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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to you. I on the ball
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Speaker 2: with me today is Dave Silver. We got our guy.
Speaker 2: What that your name? Kobe? Kobe? Yes, I was looking
Speaker 2: at you like I haven't seen you in forever, Kobe
Speaker 2: like the log Glatt Sun. Yeah. Are you doing, Kobe
Speaker 2: doing good? Missed you recently? Yep, Hey, welcome to Tuesday Show.
Speaker 2: I think we have a pretty good show today. We
Speaker 2: have Tyler Loop maybe a draft choice here in a
Speaker 2: couple of three days, you know whatever.
Speaker 3: Good chances kickers don't often get no but he's gotta
Speaker 3: be one of the top kickers available.
Speaker 2: So yeah. They raved about him over the weekend with
Speaker 2: the strongest lade they've ever seen. YadA YadA, Good kid,
Speaker 2: that's what you know, Good kid, you can tell right away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: from Texas area, Lucas. Have you heard Lucas, Texas?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Is it a suburb of the cities? I've lived in Dallas.
Speaker 2: I don't remember. We'll ask him about that Lukenbach, but
Speaker 2: not Lucas. Welcome Dave and then at the fourth seventeen hour.
Speaker 2: Tucson is going to have another big event here in
Speaker 2: the fall and maybe a continuing event, a big marathon
Speaker 2: from Garmin, g A, R M I N. So they're
Speaker 2: going to host something in November, just a week before
Speaker 2: l Tour. So we'll talk about that from one of
Speaker 2: the spokespeople who just released it. They're going to have
Speaker 2: it here. They've been working on it for a while.
Speaker 2: Is he going to run? He looks like a runner.
Speaker 2: It looks like a runner.
Speaker 3: He looks like it's coming like in November, right before
Speaker 3: you said it, right before El Tour. We've got a
Speaker 3: few marathon and I only have the Ducson Marathon that
Speaker 3: usually hits maybe in December, so this would be good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Tucson is becoming, it's become already for a while,
Speaker 2: one of those cycling meccas and one of the running
Speaker 2: it's a triathlete mecca too where they killed the train.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know in my my post just work days
Speaker 3: now that I get to kind of go out on
Speaker 3: hikes and walks and stuff like that, I see a
Speaker 3: lot of people out and about, and like a lot
Speaker 3: of mountain bikers that I never really knew existed in Tucson,
Speaker 3: but you know, the mountain biking community is pretty large here.
Speaker 3: I got to get out of their way half the
Speaker 3: time when I'm walking.
Speaker 2: It's kind of dant. Yeah, he left. So is this
Speaker 2: the best shape you've ever been in? Probably because you're
Speaker 2: you didn't have time to do the other stuff, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean now I can get up and you know,
Speaker 2: go go for a walk. If I feel like you
Speaker 2: don't get up and see God, I don't want to
Speaker 2: do this now.
Speaker 3: I kind of look forward to it, you know, put
Speaker 3: on the ear whatever they call them, the ear pods,
Speaker 3: and listen to something and just go out and kind
Speaker 3: of keep to myself. When the weather's like this, it's
Speaker 3: so nice to be able to do it. I'm just
Speaker 3: not going to do it yet.
Speaker 2: You must do it early in the morning, because not
Speaker 2: like this, like even today is eighty eight or ninety
Speaker 2: and it's hot. Now.
Speaker 3: We got started this morning, like at seven thirty. We're
Speaker 3: done by ten.
Speaker 2: So two things would deter me. I'd have to get
Speaker 2: up in the morning. It's seven thirty earlier or earlier, right,
Speaker 2: and then to get up and do this. That's right
Speaker 2: two well.
Speaker 3: As opposed to getting up at you know, nine, sitting
Speaker 3: around for yes, for five hours, then coming in here
Speaker 3: and doing this.
Speaker 2: That's called heaven, baby, Heaven. I have a couple other
Speaker 2: days I can do that. Oh, good for you.
Speaker 3: It is cool. It's good that we have. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's going to bring in a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Marathons are usually huge crowds, so a lot of you know,
Speaker 3: families come and whether it's you know, a great time
Speaker 3: to come here for if you're traveling from the Midwest.
Speaker 2: Especially, So those are the two people will have hon
Speaker 2: as guests. You can call us any time five two, zero, four, one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty. It will take your calls. We had
Speaker 2: Chrissy Perham on for yesterday for the show and talking
Speaker 2: about today's game just starting the game here at mission
Speaker 2: at the hillim ran against New Mexico State for the like,
Speaker 2: she donated a kidney kidney I think, yeah, and they're
Speaker 2: kind of making a weare awareness awareness day. Is she here?
Speaker 2: Double yeah? Yeah, crazy Chrissy is here, So who knows
Speaker 2: what two is going to be.
Speaker 3: Like, she's great, Yeah, she was one of the first
Speaker 3: Olympics I can remember working with and was it ninety two?
Speaker 3: And she came back with some metals and you know,
Speaker 3: she worked at baseball I think or whatever, maybe the
Speaker 3: Toros side still the Toros then, which is an interesting
Speaker 3: kind of switch from swimming to baseball. But you know,
Speaker 3: she was good, great personality, good in the community.
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Speaker 2: in the hospitality business or life business. You got to
Speaker 2: be a people person. You just have to be. You
Speaker 2: can can help me? Is that all you want me
Speaker 2: to fight? You know what I'm saying today, I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm just an editorial here. If you go
Speaker 2: buy something in a fast food or whatever, the service
Speaker 2: is not as great as it used to be, right,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be here? What do you want?
Speaker 2: There's five dollars? You know what I'm saying. You do
Speaker 2: recognize the good ones? Oh yeah, it's kind of like.
Speaker 3: Wow, they were really nice, so they really were helpful,
Speaker 3: or that that server was terrific, or you know, whenever
Speaker 3: it went to the fast food spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they're quick, quick, we're fat, and he
Speaker 2: didn't forget anything in the bag. I gotta circle back
Speaker 2: and get the kitchen. Yeah, that happens to be all
Speaker 2: the time. Usually that we.
Speaker 3: Were someplace the other day where they gave our order
Speaker 3: to somebody else, which was kind of kind of annoying
Speaker 3: one like, wait a second, that was the stars, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: I had to go for the table and ask them, Oh,
Speaker 3: oh really, we switch things out.
Speaker 2: That's what was that place. I'm not gonna but it
Speaker 2: could be a sponsor, Uh, a sponsor or. They never
Speaker 2: will be Vick D's nod. It's funny because I went
Speaker 2: to making about two months ago. In fact, Henry was
Speaker 2: with me order something took ten minutes to have to
Speaker 2: wait out at you park in the front, blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: ten minutes, and hey had forgotten I was out there,
Speaker 2: so I went in and it took him still a
Speaker 2: little time to go get it, and I was I
Speaker 2: was p really post get the receipt. I'm gonna call
Speaker 2: the people look online. Couldn't get online to file a
Speaker 2: complaint that I made a call and the line was full.
Speaker 2: The line was full, I couldn't so there's no way
Speaker 2: to leave a complaint because it's full, or you couldn't
Speaker 2: get online to make a complaint. I've never done that
Speaker 2: before because I was so I had to get here.
Speaker 2: I had to get here because Henry was with me,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking I'm gonna be late, but I also
Speaker 2: need my stuff that I paid for already, So dilemma.
Speaker 3: And yeah, who came up with that idea of the
Speaker 3: drive through and then you have to wait? That's that's
Speaker 3: something that kind of has evolved in the last like
Speaker 3: ten years.
Speaker 2: It seems like I used to get that. They used
Speaker 2: to be quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, can you just move up a couple of
Speaker 3: spots and we'll bring it out to you.
Speaker 2: There's already somebody at the front. You're like the third car.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, So that's just our important stuff, right right,
Speaker 2: So you watched the games last night. Unlet's see, so
Speaker 2: before we move on to anything, they didn't coming up.
Speaker 2: Just based softball today, baseball, baseball tomorrow, baseball tomorrow, right,
Speaker 2: a lot of things going on. Well, we'll wait for
Speaker 2: you to release some stuff from the football team. People's
Speaker 2: people coming and going.
Speaker 3: Some good basketball last night though, Yeah, the next game
Speaker 3: and the Nuggets game, both home teams losing. So sometimes
Speaker 3: they say these series don't even start until the team loses.
Speaker 3: That happened pretty quickly in that series, those series, right,
Speaker 3: but you know, Knicks, that was you know, they came
Speaker 3: all the way back and tie things up and then
Speaker 3: they I think Detroit scored like the last six points
Speaker 3: maybe I think it was ninety four ninety four.
Speaker 2: They stopped him, and Detroit's pretty good.
Speaker 3: I hate to say it, you know, I think that's
Speaker 3: the most I've watched the Detroit Pistons in probably thirty.
Speaker 2: Years, well probably for sure since two. I think that
Speaker 2: was the first victory since two thousand and eight. In
Speaker 2: the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I know they made the playoffs a
Speaker 3: few I made the finals, but I mean, I you know,
Speaker 3: I go back to the bad boys in all those
Speaker 3: years where the Pistons were always on. But Bill Beer,
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you more than other than Kate Cunningham
Speaker 3: and yeah, that was it.
Speaker 2: True Trader's Rader. Yeah. Yeah, he's been on three teams
Speaker 2: already this year. Yeah, but he was good. He hit
Speaker 2: a huge shot. It was funny because he hit that
Speaker 2: shot on taking didn't want him to shoot, and then
Speaker 2: he hits it. Yeah, because he's not a very good shooter.
Speaker 2: Cunning him is good. I never really had, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean I have ohos State one year, maybe player
Speaker 2: of the year. I think, yeah, yeah, I didn't realize
Speaker 2: he'd be that good. But he is that good. It's
Speaker 2: good to see.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, the Cleveland's and the detroit and
Speaker 3: some of these teams that have not been good for
Speaker 3: a long time kind of you know, moving in into
Speaker 3: those positions a kind of like basically just behind Boston whoever.
Speaker 2: You know, Boston is a team to beat. Still, I
Speaker 2: think the team in the West is going to win
Speaker 2: it all. Teams going to Foklahoma City. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess they're good. But again, how much have we really
Speaker 2: seen them? Yeah, well not much has anybody. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you don't watch the NBA in the regular season, not
Speaker 2: that much. I don't know many people who do. I
Speaker 2: don't know a lot of their games were even on.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe they were. You watched him every time
Speaker 2: you turn around. It's you know, you have time to study,
Speaker 2: do you study? Yeah, that's a good question. So you
Speaker 2: watch them. You watched the NBA. Yeah, I watched the
Speaker 2: MBA Thunder. I was not a believer in them, but
Speaker 2: they looked very good in Game one. They beat Memphis
Speaker 2: by fifteen. Oh yeah, that was a horrible, horrible game.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So who do you have winning at all?
Speaker 5: I like Denver coming out of the West before that
Speaker 5: game last night.
Speaker 2: I still like that. I still I still do. I
Speaker 2: know Clippers played out of their mind and Kawhi did too,
Speaker 2: but but I like them too. Well.
Speaker 5: I like Denver and Boston right now, but a lot
Speaker 5: and change Denver and Clippers is gonna be a great series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll go seven, I think. Yeah, well, I'm still
Speaker 2: playing for the old your team, i'n't. They don't play
Speaker 2: till tomorrow. A nice break. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So tonight we've got Indiana at home against Milwaukee that's
Speaker 3: starting in about an hour, and then Memphis OKC again,
Speaker 3: the Lakers coming off that brutal performance I think.
Speaker 2: Killed tonight because they know they have to. They just
Speaker 2: have they cannot lose.
Speaker 5: I know Damian Lillard's back for Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so we'll see what happens with that. Uh
Speaker 2: So that's the NBA, or talk for the NBA, and
Speaker 2: that's about as much as we'll talk about. I think
Speaker 2: one of the things about this show that people like,
Speaker 2: at least locally, is that were local, you know. And
Speaker 2: we talked about the X guys, you know, Kerr and
Speaker 2: Lucas at Cleveland, reel Meyer and.
Speaker 3: Somebody math roins with Indiana. Well they got two guys
Speaker 3: on the Pacers. Yeah, two guys and the pictures.
Speaker 2: But I was talking coaching real Meyer, remember Himah, where's
Speaker 2: he coaching? He said, Orlando? Really? Yeah, so they have
Speaker 2: a few coaches out there. What's Joseph doing Joseph Blair? Yeah,
Speaker 2: the league? Yeah. Yeah. In fact, I talked to him
Speaker 2: last week. He's gonna be on this week, you know,
Speaker 2: being official. What questions are you going to ask me? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I said, could you just come on? He said, well,
Speaker 2: just give me some preview questions. Yeah, he just they finished.
Speaker 2: He didn't. They made the playoffs for the Rio Grand Vipers. Uh,
Speaker 2: but they were eliminated very early. Does he get elevated
Speaker 2: to the Rockets that? I don't think that. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I don't think so. Okay, so you know, but
Speaker 2: he's he's a pretty good coach. In fact, about six
Speaker 2: seven years ago, uh Brosi Matt Brosie, who was with
Speaker 2: Houston at the time, and he was with the Vipers
Speaker 2: at the time. JB. I said that JB has this
Speaker 2: knack of knowing what to say, what to do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was always that dude though, you know, he was
Speaker 2: always that dude that you know, he's like very white.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he you know, he was not afraid to
Speaker 3: voice and I'm sure that some of the people other
Speaker 3: coaches don't do that, right, so he was probably pretty
Speaker 3: effective at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He's about fifty ish now, fifty, so you know,
Speaker 2: he's not a young kid anymore. But he's done a
Speaker 2: lot for the community and himself over the years. His
Speaker 2: mom passed to what maybe a handful of years ago. Yeah, Judith,
Speaker 2: who didn't know Judith?
Speaker 3: Right, everybody knew Judith Iran And you would run into
Speaker 3: Judith like at restaurants and stuff, sitting by herself and
Speaker 3: go over and say hello.
Speaker 2: She was everywhere she was. Ay, good lady, yep, good lady.
Speaker 2: Okay again, if you guys want to call five two
Speaker 2: four one, six, seventy four forty looking forward to talking
Speaker 2: to Tyler loop Uh and his career, how how he
Speaker 2: loved it here and he turned into this guy, right,
Speaker 2: this guy with a foot's got a bomb for a leg.
Speaker 2: He's good.
Speaker 3: I would think the NFL, you know, if you want
Speaker 3: a good kicker, you know, if you're looking for, you know,
Speaker 3: rookie kickers, he's going to have to.
Speaker 2: Be one of the people. Well, Arizona's kind of been
Speaker 2: two or three. It's not you know, point guard you
Speaker 2: or kicker you. But McLoughlin back in our day, yeah,
Speaker 2: back in the late eighties and nineties whatever it was,
Speaker 2: I made the Ring of Bonner. And then you have
Speaker 2: Nick Folk who's like older than you and me out
Speaker 2: there still out there amazing. Yeah. Yeah. And then the kid,
Speaker 2: uh Josh Miller, who was a punter ye, who was
Speaker 2: fantastic during our late eighties when I covered him. And
Speaker 2: then the kid uh just not too long ago, with
Speaker 2: a k I forget his name. He kicked the crap
Speaker 2: out of it and he kicked bombs too. I think
Speaker 2: he ended up with the rams. He went all over
Speaker 2: the place. But somebody will kind of text me, but
Speaker 2: he was a kicker too. So throughout the career of Arizona,
Speaker 2: they've had a lot of good kickers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody kind of waiting on the t MAC draft
Speaker 3: pick too. So I mean I'm hearing even more top ten,
Speaker 3: are you because I heard him like five or six?
Speaker 2: How recent is that today? Oh? Really, because I heard
Speaker 2: I don't know who it was, anywhere between five and
Speaker 2: twenty two.
Speaker 3: No, I think he's going to be at the in
Speaker 3: New York, in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: So what do you hear you hearing?
Speaker 5: I hear a bunch of stuff like here, top five,
Speaker 5: I hear top twenty. It really depends on the source.
Speaker 5: The source. Yeah, he's gonna be a wild card, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah. To me, David and I said this a lot
Speaker 2: before the season started, that I thought he would be
Speaker 2: the all time best football player here at Ubay. It
Speaker 2: was hard to That doesn't fly now because the team
Speaker 2: wasn't that good, right, But hadn't have didn't have they
Speaker 2: been good? I think that would have happened better than
Speaker 2: Ricky Hanley. Yeah. Yeah, he was pretty dominant. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was a great player. But had had then been able
Speaker 2: to go to him a lot and maybe the Noah
Speaker 2: had a better season, Yeah, they would have gone to
Speaker 2: him a lot more. He would have had unbelievable steps. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean he's we saw him, you know, for
Speaker 3: a good couple of years. Doing what he could do.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was pretty obvious that he was pretty
Speaker 3: talented and tall and at all the all the intangibles
Speaker 3: things that the NFL teams like, like the kid of.
Speaker 2: It too is you know, who's where, does who's drafting?
Speaker 2: What do they need? I mean some teams just don't
Speaker 2: need him yet. But right it's like the kids from
Speaker 2: USC while back London, just that big body, athletic and
Speaker 2: just go throw it up and you'll go get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Arizona. It's gonna be hard to replace
Speaker 3: something like that. Yeah, well, it's a rare talent.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and too he had a great compliment of
Speaker 2: people around him two years ago, last two seasons ago
Speaker 2: where he can go other places. Then then he could
Speaker 2: do his magic. Yeah. You know it's like me, I'm
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Speaker 6: Breaking down all the xs at ohs. This is I
Speaker 6: on the ball with Steve Rivera on Box sportsporteen fifty.
Speaker 2: JO Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: We got Kobe with us. Do we have him on
Speaker 2: the line? Tyler? Is this you? Tyler? Are you there? Tyler? Oh?
Speaker 2: He hasn't picked up. Okay, I'll have him call us. Okay, cool,
Speaker 2: So we're waiting for Tyler. Good year a great year recording. Yeah, okay, Oops,
Speaker 2: we'll get ahold of him. Call us.
Speaker 3: He's got a busy week ahead of him. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: probably waiting for more important phone calls.
Speaker 2: Well, he was in a meeting, he was gonna be
Speaker 2: on the show yesterday, but then he got called into
Speaker 2: one of his what we're gonna do this week meetings
Speaker 2: and this could have happened again. But we'll see, we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens. Give me some background on him, real quick,
Speaker 2: Dave background.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, cause didn't you just super good barely missed
Speaker 3: a kick, missed like two extra points in his entire
Speaker 3: u of a career, he was like twenty three of
Speaker 3: twenty five this last year. The year before he was
Speaker 3: fifty three fifty three. The year before that he was
Speaker 3: thirty eight for thirty eight. So he's pretty accurate from
Speaker 3: the extra point standpoint. He's got a super super strong leg. Yeah,
Speaker 3: alsow the you know the touchbacks it, you know, kicked
Speaker 3: off fifty six times last year and like fifty three
Speaker 3: of them were touched backs.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well he was don't even get to his ball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was a secret not a secret weaponed, but you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, where he could they weren't going
Speaker 2: to run the ball back, right, and that everyone knew
Speaker 2: that was a secret but that's a heck of a defense. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it's going to be interesting too as he
Speaker 3: transitions over to the pro game, where the kickoffs have really,
Speaker 3: you know, changed, changed the way the game goes, and
Speaker 3: how he's going to play that. So I'm sure teams
Speaker 3: are going to want him to be, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: a little bit shorter on the kicks, doesn't have to
Speaker 3: blast him into the end zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But those three pointers, baby, yeah, he needs to
Speaker 2: make those. Yeah. And distance, obviously he's got distance. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So kicked a sixty two yarder which was about as
Speaker 3: long as it comes from the from Arizona standpoint, so
Speaker 3: school record sixty three yarder. Made eighty three percent of
Speaker 3: his field goals. So, you know, the scouts know of him,
Speaker 3: and I know he went. He was at the combine,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember if he went or not, but
Speaker 2: I know he's been busy. I saw him over the
Speaker 2: weekend at the showcase thing and then asked him if
Speaker 2: you could come on, and he said, yeah, I just
Speaker 2: got to figure about time. Now. Who we are you
Speaker 2: were still waiting? Right? Yeah, Okay, we'll see. I just
Speaker 2: texted him again, so we'll see. What happens, hope to
Speaker 2: get him. So there's a lot of people t mac
Speaker 2: a couple of the other guys on the line, I
Speaker 2: think trying to get drafted this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking to I got some friends who
Speaker 3: are big Packers fans and so they're excited about was
Speaker 3: it justin Morgan from last year he got picked in
Speaker 3: the first round and got hurt and never really had
Speaker 3: a chance to play, so, you know, out of Morana
Speaker 3: High School and kind of not very heralded coming out
Speaker 3: of high school, winds up having an All American career.
Speaker 3: Now he's going to have a chance. So a year
Speaker 3: ago he was he was waiting for that phone call.
Speaker 3: So now he's hopefully have a chance again this fall
Speaker 3: to play for the Packers where the draft is being held,
Speaker 3: by the way, So that's gonna it's gonna be kind
Speaker 3: of a fun set up at Lambeau to see people
Speaker 3: showing up to a town that's really only a one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand people. But the NFL is putting these drafts
Speaker 3: in cities that are that will never get a Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: right like a Chicago, like Cleveland, places that you know
Speaker 3: they have the terrible weather in the in the winter
Speaker 3: time like a Green Bay obviously, so this is a
Speaker 3: great chance for them to you know, be in the
Speaker 3: be on TV and you know, everybody kind of knows
Speaker 3: lambeau Field, but usually we don't see it in April.
Speaker 2: So he's a buddy of yours in town. Oh okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was just thinking if they had tickets over there
Speaker 2: or whatever he does, so everyone has tickets or trying
Speaker 2: to be right, Yeah, as long as you have a ticket.
Speaker 3: He's had season tickets. He's a guy you know from
Speaker 3: Tucson who's from Wisconsin. Yeah, he goes like maybe three
Speaker 3: or four times a year, and he'll turn it into
Speaker 3: you know, maybe a you know a month, maybe I'll
Speaker 3: hit two games, you know over a month or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: What do you call those anti snowbirds if they're going
Speaker 2: up there in the snow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got really good seats. So I think he's
Speaker 3: got seats like indoors, you know, in the sweet sweet
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he doesn't care. Yeah, no, he get into
Speaker 3: the car. Could I couldn't imagine going to games like
Speaker 3: that or Buffalo, you know when they have the snow games.
Speaker 3: I in December and the fans are snowing their own
Speaker 3: seat or doing their own seat.
Speaker 2: I mean I grew up.
Speaker 3: I had a few years in Buffalo actually when I
Speaker 3: was really young, and we went to a few games
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 3: I remember bringing like a thermos of hot chocolate and
Speaker 3: pouring something into a cup and it was like cold
Speaker 3: before I even took a sip. It was that cold
Speaker 3: house sitting there. How old it was like ten? So
Speaker 3: was that the OJ Simpson time? It was right before
Speaker 3: OJ believe it or not. So, I mean, if you
Speaker 3: want to hear my license, like right, no, yeah, Super
Speaker 3: Bowl one or what wasn't even called Super whatever was
Speaker 3: Chiefs Packers. I went to the game Buffalo Kansas City.
Speaker 3: The winner of that game wound up going to that
Speaker 3: first goal. So it was here Buffalo one sixty seven.
Speaker 3: It oh, you were just you were like tents, like yeah, barely.
Speaker 3: I was eight nine, But.
Speaker 2: You remember that. You remember going freezing with my dad.
Speaker 3: I don't know how we got tickets, you know, sitting
Speaker 3: there in the snow those years, in those years, you know,
Speaker 3: nowadays you see all these like people up there with
Speaker 3: shovels and snowblowers trying to get snow out of the
Speaker 3: seats and those days you just sat there.
Speaker 2: And you just kind of moved the snow over. Man,
Speaker 2: you just sat there and it's freezing boots and stuff.
Speaker 2: No where else did you live that was cold? Boston
Speaker 2: too cold? Yeah, likes me. I grew up in Santa
Speaker 2: Fits in the mountains. Oh no, I don't want to
Speaker 2: do that yet. Don't you get cold there? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but that's why I don't live there anymore. Until I
Speaker 2: was nineteen twenty years old. Well, you know, outside of
Speaker 2: going to college. But yeah, it cold, and.
Speaker 3: You wonder about you know, guys that you know live
Speaker 3: like like like Tyler Loop lives in Texas. You know,
Speaker 3: nice Weather comes Arizona. Nice Weather gets drafted by you know, Pittsburgh. Yeah,
Speaker 3: how does that feel for a kicker, especially when you're
Speaker 3: getting paid lots of money? You can get a nice
Speaker 3: place where you can have people do that for you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but true. But you're all of a sudden you're playing
Speaker 3: games in Cleveland. You know it is December, where like
Speaker 3: the kicker needs to make this the balls like a rock.
Speaker 2: That's when you said I wish I would have been
Speaker 2: an engineer. Yeah, just the one game which I could
Speaker 2: own the team and not have to play well. I
Speaker 2: was still trying to reach for him. Maybe he'll get
Speaker 2: us in the next half hour or so, hopefully we'll
Speaker 2: see anything else.
Speaker 3: You know, they're talking about him being maybe a six
Speaker 3: round pick, which you know, yeah, I don't think it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter, no picked. You know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you're there and you're in training camp and there's like
Speaker 3: five other kickers, and maybe the incumbent is there, he's
Speaker 3: getting old, and you know, someone breaks breaks.
Speaker 2: Through sure, and then kickers are not a how can
Speaker 2: I say, Uh, they're the most cirical whatever mystery issue
Speaker 2: a player on the field, right because they got one job,
Speaker 2: one job, and if you miss your job, you find
Speaker 2: you know you missed your job.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you have a bad couple of games
Speaker 3: in a row, you're pretty much cut unless you were
Speaker 3: you know the guy from Baltimore, you know Jason Justin Tucker, which.
Speaker 2: Was from Denver, who's the Denver guy, Who's the guy
Speaker 2: that talked a lot of old Kansas City Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Kansas City guy. But but yeah, yeah, so you know,
Speaker 2: and there's some good ones. There's some good ones out there,
Speaker 2: like you don't know them until they mess the exactly
Speaker 2: like what happened how they lose that game?
Speaker 3: The kicker you know us and usually not always, but
Speaker 3: usually it's something pretty lengthy. Yeah, you know, and they're
Speaker 3: not going to miss inside, say forty, but when they
Speaker 3: get past there, you know, you never know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially like you say, in the cold weather and stuff.
Speaker 2: Remember when they're going through those boinks like the Chicago
Speaker 2: Chicago Kicker. Yeah, and it was just not just it
Speaker 2: was like allergic people were all doing a lot of
Speaker 2: kickers are doing it.
Speaker 3: It happens, you know, the wind blows, especially in the
Speaker 3: place like Chicago and Buffalo. They're always joking about the
Speaker 3: the Jets, the Jets and Giant stadiums got some weird
Speaker 3: airflow going through the open the door.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody opened the wind open the doors. Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: see if he calls in the next half hour or
Speaker 2: so because we go to break and then we'll maybe
Speaker 2: try to get him then. Uh and what else? Anybody
Speaker 2: you got anything there?
Speaker 5: Senor Loopa's honorable mention All Big Twelve Conference. Yeah, he
Speaker 5: had just one of those great seasons here. He was
Speaker 5: probably the one of the bright spots of the team
Speaker 5: for the season, right and then he kind of faltered.
Speaker 2: He missed two. He missed two extra points. Yeah, too
Speaker 2: extra and then what was career? What was his field goal?
Speaker 2: Didn't miss too many? I have to look it up.
Speaker 5: He was eighteen for twenty three from the field goal,
Speaker 5: six for nine to fifty yard plus and his long
Speaker 5: was sixty two.
Speaker 2: Year old school record, I think. But the funny thing
Speaker 2: about you know, like when you saw Selene play, right,
Speaker 2: we saw Slolen play and he if he would miss
Speaker 2: a free throw or he missed one of those shots,
Speaker 2: you're thinking, how'd that happen? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: He made up so much that you're thinking, what the
Speaker 2: hell just happens? Like when Steph you know, yeah, same thing.
Speaker 2: Some of these guys are shooting like ninety percent from
Speaker 2: there throw yeah, yeah, and then they missed one or
Speaker 2: two and then they missed a free throw. He shooting
Speaker 2: nine ers, ninety two percent whatever, just and then he
Speaker 2: goes out and hit a forty five butter. Oh that's normal. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You see that shot he made the other day where
Speaker 3: he was like leaning, he was like falling out of bounds.
Speaker 2: He hit three of those. I think, Yeah, that one
Speaker 2: was great, the one from the Metro Mobile logo at
Speaker 2: the top and then kind of just one's falling down
Speaker 2: and he's just Fantastic's great to watch to watch it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why I think I told somebody yesterday, I said, Draymond,
Speaker 2: when you get the ball, don't shoot it, just give
Speaker 2: it the stamp. He does. They're good.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's Draymond drives me crazy, but he's still
Speaker 3: a great passer. He does make weird and the team
Speaker 3: has always kind of been a little bit too fancy
Speaker 3: sometimes and I'm sure drives Steve Kerr nuts, but they
Speaker 3: do like to make the fancy play and you know,
Speaker 3: kind of lazy over the shoulder passes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: One of the things that Stepp does too, besides the bombs,
Speaker 2: is that he has that floater to the basket, the
Speaker 2: floater off the rim, or off the backboard or off
Speaker 2: you know, just the glass where he just throws it
Speaker 2: up to high tear drop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what a lot of players try to do.
Speaker 3: That you could tell since he kind of perfected it,
Speaker 3: you see a lot of the younger guys trying to
Speaker 3: do it and come into the league don't have nearly
Speaker 3: the shooting percentage we're waxing.
Speaker 2: Put it by the NBA. Holy crap, Holy crap. We'll
Speaker 2: have to keep an eye on the softball score too
Speaker 2: as we move forward later in this this show and
Speaker 2: hoping that we will go to break and he can
Speaker 2: come back on the show. I'll give him a one
Speaker 2: more chance. We're gonna go about four more minutes before
Speaker 2: we take a break, and maybe he'll come on the
Speaker 2: other side of the football's playing too, right, That's that's
Speaker 2: who's playing at three. That's what the kidney they transplant.
Speaker 2: It was no score in the second okay against New
Speaker 2: Mexico State. The state, Yeah yeah, and then that's this
Speaker 2: is the final. This is the non non conference game,
Speaker 2: and then they would go to the playoffs in their
Speaker 2: playoffs because they had their last home game over the weekend. Texas. Yeah, tomorrow,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have the coats struggs for Rita. Talking more
Speaker 2: about the those caravans are doing. They're doing one tonight
Speaker 2: at La Monica, and they're win a couple more in
Speaker 2: the next couple of days, maybe the Monica tonight. I
Speaker 2: want to go five to seven. No, I can't. I
Speaker 2: have an obligation tonight. I like the Monica. I've never been.
Speaker 2: I've never been. And they do a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of sports things. They do a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: with the Bowl game. There's a bowl with the WBC,
Speaker 2: the World Baseball. Yeah, I was just did you go
Speaker 2: there for that WBC because you were one I was
Speaker 2: one of the PA guys from a minute or two. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's fun. Did you the announcing or did you go
Speaker 2: to the dinner thing? No? No, no, not at that level.
Speaker 2: They didn't. I saw your mug on the on the
Speaker 2: on the TV last night, first time it's been on
Speaker 2: TV for a while. Yeah, Channel nine. Go to Facebook.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah you posted on YouTube? You post?
Speaker 3: So yeah, they came. We get together as a group
Speaker 3: on how are we doing on time?
Speaker 2: Kind of yea.
Speaker 3: So we get together as a group of people on
Speaker 3: Friday mornings and there's a I'm the younger one on
Speaker 3: the whole group. Basically there's maybe one person a little
Speaker 3: bit younger and that was very noticeable, and so they
Speaker 3: did a story about us. Most of them are long
Speaker 3: time broadcasters or were broadcasters a long time ago, I
Speaker 3: should say, advertisers, sales mostly the sales guys, a couple
Speaker 3: on air people, and when they did a story on us,
Speaker 3: just how we get together on Friday mornings and talk
Speaker 3: about the old days, and I just kind of sit there.
Speaker 3: In a lot of cases, I listened because I mean,
Speaker 3: my old days only go back like forty years and
Speaker 3: their old days ago.
Speaker 2: But what do they say about the business.
Speaker 3: Just talk about how innocent it was in those years,
Speaker 3: like you know, yeah, you could sell a commercial spot
Speaker 3: for twenty five cents, and you know, they just talk
Speaker 3: about one of the guys started his own record label,
Speaker 3: you know, and had you know, they're doing that kind
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 2: It's just like out of the house. So so as
Speaker 2: I was watching Dave, they did they mix old clips
Speaker 2: in because some of them, the dudes were, were younger
Speaker 2: right than they are now.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize it, but I guess on k Gun's
Speaker 3: fiftieth anniversary, which was too thousand and six, they did
Speaker 3: a story on them.
Speaker 2: Because I was told that was part of it. I
Speaker 2: wasn't at that.
Speaker 3: I wasn't going in those years, but it was a
Speaker 3: story that they incorporated into the story that they.
Speaker 2: Aired last night. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: So a lot of the people who are there in
Speaker 3: two thousand and six are still here with us now.
Speaker 3: A few of them are not, but so it was
Speaker 3: kind of neat to see them. Like Jack Parris, who
Speaker 3: son Pat is the anchor on kay Gun now who
Speaker 3: did the story last night. Jack hired me, so it
Speaker 3: was great to see him again and some of the
Speaker 3: some of the others.
Speaker 2: I saw Larry Larry Nebling. I worked with his daughter
Speaker 2: at the MDA lisabout twelve years ago. Yeah. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: he was kind of iconic, you know, didn't he do
Speaker 2: like some shows that were well Larry did the MDA telethon. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: that's what years on kay Gun with Jack Jacobson, who
Speaker 2: many people might remember is like doctor Scar. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: saw that face. It was like a scary show or
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: You know, they would do the TV. They would do
Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon movies and he would play some character. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: you know like Elvira saw ray Deppa. Ray Deppa was
Speaker 3: in there. Yeah. Yeah, so that was like six I
Speaker 3: didn't even I didn't know how they're going to put
Speaker 3: the story together, So it was kind of neat to
Speaker 3: see that history. But again, the folks that we get
Speaker 3: together on Friday mornings, Yeah, the stories are terrific and
Speaker 3: you know, it's always.
Speaker 2: Remember this, remember that you remember this. I'm sure some
Speaker 2: of them are repetitive, but you know, it's good there.
Speaker 3: Everyone's still pretty sharp, and it's amazing that they can
Speaker 3: they can remember. Yeah, you know the number one hit
Speaker 3: song in nineteen sixty two they remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm sure you do from eighty two, right
Speaker 2: you probably so? Do they ask you that?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 2: I'm sure that some of them listened to the show.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they know. I mean they're to do this. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so some of them. So you should be paying me, Dave,
Speaker 2: not the other I'm giving you listeners. What are you
Speaker 2: talking about it? Hey, now it's not our first fight.
Speaker 2: I like it. No, I saw it. It was good. It
Speaker 2: was like a two. It was a long story to
Speaker 2: the little story.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Pat does these things called absolutely Arizona. So
Speaker 3: they're kind of stories that are unique to this date
Speaker 3: and it goes all over the place and does you know,
Speaker 3: really nice little feature stories. And I was just kind
Speaker 3: of flattered that he even want to do something like
Speaker 3: this because but again he knows from his history and
Speaker 3: his dad and he's been around k Gun you know,
Speaker 3: for a long time himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so no, the stations here have this long history
Speaker 2: those they were what now, seventy years kb O A,
Speaker 2: so having about seventy I think they just celebrated seventy
Speaker 2: and obviously yeah k GUN will be it next year.
Speaker 2: Seventy yeah, seventy Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The nineteen fifty six I think is when they went
Speaker 3: on with the kV O A and k O L D,
Speaker 3: which I think was not called that when they first
Speaker 3: went on, but it was always cool because you had
Speaker 3: cool and Phoenix, k O L O O L and
Speaker 3: then ko LD here cool kind of neat back when
Speaker 3: the markets were not separated by size as much as
Speaker 3: they were they are now.
Speaker 2: It's a major TV market up there now, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's take a break here of try to track him
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today
Speaker 2: is Dave Silver now on the phone, has promised Tyler
Speaker 2: Loup Tyler, how are you doing? Doing good?
Speaker 4: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine? Thank you. Does this kid from Lucas,
Speaker 2: Texas become this fantastic kicker here at the collegiate level? Oh? Man?
Speaker 4: Uh, how does a That is a long story. I'll
Speaker 4: give you the cliff so uh.
Speaker 2: Doug Faft, Oh yes.
Speaker 4: If that name rings a bell. Doug Faft kicked in.
Speaker 15: Arizona eighty nine eighty eight, kind of the late eighties,
Speaker 15: early nineties.
Speaker 2: Well, small world.
Speaker 4: His son and I went to high school together.
Speaker 15: Yes, And I was at a special Olympics event and
Speaker 15: I was out there kicking a soccer ball around over
Speaker 15: over the fields and this guy comes up and he's like, hey,
Speaker 15: first of all, quit that you're gonna hurt some about
Speaker 15: your Second of all, you need to.
Speaker 4: Try kicking field goals.
Speaker 15: And so that guy was Doug Faft, and he uh
Speaker 15: talked to my dad and they brought me out on
Speaker 15: a field and He just taught me the basics of
Speaker 15: kicking and.
Speaker 4: Fell in love with it, and then, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: started started taking it really seriously.
Speaker 15: Got a good coach, and uh you know, really really
Speaker 15: started pursuing it as something I could do in college
Speaker 15: and maybe professionally. And you know, he gets done playing
Speaker 15: around the golf with at the time, the Especial Games
Speaker 15: coordinator here, Jeremy Springer, and he's like, hey, knucklehead, you
Speaker 15: need to you need to call this guy.
Speaker 4: He used trying trying to reach.
Speaker 2: Out to you.
Speaker 15: And so I got his number and reached out to
Speaker 15: him and rest his history.
Speaker 4: I became a wildcat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very awesome, very cool. Let me tell you this
Speaker 2: is how old Dave and I are. Dave used to
Speaker 2: be a TV guy here and I used to be
Speaker 2: a sports columbist at the newspaper and we covered Doug
Speaker 2: and his claim to fame. You may already know this.
Speaker 2: He'd beat Oklahoma back in eighty.
Speaker 4: Nine, right right, right right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the game it was like a six
Speaker 3: to three last second field goal.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine in those years? That was it? That
Speaker 2: was when Arizona's defense was an unbelief, right right, So
Speaker 2: you must have been a heck of a soccer player
Speaker 2: because I know I used to live in Dallas before
Speaker 2: it came here, and and there's soccer is huge in Dallas.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, that was my that was my thing growing up.
Speaker 15: I loved it, and uh you know, I thought that's
Speaker 15: what I was going to do professionally and and and
Speaker 15: just pursue that. But man, I fell in love with kicking,
Speaker 15: and it's just been I think you've been been my
Speaker 15: favorite thing since.
Speaker 2: I think you made the pretty good choice. Do you
Speaker 2: still have have have a coach?
Speaker 3: A kicking coach, you know outside of the u of
Speaker 3: a did you did you still do that like in
Speaker 3: the summer with with that kind of stuff?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, No, anytime I'm home, I'll go I'll go
Speaker 4: train with my coach. That's been the been the same
Speaker 4: guy since my freshman year.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of unique.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess some of some of the other
Speaker 3: positions maybe have that, but in football especially, it seems
Speaker 3: like guys have almost like a swing coach in golf,
Speaker 3: you know, you just.
Speaker 2: Have an exact way who can help you. Did you
Speaker 2: when you first got here, when did you kind of
Speaker 2: realize already hit you that Okay, I can do this,
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty good at it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 15: Oh, well, I've kind of not. Like my dad and
Speaker 15: I joke about this. My dad jokes with me on this.
Speaker 15: He's like, dude, I knew since you were a little
Speaker 15: kid that you kind of had a little bit of
Speaker 15: a special swing.
Speaker 4: Just being out on the soccer field.
Speaker 15: But I'd say, I'd say it became real for me
Speaker 15: that I was going to be, you know, competitive in
Speaker 15: one of the dudes fighting for an NFL spot my
Speaker 15: freshman sophomore year. You know, just just really finding my
Speaker 15: groove and getting stronger and falling in love with the
Speaker 15: game and everything. I'd say that was kind of the
Speaker 15: all right, hey, this is this is this is legit.
Speaker 3: So they always talk about the mental game, especially as
Speaker 3: for kickers. I mean, you've never really had any kind
Speaker 3: of a dip in your performance, at least according to
Speaker 3: the statistics. Do you feel you've been pretty consistent, you know,
Speaker 3: through these last what basically four or five years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I've been.
Speaker 4: I've been super fortunate.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 4: One of the big things that.
Speaker 15: I've been lucky to have here at Arizona not only
Speaker 15: good good mental like support from the university in terms
Speaker 15: of metal performance and sports performance.
Speaker 4: But I've had an awesome church and.
Speaker 15: Sorry, this little roadnized that had an awesome church and
Speaker 15: friends and some really some really close people around here
Speaker 15: to just kind of support me and help me bear
Speaker 15: through some some tough things out here. And I mean
Speaker 15: it's really really helped me on the field kind of
Speaker 15: stay consistent.
Speaker 2: So it's been cool. And Arizona has had some pretty
Speaker 2: good were you just talking about this waiting for your call?
Speaker 2: Some pretty good history of of kickers. H McLoughlin. When
Speaker 2: we covered with Steve back in the day, had the
Speaker 2: kid who kicked it? You gave me the name earlier
Speaker 2: half for six people you were with Lucas right, yep,
Speaker 2: I wash. The dug Faft was just a consistent, a
Speaker 2: very consistent kicker. Uh. There's been a few that have
Speaker 2: come through here and you're now the newest.
Speaker 3: Version, right, Yeah, tell us about tell us about that? Yeah, Like,
Speaker 3: what about what's going through your mind this week? Is
Speaker 3: you know you've wrapped up your u of a time
Speaker 3: and are you in town? Are you just gonna kind
Speaker 3: of wait for phone calls on Thursday or Friday or Saturday?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I've been I've been in Tucson for the past
Speaker 15: couple of months of training. I'm gonna head back home
Speaker 15: with my fiance. We're going to Dallas to be with
Speaker 15: my family and rehabl old draft party waiting for a
Speaker 15: call on Saturday. But it's been pretty cool, just kind
Speaker 15: of thinking back to like, you know, there's there's not
Speaker 15: many many people they get to do this.
Speaker 4: And kind of go through this process and it's really special.
Speaker 15: So it's just kind of cool to be out of
Speaker 15: school with a history of good specials like Nick Folk
Speaker 15: and Doug Fast, Steve McLoughlin's.
Speaker 4: And de Haas.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and have her sick and just kind of be
Speaker 15: kind of being that club of kickers that have gone
Speaker 15: through Arizona.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's really exciting you. Uh, the coaches over
Speaker 2: the weekend, we're talking about your leg. Obviously hit the
Speaker 2: sixty two yarder and they said, if they really wanted to,
Speaker 2: possibly you can hit a seventy yarder because you've done
Speaker 2: it a number of times. How strong is that link?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, we we practiced that a little bit.
Speaker 15: We we had some seventy yard field goals that we
Speaker 15: practiced towards the end of the season, just kind of
Speaker 15: talking about hey, like if this, if this opportunity rise, like,
Speaker 15: let's take a crack at it. And so we we
Speaker 15: had that conversation. There's there's been some times where just
Speaker 15: my apper holder and I we've we've gone back to
Speaker 15: seventy five seventy seven yards with with a little bit
Speaker 15: of a breeze and and toyed around with that.
Speaker 4: So it's, uh, it's it's fun every once in.
Speaker 15: A while, but you know, you gotta you gotta make
Speaker 15: the important kicks, right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: If you get drafted by and then you're drafted by Denver,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe you'll have that chance in the right
Speaker 3: What what's the uh this pre draft uh situation been
Speaker 3: for you? I mean, what kind of feedback have you
Speaker 3: gotten from some.
Speaker 2: Of the teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's been. It's been really exciting.
Speaker 15: The combine was a blast as far as hearing from
Speaker 15: teams and just from my agent.
Speaker 4: You know, it's.
Speaker 15: Feel feel strongly that I've put myself in a in
Speaker 15: a good position to you know, to be to be
Speaker 15: one of those guys in the class that people like, hey.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, this this guy can this guy can come
Speaker 4: play at this level.
Speaker 15: And you know that's that's kind of the mentality we're
Speaker 15: holding going into it, you know, hoping to get drafted.
Speaker 4: But that doesn't always happen with Kickers, and if.
Speaker 15: It doesn't, we'll, you know, we'll roll as a undrafted
Speaker 15: free agent, go get signed, and go compete for a
Speaker 15: job and just go from there. You know, Chuck Chuck Cecil.
Speaker 4: Chuck Cecil gave me some really good advice and he's like, hey,
Speaker 4: I've you know, I've been been around it, been been
Speaker 4: on NFL teams, I've seen it. Like do you You've you've.
Speaker 2: Got the ability to be there.
Speaker 14: They're not.
Speaker 4: They're not thirty two that are better than you.
Speaker 15: And you know, you just gotta gotta stick with it
Speaker 15: and keep your head down and keep working at it,
Speaker 15: and you know, an opportunity presents itself, just go for it.
Speaker 2: Were already talking about, Yeah, we're already talking about you
Speaker 2: going somewhere where it is cold. You've lived in Dallas
Speaker 2: where it's not that cold. Live here now is not
Speaker 2: that cold? New England, Green Bay?
Speaker 15: Yikes, No, No, I mean I'm you know, kicking is kicking. Uh,
Speaker 15: you know That's something I've been working on this offseason.
Speaker 15: Is Hey, when it's windy and it's crappy weather.
Speaker 4: Let's you know, let's make that our day that we again.
Speaker 15: Let's go practice those conditions and let's go, let's go
Speaker 15: find that out. You know, I played and played in
Speaker 15: Pullman when it was you know, ten degrees and raining
Speaker 15: and snowing and foggy and twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 15: You know, I had a game at Utah where it
Speaker 15: was twenty degrees and raining and crappy weather. So I've
Speaker 15: played in those games, and you know, it's just one
Speaker 15: of those things where you can you can always rely
Speaker 15: back on your process and your training and everything you've
Speaker 15: done up to that point.
Speaker 2: Oh fantastic, Well, congratulations on all the success. Hopefully it
Speaker 2: goes well for this draft and you'll be called, or
Speaker 2: even even if you're not called, you find a spot
Speaker 2: because you know you're a specialty guy, right yep.
Speaker 4: So okay, it'll be fun, it'll be exciting.
Speaker 2: Great, great to have you on the show. Thanks so much,
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time. Yes, good luck to you. Yes,
Speaker 2: it was Tyler Loup from the U of A Kicker
Speaker 2: Department was a fantastic kicker. In fact, are we good
Speaker 2: to go? Can we go or we have a minute
Speaker 2: or so, okay, good, thank you, let's go.