Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to I on the Ball Hero Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty. Sorry for being a little late to little delay.
Speaker 1: You know, all the systems are this week. But we're here.
Speaker 2: We are here.
Speaker 1: We got our guy. I'm Steve, You're Jay. We got
Speaker 1: a guy Juan. We got the kids in the house,
Speaker 1: Henry and Matthew. Now we got Matthew maybe gonna join us.
Speaker 1: I hope he does.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, we were off to a bad
Speaker 2: start with him. I think we got to text people.
Speaker 1: You're ready to go cool. Hey, maybe if Arizona doesn't
Speaker 1: start this way, they might have a chance.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm glad you brought that up, because you know,
Speaker 2: when when these games come up like this, and I
Speaker 2: think back to all the way back to what state
Speaker 2: when Arizona went to Wisconsin John Macvic's for second year.
Speaker 2: I guess it was from road trip to Wisconsin. We all,
Speaker 2: you know, we put a bunch of money up to
Speaker 2: go to the game. You know, UH love to and
Speaker 2: you know, being able to go. And I just remember
Speaker 2: as literally we're sitting on the plane on the tarmac
Speaker 2: at Tuson International Airport and I said to my buddy Dale,
Speaker 2: who was with me, they said, you know what, all
Speaker 2: I want is to not be down twenty one to
Speaker 2: nothing in the first quarter. That's all. And they were
Speaker 2: down twenty one to nothing in the first quarter, so death, yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's all tonight. With all this the anticipation of
Speaker 2: this game, all I want is for Arizona to not
Speaker 2: be getting killed in the first quarter and kill the
Speaker 2: buzz for this game. That really. I mean, if they
Speaker 2: win the game, great, if they don't, but there it's
Speaker 2: a good game. I'm fine with that. Don't be down
Speaker 2: fourteen to nothing, seventeen to nothing early, right, right, be
Speaker 2: in the game from the get go.
Speaker 1: You you probably Mississippi State last year? Was that the case?
Speaker 1: They know, all those turnovers, they had to fight back
Speaker 1: and they had a chance. But earlier you're thinking, what
Speaker 1: the hell's going on? You just think it's the SEC
Speaker 1: so right, right, so you just got to stay and
Speaker 1: they stayed close in the second half obviously, But no,
Speaker 1: you you're you're right. You think we talked about this.
Speaker 1: This is the booster don't know if you know this,
Speaker 1: this is a booster trip?
Speaker 2: Oh is it? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is the first taste of the Big twelve?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Show how it's gonna because it's gonna be sold down.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be crazy. As long as they don't get intimidated.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will. Now, it's just playing healthy, right,
Speaker 1: if they can play healthy, right.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so that's you know, I just wanted to
Speaker 2: not not not kill the buzz for this game early.
Speaker 2: That's it. You know, be a close game early, don't
Speaker 2: you know. Don't look like you're gonna get run out
Speaker 2: of the you know, run out of the out of
Speaker 2: the stadium and uh and make it a good game.
Speaker 2: And that'll make me very happy.
Speaker 1: Mister goody two shoes. I think you guys do your
Speaker 1: picks on the website. Yep, what did you do? I
Speaker 1: had Arizona thirty one, Kansas State seventeen. I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it. Mister happy hands over here picking them
Speaker 1: to win? Why why did you say that?
Speaker 3: I think the defense is gonna have a good game.
Speaker 3: Avery Johnson doesn't do well under pressure, so I think
Speaker 3: the way our defense is designed, we're gonna have a
Speaker 3: good game.
Speaker 2: On defense, I'm not going to go well. I think
Speaker 2: people have misconstrued the defense because of how I played
Speaker 2: in the first half of New Mexico. Since then, it's
Speaker 2: been a pretty good defense. They played well in the
Speaker 2: second half, and they played well through the entire NAU game.
Speaker 2: I mean if if at the beginning of the game,
Speaker 2: if you had asked me, are you okay with NAU
Speaker 2: scoring ten points and that's how that's what they score,
Speaker 2: I would have said, yeah, because Arizone will win that game.
Speaker 2: So they go. They got ten points. It just didn't
Speaker 2: look as good because there because it was a close
Speaker 2: game into the second half. So yeah, I think the
Speaker 2: defense can be you know, can can step up and
Speaker 2: play well. The question is can they protect nor Forfeta.
Speaker 2: That's going to be the thing, and I think we'll
Speaker 2: find that out pretty early. You know, can they block?
Speaker 2: Can they run the ball a little bit? What's the
Speaker 2: offensive line going to look like? You know in this game?
Speaker 1: I think definitely that's the number one priority going in.
Speaker 1: What has to happen right for them? Noah, two in
Speaker 1: the game, and that's tied to number one, right, Uh?
Speaker 1: Three defense or maybe two defense three team Mac because
Speaker 1: they're not tied together. What's four?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Like what you know, Steve, you know the Dick Tony
Speaker 2: the kicking game. They got the special teams. They've got
Speaker 2: to you know, they've got to make their field goals.
Speaker 2: They can't you know, have a punt block they you know, uh,
Speaker 2: they got to win the SPA because field position when
Speaker 2: two teams are very evenly matched, like I think these
Speaker 2: two teams are a lot of times, it comes down
Speaker 2: to that, you know, who make who doesn't miss a
Speaker 2: field goal? Uh? You know who who's dropping punts inside
Speaker 2: the ten yard line? Uh? You know that kind of stuff. So,
Speaker 2: but you know, there's a there's so many things that
Speaker 2: we need to find out about this Arizona team. We
Speaker 2: could we could run a list of twenty different things
Speaker 2: that are going to matter tonight.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, two games in, not as
Speaker 1: a good sample size, what do we know about the
Speaker 1: football team right now? You can say nothing.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: I think we know they're talented, all right. I think
Speaker 2: we know they're thin on the offensive line, regardless of
Speaker 2: how it looked last week. I think we know no
Speaker 2: if of Feed is a good quarterback and T and
Speaker 2: he's got a great target and t Mac. You know,
Speaker 2: the question is because of the offensive line, how effective
Speaker 2: can those two guys be with the offensive line that
Speaker 2: they have. I think we know the defense is pretty good,
Speaker 2: don't you. Don't you?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they were the spark in the NAU game.
Speaker 3: They held in Mexico to seven points I think, fourteen
Speaker 3: points in.
Speaker 2: The second half. No points in the second half, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they were. Arizona was down.
Speaker 1: They're up to thirteen ten or whatever it was. It
Speaker 1: was thirteen, it was. It was really close. And then
Speaker 1: they had the fourth and one. Arizona was down ten
Speaker 1: six at the half. Weren't they something like that ten
Speaker 1: to seven? Yeah, Henry's giving the nods, so yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Henry.
Speaker 2: Matthew, you got to help us out here too. I'm
Speaker 2: just watching. I'm just here to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're pretty confident. I mean, that's a big
Speaker 1: spread if it was like twenty three twenty okay.
Speaker 3: Just because I think our defense is going to play
Speaker 3: so well. I think the talent we have an offense
Speaker 3: is gonna more like widen the gap towards the end
Speaker 3: of the game.
Speaker 1: That's why I have it so spread out. By the way,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have John Kaiser in about ten minutes, a
Speaker 1: former U of A player I saw him a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago, asked him to come on. He brought
Speaker 1: some perspective in terms of they haven't done anything yet.
Speaker 1: Purposely they're trying to get the guys healthy on the front, right,
Speaker 1: not showing him much offensively. He would know he plays, right,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure they did at a time or two
Speaker 1: when he played. I mean, we'll talk to him more
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd love to. I'd love to get his his
Speaker 2: You know, we always love getting thoughts of somebody who's played,
Speaker 2: because you and I never did. We just kind of
Speaker 2: sucked all the way through high school and stuff.
Speaker 1: You got a mouse.
Speaker 2: We we sect at football, you know, I I you know,
Speaker 2: I want to talk to him about things like, you know,
Speaker 2: first game jitters because this is their second, but this
Speaker 2: is their third game, but it's our first. And again
Speaker 2: it's not a conference game, but it's a it's a
Speaker 2: big twelve.
Speaker 1: Let's remember it's a highlight game of the day because
Speaker 1: no one else is playing. Yeah, it's the people. What
Speaker 1: do you want to do, Well, just watch the game.
Speaker 1: Who's playing Arizona Kansastate.
Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go ask some wings and watch a game.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I really want to get
Speaker 2: his perspective. And then with this news that came up
Speaker 2: about the PAC twelve yesterday. We're going to have John
Speaker 2: Wilder on in the second hour and and get into
Speaker 2: some of his thoughts as to what the hell is
Speaker 2: going on and how long is this going to go on? Right?
Speaker 1: Right? The resurgence or whatever word you want to use
Speaker 1: for the PAC.
Speaker 2: Twelve rebirth, I guess you could call it. They added
Speaker 2: four teams yesterday, so they're up to six and certainly
Speaker 2: more on the way because they got to get to
Speaker 2: eight and probably want to get to ten or twelve.
Speaker 1: It's who, it's who. It's who, not not if or
Speaker 1: when it's who.
Speaker 2: It's the who, it's the who. Right, So we'll we'll
Speaker 2: talk to John about about all that today. But it's
Speaker 2: game days. I wore my color. Look, I got both
Speaker 2: my colors going, Steve, I got my Dodger colors going good?
Speaker 1: Do you think you played good?
Speaker 2: I'm looking good to play good today. I keep oning
Speaker 2: to call you, Henry. It's like one. I mean, the
Speaker 2: red and the blue goes together, don't you think, wait,
Speaker 2: Dodger blue. Yeah, not so much. I mean not like
Speaker 2: navy blue.
Speaker 1: But now he's just trying to convince you.
Speaker 2: I don't think, so okay, that's you know what, I
Speaker 2: don't really care what you think.
Speaker 1: You didn't give him the answer you wanted him. Hell
Speaker 1: with you first time? Okay? You no big day obviously
Speaker 1: a big a big night because of the Big not
Speaker 1: the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: But I'm excited for this game, Yeah, I really am.
Speaker 2: I got up today and it didn't feel like a
Speaker 2: game day because it's Friday. But you know, pretty long,
Speaker 2: I thought, wait a minute, we've got we've got a
Speaker 2: game today, which is gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: What you guys don't want to do you Arizona Fence
Speaker 1: is feel a hangover tomorrow saying God, I got up
Speaker 1: for that and this is what happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. That's what I'm saying. You know, I
Speaker 2: just don't want it to be a crappy game where
Speaker 2: they get behind big early and are never kind of
Speaker 2: in it. You know, I just want this to be
Speaker 2: a game that keeps our interest in. If they lose
Speaker 2: twenty eight to twenty four, okay, you know, but if
Speaker 2: they lose thirty one to ten, that's not okay. Now.
Speaker 2: Now I think we've got issues, yeah, you know, to
Speaker 2: talk about and remember too.
Speaker 1: If they get beat thirty one to ten, whatever, don't
Speaker 1: have a good showing, they have a week off. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like, okay, where do we go from this?
Speaker 1: And then they go to Utah and if they have
Speaker 1: another kind of a tough game, they come back home
Speaker 1: and what's the what's the fan fan band?
Speaker 2: Our fans are gota?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can I say that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I just did I have the button? Leave? Just
Speaker 1: leave it there. That's right, it's my last day here.
Speaker 1: Did that just took it? No?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I just don't want it to be
Speaker 2: I just want to be a huge downer today.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's the general base feeling from
Speaker 1: the whole fans. John will give us some perspective with that,
Speaker 1: because you know, he's a level hilled guy. He he
Speaker 1: knows they're gonna be good days. Yeah, and they'd be
Speaker 1: bad day, bad, but if they're gonna win nine or eight,
Speaker 1: this has to be a good day. This is one
Speaker 1: of those key games, right that we talked about this
Speaker 1: week and two weeks.
Speaker 2: These two games they need they need they need to
Speaker 2: get one, yeah, nine to win nine and they can
Speaker 2: still win eight. But if they lose both of them,
Speaker 2: but you know, to get nine Uh, this is one
Speaker 2: that they got to hit one of these days. And honestly,
Speaker 2: you'd prefer that they win the Utah game than this
Speaker 2: one because it's the conference game, right if they if
Speaker 2: they were to lose today but come back and beat Utah,
Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm totally good with that. I know by
Speaker 2: you guys, well, you don't care, Steve, what about you one?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not impossible anymore. At the beginning of
Speaker 3: the season, I thought, oh, you probably gonna be our
Speaker 3: toughest game. But rise, it might not be bad. I
Speaker 3: saw something that said six to eight weeks haveuse.
Speaker 1: I asked you how difficult it's been for you to
Speaker 1: be in the press box?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and real difficult. I'm glad that it's away game today.
Speaker 3: You could be be right there at home with my family.
Speaker 1: Huh. Having a little fandom with you inside you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. I'm sure you usedtill have a little fandom
Speaker 1: in the press box, but you have to hold it back.
Speaker 1: I hold it back. I'm pretty good at it. That's
Speaker 1: the rest of your life, dude.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I did cheer in the press box one time
Speaker 2: when when Kirk Gibson homeward against it against the Oakland
Speaker 2: A's because I had to add a little TV on
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I lost my mind.
Speaker 2: No, I was I was young.
Speaker 1: No, you did it, but that was not that was.
Speaker 2: The game, but I and it was one of those
Speaker 2: little two inch TVs. And all of a sudden, everybody
Speaker 2: in the press box is crowded around at watching the
Speaker 2: replay and stuff. Pretty funny that you're gonna say, I
Speaker 2: did it in the Dodgers and I'm not gonna lie. Uh.
Speaker 2: Jetfish's second year. They're playing Washington at Washington and we
Speaker 2: had to be in a wedding down in Magdalena in Mexico.
Speaker 2: We were at a at a at a friend of
Speaker 2: ours wedding during the game and I had the phone
Speaker 2: on watching the game during the ceremony.
Speaker 1: Who here doesn't believe that these two should be married? Shoot, well,
Speaker 1: you have to say, Jay, they scored.
Speaker 2: I had the game one.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's take a break here, let's get out of here.
Speaker 1: We're here, we're alive, We're good so far. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get ahold of mister Kaiser John Er talk about football,
Speaker 1: all right, We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Wapp Hey, welcome back to my Iying the ball here
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera's Jaginsaws. Now
Speaker 1: on the phone, we have John Tyser. John, we'll hopeing
Speaker 1: you're gonna be the voice of reason for us.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, I'll do my best for that.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: John, John, This is Jay. How how fired up do
Speaker 2: you get for these games here at the start of
Speaker 2: the season and uh, you know, a whole new season.
Speaker 1: Now and then and stuff now is now was a
Speaker 1: fan and and then as a player?
Speaker 13: Oh boy, it's uh then was a long time ago.
Speaker 13: I can barely remember that far back. No, But seriously,
Speaker 13: you know, back then, we all got to saying, you know,
Speaker 13: respect all and fear none.
Speaker 14: So you came into every game thinking.
Speaker 13: You're gonna win and playing your best and and hopefully
Speaker 13: that works out that way, but sometimes just doesn't happen
Speaker 13: that way.
Speaker 4: Were you guys?
Speaker 14: Go ahead?
Speaker 13: Fan, I go, I go in the games, thinking we're
Speaker 13: gonna win and we're gonna dominate hopefully.
Speaker 2: Were you uh going And we might have asked you
Speaker 2: this before, but refreshed my memory. Were you somebody who
Speaker 2: would getting nervous and I mean like nervous, nervous before
Speaker 2: games and like we see those guys that go throw
Speaker 2: up and all that kind of stuff. How nervous did
Speaker 2: you get before games? And when did that wear off?
Speaker 13: You know what, I don't think I was ever nervous
Speaker 13: before games. I was more excited and ready for games.
Speaker 13: I mean, I've played a pretty good quarterback named Jim Kelly,
Speaker 13: and Jim threw up before every game, so tach their own,
Speaker 13: but overall, it's just more excited. The bigger the game,
Speaker 13: the more you know you're feeling inside. But it's more
Speaker 13: excitement than nerves. For me, it was just ready to go.
Speaker 13: Let's let's play now.
Speaker 1: So you and I ran into each other a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago, and and you were telling me just
Speaker 1: kind of maybe being realistic about the offensive line. Tell
Speaker 1: the listeners your thoughts on what has happened to this point.
Speaker 14: I just think we've been a.
Speaker 13: Little uttle not showing everything being ready because It's two
Speaker 13: games you should have won easily, you know, kind of
Speaker 13: did you know the second perspecially the second hand haven't
Speaker 13: played a little bit better. I mean offensively, we're missing
Speaker 13: some offensive lineman, so you know, getting Baker back will
Speaker 13: be a huge help for us today. And uh, I
Speaker 13: just think we're just kind of not showing a lot
Speaker 13: of things. I've known deal coach Tino Babers for a
Speaker 13: lot of years and very very good offensive coordinator, aggressive,
Speaker 13: gets after and I think we're gonna see a little
Speaker 13: bit more that tonight.
Speaker 2: When you're when you're on you're a defensive player, you
Speaker 2: do you recognize when the team's got a really good
Speaker 2: offensive line and when they don't, and and what what
Speaker 2: makes a really good offensive line?
Speaker 13: You know, yeah, absolutely, you watch enough. You know, as
Speaker 13: a player, you watch a lot of film and see
Speaker 13: things and you can tell when this when they're clicking
Speaker 13: and moving and talking and you know, a good offense
Speaker 13: line us he starts from the center by you know,
Speaker 13: the center usually reads everything what the defense is doing,
Speaker 13: and you know, checking off the just certain blocks and
Speaker 13: what's going on on the field, and and you know
Speaker 13: we didn't have that last week. But overall, good offense line.
Speaker 14: You can just tell the clicking.
Speaker 13: They're just coming off the ball low and attacking you
Speaker 13: and get to kick your pads lower than them. So
Speaker 13: it's just they're aggressive, gets.
Speaker 1: Half to you. So what don't you want to see tonight?
Speaker 1: What's the what's the thing you do not want to see?
Speaker 1: Letus lose?
Speaker 13: Yeah? Well look, yeah, now, I just don't want to
Speaker 13: see us get off.
Speaker 14: To the full start. I think we got you know,
Speaker 14: they run.
Speaker 2: The ball really well.
Speaker 13: Johnson's another quarterback that gets outside the pocket.
Speaker 14: We didn't do a very.
Speaker 13: Good job of that against Too Mex because we saw
Speaker 13: we got.
Speaker 14: So I like to I don't want to just lose
Speaker 14: entertainment against.
Speaker 13: The quarterback in the pocket and and and get after
Speaker 13: it early in the game to stop the run.
Speaker 2: Well, was was there anything you saw last week that
Speaker 2: that made you be concerned a little bit? Or did
Speaker 2: was it just like you said, you just felt that
Speaker 2: they weren't showing anything? I mean, were you worried about
Speaker 2: anything after the game yet last week?
Speaker 13: Well, you know, we didn't pass protect very well, and uh,
Speaker 13: I don't think we were as aggressive as we normally
Speaker 13: would be. So I think part of it was not
Speaker 13: showing things. Part of it was some injuries or you know,
Speaker 13: I think those guys could have played if it was
Speaker 13: a big game, but let's get him ready for this week.
Speaker 1: It's a bigger game.
Speaker 13: So you know, I just wanted to be more aggressive
Speaker 13: getting coming out of the gates and get after it.
Speaker 1: So I know you're a fan, and we had Jake
Speaker 1: Fisher on yesterday and he's like the mega fan. You
Speaker 1: know they're never gonna lose, blah blah blah. Are you
Speaker 1: that extreme? One? And and and realistically, when you look
Speaker 1: at the schedule, because everybody does it, what did you
Speaker 1: think they'd win this year? How many games?
Speaker 13: I was? I was? I was, uh, eight as it
Speaker 13: always and nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so we're we're in the same ballpark. Realistically,
Speaker 1: we're in the same ballpark, and we're thinking these next
Speaker 1: two games because on paper, the next two games look
Speaker 1: like the two to be the two toughests. So if
Speaker 1: they maybe sweep, for sure they'll get that. But if
Speaker 1: they split, uh they maybe still get that.
Speaker 13: Oh absolutely, But you know, I don't I never think
Speaker 13: about losing, but it does happen. One of the two games,
Speaker 13: it happens. I mean, you tak the conference game, which
Speaker 13: is and.
Speaker 14: This is kind of where this.
Speaker 1: Is not a conference game.
Speaker 13: Right, unusual. But I mean I'd rather lose the non
Speaker 13: conference game than the conference game, realistically, but I don't
Speaker 13: want to lose. You you know, I never thought I
Speaker 13: was gonna lose a game wherever I played. So I'm
Speaker 13: so these guys are thinking the same way. We're not
Speaker 13: gonna lose, We're gonna win every game, as they should
Speaker 13: think that way.
Speaker 2: We like to ask this of guys who who've played,
Speaker 2: how do you watch a game? Are you are you
Speaker 2: watching the guys in the position that you played, or
Speaker 2: you just watch, you know, paying real close to the defense,
Speaker 2: or you just watch as a fan and just want
Speaker 2: to see touchdowns and things like that. Do you analyze
Speaker 2: the game as you go through it?
Speaker 14: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 13: I watched as a fan, of course, because I am
Speaker 13: a huge fan, as you know, I always will be
Speaker 13: at always have done since I've been there. But I
Speaker 13: do I look for tendencies in the offense and defenses.
Speaker 13: I you know, see what they're trying to do, and
Speaker 13: especially as the defensive player, I watched the other team's
Speaker 13: offense to pick up what they're doing. And how they're
Speaker 13: doing things. And sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong, but
Speaker 13: I really can't kind of follow the game that way too,
Speaker 13: so I do both ways to be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you how excited are you to start this
Speaker 1: year in a new conference?
Speaker 13: You know it's weird, isn't it. I mean I was writing,
Speaker 13: you know, I was rooting for every Pac twelve team
Speaker 13: except to school up North of course, Uh, the last
Speaker 13: couple of weeks because if that's that's my habit of doing. Uh,
Speaker 13: some got It's something new and I got to get
Speaker 13: used to it. I'm excited about the new conference, but
Speaker 13: I'm really sad about how it happened, and.
Speaker 14: I wish the back well well, but can't change that.
Speaker 13: Right, and and uh, we're moving forward, and it's gonna
Speaker 13: be a lot of fun to It's gonna be a
Speaker 13: lot more I think it's gonna be a lot more
Speaker 13: college atmosphere than.
Speaker 14: We're used to seeing with the Midwest fans and Southern
Speaker 14: fan where it's every stadium is.
Speaker 13: Packed and loud and crazy. And as a player, I
Speaker 13: love that, So it should be excited to these guys.
Speaker 13: The full the full stadiums like Oregon, Washington, like they
Speaker 13: were and being that atmosphere every weekend hopefully, So.
Speaker 2: How well if you had a chance to get I
Speaker 2: guess I don't know how well have you gotten to
Speaker 2: nor him or have you had a chance to get
Speaker 2: to know him? Either way, Brent Brennan, what do you
Speaker 2: know about him? What are your impressions of him so far?
Speaker 13: I've gotten no Coach Brennan quite well. I like him
Speaker 13: a lot.
Speaker 14: He's he's he's a good.
Speaker 13: Guy that cares about the Arizona, cares about the program.
Speaker 13: I think he's a hell of a coach. I mean,
Speaker 13: when you can win at San Jose State, you pretty
Speaker 13: much win anywhere, can't you. I mean that's that's a
Speaker 13: tough place to recruit and get players to go. And
Speaker 13: I like him a lot.
Speaker 14: I think we're gonna see a lot more things coming
Speaker 14: from and he looks like he's a recruiting.
Speaker 13: Well for next year. And he brought in some you know,
Speaker 13: he got late here last year, so he did a
Speaker 13: great job getting the transfer portal going and some other
Speaker 13: guys going.
Speaker 14: So you know he's gonna be keeping Teamack.
Speaker 13: And the other guys here.
Speaker 1: He's done a.
Speaker 14: Great job, I think.
Speaker 13: And people are a little bit. You know, people get
Speaker 13: a little crazy early on. But give the man a chance.
Speaker 13: He's a great guy that think, a great coach, and
Speaker 13: she's gonna be a winner.
Speaker 1: Here we're talking about John Kaiser, former you of a
Speaker 1: football player back in the day. I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: do you get with a group of people like I said,
Speaker 1: we talked to Jake? Jake needs to be left alone
Speaker 1: because he goes kind of crazy when things go bad.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I watch all I mean, besides, I go to
Speaker 13: all the home games, of course, but when we're on
Speaker 13: the road, I got to watch it at home by
Speaker 13: myself with one.
Speaker 1: Of my brothers.
Speaker 13: I can't go to a bar and watch. I can't
Speaker 13: code it. I don't want to hear all.
Speaker 14: These stupid idiot.
Speaker 1: Comics really out there. We didn't know that.
Speaker 14: Maybe I'm one of them.
Speaker 13: I not.
Speaker 14: Even the NFL games.
Speaker 13: I just can't. I like to watch them at home
Speaker 13: and watch the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you when you when people talk about Arizona
Speaker 2: And I'll say, when people talk bad about Arizona and
Speaker 2: they're upset about they didn't win by enough or they
Speaker 2: lost and they suck, and do you take it personally
Speaker 2: because you wore the uniform and I mean, like very
Speaker 2: defensively and uh, you know, is it personal with you? You know,
Speaker 2: even after all this time and we're talking forty years
Speaker 2: since you play the Arizona, you know, how do you
Speaker 2: how do you take that and that? How do you not?
Speaker 2: I don't know, because I know there's times I want
Speaker 2: to punt somebody out. I mean, do you ever do
Speaker 2: want to do that?
Speaker 13: Did you have to do? You have to help people
Speaker 13: some forty years? Sorry, that's that's reality, you know what
Speaker 13: I just think with saying, you know, I just don't
Speaker 13: listen to them that they don't know what they're talking about. Hey,
Speaker 13: there's been years with unfortunate with someone and maccause they're right, Sunset.
Speaker 13: I think most of the time, most most of.
Speaker 14: The years we were competitive, play hard.
Speaker 13: We don't always have the greatest talent, but with kids,
Speaker 13: play hard. And that's the bottom line. I mean, if
Speaker 13: you're playing hard, having fun, you give yourself a chance
Speaker 13: of winning games. And the fans they're not true fans,
Speaker 13: that's true. Playing all the time, right.
Speaker 14: They're not true fans. They're not complain Like you said, we.
Speaker 13: Beat that in you twenty two to whatever is to
Speaker 13: ten and that's not enough, Like, you know, win to win,
Speaker 13: so you want to win college football game?
Speaker 1: Well that said okay, So I I went as a
Speaker 1: kind of fan. I want to watch. I didn't cover
Speaker 1: the game for Saturday, and the first thing I heard
Speaker 1: walking out just by myself, I heard, Oh, we're affing
Speaker 1: in trouble, some fans were saying. And I'm thinking, there's
Speaker 1: the fan base, right, So so what do you hear
Speaker 1: when you're on the streets, because I'm sure people know
Speaker 1: you played.
Speaker 13: Yeah, people just said, oh, but it was a bad performance.
Speaker 13: Go yeah. But I don't think what we talked about
Speaker 13: the other day, I don't think we've showed everything. We're
Speaker 13: kind of Vanella. Why should we show everything before Kansas State?
Speaker 13: The first two games are easily winnable games. I think
Speaker 13: we're gonna be more aggressive offensively, defensively, we're gonna get
Speaker 13: after it. We've got great dvs, a stud linebackers, a
Speaker 13: new d line. I think it's we're coach coach a
Speaker 13: Keena's having them being more aggressive like the Desert Swarm days.
Speaker 13: So I think these things are are in front of us.
Speaker 13: And offensively too, we haven't you know, we use team
Speaker 13: matches we needed to use them gets the next so,
Speaker 13: but we kind of didn't do as much where and
Speaker 13: we had injuries up front and the old lines. I
Speaker 13: think we're fine, and they just were just relaxed two.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, We're all right, No jays, they'll listen to
Speaker 1: John rather.
Speaker 2: Than you because he's a big dude. I know, I've
Speaker 2: seen I've seen John. So I wanted to jog your
Speaker 2: memory a little bit, you know, going back to you know,
Speaker 2: your your couple of years that you you were at
Speaker 2: Arizona eighty two, eighty three, that eighty three team, you know,
Speaker 2: going into the year, a lot of expectations, you know,
Speaker 2: I think it was Sports Illustrated, had you guys ranked
Speaker 2: pretty high. You know, this team's got, you know, expectations
Speaker 2: as a player. How do you manage that? How did
Speaker 2: you manage all of that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: When people were saying, we think you guys are going
Speaker 2: to be really good, to make sure that you kept
Speaker 2: your you know, your your your wits about you about
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, I knew we were good. We got
Speaker 13: to start of the nation and we got tied to
Speaker 13: cal Berkeley, which was a huge upset, but we had
Speaker 13: a great team and we're information that year unfortunately, right.
Speaker 13: But like the kids nowadays, to the bottom line is
Speaker 13: you can't listen to all the students telling you how
Speaker 13: great you are, how good your team is, all this stuff,
Speaker 13: and you just got to you know, you know you're good,
Speaker 13: so you don't need to listen.
Speaker 14: To what they're saying. Just you got to work hard every.
Speaker 13: Week, get prepared, and do your job. And I know
Speaker 13: it's a game, but it's still a job, and it's
Speaker 13: a business, and you just gotta do what you gotta
Speaker 13: do to win every game. But I don't care if
Speaker 13: you won by a player it's forty points, it doesn't
Speaker 13: matter as long as you win.
Speaker 1: You know how hard that is to do, John, you
Speaker 1: did it right. You had to try to do it
Speaker 1: at least incovered the games. And I've said this a
Speaker 1: number of times. One of the things I've learned the
Speaker 1: most is emotions and games. What's the mindset of a
Speaker 1: twenty year old, nineteen year old going into a big
Speaker 1: game when you know he just lost his girlfriend or
Speaker 1: his dog, his dog, you know what I'm saying. Just
Speaker 1: kind of think, could you talk about that and how
Speaker 1: important that is?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, people forget they're you know, they're human beings.
Speaker 13: They go to class, girlfriends, they have, uh, whatever else
Speaker 13: is going on. It's called lice and things happened. So
Speaker 13: you have highs and lows in your life. You just
Speaker 13: gotta When you got in the field, you just started
Speaker 13: to block it out. But there's twenty year old kids.
Speaker 13: You got emotions, you know, and yeah, and you just
Speaker 13: gotta live your life and just try to block it
Speaker 13: out and do your job. But it's it's not easy.
Speaker 13: I mean, it is what.
Speaker 2: It is, right, all right? Right, all right, John, So
Speaker 2: give us a score tonight. What do you think? Who
Speaker 2: is be as level headed about this as you can?
Speaker 13: You know, I really believe it's gonna be a really
Speaker 13: close game. I think it's gonna be, uh.
Speaker 14: Probably a higher scoring game. I'm saying you have a
Speaker 14: thirty four thirty one.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, there's two people who said right around there,
Speaker 1: So okay, we believe you, John.
Speaker 13: You don't believe me, huh.
Speaker 1: Steve doesn't. He doesn't believe anything. He's a grump. I'm
Speaker 1: just nice because you're it's bigger than me. It was
Speaker 1: good seeing you, though.
Speaker 2: You're gonna watch a game at home today with some
Speaker 2: family or what.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I got my brother and nephew coming over.
Speaker 2: All right, well that was great, Well be well, thanks
Speaker 2: a bunch. Don't break anything and uh you know, let's
Speaker 2: try and pull one out. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 13: Hopefully off to yell and cuts at the TV too
Speaker 13: much and was good time?
Speaker 1: Right right, thanks a bunch man, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Any time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. John Kaiser former U of a football player back
Speaker 1: in the early eighties.
Speaker 2: You know, I thought he was more in the mid eighties.
Speaker 2: You know when I thought he was in the eighty
Speaker 2: four eighties age. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought he had.
Speaker 2: I thought he played during that time. But I haven't
Speaker 2: ran into him a lot. He was a big, big,
Speaker 2: really big soap pitchopp Oh yeah, I'm sure you could.
Speaker 1: He His daughter's a heck of yeah, she went to
Speaker 1: Syracuse or something.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, well that was fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. Uh, look at you. You got some
Speaker 1: back in a little but he's kind of muscle on
Speaker 1: that side of the he's in the thirties, is in
Speaker 1: the thirty Yeah, oh no, which is good. I think
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna be righty. They kind of score,
Speaker 1: they got to score away.
Speaker 2: I think both teams are going to score plenty, I do,
Speaker 2: I do, and again, Arizona fans can't lose their minds
Speaker 2: with every touchdown. The Kansas State scores because they're going
Speaker 2: to score, and Arezon'a just needs outscore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first one to thirty, you think, yeah, could be okay,
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Speaker 11: the ball on Tucson Sports Stage chat Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 1: They welcome back joining the ball here at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roberta, He's Jigginsauce. We got our
Speaker 1: guy whe with us today. We have kids in town,
Speaker 1: Henry and now Matt. Thanks for joining us. We got
Speaker 1: about twelve minutes. If you want to call, please do
Speaker 1: five to two oho four one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 1: Let us know what you think about the game. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna win lose? I think I think majority. I
Speaker 1: don't know what majority would say, even though I'm a Tucson.
Speaker 2: Well, if you look at uh, if you look at our.
Speaker 1: Pool that we're there's a lot of people picking the game.
Speaker 2: There's a few. Last I checked, uh, and this is
Speaker 2: the point spread. Okay, last I checked, there's twenty five
Speaker 2: taking Arizona, twenty taking kens Day, so it's relatively even.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if I were a betting man and took
Speaker 1: this game, I would take the points.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you why. I'd be afraid of the
Speaker 1: push actually, but.
Speaker 2: Well, it's right on the right on the number. I
Speaker 2: think it dropped to six and a half. That's what
Speaker 2: we talked about. But yeah, I hate I hate threes
Speaker 2: and sevens and tens. But it's a it's a very
Speaker 2: even game, Steve. I think that, And that's why I
Speaker 2: think the seven seven is high. If it was like yeah, four,
Speaker 2: yeahsign the ball, I think I think you'd have a
Speaker 2: whole lot more. I think you'd have a whole lot
Speaker 2: more even, Yeah, more, it would be a little more even.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, do have a night Do you
Speaker 2: have a collar?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like we do.
Speaker 2: Hi, You're on the r and I on the.
Speaker 12: Ball, So kind of chiming in on the game today.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, what's what's your name is?
Speaker 13: John?
Speaker 2: John?
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 12: All right, go ahead, Yeah, So to me, it comes
Speaker 12: down to basics. Do you tackle?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 12: Do you stay ahead of the chains? Do you're not
Speaker 12: turn the ball over? So, you know, in games like
Speaker 12: this where teams may or may not be even the match,
Speaker 12: that comes down to the basics, and do you execute
Speaker 12: those things at the high level? So far do we
Speaker 12: tackle well, I don't know, you know, because we have
Speaker 12: bad penalties, you know, penalties against the offensive line. But
Speaker 12: whoever wins to turnover battle Leary, take care of the
Speaker 12: ball if you can punt it and take it well,
Speaker 12: you know, in a game where things are are pretty
Speaker 12: evenly matched, those you know who are going to be
Speaker 12: the best Utah essentially and do all the little things
Speaker 12: that takes to win a game. Because that's why I
Speaker 12: saw last year in our team that so far feels
Speaker 12: like it's been missing.
Speaker 2: Well. I think one of the big things, one of
Speaker 2: the really big things, is the penalties. Arizona's been horrible
Speaker 2: at the penalties the first couple of first couple of
Speaker 2: weeks and not just you know, off sides and those kinds.
Speaker 2: I mean, they've had big penalties on sportsman likes and
Speaker 2: personal files and things. That's going to be a big
Speaker 2: deal because you can't you know, you can get away
Speaker 2: with that against NAU. You can get away with that
Speaker 2: against New Mexico. But I'm pretty sure you can't get
Speaker 2: away with that like that.
Speaker 1: I know you're a big sports fan. I know you've
Speaker 1: watched Booth games at a scale of one to ten,
Speaker 1: what have What's been your impression of Arizona overall?
Speaker 13: Five?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, and I bet that might be that
Speaker 12: might be a little bit generous, but you know, and
Speaker 12: that's that's factoring them all. Things you know in New
Speaker 12: Mexico is able to move the ball against us, and
Speaker 12: then we couldn't do anything into NAU. Both of those
Speaker 12: are not good trends. Yeah, you know, the things that
Speaker 12: last year were that we dominated teams like you know,
Speaker 12: and and I'll harken back to Utah. We punched Utah
Speaker 12: on the face last year and that was something you
Speaker 12: didn't see from Arizona football as long as I've been,
Speaker 12: going back to maybe the tony years where you saw
Speaker 12: actually our physical teams, and so far, I feel like
Speaker 12: we've been a little too soft really, So you know
Speaker 12: you're gonna get good living the test tonight. As you know,
Speaker 12: a team is probably a fundamental team. It's gonna line
Speaker 12: up and punching an off a little bit on the road.
Speaker 12: How what kind of program do we have?
Speaker 1: All right? John, thanks so much for the call, Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to us.
Speaker 14: Appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thank you to think yeah, no, he makes all the
Speaker 2: points right. Well, it's again there's that list of things. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you're in an evenly matched game that maybe they
Speaker 2: seem little, but collectively and they add up and they
Speaker 2: can make the difference.
Speaker 1: One are the things that he's mentioned and we talk
Speaker 1: about every now and again, but it's very apparent is
Speaker 1: the tackling. Right, We've seen them when they didn't tackle
Speaker 1: very much to begin the season, right, just because they
Speaker 1: don't want to get hurt. Right, this is one of
Speaker 1: those years. It's apparent that this is one of those years.
Speaker 2: Right. They weren't fit, They haven't been physical enough for sure,
Speaker 2: on either side of the ball. Right, So I think
Speaker 2: that that's gonna be a big deal with with what
Speaker 2: happens today. But again, you know, if Kansas State don't
Speaker 2: done the same thing, you know they gave up twenty
Speaker 2: seven points last week to Tulane. I mean, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I didn't play at
Speaker 1: this level. But I'm not sure how the home field
Speaker 1: of damage will be a part of it, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be big. It's gonna be big. You guys who
Speaker 1: go to the games at Arizona, you guys hope to
Speaker 1: be big. Right, Some days it is, some days it isn't.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So it's hard to determine what that's going to play,
Speaker 1: especially in the first in the first road.
Speaker 2: Game, right right. I yeah, I think that I think
Speaker 2: they might be a little surprised that it's gonna be
Speaker 2: tense because in the Pac twelve, you got that at Oregon,
Speaker 2: you got that at Washington, you got that. Yeah, come
Speaker 2: for and that was it. I've got an the caller. Hi,
Speaker 2: you're on the R and I and the ball Boy.
Speaker 4: That's a weird single. How you doing, Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give.
Speaker 17: You the prognostication for tonight. And here we go.
Speaker 4: You guys are thinking that the Fish was coaching and
Speaker 4: we're still in the Pac ten and this.
Speaker 17: Is a road game. That's three factors against.
Speaker 2: The u of A.
Speaker 4: And and and I don't know about the college, but
Speaker 4: the NFL in my in my history, they've always been
Speaker 4: favored the home team by three points, yes, regardless, So
Speaker 4: there's not a lot even because they're on the road.
Speaker 4: And I think if Brennan wins eight games.
Speaker 17: I think that's gonna be a six ul season for him.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean if they if they go eight
Speaker 2: and four and people are unhappy with that, then they
Speaker 2: need to shake themselves. No, you'd you'd be fine with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but but but they're they're there.
Speaker 17: They might cover the spread, but they're losing tonight. Okay,
Speaker 17: I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair.
Speaker 4: John, Yeah, they're gonna lose. I don't know anything about football.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, all right, that's legit. All right, No, I
Speaker 2: I you know, no, I mean, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 2: anything that Howard said there. It's just you know, look,
Speaker 2: I mean if you had told if you before the
Speaker 2: N of YOU game said I think Arizona's gonna lose
Speaker 2: n A U, I tell you you're full of you
Speaker 2: know what, But you know to think that Arizona doesn't
Speaker 2: win this game. I don't have any issues with that.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna win. I just don't. If
Speaker 2: they do great, but you seven, I would take the seven.
Speaker 2: I would. I'm not going to, but I would.
Speaker 1: And you'd be okay with that too, right If they
Speaker 1: played well, well, yeah, well enough.
Speaker 2: I just want a good game out of the night, exactly.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm looking for. Show show up, right, show up, compete, compete.
Speaker 2: Don't do stupid things that lose you. If they beat
Speaker 2: you because they were better than you tonight and they
Speaker 2: beat you and you didn't have a bunch of penalties,
Speaker 2: and you didn't have a bunch of turnovers, and they
Speaker 2: just it was a good game and you were kind
Speaker 2: of going back and forth and you know, punching each other.
Speaker 2: And they win the game because they made one more
Speaker 2: play than you did. There's nothing to complain about that.
Speaker 2: But if they go in there and they've got one
Speaker 2: hundred and five yards and penalties, they turned the ball
Speaker 2: over three times, they get behind early, they're not tackling,
Speaker 2: they're not physical, then that, yeah, then I'm upset. I
Speaker 2: don't know if upsets the right where, But then I'm
Speaker 2: just like, I'm unhappy if they do that.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, because I didn't pay attention
Speaker 1: as an observer last week. Brought the guy's name up, Davis.
Speaker 1: Did he play last week? Was he had to see it? No,
Speaker 1: he didn't have to sit out. He didn't have to
Speaker 1: sit out after being thrown out right?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, No, he didn't play. I not he was.
Speaker 1: He was less of a pain ye had he.
Speaker 2: Had the I mean, Steve, the defense played fine. You know,
Speaker 2: the defense played fine. You know the fact that they
Speaker 2: were behind makes people think the defense played terribly. They didn't.
Speaker 2: They they played. They played a good game, and so
Speaker 2: I think the defense is actually pretty good. Well we'll
Speaker 2: find out more tonight. And you know what, if Kansas
Speaker 2: State puts thirty on the board, that's what Big twelve
Speaker 2: teams do. They score points like that.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: I mean what people also, people don't realize is that
Speaker 3: it's a trick play for any to get a touchdown exactly.
Speaker 1: And well he also blew it by going on fourth
Speaker 1: and one and they get gave it Arizon the momentum
Speaker 1: to kind of fish finish them off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's it. You know they the touchdown was
Speaker 2: on a trick play. They caught them. Those things happened.
Speaker 2: That's what a team that's outmanned does. That's how they score.
Speaker 2: They do stuff like that. But you can only do
Speaker 2: that once or twice a game. And they scored ten points.
Speaker 2: You know, Arizona just peddled around on offense and did
Speaker 2: it about what they needed to do to win the
Speaker 2: game and that and and I think that's got everybody
Speaker 2: freaked out. I was a little freaked out by it,
Speaker 2: you know, walking out of the stadium, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't like what I saw.
Speaker 1: I think it was you that said they never mind.
Speaker 1: I said, what, uh wherever in trouble? Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I yeah, I mean, I just I don't know it.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, okay, we got another call coming in. That's good.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 13: Hi.
Speaker 16: You're on the ar and iron Ball and it's your
Speaker 16: buddy Jim again.
Speaker 2: All right, Jim, you got about two minutes.
Speaker 1: That's all I did. I hope they do better than
Speaker 1: what I.
Speaker 14: Said they would do the other day.
Speaker 1: I really do that.
Speaker 16: There are a pair of statistics that I was looking
Speaker 16: at and I never got to get that out because
Speaker 16: I was interrupted several times. But they have run, well,
Speaker 16: the opposition has run twenty one percent more offensive plays
Speaker 16: in those two games. And that's New Mexico and NAU.
Speaker 16: So that's what really I was looking at. And it's
Speaker 16: hard to get around at. That's twenty four more plays,
Speaker 16: twenty three more plays, and you know, also rans and
Speaker 16: so it looks tough. It looks like a tough proposition.
Speaker 16: So I hope they I hope they do better. So
Speaker 16: that Jay's back on Monday.
Speaker 1: Well, what did you give us a score before? I
Speaker 1: can't remember?
Speaker 17: Forty one seventeen, that's right, he gave it twenty one?
Speaker 1: Who Kansas State?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember we talked about he said, I said,
Speaker 2: that's a blowout, and he had that conversation.
Speaker 1: I do, I do.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 16: I heard the term blowout five or six times, and
Speaker 16: I never said, Okay.
Speaker 2: Jim, I'll take Arizona and the twenty four.
Speaker 1: He's no longer whether he's roughed, Okay, we're good, we're good.
Speaker 1: You got a couple of minutes left. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: Ji for color. All right, that is a blowout. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that will happen.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I mean, if it does,
Speaker 2: then we're really unhappy. Yeah, right, if it does, then
Speaker 2: you go, oh no, you know what if you do
Speaker 2: know we don't get a couple of minutes. If that happens,
Speaker 2: you know, people fans are gonna say Brendan's not the guy.
Speaker 2: Of course they will. There's people already say that. I
Speaker 2: think we know that. Let them. I think I think
Speaker 2: they're fine. I think we'll uh, you know, we'll get there,
Speaker 2: see what happens. Okay, Yeah, we'll give our we'll give
Speaker 2: our scores. Don't forget. We got to do fab five Friday.
Speaker 2: You got yours ready, I got mine ready. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't feel as good about it. You actually did
Speaker 1: have way decent last week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I got some.
Speaker 1: Uh but you know you're one. Have you got your
Speaker 1: one yet? I'm looking for right now?
Speaker 2: You got your You got your lock?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: Alrighty man, we'll get one. We'll get one's lock. That
Speaker 2: should be good to You're one for one on those
Speaker 2: one one one and one. You missed the one first one.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the first week, but last week you'll
Speaker 3: only remember your way.
Speaker 1: Don't talk about the.
Speaker 2: Exactly that's how you become winners. You put the you
Speaker 2: put the losses behind you. That's what that's what you do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I you know, I feel like, uh as we
Speaker 2: get closer to it, right, my mind goes in all
Speaker 2: different directions the last the last two weeks. You know,
Speaker 2: at the at the end, I thought Arizona's gonna blow
Speaker 2: up both of them, and they didn't do either one.
Speaker 2: Today I'm sitting here thinking they're gonna lose. So I
Speaker 2: hope I'm wrong, you know, I hope I'm wrong. We'll
Speaker 2: see what happens, all right. I think we're ready for
Speaker 2: our birth. No, we got to No, we still got
Speaker 2: two minutes. Sorry, yeah, we still got two minutes. I miscalculated, Jim,
Speaker 2: you can call back, not just kidding. You can't. I
Speaker 2: was I was doing my math wrong.
Speaker 1: We'll see. So now you have breaking news, right, you
Speaker 1: have breaking news. Well, can maybe take a call or
Speaker 1: too during the breaking news. You'll have your right for that.
Speaker 1: And then well I will there right right, Yeah, John
Speaker 1: Wilder's going to join us.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get into that and other stuff going on
Speaker 2: with the with the new PAC twelve and then they're
Speaker 2: calling it a six pack for now because there's six
Speaker 2: of them. But uh, you know what's gonna what's gonna
Speaker 2: happen there. We had some thoughts on it yesterday when
Speaker 2: all this came out, and we know it's not done.
Speaker 2: The question is who gets uh you know, which conferences
Speaker 2: get raided? You know, where are the team's going to
Speaker 2: come from to fill out that league, because you know,
Speaker 2: they want to get that league back up to being
Speaker 2: a quality league. It's not going to get up to
Speaker 2: Pack twelve level, it's not going to get up to
Speaker 2: power flour level. But they can be certainly better than
Speaker 2: you know. They can be one of the top group
Speaker 2: of five or maybe the you know, the team that
Speaker 2: makes it a group of six uh uh league, and
Speaker 2: we'll see what you know. I'd love to hear John
Speaker 2: thoughts on. He's always been in the middle of all that.
Speaker 2: So you should have some you should have some good
Speaker 2: thoughts on that. I don't know, Steve, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're all right because you're are you by yourself? You
Speaker 1: don't want you by yourself?
Speaker 2: No, My my son and my grandson are coming over
Speaker 2: and my daughter. It's a family thing. My wife's not
Speaker 2: home from out of town yet, so she'll be back tonight.
Speaker 2: So it's a it's a family thing, you know, we'll
Speaker 2: just uh, we'll just uh oh, Jim, Jim just got
Speaker 2: his oh his I think his phone died. He just
Speaker 2: texted me. He says he'll give me sixteen points. Jim,
Speaker 2: I am all over that. Send me a Texas to
Speaker 2: what you want to wager on that, if anything, or
Speaker 2: if it's just a friendly bed and I can call
Speaker 2: you out when Arizona covers that.
Speaker 1: You know you'd have to meet him. Each other would
Speaker 1: have to meet him. Yeah, I don't know that I
Speaker 1: want to do lunch. I don't know Jim wants to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: And I know that you want to.
Speaker 1: Really have to get together a collar.
Speaker 2: Gim is he's given me sixteen points in Arizona, and
Speaker 2: I am all all over that.
Speaker 1: He tried to snooker me into that last week, but
Speaker 1: I said whatever, Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we can't let him get away with that.
Speaker 2: All right, now we got to get out no, yeah, now,
Speaker 2: we got to get out of here. So all right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna take our break. When we come back, it'll
Speaker 2: be breaking news