Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. You're Mike gwinn
Speaker 1: Am your Henry guest, and he's mat good show today.
Speaker 1: So far we got an hour in. Now we have
Speaker 1: breaking news from Henry.
Speaker 2: This is High on the Ball, breaking news, Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: The Arizona versus Colorado game time on October nineteenth was
Speaker 3: announced for one pm.
Speaker 1: One pm. Wow, it's gonna be a nice hot day
Speaker 1: in town. Sellout crowd, the kid's gonna go.
Speaker 3: Uh we figured out we're both out of town.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that ticket bartery know there is over?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, I have to sell it though I
Speaker 3: could probably make some Do you have to sell it
Speaker 3: to students? I mean, you don't have to reserve it
Speaker 3: every time, but I could reserve it and just sell
Speaker 3: it to someone for Yeah, okay, you capitalist exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're in business school, yeah, that's what you do.
Speaker 3: Tyler Loop was named the Big twelve Special Teams Player
Speaker 3: of the Week after hitting five field goals in Saturday's game.
Speaker 3: Imagine if he would have hit six, Yeah, right, Well,
Speaker 3: if he hit the fifth, he wouldn't have needed the six.
Speaker 1: There you go, look at this pragmatic Henry.
Speaker 3: Today, the w NBA Playoffs are still going on. The
Speaker 3: Liberty defeated the Aces in Game four yesterday to advance
Speaker 3: to the finals, and the Sun are playing at the
Speaker 3: Links game five tonight, with the winner going to the
Speaker 3: finals to face the Liberty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to be a new champion. Vegas is
Speaker 1: out of the picture. They're done. Yeah and no, and
Speaker 1: the viewership continues to partly fall or not. What you well,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you certainly have you you don't have
Speaker 1: your number one draw, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: There are games.
Speaker 1: Still, I mean they're still game. You went to a game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I went to Dan Tarsi's last game. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean still still good basketball.
Speaker 3: Game two's of the Alds, yes, or today. The Tigers
Speaker 3: just defeated the Guardians three nothing to tie the series
Speaker 3: at one, and the Royals and Yankees are playing their
Speaker 3: Game two at four thirty eight today. That's in New York, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: New York?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is it one zero?
Speaker 3: Yeah? One's area Yankees.
Speaker 1: Yankees and the Mets one one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Mets are one one and the Cogres Dodgers are
Speaker 3: one one.
Speaker 1: One. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how j feels about this.
Speaker 1: He's probably contemplating something. By the way, we're gonna bet
Speaker 1: oh and I gotta do some stuff with Del Soul
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Speaker 1: we'll see how he feels he's still around on Thursday
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers don't make it.
Speaker 3: The Cardinals beat the forty nine Ers yesterday twenty four
Speaker 3: to twenty three to improve two two and three on
Speaker 3: the season. Okay, say that one time Cardinals beat the Niners,
Speaker 3: which was.
Speaker 1: That was unbelievable. They the forty nine Ers had them buried.
Speaker 1: They're inside the ten. Yeah, they were up by two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with like five minutes ago. They didn't. Unbelievable. How do
Speaker 1: you lose a game like that inside of ten? Driv
Speaker 1: San Francisco has not been San Francisco this year, there's,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. What's that? Yeah, oh yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a very interesting year. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody that picked the Vikings with Sam Barnold to
Speaker 1: be five and U right right when the four Cowboys
Speaker 1: or what they got and Pittsburgh was playing halfway decent,
Speaker 1: although is there really? You know, I still like Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I still like Baltimore a lot. Kansas City is doing
Speaker 1: Kansas City stuff. Yeah, but I'm not sure they're gonna
Speaker 1: win at all. They're struggling too. The build The Bills
Speaker 1: lost to the Texans, so it's you can't count on
Speaker 1: the bills, which is good because I hate the Bills,
Speaker 1: but uh the uh yeah, you know you figured, you know,
Speaker 1: going in and be Bills would be up there, you know,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people are you know, have picked
Speaker 1: and are continue to pick the Ravens Derrick Henry Holy moly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the ball a lot more. Yeah, that's what Baltimore was
Speaker 1: missing before. Absolutely, something like that. I mean, what do
Speaker 1: they have? Dobs, the guy that went to UHBS, He
Speaker 1: went to Los Angeles, Los Angeles. Yeah, well they used
Speaker 1: to be saying Chargers. He went to the Chargers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a good running back, but he ain't
Speaker 1: Dereck Henry exactly. Moly, that dude is a Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, it's like it's it's like men and
Speaker 1: boys when he gets out on that field. All right, New,
Speaker 1: we're talking about something you don't really know. No, No,
Speaker 1: I follow that I follow that. He woke me up.
Speaker 3: New Reds manager Terry Francona said, it just felt right
Speaker 3: to return to managing.
Speaker 1: To manage, and probably with the Cincinnati Reds. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize you were a Cincinnati Reid gun. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's were you here when we yeah when when when
Speaker 1: Pete Rose passed away the same day it was breaking
Speaker 1: that day, right, yeah. Yeah, we were saying to hear,
Speaker 1: thinking about what we're going to talk about, and then
Speaker 1: that's what I said, saved us. I will tell you
Speaker 1: somewhere now. I think what when Frank Coton is talking
Speaker 1: about is that that is a good young team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they Dela Cruz fantastic. Yeah, de la Cruz is
Speaker 1: something else. When they get if they can get well
Speaker 1: with Frank Coda there they'll be there'll be a different team.
Speaker 1: But boy, I tell you what, he definitely can turn
Speaker 1: that into it.
Speaker 3: They've got a really good they're really banged up this year,
Speaker 3: but they have a really good roster.
Speaker 1: They are young guys, a lot of young guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll see.
Speaker 3: There is Monday night football tonight. We've got the Saints
Speaker 3: at the Chiefs at five fifteen.
Speaker 1: That should be a good game. You should give you
Speaker 1: a good game, really good game, be fun. You got Saints,
Speaker 1: Well they're I think last year I had made a
Speaker 1: wager last year that Kansas City would not lose the
Speaker 1: first five games. They played some some sorry team, maybe
Speaker 1: India or somebody, and they got beat. I'm thinking, how
Speaker 1: does this happen? How does this happen? This?
Speaker 3: They always have like one or two?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is fifth game?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Is this fourth or fifth game? Fifth game? They're playing
Speaker 1: at home? Probably again they're gonna lose adown. Okay, how
Speaker 1: are you doing with this? How are you doing? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the uh yeah it's but I
Speaker 1: tell you, uh, Kelsey, manny, I don't know what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Well you got how are you doing? Your
Speaker 1: little bit? Bets? There? I was gonna say trending, but
Speaker 1: you're not you're not doing the right way. It sounds
Speaker 1: a lot like Jay.
Speaker 3: That's all I got.
Speaker 1: Okay, anything else you guys want to say? Talk about?
Speaker 1: How much have we got? We got a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: What else? You know what's going on? I will tell you.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, what is the biggest surprise uh
Speaker 1: so far in college in college football? Oh over the weekend?
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you think that Vanderbilt is going
Speaker 1: to go and well, ye beat Well that sounds shocking,
Speaker 1: but you know I was always looking at a surprising team.
Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean, it's like it's still is
Speaker 1: unbelievable advantage I'll give you. Are you, I know what
Speaker 1: you're sucher, poorant? Even though I know I am Navy,
Speaker 1: Army and Navy, you know, I'm of course I'm a
Speaker 1: little biased that sure they're five and oh, both five
Speaker 1: and oh and kicking. They are beating, they are beating
Speaker 1: the hell out of people. So the winner that one's
Speaker 1: going to go the Well, well that's the interesting thing.
Speaker 1: So that they are Army Navy game is that you
Speaker 1: go to that count I go there often. I wasn't
Speaker 1: playing going there this year, but Army Navy game is
Speaker 1: contractually the last game in college football. Uh so it's interesting.
Speaker 1: The American Athletic Conference, which I both belong to, has
Speaker 1: their championship the week before. So if Army and Navy
Speaker 1: went out or at least went out in the conference,
Speaker 1: because they both come up against Notre Dame, and you know,
Speaker 1: they may get beat by Notre Dame, likely get beat
Speaker 1: by Notre Dame. But if they went out in the conference, uh,
Speaker 1: they play each other for the conference championship, and then
Speaker 1: the next week they played the Army Navy game, which
Speaker 1: would be interesting. And then if they went out, let's
Speaker 1: say they beat Notre Dame. Let's say both them, just
Speaker 1: for argument, saying the winner of those two games has
Speaker 1: a pretty good shot at getting into the playoff. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: that's what they're talking about. So I was talking about Alabama. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my big surprise. So find bomb. You know they
Speaker 1: last week Alabama was the toast of the towns of
Speaker 1: the you know, everybody had the solutions though they're the greatest,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, because they played Georgia to the end
Speaker 1: and then then and they won the game, Georgia ran
Speaker 1: out of time whatever, and a week later another poop.
Speaker 1: So We just talked about how Arizona has lost, you know,
Speaker 1: six times after beating a ten team. It's like it
Speaker 1: doesn't just happen here. Yeah it h I mean, these
Speaker 1: are at the end of the day, these are college kids.
Speaker 1: But you know they went and yeah, we start believing that.
Speaker 1: And I hate that no one reads clippings anymore, but
Speaker 1: start reading and everybody's patting you in the bag and
Speaker 1: what a great game. Blah blah blah. You're going to Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: Vanabel We've got twenty points. So we got twenty points. Well,
Speaker 1: I will say, let's take a lot out of from Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: because Vanderbilt they're a pretty good team. Well, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm back is, you know where you're from, right,
Speaker 1: New Mexican albu from New Mexico. Well, Albuquerque played at
Speaker 1: New Mexico State last year. I saw him play at
Speaker 1: the New Mexico Bowl last year where they played the
Speaker 1: I can't remember who they played, somebody they lost, but
Speaker 1: coach kill who went to coach at the bat New
Speaker 1: Mexico State, who was a heck of a good coach.
Speaker 1: He left there went to Vanderbilt to help us as
Speaker 1: a top assistant. Blah, blah blah, we're an observer or whatever.
Speaker 1: They've got some Vanderbilt both smart dudes. Yeah, are playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah there, I'll tell you what. They've got a pretty
Speaker 1: good team. Uh. You know, it was an upset. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt in the mind it was an upset. But
Speaker 1: I tell you what, it wasn't like the normal Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: that is No, No, one and eleven.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: The transfer portal has changed the game. Yeah, there's seventh
Speaker 1: or seventh. There's seventh. Yeah, yeah, there's seventh.
Speaker 3: Texas Texas, Texas, then Ohio State, then Oregon and those
Speaker 3: two play each other this week Texas and oh.
Speaker 1: Where's that?
Speaker 3: Where's that organized?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be that's good. That's what time is
Speaker 1: that at?
Speaker 3: I assume it's in later game Oregon.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's true. Yeah, good, because I hope it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't. It's not going to be ten thirty Eastern.
Speaker 1: I guarantee that they're going to put that in prime time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The uh and then uh, what is it? Next weekend?
Speaker 1: Texta Oklahoma? Right, that's this weekend. That's that's this week
Speaker 1: in text Oklahomas. This weekend Texas, that's what Dallas was, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's but that's another rivalry game. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like going even go either way, but Texas should beat them.
Speaker 1: Yours is back, you know, and so but so there's
Speaker 1: that you never really know. There's that. I still like
Speaker 1: the you thought, Henry, that Arizona could go in and
Speaker 1: beat people. You that's I would take the points. I
Speaker 1: would take the points because if we lose, we're checking
Speaker 1: you down the what's the line? It was, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: taking I would take them. Really surprised. I thought it
Speaker 1: would be bigger than Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also thought it'd be because the Utah was what
Speaker 3: eight and a half.
Speaker 1: Something like that. Yeah, but again, Dell Arizona, they camp
Speaker 1: that they do exactly, you know whatever, it's just the
Speaker 1: way it is. You guys have been here long enough
Speaker 1: to see that in basketball too. They all go, right,
Speaker 1: how do you explain basketball? How are you playing basketball?
Speaker 1: They lose to these teams that you're going to be
Speaker 1: losing to just over confidence over you know, my my
Speaker 1: stuff is doesn't stink and stinks travel. You come on,
Speaker 1: you're on a lum. You've seen it.
Speaker 6: You fall?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely, we'll never free I mean
Speaker 1: when we lost Saint Mary's. Man, I was just like,
Speaker 1: you got Saint Mary's yeah, way back. Oh yeah, you're
Speaker 1: talking about Saint Mary's Mary's when we clair St Clair?
Speaker 1: Santa Clair? Yeah, Santa Clair. Yeah, I don't think that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they played them. Yeah, Okay, let's go. We got to
Speaker 1: go and then we'll come back with George Malulu. The
Speaker 1: pressures of being a quarterback at you of a Yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to Eying the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera on the phone. Now
Speaker 1: we have former UA quarterback George and I righty, and
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Quinn. Now you're Mike Quinn'll forget about you. Hey, George,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 6: I can't complain all as well. How you guys going?
Speaker 1: We're doing Finally gonna get to what's going on with
Speaker 1: you in a bit. But you was, you were a quarterback?
Speaker 1: SHN I say, how long ago? A while back? Right? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably still you know you're still a young man.
Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, I'll let you tell.
Speaker 1: That, a good, good athletic young man. So, so you
Speaker 1: were a quarterback for for a few years, you know,
Speaker 1: to two three, four years as a starter. How how
Speaker 1: much pressure was it for you at being the quarterback?
Speaker 14: It's always the pressure being I mean you always have
Speaker 14: somebody behind you, Chuck Levy and I mean Ronnie was there.
Speaker 14: It's just, uh, does a matter of going and putting
Speaker 14: things in perspective and if you want to go ahead.
Speaker 6: And play, and or if you want to sit on
Speaker 6: the bench, and.
Speaker 14: You know that's that's up to you. But you got
Speaker 14: to go ahead and you know, make that decision and
Speaker 14: go with it. So I just wanted to make sure
Speaker 14: I was on the field and not not on the pond.
Speaker 1: Right. So I'm sure that those guys, uh pushed you
Speaker 1: to be better, to be better quarterback because if you
Speaker 1: weren't a better quarterback, you went to plane.
Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly exactly. So I think I liked me a
Speaker 13: lot more than them.
Speaker 1: So you were you were always in there rooting for you,
Speaker 1: huh uh. Yeah, I know a lot of people that
Speaker 1: were rooting for you too. You uh, you were here, right,
Speaker 1: before I got here. You played right before I got here. Hey, so,
Speaker 1: uh were you a drop back quarterback or were you
Speaker 1: a running quarterback?
Speaker 14: I don't know what I was with four offensive coordinators
Speaker 14: in five years. Yeah, yeah, but you know, I think
Speaker 14: the last year when coach Camp came, I think that
Speaker 14: really helped out because he kind of like worked on,
Speaker 14: you know, my my strengths and and really kind of
Speaker 14: use that to kind of use that that year to
Speaker 14: bring somebody in like that. D Dub and I had
Speaker 14: a great time throwing the rock, but at the same time,
Speaker 14: I was able to kind of be elusive and and
Speaker 14: kind of run that.
Speaker 13: I was both as well.
Speaker 1: No, no, exactly, because you were both. You were both.
Speaker 1: He was able to get out and scoot around, screwed
Speaker 1: around or whatever. And that's Noah. I mean, you talk
Speaker 1: about it if he can be more and you want
Speaker 1: the games?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So what do you do if you gave
Speaker 1: if you had advice to give, what would you give?
Speaker 13: I just tell him all to keep on doing what
Speaker 13: he's doing.
Speaker 9: Just persevere.
Speaker 14: I mean, can't have the success without the failure. So
Speaker 14: you know, I know, I know his dad, I know
Speaker 14: that's very well and I know he's you know, telling
Speaker 14: him the same kind of thing, right, You just got
Speaker 14: to keep on fighting like we you know, like ause
Speaker 14: wildcats do.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. So yeah, So you you mentioned about having
Speaker 1: four offensive coordinators in five years, and we're sitting here
Speaker 1: and lamenting the fact that we have this new coaching
Speaker 1: staff and everyone's going different direction. How big of an
Speaker 1: impact is that? And when do you finally get the system?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it's up to the division. I mean,
Speaker 14: regardless of the four offense court it is at the time.
Speaker 14: I think it's up to the quarterbacks, boy and and
Speaker 14: and believe in this guy, regardless of the situation. And
Speaker 14: you know, just going and Dura you know the trials
Speaker 14: that come with it and just make sure that you
Speaker 14: make a you know, the good out of the out
Speaker 14: of the situation at hand, and just knowing what he
Speaker 14: has there, t Mac and the rest of the guys,
Speaker 14: I know they're going to come out of this and
Speaker 14: take it to b YU next week.
Speaker 1: So let me say I covered you in eighty nine
Speaker 1: and ninety you know that, uh so in your time
Speaker 1: here and I can't remember to save my life. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe Lewis or whatever his name was, you know, one
Speaker 1: of those guys, did you have a favorite go to
Speaker 1: guy and was it purposely going to the guy or
Speaker 1: just the way it happened.
Speaker 14: Now, I think anybody who caught my ball was the
Speaker 14: perfect guy, see you the truth. Anybody that was out there,
Speaker 14: I mean Troy Dickey, he had, Chuck Levy, you you
Speaker 14: have a bunch of different guys that were there, even
Speaker 14: Melvin Smith when I.
Speaker 1: Was in Melbourne. Yeah.
Speaker 14: You know, during the course of time, you have guys
Speaker 14: that are out so they can they can. They wouldn't
Speaker 14: be there if they if they weren't good.
Speaker 13: So they're just putting.
Speaker 14: It in their hands and let them do what they
Speaker 14: don't be doing with it.
Speaker 1: Right well, right now, the thing is with Noah is
Speaker 1: he has his guy, right it's t Mac. But everyone
Speaker 1: knows it's going to be t Mac. So now you
Speaker 1: have to have other guys in the loop because you
Speaker 1: can always go to t Mac.
Speaker 14: True that, true that, And I think some of those
Speaker 14: guys are trying to find their roles and in being
Speaker 14: at number two, number three guy. So I mean, we
Speaker 14: all know t Max is the number one guy, but
Speaker 14: they still got to stop that. At the same time
Speaker 14: that shit opened up, somebody down the line. So I
Speaker 14: just a matter of time when they you know, they
Speaker 14: figure it out. But we got a big high in
Speaker 14: Utah then you know, going to you know, dealing with
Speaker 14: Texas Tech. You know, I thought it was going to
Speaker 14: be Ah. I thought it was going to be a
Speaker 14: little better than the it was.
Speaker 13: But you know, now we've got to go to YU.
Speaker 14: And really take it to those guys because those guys
Speaker 14: are coming off.
Speaker 13: Of the they win.
Speaker 1: So you've experienced as I know you have because when
Speaker 1: I was back in the day and I was coming
Speaker 1: to you guys, it happened. Uh So Arizona in the
Speaker 1: last whatever time, six times they've being the top ten team,
Speaker 1: they've lost the next week. Tell me about it. You
Speaker 1: have kids who play, so you know kids you know,
Speaker 1: good boy and girls who play at this level. You
Speaker 1: know who can play at this level. How does that happen?
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it happened to you. I think it did.
Speaker 1: Maybe eighty eight eighty nine.
Speaker 14: Yeah, right now, My baby boy is the he's the
Speaker 14: starting quarterback.
Speaker 13: Has seen John Bosco as a freshman.
Speaker 1: So hey, I'll tell you that. Hey, I don't don't
Speaker 1: mean to cut you out there, George, but that's a
Speaker 1: heck of a thing right there. John Bosco in California
Speaker 1: is a real team and it starts a freshman. Congratulations
Speaker 1: you and your son.
Speaker 14: No, yeah, he had a real bad first half.
Speaker 15: He went two for seven, and then second half we went.
Speaker 14: Twenty for twenty two for two seventy and through four tubs.
Speaker 14: So he turned it around real quick. If not, he
Speaker 14: would have had the first loss of the season, and
Speaker 14: instead of being the number two and team in the country,
Speaker 14: he would have he would have definitely fallen out of
Speaker 14: the out of the rankings.
Speaker 1: So well, listen, we figured it out. Yeah, listen. Listed
Speaker 1: with that before we go to the question, I asked, so,
Speaker 1: I thought you had a guy, a kid who's the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four class.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's my other son.
Speaker 14: He's at President State.
Speaker 1: He's a receiver. Oh okay, okay, what the heck with you?
Speaker 1: And you have you have a couple of girls or
Speaker 1: at least one playing softball UCLA or dad other daughter.
Speaker 6: She's uh, she transferred from UCLA.
Speaker 14: She graduated, She has a grad year, so she's getting
Speaker 14: her master's and playing.
Speaker 13: Her last year at Duke. So she's got Duke.
Speaker 14: And then my oldest daughter's international profile pro softball in New.
Speaker 1: Zealand right now. Sheez, holy crap, that's that's You're a
Speaker 1: pretty athletic family there. Well your wife, Your wife, I
Speaker 1: think she played something, right, did she?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 14: Yeah, she's she's the she's the winner. She's she's the
Speaker 14: one that carried them all, and that's the reason.
Speaker 16: Why we're at where we're at.
Speaker 14: So I give her all the I give her all
Speaker 14: the attention and make sure I thank her every day
Speaker 14: for her.
Speaker 1: Blessed Wow, it's gotta be fantastic family, very competitive. I'm
Speaker 1: sure let's go back to let's go back to the
Speaker 1: situation where they win a big game and then they
Speaker 1: falter the next Why does that happen? How does that happen?
Speaker 13: You know, we just kind of lose focused.
Speaker 14: You know, I wouldn't put it on the coaches. I
Speaker 14: think it's just, you know, internally, where the kids got,
Speaker 14: you know, the players just kind of like look at
Speaker 14: the next opponent. I mean, look, we lost Oregon State,
Speaker 14: which kind of was the achilles heel for us when
Speaker 14: all we had to do was betsc and wearing the rosebow.
Speaker 15: So you know, those times when.
Speaker 14: You should be mature about a situation. And that's why
Speaker 14: those times when the beat the Alabama's and and the Georgia's,
Speaker 14: you know, win and win big against you know, the
Speaker 14: Vanderbilts and those of the past years.
Speaker 5: Not the Vanderbilt that just want to be Alabama.
Speaker 14: This year, but you know those schools and normally are
Speaker 14: traditionally we should be dealt with in that manner. So
Speaker 14: I think the composure and the maturity of the team
Speaker 14: will determine whether or not they're going to, you know,
Speaker 14: be that great team that they're supposed to be or
Speaker 14: just kind of be luke warm lukewarm when you know
Speaker 14: you don't know whether or not they're gonna win or
Speaker 14: not depending on what which team shows up.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the whole thing, because the Dictomy coach teams
Speaker 1: were exactly that I'll do respect. I mean, any time
Speaker 1: they proved they said you couldn't do it, guess what
Speaker 1: you did, You did it. And then when they said
Speaker 1: it was going to be easy you couldn't do it
Speaker 1: or didn't do.
Speaker 13: It, that's it.
Speaker 6: You hit it on the nail.
Speaker 14: And I waste more time than than than not. We
Speaker 14: did take care of business and kind of playing those
Speaker 14: those New Year goals.
Speaker 13: That I know we could have back then.
Speaker 14: So I'm just kind of hoping and praying that back
Speaker 14: on the shaddle and take control.
Speaker 1: Of our destiny right right, tell me no, And I know,
Speaker 1: having done this for forever now. The one thing that
Speaker 1: people don't talk about is emotions of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: just being prepared emotionally and otherwise. How important is that
Speaker 1: you know your girlfriend could have broken up with you,
Speaker 1: class may not have gone well or whatever, your teammates
Speaker 1: might not like you, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 14: I think more so now than ever, it plays a
Speaker 14: real big role because now the phone, social media and
Speaker 14: il deals, all that is on the table now.
Speaker 6: Back then when we really didn't have the phone and.
Speaker 14: We really didn't have a lot of those those luxuries
Speaker 14: that these kids have. You know, you open Pandora's box
Speaker 14: and as a result, you see a lot of the
Speaker 14: things that go on as a result these kids. You
Speaker 14: see I don't know if you saw it, but if
Speaker 14: you're that Alabama kid that was acting a fool right
Speaker 14: scare towards the tail end and they're doing the victory snap.
Speaker 15: And I'm sure enough if he kicked kicks the ball,
Speaker 15: I mean, who.
Speaker 1: Does that right, who. Yeah, and you know here's a
Speaker 1: you see that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you see that more now today than ever before.
Speaker 14: And it's because people allow for these this generation of
Speaker 14: kids to get away with murder.
Speaker 1: Right, No, no, you exactly right, there's no there's no ramification. Well,
Speaker 1: we were talking about this earlier too. Uh. Brennan admitted
Speaker 1: that some of the receivers or people were going in
Speaker 1: the wrong direction. They didn't know what they were doing
Speaker 1: or where they should be. And I'm thinking, how do
Speaker 1: you fix that? We were talking about, Well, you get
Speaker 1: them the hell out of the game, right to find
Speaker 1: somewhere else to go. Is that is that how you
Speaker 1: would handle it? That's exactly this portal.
Speaker 6: Gay Markus will open it up and really feed.
Speaker 14: That portal with you know, with a lot of this
Speaker 14: nonsense that's going on, because that's what's screwing up the game.
Speaker 14: You know a lot of the respect and the integrity
Speaker 14: of the game.
Speaker 13: Has really lost.
Speaker 14: It's it's it's flavored because you know, coaches allow for
Speaker 14: these these then I I ld to take the you know,
Speaker 14: the trajectory of the of the team and the.
Speaker 13: Programs, so you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 14: But at the same time, hopefully these these coaches can
Speaker 14: kind of read into the book of coach tom Me
Speaker 14: and and uh grab the bull by the horn and
Speaker 14: and steer it the way it needs to.
Speaker 1: Well, I think he makes a good point too, because
Speaker 1: I think that you don't want those kids to transfer, right,
Speaker 1: so you give them a little more leeway. Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like going, oh, whatever it's going to take, just
Speaker 1: please don't transfer. It's like, yeah, you don't have you
Speaker 1: don't have the hammer.
Speaker 13: That's true, you need to have the hammer. A lot
Speaker 13: of these kids wouldn't be acting the.
Speaker 14: Fool that they are, so right, No, no program is
Speaker 14: when coach steps into the room and every everybody is
Speaker 14: signing because.
Speaker 6: They know the food.
Speaker 14: Known for a fact, something is about to happen and
Speaker 14: if somebody opens their.
Speaker 13: Mouths and they're going to be dealt with.
Speaker 14: So both days, hopefully are are coming back to some
Speaker 14: of these programs.
Speaker 13: But you know what I see now is just man's well,
Speaker 13: it's life action.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, right, no lights, camera action, and where's my cash?
Speaker 1: Where's my cash? Well, look at look at the.
Speaker 13: Kid at U and l V O V and that
Speaker 13: he says, well, I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm like Wow.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and then next man, come on in, get your
Speaker 15: opportunity and see that.
Speaker 1: That huge defensive lineman at Alabama. He's like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just not getting a playing time, so I'm gonna red shirt.
Speaker 13: What the heck?
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you. You know, it's like we were just
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, Army and Navy or are both
Speaker 1: five and oh they don't have any No, they don't
Speaker 1: can't take any nail money, and they don't have anybody
Speaker 1: transfer in. So they come in and they stay their development.
Speaker 14: I think that's the positive that comes from Portal, if
Speaker 14: there's any positive, is that there's a distribution of the talent.
Speaker 14: So a lot of these programs that normally don't have
Speaker 14: guys are starting to have guys, and they're starting to
Speaker 14: kind of change the atmosphere on campus. And then you
Speaker 14: have a Vanderbilt win how many years forty last time
Speaker 14: they beat Alabama, So you definitely have gold posts being
Speaker 14: torn down and taken to the river. So I think
Speaker 14: you can see a lot more of those simply with
Speaker 14: the balance of the distribution of challenge.
Speaker 1: So you have four kids, right, four kids now, and
Speaker 1: who've played? Do you do you want at the big levels? Uh?
Speaker 1: Did you tell them don't act like a food or
Speaker 1: did they already know that because they just knew that.
Speaker 14: Oh, there are no one phone call to the house.
Speaker 5: It's you know, definitely.
Speaker 1: No, I mean that's that's gone. I mean, yeah it is.
Speaker 14: Yeah, general, I will be there and I will knock
Speaker 14: on that door and I will make you look like
Speaker 14: an idiot in front of all your players.
Speaker 15: Don't make daddy come down and do what you don't
Speaker 15: want to be done.
Speaker 6: So you better fix it here.
Speaker 1: So here's the funny part though, that before you say
Speaker 1: it's mostly the at this time, the parents go to teachers,
Speaker 1: you the you're the problem.
Speaker 13: A lot of times it is, but you know, think
Speaker 13: about it.
Speaker 14: All the ones that are the problems are the ones
Speaker 14: that have never been there, done.
Speaker 1: That right, right, So you're the ones that have been there.
Speaker 14: Done they They they are the ones who kind of
Speaker 14: like figure it out, make it happen. This is just
Speaker 14: your valley, gets to the mountain and do your thing.
Speaker 14: So you see a lot of the times, a lot.
Speaker 6: Of these parents that that are acting up are the
Speaker 6: ones that never played it down.
Speaker 15: Yeah, never played on the field.
Speaker 14: Are just using their their they're going through their child's
Speaker 14: experience because they've never been there, right, so.
Speaker 1: You get your your son. Uh it's CoA? Is that?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that how you pronounce his name? Co CoA?
Speaker 5: Is my baby?
Speaker 4: Boy?
Speaker 1: Yeah? The U not a baby? No more there George?
Speaker 1: That the man if she's starting to what is the size?
Speaker 1: What is the size? Hell? Yeah, he's not you all right?
Speaker 1: So that so so he goes out and get some
Speaker 1: get some big He goes out and gets some big
Speaker 1: nil deal. Uh and uh when he when he gets
Speaker 1: gets to me, quarterback, are do you think he's gonna
Speaker 1: stay in a program or it's gonna be go shop
Speaker 1: yourself around? Son? What's your approach on that?
Speaker 13: I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well so so if he if he says, uh,
Speaker 1: are you gonna have him shop himself around? Like once
Speaker 1: he gets to one program, gonna be like, oh no,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go go go jump to another program. See
Speaker 1: if you can get something better. You're gonna be like
Speaker 1: you're gonna stay where you're at and develop what's your
Speaker 1: what would be? You know?
Speaker 15: Because once you started shopping him.
Speaker 14: Around, then you kind of feel is it you know, hey,
Speaker 14: who needs to be fixed?
Speaker 1: Is he you go the program.
Speaker 14: So when you keep on, you know, adjusting yourself and
Speaker 14: going to different campuses, there's several kids that have gone
Speaker 14: to several programs and it doesn't seem like the program broke.
Speaker 14: So it's one of those things where you just gotta
Speaker 14: you know, hey, it's life. You gotta If you can't
Speaker 14: figure it out here, right.
Speaker 15: What makes you think you're gonna figure it out? You know,
Speaker 15: when you have your family, when you have your.
Speaker 14: Kids and you're you're up against that that wall, you're
Speaker 14: gonna have to go ahead and climb over that wall.
Speaker 15: So it's just one of those things that I think.
Speaker 14: It's just something that I believe in that you gotta
Speaker 14: go ahead and and take care of business, you.
Speaker 1: Know, the way we know how to. No, very true,
Speaker 1: Very true. You answered that a lot better than I
Speaker 1: asked it. But that was an outstanding answer. Yeah, let
Speaker 1: me ask you. Clearly a family of character, right right,
Speaker 1: no question. So let me get one more question. So
Speaker 1: your baby guy here, uh, he must have taken it,
Speaker 1: taken it tough because these older kids that you have
Speaker 1: must have been competitive as all hell, and he learned
Speaker 1: from them and probably had to take a lot of lumps.
Speaker 1: Are you there be there. Yeah, can you did you
Speaker 1: hear my question? You got so many question You have
Speaker 1: so many great kids, and he's the baby of it.
Speaker 1: He probably took a lot of loves learning and losing,
Speaker 1: learning and losing from them.
Speaker 14: You know, just kind of seeing what the baby has learned.
Speaker 13: He saw all the.
Speaker 14: Other threes to kind of go through their trials and there,
Speaker 14: and I think him kind of seeing it and seeing
Speaker 14: what happens, he's able to kind of take each each
Speaker 14: one of their experiences and really not only learn, but
Speaker 14: just kind of taking in and allow for his his
Speaker 14: run right now, which is I mean, he's the first
Speaker 14: quarterback under twenty two years at Boston to come in
Speaker 14: as a freshman and start.
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of those.
Speaker 14: Different things that he was able to kind of see
Speaker 14: his older siblings go through, he's able to kind of
Speaker 14: take in and kind of used to his advent and
Speaker 14: basically just kind of you know, spear his own ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah is he al righty? Lefty? What is he?
Speaker 13: He's the Righty's the righty?
Speaker 1: Okay? All right? Well, George, I appreciate your time. Always
Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 13: Thanks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Hey, you guys, take care of bear Down. Yeah, good luck,
Speaker 1: good luck to your son and the rest of your family.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic, spicated Yeah, thank you, Thank you, George, George Mello.
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Speaker 1: were you over the weekend?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh right, were you over the weekend? Well, the right
Speaker 1: was it was yours Mike under Yeah, the under You
Speaker 1: didn't talk about that right before we do. It was
Speaker 1: sixty something or fifty four was the was over under Man.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, I picked that early. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the That was the stone cold lock of the weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you kick five field goals this five times twenty,
Speaker 1: they would have had some more things, could have had
Speaker 1: two more touchdowns. It was just one of those games. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also believe in the football gods and all that
Speaker 1: they find you. Yeah, we just do well. Everyone you know,
Speaker 1: moves to the moves to the the mean, you know,
Speaker 1: regrets to the mean. Right, and before the year, I
Speaker 1: remember we talked to the We talked to him Friday,
Speaker 1: the beat writer for for Texas Tech, and he wasn't
Speaker 1: too optimistic. He had Arizona winning, and back in July August,
Speaker 1: he said, these guys aren't that good. Yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: Arizona could have won that game. I mean clearly could
Speaker 1: have won that game. Yeah, a lot of things, you know,
Speaker 1: things go well for they make it on that fourth down,
Speaker 1: right right. We got a call. You're on the airline
Speaker 1: in the ball This is Steve. Who's this?
Speaker 5: I say this, Jeff.
Speaker 9: They're taking my call. You're on and we're at the
Speaker 9: game Saturday. A couple of things like the menage one.
Speaker 5: We were there to the very end. We're sctually twenty
Speaker 5: two twenty one. Nobody left at the very end of
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we were screaming, yeah.
Speaker 1: Good for you.
Speaker 9: That's it was still sore from the defense. Give us
Speaker 9: something to cheer for him. Man, they're yeah, they're impressive.
Speaker 1: Right right, So let me tell you which side of
Speaker 1: the Which side of the line is that on the
Speaker 1: west side of the east side? I don't know.
Speaker 5: W Yeah, we're on the west side. The visitin.
Speaker 1: Nobody left, Yeah, we we we talked. We talked earlier
Speaker 1: about the grade. What grade would you give the defense
Speaker 1: so far this year?
Speaker 5: Oh? Well, the last.
Speaker 9: Two games you got to give him a you know,
Speaker 9: a minus or a even. I mean we had the
Speaker 9: turnovers last week, the effort they put forth, I mean
Speaker 9: they kept us in the game.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt. Who's the other point, who's the other point?
Speaker 5: Well had off game.
Speaker 9: I mean he over he was a little late on
Speaker 9: some of his throws. Overthrew a couple in the end
Speaker 9: zone when we were up by one, moving the ball
Speaker 9: down the field. Second the last possession, we're running the ball,
Speaker 9: and I said, yeah, this is good eating up the
Speaker 9: clock if we can just get a field goal. At
Speaker 9: Ford forced them to go the whole the field, you know,
Speaker 9: to get a touchdown, and then uh, we threw up
Speaker 9: past the end would stop the clock. Said we should
Speaker 9: have done that, should have just kept running it, let
Speaker 9: the clock run.
Speaker 5: So I didn't like that play call.
Speaker 1: Right, What did you think about the play calls the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, because apparently it's changed, right, we have different.
Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely, I see a difference.
Speaker 9: The first three games I was impressed with to the
Speaker 9: last game.
Speaker 5: That could tell there was definitely a change. And I didn't.
Speaker 9: Think except for them, you know, I would like to
Speaker 9: some to see them keep running and run the clock down.
Speaker 9: There in that Uh, there's like sixty five minutes laps
Speaker 9: right there in the left fourth quarter. Other than that,
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, I mean Fafita's had an off game. Man,
Speaker 9: he's a little laid on, throws over through something that.
Speaker 9: Oh that interception to McMillan and the end zone, Yeah,
Speaker 9: he just double covered. There's a tight end, wide open
Speaker 9: repend middlefield.
Speaker 13: Yeah, scream middle of the field right there.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, apparently that's not the first time. There's been
Speaker 1: a few times that's happened. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well I was been, I was disappointment. I was
Speaker 5: on then.
Speaker 1: So so you must be you must be a season
Speaker 1: ticket holder. Yeah, so you're you're you're going home on
Speaker 1: these guys obviously, Uh, what do you what do you
Speaker 1: think is gonna happen the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, when I started this season, I was
Speaker 9: you know, I figured I was hoping about ten and two,
Speaker 9: with my high hopes for nine and three. Maybe now
Speaker 9: I figured I hoping we split between Kansas State and Utah.
Speaker 9: This is just a game that we should have won, though,
Speaker 9: I mean, this is just a this is a punch
Speaker 9: in the gut. But now you got that, Now you
Speaker 9: got to rely on the coaches, uh, to get the
Speaker 9: kids up, you know, I mean the season isn't over
Speaker 9: still young, you know. Yeah, we got two losses, but hey,
Speaker 9: you know, we can get a lot of wins still
Speaker 9: ahead of us.
Speaker 5: So you gotta now it's up the coaching staff to
Speaker 5: go round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot to play for. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, we can still get to a pretty
Speaker 1: decent bowl if we put it together.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh u y U is a good team. Didn't
Speaker 5: they beat Kansas State? Yeah? Well, I mean that's a
Speaker 5: good team.
Speaker 1: You gotta Yeah, it's gonna go very well, or it's
Speaker 1: not gonna go well at all. I mean that's kind
Speaker 1: of obvious. But but they could go and everyone could
Speaker 1: go and just kind of look bad or or.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean that's you know, you gotta take the
Speaker 9: punch in the gut. They gotta and you just gotta
Speaker 9: keep moving forward, you know.
Speaker 5: It's uh, we gotta know, there's no easy teams are playing.
Speaker 9: You just gotta be at the top of your game,
Speaker 9: you know, Right.
Speaker 1: Every week sounds easy, sounds the solution sounds easy.
Speaker 9: But well, and that's well, And I think that comes
Speaker 9: to coaching. You gotta get them to get them coached uff.
Speaker 1: Right, you know, right, And that's part of the problem.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think that's what They're missing something.
Speaker 9: Well, and then you know, and like when we were
Speaker 9: waiting for the first couple of seasons, the Jeff Fish,
Speaker 9: you know the jury is still out, you don't know.
Speaker 9: You got to show us. You know the jury's out.
Speaker 9: You gotta do what you can do.
Speaker 1: Well, Thanks a bunch, Thanks a bunch for calling your
Speaker 1: first time calling. Second, we'll keep calling. Thanks a bunch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love the phone calls. Yeah, I'm really surprised that
Speaker 1: we don't get people more people chiming in disagreeing with
Speaker 1: you with your terrible takes. Well, they are tired of
Speaker 1: my tailor terrible. They were so tired what they called
Speaker 1: Jay Jay. Yeah, what the heck? Right? But I still
Speaker 1: think talking to the guys here, they're missing something and
Speaker 1: I want to point to some kind of aggressive and
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not seeing it because you don't see it
Speaker 1: on the on the field. He's very nonchalant or he's
Speaker 1: very whatever passive or whatever emotion that he shows. And
Speaker 1: I hear it from people who are my friends and
Speaker 1: who have give money. The clapping both to your friends,
Speaker 1: both of my friends, of my friends is clapping and
Speaker 1: is less of get into your face and and some
Speaker 1: coaches don't need that. Sometimes coaches don't need it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know sometimes they don't. But you're not that coach
Speaker 1: you would say I would. Yeah, well i'd be different.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a tyrant. Like you said, I'm a
Speaker 1: terrible coach. Yeah, the cost will be quite You gotta
Speaker 1: call Hey, you on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 15: Hey, guys, this is Vick Vick Vic are you Are
Speaker 15: you okay?
Speaker 1: I don't have to call anybody to say if you're okay.
Speaker 16: I'm okay. I just had a call and defend myself
Speaker 16: because I'm telling you that uh you said about t
Speaker 16: mac and uh, I guarantee you Steve. There was a
Speaker 16: scout somewhere on one of these teams that saw him
Speaker 16: drop those passes and told the other scout, hey, you
Speaker 16: take them. I don't want them.
Speaker 1: There's no way. There's just no way.
Speaker 16: Yeah. I've sat next I sat next to scouts in baseball.
Speaker 16: Guy hit the ball four hundred feet and the White
Speaker 16: Sox scouts said, I don't want that guy he drops
Speaker 16: his hands too much, little things like that. And if
Speaker 16: you don't think I'm right, then how do you explain
Speaker 16: Guys that are go to the combine are not on
Speaker 16: anybody's radar, and then all of a sudden they run
Speaker 16: a four two forty and all of a sudden they
Speaker 16: shoot the draft like WHOA, no, no.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's my defense, because he's going to
Speaker 1: go to the combine and say, holy crap, we didn't
Speaker 1: know he was this good because here you're seeing him
Speaker 1: in games here, not in every day you're not seeing
Speaker 1: him at the combine. That's where people make it. People
Speaker 1: tell me, oh, he's gonna be in the NBA. No,
Speaker 1: how many people do you see from no school that
Speaker 1: you didn't heard of? They're in the NBA and some
Speaker 1: other dude that you see is not.
Speaker 16: Well exactly, And that's what that's my argument is. You
Speaker 16: got four years of film and then all of a
Speaker 16: sudden you run a four two forty at the combine,
Speaker 16: which you've never done in your life, and you shoot
Speaker 16: up the chart and you're like WHOA.
Speaker 15: So like I said, I believe me, I'm.
Speaker 16: The biggest t MAAC fan in the world. You know
Speaker 16: that and I am not knocking him one bit, but
Speaker 16: you can't. You're a star and stars have to win games. No, Hey,
Speaker 16: I can't.
Speaker 1: I talked about.
Speaker 16: That mumble and drop ball, ye, all that stuff. I
Speaker 16: mean here to Montana, Brady Mariano reve Uh, those guys
Speaker 16: have to win games.
Speaker 1: I hear you. And I said that. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: a Superman. Superman can't lose his cape, and.
Speaker 16: He did exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, we gotta go.
Speaker 15: We gotta okay, you're up against it.
Speaker 16: Okay, you got.
Speaker 1: Thank you man, Thanks, you get another call. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: gotta Okay, we've got a call. We got a call. Bill.
Speaker 1: You're in the air. You're in the air.
Speaker 3: Hey, Oh wow, I was quick.
Speaker 1: He's t money, see money. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I was going home the other day. I found out
Speaker 1: I heard you were cheating on me.
Speaker 20: Hey Man, National shows.
Speaker 1: Something you were you were talking to you were talking,
Speaker 1: you were earning ticket you were winning tickets from David Kelly.
Speaker 5: Hey, I get the tickets to my nephew.
Speaker 20: Hey, so man, team Charito McMillan, Man, I don't. I
Speaker 20: don't know about scouts, but you can love somebody and
Speaker 20: lose respect for them at the same time those one
Speaker 20: handed stats.
Speaker 9: I mean, I could hear my own.
Speaker 20: Man yelling at me just watching it for doing something
Speaker 20: like that.
Speaker 9: It's always two hands.
Speaker 1: It's always yeah, yeah, use two hands. I can hear
Speaker 1: my dad saying it right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 20: And then when he got peanut punched at the end,
Speaker 20: it's like, come on, man, don't be soft. Don't be
Speaker 20: a front runner like we're that was the play of
Speaker 20: the game. Where uh where Rodriguez Romirez whatever, like you know,
Speaker 20: like that was the play of the game. Like he
Speaker 20: would assaulted the game away right there. So are you
Speaker 20: here to win or are you here to go to
Speaker 20: the league? Like I don't know, like maybe do both?
Speaker 20: Maybe do both. Yeah, that's what two songs about. Two
Speaker 20: songs about Teddy Bruce Key's two Sons about Brandon Sanders.
Speaker 20: That's what two sons about. So, hey, this kid he
Speaker 20: got to Yeah, Okay, you're gonna go to the league
Speaker 20: and make some money.
Speaker 13: That's cool.
Speaker 20: But why don't you make your mark while you're here
Speaker 20: and win some football games?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I hear you. I hear you. Just like
Speaker 1: Vic Vick, you guys are falling fast on the t
Speaker 1: MEC trend. Here it was he was Was he out
Speaker 1: there just trying to make a play and somebody made
Speaker 1: someone else someone else made a play or was it
Speaker 1: just uh, do you think he was showboating it?
Speaker 20: No, when he got peanut punched, he just he his
Speaker 20: mindset wasn't there.
Speaker 9: He wasn't thinking someone's gonna.
Speaker 20: Come and punch him in the mouth. Yeah, that did
Speaker 20: not come into his head at all. He's a front runner,
Speaker 20: and so he has to understand and it ain't about that.
Speaker 20: You're gonna you're gonna have to protect the ball. You're
Speaker 20: gonna have to get down and dirty the goat. Jerry
Speaker 20: Rice six foot one. He would cover the ball with
Speaker 20: both hands when he's in the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: Okay, you still my dad. I still heard my dad
Speaker 1: yelling at mean T money. Thanks again for the call.
Speaker 1: Don't matter me. You can go to call David Kelly too.
Speaker 1: It's okay, all right, call here anytime. Yeah, got T money?
Speaker 1: Thanks you bunch man, Thanks a bunch. Have we gotta go, right,
Speaker 1: we gotta go. Let's take that. I see tomorrow