker 3: We're trying to get ahold of a lot. I couldn't
Speaker 3: find him, so.
Speaker 8: We're hoping he calls up.
Speaker 3: You're in a moment.
Speaker 15: I know.
Speaker 3: He busy guy. He said, he come up. We'll see
Speaker 3: what happens.
Speaker 2: I wanted to just get his biggest brain about what
Speaker 2: he sees, you know, within reason, because you know he's
Speaker 2: kind of still tied to the school or tied to
Speaker 2: the team and does one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess he'd you know, it'd be tough for
Speaker 5: him to sit there and say, hope is forlorn, you know, uh, forlorn,
Speaker 5: want for lorn?
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry. That's it.
Speaker 5: That's hold on, A big word for a journalism major
Speaker 5: from New Mexico State. Hold one's poor warning. Yeah you
Speaker 5: may want to look that one up. Sorry, professor here
Speaker 5: at you there you go. Guys, you know you're in trouble,
Speaker 5: right but actually financially financially, yeah, I know we're from trouble. Financially.
Speaker 5: I get that, get word of I get word of
Speaker 5: that every time I look at my paycheck. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: speaking of which it's gonna be tough for them to
Speaker 5: raise money on this team.
Speaker 3: That's probably that's another thing, the biggest fallout of this, right, right, right,
Speaker 3: it's tough for you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, hey, I already put a few thousand dollars
Speaker 2: into this. What what I get from it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What did I get from this? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 3: it's a lot easier to raise money on a winning team.
Speaker 3: The month is this you? Yes, sir, there is great
Speaker 3: to have you on the show. The love it so
Speaker 3: tell me.
Speaker 2: I was telling everybody here before you came on, maybe
Speaker 2: last last hour or last segment, that I think this
Speaker 2: is tough for you. I would assume it is for you.
Speaker 2: You're a former U of a player. You love this program,
Speaker 2: you love this team. Uh, and and you're going and
Speaker 2: you're and you're and you're doing your job and then
Speaker 2: you're seeing stuff, you're seeing them not playing.
Speaker 3: Well. How has it been?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think you accurately describe it. It's it's been
Speaker 16: very tough. And yeah, I feel like I kind of
Speaker 16: live and die with the team, the success of the team, right,
Speaker 16: And it's been really difficult to watch you know, this
Speaker 16: guy's struggle because I mean I know that it's not
Speaker 16: for a lack of effort or a lack of you know,
Speaker 16: just giving everything you have, but you know it's not
Speaker 16: working out, you know, and for for multiple reasons. There's
Speaker 16: not just any one reason, right, for multiple reasons. The
Speaker 16: season is kind of you know, it's kind of you know,
Speaker 16: gone down to drain a little bit. So that's that's difficult.
Speaker 16: It's difficult for me to to to see. Yeah, it's
Speaker 16: really been difficult.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So you know, we always say that Brian is kind
Speaker 2: of he plays it as uh, straight and narrow. He's
Speaker 2: not a great uh cheerleader, which makes his job even
Speaker 2: tougher and and and very good at what he does,
Speaker 2: you know, of course, and most schools who are Brian
Speaker 2: are cheerleaders raw and he just plays post the best.
Speaker 3: You're the guy. You're the guy, and I'm not you know,
Speaker 3: blowing smoke. You're the guy that's a little bit more
Speaker 3: positive in this situation, right.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I I think I
Speaker 16: always I always start with a positive take and a
Speaker 16: positive spin. I don't call it a spin, but I
Speaker 16: think I probably look at it from a different perspective.
Speaker 16: But yet it gets increasingly difficult when you know, things
Speaker 16: really falling apart. And so yeah, I think, I don't
Speaker 16: know if you listen to our last broadcast, but that
Speaker 16: was a different that was a difficult broadcast. And and
Speaker 16: I think that we you know, we we under we
Speaker 16: really understand that, you know, the injuries are something that's
Speaker 16: a part of the game, and you know, no one
Speaker 16: can can really do anything about that, and you know,
Speaker 16: when guys are blowing their knees out things of that nature.
Speaker 16: It's just tough to see some of the things that
Speaker 16: I'm seeing, like you know, the penalties and seeing you know,
Speaker 16: some of the things, you know, as far as systemically
Speaker 16: when I'm looking at the offense and those things that
Speaker 16: are just been tough to watch because I feel like they,
Speaker 16: you know, in those areas, I think they may have
Speaker 16: missed the boat in some of those areas. So that
Speaker 16: was that was difficult for me to watch, just to
Speaker 16: be perfectly honest. And I know that they you know,
Speaker 16: these guys want to get fixed and natural they're going
Speaker 16: to spend all the time and resources doing but it's
Speaker 16: just you know, we're four games, we got three games left. Yes,
Speaker 16: it's not not a lot of fixing that you can
Speaker 16: really do at this stage, and you just have to
Speaker 16: try to keep it together at the themes and play
Speaker 16: it out. But yeah, it's been it's been hard man
Speaker 16: to watch well.
Speaker 5: The uh you know, they asked press one time asked
Speaker 5: John John McKay when he was with the Bucks, like
Speaker 5: to comment on the execution of his team, and he
Speaker 5: said he was all for it. And we had a
Speaker 5: guy today earlier that was talking about blowing it all up.
Speaker 5: Where where do we go from? What is the fix here?
Speaker 5: We we throw it all away and start over or.
Speaker 16: You know, that's a that's a tough one because I
Speaker 16: don't think that. I don't believe that there's just a
Speaker 16: bunch of bad coaches on this team. So I don't
Speaker 16: believe that at all. I think the matter. I think
Speaker 16: it's the opposite. I think there's some really quality coaches
Speaker 16: on the team. But I do think that, you know,
Speaker 16: the lack of experience on the offense and the offensive
Speaker 16: play calling that in that situation, I think that that's
Speaker 16: an area that you know, at this point, we just
Speaker 16: got to call it what it is, and it just
Speaker 16: hasn't been very good. It has been very effective, and
Speaker 16: so they're going to have to really re evaluate that
Speaker 16: and and they're going to have to get it fixed quickly,
Speaker 16: and they're going to have to you know, come up
Speaker 16: with a system where you know, the kids can be
Speaker 16: very confident in it, the fans, everyone else can feel
Speaker 16: confident about what they're seeing there, and if anybody says
Speaker 16: anything different, then they're just you know, they're blown smoke
Speaker 16: up their own rear. That that has to get fixed immediately.
Speaker 16: And I'm not saying anything that you know, anybody in
Speaker 16: the staff, for anybody else doesn't know. So that's that's
Speaker 16: the area where I'm just really Yeah, it's been hard
Speaker 16: to watch. It's really hard to watch, you know. I
Speaker 16: was giving it. I gave it a lot of you know,
Speaker 16: a lot of thought early on and watched it and
Speaker 16: early on it just thinking okay, you just need they're
Speaker 16: getting close to getting get close to getting close. But
Speaker 16: then you finally you get to a point to where
Speaker 16: it's like, okay, now I'm starting to just see a
Speaker 16: little bit of redundancy and and it doesn't look like
Speaker 16: they're getting close to anymore. So yeah, I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: About that, right, no question.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's my thing, and I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know this because I don't trouble with the team or
Speaker 2: watch as close as as you guys. Uh, just I'm
Speaker 2: with basketball. So my problem is that they're getting beat
Speaker 2: by a lot and it and it must be miserable.
Speaker 2: You're there, you're there, and you have to sit through
Speaker 2: the three and a half hours because it's it starts
Speaker 2: early and it continues and continues, and.
Speaker 3: You know, what are you going to say? But you know,
Speaker 3: do your job obviously, and it's like, you know, the
Speaker 3: first time is a mistake, and second times I have it.
Speaker 3: Third time, well we've got something. Fourth time, oh crap,
Speaker 3: what the hell?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and and a lot of.
Speaker 16: You know, we can we can always say it's execution,
Speaker 16: but it's you know, it's it's also putting your players
Speaker 16: in position to execute and giving them a system that
Speaker 16: they can execute and that they can you know, it
Speaker 16: doesn't you don't have to be one thousand percent perfect
Speaker 16: to run a play. I mean you should be able
Speaker 16: to find some holes in the defense and be able
Speaker 16: to attack those holes when they when they should, you know,
Speaker 16: when they present themselves. And those are the things that
Speaker 16: are just you know, it's that's what's been difficult for me.
Speaker 16: To watch because I'm seeing things that I'm like, I
Speaker 16: think we're missing it here and and i've you know,
Speaker 16: I've said it, you know, in the air, and I
Speaker 16: just that's that those are the things that got to
Speaker 16: be fixed. Man, there's I'm not going to go way
Speaker 16: into detailed club out want to be you know, beaten
Speaker 16: on on a dead horse and then trying to sort
Speaker 16: don't want to disparage you know, guys that this is
Speaker 16: their career. And and I promise you you will never
Speaker 16: hear me, I don't care how bad things get, You'll
Speaker 16: never hear me call for a coach's job. I just
Speaker 16: refuse to do that because if anybody was calling for
Speaker 16: my job, I don't think I would enjoy that. So
Speaker 16: that I'll let other people do that. That's not something
Speaker 16: that I'm going to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I.
Speaker 3: Agree with that. I agree with that, Lamar. I mean,
Speaker 3: let the people who are in charge of making that
Speaker 3: decision make that decision. Well, you guys have been athletes, Aluma,
Speaker 3: You've been an athlete for a long time most of
Speaker 3: your life. I've said this in the recent few weeks.
Speaker 2: Now, just to me, it feels like there's a disconnect,
Speaker 2: right and maybe I said this last time you're on
Speaker 2: you're playing, and now you've played for a number of coaches.
Speaker 3: So this is my example.
Speaker 2: You're here, your coach leaves, you love it here, you
Speaker 2: stay here, and he's not your guy, and he's got
Speaker 2: a different approach than the previous guy. And you say, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna to buy
Speaker 2: in for this. And then you say, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I can buy in for this, and and and
Speaker 2: we're all humans. We have a bias, right, we have
Speaker 2: a bias. We have some kind of inside us that
Speaker 2: you're either all in or you're not, or you're kind
Speaker 2: of in, you're and and to me, there's something there.
Speaker 3: I couldn't put a finger on it, but to me,
Speaker 3: that's how it feels.
Speaker 16: Yeah, And I could, I could, I could, I could
Speaker 16: see that. And like I said, it's it's more than
Speaker 16: one thing. Yeah, I mean right, we we discussed, you
Speaker 16: know earlier that to me, it's almost kind of a
Speaker 16: perfect storm of bat that stuff hitting all at once,
Speaker 16: and it just the results is are what we see.
Speaker 16: What we're seeing. But I think that you know, losing
Speaker 16: the guys that they lost going into see them starting there.
Speaker 16: You know, you gotta get off of to tackle the
Speaker 16: starting for the Green Bay Packers right now, You've got
Speaker 16: to tide end plane in the NFL. You got Jacob
Speaker 16: Cowing playing in the NFL. Those guys are playing effectively too,
Speaker 16: So you take that out right away. Then you replace
Speaker 16: that tackle with a red shirt freshman that we have started.
Speaker 16: That rich re freshman blew his knee up games ago.
Speaker 16: So now you now you're really deep in a deep
Speaker 16: hole there. Then you you factor in the fact that
Speaker 16: there's a brand new system that they have to learn.
Speaker 16: This team has to learn new and they've you know,
Speaker 16: they've it's it's been a struggle for them to learn it.
Speaker 16: And so the new system, the loss of players, and
Speaker 16: then we're not even talking about the players that Jetfish.
Speaker 3: Took with them to Washington. This is a new team, no.
Speaker 16: Matter what anybody says, Yes they have tac, yes they
Speaker 16: have you know, some good players back, but it's still
Speaker 16: a new team and in this new team with a
Speaker 16: new staff. And so those are factors that I don't
Speaker 16: think you can just overlook and just push aside. Like
Speaker 16: you know, you have to give a coach a chance
Speaker 16: to to recruit to his system and then to do
Speaker 16: what he wants to do. Now, if that doesn't work,
Speaker 16: then you know, then then you know we go from there.
Speaker 16: But I do think that there are still things outside
Speaker 16: of those circumstances, like you know, the rash of injuries.
Speaker 16: But I think there's some things systemically that I would
Speaker 16: to see differently, particularly on off the side of the ball.
Speaker 16: That's that's just that's me. That's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 3: So, so you mentioned a couple of times the word system.
Speaker 5: The uh.
Speaker 3: Is Brendan a system coach?
Speaker 5: In light he he he's got to get players that
Speaker 5: fit his system or see the guy that's going to
Speaker 5: be able to adjust his system to the players. Because
Speaker 5: it seems to me that we were running a certain
Speaker 5: type of offense that may not fit exactly what we've got.
Speaker 16: That's fair, but that's fair. I don't want to say,
Speaker 16: I don't want to, yeah, hold him into that.
Speaker 3: I guess it's a bit of an question what's happening?
Speaker 16: Yeah, Yeah, I think that a lot of that is
Speaker 16: what is happening. I would a percent agree there. I
Speaker 16: think they really want to be like a power downhill
Speaker 16: running team, and it's just it's just not there. That's
Speaker 16: not there, and and I think that they've tried to
Speaker 16: really push that and force that issue because in into
Speaker 16: his defense, they did do that at Central the State
Speaker 16: and he did it pretty successful there. So I mean, naturally,
Speaker 16: you're going to go with what you know, what you know,
Speaker 16: and he just is not working. So you got to
Speaker 16: recalculate and you got to figure out, you know, what
Speaker 16: you're gotta do, and you gotta do it fast because
Speaker 16: you know, you only got so long, you know, to
Speaker 16: get it right. So that's what I'm I'm hopeful that
Speaker 16: I'm you know, I'm rude for him like nobody's business,
Speaker 16: because I think he's a tremendous person. I think I
Speaker 16: respect him as a coach too. I'm'm not in here
Speaker 16: to do the coach. When the guy's had success in
Speaker 16: his career, he can coach.
Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, that's that's everybody.
Speaker 15: We don't get it right all the time. We didn't
Speaker 15: get it.
Speaker 3: We did to bring in somebody that was not successful.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know exactly. You got to get some things right,
Speaker 16: and they got to do it quickly. And it's probably
Speaker 16: going to have to be a lot of transfer portal
Speaker 16: hopefully they don't have too much turnover in the process.
Speaker 16: But you know that's part of the game too. You've
Speaker 16: got to figure it out. And and I can say
Speaker 16: what's happened this season is not making that easier. So
Speaker 16: that's that's kind of that's where it's at right now. Well,
Speaker 16: it's like it's it's it's you know, may day. Right now,
Speaker 16: they got to get fixed.
Speaker 2: Well, last question, the last question, and you brought this
Speaker 2: up at the beginning, how much you loved the kid
Speaker 2: from New Mexico, the running back, that he was a
Speaker 2: special kid. And obviously that that ended quickly for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: because we still haven't got an explanation that and then
Speaker 2: the rest of the injuries and everything. The perfect storm
Speaker 2: is exactly that's the title of the book. Uh, that's
Speaker 2: it's the perfect right and the thing is the one
Speaker 2: thing is over the weekend, I heard this from somebody
Speaker 2: that coaches are problem solvers. That's what they' that's what
Speaker 2: they do. Let's supposh to do. And so the perfect storm.
Speaker 2: Now you've got to find a way how to get
Speaker 2: out of this perfect storm.
Speaker 15: That's it.
Speaker 16: I mean Jed had this in his first year. He
Speaker 16: inherited a really bad situation. It took them, It took
Speaker 16: them three years to get out of it, and so
Speaker 16: you know how long The question is, how long will
Speaker 16: it take these guys to turn it around? And if
Speaker 16: you and the hard part about it is when you're
Speaker 16: navigating it, you got the fans.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they want to win now.
Speaker 16: Sure, they want to win now. And they have a
Speaker 16: say too because they buy tickets. Yeah, and depend on that,
Speaker 16: and you got boosters and depend on that. So it
Speaker 16: you know, it's got to happen quickly. And so this
Speaker 16: is a tough job man to navigate, right.
Speaker 2: You got to figured out la is always a van, yeah,
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Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate that, Lamon. I love your insights.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Invall Fee on Fox Worth fourteen fifty
Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera, you're Mike Quinn.
Speaker 5: Good guess and Henry you're here too, Thanks Hennery. Tomorrow
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be on my own working on board.
Speaker 15: Good luck to me.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what I'm gonna be doing. Dave
Speaker 3: still gonna be tough.
Speaker 5: Dave silver with me tomorrow, so we know we're gonna
Speaker 5: both maybe David and do it.
Speaker 3: You should they should have him do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it'd be crazy if you guys want to call
Speaker 5: finish this off better than what the show has been.
Speaker 3: No, Actually, we had a good show, a good show.
Speaker 5: I'm excitative have people call in and let us know
Speaker 5: what they think about how this is going to be solved.
Speaker 2: Chase Buddinger called in the first hour we had him
Speaker 2: on the show. Good to talk to Chase and now
Speaker 2: lamont love it Radio Color guy. Uh, that does a
Speaker 2: tough job. Because you're you're part of the program. You
Speaker 2: gotta be honest.
Speaker 3: You got to be critical, not you don't have to
Speaker 3: be critical, but you have to be honest and kind of.
Speaker 5: You because you see what you see right, Yeah, how
Speaker 5: do you not come across the homer? But yet you
Speaker 5: cannot you can't trash them. Yeah, yeah, you want to
Speaker 5: come back in the plane, right. I think I think
Speaker 5: that the way we fix this is we start playing basketball.
Speaker 5: That's the way we fix you. Have people forget about it,
Speaker 5: have people forget about it. Yeah, yeah, we'll see tonight.
Speaker 5: Tonight should be ri except that the A League game
Speaker 5: eight o'clock game finish at ten, you know, by midnight.
Speaker 3: What else is going on this week? But we have
Speaker 3: another game I think this week too. We have two
Speaker 3: games this week. So yeah, we'll see. So that'll be nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, with no football at all? So yeah, exactly no football.
Speaker 5: Maybe we just turned it. We do turn to basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gotta call Hello, you're on the air and nine
Speaker 3: on the ball. Who is this?
Speaker 15: Hey, Steve?
Speaker 3: You guys doing is don don? What's the word? How
Speaker 3: much more?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Critical? Critical? Can you be where we're at?
Speaker 15: Well, where.
Speaker 5: I've gone two weeks without listening to coaches press conferences
Speaker 5: and you know what it's you know, people are people
Speaker 5: are gonna probably be asking him questions he doesn't want
Speaker 5: to answer at this point. Hopefully he has the answers
Speaker 5: as as as far as what he's going to do
Speaker 5: to correct what's going on. I don't want him fired.
Speaker 5: I like what what Lamont just said.
Speaker 15: You know, It's like if somebody was saying that I
Speaker 15: shouldn't have my job, I sure wouldn't like that, especially
Speaker 15: if I'm you know, I'm working hard and I'm trying
Speaker 15: to get it done.
Speaker 3: Do you think he can quote unquote fix things this
Speaker 3: year or is fixing?
Speaker 15: I think that I think this year is is what
Speaker 15: it is.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 15: I mean, for me, the Bowl game is going to
Speaker 15: be the Territorial Cup, and if he can fix things
Speaker 15: for that game, I think that that that will be
Speaker 15: good enough for the rest of this year. I mean
Speaker 15: that to me honestly because I'm hoping it works with
Speaker 15: with Brennan. I really am, because I'm tired of this
Speaker 15: three and four year rotation that we've been on since
Speaker 15: since Dick told me.
Speaker 2: So. Let me ask you, don Rachel's your fandom scale
Speaker 2: one ten? Where do you sit?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 15: I was born here. I am what a friend of
Speaker 15: mine from Tennessee used to say about volunteer fans. I
Speaker 15: am what you call non attending alumni. I've been to
Speaker 15: the university a lot of times, but I never attended
Speaker 15: any classes there. So I'm an Arizona guy when I
Speaker 15: go to when I go out of town, when I
Speaker 15: go to Phoenix, when I go to California, I'm whearing
Speaker 15: my I'm rock in the A and and that's what
Speaker 15: I do on my travel days in and out.
Speaker 3: When I'm going to be out.
Speaker 15: And about among people, I wear my Arizona stuff.
Speaker 2: So when they lose, when they lose, I'm talking football
Speaker 2: specific basketball, because it's a different pain.
Speaker 3: How do you feel? Are you beat for the day?
Speaker 3: You saying? What are you? It depends.
Speaker 15: I mean, I was at I was, I was at
Speaker 15: the at the West Virginia game. At the end, I said, well,
Speaker 15: but you know they showed fight. You know they showed
Speaker 15: some fight. It's I think what what Lament was saying
Speaker 15: about the offensive system. And they want to be ah,
Speaker 15: they want to be a power running team, but you
Speaker 15: don't have that. I don't know why you continue to
Speaker 15: call those plays unless you're gonna let the freshman, big
Speaker 15: big Red Caden Luke run the ball. He's the only
Speaker 15: one strong enough to run the ball the way they
Speaker 15: want to run it. Right, yea, and he and and
Speaker 15: he led the state in rushing last year, so I mean,
Speaker 15: why not give that kid a chance? But it's games
Speaker 15: like games like Saturday was so.
Speaker 3: Hard to watch. Did you did you watch it all?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 15: Not all of it? Heck no, I was right, Yes,
Speaker 15: I watched. I watched it in the first half and
Speaker 15: I was hoping they'd turn it around, and then they
Speaker 15: gave away that chip, that cheapy touchdown right at the
Speaker 15: end of the half, and then that was it. I
Speaker 15: was just like, well, whatever the final score is, we'll
Speaker 15: we'll find that out later. I certainly don't want I was,
Speaker 15: you know, when I look back at Brennan's records his
Speaker 15: last three years, three or four years at San Jose State,
Speaker 15: six and seven wins. That's eight or nine wins at Arizona,
Speaker 15: And to me, that's good enough, because every once in
Speaker 15: a while you're going to luck your way into a
Speaker 15: ten and three season. And I think I think one
Speaker 15: thing that we've all forgotten is that Jed Fish lucked
Speaker 15: his way into that ten and three season last year
Speaker 15: because if Jaden DeLaura doesn't get hurt, that's a seven
Speaker 15: in team. Yeah, and they were playing their bus off
Speaker 15: but Laura. But DeLaura would have lost us three games
Speaker 15: just by like he did against Mississippi State, running a
Speaker 15: quarterback sneak and not telling nobody, and his run and
Speaker 15: the way he would run around and throw the ball
Speaker 15: the way to feed us having to do this year,
Speaker 15: that was. That was Jaden de Laura. They said, look,
Speaker 15: de Laura completed more passes of that nature.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. My opinion, yeah, we'll see if it
Speaker 2: gets better. I think more fans in my opinion, I
Speaker 2: think I think a lot of fans are like you.
Speaker 2: They're involved, but you know it's and they want to
Speaker 2: espressially frustrations, get it out. They talk to friends whatever,
Speaker 2: get on the internet yet, call in the shows.
Speaker 3: But they're not. You know, they're not gonna do You're
Speaker 3: not dying over this. You're not. You're not like, oh God,
Speaker 3: you've got to do something about it.
Speaker 15: I'm not dying over this. What makes me angry is
Speaker 15: all the talk on the internet. We need to get
Speaker 15: the high young offensive coordinator. Well that's just great, except
Speaker 15: for in three years he's gonna pull a jed fish
Speaker 15: and go to another job exact you know, And I'm tired.
Speaker 15: I'm tired, of that merry go round. I'm really tired.
Speaker 15: I would like to find a guy that wants to
Speaker 15: be in Tucsons that five million dollars a year is enough,
Speaker 15: that has the support of the school and the community,
Speaker 15: and to be able to pay a few key assistants
Speaker 15: to make up I want. I want Kyle Whittingham, That's
Speaker 15: what I want.
Speaker 3: I want a guy that had that can.
Speaker 15: Run a program that fits the school, that fits the school,
Speaker 15: that doesn't want to go anywhere that he's fine where
Speaker 15: he's at.
Speaker 3: Well, you have that guy. He's here, he's just not
Speaker 3: doing well. Well, he's not doing well.
Speaker 15: Because he's in his first year. Like I said last week,
Speaker 15: we don't know what we lost with the guys we lost.
Speaker 15: We don't know which one of those guys was a
Speaker 15: Kelvin Ephan that was a heartbeat of that team that
Speaker 15: all of a sudden, we don't we're you know, we're
Speaker 15: sailing through the season without a rudder, and it seems
Speaker 15: like it's you know, we don't know who was that guy,
Speaker 15: and we didn't know that that's what we were going
Speaker 15: to lose when we lost those guys.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, you got I think you said, I think
Speaker 3: you said this at the beginning, you looked into the year, Well,
Speaker 3: guess sometimes we're gonna get God, the gods, the football
Speaker 3: God said we're going to give you a year. This
Speaker 3: is your year, but remembered who you are. We're gonna
Speaker 3: go back to what you were because we're.
Speaker 15: Giving you this year exactly. And I think you know,
Speaker 15: and I think in a lot of ways last year,
Speaker 15: Jacob Cowing was number one. Jacob Cowing was a lot
Speaker 15: of times last year you needed, you needed a catch,
Speaker 15: and that was the guy that made it. He was
Speaker 15: the one that made that, got the touchdown play in
Speaker 15: the in the in the olimible that got Arizona back
Speaker 15: rolling again.
Speaker 3: He was the guy.
Speaker 15: Everybody wants to say t Mac because well he's the
Speaker 15: prototypical but the guy, the guy I think was was
Speaker 15: Jacob Cowing. Okay, you know t Mac has the bigger
Speaker 15: upside and nobody's going to deny that, But that season,
Speaker 15: the guy was Cowing. In my opinion, there's a lot
Speaker 15: of guys out there, Coleman and Coleman. If we if
Speaker 15: we'd have been able to keep Coleman, we'd be able
Speaker 15: to run the ball the way that the way they're
Speaker 15: calling the plays. I think because Coleman's bell cow for sure,
Speaker 15: and these other guys, you know, Kuali Connley, he should
Speaker 15: not have a helmet anywhere near him in the first
Speaker 15: quarter in my opinion now, because it's just it just
Speaker 15: looks like he's like like like he's quitting and then
Speaker 15: he's working his way back.
Speaker 3: The rest of the game.
Speaker 15: And I hate to say that about the kid, but
Speaker 15: you know what, in this day and age, I'll bets
Speaker 15: are off. Everybody's up for criticism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I agree with you. I've seen your
Speaker 2: Facebook stuff, on your Internet stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you make.
Speaker 15: Marquis Flowers made a perfect tweet.
Speaker 3: He goes.
Speaker 15: The portal is funny, he goes, because all these guys
Speaker 15: are gonna be talking and thinking about the portal.
Speaker 3: But you got to remember, what's what?
Speaker 15: What are you putting on film?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 15: What are you guys putting on film? And you want
Speaker 15: to jump in the portal? Who's gonna want anybody?
Speaker 3: He's the great tweet, great tweet.
Speaker 15: Yeah that was awesome, man, And that's what I said.
Speaker 15: This is the smartest tweet I've read all season.
Speaker 3: Long, that one right there. Give me your resume. Oh
Speaker 3: what do you have on here. They are gonna cut
Speaker 3: it here. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 15: Well, well in twenty twenty three, we're looking at twenty
Speaker 15: twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, don thank you for your wisdom, taking that,
Speaker 2: Thank you taking that.
Speaker 3: There you go, that's what I want to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we got about three three minutes maybe cool day,
Speaker 2: three minutes, two minute round Okay, we got you said,
Speaker 2: six minutes, right, okay, yeah, two minutes.
Speaker 3: No more calls. We're good here. Good build up to
Speaker 3: good shot. Start, start to build.
Speaker 5: Up to Duke to do a couple of weeks, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: we gotta, we gotta, we gotta kind of a nothing,
Speaker 5: a bit of a nothing, and then yeah, football is over.
Speaker 5: I mean really, yeah exactly, I mean football's over if
Speaker 5: they do beat the issue that, if they beat SU
Speaker 5: that's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Nice thing to have to be happy about. That.
Speaker 2: To me, again, this has been the weirdest thing because
Speaker 2: you had all these expectations turned up to expectations. I
Speaker 2: can't remember a basketball season like this where there, you know,
Speaker 2: you had these expectations and they just blamed out.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's been a few, but because the regular
Speaker 3: season is always okay, yeah, yeah, but we've gone through
Speaker 3: the Pac twelve. I mean it's like, you know, there's
Speaker 3: a lot more mystery.
Speaker 2: I feel like with basketball, yeah, well yeah, and then
Speaker 2: they're going to get well the perfect start, serfect. Then
Speaker 2: one is the Big twelve. We didn't know a new coach,
Speaker 2: didn't know the players. Players, we didn't know, although we
Speaker 2: had the love affair from last year right with these.
Speaker 3: Guys, and we didn't know, but we but we really
Speaker 3: didn't know. And all this perfect storm turned into you know,
Speaker 3: hit the hit the one thing.
Speaker 5: You know, you sit there and you realize that it's
Speaker 5: it's not about last year's players, no, you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's it's about next year's players.
Speaker 3: I still think that.
Speaker 2: In my observation from somebody else said, you know, coaches
Speaker 2: are problem solvers.
Speaker 3: This hasn't been solved.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you can't solve the problem if everybody, if everybody
Speaker 5: is a great problem solver, then everyone would be undefeated.
Speaker 2: Well, you can fix some things and make them look
Speaker 2: again again, can't You can't fix fix injuries.
Speaker 3: You can't fix no, but you could play. You can
Speaker 3: play closer to you can play closer. They're not even
Speaker 3: play closer. Well, if you got really bad players. You're
Speaker 3: not can play Kenry. Did you watch a game? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did they look like they were done in that first quarter?
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, that's when it started. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 3: he started. And then once they got some life, it
Speaker 3: was too late. Yeah. What what was the life? A
Speaker 3: part was the life? I think? I mean they had
Speaker 3: a couple of touchdown drives, which is more than that
Speaker 3: was a defibrillator coming in to save you for a dye.
Speaker 3: But once the once, the I don't you know. I
Speaker 3: think what we gotta do is we gotta start better.
Speaker 3: We gotta go. Thanks.