Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rovera. He's Jenkins zaaliz. Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Brian with breaking news.
Speaker 2: This is High on the Ball breaking news on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, exactly, Hey, growing pains.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, so let's start with some University of
Speaker 4: Arizona news, some former Arizona Wildcats and see how they
Speaker 4: fared in week one of the season. Sorry, Dimitri's playing again.
Speaker 4: Fowls defits it back for the forty nine ers. He
Speaker 4: had an interception last night, his first career infl interception.
Speaker 3: Local kid too, right.
Speaker 5: Is any good kid Mountain View one of those. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's somewhere on the outskirts, right. But I was watching
Speaker 5: the game when he had that. I take it back.
Speaker 5: I had the game on. I heard his name, and
Speaker 5: then I was like, oh, okay, I recognize that, but
Speaker 5: good good for him.
Speaker 3: Forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: Look last night, even without Christian McCaffrey, when they turn
Speaker 5: up this guy who comes out of nowhere and he's
Speaker 5: running back and runs for the yard.
Speaker 1: I think some of the people said before last night's
Speaker 1: game that the San Francisco played, Well, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a repeat of last year's Super Bowl, which was a
Speaker 1: very good game.
Speaker 3: Who knows they lit up the Jets though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Rogers, you didn't watch the game. He's still
Speaker 1: kind of indifferent.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I again, at this point, his guy wouldn't went on
Speaker 5: my team.
Speaker 1: I was when I heard that, I was thinking of
Speaker 1: you right away, because he's that guy that's just a surdy,
Speaker 1: know it all kind of guy.
Speaker 5: He just yeah, I agree, agree with you. More trouble
Speaker 5: than anything, more trouble than he's worth for sure.
Speaker 3: All right. Who else? So he was planning in his
Speaker 3: out of doun View High School.
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, Jordan Morgan offensive line for the Packers.
Speaker 4: Let's see, you played sixty five of the packers sixty
Speaker 4: seven offensive snap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he started and left tackle. It just it just
Speaker 3: has offensive line.
Speaker 5: Okay, but I think started the left tackle for the Packers,
Speaker 5: which you know you say, okay, you're a left tackle
Speaker 5: for the Packers if you think about the history of
Speaker 5: those guys and the people that have played that position.
Speaker 5: But you know, he was a first round draft pick,
Speaker 5: you would expect that he's playing so good for him.
Speaker 3: I see Nick Folk hold that folk still around.
Speaker 4: You converted a forty yard field goal, made a couple
Speaker 4: of extra Titans.
Speaker 5: He's with the Titans, all right? They got beat? Well,
Speaker 5: they had Chicago beat. Was the Chicago they? Yeah, they
Speaker 5: had Chicago beat and they at one at one point
Speaker 5: because I had Chicago in a in a in a
Speaker 5: money line parlay and uh. At one point I texted
Speaker 5: Pat Pat Finley, who covers the Bears for Chicago. I said,
Speaker 5: he wowed me ten dollars for the parlay, and then
Speaker 5: like right after that they scored, and he text back
Speaker 5: and said, see what I did there?
Speaker 3: So they ended up covering.
Speaker 5: But I got hose because I had the Falcons who
Speaker 5: lost lost at home.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what the hell?
Speaker 5: So anyway, I didn't do so well in the NFL yesterday,
Speaker 5: I well, I hit something.
Speaker 3: I can't remember what I hit. Oh, I know what
Speaker 3: I hit.
Speaker 5: One where I got lucky in that the Seahawks spread
Speaker 5: against who did the Seahawks play Denver?
Speaker 3: Denver? Okay?
Speaker 5: So the Seahawks were giving six and a half and
Speaker 5: the game started and Denver kicked a field goal, so
Speaker 5: the line dropped to three and a half. So I
Speaker 5: got it at three and a half. Had I gotten
Speaker 5: it at six and a half, they would not have covered.
Speaker 5: But I got it at three and a half and
Speaker 5: they did cover, and that helped me hit a little
Speaker 5: parlay for a little bit of money.
Speaker 3: So I did.
Speaker 5: Okay, that won like forty bucks or something like that
Speaker 5: over the weekend.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 5: Hey, you got to you gotta play. If you don't play,
Speaker 5: you can't what's it? What's it?
Speaker 6: You can't win if you don't play it? Okay, something
Speaker 6: like that the old lottery tagline. Okay, we got Roy Lopez,
Speaker 6: defensive lineman for the Cardinals. I played a big role
Speaker 6: in the game. Cardinals ow upset the Buffalo Bills yesterday
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 3: Steve's not happy about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't cover. Buffalo didn't cover that. That TD
Speaker 1: return killed them, killed them. Well they still want it's
Speaker 1: better to be one of those da YadA. Well, Arizona
Speaker 1: hasn't covered either of its game. I didn't close, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't close. Christian Roland Wallace special teams for the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: He played sixteen special team snaps with the Chiefs in
Speaker 1: their twenty seven to twenty win over the Ravens on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night.
Speaker 5: How long ago was he here. Do you remember Christian
Speaker 5: Rowland Wallace? It's been not relatively recent. Yeah, I've played
Speaker 5: five years, I think. All right, Okay, Tony Fields, linebacker
Speaker 5: for the Browns. He's still playing in the NFL. Good
Speaker 5: for him because he was a guy who kind of
Speaker 5: was not like a major player. I mean, he played
Speaker 5: a bunch and he kind of came, but he wasn't
Speaker 5: a big name on those teams. But you know, sometimes
Speaker 5: you know, like Robert Golden, right, I mean he was good.
Speaker 5: You know, he was good, Crookshank, you know, those guys
Speaker 5: were good, but you know, did you see them as
Speaker 5: NFL players while they were here?
Speaker 3: Borderline?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, you know, and those guys
Speaker 5: played in the league alone. Golden still in the league, right, No, No,
Speaker 5: he's out. Okay, A little bit of news on Fields.
Speaker 5: He did suffer an ankle injury and he's weak to weak.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: They'd have a couple of tackles in the game. Yep,
Speaker 4: I got tenyor McLaughlan tied end for the Bengals. Didn't
Speaker 4: play on Sunday against the Patriots.
Speaker 5: Maybe he needs to because they lost those But go Patriots.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what God, Oh, that's right, yeah, you
Speaker 5: you were. Was it a Brady jersey that you were
Speaker 5: in here one time?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know.
Speaker 4: I was very surprised they won, like I was expecting.
Speaker 4: Everybody was surprised they won.
Speaker 5: They're the worst team in the league, with all due respect,
Speaker 5: and they get and they go over and beat the
Speaker 5: Bengals at home.
Speaker 3: But the hell was that?
Speaker 1: Did you guys? We were continuing, guess right, did you guys?
Speaker 3: Go ahead? Uh?
Speaker 4: Jacob Colling, wide receiver for the Niners, rookie wide receiver,
Speaker 4: didn't see any steps in four game I think you
Speaker 4: see on the practice squad or is he on the roster?
Speaker 4: Did you guys listen to Brady?
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't want reviews. But there were a
Speaker 3: lot of mixed reviews.
Speaker 5: There were some people saying he was kind of like
Speaker 5: Captain Obvious right throughout the throughout the thing.
Speaker 1: Don't you think that I surely did this give it
Speaker 1: an addition rather than just say, no, you're Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: here's the job.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I think they said, oh, you're Tom Brady, here's the job.
Speaker 5: We're going to be three hundred million dollars. Not he
Speaker 5: was kind of like this on this radio. Just look,
Speaker 5: it's a hard job, all right, and it's hard and
Speaker 5: it's hard. And then they put you, as you know,
Speaker 5: on the number one you know broadcasting team. You know,
Speaker 5: the deficiencies are going to show right, right, and and so.
Speaker 5: But if you're going to bring in Tom Brady, you're
Speaker 5: not gonna put him. He's not gonna be the number
Speaker 5: three guy. So they had to put him. Where do
Speaker 5: they put him? The thing is, did you know, did
Speaker 5: they practice some games? I'm sure I would think you
Speaker 5: think would, But you know, I didn't practice any games
Speaker 5: when I went and did the Sugar Skulls, and I
Speaker 5: was nervous as hell, and I don't think I did
Speaker 5: a good job the first two or three games, well
Speaker 5: until I got comfortable with it.
Speaker 1: Well that's the whole thing. You think that they would
Speaker 1: have done all that and then pay them.
Speaker 5: But then on the other Tony Romo was good from
Speaker 5: the first time he got on the mic. Greg Olsen's
Speaker 5: another guy who's been really good from from the get go.
Speaker 5: It's it's not an it's not an easy job. Uh,
Speaker 5: it's not an easy job to do that, especially on
Speaker 5: that stage.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. You give a guy a hundred whatever,
Speaker 1: the contract just they give him more money.
Speaker 3: Three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: When they give them that money, guess what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We gotta you gotta show them, you gotta show what
Speaker 1: we're paying for.
Speaker 3: Whether he's media ore.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't see enough to make a determination one
Speaker 5: way or the other.
Speaker 1: Did The word is that Olsen's much better Tony Romo's
Speaker 1: much but I guess in time, in time, yeah, give
Speaker 1: him some time. It's like him starting off, No, just
Speaker 1: kidding him, started out the Patriots. Somebody gets hurt, he
Speaker 1: comes in and it does really right.
Speaker 5: Uh Yeah, Look, the guy clearly has high standards for himself.
Speaker 5: So I think he'll I think he'll he'll probably get better,
Speaker 5: but it's not that's not an easy job. I'm guessing
Speaker 5: he was more nervous doing that than he was in
Speaker 5: his last Super Bowl, right, probably, Yeah, because he hadn't
Speaker 5: done it before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, captain. I think that's a good phrase captain
Speaker 1: because he was. He was, But maybe you expect too
Speaker 1: much from him too right away.
Speaker 3: No, No, when you're.
Speaker 5: Getting paid that kind of money, you're better be good
Speaker 5: right out of the Then he's going to be it's
Speaker 5: gonna be a while. I mean, he he may get good,
Speaker 5: but when you're when you're getting paid that kind of jack,
Speaker 5: there's no breaking period.
Speaker 3: You got to be good right from the start. In
Speaker 3: my humble opinion. Okay, so so there was.
Speaker 1: We'll use that analogy for Arizona football when much is expected,
Speaker 1: but just expected.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: Is well, if yeah, Parizone's getting paid three hundred million dollars,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 1: They're paid some paid something. Those kids are getting paid something,
Speaker 1: Yeah they are.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, what else did you? Let's switch over this
Speaker 3: story regarding Sean Watson. Oh god.
Speaker 4: NFL says it's reviewing a civil lawsuit while Monday accusing
Speaker 4: Watson of sexual assault and battery in October of twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: when he was a member of the Texans.
Speaker 3: Why wasn't this involved in or but I saw it
Speaker 3: was twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: No, that's what this article says, twenty twenty. Why wasn't
Speaker 1: this bundle in the previous things? And the thing about it,
Speaker 1: he's not even any good.
Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing. And they're saying, what's you know? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, why are you putting up with this when
Speaker 5: he's not any good, right, you know, the Brons given
Speaker 5: have given him all this money, all this guaranteed money.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Steve, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I I imagine whether this lawsuit has any merit to it.
Speaker 5: If I'm the Browns, I'm trying to find a way
Speaker 5: to get out from under this guy.
Speaker 1: He's getting me six whatever it is, How are you
Speaker 1: going to get out of that?
Speaker 5: There's gotta be a clause in the contract, because when
Speaker 5: he signed the contract all this stuff was going on.
Speaker 5: There has to be something in there that says, if
Speaker 5: you do this again or if another thing comes out,
Speaker 5: we get out of this contract. If the Browns didn't
Speaker 5: have that in there, then shame on them and they
Speaker 5: and they should have to eat the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Right, You're right?
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's over to the NBA. They are the
Speaker 4: expansion is on the table. They just don't know yet.
Speaker 4: According to Adam Silver, I'm hoping.
Speaker 7: Well do we?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, are there some some some city?
Speaker 1: I thought I thought Vegas was next, or possibly Seattle again,
Speaker 1: going back to Seattle, I.
Speaker 3: Thought Seattle would be one. You know, if you lose
Speaker 3: the team, shouldn't you not be able to get another one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Seattle seems like that place.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean that's you know what. You know,
Speaker 5: Baltimore loses its team, they go leave underground and they
Speaker 5: gave them another team, right, you know, right back. You know,
Speaker 5: if you don't do what it takes to keep your team,
Speaker 5: and I'm not saying you should be building them in
Speaker 5: the stadium, it's that kind of stuff, but it should
Speaker 5: be you know, if if if a franchise is unhappy
Speaker 5: with you and you can't figure it out, I don't
Speaker 5: know why you should be rewarded with another team.
Speaker 3: That's just me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks like Vegas and Seattle are still the
Speaker 4: top of the contenders because they'll have to do two, right,
Speaker 4: they're not going to do one.
Speaker 3: No, they are the thirty teams in the NBA right now. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you want to thirty two? Yeah? Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: that's really all we have for today.
Speaker 1: All right, So I guess it was something we missed
Speaker 1: sister in today's night's so we didn't have that. Lily
Speaker 1: Hauser has committed to the softball team. You know, she's
Speaker 1: the daughter of Wendy Allen Hauser, who Wendy played for
Speaker 1: Mike Candrea in the early twenty twenty three, twenty zero
Speaker 1: zero three, two thousand and three, two four seasons. So
Speaker 1: some of those legacy people are coming back, so they're
Speaker 1: having kids. Either kids are coming year old Jan I'm
Speaker 1: old year old brow except for Ryan here oh man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think continue she's this is our third
Speaker 1: year or fourth year, fourth year, I think because we
Speaker 1: just finished the third year to see how they eventually
Speaker 1: come through, or maybe third year.
Speaker 5: We finished four years. This is our fifth year. He
Speaker 5: started in May of twenty twenty. What about the kids,
Speaker 5: We've done four years?
Speaker 1: So Tommy, Tommy, Jed and didn't stofotball coach come on
Speaker 1: at the same time, all three because there was three
Speaker 1: members all the same time, and then Jed left. So
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be her fourth year. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll say fourth years. You know, she got into
Speaker 1: the playoffs her first year, kind of got in at
Speaker 1: the last minute, and here we are.
Speaker 3: Ye and where we got come about a min and
Speaker 3: a half?
Speaker 5: Did you did Matt Sunday huss looked like Max and
Speaker 5: Dae Hus on set. I'm like, like they said he
Speaker 5: was coming on, and then I'm looking through my binocularies
Speaker 5: and that's not Max and dhas he looked bitter or
Speaker 5: what's to you?
Speaker 3: It just it just his face just didn't.
Speaker 1: Look like when I saw a photo of it. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: that's what he looks like that Max.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, right, I mean, look, okay, he graduated from
Speaker 5: the u A.
Speaker 3: And what what do you know about it? What do
Speaker 3: you know about him?
Speaker 5: Just on the top of your head, Well, I know
Speaker 5: he I know he ran a restaurant for a while
Speaker 5: across from the u A. I don't know a lot
Speaker 5: about him, be youngest and in terms of his post
Speaker 5: Arizona life, well, what.
Speaker 1: About during during the life, Well, he was a little goofy,
Speaker 1: you know what.
Speaker 3: Way, I don't know.
Speaker 5: The story that I have about him is that I
Speaker 5: was in I'll pass it for that Sunbol that they
Speaker 5: tied gets Georgia six eighty five somble, we're run out
Speaker 5: of time, eighty five stumble.
Speaker 3: So the team leaves, everybody leaves.
Speaker 5: I'm at the hotel at the standing at the team hotel,
Speaker 5: and I was there and I'm having drink with some
Speaker 5: friends in the bar. The game has been over for
Speaker 5: hours and the team is gone and he walks into
Speaker 5: the bar with the team went home without him.
Speaker 1: Well, I was with obviously David Adams and Byron talking
Speaker 1: about how good he was, how good he was and
Speaker 1: the late game success. He says, if there's anything he did,
Speaker 1: he had a lot of the Hispanic women following him.
Speaker 1: Oh god, okay, you know when you're a football hero. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear you. He says he had the lock on them.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go, and that's where head football play.
Speaker 8: He was.
Speaker 5: That's I just, I just I don't didn't know him personally,
Speaker 5: but I just saw him as a little different. He
Speaker 5: had some differences too. Okay, all right, let's take our breaks.
Speaker 5: Take a break.
Speaker 9: The window Depot has everything you need to create the
Speaker 9: kitchen or bathroom of your dreams. Frowsy aisles of in
Speaker 9: stock cabinets, available in a variety of sizes and configurations,
Speaker 9: and instantly elevate your space. Today, visit a showroom and
Speaker 9: let our experts guide you. Whether you're choosing for ready
Speaker 9: to go designs or creating a custom masterpiece. We can
Speaker 9: help you select the perfect wood, type, color and style
Speaker 9: and top it off with unique hardware to complete your luck.
Speaker 9: Find a location near you at the window Deepot dot com.
Speaker 9: The window Depot more than a windows store.
Speaker 1: Steve Rivera here to talk about Doratle Rock and Materials.
Speaker 1: I needed a lot of gravel for my driveway, so
Speaker 1: I called Eric at Dorato Rock. He found out the
Speaker 1: amount and color I needed and boom, it was taken
Speaker 1: care of and at a great price. How do I
Speaker 1: know radio commercials work? I heard one of his on
Speaker 1: the radio. Dorato Rock and Materials provides a wide range
Speaker 1: of landscaping materials, including decorative rock, boulders, gravel, soil, and
Speaker 1: sand for residential and commercial use in the Tucson area.
Speaker 1: They are locally owned and have been around for more
Speaker 1: than fifteen years. Kip, we'll call at five two zero
Speaker 1: four zero zero four two three three.
Speaker 3: Where do you buy exercise equipment?
Speaker 10: Arizona Health Arizona Health Arizona Health.
Speaker 11: Of course, to feel better and look better, it makes
Speaker 11: sense to buy your fitness equipment from the people who
Speaker 11: know it better than anyone else. At Arizona Health, our
Speaker 11: goal is to help you choose the equipment you need
Speaker 11: to reach your goals, your health and fitness to serve
Speaker 11: the best. Arizona Hound, the leading edge and exercise equipment
Speaker 11: on twenty second just west of Willnot.
Speaker 8: It's awards season for summer sports leagues and time to
Speaker 8: look at trophies for baseball, softball, volleyball, and swimming seasons
Speaker 8: for youth and adult leagues. Summer has arrived and it's
Speaker 8: time to replenish your promotional products for your companies. Giveaways
Speaker 8: keep your employees looking great in fresh new apparel, polos
Speaker 8: in caps with your sharp looking logo. Creative Awards is
Speaker 8: here to serve your professional and promotional products needs. Visit
Speaker 8: the Creative Awards Idea Center at two twenty eight Westrackman
Speaker 8: Street or visit them online at Creative awardsaz dot com.
Speaker 12: At Nova home Loans, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity
Speaker 12: to enjoy the independence that comes with home ownership, Paul
Speaker 12: Volpe is ready to help you find an option that
Speaker 12: best fits your needs. Whether you're a first time or
Speaker 12: veteran home buyer or want to get cash out with
Speaker 12: the refinance, Nova has a variety of home loan programs
Speaker 12: to meet your unique situation. Visit Volpe team dot com.
Speaker 12: That's Volpe team dot com or call five to two
Speaker 12: six eight five six in MLS three h eight seven,
Speaker 12: arizon A b K Ninez two nine or two equal
Speaker 12: housing opportunity, got to commitment to Lydrid syn credit greats
Speaker 12: and available loan programs or suchuch change them.
Speaker 3: Notice.
Speaker 10: Did you know sports cards at Memorabilia are setting records
Speaker 10: sales last month of nineteen fifty two tops Mickey mantal
Speaker 10: So for twelve point six million, Lebron James Rookie So
Speaker 10: for five points six Also, collecting cards is a family fun.
Speaker 3: Hobby that can be very profitable.
Speaker 10: If you want to start a collection or expand your collection,
Speaker 10: check out Showtime Cards. They are one of the leading
Speaker 10: card shops in the country and have served for our
Speaker 10: local community for twenty five years. They are located on
Speaker 10: e Speedway That's Showtime Cards.
Speaker 13: Ready to save but not sure where to begin? Take
Speaker 13: the Pyramid Federal Credit Union ten thousand dollars Saving Challenge
Speaker 13: and we'll guide you along the way. Save five hundred
Speaker 13: dollars over six months as a member and you could
Speaker 13: win big. Watch your savings grow to help you reach
Speaker 13: goals like buying a car, owning a home, and more.
Speaker 13: Visit Pyramid FCU dot com Slash ten k challenge to
Speaker 13: get started today, really insured and cinguway.
Speaker 14: Gout bugs, termites, bees, or rodents. Arizona Pest Control will
Speaker 14: hunt them down. Arizona Pest Control is your complete desert
Speaker 14: Pest management specialists can't run or hide from Arizona Pest Control.
Speaker 14: They use only the latest and most technologically advanced methods
Speaker 14: of pest elimination available, which minimizes the effects on the environment.
Speaker 14: Let Arizona Pest Control get rid of your bad bugs, termitespees,
Speaker 14: or rodents. Serving Tucson and Southern Arizona since nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 14: Go to azpest dot com to schedule your free evaluation today.
Speaker 1: Selling your home want to get more money for it? Well,
Speaker 1: Danny Roth can help you. He told me about as
Speaker 1: you Flip the Home you Own program. The program allows
Speaker 1: for a homeowner to fix up their home to sell
Speaker 1: without using any of their own money. They will be
Speaker 1: able to sell the home for a much higher price.
Speaker 1: Danny Roth with Army Homes International is the real estate
Speaker 1: consultant in Tucson that offers this program. He has consistently
Speaker 1: been the top agent in Tucson for the last thirty
Speaker 1: years and has sold over ten thousand, five hundred homes
Speaker 1: for more information on this program or just buying our
Speaker 1: selling a home of Danny Roth at five two zero
Speaker 1: four nine zero four thousand, streaming.
Speaker 2: Live on the iHeart Radio.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 2: This is Eye on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Speaker 2: Jacob Salez on Fox Sports fourteen.
Speaker 1: Fit Pig walking about to while ball.
Speaker 3: You know Fox except sever Bara the Biss today.
Speaker 4: I will trying to the door. I'll tell you fire.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: Well, all right, so a little drawing pains again here.
Speaker 5: We're just we're trying to get George Kelly, the head
Speaker 5: football coach at Empire. They're off to another another good start.
Speaker 5: Those those schools over in bail are just killing it.
Speaker 5: But uh, you know, we're we're you know, these guys
Speaker 5: are just uh, you know, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 5: know what's going on on there, Steve.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're doing very well.
Speaker 5: You know, when you when you got Michael Mountain, you've
Speaker 5: got uh, You've got uh Siena has been good for
Speaker 5: a long time. Now you've got uh Empire there. They've
Speaker 5: won their two games. Uh, they got Ironwood Ridge coming
Speaker 5: up on Friday, so we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, let us know when he's there. George, Are
Speaker 1: you there? George, are you there? Go?
Speaker 3: This is our first day, George with us. You gotta
Speaker 3: bear with us where we're in a new studio for
Speaker 3: the first time.
Speaker 1: George, just like coaching freshman footballs.
Speaker 3: What's going on? What's going on over there?
Speaker 1: You guys are doing trumendous Not that it's a criticism,
Speaker 1: but you guys are killing it.
Speaker 7: Oh man.
Speaker 3: You know, it's only two games in the season.
Speaker 7: Let's not get too Yeah. I was.
Speaker 5: You've been on a bit of a streak though. You
Speaker 5: You won your last five last year, so you've got
Speaker 5: seven in a row. Something's happened over there. What What
Speaker 5: do you think is happening with your program.
Speaker 15: Right now?
Speaker 7: You know, I think it's just a culture change of
Speaker 7: the program.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 7: I think it started just with getting the right coaches
Speaker 7: in the building, getting these kids around, the right guys.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: So I think my coaches every day and we have
Speaker 7: a small staff. There's there's seven of us all together.
Speaker 7: There's myself, George Kelly, There's mag Magnuson he's our online guy.
Speaker 7: There's Alan Fletcher, he's our quarterbacks coach, specializes in coaching
Speaker 7: our quarterbacks, so that's always a great help. There's my
Speaker 7: brother James Kelly. He works with our receivers and linebackers.
Speaker 7: Then we have our JV staff. We got a great
Speaker 7: head JV coach, Derek collins Worth. He he's awesome. He
Speaker 7: was actually our golf coach, but very familiar with football.
Speaker 7: Then we have the head wrestling coach helping us out
Speaker 7: on JV, Corey Schiers. And then uh, one of our alumni,
Speaker 7: one of my old players from back in the day,
Speaker 7: Cody Mowen. So I got to give a shout out
Speaker 7: to them, and he's helping with the JV big guys.
Speaker 7: So it's always good when I can, uh, you know,
Speaker 7: get somebody from the program to come help in the future, right,
Speaker 7: So you must I don't know.
Speaker 1: So it is the job board taxing that you don't
Speaker 1: have enough people or you you have very few people.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's only seven of us. So there's
Speaker 7: there's all seven of us coach varsity. But we don't
Speaker 7: get that many kids coming out for football. We we
Speaker 7: we have our school is probably about eight hundred and
Speaker 7: fifty kids that go to our school. We're not known
Speaker 7: to be the sports school, so we get for two
Speaker 7: programs we want to. We run a JVB program, which
Speaker 7: is freshman sophomore, and then we run varsity. So if
Speaker 7: a kid is a junior, he's automatically going to be
Speaker 7: on varsity. And so for each team, you know, we
Speaker 7: have about twenty five true varsity players and about twenty
Speaker 7: four true JD players freshmen and sophomore. So we don't
Speaker 7: have that many kids that come out for football.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that begs the question.
Speaker 5: Then you know those kids that you have, and you've
Speaker 5: got a program with not a lot of kids, and
Speaker 5: yet you're still pretty damn good.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: The thing is, you know, this is going on my
Speaker 7: sixth season, you know, and that's including COVID as my
Speaker 7: second season, which we really didn't have one. So you know,
Speaker 7: right after COVID it was almost just starting back from
Speaker 7: ground zero. Pre COVID, I was getting about eighty eighty
Speaker 7: eight kids coming out for football. Now we're getting maybe
Speaker 7: fifty or less. But you know, at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, it's a lot easier to manage. And then
Speaker 7: you know, the kids get a lot more personal one
Speaker 7: on one and a lot more coaching. They get a
Speaker 7: lot more reps, right when you're dealing probably with a
Speaker 7: bigger school with a lot more kids. They probably don't
Speaker 7: get as much reps as our kids, so maybe that
Speaker 7: could be the difference.
Speaker 1: Tell me, tell me about the fund Gooney kid. I
Speaker 1: guess he's a running back, linebacker. Yeah, I guess he
Speaker 1: was a player of the Week recently for All Sports Tucson.
Speaker 3: It must be a pretty tough player, man.
Speaker 7: He is. He's a great kid. He was originally a
Speaker 7: soccer player. And you know, around that time COVID, right
Speaker 7: after COVID, you know, we were hurting for players. So
Speaker 7: I would go to all the soccer games, the baseball games,
Speaker 7: the basketball games, trying to get kids to come join
Speaker 7: the program and let them know who the football coach
Speaker 7: is over there, which is me. And you know, I
Speaker 7: was really sought after Nagankru Twant Gooney because he's just
Speaker 7: an all around athlete. And I was like, man, he
Speaker 7: can play football. He's big, he can play football, he
Speaker 7: can play this game. So his sophomore year he came
Speaker 7: out for football, and you know, ever since then he's
Speaker 7: been taken off. He was the highlights standout his sophomore
Speaker 7: year on Bar as a defensive then come his junior year.
Speaker 7: He missed three games his junior year due to injury,
Speaker 7: but he was a standout and defensive end and running back.
Speaker 7: And this year, you know, he's just got that much better.
Speaker 1: What's what's his background? He's an international player.
Speaker 7: Uh, he's not international. I mean he was born here
Speaker 7: in the States, but you know he's from Cameroon. His family,
Speaker 7: his dad is in his family is all from Cameroon.
Speaker 7: You know, Soccer is his is his main sport that
Speaker 7: you know culturally that they that he grew up with.
Speaker 7: And so you know, you ask him anything about soccer,
Speaker 7: he'll give you all the answers in the world. If
Speaker 7: you ask him anything about NFL or college football, he
Speaker 7: has no idea you know, who players are and how
Speaker 7: they play. He doesn't really watch football like that, but
Speaker 7: he loves playing the game, I can tell you that.
Speaker 7: And he just knows what he knows. So one thing
Speaker 7: that's great about Empire. We do get a lot of
Speaker 7: kids that never played football before. But they're like an
Speaker 7: empty shell and all you have to do is fill
Speaker 7: it out. Yeah, versus getting a kid that played football
Speaker 7: all their life. And you know, it's always a struggle
Speaker 7: with those kids to buy into what you're doing. Right.
Speaker 7: Bad habits, Yeah, bad habits, it's hard to correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well a kid like him, you know, who comes
Speaker 5: in with no bad habits? Where does the love for
Speaker 5: football come from? For for somebody like you know like him,
Speaker 5: who you know, as you said, grew up playing soccer,
Speaker 5: that's you know, the sport in his country. And how
Speaker 5: do they get the the the what's the right word
Speaker 5: love or just the you know, the urge to play football?
Speaker 3: And why that's that's it? What's his size? Because you
Speaker 3: sounds like eleven one ninety is what he's listed here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's he's he's five eleven one ninety five. He's
Speaker 7: he looks the part, he's every bit of the part.
Speaker 7: But how does he get to have football grow on him?
Speaker 7: I mean we're sitting there on the radio show talking
Speaker 7: about football. He just or knew about it. And so I,
Speaker 7: you know, I give that challenge to anyone who doesn't
Speaker 7: know anything about football. You get to know it, you're
Speaker 7: gonna fall in love with it. It's just that sport, right,
Speaker 7: And so I think that's just that bug hit him,
Speaker 7: you know, that bug hit him. We got him out
Speaker 7: for football, and it took some time to get him out.
Speaker 7: You know, it took some you know, convincing of parents.
Speaker 7: You know, parents don't aren't too familiar with the sport either.
Speaker 7: They think, you know, you go into football, you just
Speaker 7: get hurt and those types of things. And I had
Speaker 7: to talk with the mom and it's awesome, man. It
Speaker 7: comes from an awesome family too. And definitely appreciate his
Speaker 7: parents for allowing him to play football his sophomore year
Speaker 7: because he's he's a heck of a player.
Speaker 1: So so now that you have a kid like that,
Speaker 1: do the other kids kind of is it like a
Speaker 1: not allergic, but is a draw to him that they
Speaker 1: see how well and how fun he's making the game,
Speaker 1: they kind of maybe become that player too.
Speaker 7: Man. You know, I think if vice versa, it's both ways.
Speaker 7: You know, I think we're surrounded not just by him.
Speaker 7: We got other athletes, you know, we got you know,
Speaker 7: I can't give enough credit to our offensive line. You know,
Speaker 7: our offensive line is the biggest line that we've had
Speaker 7: this year. So you know, games are one up front
Speaker 7: and so and that translates down to our defensive line.
Speaker 7: And I can't give enough credit for our defensive line too.
Speaker 7: You know, a lot of our skill guys, our dvs
Speaker 7: and linebackers. We're not the biggest guys out there, but
Speaker 7: we're sound and we know how to play football. And
Speaker 7: so I think both of all of our players combined
Speaker 7: kind of compliment each other. And so when you have
Speaker 7: that complimentary you know, not only he plays better, but
Speaker 7: our team plays better. Not only that our team will
Speaker 7: play better, he plays better. They feed off each other.
Speaker 5: Right, We're talking to George Kelly, the head coach at
Speaker 5: Empire High School. So give us a little bit about
Speaker 5: you know, what what do you look like in the
Speaker 5: early part of the season. Here, you got a couple
Speaker 5: of wins under your belt. I guess I'll just ask
Speaker 5: you this way, why have you won those two games?
Speaker 7: You know, the biggest thing that we wanted to do
Speaker 7: this season is just bring some consistency and bring you know,
Speaker 7: confidence to the team of what we run and try
Speaker 7: to find an identity of who we are. My first
Speaker 7: year is coaching that Empire High School. I come from
Speaker 7: a defensive background, and you know, I was very successful
Speaker 7: in establishing, you know, a defensive culture. You know a
Speaker 7: lot of times you would hear like, okay, Empire, They're
Speaker 7: not that good, but their defense is solid, so you
Speaker 7: still got to work to score, and we keep scores low. However,
Speaker 7: we never had that offensive side. We never had the
Speaker 7: offensive scoring and learning how to score. So last year
Speaker 7: was the year I took over the offense. I gave
Speaker 7: away the defense finally to my coaches. But they've been
Speaker 7: around long enough that they know it. So when I
Speaker 7: took over the offense, you know, the first five games
Speaker 7: was a learning experience, not only just for the players
Speaker 7: but also for me. And I would Austin tell him,
Speaker 7: you know, I'm learning this just like you guys are
Speaker 7: learning as well, you know. And it took five games
Speaker 7: for us to kind of get a good formula running offensively,
Speaker 7: and you know, the last five games it clicked for us,
Speaker 7: right and so so now I call the offense teaching
Speaker 7: the kids how to win. I think that's the biggest difference,
Speaker 7: because you know, we weren't winning in the path.
Speaker 3: Well, that's kind of contagious.
Speaker 1: Once you start rolling like you did five straight and
Speaker 1: two straight, is it kind of contagious, the confidence starts
Speaker 1: filling in. I'm assuming that your quarterback is maybe the
Speaker 1: same guy from last year.
Speaker 7: Yes, so Bryce and Duncan. He was He was originally
Speaker 7: our starter. He had went down with the concussion in
Speaker 7: one of the games, I think it was against lah Hooya,
Speaker 7: and then we had to get another guy in there,
Speaker 7: which was he wasn't that bad either. He had went
Speaker 7: down last year we played with like five different quarterbacks,
Speaker 7: so that was another struggle. But eventually Bryson came back
Speaker 7: and you know, he did his He did his job,
Speaker 7: and he's learning, he's matured and he's growing. And then
Speaker 7: it's just one thing I love about high school football.
Speaker 7: From one year to another, you can just see a
Speaker 7: kid's development and it's outome to see.
Speaker 1: We kind of joke, we kind of joke with the
Speaker 1: U of A coaches at least last year when Jed
Speaker 1: was here. He came in and struggled early and all that,
Speaker 1: and then he got better players and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he became a better coach.
Speaker 3: Is that the way you feel? I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: you're doing really well.
Speaker 1: How have you transitioned or maybe learned a little over
Speaker 1: the last maybe year and a year and a half.
Speaker 7: Oh man, I got to give credit to some of
Speaker 7: the coaches that are around here. They have no idea
Speaker 7: how much. They've actually helped me. One guy in particular,
Speaker 7: I'd just like to get thanks to a coach. He's
Speaker 7: known as a legend out here. His name is Jay Kompos.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know I had I had a chance, you know,
Speaker 7: with in the last couple of years, especially when I
Speaker 7: told him I'm taking over the offense. He's actually been
Speaker 7: guiding me and being my mentor. Low key, he probably
Speaker 7: doesn't know he's my mentor, but you know he is. Uh,
Speaker 7: he's probably gonna find out now, who knows. But I
Speaker 7: got a chance to pick his brain. Guys like al Alexander,
Speaker 7: they all over at Suarro. You know, I see him
Speaker 7: around town a lot, really close friends. I pick his
Speaker 7: brain every time I see him. He just probably doesn't know,
Speaker 7: you know, I just slide it into conversations. Man, Hey,
Speaker 7: how was that Vijon kid when you were coaching him
Speaker 7: over there? I need to figure that out because I'm
Speaker 7: the running back coach over at my school. And you know,
Speaker 7: I don't say it that direct, but you know, I
Speaker 7: come and you know, you get around those type of guys.
Speaker 7: They love to talk football and I man, just coaches
Speaker 7: that are around. Another guy, Mark tex Sterrat two man,
Speaker 7: he's a great guy. He just fed a lot of
Speaker 7: knowledge and so that was some of my personal development
Speaker 7: that I wanted to bring and take to the team
Speaker 7: here at Empire.
Speaker 1: And we've got about we've got about a few a
Speaker 1: few minutes, one minute left to coach. What's next, what's
Speaker 1: next this weekend and beyond?
Speaker 7: Uh, you know what's next Today. We're about to get
Speaker 7: out there on practice right now, you know, preparing. We
Speaker 7: got a defensive day for Ironwood Ridge, and we're gonna
Speaker 7: take it day by day and and get ready for
Speaker 7: this game.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you get eight in a row, well
Speaker 1: then we'll set the parade down the road. We'll wait
Speaker 1: a little while. Okay, So he's coach Row, all right,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. That was George Kelly from Empire.
Speaker 5: High School again, right, yeah, you know, and and you
Speaker 5: know he talks about, you know, talking to Alexander, talks
Speaker 5: about Jay compos You just got this feeling that in Tucson,
Speaker 5: and maybe it's another place too, but in Tucson, all
Speaker 5: these coaches they're all kind of in the same boat,
Speaker 5: and it's a fraternity that they well they compete against
Speaker 5: he each other, they still they seem to be friendly
Speaker 5: with each other.
Speaker 3: They help each other, yeah, and that's a cool thing
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 1: And even like each other when they're trying to beat
Speaker 1: the heck out of you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We saw this with the CEO with peace right and
Speaker 1: d for great friends and yeah. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to the field, it's different exactly. Okay, Hey, let's time
Speaker 1: to take a break. Yep, Yeah, okay, let's do that.
Speaker 1: If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's
Speaker 1: been successful for nearly forty years. Now take a look
Speaker 1: back at the Ludelsen era. In my new book, Lessons
Speaker 1: from Loot. It was a labor of love through the
Speaker 1: eyes of twenty five former players, coaches and friends to
Speaker 1: give insight to the coach and the man who led them,
Speaker 1: competed against them, and inspired them. Twenty five chapters for
Speaker 1: his twenty five years as Arizona's beloved coach. Lessons from
Speaker 1: Luton is an insight to how he built the program
Speaker 1: into a national powerhouse. Want one Email me at Steve
Speaker 1: dot Rivera ninety five at gmail dot com.
Speaker 16: Hi, this is formal Wildcat Leman huntly with Arizona Health.
Speaker 16: Imagine how home GM can change your health, your comfort
Speaker 16: and your time. Arizona Health is everything you need to
Speaker 16: trans from your personal space and your life. We off
Speaker 16: a complete line of cardio machines, multi gyms and freeway equipment.
Speaker 16: I'll certify fitness experts and technicians will set you out
Speaker 16: with the right equipment and training to get your started
Speaker 16: and keep you going. Visit our shareroom today at twenty
Speaker 16: second in Wilmot. Arizona Health the lead to edge and
Speaker 16: exercise equipment.
Speaker 8: What's your goal a new career or career advancement? How
Speaker 8: about transferring to a four year college. PEMA Community College
Speaker 8: can help you make some day today and reach your
Speaker 8: goals affordably on your schedule. With over one hundred programs
Speaker 8: to choose from in financial dad available, It's time to
Speaker 8: earn the degreer certificate you need to prepare for the
Speaker 8: career you want. PEMA offers free career exploration classes so
Speaker 8: you can choose the field that's right for you.
Speaker 3: Learn how at Pima dot Edu.
Speaker 8: Slash Someday, Hey Tucson, Steve vera heir, and I've got
Speaker 8: a tip for you.
Speaker 1: Want to be in good hands while cruising the desert
Speaker 1: or kicking back at home, then you need to call
Speaker 1: my friends at the Edmond Markets All State Agency. These
Speaker 1: guys are the MVPs of home and auto coverage. Whether
Speaker 1: it's a thunder vender or a leaking moved, They've got
Speaker 1: you covered. Don't fumble your chance to say call them
Speaker 1: today and score big on your insurance with the Edmund
Speaker 1: Marcus All State Agency.
Speaker 3: You're always in good hands.
Speaker 1: Visit them at twenty seven nineteen note Campbell or call
Speaker 1: them at five two zero three two three nine three
Speaker 1: three three.
Speaker 2: Steve Vera and Jake and Salles. They have their eye
Speaker 2: on the ball. On Tucson Sports Stage Chat Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty.
Speaker 4: May we left to lie on the ball here All
Speaker 4: Fox Sports forteen fifteen say Rivera.
Speaker 3: Jacobs, alas got our guy?
Speaker 17: Ryan?
Speaker 9: Thank you yet get my boot?
Speaker 3: Sixteen minute?
Speaker 1: Oh I see it's the one on the right now
Speaker 1: of the Yeah, okay, on the left, left one left? Okay, great,
Speaker 1: So take some calls. We can test us here for
Speaker 1: the next sixteen See if Ryan's got it, If we
Speaker 1: got it, Tony's working with us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who is it taking? Who has they called before?
Speaker 5: The boy?
Speaker 3: Robert Robert is it? Robert Ryn is Robert Robert we're
Speaker 3: ready for you now. Yeah, what an interesting questions.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you really did. So we'll we'll get to that.
Speaker 5: Well we'll let a mask it instead of just starting
Speaker 5: to talk about it. But you know, again, just so
Speaker 5: much discussion, and I guess it's a good thing, right
Speaker 5: that people are actually carrying about Arizona football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right, they're not talking basketball yet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, so I guess we I guess we got
Speaker 3: that going for us, which is nice.
Speaker 1: Right right. I think, well we talk about the next
Speaker 1: two Texas Texas after that a very winnable game, but
Speaker 1: they haven't played very well.
Speaker 3: They don't look that good. They don't look good.
Speaker 5: They got they got beat up at Washington State I
Speaker 5: think one of the first games.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, this last weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think before they played uh the smaller
Speaker 1: scho Arlington or of Hard and Simmons or whatever. I
Speaker 1: believe it was like fifty two to fifty one, and
Speaker 1: they really won that.
Speaker 18: Ye.
Speaker 3: So all right, so maybe we'll get a call here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so uh yeah, you know again, these two these
Speaker 5: these two games are just uh we just we just
Speaker 5: expect them. I expect them to lose them both. So
Speaker 5: we'll see what happens. Yeah, okay, well we got a call.
Speaker 5: We're just trying to get you into hang on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hang on.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure this out. So I Tony, you're
Speaker 1: not going to go to Detroit, stick around with us.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be our You'll be able to parachute every
Speaker 1: day this week. Okay, you got them yet?
Speaker 3: Nope? Not yees Okay, so you can hear here we
Speaker 3: go either you're on the art on on the Ballico,
Speaker 3: what's up?
Speaker 18: Hey man, I want to talk about the Cats.
Speaker 3: Many You're you're realistic.
Speaker 18: The Cats are like one of those narrative girls in school, man,
Speaker 18: that has potential. They're just not reaching it yet. We
Speaker 18: knew a good You should have been more pissed.
Speaker 5: Oh I was mad, but again but I was. I
Speaker 5: was mad, but it also was tempered by the fact
Speaker 5: that they won. So you know, in the end, when
Speaker 5: I put my head on the pill, I'm like, they won.
Speaker 18: I'm just saying you weren't that way about New Mexico
Speaker 18: State or New Mexican whatever team was right?
Speaker 3: Right? Oh, he's inconsistent. It's all right. I'm a lot
Speaker 3: of it. No, what did you see? What did you see? Nico?
Speaker 3: Did you go Now, I didn't go. I got COVID really.
Speaker 19: Got it.
Speaker 18: Didn't go, man, I didn't want to sit through that.
Speaker 3: No, I went. I went, and I was in the
Speaker 3: north end zone. Uh, great seats. I was certainly nicely
Speaker 3: than in terms of was barely three hour games and
Speaker 3: which a three hour game. And there was people there.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of people, that good crowd.
Speaker 18: I'm just saying. Halfway through the game, I was thinking,
Speaker 18: is this going to happen again?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Right, yeah, And I'm not gonna lie it.
Speaker 5: When when it was ten to three, I mean thirteen
Speaker 5: to ten, No, ten to seven, they were down. Oh no,
Speaker 5: Arizona was up thirteen to ten, and any you got
Speaker 5: the ball two times when it was thirteen to ten,
Speaker 5: and I thought, if any of you goes down and
Speaker 5: scores and takes the lead again, we got a problem.
Speaker 5: So the second they went that fourth and one and one,
Speaker 5: but the defense just didn't let them and and uh okay,
Speaker 5: and then.
Speaker 1: Ko I can't remember if we asked you what you
Speaker 1: thought the season would end up, you know, eight and
Speaker 1: four seventy five, what did you remember?
Speaker 3: What did you say? Or did we ask six and six?
Speaker 3: So is that still at six and six.
Speaker 18: Eh, if that be Kansas State, they might get seven.
Speaker 3: If they be Kansas State and Eico, they're don't get
Speaker 3: nine or ten.
Speaker 18: Maybe, man, I don't know, it's weird, man. I'm watching
Speaker 18: a lot of big twill football, which is hard for me.
Speaker 1: But all right, there's a lot of good teams then yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: thanks Nico, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, anybody else want to call? Hey, Robert, were ready
Speaker 1: for your call?
Speaker 3: Just come on in. More calls at least Tess, Ryan,
Speaker 3: have Tony to save.
Speaker 5: Us five two zero, four one, six, seventy four forty.
Speaker 5: We'll try and we'll try and get you on without
Speaker 5: a lot of dead air. So again, we're figuring this out.
Speaker 5: But you know, we're going to kick this thing all
Speaker 5: over the place all you know, the rest of the week.
Speaker 5: You know what's going to happen, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Six and six. I don't think they're six. They kind
Speaker 3: of look like a six and sixteam right now, I know, but.
Speaker 5: I don't they Yes, they look like one, but I
Speaker 5: don't think they are one. No, are they are they
Speaker 5: a ten win team? They don't look like a ten
Speaker 5: win team. No, I think they look like they can
Speaker 5: be an eight and four team. I think right now,
Speaker 5: based on what we've seen, I think there's more chance
Speaker 5: that they're going to be an eight and fourteen than
Speaker 5: a six and sixteam, just because I think the defense. Look,
Speaker 5: I give away that first half against New Mexico State.
Speaker 5: They've been good since then, right, they were really good
Speaker 5: the second half of New Mexico game, and then they
Speaker 5: were good Saturday night against.
Speaker 3: So if they don't get the running back back, uh,
Speaker 3: you're okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I liked what I saw last week. Those guys
Speaker 5: were good and and speedy. Luke still just hasn't seen
Speaker 5: the ball a lot. He well, he's got to not.
Speaker 5: He's got to hang on to the ball.
Speaker 1: Guess what, You've already established that reputation, you have it, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's got that.
Speaker 3: You got to get rid of it somehow, somehow.
Speaker 5: I like what I see in the Patterson, the receiver,
Speaker 5: and you know the on the return games. He's gonna
Speaker 5: bust one or two this year, and and so I
Speaker 5: think that we're going to see we're gonna see him
Speaker 5: do some things that I don't know why he's going
Speaker 5: to do. Him as a receiver, but he's certainly doing
Speaker 5: those things as a as a you know, kick returner,
Speaker 5: special team guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I I you know, I don't know what.
Speaker 5: We don't know who the other receiver and we not
Speaker 5: see much from right. Uh, what's the lamonious craig?
Speaker 3: Right? So the tight ends you have?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they they threw the tight ends all you know,
Speaker 5: all day? All right, we got to call her coming in.
Speaker 5: You're on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 19: Hey, it's team money here and tooth what's going on?
Speaker 3: If you had to follow an ECO, didn't you tea money?
Speaker 13: Hey?
Speaker 17: So that that uh, that offensive line, man, I don't care.
Speaker 17: I don't know what it's deal. It's scary, merit. He's
Speaker 17: gone like I don't, I don't. I didn't know how
Speaker 17: they got that guy through, you know, on campus anyway.
Speaker 7: But that that situation is, that's just the loss.
Speaker 17: Like just he's gone, Like I wouldn't even give that
Speaker 17: guy a second thought. But the offensive line is the
Speaker 17: key here and going in the season, I think, hey, man,
Speaker 17: nine wins, ten wins, look at this, but these last
Speaker 17: two games just taking the wind out of my sale.
Speaker 17: And it's it's the old line. If Fafita can't figure
Speaker 17: it out when he gets pressure, right, and that's that's
Speaker 17: really disconcerting. Like I thought he was better than that.
Speaker 17: It's comforting myself thinking maybe at COVID or something like.
Speaker 17: It's scary.
Speaker 2: It's scary.
Speaker 17: And but for better or for worse, these last two games,
Speaker 17: they're done. They're throwaways, and it really starts a case stake.
Speaker 17: And it's going to be first quarter in Manhattan. If
Speaker 17: if they're they're looking you know, like uh, deer in
Speaker 17: the headlights, then it's gonna be a long season.
Speaker 5: Well, I think when we were talking about them being
Speaker 5: really good all along, it was gonna be if the
Speaker 5: offensive line was good and held together and they didn't
Speaker 5: have a lot of depth. And we're already seeing problems
Speaker 5: with the depth and the defensive learning too. Right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: so I think you know, but that team money, that's
Speaker 5: the issue with any team, right. If your offensive line
Speaker 5: is having injuries and guys are missing and guys are
Speaker 5: out of position, you're gonna have a tough time to money.
Speaker 3: You said you're out of town, you're not team. So
Speaker 3: did you go to the game.
Speaker 19: No, I didn't know how to do some other things,
Speaker 19: but I mean I followed, and and uh it's is
Speaker 19: one of those things where you know, after the game,
Speaker 19: guys are saying, you know, the office didn't come to
Speaker 19: play and things like that, it was just another.
Speaker 17: Late night Tucson stinker. And like it's it goes a
Speaker 17: long way too, Like we talk about filling up the
Speaker 17: stadium and doing these certain don't do that. Don't do that.
Speaker 17: Don't let people feel like they wasted a Saturday night.
Speaker 17: Yeah right, right, but uh yeah, it is a war
Speaker 17: of attrition and it's whoever goes down first. And unfortunately,
Speaker 17: you know, in the first two games, we're seeing our
Speaker 17: O line be decimated. But uh yeah, hopefully, hopefully there's
Speaker 17: a lot of hand ringing on my part, but unfortunately,
Speaker 17: I don't think it. I don't think it's gonna come out.
Speaker 3: To see what happened. Okay, thanks, thank you, Tom. I
Speaker 3: appreciate the call. Yeah, I think he's he's been realistic.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, I don't blame team money or anybody else
Speaker 5: who feels like he feels. I do not, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't grudge him any of that. But the thing
Speaker 5: is that, you know, there's a lot of football left
Speaker 5: to be played. These games that are coming up. Now,
Speaker 5: you know, there's there's not gonna you know, there's not
Speaker 5: gonna be the well they they could just kind of
Speaker 5: through the uniforms on the field against ANAU. That's not
Speaker 5: going to be the case going forward. All the rest
Speaker 5: of these games matter to these guys. So it's just
Speaker 5: gonna be matter of do you have the horses you
Speaker 5: need to win these games? And I think that's what
Speaker 5: we're what we're waiting to find out.
Speaker 3: So this is what's this. This is not the time
Speaker 3: we have left.
Speaker 20: No, we we were out at sixteen fifty seven. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 20: we got Oh it's so oh that's the time of
Speaker 20: the day. Yeah, that is a military time. That's a
Speaker 20: clas military time, military time. I don't know what that
Speaker 20: closs is military seven hundred.
Speaker 5: It's four fifty about to be four fifty one in
Speaker 5: the afternoon our clocks, and we got to be out
Speaker 5: at four fifty Okay.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I think we got a lot of time. No, okay,
Speaker 1: we still got time for a call called Robert, if
Speaker 1: you want to call.
Speaker 5: Back, we still appreciate what well, yeah, we're trying to
Speaker 5: save the conversation for you if you call about no
Speaker 5: fa fida and and uh and and how much he
Speaker 5: had to run around on Saturday night. But uh, I
Speaker 5: know again, you know these fans who are we are
Speaker 5: feeling like things aren't happening or it didn't look good
Speaker 5: those first two games. I don't disagree with them. But
Speaker 5: what I what I do believe is you got to
Speaker 5: let this play out, and it will play out, and
Speaker 5: we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: That is the sensible reasonable guy. I haven't known five years.
Speaker 1: Talk you're getting old in your time or whatever. You've
Speaker 1: been reading gospel books or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to fend off the people who think
Speaker 5: that Arizona sucks.
Speaker 3: I really am.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to fend him off because because I I
Speaker 5: don't think you know, I don't think we know. I
Speaker 5: don't think you know how good this team can be
Speaker 5: or how bad it's going to be, if it's going
Speaker 5: to be bad, and and so I'd say, just give it,
Speaker 5: give it more time, to let this thing develop and
Speaker 5: see what they look like the next two weeks or
Speaker 5: the next two games.
Speaker 3: It's it's two games over a three week period. The
Speaker 3: quieter gentler JA I like it.
Speaker 5: I you know, I'll tell you what the fact that
Speaker 5: this game is on Friday and they're the ones that
Speaker 5: have to travel, I think that's a factor.
Speaker 3: Well, and being there with a pretty good crowd, right,
Speaker 3: I think I think this is going to be a
Speaker 3: hard game to win on the road a place you've
Speaker 3: never been to. And on top of that, if they
Speaker 3: pull this off, you know what I'm gonna hear from
Speaker 3: you on Monday. I told you. I told you so.
Speaker 1: You need to relax and guess what that could happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they could. They could win this game.
Speaker 5: They could get their faces beat in, or it could
Speaker 5: be you know, a close game, you know, into the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter or whatever, all of the above.
Speaker 3: Any one of those things can happen based on what
Speaker 3: we've seen this first.
Speaker 1: So listen soon for a second. That they that they
Speaker 1: go to uh to t back like they did in
Speaker 1: the first game. You're not gonna mind that.
Speaker 5: No, not at all, not all. Thrown the damn ball,
Speaker 5: Throw the damn ball. Okay, we've got another collar. You're
Speaker 5: on the air and I on the ball. You're on
Speaker 5: the air.
Speaker 15: It's Robert calling you guys back.
Speaker 3: Robert, thank you for calling back. What's your question, Robert?
Speaker 15: What is Fafita not supposed to run the ball? Is
Speaker 15: I mean, is it going to be a pattern if
Speaker 15: they blitz them or they come at from all the
Speaker 15: time that we don't score, we don't move the ball.
Speaker 15: I mean, if that is what's the word on that?
Speaker 15: Is he not supposed to ramble and getting yards.
Speaker 3: Or I think I think he can.
Speaker 5: I think that rather he didn't. You know, he's he's
Speaker 5: not a big guy, so he's not you know, he's
Speaker 5: not a speedst He's not Kyler Murray. He's not, you know,
Speaker 5: one of those guys.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think he can move around, uh, you know, when
Speaker 5: he's under pressure. But he was under too much pressure
Speaker 5: a lot of times on Saturday.
Speaker 1: He was not thinking about moving forward. He was about
Speaker 1: just trying to get out of the way, right.
Speaker 15: I understand that, But I mean that's gonna be a
Speaker 15: teams are gonna key on that. And if they start
Speaker 15: doing that and we're going to just sit there and
Speaker 15: not score, we should have put up fifty to sixty
Speaker 15: points on Nau And uh, I mean, is it gonna
Speaker 15: be a thing where he's just running for his life
Speaker 15: back there to not get you know, sack or get hit.
Speaker 15: Do they have a I'm not saying to switch him,
Speaker 15: and not not by any means at all, But if
Speaker 15: the game gets like that, is it going to be
Speaker 15: their quarterback that could runs the other the backup quarterback
Speaker 15: that no, no, no, actually run the ball.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think. I don't think that.
Speaker 5: I don't think the offense is designed for that for him.
Speaker 5: You know, even though the run pass option, he's he's
Speaker 5: handing off the ball. He's not, uh you know, he's
Speaker 5: not gonna He's not you know, what's his name, Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5: I mean he's he's handing off the ball. And look,
Speaker 5: I mean he didn't he didn't run the ball last
Speaker 5: year and he was highly successful, so you he doesn't
Speaker 5: have to have to be able to run to be successful.
Speaker 3: Robert, what would you understand?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry?
Speaker 3: What grade would you give him two games in?
Speaker 15: I don't know, maybe a B minus?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 15: The team after the first B minus was talking.
Speaker 3: About what about the team? Did you go to the game?
Speaker 15: Oh? The team? I didn't go to the game, and
Speaker 15: I was listening to him talking with my brother about it.
Speaker 15: But uh, the team, the great for the team, I
Speaker 15: think it's about a sea so far, because I mean
Speaker 15: the defense played good one game, well one game, and
Speaker 15: then the offense stump it up the next team. I
Speaker 15: think they're average right now. I think I think they're
Speaker 15: gonna get a lot better. But I just hope that,
Speaker 15: you know, the thing of putting that much pressure on
Speaker 15: Buffeta doesn't become a you know, season long thing, just
Speaker 15: like with basketball, when they threw his own that the
Speaker 15: airs on the wildcare basketball team, it's like we were
Speaker 15: lost out there.
Speaker 3: Well, Robert, thanks for the call. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate it, all right, So okay, yeah again, yeah, again,
Speaker 5: that one. I don't you know, they don't. I don't
Speaker 5: think they want no for feet to running the ball.
Speaker 5: I just don't for a lot of reasons. First of all,
Speaker 5: I mean, he's quick enough to be a quarterback at
Speaker 5: this level. He's not fast, and you don't want to
Speaker 5: put him at risks, right And I think he's got
Speaker 5: really good instincts.
Speaker 3: Pocket awareness what they call it.
Speaker 5: But you know, the other night, you know he was
Speaker 5: you know, he was turning around and getting away from
Speaker 5: but then there was another guy right there. He just
Speaker 5: couldn't get out of the rush. They were they were
Speaker 5: they were killing him. They were, they were, they were
Speaker 5: He had nowhere to go, He had nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: And so well, and you don't want to put him
Speaker 1: in a situation where there's a chance that he could
Speaker 1: get hit pretty heavily, you know. Yeah, so so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't put him at risk, at least not now. No,
Speaker 1: you can't let me see this. And I don't think
Speaker 1: i've heard this yet. It's right or die with no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're not. There's question right there. Yeah, no
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 5: And and you you know, I, as a fan, I
Speaker 5: don't want to see him put in harm's way in
Speaker 5: that way. You know, they can run the ball without
Speaker 5: him having to run it, then I'm all in on
Speaker 5: that for one hundred percent. And and and you know
Speaker 5: the passing game again, he didn't run the ball all
Speaker 5: last year, right now. He escaped a few times, got
Speaker 5: some yards, you know, even did that in the in
Speaker 5: the New Mexico game, he had a run where where
Speaker 5: he broke loose and he scrambled and and and he
Speaker 5: got some yards, got it and got a first down.
Speaker 5: If he does that, that's okay. But I don't want
Speaker 5: any designed runs for him. He'll have to do that right,
Speaker 5: you know, Uh, you know, I don't think he's a
Speaker 5: guy that's going to do a quarterback draw. Give it
Speaker 5: to the guys that you know, are built to run
Speaker 5: the ball, and and that's the way I see that.
Speaker 5: So I don't have any issues with him and not
Speaker 5: you know, not running the ball at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Uh, we're going a little longer to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got got about another minute. We've been asked
Speaker 5: to go to near to the top of the hour,
Speaker 5: so we're going to do that for We got about
Speaker 5: another minute. I can't take any more calls, but Steve,
Speaker 5: you know, we're gonna look, this is gonna be the conversation.
Speaker 3: All week long until they play another game to.
Speaker 1: Tell them some some pretty good news that we've got today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, we did get some good news.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be uh, we're gonna be doing our show
Speaker 5: from Casino Dell Soul at the Sports Book once a month.
Speaker 3: This was the big announcement we were talking about.
Speaker 5: We're trying to figure out the number of days we're
Speaker 5: gonna go on and we're trying to still trying to
Speaker 5: figure some things out. We're gonna do it either on
Speaker 5: a Thursday or a Monday to be able to you know,
Speaker 5: lead into the NFL game on those days.
Speaker 3: Uh, we're gonna do it one one time a month.
Speaker 5: We've just found out about this sort of got finalized
Speaker 5: today and so we're gonna figure out that.
Speaker 3: We've been waiting for what days those are gonna be.
Speaker 1: So, so maybe you have a chance come and see us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll let you know plenty of time when we'll be
Speaker 1: there exactly.
Speaker 3: All right. I think that wraps it, So let's get
Speaker 3: out of here. We'll see it all tomorrow, eh,