Speaker 1: Steve Raba and Jacob Salmas. They had their Eye on
Speaker 1: the ball on Tucson Sports Stage shat Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back to ying the ball here on Fox
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Speaker 2: Bryan with breaking news.
Speaker 1: Lisa his eye on the ball breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Let's start with this.
Speaker 4: Arizona Football has announced their captains for the opener. Honorary
Speaker 4: captain is going to be Chris McAllister and then the
Speaker 4: five five captains, it's going to be Noah Flvida.
Speaker 2: Oh, so that's were gonna wait, he didn't They must
Speaker 2: have announced right after they They didn't do it at
Speaker 2: the press conference.
Speaker 5: Fact, Brandan was going to say who they were, and
Speaker 5: they said, we're doing a big announcement, so don't do it.
Speaker 5: So he So they didn't announce him at the press.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just so.
Speaker 4: The So Noah Fida, offensive lineman Josh Baker and Jonah
Speaker 4: savanea linebacker Jacob Manu and defensive backs Gunner Maldonado and
Speaker 4: Trade and Stukes.
Speaker 3: Those are the captains.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you Well, we'll talk about this that you
Speaker 2: probably don't have enough to fill. Anybody wants to call
Speaker 2: to This is our last chance to talk to somebody.
Speaker 3: Right, we have guests. The last two segments.
Speaker 4: Right, Arizona volleyball gets underway tomorrow. They played their first match.
Speaker 4: Because there's some new rule changes too in the in
Speaker 4: the n C double a rule changes.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 4: So there's several changes, but the two that are most
Speaker 4: important for fans to know. Let's see something about what
Speaker 4: jewelry is allowed on the court.
Speaker 3: Okay, I know that was a.
Speaker 6: Thing, but we have a rule without here in the studio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one.
Speaker 4: So the first major change has to do with double contact.
Speaker 4: There will no longer be this one. No, only recalled
Speaker 4: at the ball does not cross the nets. If it
Speaker 4: is called, the play is not reviewable.
Speaker 3: Okay that makes no sense to me.
Speaker 6: But oh yeah, I don't either. I don't get to
Speaker 6: any other You.
Speaker 3: Don't get into the whole review. If you can review something,
Speaker 3: why don't you review it right?
Speaker 5: Why do you say, well, you can't review that so
Speaker 5: we might get it wrong, and even if we do,
Speaker 5: too bad.
Speaker 6: That's just certain things, yes, certain things.
Speaker 3: No dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's the other major change concerns the liberal libaro
Speaker 4: libero position. Each team can now designate to liberos instead
Speaker 4: of just one. Only one can be on the court
Speaker 4: at a time, but it gives some flexibility in the
Speaker 4: use of the liberal. Arizona experimented with one of those
Speaker 4: possibilities and its exhibition at Northern Colorado.
Speaker 6: You know what that is, yeah, yeah, it's it's the center.
Speaker 3: Well, it's part. It's a person that plays in the
Speaker 3: back line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've had it for a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I know, I know it is. I just
Speaker 3: didn't know if you Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're a volleyball guy or not. No, no, not really,
Speaker 3: but I know what that is, all right, that's like
Speaker 3: the old purpose, Yes exactly.
Speaker 4: I couldn't give you any positions of volleyball if that
Speaker 4: same save my life. So sort to the NFL. Some
Speaker 4: breaking news Niners and Brandon they have reached a four
Speaker 4: year million dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh so he's stayed after all that time, after all that, right,
Speaker 3: The good thing is he's thinking, I didn't have to
Speaker 3: go through the preseason.
Speaker 5: And again, you know, look, you guys want to get
Speaker 5: paid and all that kind of stuff. But you know,
Speaker 5: with some of the teams that they was talking about
Speaker 5: having to go to versus a team that was in
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl last year, It's like, why are you playing?
Speaker 5: I know you're playing for the money, but you also
Speaker 5: aren't you also playing for championships? And uh so, oh good.
Speaker 5: I you know, I know a couple of people who'll
Speaker 5: be happy with that, because he's really good. I mean,
Speaker 5: even though it's for me, it's he's still really good.
Speaker 4: I was I was hoping you'd go to the Patriots
Speaker 4: just because I wanted to see a good wide receiver
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 3: But they suck.
Speaker 5: They're really there. They look really bad. Jacoby Brissett's their
Speaker 5: starting quarterback. Oh sorry, go ahead, So yeah, the starting
Speaker 5: quarterback over there. Number three draft take Breake May. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just like, I mean, I guess. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you take a guy that high, don't you start him
Speaker 3: no matter what.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I don't know, but it comes
Speaker 2: to the thing we talk about, at least I'm talking
Speaker 2: with you about.
Speaker 6: It is the book Sway. You invested all this money.
Speaker 2: And this kid, you better be good use them and
Speaker 2: you and you have to you have to find a
Speaker 2: way because you spend all this money to justify It's
Speaker 2: like you bought the car, drive the damn car, the car,
Speaker 2: but you're afraid of driving the car in the why
Speaker 2: you don't want driving, you know, because you don't know
Speaker 2: the driver could drive that car.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then it's like what's happening in Atlanta with the
Speaker 2: quarterback situation there with Pennix and uh, a cousin is
Speaker 2: a cousin. Yeah, so this cousin is going to be
Speaker 2: the starter, right, yes, and so that's another situation, but
Speaker 2: said no, no, no, But that's my point is you
Speaker 2: you you get cousins and all of a sudden you
Speaker 2: picked this kid thinking well what and then cousins think
Speaker 2: of the same thing. On'd you move me here? When
Speaker 2: you're gonna get this kid? And I'm not going to
Speaker 2: be the apprentice. I'm not gonna be the guy.
Speaker 3: But you know.
Speaker 2: Cousins, yeah, yeah, so you can always good to have insurance.
Speaker 2: But this is the NFL and they have egos, right.
Speaker 2: It's like the guy from Denver who said I'm capable
Speaker 2: of being or I should be the number one guy.
Speaker 6: I could prove it. But you have about Nix in
Speaker 6: front of me and they to your point, that's what
Speaker 6: they're doing.
Speaker 3: That's what they're doing. I mean they except we got
Speaker 3: this guy, we're gonna play this.
Speaker 4: Speaking of some other extension, news ordered the NBA Warriors
Speaker 4: and Steph Curry. They agreed to a one year, sixty
Speaker 4: two point six million extension. He still had two years
Speaker 4: left on his extension, so.
Speaker 3: Now he's got three years. So he's got three years
Speaker 3: something about sixty a year, sixty two men for one year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he he's breathing hard to give me sixty two
Speaker 6: thousand for one years here?
Speaker 3: Oh man, Wow, that's something.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: It looks like the only reason he did is because
Speaker 4: there's an NBA over thirty eight role. He'll be thirty
Speaker 4: eight at the end of his current contract, so he
Speaker 4: was able eligible.
Speaker 6: Theres me that balls me the ball.
Speaker 3: He's going. I mean, he's kind of going downhill too,
Speaker 3: Like he's.
Speaker 6: Not who Curry, who are you going downhill? Not like that,
Speaker 6: He's just not.
Speaker 3: What he's pretty damn capable to tell the people in
Speaker 3: the Olympics. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: Wait, wait, I want you to explain your job might
Speaker 6: depend on this. No, actually, we doesn't you know what?
Speaker 3: You know what you know what's causing all this? That
Speaker 3: damn Braves had.
Speaker 6: Streaking his hand his head. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 6: He's getting older. I think you can assume that.
Speaker 3: But but still damn good.
Speaker 6: I mean I would Who would you take Steph for
Speaker 6: Lebron today? Yeah? Today? I think I mean too you?
Speaker 6: So what are you saying about Lebron? Just at a
Speaker 6: faster pace?
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's further down the hill.
Speaker 2: Both both are pretty damn good going down the hill. Well, hell,
Speaker 2: I'm already in the hill, seeing how do I get
Speaker 2: back on the hill. That's all I have for Okay,
Speaker 2: what was I going to say to you? I was
Speaker 2: gonna say something, Oh, man, see I'm going down here.
Speaker 2: I had forgotten about. Oh oh I saw something.
Speaker 6: Did you see this?
Speaker 2: College athletes in Montana are reportedly being offered cash to
Speaker 2: make endorsement videos for Senator ton John Testa. Nil given
Speaker 2: nil money to go endorse.
Speaker 6: Cab hand today. What the hell?
Speaker 3: I guess there's no rules against that, right, What the hell?
Speaker 6: I got a call?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know about that. Let's take
Speaker 3: this call.
Speaker 8: I are on the art and nine on the ball,
Speaker 8: Hi Jay, I'm gonna do you a favorite what I
Speaker 8: want to make sure you can go to sleep and
Speaker 8: be excited for the next two or three nights. Why
Speaker 8: if I'm coaching that team, I'm looking forward on the
Speaker 8: first kickoff, when you take the ball to the twenty
Speaker 8: eight yard line, I'm going to move myself as close
Speaker 8: as I can to the line of scrimmage, and I'm
Speaker 8: going to try to establish the most important dynamic of
Speaker 8: the game. In three plays, I'm gonna run the ball
Speaker 8: to the left, I'm gonna run the ball to the right,
Speaker 8: and I'm gonna run the ball up the middle. So
Speaker 8: I know that my Matt Trucks are controlling the line
Speaker 8: of scrimmage. You established that it's hard to.
Speaker 5: Recover it is, and I think I think that's really
Speaker 5: the one thing that going into the game that we're
Speaker 5: I said I shouldn't say we, that I know I'm
Speaker 5: looking for is to see can they dominate, you know,
Speaker 5: on the on the lines, because that's that's always been
Speaker 5: the question market Arizona. And I know, I don't know
Speaker 5: how much we're gonna know about how they do against
Speaker 5: New Mexico, but what we will know is if they
Speaker 5: can't run against New Mexico.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna be able to run against anybody else.
Speaker 8: They're in trouble. I don't think that's gonna be the case.
Speaker 8: I want to see them go boom boom bang.
Speaker 3: Yep, I agree with you.
Speaker 8: And we're at the we've already gained fifteen yards. Let's
Speaker 8: do it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. That's what I want to see. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, cool, thanks Jim No, I agree.
Speaker 5: You know, that's what we want to see. Uh, that
Speaker 5: they just pushed these guys around. Because if you remember
Speaker 5: North Dakota State that they put all the big night long,
Speaker 5: Arizona was lucky to win that game, and there were
Speaker 5: a couple of times, even I think in the I
Speaker 5: think the Washington game last year, Arizona got pushed around
Speaker 5: on the lines but somehow managed to stay in the game.
Speaker 5: But you know, in USC, I remember being surprised at
Speaker 5: how well Arizona pushed USC around that night. So, uh,
Speaker 5: that's what I'm looking for. That's what I'm going to
Speaker 5: be paying most attention.
Speaker 3: To on Saturday night.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, so I got that out. Was there anything else? Basketball?
Speaker 6: Anything else? There had to be something. Uh, If I
Speaker 6: said we had time.
Speaker 2: If anybody want to else, want to call we out
Speaker 2: four minutes before we get to uh to Jake and
Speaker 2: nothing that you had. I had something and I can't
Speaker 2: remember what it was.
Speaker 3: I've been on the run all day long. Today's deep.
Speaker 3: I'm just a busy guy.
Speaker 6: Yes, you are going to press conferences? How many? How
Speaker 6: was that attended? Same usual, the same guy. It's like
Speaker 6: five six guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah it was, you know, I can give you the
Speaker 5: roll call it was. It was justin and and uh
Speaker 5: and sure, Brian Jefferies was there. Sheer was there, and
Speaker 5: his wife, Brett Brian Peterson was there, Troy Troy was there,
Speaker 5: and the town four reporter was there. Okay, doesn't remember
Speaker 5: her name again?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so just to usual suspects suspects, Yeah, okay, I
Speaker 2: think that was all.
Speaker 6: And in the back you brought the age up I did.
Speaker 3: I raised. I raised the average age of that room
Speaker 3: by a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well I didn't go there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: In fifteen minutes, yep, fifteen minutes of breuveting stuff.
Speaker 3: We played all the good stuff. I'm kind of think
Speaker 3: there are a couple of clips that we didn't that
Speaker 3: we didn't play, but it wasn't much anything that was shortened.
Speaker 6: We get a little minute maybe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we do have one more clip. So Brandon was
Speaker 5: asked about his set. What he does on Saturdays on
Speaker 5: game days?
Speaker 3: Just do what do you do? Here's here's what he
Speaker 3: said for you. What do Saturdays look like for you?
Speaker 9: Do you have any like rituals or something that you
Speaker 9: follow like you personally or what are your Saturday mornings
Speaker 9: like when you're getting ready for the game Saturday night.
Speaker 6: That's a good question.
Speaker 7: I always like to try and get a run early
Speaker 7: in the morning. I normally try and I try and
Speaker 7: keep my routine the same. You know, the last whatever,
Speaker 7: so many years at San Jose, even in Oregon State
Speaker 7: we had we had so many night games. Like the
Speaker 7: night games are hard just because you kind of have
Speaker 7: to wait all day to play. So really you're just
Speaker 7: trying to relax watch football, you know, kind of have
Speaker 7: some more conversations with the staff about the game plan
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you mean to tell me their coaches are
Speaker 6: normal people like us.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't think they were right.
Speaker 5: I thought coaches, even for a night game, would be
Speaker 5: in their office at you know, eight o'clock in the
Speaker 5: morning getting ready and stuff like that, going over the
Speaker 5: last minute stuff. But he said, you know, as he's
Speaker 5: walking down, he said, yea, I'm gonna watch some football.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 6: So you know who's the more normal dude that I've
Speaker 6: ever met? Coaching? Tellmy Lloyd? Yeah, just to dude, you
Speaker 6: don't watch game? What's your game? You know my wife
Speaker 6: will be cooking and this asking that question, what are
Speaker 6: you going to? Well, I'm just my mom.
Speaker 2: You know, I might take a glimpse of it. My
Speaker 2: wife will be cooking and we'll be talking and maybe
Speaker 2: I'll take it. We'll watch the game, and it's just
Speaker 2: a normal dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, real quick, yeah, real quick. One last call. Hi,
Speaker 3: you're on the R and I on the ball.
Speaker 10: Hey, what's up?
Speaker 8: Guy's vic?
Speaker 6: Vic? You got a minute? One minute?
Speaker 11: Okay, real quick, real quick. I want to argue with Jay.
Speaker 11: I don't want to see him run the ball for
Speaker 11: five hundred yards.
Speaker 3: I want to see t Mac could get a fifty
Speaker 3: yard and Patterson over the middle for thirty.
Speaker 11: Forget that running the ball stuff. I mean it's cool and.
Speaker 6: All that, but.
Speaker 11: I did you go see show?
Speaker 8: Hey you hit single pound?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 5: Well I agree, but I still want to see them
Speaker 5: run the run the hell out of the ball. I
Speaker 5: want to see them be able.
Speaker 3: To run the ball.
Speaker 11: Input it that way, go yard or go home? Jay?
Speaker 3: All right, man, thank you, Ben.
Speaker 6: Are you going to be there?
Speaker 10: Vic?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, Deck Yeah, thirty pals.
Speaker 6: On Okay, all right, we'll see you. We'll see you, Okay, okay,
Speaker 6: cool just in Ton, good call, real quick call. We'll
Speaker 6: come back on the other side and get a.
Speaker 3: Hold of Jake.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jake and Salez they have their eye
Speaker 1: on the ball. On Tucson's Sports Day chet Fox Sports
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball Here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Riverta. He's Jagan Zalez. Got
Speaker 2: a guy Ryn. Now we have Jake Fisher, our usual
Speaker 2: guest on the weekends. Before the weekend, Jake, how are you?
Speaker 11: I'm great. It feels weird to be doing this on
Speaker 11: a Thursday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we you know it turns me off, Jake.
Speaker 5: I you know, I all yesterday I thought Wednesday with
Speaker 5: I thought Tuesday was Wednesday. Wednesday was Thursday, and it's Thursday,
Speaker 5: and now I wish the game was tomorrow, but it's not.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, get me all excited. I thought I
Speaker 11: was gonna be able to go down to Tu Sun
Speaker 11: tomorrow to walk the game. But now I gotta wait
Speaker 11: some mornay.
Speaker 6: So you're gonna make your presence here.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm going to be taking my brother down there.
Speaker 6: Okay, because you you it's rare for you to come
Speaker 6: down for a game, isn't it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but we had to get season tickets this year.
Speaker 11: I mean, just you know, it's one of those things
Speaker 11: to where when you're consistently not that great, you know,
Speaker 11: it's kind of hard to invest in the program. As
Speaker 11: bad as that sounds, but it's just one of those
Speaker 11: things to where we're on the you know, on the rise,
Speaker 11: and we want to kind of do our parts to help.
Speaker 11: So we want to he got season tickets and uh,
Speaker 11: we'll be there.
Speaker 6: Well, good for you.
Speaker 5: That's cool because I mean just yesterday Desiree re Friends,
Speaker 5: I was talking about how many more season tickets sold
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 3: You're one of those Jake Way to go.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we got two of them.
Speaker 6: All right, No, cool? Well cool. So let's stick with
Speaker 6: the theme of the day.
Speaker 2: So when you played, you played, and you get ready
Speaker 2: for the game, like to like Saturdays first game of
Speaker 2: the year, did you get nervous?
Speaker 6: And if you did, how long did that last?
Speaker 11: You get a little jittery because you're excited, and you
Speaker 11: know as soon as you hit somebody else with a
Speaker 11: different color jersey on, it all goes away. Now it's
Speaker 11: just you know, make your reads, fly to the ball,
Speaker 11: to your best to make the tackle or make the block.
Speaker 11: And after the very first you know snap, I mean,
Speaker 11: it's good to go, you know, like my freshman year
Speaker 11: was obviously the worst. Never played a college football game
Speaker 11: before in my life. You go out and I was
Speaker 11: on kickoff, so I was gonna end up hitting somebody regardless.
Speaker 11: So it's like runnings back as you can go, hit somebody,
Speaker 11: try to make a good play. After that, all the
Speaker 11: jitters go away. And then from sophomore year on, just
Speaker 11: because we were starting on defense, it was, hey, you know,
Speaker 11: go out, make your first read, you know, kind of
Speaker 11: check your keys, go and try to hit somebody, and
Speaker 11: it doesn't matter even if you don't hit anybody on
Speaker 11: that first play that you're out there, all the jitters
Speaker 11: kind of go away.
Speaker 6: Okay, are you looking at stuff?
Speaker 2: Because we talked about this a time or two, and
Speaker 2: you know how people look at games just to flow,
Speaker 2: he's kind of been under the radar.
Speaker 6: We haven't really mentioned, haven't heard a lot about it,
Speaker 6: right right? What do you think? I'm sure you've seen
Speaker 6: him play like you specifically, how you focus on him?
Speaker 6: What do you see or what did you see?
Speaker 11: You said?
Speaker 7: Who? Who?
Speaker 6: Flow?
Speaker 3: Justin flow?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 11: Justin flow? I mean incredible athlete, big strong kid, uh,
Speaker 11: fast as hell. I mean he could end up being
Speaker 11: the best special teams player on the team. I mean,
Speaker 11: use him. I mean, can you imagine putting that dude,
Speaker 11: that gunner, Like, there's nobody that's quick enough that can
Speaker 11: stay in front of him, that's big enough to where
Speaker 11: you know, if you just get in front of him,
Speaker 11: he'll just knock you over. I mean, I would put
Speaker 11: him on every single special team's package. I'd put him
Speaker 11: in some you know, third and long packages where you
Speaker 11: just let him try to get after the quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 11: use the guy. You know, you got a freak athlete
Speaker 11: like that. I don't know why you wouldn't, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's what kind of we've been waiting for,
Speaker 3: you know, to see it. I don't know, Well, maybe
Speaker 3: this is, you know, maybe this is the year. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I mean he was effective last year times
Speaker 3: and during you know, during certain games and six situations.
Speaker 3: But when you look at the specimen that he has,
Speaker 3: you kind of expect a lot from him.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and even on goal lines, like you know, goal
Speaker 11: line where it's you know, first and goal on the
Speaker 11: three or the four, where you have to kind of
Speaker 11: condense your playbook, you know, you're probably gonna end up running.
Speaker 11: If not then you know you have a few guys
Speaker 11: in the back end that are key and on certain
Speaker 11: guys that can go out in the past, I mean,
Speaker 11: I would just have him go downhill and try to
Speaker 11: wreck things. You know, there are very there are some
Speaker 11: specific things that you can really use him for where
Speaker 11: he can be extremely effective. And I know that the
Speaker 11: staff just from reading up on articles and everything like that,
Speaker 11: I know the staff's probably going to try to take
Speaker 11: advantage of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So as a player, what do you see in him?
Speaker 11: And him just the ultimate package man? I mean, if
Speaker 11: he knew how to get back, drop back, you know,
Speaker 11: pass off crossers, make a couple of different reads, he'd
Speaker 11: be an All American caliber type player. But I mean, listen,
Speaker 11: there are some folks that have absolutely none of the
Speaker 11: athleticism and god given ability that he has and they
Speaker 11: know all the reads. So it's kind of you know,
Speaker 11: you can't call him really a tween er. He honestly,
Speaker 11: if this is twenty years ago, he'd be a first
Speaker 11: or second round draft pick. But because now you know,
Speaker 11: you have spread offenses, you have different passes, you have RPOs,
Speaker 11: you have things of that nature. I mean, some of
Speaker 11: those times and say it's going to be tough for them.
Speaker 11: So just put them in a good position where he
Speaker 11: can succeed and you can kind of use his skills
Speaker 11: to your advantage and they'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Some stuff was said.
Speaker 5: Brent Brennan in his press conference today talked about how
Speaker 5: the coaches think that this group of players is. I
Speaker 5: think he said that Alkina said that this group of
Speaker 5: players is more together or Biber said it was more
Speaker 5: together than any.
Speaker 3: Team he's ever been around. How I mean, it's we
Speaker 3: know it's a big deal, but how big a deal
Speaker 3: is it to be together like that? And how big
Speaker 3: a deal is it when you're not.
Speaker 11: Well, when you're that together as a team. You know,
Speaker 11: from what I can tell just from the teams that
Speaker 11: I've a part of, whether it's football or basketball, when
Speaker 11: you're that together, you play harder for each other. You
Speaker 11: tend to, you know, you tend to kind of feed
Speaker 11: off each other's energy, and you know you practice harder
Speaker 11: because you're playing your truly are playing for the guy
Speaker 11: next to you. So and trust me, they had to
Speaker 11: be that together for them to take you know, for
Speaker 11: that many guys to come back and take a chance
Speaker 11: on a brand new head coach, you know, coming into Arizona,
Speaker 11: I mean, you had some of these guys, you know,
Speaker 11: all American caliber guys that committed to staying. They didn't
Speaker 11: even know who their offensive coordinator was going to be.
Speaker 11: So you got to be that together. But you know,
Speaker 11: the only way you could be that together is you
Speaker 11: have to have a couple of leaders I can kind
Speaker 11: of galvanize the troops. And we've got those guys so
Speaker 11: very happy that we had the type of leadership that
Speaker 11: we did, you know, below the coaching staff, you know
Speaker 11: ranks obviously, and for them to keep that kind of
Speaker 11: core together without knowing what was going to happen in
Speaker 11: the future, that's pretty that's pretty admirable.
Speaker 6: So let me ask you, was there a dude on
Speaker 6: your roster that you played with that you played hard for?
Speaker 11: Well, yeah, of course there's guys that you play hard for.
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, for example, I played hard for
Speaker 11: the guys that I was playing linebacker with just because
Speaker 11: you're with them every single day. He created special relationships
Speaker 11: with the guys that are in your room twenty four
Speaker 11: to seven. You know, you go out and eat with them,
Speaker 11: you hang out with them after games. You know, Obviously
Speaker 11: during practice you're together the entire time. You're in a
Speaker 11: bunch of the same classes together. But then a couple
Speaker 11: of the guys that I knew from Tucson, right, like
Speaker 11: those guys I played hard for. So you know, obviously
Speaker 11: you have guys you get along with a little bit
Speaker 11: better than others. But you know, the fact of the
Speaker 11: matter is these guys, all, you know, a lot of
Speaker 11: them came in the same class, so a lot of them,
Speaker 11: you know, they hung out together outside of the football facility,
Speaker 11: so they created that special bond that they needed in
Speaker 11: order to kind of take the step forward that they
Speaker 11: were able to do last year.
Speaker 6: So Jay goes to my point last year.
Speaker 2: So you can even tell Jake this because I got
Speaker 2: into it a little with Lamont saying when when Noah
Speaker 2: came in to replace.
Speaker 6: Tell me the start.
Speaker 2: Jay James j La to me, it seemed and I've
Speaker 2: seen a few games. I think I know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. He played, they played harder for him. He
Speaker 2: sort of saved the game against Stanford, and it just
Speaker 2: looked like there was a different team out there.
Speaker 6: So I know what happens. I know what happens.
Speaker 11: Shake well, yeah, and the fact that he came in
Speaker 11: knowing the playbook he had. He had that kind of
Speaker 11: ara around him where you just kind of were comfortable
Speaker 11: that you knew he was going to do the right thing.
Speaker 11: You know. I listened to other people on radio shows,
Speaker 11: I read up on different articles, and a couple of
Speaker 11: the people basically said, hey, listen, if you're open, he's
Speaker 11: going to get it to you. Whereas when they were
Speaker 11: on the field and JD. L Was playing, you know,
Speaker 11: he was basically looking at t mac or Bus or
Speaker 11: Jacob Cowing or Bus. So you know, you know that
Speaker 11: he knows the field. You know that he knows the guys.
Speaker 11: You came in the exact same time as he did.
Speaker 11: You know, obviously he's a great leader. You guys are
Speaker 11: all friends and whatnot. So to me, just you know,
Speaker 11: when you know that you got a quarterback, you know,
Speaker 11: it's like when we were with Stoops and Nick Foles
Speaker 11: came in, those guys new we had a quarterback. But
Speaker 11: then when rich Rock came in and Matt Scott had,
Speaker 11: you know, matured as a leader and he was better
Speaker 11: fit for that offense. I mean, those guys played their
Speaker 11: tails off for Matt. So I mean it's kind of
Speaker 11: a mix and match thing. But you know, Noah, he's
Speaker 11: just one of those guys that I you know, I
Speaker 11: just feel like he galvanized the troops in a way
Speaker 11: to where you knew you were going to get the
Speaker 11: ball if you're open, so you're gonna work harder to.
Speaker 6: Get over right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in the case like that, when you have a
Speaker 5: you know that you have to have that kind of
Speaker 5: leadership for a team like that. Does it have to
Speaker 5: be the quarterback or how much better is it because
Speaker 5: it is the quarterback.
Speaker 11: I mean, it's probably better if it is the quarterback
Speaker 11: because he's got his hand on the ball, you know,
Speaker 11: every single play. So if you have a guy that's
Speaker 11: a great leader, you know that he's a good player.
Speaker 11: You know he's going to get you the ball. You
Speaker 11: know he's going to make the right reads.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 11: That's one thing. But it doesn't have to necessarily be
Speaker 11: a quarterback. You guys, remember last year when Michigan played
Speaker 11: against Ohio State and that offensive lineman went down. I
Speaker 11: don't think I've ever seen a crowd or a team
Speaker 11: get as quiet in one hundred thousand plus, you know
Speaker 11: person stadium than they did when all American went down,
Speaker 11: So you know, it doesn't have to necessarily be a quarterback.
Speaker 11: In my opinion, if it is a quarterback, that just
Speaker 11: kind of adds to it. But you know, the leaders
Speaker 11: come in all shapes and sizes, you know, all different positions,
Speaker 11: and it just depends what they're made of.
Speaker 2: Yet, right, right, right, So what are you looking forward
Speaker 2: to on Saturday being here in person?
Speaker 11: Well, obviously I want to have a few of the
Speaker 11: spectacular plays by you know, t Mac and Noah. I
Speaker 11: want to see the offensive line and the running backs
Speaker 11: absolutely grind this team into the ground. You know, I
Speaker 11: think that we have a very solid opportunity to be
Speaker 11: one of the top two or three rushing teams in
Speaker 11: terms of yards per Carrie and Yak in the Big
Speaker 11: Twelve this year. And you know what, listen, if we
Speaker 11: don't have to lead with the pass, that's even better. However,
Speaker 11: if team tries to stack the box and you got Noah,
Speaker 11: you got T Mac, I mean, you know, good luck.
Speaker 11: But another thing I want to see. I want to
Speaker 11: see what the defensive line looks like. I know that
Speaker 11: coach Brennan and a couple of the other guys, so
Speaker 11: that that's going to be the biggest surprise on the team.
Speaker 11: I know the defensive backfields are going to be fine.
Speaker 11: I know Jacob Mono's going to be fine. What I
Speaker 11: really do want to see is who else besides t
Speaker 11: Mac is going to step up. If you can get
Speaker 11: a guy you know that does even a certain percentage
Speaker 11: of what Jacob Cowing was able to do, or if
Speaker 11: you're able to get two or three guys to step up,
Speaker 11: you know, young guys that are able to consistently make
Speaker 11: big plays and open up things for Team Mac, then
Speaker 11: that's great because we all know that T is going
Speaker 11: to get his share of cashes, his share of touchdowns.
Speaker 11: But if they're able to do what they can do,
Speaker 11: then it'll just make it easier on them.
Speaker 5: Yeah really, I mean, how how much better was Team
Speaker 5: Mac last year because of Jacob? Colleen I think had
Speaker 5: something that kind of got under maybe underappreciated a little.
Speaker 3: Bit in that.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, Kellying, look how many the guy had, you know,
Speaker 11: Like it was one of those things to where they
Speaker 11: would sit back because they thought they were going to
Speaker 11: take the top off with Timac and he would just
Speaker 11: do a little whip route or a quick out route
Speaker 11: get the first down. Move the chains and you could
Speaker 11: tell that just really really frustrated the defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I hear you, and they they got to
Speaker 3: have that guy, and I'm maybe we find out who
Speaker 3: that is, you know, on Saturday.
Speaker 5: I think that that is something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 5: Who's you know, who's the next guy or who are
Speaker 5: the next two or three guys. Then no Feat is
Speaker 5: going to throw the ball to because he had he
Speaker 5: had a bunch of those guys last year and that's
Speaker 5: what made him so effective.
Speaker 11: And again, I like, the good thing about the next
Speaker 11: two games is against you know, opponents that are not
Speaker 11: going to challenge for a Big twelve title, So go
Speaker 11: ahead and get their feet wet before we get into
Speaker 11: the Kansas States and the Utah's.
Speaker 5: Right, right, No, I I like I like hearing that
Speaker 5: because I you just again, Jake, I'm just nervous, and
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be nervous. I'm not nervous about these
Speaker 5: two games coming up. I'm just nervous about how the
Speaker 5: season's going to end and where are they going to
Speaker 5: be at the end, because the one thing I don't
Speaker 5: want to have happen is to have all this anticipation,
Speaker 5: have these guys fall flat on their faces and then
Speaker 5: the fans go away again. I want I want to
Speaker 5: see these guys do something kind of special this year.
Speaker 5: Maybe they can, maybe they they should, but you'd like
Speaker 5: to see that, and that's what I'm.
Speaker 3: Looking for as a fan.
Speaker 11: Well, the way I see it is it's our time.
Speaker 11: We haven't had back to back ten win seasons. We
Speaker 11: haven't had this many potential first second round draft picks
Speaker 11: on a team in quite some time. We've got the
Speaker 11: coaches back together, We've got all the u of a
Speaker 11: guys that you know, basically bleed red and blue. So
Speaker 11: I think it's all kind of you know, coming together
Speaker 11: at the right time. And now it's just, you know,
Speaker 11: time to play big boy football and you know, see
Speaker 11: what we're made of. So the good thing is you've
Speaker 11: got those nerves. I mean, remember back when someone was
Speaker 11: here and it's like, well, I know we're only going
Speaker 11: to win my two games. It's good to have the
Speaker 11: nerve because there's expectations that when it comes down to it.
Speaker 11: I'd rather be in that position than just I'm just
Speaker 11: gonna I assume it's going to be a gun, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, they even what do you mean they even found
Speaker 2: a way to get into your pockets for the season, So,
Speaker 2: which is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks man, Hey, Jake, thanks the whole bunch, man, lady.
Speaker 6: See you Saturday, Oh, Jake Fisher, Yeah, see you Saturday.
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Speaker 1: This is Eye on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Speaker 1: Jacob Salez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 6: Hey Welcome back to Eyeing the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 6: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jacin Sauce. Now on the phone,
Speaker 2: we have Aaron Torres from Fox Sports Radio. Aeron, how
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 16: Well?
Speaker 11: I'm okay.
Speaker 10: You know, I was supposed to come on with you
Speaker 10: guys yesterday and you get the big heavy hitters.
Speaker 11: How was How did you guys have a chance.
Speaker 10: To speak with Desiree and curious to hear what she
Speaker 10: had to say about about the year ahead for Arizona Athletics.
Speaker 6: Well, she's excited, obviously. Yeah, she's excited.
Speaker 2: You know, she has her challenges and we all know
Speaker 2: what those are money wise, but she's excited.
Speaker 6: She has a new coach.
Speaker 3: Yes, she fired up.
Speaker 5: And you know, here's the thing that threw us a
Speaker 5: little bit though. They're having a white out without calling
Speaker 5: it a white out in that I don't know what.
Speaker 3: The hell that means, but they're doing it. They told
Speaker 3: everybody to wear white, but they're not calling it to
Speaker 3: white out, so I don't know what that means.
Speaker 6: So so Eric, let me ask you.
Speaker 2: You're in the West Coast. I think you're an area
Speaker 2: you cover Arizona, But do you cover other schools like
Speaker 2: you do Arizona.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you know, being a national college sports analyst,
Speaker 10: you know, I try to pay attention to as much
Speaker 10: as I can. I mean, obviously you can't follow everything,
Speaker 10: but you know, obviously, in basketball, Arizona's a school you
Speaker 10: always have your finger on the pulse of. But obviously,
Speaker 10: over the last probably eighteen months to two years, the
Speaker 10: football team has become a program that you have to
Speaker 10: follow as well. So, yeah, Steve, I try to watch
Speaker 10: and follow and consume as much as I can and
Speaker 10: talk to as many smart people as I can. And
Speaker 10: I'll tell you I am excited about Arizona football this year.
Speaker 10: I am excited, frankly, just about the state of the
Speaker 10: Big twelve five ranked teams. I think there's probably even
Speaker 10: a couple of unranked teams that are good enough to
Speaker 10: win this conference if things break right. So I don't
Speaker 10: know if that really answers your question, but I try
Speaker 10: my hardest to follow everybody. Uh, but obviously some schools
Speaker 10: you kind of are paying a little bit of closer,
Speaker 10: closer attention.
Speaker 3: No, I think it does.
Speaker 5: So let me ask you from the national standpoint, you know,
Speaker 5: we're in this era now you got you know, we
Speaker 5: got Power four instead of Power five. You got these
Speaker 5: conferences that are going to have incredible matchups when once
Speaker 5: they get into conference play, the types of games that
Speaker 5: we always wished we had, you know, Michigan playing USC
Speaker 5: and all the you know, Alabama and Texas that are
Speaker 5: going to happen week in and week out. I mean,
Speaker 5: how fired up are you guys like you who cover
Speaker 5: this stuff on a national basis to have that kind
Speaker 5: of content coming up all year long?
Speaker 10: Well, I'm I'm obviously excited. What I think is really interesting.
Speaker 10: You know, everybody talks about the positives of it, Oh,
Speaker 10: you get Alabama, Texas. Uh. But what I think is
Speaker 10: interesting this is the part that that people don't talk about.
Speaker 10: And you guys are college football fans just like I am,
Speaker 10: is somebody's got to lose these games, right, And there's
Speaker 10: gonna be good teams in the SEC, good teams in
Speaker 10: the Big Ten that take three, four to five losses.
Speaker 10: And it was funny, you know, I was doing another
Speaker 10: radio interview earlier today, and I think that, you know,
Speaker 10: especially in the SEC and the Big Ten, I think
Speaker 10: we just think that all of these oh, you know,
Speaker 10: twelve spots seven at large bid. This team's gonna get in,
Speaker 10: that team's gonna get in. There's gonna be one there's
Speaker 10: gonna be good teams that get left out. But two,
Speaker 10: I think there's going to be a lot of fan
Speaker 10: I think that the pressure is only going to ratchet
Speaker 10: up for those second tier teams. Now, Georgia Ohio State,
Speaker 10: I think that's a little bit of a different conversation
Speaker 10: about for them, it's not about making the playoff, but
Speaker 10: how far you go. But like you know, LSU is
Speaker 10: gonna be in Vegas on Sunday night, and it's like
Speaker 10: LSU loses to USC. You know, you look at their schedule.
Speaker 10: They got ahlle Miss, which is a top ten team,
Speaker 10: they got Alabama, which is a top ten team. All
Speaker 10: of a sudden, it's a little bit harder to find
Speaker 10: that pathway for them to make that twelve team college
Speaker 10: football playoff. And that's that's the type of school that
Speaker 10: is expecting on a year in, year out basis, to
Speaker 10: to to be there. You know, Penn State has been
Speaker 10: on the fringes of the playoff conversation basically go ten
Speaker 10: and two every year and you think, well, you know,
Speaker 10: an expanded playoff helps them, but now they got to
Speaker 10: play USC Now Oregon's in their conference. So I'm excited
Speaker 10: and I don't want to be a glasses half empty guy,
Speaker 10: but I think we're all looking at the positives and
Speaker 10: the excitement. But you know, as a guy who you know,
Speaker 10: I'm about the content and I'm about the interesting stories.
Speaker 10: I think it's going to be interesting to see the
Speaker 10: teams that aren't in the mix late in the season
Speaker 10: and how their fan bases react.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question. So let me ask you, do
Speaker 2: you think Arizona is at all overlooked? Is that okay,
Speaker 2: if they're overlooked, they're in the top twenty five, but.
Speaker 10: So so yeah, I do think you guys, I think
Speaker 10: they are overlooked. And I don't know if it's you know,
Speaker 10: I know, coach, first of all, I understand that it's
Speaker 10: a little bit of a you know, it's not a
Speaker 10: program that you traditionally every year have to kind of
Speaker 10: pen in as an elite you know, top ten, top
Speaker 10: twenty even top twenty five team, but you know, coming
Speaker 10: off a ten win season last year, obviously bringing back
Speaker 10: the Fafita team at combination, and I think Faffita, you know,
Speaker 10: I think the people that follow this sport think he
Speaker 10: could be in the Heis and race laid. I think
Speaker 10: I did think that there was going to be a
Speaker 10: little bit more buzz about them this time of the year,
Speaker 10: and it doesn't feel like on a national scale there is,
Speaker 10: I think. But what I would also say too, from
Speaker 10: the Big Twelve perspective, I think the buzz about Big
Speaker 10: twelve football is what I said, is the potential for
Speaker 10: parody in that league, the potential for again six to
Speaker 10: seven teams to potentially win that league. So I get it,
Speaker 10: and I get that, hey, there's not one team that's
Speaker 10: definitively in the top five and everybody else is looking
Speaker 10: up at them. But to answer you guys question directly,
Speaker 10: I guess I am a little bit surprised. I felt
Speaker 10: like there would be a little bit more buzz based
Speaker 10: on the season of a year ago, based on having
Speaker 10: a Heisman Trophy quarterback by the way he's one, having
Speaker 10: a potential early first round picket wide receiver, and t Mac.
Speaker 10: I guess I am a little surprised that there isn't
Speaker 10: a little bit more buzz about the Wildcats this year.
Speaker 5: Well, is the Big Twelve as a whole I feel
Speaker 5: like they're they're being underestimated a little bit. They keep
Speaker 5: using the parody angle to say, well, you guys are
Speaker 5: going to beat the hell out of each other all
Speaker 5: season long, so you're only going to get one team
Speaker 5: in the playoff while we expect the SEC to get five.
Speaker 3: Are they being overlooked a little bit?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: And I that's the one thing, guys that you know,
Speaker 10: I I don't know if I'm a little bit bothered by,
Speaker 10: but I do think a lot of the national talking heads,
Speaker 10: uh you know, not the good ones like.
Speaker 8: Me, like you, the national guys.
Speaker 10: I think one listen, I get it. You know, the
Speaker 10: SEC schools, the Big ten schools, they are schools that
Speaker 10: you know that that largely the you know, in football anyway,
Speaker 10: the biggest fan base is the you know, they create
Speaker 10: the most interest whatever. Okay, I get all that, but
Speaker 10: I do think there is uh this vault of well,
Speaker 10: you know, the ACC stinks and the Big twelve stinks,
Speaker 10: and that you know, even though we're calling it a
Speaker 10: power for those two conferences aren't on the same level
Speaker 10: as the SEC and the Big Ten. And it's like,
Speaker 10: why don't we just see how the games play out? Right,
Speaker 10: you know, I mean you look at you know again
Speaker 10: a Utah. I mean, you know, Utah dominated a league
Speaker 10: for years that of course featured Oregon and USC and
Speaker 10: Washington and so and yeah, I know Utah went eight
Speaker 10: and five last year. They were also playing with a
Speaker 10: third string quarterback. So like that's an example. Obviously, Kansas
Speaker 10: State was the Big twelve champion two years ago in
Speaker 10: a year where TCU went to the college football playoffs.
Speaker 10: So I actually agree with you, guys, is I don't
Speaker 10: like this narrative, Like it just feels like the powers
Speaker 10: that be are already trying to shape this narrative. Of
Speaker 10: those are by far the two best conferences. They deserve
Speaker 10: all of the benefit of the doubt. And I'm much
Speaker 10: more of a person that let's let's see it all
Speaker 10: play out on the field before we make those big
Speaker 10: sweeping conversations like that.
Speaker 2: Other than other than Noah and t Maac, what are
Speaker 2: you looking forward to see from from Arizona, because we
Speaker 2: all know those two guys.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I just think the big thing is,
Speaker 10: obviously there was some guys lost along the defensive front
Speaker 10: from a year ago, and just how how this team
Speaker 10: has reloaded and and just in general the defense. I mean,
Speaker 10: you guys know it. I remember talking to you guys
Speaker 10: at this time last year. Is that that two years ago, Uh,
Speaker 10: the offense had kind of come around under you know,
Speaker 10: the previous coach, but the defense wasn't there. And then
Speaker 10: last year, obviously they made a big leap, but then
Speaker 10: you lose a lot of guys up front, Uh, you
Speaker 10: know that are no longer with the programs. So I
Speaker 10: think that's ultimately at the end of the day, what's
Speaker 10: either going to be lead to the success or failures
Speaker 10: of this team is kind of the guys that were
Speaker 10: brought in to replace, you know, the guys that basically
Speaker 10: the guys on the defensive side of football, the guys
Speaker 10: that were either brought in to replace or or who
Speaker 10: have developed within the program. I know when you stee
Speaker 10: when you say what areas the defense is kind of
Speaker 10: a big generalization, But obviously I think that's going to
Speaker 10: be the part that that defines the season because as
Speaker 10: good as Noah, Noah Fafita and t Maac are, they're
Speaker 10: gonna need help on the other side of the ball
Speaker 10: as well.
Speaker 5: All Right, so let's let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 5: nationally I know you you know, you make picks and
Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Who you know, who we're looking at? Is it the
Speaker 3: usual suspects?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 5: When you start thinking about the college football playoff, you know,
Speaker 5: is it Georgia? Is it Ohio State?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 5: I think a lot of people are kind of backing
Speaker 5: off of Alabama with with Kaitlyn Boor in his first year,
Speaker 5: but uh, you know who who are going to be
Speaker 5: talking about.
Speaker 3: At the end of the year.
Speaker 10: Well, you know, I listen. I think all those teams
Speaker 10: that are in the that have always been in the mix,
Speaker 10: They're not going anywhere. I think what I'm kind of
Speaker 10: curious about, big picture, is just how how the twelve
Speaker 10: team playoff looks where you're potentially, if you include a
Speaker 10: conference championship game, you could be playing five postseason games. Now,
Speaker 10: if you win it, you get the first round by
Speaker 10: if you don't win it. So if if Alabama and
Speaker 10: Georgia play in the SEC championship game, one of them
Speaker 10: is going to have to play in that first round,
Speaker 10: which means that one of them would potentially have to
Speaker 10: win five postseason games to win a national championship. So
Speaker 10: what I'm kind of curious about is one during the season,
Speaker 10: it's probably is it gonna be less about style points?
Speaker 10: You know, I was on in Alabama today, and you know,
Speaker 10: if you're up thirty one to ten, and you know,
Speaker 10: maybe you would send your starters out there to start
Speaker 10: the fourth quarter. Maybe thirty one to ten is too
Speaker 10: close of a score, but you get The point is that,
Speaker 10: you know, maybe in a previous year you'd send out
Speaker 10: the starters for another possession or two. Well, now you
Speaker 10: obviously want to keep guys healthy because they could be
Speaker 10: playing up to seventeen games, but you also have to
Speaker 10: kind of start to build that depth kind of within
Speaker 10: the program because again, you could be playing seventeen games.
Speaker 10: So that's what's interesting to me. But I do think
Speaker 10: the teams that have been able to recruit and retain
Speaker 10: year over year are the ones that have the advantage
Speaker 10: because I do think the depth is gonna be the
Speaker 10: biggest factor. And who's still in the mix in now
Speaker 10: mid to late January when the championship has played, So yeah,
Speaker 10: I think it's it's Georgia. Ohio State might have the
Speaker 10: best roster in the country. I still don't fully believe
Speaker 10: in Ryan Day. I really do like Oregon I know
Speaker 10: Dan Lanning hasn't had that real signature win yet. They
Speaker 10: lost to Washington twice last year, but I mean, he's
Speaker 10: just bringing in so much talent. And then I'm kind
Speaker 10: of curious about some of those second tier teams. You know,
Speaker 10: Missouri's kicking off right now. They're a right around a
Speaker 10: top ten team Ole miss. I don't know if any
Speaker 10: of them have enough to ultimately win a national championship,
Speaker 10: but those are the kind of schools that wouldn't surprise
Speaker 10: me if they stay in the top ten all year.
Speaker 10: Maybe they would have been six seven eight in a
Speaker 10: previous year and been outside the playoff. Now they're going
Speaker 10: to have a shot at that that twelve team twelve
Speaker 10: team playoff?
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you I know Jay's been waiting for months
Speaker 2: for this day to start. Are you as giddy as Jay?
Speaker 10: I am? And I'll tell you, you know, it's just
Speaker 10: what it is, guys is And I'm sure you guys
Speaker 10: feel the same way. But you know, I just get
Speaker 10: tired of talking about the same things over and over
Speaker 10: and over and over again.
Speaker 11: And you know, we've all had.
Speaker 10: Our opinions on college football in the NFL since the
Speaker 10: last season ended, and since rosters came together and in
Speaker 10: the case of the NFL, the NFL draft, and it's like,
Speaker 10: I'm just ready for games.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 10: I was hosting Fox Sports Radio yesterday and it's like,
Speaker 10: I'm tired. I'm tired of talking about Aaron Rodgers. Is
Speaker 10: he actually going to be healthy? Is he not healthy?
Speaker 10: I'm tired, Like, just get me a game to see.
Speaker 10: By the way, the game that's about to start right now, Colorado.
Speaker 10: Everyone has an opinion on them. I think they actually
Speaker 10: could be pretty good. Well, it's time for me to
Speaker 10: shut up. It's time for everybody else to shut up,
Speaker 10: and it's time to find out if they're actually legitimate
Speaker 10: legitiate not. So Yes, I am fired up, if only
Speaker 10: because we have something new to talk about and I
Speaker 10: don't have to hear people talk about the same five
Speaker 10: topics that they've talked about for the last seven or
Speaker 10: eight months.
Speaker 6: So don't shut up. You got five minutes left, So
Speaker 6: let me ask you.
Speaker 2: Aaron, he's polarizing, obviously, Dion, where do you sit on
Speaker 2: him treating or you know, mandating the depress and all that.
Speaker 2: You can't talk to you, You can't ask any questions.
Speaker 10: The CBS thing was a little weird. A few weeks ago,
Speaker 10: I was actually traveling, so I missed a lot of
Speaker 10: that narrative the Denver Post thing. I'll say this, guys,
Speaker 10: and I know you guys have covered a beat and
Speaker 10: maybe you disagree. It's not that I love what Dion did,
Speaker 10: but if you listen, if you read some of the
Speaker 10: things that this particular writer has said about Dion, I
Speaker 10: think it does cross the line from uh, from being
Speaker 10: critical to kind of being personal. I think one of
Speaker 10: the quotes was, he's the Bruce Lee of BS blah
Speaker 10: blah blah blah blah this and that. And guys, I
Speaker 10: have a writing background just like you guys do, and
Speaker 10: I it's I'm not anti being critical. That's part of
Speaker 10: the job. And I would hope that Dion understands that.
Speaker 10: But I think we all know that there's kind of
Speaker 10: a line where it goes from being critical to being personal. Now,
Speaker 10: I think I think that's something that maybe could be
Speaker 10: addressed behind closed doors, and if it continued, and maybe
Speaker 10: it has been addressed behind closed doors. But I will say,
Speaker 10: you know, guys, we've all you know, we've all been
Speaker 10: in those press rooms, we've all been in whatever and
Speaker 10: I still believe that that having that credential around your
Speaker 10: neck is a privilege, not a right. And I just
Speaker 10: I think some of the stuff that I've read that
Speaker 10: this guy has written has felt personal. Now again, I
Speaker 10: wish this was something that that had been maybe and
Speaker 10: by the way, and again, I know i'm continuing, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm rambling here, But maybe it has been addressed and
Speaker 10: the guy wasn't toning it down. I don't know, but
Speaker 10: I did think that at times some of it did
Speaker 10: come become a little bit personal for the guy from
Speaker 10: the Denver Post specifically.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's fair. You know.
Speaker 5: My My only thing with it is you're Deon Sanders.
Speaker 5: You know, this guy doesn't hold a candle to you,
Speaker 5: and why are you, you know, giving him that?
Speaker 10: Of course, the counter to that is it's because he's
Speaker 10: exactly what you know. I don't think Breton bret. I
Speaker 10: don't think Brett Brennan can do that. I think Kyle
Speaker 10: Whittingham can do that. But Dion Cannon, I'm not saying
Speaker 10: that makes it okay. I'm not saying it makes it okay.
Speaker 10: I'm just saying but, but I think to your point,
Speaker 10: I do agree that I'm sure. You know, he hears
Speaker 10: worse from the fans every time he walks out of
Speaker 10: the tunnel. I'm sure he hears worse from uh when
Speaker 10: he was a player. So you know, maybe you let
Speaker 10: it go.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I mean, I don't necessarily disagree that maybe it's just
Speaker 10: something that that's part of the job and you have
Speaker 10: to deal with. I do think, like I said, I
Speaker 10: I said it a few times. I think some of
Speaker 10: the stuff this guy said got a little bit personal,
Speaker 10: and you know, maybe it's something that two guys just
Speaker 10: need to behind closed doors and uh and talk it out.
Speaker 10: But but I that that's kind of where I stand
Speaker 10: on that.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's that's fair enough, fair enough, all right, Well
Speaker 5: I get you know, going back to what we were
Speaker 5: you were talking about Minagle. I'm just excited about seeing
Speaker 5: how all this is going to work, how the playoff
Speaker 5: is going to impact the season. Right, Florida State already lost,
Speaker 5: but you know last year they had gone, we're out
Speaker 5: of the playoff, and now you know they're still in it,
Speaker 5: and and you know, good for them, but uh, you
Speaker 5: know you are you're right, I mean, you know, Alabama
Speaker 5: caud have four losses when when was the last time
Speaker 5: that happened? Uh, you know those kinds of things are
Speaker 5: I'm interested to see how all that shakes out.
Speaker 10: No, no doubt. And but you know I still think
Speaker 10: so First of all, I agree with you one hundred percent,
Speaker 10: but you know, I do think there's like a fine
Speaker 10: line between you want to be careful in not overreacting, right,
Speaker 10: but you also have to be like realistic. Right, So,
Speaker 10: like Florida State's a great exam Like I'll give you
Speaker 10: a different example, right, Like Clemson could lose to Georgia
Speaker 10: by thirty this weekend and they'll have no impact at
Speaker 10: all on if they make the playoff, right, if they
Speaker 10: win the ACC it doesn't matter, But I do But
Speaker 10: but how does it happen?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 10: And so like with Florida State, you know, I was
Speaker 10: doing my radio show on Saturday night, and you know,
Speaker 10: people were saying, oh, you're overreacting, da da da dah.
Speaker 10: And it's like, okay, maybe, but you got pushed around
Speaker 10: at the line of scrimmage and that's supposed to be
Speaker 10: an area of strength. And you know, getting beat up
Speaker 10: by a team that you're not supposed to get beat
Speaker 10: up by, you know, that's probably not a great sign
Speaker 10: for the rest of the season. And so to your
Speaker 10: point day, it's like, you know, I think that's gonna
Speaker 10: be kind of in it. Like you said, how does
Speaker 10: it play out? Like, you know, what are the is there?
Speaker 10: By the way, is there a trend that happens early
Speaker 10: in the year that you can point to and say, well,
Speaker 10: these two or three teams they took a bad loss,
Speaker 10: but you know what, they were able to rebound and
Speaker 10: it wasn't a big deal versus the two or three teams,
Speaker 10: And it's like, oh, that team, you know, we should
Speaker 10: have seen it coming, I guess. And so it's what's
Speaker 10: gonna make it fun? I will say, I am actually
Speaker 10: very curious what the responses are come Monday and Tuesday
Speaker 10: of next week. Again, if a Clemson lo is it
Speaker 10: the end of the world? Are we not as crazy
Speaker 10: about it? I don't know.
Speaker 11: I don't know how it's gonna be, but I'm excited
Speaker 11: to want.
Speaker 6: We gotta go. Thank you very much, Erin, thanks the
Speaker 6: whole bunch as always do you soon appreciate.
Speaker 10: You, fellas I appreciate you.
Speaker 6: We'll talk soon, Okat thank you? Hey we gotta go? Great?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hey, pick it up on the podcast. Will be
Speaker 5: back next week, Oh no, tomorrow, we got tomorrow. I
Speaker 5: forget Tomorrow's not Saturday. All right, we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Talk you later.