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Speaker 3: Reggie Bush has filed a lawsuit against usc the PAC twelve,
Speaker 3: and NCAA for seeing compensation against his name, image, and
Speaker 3: likeness during his time at USC.
Speaker 4: Oh not enough to get back to heisman. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: then he got it back everything. Yeah, but it's not
Speaker 4: enough enough to your back. It's I gotta get the
Speaker 4: whole thing.
Speaker 2: Back, right. So it's it's it's not that it's funny,
Speaker 2: because it's gonna happen a lot. I think Jackson, Terry
Speaker 2: and AJ Bramer doing the same thing here, trying to
Speaker 2: get there, you know, when they won the title, to
Speaker 2: get back some compensation. I don't know how I don't
Speaker 2: know how schools are going to survive this, Like no,
Speaker 2: because there's not enough money. No, that's the thing about it.
Speaker 4: It's like going, you want to, you want to how
Speaker 4: much Reggie would Reggie Bush have gotten if Reggie Bush
Speaker 4: could have just gotten everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, look how much he got.
Speaker 4: It's like I was going to say that, Yeah, you're
Speaker 4: we we've absolutely we've opened up Pandora's box.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. It is over there and not just
Speaker 2: a little peak.
Speaker 4: It's wide open, right yeah, I mean it's just we
Speaker 4: started a little bit and it's just was he can't go,
Speaker 4: can't go all over.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about this real quick. So we're talking
Speaker 2: about Ernie Army when you first got here and talk
Speaker 2: about they do not get n I L money and
Speaker 2: your coach says, let's go after the best players or
Speaker 2: better players. Right. Isn't that a kind of a contradiction
Speaker 2: because you can get the better players, they're gonna want
Speaker 2: to get paid.
Speaker 4: Right, they are going to want to get paid. It's
Speaker 4: like how much do you know, how much do I
Speaker 4: get from this?
Speaker 2: So and the ones that do really well for Navy Army,
Speaker 2: uh year, guess what they're gonna do go play, they're
Speaker 2: going to bolt.
Speaker 4: Well, there's a couple that have entered the transfer portal,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if how many have been picked up.
Speaker 4: Like I said, there was there was a guy that
Speaker 4: Tyler Robinson that was really really good, had a great year,
Speaker 4: uh hit the transfer portal. But everyone was like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't need an undersized, fast fat guy, fast guy.
Speaker 2: We uh, or we don't need a fat ty We
Speaker 2: don't need a fat guy either. You know if they did,
Speaker 2: I'd be cleaning up on nil money. They uh.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's you know, I'll tell you it's it
Speaker 4: is going to be an interesting thing. You You had
Speaker 4: a thing the other day about talking about like, you know,
Speaker 4: where where does this go? You know when we when
Speaker 4: we talked about the donating five thousand dollars to Arizona
Speaker 4: and you know how much money and all this all
Speaker 4: this crazy money in it again, it's gonna stop when
Speaker 4: people have had enough. Yep, Okay, when people have finally
Speaker 4: sat there and said, wait a minute, I'm paying all
Speaker 4: this money afford a state. I'm paying all this money
Speaker 4: and this is what I'm getting. That guy with the
Speaker 4: guy to Auburn where people were asking for money back
Speaker 4: on Venmo. Oh really, I didn't see that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like going he had he had his little QR
Speaker 4: code and it's like going hit me on venmo. And
Speaker 4: now people are asking for the money back on Venmo.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, there's going to get come a time when
Speaker 2: enough's enough. So this is the conversation you and I
Speaker 2: had privately at your house. Yeah, we talked about so.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you guys know this because
Speaker 2: we talked about this maybe too. When are the kids
Speaker 2: getting paid? When? At what point in their season are
Speaker 2: they getting paid? Yeah, it's pretty soon. If it's pretty soon,
Speaker 2: and they're not performing to the money that they're getting,
Speaker 2: aren't you concerned? Yeah? Well that's the thing about it.
Speaker 2: And in what world and what world besides pro maybe
Speaker 2: do you live in where you go to work and
Speaker 2: then when you get paid before you do the work right?
Speaker 4: Well, and that's the thing about it. It's what they're
Speaker 4: doing here, you know, And you know it's happened a
Speaker 4: lot of places. I mean Caitlin Clark for example. It's
Speaker 4: like when people were saying you're stupid for not spending
Speaker 4: another year at Iowa because you're gonna be making three
Speaker 4: times the money. Yeah, And that's the thing about it now,
Speaker 4: it's like college sports is. And you know, the thing is,
Speaker 4: it's not guys like you, well you don't have any
Speaker 4: money to donate. It's not guys like me who have
Speaker 4: a little money to don't it. It's guys that are
Speaker 4: the billionaires. You know, Phil Night, Phil Night up in
Speaker 4: Oregon sat there and handed them a credit card and said,
Speaker 4: go get me a championship. Yeah, you know, I mean
Speaker 4: it's it's it's those billionaires that are that are really
Speaker 4: going to be the issue.
Speaker 3: Sure, there are two Monday night football games tonight. We
Speaker 3: have the Jaguars at Bills at four point thirty and
Speaker 3: the Bengals at Commanders at five point fifteen.
Speaker 2: So the second one is a yawner to me, at
Speaker 2: least it seems like a Yonner. And the first game
Speaker 2: is what the Bills, who are kind of good against
Speaker 2: the Jaguars and they haven't done anything with their quarterback, right,
Speaker 2: I think there's zero two right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And where's that game at in Buffalo? And Buffalo so you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, it's gonna be Tarrel Lawrence has got to
Speaker 4: you know, they had a you know, great couple of games.
Speaker 4: But you know Gate coup of games last year and
Speaker 4: everyone thought, Okay, here we go, we're finally gonna see
Speaker 4: somebody that can play. And it's like he hasn't really
Speaker 4: shown up.
Speaker 2: Because you follow it, Henry and both of you guys, actually,
Speaker 2: do you think that teams should play their rookie quarterbacks
Speaker 2: by the.
Speaker 3: Way, before this year, I would say yes. After this year,
Speaker 3: I would probably say it's sent them for two to
Speaker 3: three weeks.
Speaker 2: And early, so sit them until they're ready. Yeah, sometimes
Speaker 2: people are just wait, wait for the year Atlanta.
Speaker 3: I mean that worked with Mahomes, Yeah.
Speaker 2: In Atlanta. With Pennix, maybe let's see what happens. Worked
Speaker 2: with Mahomes, worked with Rogers, and I think it's every
Speaker 2: individual case. But still, I mean, let them, let them
Speaker 2: their twenty.
Speaker 5: Two three years.
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of it is just the system
Speaker 3: that you're in.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 3: They're always going to bad.
Speaker 4: The thing is, yeah, that's the thing about it. I
Speaker 4: mean it there and you look Caleb Williams. Okay, here's
Speaker 4: a guy that is in a you know, went to
Speaker 4: a really bad team, you know, because they got the
Speaker 4: first pick.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: He jumps into a system, has no time to get ready.
Speaker 4: That dude would really benefit by having a year to
Speaker 4: just learn the system. But he's getting paid too much
Speaker 4: money to see, right, that's the issue. Well, there's a book,
Speaker 4: and I've said this to Jay a few times called
Speaker 4: Sway Uh. You you pay Michael Jordan a million tons
Speaker 4: of million dollars back in the day, millions and millions
Speaker 4: of dollars. You want to see a result from paying
Speaker 4: them this money, whether he's any good or not necessary
Speaker 4: because you want to make sure that your decisions.
Speaker 2: I'm picking the guy who's worth it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the Secret swim Hey, listen, I tell you
Speaker 4: I'm starting to get a bad vibe here. You keep
Speaker 4: mentioning Jay. I mean it's like going, it's like dating,
Speaker 4: and all you talk about is your ex.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are we? What are we doing here?
Speaker 2: I mean, am I in or am I out here? Well,
Speaker 2: I'll talk about it out to the date.
Speaker 3: A breakup?
Speaker 2: Just no, he's submitted old time. The date's not over.
Speaker 2: You gotta pay the mill to pick up the bill. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I had to co sponsor the show. Get on. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'll do what I do. I got I'll be back.
Speaker 2: I got to get the restaurant. You'll never see me
Speaker 2: again exactly.
Speaker 3: Memphis, UTSA, Twulane, and USF have all publicly committed to
Speaker 3: staying in the AAC Conference and will not join the
Speaker 3: pack Tour.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, Yeah, it's gonna be Who's Who's gonna New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Who's who's left? Maybe Mexico. It's just gonna be a
Speaker 2: team that the league that you've seen many grow up
Speaker 2: right in New Mexico.
Speaker 4: A Mountain West, Yeah, with a different lane. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be the Mountain West just kind of pushed over.
Speaker 2: A little bit. Oh you know what I call that
Speaker 2: lipstick on a pig. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe they get better because they're in the in the
Speaker 4: Pac twelve. Maybe they know you start recruiting better just
Speaker 4: because the name changed. I should change my name to
Speaker 4: Jim Smith.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We'll see this thing about a lot of schools, a
Speaker 4: lot of schools. For example, Army they decided they're gonna
Speaker 4: start playing teams in Texas because they want to recruit
Speaker 4: in Texas. So now what you're doing is you're gonna
Speaker 4: see these teams that are gonna be playing a lot
Speaker 4: more games, big games, you know out on the on
Speaker 4: the West coast, on the West coast, maybe they recruit better,
Speaker 4: they get more exposure. I mean, how many people know
Speaker 4: about Wyoming?
Speaker 2: Many? Yeah? People, I mean I.
Speaker 4: Bet you there's not a lot of people that can
Speaker 4: even point to it as a state, right, let let
Speaker 4: alone a United Republicans Republicans, Yes, exactly. The but yeah,
Speaker 4: it'll be it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting. Air Force,
Speaker 4: as matter of fact, just put out a statement that
Speaker 4: it's like, hey, you know, we're considering all our options.
Speaker 4: It'll be interesting to see where air Force goes.
Speaker 3: So then those teams are Memphis, Tulane, Memphis, two Lane,
Speaker 3: uts A, and USF.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so obviously there's there's still some teams. But yeah,
Speaker 4: but so those aren't the those aren't. I don't think
Speaker 4: those were the prime candidates for them to move over.
Speaker 2: Right, So there's none on's left really, there's true, you know,
Speaker 2: just you know, lipskin a pig changed the name and
Speaker 2: you know, hey, come and join us. That is what
Speaker 2: it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The WNBA playoffs started yesterday. The Liberty beat the Dream
Speaker 3: in Game one, Sun beat the Fever, Links beat the Mercury,
Speaker 3: and the aces beat the storm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, you went to go see the
Speaker 2: Mercury right, Yes, we saw. I saw your photo on Facebook.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, what are you doing there?
Speaker 4: But for a reason, Dan Trossi, you know one, I
Speaker 4: remember watching her play when I was you know, when
Speaker 4: she was at Yukon. And and my daughter who is
Speaker 4: out on the East Coach now, she loves Diana Trossi,
Speaker 4: and so we were there for Danny Trosi bibblehead night.
Speaker 4: We show up there. It's like the first twenty five fans.
Speaker 4: We showed up three hours before game time and no
Speaker 4: two and a half hours for a game time, and
Speaker 4: there must have been five thousand people there.
Speaker 2: Oh it was crazy.
Speaker 4: Uh but uh place was jammed, completely jammed, and it
Speaker 4: was a total blowout. Mercury got blown out from the
Speaker 4: very beginning and nobody left.
Speaker 2: Place was packed. The playoffs they were doing. They were
Speaker 2: just holding out to the playoffs. Yeah yeah, but uh it
Speaker 2: was more than likely her final uh regular season game
Speaker 2: could have been her last home game too.
Speaker 3: Okay, the Grizzlies waived former m v P Derek Rose
Speaker 3: earlier today, m HM say one time the Grizzlies wave
Speaker 3: former MVP Derek Rose earlier today.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, you're still playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, there is a guy who could have been
Speaker 4: one of the absolute greades, I mean, definitely Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame bound, but then got injured and then it was
Speaker 4: just like, well you're you're you're not going to do
Speaker 4: that then, yeah, which is which is really unfortunate. When
Speaker 4: he was when he was young and playing with the
Speaker 4: bulls man, Oh my goodness, that dude was really really good.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well, I think you start seeing that because
Speaker 2: obviously you have the incoming classes and then the guys
Speaker 2: who have been there forever.
Speaker 4: Who are you going to find room? Yeah, you've got
Speaker 4: a clear space. Yeah, someone's got to bounce out the top.
Speaker 4: Like I said, he would have been.
Speaker 2: It's an unfortunate one of those one of those unfortunate
Speaker 2: injury riddled careers that could have been, could have been
Speaker 2: something different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I just saw this now I think it
Speaker 3: was from earlier, but Gonzaga is joining the PAC twelve
Speaker 3: and twenty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just saw.
Speaker 3: They still need two more football teams to stay alive
Speaker 3: past twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Right, because they're they're basketball, Yeah exactly, which is good.
Speaker 2: I guess that'll that'd be that'd be good for them.
Speaker 3: They're going to be a good basketball.
Speaker 2: Conference, sure, oh yeah, yeah, kind of maybe.
Speaker 3: San Diego State they have had good teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're not going to be able to be
Speaker 2: the team that they were. Yeah, which it's just gonna
Speaker 2: help them. It's not an Arizona Conference. Now that they're
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve. You might get your butt kicked
Speaker 2: a few more times, right, but they prepare you for March.
Speaker 2: Whether that helps or not, Yeah, well it helps you
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go through, go through a season twenty
Speaker 4: nine to two and then you show up in first
Speaker 4: round and you lose.
Speaker 2: Yeah that we've seen that before.
Speaker 4: But the you know, hopefully, yeah, hopefully there's a there's
Speaker 4: a different level of toughness that we run into.
Speaker 2: And hey, there's only one negative dude in this room. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't take over that role. I got to be
Speaker 2: the positive. You gotta be the voice of reason. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: Forty nine Ers running back Kristen Caffery is seeing a
Speaker 3: specialist in Germany recarding his Achilles tenant.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, they and they did they did well without them.
Speaker 2: I mean, they should have never lost that game, right, right,
Speaker 2: and they did well. They got their running back I mean,
Speaker 2: can't remember the name of the guys.
Speaker 3: Jordan Mason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that dude is really doing all the
Speaker 4: other kids. The kids know exactly, they know everything. But
Speaker 4: he's playing great, you know, I mean, not much of
Speaker 4: a of a letdown there though, you know it' stuff
Speaker 4: to replace Christmas.
Speaker 2: The concern is is.
Speaker 4: That he goes out there and tries to run on
Speaker 4: this thing and snaps it and then yeah, once you
Speaker 4: do that, then especially as a running back, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 4: who's your team?
Speaker 2: No, Dolphins, Dolphins? The Jets are you know? Oh I
Speaker 2: hate the Jets. Rogers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well they've beaten a couple of nobody's but you
Speaker 4: know they've you know, Rogers is out there, you know,
Speaker 4: playing with him and he's like trying to show them
Speaker 4: that they can win. But tell you what, that first
Speaker 4: game he showed them, like exactly what the Jets, what
Speaker 4: the Jets are, So we.
Speaker 2: Know what what's the Dennis Green thing? Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 2: do what they are. We know what they are. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's all I got. So you got okay, we got
Speaker 2: a we got about a minute or so. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you have anything there, senor just on the top of
Speaker 2: your head. No, all right, we'll see what happens this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the excess at all It's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and Jakin Salvez. This is I on the ball on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteenth.
Speaker 2: They Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera co host Michael Quinn.
Speaker 2: Now on the phone. We have Michael leb from The
Speaker 2: Daily Star. How are you, Mike?
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, how's it going.
Speaker 2: We're doing well? Good, hoping you're doing well. You ready
Speaker 2: for another big week of football at Juve?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, except that it's another road game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, basically will go like a month between home games
Speaker 7: almost Why but it feels that.
Speaker 2: Way right right? Are you gonna Are you gonna be
Speaker 2: making this road trip?
Speaker 5: I am not.
Speaker 7: You're not only in My colleague Justin Spears will be
Speaker 7: in Salt Lake City on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yes. How big of a you know, I think I
Speaker 2: means just said, how big of a game is it
Speaker 2: for Arizona? Even four games in?
Speaker 5: I think it's very.
Speaker 7: Important that they play well and that they are competitive
Speaker 7: in this game. I don't think it's they must win
Speaker 7: by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, you know,
Speaker 7: when you kind of looked over the entire schedule, this
Speaker 7: is one of those games that you probably puddled in
Speaker 7: as a loss. But there's a lot of doubt out
Speaker 7: there right now, you know this new coaching staff has
Speaker 7: not earned the trust and faith of the fan base.
Speaker 7: That Friday night performance against Kansas State was discouraging in
Speaker 7: a lot of ways. So this team kind of has
Speaker 7: something to prove in that regard. So I think that's
Speaker 7: why it's important. It's to show that Arizona truly does
Speaker 7: deserve to be talked about.
Speaker 5: As one of the operational on teams in the Big
Speaker 5: Twelve this year.
Speaker 2: Right, And you've been here long enough now to know
Speaker 2: the fan base and to know how up in arms
Speaker 2: they were, even after the Saturday game when Arizona did
Speaker 2: not play, but Kansas State played and didn't look good
Speaker 2: against b YU.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of weird that.
Speaker 7: That that was the reaction to Kansas State losing, Like,
Speaker 7: oh man, this makes Arizona look even worse.
Speaker 5: I don't really get that. I think what it what
Speaker 5: it actually.
Speaker 7: Demonstrates is that it is very difficult to win on
Speaker 7: the road in college football, especially when you go to
Speaker 7: a place like BYU, which has a rabid fan base
Speaker 7: and it's kind of the only game going at that
Speaker 7: particular time, which was exactly the case with the Kansas
Speaker 7: State game.
Speaker 5: Manhattan. It's tough.
Speaker 7: And if the you know, people debate whether momentum exists
Speaker 7: in sports or not. I think really it's more like
Speaker 7: sort of psychological emotional shifts during the course of the game.
Speaker 7: And if you watch that Kansasdate BYU game, that game
Speaker 7: shifted in a big way when they started to turn
Speaker 7: the ball over at the end of the first half
Speaker 7: and Kansas Date could never get its footing again. That
Speaker 7: can happen to you when you go on the road.
Speaker 7: Utah is not an unfamiliar location for Arizona. I mean,
Speaker 7: you know what you're gonna get from them, even though
Speaker 7: it's the quote unquote first Big twelve game is a
Speaker 7: very familiar opponent of familiar style of play.
Speaker 5: I think that'll help at least a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael, the thanks for having on first off the
Speaker 4: But you talk about the faith and trust of the
Speaker 4: fan base. I think you know, if you if you
Speaker 4: have a lot of faith and trust, you look at
Speaker 4: that game as like, hey, anybody can get beat. If
Speaker 4: you have no faith in trust, you sit there and say, God,
Speaker 4: we're gonna get crushed now. So so much like you,
Speaker 4: like you just said, but I get a I get
Speaker 4: a question about you've been here for a while, You've
Speaker 4: seen a lot of coaching changes.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: They all talk about, you know, faith and trust in
Speaker 4: this system. Uh you get Uh when when Jed Fish
Speaker 4: get got here started out slow, it's like, Hey, the
Speaker 4: players got to have faith and trust in the system
Speaker 4: and then they're gonna they're gonna pick it up. Is
Speaker 4: that what we're seeing now or is this kind of
Speaker 4: they've already got that or does not that not matter?
Speaker 7: Well, when you're talking about the players themselves, you know there,
Speaker 7: you like to have that certain level of buy in,
Speaker 7: and it was very dicey. The first year under Jed
Speaker 7: Fish there was a lot of criticism from the outside
Speaker 7: about his play calling. Magically, when he got better players
Speaker 7: the next year, his play calling improved a lot.
Speaker 5: I think the difference between.
Speaker 7: What was going on then though, and what's going on
Speaker 7: now is that Jedfish had a very specific plan in mind.
Speaker 7: He was going to call the plays. He's going to
Speaker 7: bring in his offensive system, Okay, and this is what
Speaker 7: it's going to be. This is how we're going to
Speaker 7: do things. He did, you know, make some tweaks over
Speaker 7: the course of time, a little bit more shotgun, maybe
Speaker 7: a little bit less understand, but it was his system
Speaker 7: that he learned from his NFL base for the most part.
Speaker 7: With Bret Brennan, he made a decision to bring in
Speaker 7: Dino Babers to be his offensive coordinator, somebody that he
Speaker 7: worked with a long time ago here at Arizona. And
Speaker 7: this offense is kind of an amalgam, you know, a
Speaker 7: hybrid of what they were doing in San Jose State
Speaker 7: and what Deno Babers has done over the years at
Speaker 7: Syracuse and other places that he's worked.
Speaker 5: And I think part of the problem is, like what
Speaker 5: is it right?
Speaker 7: Like what is the identity of this offense at this
Speaker 7: point besides getting the ball to Tetuo McMillan as many
Speaker 7: times as possible, which you know is fine. You want
Speaker 7: to get team at the ball, but there has to
Speaker 7: be more to it that to it than that. There
Speaker 7: have to be more dimensions. So I think they're kind
Speaker 7: of working through that, and Brent Brennan alluded to that
Speaker 7: today that that's one of the things you do during
Speaker 7: a bye week, is that kind of self examination, go
Speaker 7: through all the plays, you know, maybe figure out what's working,
Speaker 7: what's not, what do we need to change, and we
Speaker 7: will see on Saturday, if the offense looks any different
Speaker 7: than it did the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. I'm assuming you went to today's press
Speaker 2: commerson with Brennan. Did you ask him a question? And
Speaker 2: if you did, what was it?
Speaker 7: I did not go I am still on the tail
Speaker 7: end of COVID situation going on over here, so I'm
Speaker 7: just like keeping a little profile. I did watch on
Speaker 7: wotube and there's nothing really revelatory.
Speaker 5: I didn't think, but yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: No, I was gonna say, so, what was the question
Speaker 2: that kind of said, Hey, that's a pretty good question,
Speaker 2: and not that I would have asked it, but he
Speaker 2: must have some concerns both sides of the ball. What
Speaker 2: would they be? So if he couldn't answer that question,
Speaker 2: what are your biggest concerns on each side of the ball?
Speaker 7: Okay, well, I would say on offense, offensive line continuity.
Speaker 7: They've not had that so far. They had completely different
Speaker 7: starting lineup in week two. They were to put together
Speaker 7: their Week one group again for week three. But you know,
Speaker 7: I don't know how much time that group had to
Speaker 7: practice together. I think left tackle rhino top of toe
Speaker 7: tie was probably not one hundred for the Kansas State game,
Speaker 7: and I think in retrospect it might have been a
Speaker 7: wiser to have held him out and given him more
Speaker 7: time to recover from his lower leg injury. That's issue
Speaker 7: number one in offense. The other issue to me is
Speaker 7: that the offense just lacks.
Speaker 5: Timing and rhythm. You just everything looks slow.
Speaker 7: No Ifafeata is holding the ball almost half more than
Speaker 7: half a second longer on average than he did last season,
Speaker 7: which to me says that he is not seeing the
Speaker 7: picture clearly when he drops back to pass, or that
Speaker 7: he doesn't have the outlets that he had last year.
Speaker 5: You know, losing Jacob Cowing, losing Tanne McLachlin.
Speaker 7: I mean, these are both NFL draft picks, very good players,
Speaker 7: very difficult to replace. Defensively, I think they've actually played
Speaker 7: pretty decently since maybe the first half of the New
Speaker 7: Mexico game. And the issue that they've had consistently from
Speaker 7: Week one and week three mobile quarterback containing the mobile quarterback,
Speaker 7: They have not executed their assignments, they have.
Speaker 5: Not executed the game plan. They have allowed two mobile
Speaker 5: quarterbacks to run all over them, and they cannot allow
Speaker 5: that to happen again against anyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yikes. I mean.
Speaker 4: I think that's what you does. Yes, it doesn't bode well.
Speaker 4: It's interesting you mentioned that about THEFITA. It's like going
Speaker 4: because you know, standing up in the you know, in
Speaker 4: the stands, you know, way deep. It's like that's kind
Speaker 4: of the thing that I've noticed he through with seemed
Speaker 4: that he threw with more confidence.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Is that a lack of familiarity in the new offense.
Speaker 7: I think that's part of it, you know all they
Speaker 7: tried to sort of incorporate some elements of last year's offense.
Speaker 7: But you know, these things they time, they really do,
Speaker 7: especially when you're the quarterback. Just the more you rep it,
Speaker 7: the more you rep it, the more you become comfortable
Speaker 7: with it. The other element of it is there's really
Speaker 7: only one receiver that it seems like he truly trusts
Speaker 7: through and through.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's Pedero McMillan.
Speaker 7: We did see him get montanelimonious Craig involved a little
Speaker 7: bit more against Kanadas State.
Speaker 5: That's a good sign.
Speaker 7: Brent Brandon did talk about today, like the lack of
Speaker 7: tight end usage and all the reasons that could conceivably
Speaker 7: be behind that they threw to the tight end a
Speaker 7: lot at San Jose State, and they've got a bunch
Speaker 7: of really talented tight ends here at Arizona. I don't
Speaker 7: really understand why that hasn't been a bigger part of
Speaker 7: a game plan or bigger or part of the progressions
Speaker 7: that they're going through, because I think that could be
Speaker 7: a serious weapon and could open up a lot of
Speaker 7: things for other aspects of the offense.
Speaker 2: It's because Dino Bavers wasn't the offensive coordinator at San
Speaker 2: Jose State. That's what it could be.
Speaker 5: It really could be. I don't know. I'd love to
Speaker 5: be a fly on the wall and.
Speaker 2: Listening, right, Michael. We had a discussion about coaches before
Speaker 2: you came on maybe last hour, and I'm a firm
Speaker 2: believer that coaches matter. It just does. They just do.
Speaker 2: If you have a good one, you can see it.
Speaker 2: What do you What do you make of Brennan just
Speaker 2: his style and how he goes about his job.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's very still a California guy through
Speaker 5: and through.
Speaker 7: He's very laid back and he's that's kind of his style,
Speaker 7: you know, Like he's not one of those guys who's
Speaker 7: gonna get up in your face and yell at you.
Speaker 7: I don't know if if that in your face, you know,
Speaker 7: coaching style works anymore these days, you know, the way
Speaker 7: that society has evolved. I really liked how he handled
Speaker 7: the situation with with Timac and Noah Fafita, you know,
Speaker 7: just kind of like, hey, come into my office, let's
Speaker 7: just sit.
Speaker 5: Down and talk. Get to know me, you know, like
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 7: He did not give them like any sort of used
Speaker 7: car salesman spiel to get them to stay, and that
Speaker 7: works great. Like they stayed, and a bunch of other
Speaker 7: guys stayed, and they were able to keep most of
Speaker 7: the team together. Now the question is, you're you know,
Speaker 7: you're coaching at a higher level. You're not in the
Speaker 7: Mountain West anymore. You're in the Big twelve. Do you
Speaker 7: have the coaching chops during the week on game day
Speaker 7: to get the most out of what you have? I
Speaker 7: think he was a coach at San Jose State who
Speaker 7: did more with less. You know, sometimes it's maybe harder
Speaker 7: to do more with more, you know. So I think that's,
Speaker 7: you know, that remains to be seen at this point
Speaker 7: whether whether that's all gonna work. I think it was.
Speaker 5: I think it was the great hire and he was
Speaker 5: the right man for the job. I think that will
Speaker 5: be proved out over time.
Speaker 7: But you know, fans are impatient, and when you have
Speaker 7: the performances that you've had the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 7: you know, I understand why you know they're they're complaining
Speaker 7: the way they are.
Speaker 2: So we in the previous charge we talked about being
Speaker 2: a player's coach, and it sounds like he is, especially
Speaker 2: with the FAFIDA and mcmill uh keeping them here, which
Speaker 2: really was surprising. Uh.
Speaker 4: There's two guys that could have probably gone into the
Speaker 4: portal and they would have had a food fight over him,
Speaker 4: but he stayed. And so it's it's clear that tellum.
Speaker 4: But can a coach like that, uh kind of keep
Speaker 4: the day discipline on the team where you're not getting
Speaker 4: the personal foul penalties, you're not getting the uh pre
Speaker 4: snap penalties that they've got going on.
Speaker 2: Can we fix it?
Speaker 7: I mean obviously there, Yeah, there has to be an
Speaker 7: element of accountability, right right.
Speaker 5: You can't just like let guys do whatever they want.
Speaker 2: That's a great word, by the way, form that cakes
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 7: Know, like to me, the best way to sort of
Speaker 7: to impose or impose that discipline is to take away
Speaker 7: playing time. Yeah, you know, like you want to commit
Speaker 7: a personal foul or unsportsman like conduct, you're just going
Speaker 7: to sit out for a quarter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, And that's that's tough because.
Speaker 2: You need them, right, Do we have the depth? Do
Speaker 2: we have the depth to do that? Yeah? Yeah, And
Speaker 2: you need those kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah you do. But you also kind of have to
Speaker 5: send the message somehow.
Speaker 2: Right, you're right. It's great insights, great insights.
Speaker 7: Right, So I don't know what I don't know what
Speaker 7: form that takes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a tough one. I mean, Carrio Davis took himself.
Speaker 7: Out right the first game, right, but I think two
Speaker 7: un sportsman like penalties and his night was done. So
Speaker 7: maybe he learned his lesson from doing that. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean the penalties were a big deal, and there
Speaker 7: were different types of penalties and can't stay game, you know,
Speaker 7: it was like holding false start, but that one drive
Speaker 7: the game is still a seven point game was a
Speaker 7: total mess. Yeah, and a situation where they were I
Speaker 7: think they were across midfield or near midfield and then
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, it's first and twenty, it's first
Speaker 7: and thirty. It is really hard to get that to
Speaker 7: generate that rhythm that I was talking about before when
Speaker 7: you're in those situations behind the chain.
Speaker 2: So so you know, obviously I've been in the media
Speaker 2: here for a long long time, road stories for a
Speaker 2: number of years. I kind of don't do as much.
Speaker 2: You're on the you're in the front line. You go
Speaker 2: to practices and do that. I can't remember two things.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what you said they would maybe predict
Speaker 2: it with the wins eight nine, seven, the carry remember
Speaker 2: that one and two. Do you think that we we
Speaker 2: as the media, and I'll include myself there, gave a
Speaker 2: lot of not false hope to the to the fans,
Speaker 2: but sold them some goods that maybe that we should
Speaker 2: have been more tempered on because you know what, that's
Speaker 2: what the complaint is, Oh I bought the bought the
Speaker 2: kool aid or drank the kool aid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very very good question. I break did nine and three.
Speaker 5: If I had a do over, I might eight and four.
Speaker 7: That game against at the YU might be more difficult
Speaker 7: than a lot of people figured. Initially eight and four
Speaker 7: for Arizona and a vacuum would be considered a very
Speaker 7: successful season. When you're coming off a ten and three season,
Speaker 7: it might not be viewed the same way. I do
Speaker 7: think that we may have overestimated the team to a
Speaker 7: certain degree within the media based on the star power
Speaker 7: that they had coming back and not taking enough consideration
Speaker 7: into what they lost and how difficult it was to
Speaker 7: replace what they lost because they did not have the
Speaker 7: same access to the transfer portal that most everyone else
Speaker 7: in the country had. Right, all those coaching changes with
Speaker 7: Nick Saban and Kaalen de Boor and Jedfish and Brent
Speaker 7: Brennan happened in mid January. By that point, most of
Speaker 7: the best players are taken out of the portal and
Speaker 7: you the teams, you you know, the newcomers in the
Speaker 7: portal are from Alabama and Washington and San Jose State,
Speaker 7: and frankly, the Alabama and Washington players weren't going to.
Speaker 5: Come here, right, So, I think, you know, we.
Speaker 7: Don't talk about a lot about like defensive line and
Speaker 7: offensive line, but that's where games are won. That's where
Speaker 7: they suffered some key losses to either the draft or
Speaker 7: the portal, and it's really hard to replace those guys
Speaker 7: when you know you don't have the same access to
Speaker 7: players that most of.
Speaker 2: The other teams do, right, Right, No, no question, and
Speaker 2: then you still got to do your job right, Okay, Michael,
Speaker 2: get better quickly. We'll see what you have this week.
Speaker 2: Anything planned to look forward to.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm doing a news and views column coming up here,
Speaker 7: going to hit on multiple topics and then the usual
Speaker 7: have my cat stats and I love it on the
Speaker 7: field column, five takeaways from the game, report card, all
Speaker 7: the usual.
Speaker 5: Stuff for this Utah game.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, right, like your job depends on it. Thanks Michael,
Speaker 2: Thank you, great interview, Thank you very much. Thanks. Hey,
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Speaker 2: thought love stuff was very entertaining, very insightful. Right. I
Speaker 2: do think that every every and you've you've been around
Speaker 2: the block a few places in the number of places
Speaker 2: local media doesn't go negative preseason because there's always hope. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's always hope. You sell them a bag of goods,
Speaker 2: and not that you sell them a bag of goods.
Speaker 2: You tell the story and there's a lot of hope there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I okay, So, so I don't think this
Speaker 4: was a bag of goods by talking to hope this
Speaker 4: year and in this season. No, no, no, there was hope,
Speaker 4: but there was a lot of hope. There was real
Speaker 4: there was real hope. There was real anticipation about about goods.
Speaker 4: And there may be good stuff ahead of time.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: The reality of the situation is, whenever you have a
Speaker 4: coaching change like this, and I've talked about you said
Speaker 4: this all the time about buying end of the system,
Speaker 4: you get coaching change like this, it's like when you're
Speaker 4: not just going to pick up where you left off.
Speaker 4: And the point that Michael made was excellent about the nil.
Speaker 4: You know, we had the you know, the nil issue,
Speaker 4: not the nail, the transfer portal. We we just we
Speaker 4: didn't have access. We didn't jump in there. Sure times, sure, okay,
Speaker 4: all right, we have a call. Thanks for calling in
Speaker 4: to Eye of the Ball. Who is this, Hey, Premo,
Speaker 4: This is Donni. How you doing, Donny? How are you
Speaker 4: what you got going?
Speaker 2: Oh? Not too much.
Speaker 15: I got a couple of things you guys talked about
Speaker 15: last week. You were talking about NFL quarterbacks. Oh yeah,
Speaker 15: and we're you know, and you know, and I I've
Speaker 15: this one's I've been discussing for for years and years
Speaker 15: and going. How many quarterbacks are in the NFL? Thirty
Speaker 15: two teams? Yeah, sixty four. There's probably like eighty quarterbacks
Speaker 15: on contract. But how many NFL quarterbacks are in the NFL.
Speaker 15: And you talk about, you know, you talk about what
Speaker 15: the Panthers did Bryce Young this week and everything else.
Speaker 15: They're forcing these young guys that you know, seven on
Speaker 15: sevens where you get you know, a second and a
Speaker 15: half to try to you know, pick your throw. That's
Speaker 15: one thing. But when you got these big guys, you
Speaker 15: got the NFL guys where you know, you used to
Speaker 15: be able to run around people and run away from people.
Speaker 15: Now this big guy that's six seven and three hundred
Speaker 15: pounds is as fast as.
Speaker 2: You right right. We talked about this. Maybe that's why
Speaker 2: you're calling to We talked about the thirty two teams.
Speaker 2: Don't you think there's like maybe six or seven really
Speaker 2: good ones and then the rest are just kind of
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 15: That's I think I was being you know, I was
Speaker 15: trying to stretch it to ten and I can't think
Speaker 15: of ten. I can't think of ten NFL quarterback and
Speaker 15: it's hard to think past one. Right Mahomes, well two
Speaker 15: mahomes and Lamar, what about Josh Allen Allen pay he hasn't.
Speaker 2: Won Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 15: He hasn't won anything, and he hasn't beaten anybody of substance.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing is you have championship games, AFC championship.
Speaker 15: No one you can tell I would say pretty is better,
Speaker 15: especially for the money, especially for the moneyscount the Uh
Speaker 15: what about uh what about these guys that are coming
Speaker 15: up now, like uh, Sam Darnold who's having a great year,
Speaker 15: turning it around after having played for bad teams. Now
Speaker 15: he's playing for a good team.
Speaker 2: And then and you got amazing.
Speaker 15: It's amazing when you give well, don't even start me
Speaker 15: with Carr because I'm a Raiders and that's my quarterback,
Speaker 15: right that's my quarterback right there.
Speaker 2: And the thing is is that guy played with a.
Speaker 15: Broken back, he's played with busted fingers, he's he's like missed.
Speaker 2: Minimal, minimal games.
Speaker 15: He got them to the playoffs, but he broke his
Speaker 15: leg and he couldn't play in the playoffs. And and
Speaker 15: Raider fans, a lot of Raider fans, they hate him
Speaker 15: because he couldn't win the whole thing. But the problem
Speaker 15: was was they didn't have a defense, or they didn't
Speaker 15: have a running game, or they didn't have you know,
Speaker 15: look at Dan Marino. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Here's here's another one. Here's another one.
Speaker 4: Not sure if you win a Super Bowl that that
Speaker 4: you know, you're a pretty decent quarterback except for like
Speaker 4: Neil O'Donnell and stuff like that, that that win.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Tren dilt for Trent dil for want of
Speaker 2: Super Bowl absolutely.
Speaker 10: And but the thing is is.
Speaker 15: John Elway didn't win one until he had a running game.
Speaker 15: And and you have to have a complete team to win,
Speaker 15: absolutely and that and it's funny, like you say about
Speaker 15: Sam Darnold, here's a guy that he's had experiences and
Speaker 15: not good ones. But now he's on a better team
Speaker 15: and he's doing well. And then, you know, here's the
Speaker 15: difference between yesterday the red rifle. Yeah, and Bryce Young.
Speaker 15: Bryce Young is inexperienced.
Speaker 2: He's too small. You know, He's got all the talent
Speaker 2: in the world.
Speaker 15: Nobody denies that, except that when you play quarterback at Alabama,
Speaker 15: you have all day to throw.
Speaker 2: You get to throw the ball fifty yards if you want, you.
Speaker 15: Know, on almost any play if you want, you know,
Speaker 15: And that's it's a very false sense of security. And
Speaker 15: then and then there's Herbert with the Chargers in college.
Speaker 15: He likes to throw it to the other team almost
Speaker 15: as much as he liked to throw it to the Ducks.
Speaker 15: And he's conteue and well, yeah it does, and said
Speaker 15: and so do the touchdowns. But I mean and and
Speaker 15: he's still doing that. And now this year, now that
Speaker 15: he's got Harball as a coach, they're going to be
Speaker 15: running more. They're going to have more of an emphasis
Speaker 15: on the defense. He guess what, he's going to get
Speaker 15: elevated because he's not going to have to play as
Speaker 15: much quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me ask you one quick thing, Donny. Uh,
Speaker 2: you don't have to wax too poetic on it. But
Speaker 2: Antonio Pierce when he got the job for your Raiders, Uh,
Speaker 2: were you okay with it? And I have just a
Speaker 2: quick philosophy on that. It's it's it's tough to hire
Speaker 2: the assistant principle when you need the principle. And I
Speaker 2: say that because a substitute teacher, because you know you're there,
Speaker 2: you kind of play hard for him and then you
Speaker 2: become the guy and then it kind of changes.
Speaker 15: I think Antonio Pierce was the makeup higher, like the
Speaker 15: like the makeup pass interference call when they didn't give
Speaker 15: the job to Bisaciam two years prior. So you happy
Speaker 15: with it before, Josh Allien, Uh?
Speaker 13: I was?
Speaker 2: I was indifferent. I'm indifferent.
Speaker 15: I mean, I mean he went out and he hired
Speaker 15: he hired the offensive coordinator from from the Bears.
Speaker 2: Now you're talking about.
Speaker 15: A horrible offense, granted they don't have I mean, I don't.
Speaker 15: They didn't have a quarterback, they didn't have a trigger
Speaker 15: man or anything. But he's he's proving that, dude, you
Speaker 15: deserve to be in Chicago. You know, that's not an offensive.
Speaker 2: Programming with the Bears.
Speaker 15: You know, it's like, you know, everybody's like Caleb is
Speaker 15: cursed going to the Bears if they get the right coaches.
Speaker 15: I mean, that kid, you know, he's got a chance
Speaker 15: to be really good.
Speaker 2: You know, hopefully he.
Speaker 15: Doesn't get beat up too much, loses confidence and then
Speaker 15: you know, you know, things happenings happened.
Speaker 4: That's what happened to Derek Carr's brother, David Carr. I mean,
Speaker 4: he went to Houston and they put him right in
Speaker 4: and then he just got his butt kicked every single game.
Speaker 15: And well you've got like the two the two most
Speaker 15: SAX seasons in his first two seasons. But you know,
Speaker 15: and what hurt him the most was he didn't get
Speaker 15: any concussions where he couldn't take weeks off.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for calling. I appreciate it. How's how's
Speaker 2: the show so far? How's the show so far? Just
Speaker 2: real quick? I think it's good, but with.
Speaker 15: The guest host, we end up spending so much time
Speaker 15: talking with guest hosts that you know, sometimes I don't
Speaker 15: want to call in because I don't want to break
Speaker 15: up the party. Okay, even though you know what I mean,
Speaker 15: the beer buddy. If if we get if we get
Speaker 15: a set thing going, then that's going to be good.
Speaker 15: But no, you'll be fine, Steve. You know, I don't
Speaker 15: want you to carry it all by yourself, but you'll
Speaker 15: be fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for figure it out. Thank you, don
Speaker 2: thank you ye people forget I did the show for
Speaker 2: three years by myself. Yeah right, yeah, exactly. It's not
Speaker 2: my first rodeo. I just my first different bull was
Speaker 2: he did something in your co host? There is talking no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you just don't want to just don't want to, you know,
Speaker 2: interrupt the party. And then you'll be back. I mean,
Speaker 2: I want you to come back for another day. And
Speaker 2: now I'll fill in the rest. We'll see what we do.
Speaker 2: You know, I just gotta find that right and make
Speaker 2: some guy girl kind of feedback we get from the
Speaker 2: from the from the people, from the people. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: anybody else want to call? We have a couple of
Speaker 2: well we have five minutes, maybe five minutes exactly five too,
Speaker 2: O four one six seventy four forty. Would love to
Speaker 2: hear from you guys, your thoughts on this this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to get the Zona Zoo people in
Speaker 2: because you know, we kind of ragged them, not kind
Speaker 2: of we did for years and now they're doing very well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it is.
Speaker 4: It seems to be a very different attitude and what
Speaker 4: they're doing very coordinate, very oord.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you're part of it. You've been to both, right,
Speaker 2: What's what's going on? What's going on there? Is it
Speaker 2: just better?
Speaker 3: Seems good? I think. I think that's the main thing.
Speaker 3: Or you're just talking about the improved attendance, Yes, the
Speaker 3: biggest thing. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2: It's I guess you were hoping to see the excitement
Speaker 2: or electricity from Noah and Fafida and.
Speaker 3: They've they've always done giveaways at the game to try
Speaker 3: to get students to come.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 3: He isn't different. I think it's genuine because the team
Speaker 3: is good. That's why people are coming and that's why
Speaker 3: they're staying. Right, Winning, winning fixes exactly right. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: they won the first two. We'll see what happens after that.
Speaker 3: But no they've done their dressing, they're doing their staying
Speaker 3: all that. The stain is what's impressing. Sure, absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Well we are talking about it last week. If they'd
Speaker 3: lose this game, we'll see out of that many people.
Speaker 2: Right right, and then the Colorado game will be more
Speaker 2: more of an interest because of the curiosity. Sure. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why you're taking me taking a You're gonna be
Speaker 2: out of town. I'm gonna be out of town. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the tickets, and I think we gave those away already,
Speaker 2: isn't you really? Yeah, don't you know who I am?
Speaker 2: And that's why you get I put it. I put
Speaker 2: in a vote for you, put in a vote for
Speaker 2: thanks bridget. I only get one vote. Thanks, thanks Bridge. Okay, no, biggie,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. Uh, you might come in this
Speaker 2: later this week. Thank you for a lot of people said, Okay,
Speaker 2: he knows what he's talking about. We'll see what we'll see.
Speaker 2: We'll see how it goes. Do a little more, you know,
Speaker 2: polish your stuff. I had to tell you that all
Speaker 2: the time. Learning a little more. Yeah, okay, guys, we
Speaker 2: got about three four start watching sports. There's a game
Speaker 2: right now, and he score up for that one. So
Speaker 2: I think the Bills are a six. Nothing.
Speaker 3: They scored but missed the extra point.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's what. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I really couldn't believe that Don was was bagging on
Speaker 4: the Josh Allen. Yeah, I'll come on, give me, give
Speaker 4: me top, give me five quarterbacks right now?
Speaker 2: Uh, well, homes right. The I would go purty, I
Speaker 2: would go You wouldn't go purty. I would put him
Speaker 2: at the back of the list. I wouldn't pu him
Speaker 2: number two. No, no, no, okay, but I and I'm
Speaker 2: skeptical about that, but go ahead, I would do. There's
Speaker 2: no right or wrong answer, and I'm drawing a blank
Speaker 2: and already more guys. Well, Josh Allen, I would put
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. There's three, three, there's three, four, would be
Speaker 2: I am running of steam. Yeah, I think he's Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow five, burst five And is that questionable or
Speaker 4: he's in No, I think he's in the top five.
Speaker 4: Put it Stroud, Yeah, I put him, put him before Stroud.
Speaker 4: But I tell you what I think. I think I'd
Speaker 4: put Party before Stroud at least now now. And he's
Speaker 4: and he's not so much a system quarterback. But he's
Speaker 4: not a flashy dude. He just gets the stuff done. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean he's he's he's winning. Now we'll see with Stroud,
Speaker 4: We'll see how he does this year. This is the
Speaker 4: year that they were like, okay, you know now he's
Speaker 4: going to break out.
Speaker 2: We'll see how that. Okay, so you stretched to get
Speaker 2: me five, right, so kind of maybe you have to
Speaker 2: think so five. I think, Well, what about Rodgers? What
Speaker 2: about Rogers?
Speaker 4: Rogers, Well, Rogers a little old. I'm not sure if
Speaker 4: he's got it all together, especially with the Jets. I
Speaker 4: put him in Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 4: he was going to be.
Speaker 2: Injury. But I mean when's the last time he had
Speaker 2: a three under your game? Thank you? Well? What about golf.
Speaker 3: In this day and age known as three games?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well there's yeah, I mean there's there's not as
Speaker 4: much as it is before. We still it's still a
Speaker 4: throwing league. Golf is definitely.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 4: I would put him in the list, not in the
Speaker 4: top five, put him in top ten. What about the
Speaker 4: La Rems quarterback Stafford? Stafford, that dude is go to
Speaker 4: go to I mean, he's just he won yesterday's game. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he does he does he? So that's maybe six or seven. Yeah,
Speaker 4: six or seven.
Speaker 2: So there there you go.
Speaker 4: I think what about the Jacksonville quarterback with Lawrence? I
Speaker 4: think he's a letdown this year. You know, he's one
Speaker 4: of those things where I think they finally said okay
Speaker 4: last year at the end last year or in last year,
Speaker 4: especially in the beginning, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: Okay. I was gonna go with this too, if we
Speaker 2: know we do this with the later this week, the
Speaker 2: top quarterbacks in the Big twelve and what does what
Speaker 2: does the FA fit in? Yeah, because everyone thought, yeah,
Speaker 2: where does he fit in? Now? Now you're right, because
Speaker 2: before the season, before the season, it was like going, hey,
Speaker 2: this guy's a heusmand candidate. Now you're thinking, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: thanks guys, Thank you guys on Entry and Matt and
Speaker 2: you too, Mike exact. Yeah, we'll see you tomorrow.