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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera alongside
Speaker 2: me is partner and yesterday's non guests Jay gon Zaliz
Speaker 2: I'm back. You're back, and then we have Henry. I'll
Speaker 2: just have one thing to say to you, Jay, I
Speaker 2: hate you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Steve, and I understand your hate at
Speaker 3: this moment.
Speaker 2: Well tell him why, because I had a perfect week
Speaker 2: going I do, although I do have a lead you.
Speaker 2: I was watching the game and the Arizona was playing
Speaker 2: and they were struggling, and they were winning, then they
Speaker 2: were losing, and then they eventually won. And not once
Speaker 2: did I think had a hand in this. And later
Speaker 2: in the night you said you bet on him, and
Speaker 2: I said, if this you did have a hand in this.
Speaker 3: I did, and I I'm not gonna apologize, but I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna say that's the way it goes.
Speaker 2: You know, how deadly or how effective your kiod you is.
Speaker 3: You know, I was just beginning to think that it
Speaker 3: maybe was starting to wear off, you know, because I
Speaker 3: had you know, I had a good I had a
Speaker 3: good week on on the betting sites again, and so
Speaker 3: the actually the reason I bet it is because I
Speaker 3: was winning on the weekend. So I thought, well, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna throw something on Arizona.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: By the time I was getting to get ready to
Speaker 3: go to the Stateium, I thought, you know what, Arizona
Speaker 3: was gonna kill him. And so I threw something on him,
Speaker 3: and it wrecked your perfect week. And I'm I'm not
Speaker 3: unhappy about that. I'm unhappy that I lost, but it
Speaker 3: was it wasn't you know. It was play money for me, So.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm okay with it. Five was a pretty good
Speaker 2: You got a nice five. I got it two song
Speaker 2: as you spent on it. Oh, so that was good. Well,
Speaker 2: there you go. I gave you the whammy back and
Speaker 2: then I went five bucks, so you lost thirty on that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. That's okay. Why are you already
Speaker 2: against me? Don't touch my teams. Don't touch my team.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, it was it was bad from
Speaker 3: the get go and Penn State just kicked the crap
Speaker 3: out of West Virginia, and we were on opposite sides
Speaker 3: of that one. And then Notre Dame you know, lit
Speaker 3: up text say name. We were opposite side of that one.
Speaker 3: So I knew it was a bad week. I was
Speaker 3: just hoping to get a couple right, and I did.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, I'm off to a better start
Speaker 3: with a two. I'm off the better started last week
Speaker 3: last year, so about five weeks. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm okay. I'm okay for now. You know, I feel
Speaker 3: good about where. I've got a couple of teams that
Speaker 3: I saw that I'm like, okay, I'm gonna ride those.
Speaker 4: For a little while. So we'll see what what that
Speaker 4: turns out to be.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not too sure. We spoke about this yesterday
Speaker 2: and we'll just get your feedback on it today and
Speaker 2: we won't kill the bird here. But Arizona didn't look good,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to pooh pooh. They look good offensively,
Speaker 2: of course, but not defensively. Yesterday they talked about it.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to get better in that area. Your
Speaker 2: thoughts from the sidelines.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, because I've had since I've had a
Speaker 3: couple of extra days to think about it. You know,
Speaker 3: I've had some of the people that I'm around, they've
Speaker 3: been trying to talk me into those guys, particularly the
Speaker 3: quarterback and the one receiver number fifteen. Those guys are
Speaker 3: pretty good. And I said, right, no, they're not. Okay,
Speaker 3: if they're pretty good, they wouldn't be a New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Oh you you said, okay.
Speaker 3: And they said, well, you know, and then they said, well,
Speaker 3: you know, Arizona's got a guy who was in Mexico
Speaker 3: last year. And so they were saying, these two guys
Speaker 3: who were killing Arizona, they'll be playing at a higher level.
Speaker 2: I said, next year. I said that yesterday to Andy,
Speaker 2: and before they made money yet over the weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because someone else is going to pay them more money.
Speaker 3: Right and that and maybe so, but you know what,
Speaker 3: Montana State beat them the week before. Yeah, all right there,
Speaker 3: and and and you know they you know, two of
Speaker 3: New Mexico's touchdowns against Montana State were defensive touchdowns. So
Speaker 3: these guys didn't do squad against Montana State, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden they're running up and down the field again.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what's your evaluation.
Speaker 3: My evaluation was that the defense looked like crap. Oh yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: and don't try But my point is, don't try and
Speaker 3: sell me that New Mexico was good.
Speaker 4: They were not. They're not.
Speaker 3: They're still going to go to and ten. Maybe.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't think the good's not the right word.
Speaker 2: They played well, they played well. They give them credit.
Speaker 4: They did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, so we're not talking about New Mexican.
Speaker 2: Arizona could not cover his did you have your luncheon
Speaker 2: with your boys today?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And what they say, same thing, same thing.
Speaker 3: They were still trying to sell me that you know
Speaker 3: that that the quarterback and the damp here and and
Speaker 3: the and the receiver are pretty good players. And I'm like,
Speaker 3: they're not. Oh, you're not gonna You're not gonna sell
Speaker 3: me on that. You know, the whole thing where you know,
Speaker 3: you play a close game against an NAU or somebody said,
Speaker 3: well that was a really good team. No they're not.
Speaker 3: New Mexico's not a really good team.
Speaker 2: It kind of comes from the theory that Arizona, when
Speaker 2: they played in the tournament and they play a two
Speaker 2: place of fifteen or a four place of twelve. Well
Speaker 2: that was one of the better twelve. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: there was the reason they were fifteen. Yeah you should,
Speaker 2: that's all I'm saying. I don't disagree with you, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was a one off. Maybe the thing is
Speaker 2: maybe means there may not be Okay.
Speaker 3: Here, here's my my defensive analyst hat on. Now okay,
Speaker 3: and I'm not a defensive analyst. So for what you know,
Speaker 3: because a Keena talk, Duyna Keina defensive coordinator talked about
Speaker 3: how they were gonna be aggressive. They're gonna they were
Speaker 3: gonna rush, you know, vertical right, They're gonna rush to
Speaker 3: rush the quarterback. They weren't just gonna have the defensive
Speaker 3: line plug holes. Well, they did a poor job of
Speaker 3: containing it. They did a poor job. They were getting
Speaker 3: up the field and then he was going right by him,
Speaker 3: the quarterback, and he ran for what one hundred and
Speaker 3: forty yards, So and that really.
Speaker 4: Never got fixed.
Speaker 3: It was better in the second half, but they still
Speaker 3: moved the ball in the second half. They still put
Speaker 3: a couple of touchdowns on the board in the second half.
Speaker 3: So to me, it never really got fixed. I thought
Speaker 3: Arizona should have just been able to stuff them, and
Speaker 3: they were never able to do that. Thirty nine points
Speaker 3: was way too many to give up to New Mexico,
Speaker 3: way too many. And that first half. Look, I never
Speaker 3: thought Arizona was going to lose a game, never thought.
Speaker 3: But I thought this could be a seven point game
Speaker 3: because they Arizona could not get them stopped.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see this weekend into it would be
Speaker 2: another one of those games. It's a twenty point, twenty
Speaker 2: eight point payer, I should say, so, less than there
Speaker 2: was last week. I think that's just an adjustment. We'll
Speaker 2: know in ten days. When know in ten days how
Speaker 2: good they are.
Speaker 3: And look, I liked what they did offensively. I get
Speaker 3: it when they say, well, you know Noah's got to
Speaker 3: spread the spread the ball around, Well, no he doesn't.
Speaker 3: If they're not going to cover t Mac, if you're
Speaker 3: not going to cover teammate, then just throw.
Speaker 4: It to him every time.
Speaker 2: No, we talked about that too.
Speaker 4: Problem.
Speaker 2: And guess guess who he has a bias for team?
Speaker 4: Of course he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's gonna continue to.
Speaker 4: With you have a bias for like sure, arguably the
Speaker 4: best receiver in the country.
Speaker 2: And when all right, no, it's funny, Uh, desire. He
Speaker 2: talked joked about it obviously two weeks ago, which just
Speaker 2: if I had him, I throw him all the time.
Speaker 2: And guess what, people are eventually realize that's what they
Speaker 2: might do. But you have there's no question they have
Speaker 2: to feel the other guys. But when when Noah said
Speaker 2: it was my bad or not? No, dude, if he's
Speaker 2: if he's open, give it to him.
Speaker 3: Never say my bad when you put sixty one points
Speaker 3: into the board.
Speaker 2: No. And then the thing is, I think maybe it
Speaker 2: was Jim yesterday. Uh, Okay, this is all hypothetical. Of course,
Speaker 2: they had six hundred and twenty seven yards three hundred
Speaker 2: and four coming from TMAC to blah blah blah. What
Speaker 2: if something happens with that combination and read blah blah blah. Whatever. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's that, But guess what, they'll find other people, right,
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about that, they'll find other people.
Speaker 3: This was more of if you're not going to cover him,
Speaker 3: then you're just then they're just I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: I did go back and I watched watch the recording,
Speaker 3: just watch the off. I didn't even want to look
Speaker 3: at the defense. I was I I was sick to
Speaker 3: my stomach over that and not sick to my stomach.
Speaker 3: I was just I was just kidding. I was pissed
Speaker 3: about it. I was just pissed out of the defense. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I wanted to see what they're There were a
Speaker 3: couple of places where even the announcers saying, there's nobody
Speaker 3: within ten yards of team, what.
Speaker 4: Are you doing?
Speaker 2: The first the first TV catch, he was like in
Speaker 2: another times, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: There's nobody?
Speaker 3: You know, they put him in the slot and and
Speaker 3: the closest defender that wasn't a defensive lineman was fifteen
Speaker 3: yards away from him. You give him room to run
Speaker 3: around like that. Nobody's gonna nobody, They're not going to
Speaker 3: find him. And it was and I'm like, just keep
Speaker 3: throwing it to.
Speaker 2: Him, right, the one thing, not one thing, but uh,
Speaker 2: it was funny to me to see all the tweets
Speaker 2: and the national level of not concern of the attention
Speaker 2: that teammate got. This is where you guys been, This
Speaker 2: is who he is. Is you missed him the last
Speaker 2: year or two him?
Speaker 3: Come on, you know, they asked I saw on the
Speaker 3: press conference, they asked Brent Brennan, you know what his
Speaker 3: favorite catch was It was the one that you know
Speaker 3: he broke for the long he ran away down the side.
Speaker 4: My favorite one was the one he caught in the
Speaker 4: left corner of the corner where he caught the ball,
Speaker 4: took a step back, let the defender go by, and
Speaker 4: then walked into the end zone.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: That's that's a move that not a lot of guys had.
Speaker 2: That's a that's Reggie Bush, you know, kind of stopping
Speaker 2: them that type of thing.
Speaker 3: He catches the ball and he knew he had a
Speaker 3: guy on him, and he knew how to just let
Speaker 3: that guy go right by.
Speaker 2: The one catch that I said, Wow, what a catch
Speaker 2: was the catch that they didn't give him on the sideline.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I thought he was. I thought it was
Speaker 2: a catch. I you know, showed that.
Speaker 4: I watched the replay a bunch of you know, a
Speaker 4: bunch of times. He did look like his toe he
Speaker 4: hit the ground before his Are you stee with it right?
Speaker 6: I could be mistaken. I think that was a cat.
Speaker 6: I think the ball was moving when he hit the ground.
Speaker 4: That wow, I didn't see it.
Speaker 6: I think he got both catch.
Speaker 2: On the sideline. To me, it was and that makes
Speaker 2: kind of sense if that's true. I didn't see the
Speaker 2: ball move. I just was worried about his feet because
Speaker 2: he catches, he would have had eleven and three hundred
Speaker 2: and some like Peterson said yesterday, maybe if he catches
Speaker 2: that he doesn't have all the great you know whatever.
Speaker 2: But obviously that combination is going to be huge all
Speaker 2: year if they stay healthy.
Speaker 3: Now I know, I I offensively, they were just incredible.
Speaker 4: I just thought it was it was do you know.
Speaker 2: The other thing that was concerning to me, and we
Speaker 2: talked about this was the penalties.
Speaker 3: The penalties, and that was the other thing, the undisciplined penalties.
Speaker 3: How many the four sportsman like, yeah, two of them
Speaker 3: by by Jo Davis.
Speaker 4: He's out for these happen.
Speaker 2: Well, we thought that, I'm not sure. I think someone's
Speaker 2: checking on that, okay, because we're not sure about that,
Speaker 2: but that's a possibility of that. That's what we kind
Speaker 2: of think on the service, right, which is, you know, okay,
Speaker 2: it's any of you, but they can't have that.
Speaker 4: But they can't do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you can get away with that against
Speaker 3: against New Mexico. You're not going to get away with
Speaker 3: that against Kansas State and a couple of those hurt.
Speaker 3: You know, there was one where it was a fourth
Speaker 3: stet or it was a it was a it was either.
Speaker 3: I think it was a third down and they were
Speaker 3: gonna have to punt and then a sudden they got
Speaker 3: the first time. Then they got down and score.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens again. Overall, Steve, you know,
Speaker 2: give me a great miss.
Speaker 3: Judge a B minus, B minus because of the defense,
Speaker 3: because of the defense. You know, I'll give I'll give
Speaker 3: the I'll give the offense and an A and not
Speaker 3: an A plus because it was against New Mexico, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give the B maybe even a C on defense,
Speaker 3: you know, so ill grade out to about it B
Speaker 3: minus from me. You have some Russian Well, you know, Steve,
Speaker 3: these games you're supposed to do things in these games
Speaker 3: to get you ready for the games that matter. And
Speaker 3: I thought this game was a wasted opportunity to to
Speaker 3: to put a defense out there that could.
Speaker 4: Do some stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just didn't think that they were. I just didn't
Speaker 3: think that they were as as they didn't impose their
Speaker 3: will on New Mexico, and that bothered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, hey, let's talk about today's show. We're gonna
Speaker 2: have Jody Taylor from Phoenix talking about what's going on
Speaker 2: there with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: And the Cardinals cars starting this weekend. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: you know what are we going to see there? So
Speaker 3: stuff happening up in Phoenix, right, Okay.
Speaker 2: And then on the second hour, we're going to have
Speaker 2: Greg Hanson, Uh you know him, we know him. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be about four fifteen talk about what's going on here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we you know, I don't know if he
Speaker 3: saw Jack record passed away, so you know, somebody that
Speaker 3: we all knew, so I thought maybe, Yeah, we'll talk
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Speaker 3: experiences with Jah.
Speaker 2: I worked with him for a long long time. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: we've still got a lot of time here, so we'll
Speaker 2: talk all about that. We'll talk more, maybe take some
Speaker 2: calls if you go on into the call. I know
Speaker 2: Jim called yesterday, but five two, o four one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty, that'll be nice to call.
Speaker 3: After the Diamondback Rodgers took three out of four from there.
Speaker 2: You didn't go back, did you?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: I didn't go didn't even think about. First of all,
Speaker 3: I had a tailgate hangover on Sunday. So it takes
Speaker 3: me all day to recover from that and then just decide.
Speaker 3: Now you know, didn't go on Monday. So but I
Speaker 3: did watch the games, and well I only watched. I
Speaker 3: didn't even watch. I listened to two innings of the
Speaker 3: Sunday game, which was the game that they got. They
Speaker 3: were down eight to nothing in the second inning and
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Speaker 4: It's fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, they kicked three out three in the one Nush.
Speaker 2: I was up there Monday just doing some things with friends,
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Speaker 2: let's just take the break, get a hold of Jody
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Iying the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jaginsaus. Now on
Speaker 2: the fund, we have Jody Taylor from Fox Sports nine
Speaker 2: ten in Phoenix. Jody, how you doing?
Speaker 5: Some great guys, how you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine? You You gotta maybe be a busy
Speaker 2: man up in Phoenix with all the sports, Diamondbacks, the
Speaker 2: Cardinals starting as you do you sleep?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're not really giving me any easy else anymore.
Speaker 5: Usually I could count reliably and at least one of
Speaker 5: the teams just being totally incompetent, But so far it
Speaker 5: seems like there's a strain of competent professional sports teams
Speaker 5: running through the ballot.
Speaker 2: Give them three days. When is when the Cardinals play Sunday? Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you one day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I'm pretty optimistic about their game.
Speaker 3: Well, let's start there, because you know, the season starts
Speaker 3: tomorrow on not for the Cardinals, it starts on Sunday.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, tough game, you know against the
Speaker 3: Bills and stuff. What do you just what are your
Speaker 3: thoughts going in? You know, what do they look like
Speaker 3: and what do they look like to you?
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's it's a game that if they
Speaker 5: were playing in December, we'd be talking about a completely
Speaker 5: different outcome. I think the fact that they're playing in
Speaker 5: Week one. Denver had a ton of changes or excuse me,
Speaker 5: Buffalo out a ton of changes this offseason. They still
Speaker 5: don't have the wide receiver room figured out. Their defense
Speaker 5: got rocked with departures and Matt Mulono injuries and no
Speaker 5: real clear cut secondary that's been established. Damar Hamlin starting
Speaker 5: for the first time since he literally died on the
Speaker 5: field a couple of years ago and was brought back
Speaker 5: to life. So it's sixty two degrees in reigning in Buffalo,
Speaker 5: which honestly sounds like a really nice vacation for most
Speaker 5: people in the state of Arizona. So I think it's
Speaker 5: it's all things considered, kind of fortuitous opportunity for the Cardinals.
Speaker 5: And you know, to answer your question, but how they looked,
Speaker 5: they looked they look good. I mean, they got real
Speaker 5: talent on the offensive side. The defense is going to
Speaker 5: be a little bit of am with guyver job with
Speaker 5: tooth picks and duct tape. But that's what Jonathan Gannon
Speaker 5: did last year, and when Kyler Murray returned, they went
Speaker 5: three and five in their final eight. So I'm not
Speaker 5: I'm not predicting a shock the world season, but I
Speaker 5: definitely think Week one is a winnable game for the car.
Speaker 2: I just called in search of Jody. I think you've
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Speaker 5: I get a bad rap. I listen. If you're bad,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you how bad you are.
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Speaker 4: Is this a put up or shut up here?
Speaker 7: For?
Speaker 4: For Kyler? What do you think.
Speaker 5: It's tough. In some ways, it is. In some ways
Speaker 5: it isn't right, because the question would be context always
Speaker 5: matters if if he's healthy and completely underwhelms offensively, is
Speaker 5: it because of injuries the offensive line, or is it
Speaker 5: because Kyler's just you know, maybe not that guy. I
Speaker 5: think that is at least one of the the options
Speaker 5: on the table. I don't think that's true, but it's
Speaker 5: certainly impossibility. I do expect to put up.
Speaker 13: I just do.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to be a real question
Speaker 5: for the Cardinals. I think the real interesting curve ball
Speaker 5: comes if he suffers an injury. He's never made it
Speaker 5: through a season through seventeen games. If he suffers an
Speaker 5: injury that's significant, then I think the Cardinals are going
Speaker 5: to have some real internal deliberation. But that will cross
Speaker 5: that bridge when we come to it.
Speaker 2: That's not a shock to you that he's been hurt
Speaker 2: all this time, because he's five point ten and he's
Speaker 2: you know, runs around and I don't get it. I
Speaker 2: don't get it. I'm not like you, Jody, but I
Speaker 2: don't see the see the guy having a lot of
Speaker 2: success now or later just because of that. Right, that's
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 5: I think it has a lot to do with and
Speaker 5: this is this is he's a mature, more mature guy.
Speaker 5: He's twenty six now, he's clearly learned, and I think
Speaker 5: that can spill over to how you play. And when
Speaker 5: you're twenty three and you're running around like a crazy child,
Speaker 5: then you can run into a lot of trouble. If
Speaker 5: you're more mature and you kind of pick and choose
Speaker 5: your spots, I think you're can avoid some of that trouble.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 5: You know, he got towards ACL on a basically no one,
Speaker 5: no one was there. It wasn't like a real contact injury.
Speaker 5: So some things are just out of your control. But
Speaker 5: I think his maturity has been evident off the field,
Speaker 5: and I'm really curious to see how it manifests on
Speaker 5: the field this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a good point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who do we're talking to somebody from up there
Speaker 3: about Marvin Harrison Junior being the real deal?
Speaker 4: Do you think he's the real deal? Mak Mad Do
Speaker 4: you think he's a deal?
Speaker 5: He clearly is. But I also pump the brakes a
Speaker 5: little bit because we we we just expect this kid
Speaker 5: to come out and be one of the best receipts. Like,
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys played fantasy football, but
Speaker 5: he's like a first round pick in fantasy right night. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's like the idea that this son of a Hall
Speaker 5: of Famer on day one is just going to be
Speaker 5: better than his Hall of Fame dad is antithetical to
Speaker 5: the way that dynamic has always worked in his sport.
Speaker 5: So I my my perspective is, I don't think Marvin
Speaker 5: Harrison Junior is going to lead the NFL in or
Speaker 5: excuse me, beers on the Cardinals and receiving yard this year.
Speaker 5: But I think he's going to have a really big
Speaker 5: positive impact. He could have eight hundred yards and sixty catches,
Speaker 5: but the way he creates opportunities for the rest of
Speaker 5: the passing weapons in this offense could mean Trey McBride's
Speaker 5: one thousand yard guy or Michael Wilson or both. And
Speaker 5: so I think the expectations are out of control. I
Speaker 5: think you'll have a very good rookie year, but I
Speaker 5: don't expect him to be, you know, Hall of Fame
Speaker 5: and waiting from K one the moment he steps onto
Speaker 5: an NFL. But the NFL is not easy, and I
Speaker 5: don't care how good and how great your your DNA is.
Speaker 5: It ain't easy.
Speaker 2: I had to google antitheticals there. No, what do you
Speaker 2: think they're going to end up in the division? It's
Speaker 2: not an easy division? No.
Speaker 5: I really like the Seahawks actually really wow. The miners
Speaker 5: are the niners. I mean, the ESPN came up out
Speaker 5: that top one hundred list and they had like seven
Speaker 5: dudes in the top twenty five. I mean, they're just
Speaker 5: stacked now that everybody's fat and happy with new contracts.
Speaker 5: So I think it's probably third is the best I
Speaker 5: would say. But I also think that it's stance that
Speaker 5: the NFC West could have three playoff games, whether that
Speaker 5: includes the Cardinals or not. I think it's pretty ambitious
Speaker 5: to expect them to be a wildcard team. I think
Speaker 5: a floor of seven wins probably you know, an eight.
Speaker 2: To nine win ceiling, okay, And if.
Speaker 5: They can do that, then I think there is real
Speaker 5: momentum going into next year where they could address what's
Speaker 5: clearly their biggest need, which is a pass rush, which
Speaker 5: I expected you need also, Gong.
Speaker 2: So are you in that area of eight and nine
Speaker 2: maybe nine to eight if you're.
Speaker 5: Lucky, I would yeah, I thought nine and eight until
Speaker 5: they got rocked by injury at their edge rusher and
Speaker 5: defensive line, and then I kind of downgraded seven to
Speaker 5: eight wins. All I care about. My only real expectation
Speaker 5: is that they play meaningful December football with real stakes,
Speaker 5: real consequences, so that this young roster can get a
Speaker 5: taste of what the NFL really is. Because it's you
Speaker 5: guys know you watch the NFL every week. It's increasingly
Speaker 5: becomes September is just an extension of the preseason. Teams
Speaker 5: don't really turn it on until November December, and that's
Speaker 5: when really the contenders emerge, and so I want the
Speaker 5: Cardinals to get a taste of that. And I think
Speaker 5: that's the biggest objective for this upcoming year.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I was going to ask you typically, I
Speaker 2: think though you've been pretty fine, you've been pretty optimistic
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year, and then eventually that fades.
Speaker 2: I think two years ago they had that streak in
Speaker 2: the back end that wasn't very good, any kind of
Speaker 2: poop pooed on them. So the key to winning is
Speaker 2: going to on. Wait, I know the coach, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm a firm believer that coaching matters. Did they find
Speaker 2: the guy that they like?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So here's a comp thought about this is this
Speaker 5: feels like year two of Jetfish for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 5: And I know that's the four letter word in Tucson
Speaker 5: these days, but when they went five and seven and
Speaker 5: you can see the formation of a real culture, a
Speaker 5: real team, I think that's where Jonathan Gannon is in
Speaker 5: year two. So they could end up seven and ten
Speaker 5: or eight nine, but I think next year they could
Speaker 5: be that ten win team that that Arizona became. And
Speaker 5: so I think the right guy is in place. I
Speaker 5: think that's evident. I think that's the thing I'm most
Speaker 5: confident in is that Jonathan Gannon is is the real deal.
Speaker 5: And as you see at all levels of football, you
Speaker 5: got that guy, you got that guy, you got.
Speaker 4: A chance, all right? All right?
Speaker 3: So how did the as you look last week? I
Speaker 3: know that they beat the crap out of one, I mean, but.
Speaker 4: What did it look like for who is?
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, you know, I think the biggest takeaway ad
Speaker 5: for ACU is they're not a bad football team. You know,
Speaker 5: I know what bad football looks like. I watched plenty
Speaker 5: of Arizona teams after one game you're like, Nope, not
Speaker 5: happening this year. I've watched plenty of ACU teams after
Speaker 5: one game where you're like, no, not happening. This year.
Speaker 5: I watched as you and I thought, this team's not bad.
Speaker 5: I don't know how good they're going to be. I
Speaker 5: don't know if they can be good, but they're not bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Frankly, I think that's that's great for both Arizona and ASU.
Speaker 5: I think a healthy college football ecosystem in the state
Speaker 5: of Arizona would be mutually beneficial to both Brennan and
Speaker 5: Anthony Dillingham. And I know their rivals on the field,
Speaker 5: and none of the fan bases are bit of rivals.
Speaker 5: But I actually think having ASU be a competent program
Speaker 5: at the same time Arizona is thriving is good for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was hard to tell though, because I mean, Wyoming
Speaker 3: has been okay. It's not like, you know, it's not
Speaker 3: like they were New Mexico or something.
Speaker 5: Well, Wyoming looked terrible. Yeah right, They're not a historically
Speaker 5: bad program, but they in this game. It was sloppy,
Speaker 5: it was penalties, it was a mistake.
Speaker 13: It was.
Speaker 5: It was bad. So I'm curious. You know, they've never
Speaker 5: beaten an SEC team, So if they pulled that off
Speaker 5: this week, it'll be a franchise first and I think
Speaker 5: that's a real test for them. But I I'll be
Speaker 5: curious Wyoming might end up being like a three or
Speaker 5: four win team this year based on so before.
Speaker 2: But well, I think that issue is probably in that
Speaker 2: range two, unless, of course they you know, improve a
Speaker 2: heck of a lot. But people having at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the Big twelve, maybe three or four wins being okay,
Speaker 2: generous maybe to some people.
Speaker 5: Well, I know last year in the Big twelve. You know,
Speaker 5: obviously we were all hyper focused on the PAC twelve,
Speaker 5: but in the Big twelve year ago, but West Virginia
Speaker 5: was expected to be a three win team and they
Speaker 5: ended up winning what eight games last year. I mean,
Speaker 5: they vastly exceeded expectations. I don't think ASU is doing
Speaker 5: that because I think the top of the conference is
Speaker 5: better this year than it was last year. But you
Speaker 5: you know, you could see the Arizona State Sun Devils
Speaker 5: impressed beyond just you know, two or three wins, which
Speaker 5: is kind of the expectation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, okay, what about I have to sit
Speaker 2: here in a room with Jay with the Dodgers shut.
Speaker 2: I guess there's a lot of Dodgers fans up in
Speaker 2: Phoenix this weekend. What about those d Bacs say, you're
Speaker 2: doing very well and now I think they're third in
Speaker 2: the in the DIVILLI.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're They're a half game within the top wild
Speaker 5: card spot, but they're still in good shape. You know,
Speaker 5: I've been on the Diamondbacks all year and they're They're
Speaker 5: a resilient team. They got a lot of depth. They're
Speaker 5: bullpens a little wobbly right now, but I think this
Speaker 5: team's gonna matter in the postseason. You know, I don't
Speaker 5: it's possible to predict them getting back to the World Series,
Speaker 5: but they are a team that's gonna be tough to play.
Speaker 5: They're starting pitching. I'm gonna be really curious to see
Speaker 5: how Zach Gallen pitches tonight. They they need Zack Gallen
Speaker 5: to be an ace. They need Merrill Kelly to get
Speaker 5: back to for him Ryan Nelson and bring him Fodham
Speaker 5: and the two best pitchers. But you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 5: kind of came in kinda kind of intent on reminding
Speaker 5: everybody who who the bully on the block was, and
Speaker 5: they they accomplished that with that, you know, Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 5: show Otani and Mookie bit. It's crazy. Sobody's gonna have
Speaker 5: fifty home runs at.
Speaker 4: Fifty fifty and fifty.
Speaker 5: I still don't think he should win the MVP because
Speaker 5: he's engaged, and I just think Baseball president and history
Speaker 5: means you got to play the field to win an MVP.
Speaker 5: But he might be a rare exception, believe.
Speaker 4: It or not.
Speaker 3: So I one hundred percent agree with you as much
Speaker 3: as I like the guy, and I'm a Dodger fan.
Speaker 3: In the whole bit, I one hundred percent agree with you.
Speaker 3: You can't be in You can't be an MVP. To me,
Speaker 3: you can't even be in the Hall of Fame if
Speaker 3: you're if you play half the game. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: like I don't think Edgar Martinez belongs in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame. The guy was a lifetime designated hitter. You
Speaker 3: never never played the field, you.
Speaker 5: Know, show hey, well, obviously the Hall because he's also
Speaker 5: going to have the pitching right he will pitch, and
Speaker 5: so I don't I just don't think you can make
Speaker 5: that exception and kind of undo one hundred plus years
Speaker 5: of baseball history by just saying we want to market
Speaker 5: this star, so let's make an except. I don't I
Speaker 5: don't believe in that. I think baseball kind of like
Speaker 5: college football, has lost enough of its tradition and sort
Speaker 5: of connection to the past. This is one of those
Speaker 5: few that remains. I think it's just important to keep around.
Speaker 2: So if not him, who, well, you.
Speaker 5: Know, Catel Marte I think had a real chance before
Speaker 5: he got injured, and he's been banged up for a
Speaker 5: few weeks, so now it looks like Francisco Lindor. But
Speaker 5: if they don't make the wild card, then I think
Speaker 5: there could be a real opportunity for Ktel Marte if
Speaker 5: he comes back and he's specs back soon. If he
Speaker 5: comes back and finishes with like a really good three
Speaker 5: weeks in the year, I think to tell Marte could
Speaker 5: be the NLMVP.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree that it's it's so up in the air,
Speaker 3: you know, with the you know, some of the guys
Speaker 3: have gotten hurt and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: It's there's just nobody that's been there all year long.
Speaker 3: You know, what if Shoe Hay goes goes fifty to fifty,
Speaker 3: They're going to give it to him, you know.
Speaker 4: That, right? Well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, plus, I mean and this is where my more
Speaker 5: cynical part of my brain comes, and it's like, of
Speaker 5: course they want him to win the MVP maje And
Speaker 5: I know the voters control it. It's not Major League
Speaker 5: Baseball crowning somebody. But what better way for Baseball to
Speaker 5: move on from the fact that guy was nearly involved
Speaker 5: in the most you know, significant gambling scandle and American
Speaker 5: culture than him winning the MVP and becoming the marketing
Speaker 5: juggernaut that he was before that. And I know he was,
Speaker 5: you know, clear of any wrong doing, he wasn't involved,
Speaker 5: But I still think Baseball just wants a total restart
Speaker 5: and give him the m v P and they'll find
Speaker 5: a way to make it happen.
Speaker 2: Puzzle. Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4: I agree. I agree.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jody, Oh, we appreciate your time. Be safe up
Speaker 2: in Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Hey go do go do some go do some like
Speaker 3: caheel cartwheels and things.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not the most limber of a gentleman,
Speaker 5: so I will be uh standing. I did. I did
Speaker 5: take on the kids and rousing him at kickball the
Speaker 5: other day and hit hit some kids in.
Speaker 2: The head, and that you're the peyton of that commercial. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you man, thank you Joe.
Speaker 5: All right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: Jodyaylor from nine.
Speaker 4: He was at his gymnastics class, which is what reference
Speaker 4: was about.
Speaker 2: Right right. You can hear him in the back, Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: goods tough. Let's take a break, come back to the
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacon Salles, they have their Eye on
Speaker 1: the Ball on Tucson Sports Stage chat Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Ball here. I'll
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Jay Gonzalas.
Speaker 2: Got our guy here, Henry today you are at the game.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask both of you guys. So the
Speaker 2: desre said she's gonna be sending a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of questionnaires after games that she wants to know
Speaker 2: what's going on. She's new, obviously the feel of it.
Speaker 2: So what did you. And we had Jeff Deane on
Speaker 2: yesterday and we kind of went soft with him and
Speaker 2: questioned and stuff. But I guess, I guess tell me
Speaker 2: about the audio. I guess it wasn't the audio system.
Speaker 2: It wasn't very good.
Speaker 4: Well, the arty system has never been very good.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's standard.
Speaker 4: Right Centa Press. It's never been very good.
Speaker 3: And that goes back to when they picked the audio
Speaker 3: system for for when they put up the new scoreboard.
Speaker 4: They just didn't get a good one. Okay, Uh, I've heard.
Speaker 3: My understanding is that that the person who was responsible
Speaker 3: for that wasn't even an audio guy, an audio person,
Speaker 3: an expert in it. So so it just so the
Speaker 3: only the only way you're they're ever going to fix
Speaker 3: that is to get a new one, new audio system.
Speaker 3: Audio system not so much aboard nothing nothing board just right,
Speaker 3: they're not attached.
Speaker 4: They're two separate things. So that the what what what look?
Speaker 3: You go you go to most stadiums and the audio
Speaker 3: system surrounds the stadium. At Arizona Stadium, it's straight out
Speaker 3: of the scoreboard and that blasts into the Stateum so
Speaker 3: you said where I said, right on the north end,
Speaker 3: it's far and it's not that loud. We moved we
Speaker 3: we used to sit on the south end, okay, and
Speaker 3: it was awful.
Speaker 2: It was too damn too loud okay, okay? Or was
Speaker 2: it muffled?
Speaker 3: It's just it was no because it was so loud
Speaker 3: because they have to play it loud enough for you
Speaker 3: to hear.
Speaker 4: It on the other end.
Speaker 2: Now it's now it's not super loud.
Speaker 4: It's just muffled. I don't hear very well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm getting on the Twitter here with
Speaker 2: people asking about what can be improved.
Speaker 3: It's a bad sounds apparently, and so that's there's nothing
Speaker 3: they can do about that short of building and.
Speaker 2: The Well then that's this year. They won't happen. If
Speaker 2: that's the case, what else, because I guess that you
Speaker 2: couldn't hear the refs, that's what they were saying with
Speaker 2: their explanations.
Speaker 3: And it was a long ass game. Oh well, the
Speaker 3: game was horribly long, and that's probably got some people
Speaker 3: in a bad mood over over over game atmosphere. You know,
Speaker 3: the the reviews were long. There was so much scoring,
Speaker 3: so every time they scored, they went to a commercial.
Speaker 3: So that's not that was just the nature of that game.
Speaker 3: That's not you a base fault. That's not anybody's fault
Speaker 3: other than you know, some of those three and four minute.
Speaker 4: You know booth reviews.
Speaker 2: The only problem with the Uba Wizard fault on defense
Speaker 2: to leve them. There's some scoring.
Speaker 4: I'm there. One hundred points scored in this game. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: that's it. I mean, you go to a baseball game
Speaker 4: and if it's fifteen to fourteen, that's a long game, right,
Speaker 4: the same thing. You put one hundred points on the board.
Speaker 4: That takes a while.
Speaker 2: So some people, you're sixty five years old. We talked
Speaker 2: about this. The DJ. The DJ? Is it the music?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 2: The loudness?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it a propropriate for ag?
Speaker 3: Well, Steve again, I've come I've come to grips with
Speaker 3: the fact that I'm not the audience. I'm not the audist,
Speaker 3: I'm not the demographic. If if having the DJ doing
Speaker 3: what he did Saturday night means the students stay, which
Speaker 3: they did, I was going to tell you this, which
Speaker 3: they did, then I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2: He told us to any One of the things impressed
Speaker 2: me was they stayed, stayed, they stayed, which I can't
Speaker 2: remember when late in.
Speaker 3: The fourth quarter they started to leave. But the game's
Speaker 3: out of hand, it's over, it's late. Bar minutes are
Speaker 3: are sure falling off the table.
Speaker 2: Sure, but but hey, I plodded them because that's the
Speaker 2: longest I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: So if having the DJ and listening to them to
Speaker 3: the music means that more people stay in the stadium, But.
Speaker 2: They've been playing that same music for the past, well
Speaker 2: they didn't, they didn't. Yeah, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: it's it's no different, but.
Speaker 3: It's a different DJ. I can't tell the difference a
Speaker 3: different DJ. I can't tell the difference.
Speaker 2: Well, some guys just said they need a new DJ.
Speaker 4: What did you need the new DJ?
Speaker 2: The kids? What do the kids feel about everything? The
Speaker 2: whole situation. I was asking Jay, the music, the atmosphere,
Speaker 2: the speakers.
Speaker 6: I think the Zona Zoo atmosphere is by far the
Speaker 6: best I've.
Speaker 2: Seen in the It was it was good. It was good.
Speaker 2: I have to admit that me and.
Speaker 6: All my friends were just sick of how long the
Speaker 6: commercials were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah that was hard. What do you say
Speaker 2: about the audio?
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, I couldn't hear the refs.
Speaker 2: That's what the big question was here.
Speaker 4: You you know, I guess I wouldn't pay.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have known that because I've told you I
Speaker 3: I have Brian Jefferies in one here, so I'm listening
Speaker 3: to those guys.
Speaker 4: And so I guess I didn't hear that. You couldn't
Speaker 4: hear the refs. But overall, you know, they said there
Speaker 4: were gonna be all these changes to the you know,
Speaker 4: with the DJ and the music and promos and stuff
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: It all looked the same to me. It didn't look
Speaker 3: like anything changed. And now maybe it did and I
Speaker 3: just didn't notice it. But you know, Stef, I you know,
Speaker 3: I go to a game. I go with my wife
Speaker 3: and some friends, and you know, during timeouts we talked
Speaker 3: to each other. We you know, whatever we do, whatever
Speaker 3: we do.
Speaker 4: So I don't know what you can do to create
Speaker 4: a better atmosphere, if there's certain music you can play
Speaker 4: or what. I don't know it all.
Speaker 3: I had heard that it was all gonna look and
Speaker 3: feel different. It didn't look and feel any.
Speaker 2: Different, right right? Well, she had said that, and they
Speaker 2: have a new production guy. He was that did you
Speaker 2: go in line for food?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And and how was that you didn't try the other
Speaker 2: stuff that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, my daughter went and bought the new nachos
Speaker 3: that they do that at Serveces.
Speaker 4: Holy crap, good good.
Speaker 2: And you didn't have the other ones that you talked
Speaker 2: about with Disrae. The oh the other stuff, now okay,
Speaker 2: because those are good. I didn't have the barbecue or
Speaker 2: any of that. Don't know the sweet stuff, wasn't that
Speaker 2: the Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't. We didn't have that. My my
Speaker 4: daughter did get the the luxe nachos with you know,
Speaker 4: with meat and all the very good.
Speaker 2: So in addition to your chicken and.
Speaker 3: I had, I had the regular nachos that I know
Speaker 3: that I always get. They still don't give you enough
Speaker 3: enough cheese and you have to beg for right.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you, I'm not gonna cover the
Speaker 2: game this weekend. I'm gonna go as a fan with
Speaker 2: your boy Bill. Uh, so we'll see, you know, see
Speaker 2: what happens. Yeah, but let me ask you, did how
Speaker 2: did the tail get with Miguel show up? That Mike?
Speaker 4: He did not.
Speaker 3: He called me and said he couldn't come somewhere else
Speaker 3: he had to be and had had a nice ticket.
Speaker 3: It rained, It rained for about half an hour, and
Speaker 3: I mean it was kind of sideways rains. We had
Speaker 3: to kind of protect our food and the TV in
Speaker 3: a little bit. Once it stopped, it was old off
Speaker 3: and it was not actually it was.
Speaker 2: It was a nice night.
Speaker 3: It was actually a pretty nice night. It wasn't super hot,
Speaker 3: and this game is always dreaded for for the heat
Speaker 3: and you know, this one coming up on Saturday's supposed
Speaker 3: to be really hot.
Speaker 4: But no, it made for a really nice night. We
Speaker 4: had a great We had a great time. You know,
Speaker 4: it was it was a win. We were a little
Speaker 4: frustrated that, you know, at the end of the half
Speaker 4: it was a close game, but you know, walked out
Speaker 4: of there with it with a win. And uh, we
Speaker 4: you know, we had fun. We did.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not gonna you know, look, we're gonna
Speaker 3: have fun no matter what. Anyway, So whether the DJ's
Speaker 3: good or bad, whatever, you know, we we still we
Speaker 3: all have fun. But yeah, when I when I think
Speaker 3: about all the stuff that was supposed to be different,
Speaker 3: there was not any anything different.
Speaker 2: Well, the biggest thing is the DJ here and the
Speaker 2: sound system is the kind of the top complaint.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they're gonna do about that sounds Yeah, well, Steve,
Speaker 3: it wasn't It wasn't good from the day they put
Speaker 3: it up.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, this year is not good.
Speaker 2: The previous years are not the same.
Speaker 3: It wasn't good from the from the moment they put
Speaker 3: it up. And like I said, we moved because of it.
Speaker 3: We well partly because of it. We also were on
Speaker 3: across the aisle from the visiting teams that we were
Speaker 3: tired of fighting with those guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so so we moved to the north side.
Speaker 3: You know, I like where we are again for me personally,
Speaker 3: because I've got Brian, Jefferies and Lamont in my ear.
Speaker 3: That's where I'm getting my information. I'm not getting my
Speaker 3: information off the off the.
Speaker 2: The sound I can't remember because I don't do this.
Speaker 2: And you listened to it on the radio or on
Speaker 2: your the radio.
Speaker 4: I have a radio.
Speaker 2: It's simultaneous, simultaneous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't listen to it on the phone because
Speaker 3: there's like a six second delay, yeah, six seven second,
Speaker 3: eight second, maybe even more than that thirty second delay,
Speaker 3: so you can't.
Speaker 4: I have a radio. I have an actual radio that
Speaker 4: I hook on my belt.
Speaker 2: So they said, I want to say forty four. I
Speaker 2: think it was what it was, but it was good.
Speaker 2: It looked good. Hey again the students stayed and they
Speaker 2: looked good. On the sidelines, there was nice. I don't
Speaker 2: think they're gonna have that this weekend. I thought it
Speaker 2: was in the forty six, forty seven. I think it
Speaker 2: could it could have been. I want to say forty
Speaker 2: four for the announcement. Could be, could be right, could
Speaker 2: be wrong too. Oh.
Speaker 3: One thing I am still pissed at and pissed out
Speaker 3: again is the band just walks out on the field
Speaker 3: and starts to play.
Speaker 4: There's no banded entrance at all.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, I hate to begin the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the start of at the start of the game.
Speaker 3: I don't know every other damn school has their band
Speaker 3: makes an entrance, right, some sort of you know, choreograph,
Speaker 3: march on the field, get everybody fired.
Speaker 4: It just walk on the field and line up and
Speaker 4: then they go to me that does nothing.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, part of that experience, Jay, is as
Speaker 2: you've been to places to watch. I don't think the
Speaker 2: people who make decisions have been to places.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 2: Well that's you know what you know what you do question?
Speaker 4: Go to YouTube that's the question.
Speaker 2: Go to YouTube because everyone's a copycat. Right, We'll say,
Speaker 2: what does Ohio State do? What does what does other
Speaker 2: teams do? What do big schools do?
Speaker 4: And they do that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have an entrance. Go to YouTube.
Speaker 3: Look at the Wisconsin entrance, Look at the State entrance,
Speaker 3: Look at the USC entrance, Look at the Cal entrance.
Speaker 3: We are we are cal when it comes to football traditions, right,
Speaker 3: Arizona is cal and Cal has you know, cal blast
Speaker 3: the cannon and then the you know, they they go
Speaker 3: marching out onto the field and everybody stands up and
Speaker 3: goes crazy. It's like the band kind of strolls out
Speaker 3: onto the field and get in their lines, and then
Speaker 3: they start to play. And they play this video that
Speaker 3: tries to hype up the crowd.
Speaker 4: You know, how up the crowd.
Speaker 3: Make an entrance, They have a perfect They come in
Speaker 3: from the corner of the stadium and the big giant
Speaker 3: tunnel right there. They can line up an entrance right
Speaker 3: there and and and you know, march out onto the
Speaker 3: field and away that gets that gets build some atmosphere,
Speaker 3: and they don't do it.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, you think you're an aberration for
Speaker 2: this you, because do you think other people care about that?
Speaker 3: Well, they would care if they did something they don't know,
Speaker 3: they don't know. The average fan probably did because this
Speaker 3: is the way it's always been in Tucson, Arizona. Youve
Speaker 3: but if if there was a band entrance that fire
Speaker 3: the looking Notre Dame. I mean there's an entrance where
Speaker 3: the band gets the crowd jacked up before the game,
Speaker 3: and they still don't do it.
Speaker 2: How early into the how early do you get there
Speaker 2: before the game?
Speaker 4: Half hour?
Speaker 2: So there's thirty minutes on the clock, so and then
Speaker 2: two sons of later rivals. You know, I take my
Speaker 2: pictures with about ten minutes after doing the national anthem,
Speaker 2: and it's still not it's about sixty percent full. You
Speaker 2: know what, if it was something to see right, they
Speaker 2: would go in, they would they would get there A
Speaker 2: good point, I kill, Are you that that's a possibility? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know you again, and I get it. We're not
Speaker 3: Ohio state, We're not Wisconsin. We're not us well sort
Speaker 3: of us in terms of crowd, right. But you if
Speaker 3: you go look at the you go to YouTube and
Speaker 3: you see the banded entrance and they show the stadium
Speaker 3: it's full yeah, and that's fifteen minutes before ten fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes before.
Speaker 4: The game starts. That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 3: And fans will get there early to see it if
Speaker 3: it's a spectacle. But it's not, and so fans stroll in,
Speaker 3: you know, with ten minutes left in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Well there you go. Outside of talking about nachos,
Speaker 2: there's your thing. If we ever have desiree on again?
Speaker 2: Or do your little survey? Did you get you get
Speaker 2: a survey?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you do? You do it?
Speaker 4: I always bring it up. I haven't done this, sar,
Speaker 4: but I will.
Speaker 13: I do it.
Speaker 3: I did a preseason survey, okay, and that was mentioned, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was. I bring it up every time. Attendance was
Speaker 3: forty four to seven.
Speaker 2: Forty four. I just remember. So I don't think it's
Speaker 2: going to be that this weekend probably.
Speaker 4: Well you don't know, you don't you know why is
Speaker 4: it Labor Day weekend? Yeah, it's a struggle on Labor
Speaker 4: Day week.
Speaker 2: But you said it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's I bet it's about this.
Speaker 2: What's what's the next one's home game?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Texas Tech?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: You see their game fifty two fifty one. I was
Speaker 2: told over the weekend, is that right? And they already
Speaker 2: struggle against Abilene against Christmas our guy at Texas we
Speaker 2: had a guy on from the beat. Yeah, and it
Speaker 2: was very optimistic. Yeah. Uh so you know who knows,
Speaker 2: but uh, I don't know. You know, Tucson, you gotta
Speaker 2: it's to show me. It's Missouri, you gotta show me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly the after after any of the next home
Speaker 3: game is Texas Tech October the fifth.
Speaker 4: Fifth, Yeah, and we don't have a time for that.
Speaker 4: We won't have a time for that till probably two
Speaker 4: weeks before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they just got to show up for the
Speaker 2: first two games on the road. You know.
Speaker 4: You know, I think it'll be good for them to
Speaker 4: you know, play this game with any of you and
Speaker 4: go on the road and like you know, like coaches say,
Speaker 4: they go on the road, circle the wagons us against
Speaker 4: them and get fired up.
Speaker 3: You know, they had the whole wear white thing and
Speaker 3: a lot of people were white. But in the zone
Speaker 3: they must have given did they give out T shirts
Speaker 3: to the zone? Now, you guys didn't get T shirts.
Speaker 6: Even for that they did it last year, thought it
Speaker 6: wasn't but yeah, they didn't give.
Speaker 2: It costs money. Jay, you gotta get out of this deficit,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: But if you're gonna tell me where this, well, then
Speaker 4: give them this to wear at least the at least
Speaker 4: the students.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: I was originally wearing a red shirt, and then my
Speaker 6: friends reminded me.
Speaker 2: And then you got to go back home and get.
Speaker 10: God.
Speaker 3: You know again, Look I had it was fun. It
Speaker 3: was a great It was I would say a great game.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a fun day, fun game. You know, the
Speaker 3: cat's got to win. You You love seeing what Tmac did.
Speaker 3: That just incredible, you know, I mean, he's building a
Speaker 3: legacy we could walk out of here. Is the best
Speaker 3: player you know ever at Arizona. You know, I don't
Speaker 3: know how what any you was gonna do so that
Speaker 3: that doesn't happen to them too. On Saturday, it's gonna
Speaker 3: he's gonna be fun to watch the defense. You hope
Speaker 3: that they you know, I mean, if they if NAU
Speaker 3: scores two touchdowns on them, I think Arizona's got a problem.
Speaker 2: They just scored seventy two touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Well did you see who they played?
Speaker 2: I know, it was like school for the school for.
Speaker 4: The some of from some obscure conference in California.
Speaker 3: We were looking at, uh, you know, if any of
Speaker 3: you moves the ball against some you know, to some
Speaker 3: level of success, I think they've got a problem.
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll see how that figures.
Speaker 2: For good quick first hour, let's go take a break.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Henry with breaking news, and then Greg