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Speaker 2: But good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
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Speaker 3: Show is messed up like the last three?
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, you call you Kevin. I'm you with bris Kevin.
Speaker 2: We're here on Thursday because we have to be.
Speaker 3: That doesn't you know?
Speaker 4: That doesn't give us our listeners a lot of day
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Speaker 2: To say wait, wait, are you gonna be here tomorrow?
Speaker 3: I Am not gonna be.
Speaker 2: Well, there's that. There's that.
Speaker 3: Really, it's a family thing. It's a family.
Speaker 2: No, don't I don't need excuses. You don't need excuses.
Speaker 4: You No, don't don't even go there, Steve, don't even
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Speaker 4: you don't have to be apparently welcome everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome.
Speaker 2: Did you get shut out today?
Speaker 3: Did I get shut out? No?
Speaker 2: Whatever, poor guest did. Yeah, not a good thing. But
Speaker 2: you will say that for breaking news. Okay, it's not
Speaker 2: good news. It's not good news. Just just a surprising news,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: I guess I am a little surprised, and yeah, I'm very.
Speaker 2: Do the girls play today?
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 2: I want to try to get the coach on.
Speaker 3: No, they haven't played all day against do that.
Speaker 2: Let's do it whole. You won't be here tomorrow, star
Speaker 2: maybe maybe if they don't.
Speaker 3: Put everything out there. Got the first round of the
Speaker 3: golf tournaments in North Carolina that that got canceled as well.
Speaker 3: Betty Debbie, Debbie Debbie Hurricane Debbie one of those women
Speaker 3: I won't marry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, Uh, and then we have a good guest.
Speaker 2: We have a couple of good guests. Today. We're gonna
Speaker 2: catch up on football finally again. Yep, with Brian Peterson
Speaker 2: here at the early hour, right at fifteenth th seventeen.
Speaker 2: See what's going on because he's there at the practices.
Speaker 2: And then uh track down Jeff Skirten. He's doing some
Speaker 2: of his usual drive, you know, for shoe drive and
Speaker 2: for the needy in Mexico. See all the work that
Speaker 2: he does for that. And then I kind of wanted
Speaker 2: to ask him, how's life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not coaching this year.
Speaker 2: Over all these years, I think he's maybe sat out
Speaker 2: a year.
Speaker 3: I think he sat out a year a while back
Speaker 3: before he went over to Rio Rico.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we'll see how is this really?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is he you know, he you know, does he
Speaker 3: need like, yeah, some counseling. Does he need to go
Speaker 3: to a you know, a ten step thing, you know,
Speaker 3: Kevin hang On, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: because he's been doing this for so long.
Speaker 2: Right, right, And then you know, talk about things that
Speaker 2: we talked about, some of the things that high school
Speaker 2: kids go through because this so psychology, psychology stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: do they deal with the same stuff that that the
Speaker 2: college kids do. There's still pressure? Are you gonna the money?
Speaker 3: Right? And where's the pressure coming from?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Is coming from? Did you see? There was a thing
Speaker 3: with a couple of coaches at a very prominent Alabama
Speaker 3: high school, one of the top and and the coach
Speaker 3: who just got hired is its first year and his
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator. They both had to resign because some video
Speaker 3: came out of them beating up their players. Really, there's
Speaker 3: the video that you see. It's an overhead video and
Speaker 3: I don't know who would have shot that. It almost
Speaker 3: looks like it's from a from a drone, but there's
Speaker 3: a there's obviously alignment drill happening. And so this lineman,
Speaker 3: kind of a defensive lineman kind of gets you know,
Speaker 3: he gets man handled, and one of the coaches, I
Speaker 3: don't know which are the two coaches it was, races
Speaker 3: over to him, pushes them and as he's pushing him
Speaker 3: grabs his face masks, so the face mask, so the
Speaker 3: helmet comes off and he falls through the ground and
Speaker 3: then he throws the helmet at because you got beat Yeah,
Speaker 3: because he got beat on the on the in the drill.
Speaker 2: Well is this did you read it? Was there a
Speaker 2: story that went yeah? So is the coach a past
Speaker 2: coach too? He was hired? Do you have coaching experience?
Speaker 3: I should say I'm presuming he is. He did, because
Speaker 3: you know how you know this is this is Hoover
Speaker 3: High School and somewhere in Alabama, which you know again
Speaker 3: one of the top football high schools in Alabama's You
Speaker 3: don't get that job if you weren't coaching somewhere else.
Speaker 2: So he must have been a very good coach who.
Speaker 3: And maybe this has gone on elsewhere, but there's no video.
Speaker 2: Right Well, the thing is, that's funny unless they tape
Speaker 2: their practices with a drone normal, why else would it
Speaker 2: be there unless they thought maybe something.
Speaker 3: And some somebody got ahold of the video and it got.
Speaker 2: A well that's how kind of the beginning of the
Speaker 2: end for probably night they use.
Speaker 3: The practice that he got the guy by the neck right.
Speaker 2: Read I think it was read where you know they
Speaker 2: had that thing put away and then someone brought it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so you know. But anyways, so you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, is that is that a Is that a
Speaker 3: product of coaches feeling pressure? Is it a product of
Speaker 3: coaches dealing with players who are feeling pressure? But here's
Speaker 3: the coach who obviously went off in a way that
Speaker 3: you can't and now he's not a coach anymore, and
Speaker 3: he you know, being when when you read about this
Speaker 3: high school and what it is, you know it's probably
Speaker 3: a place where you know, you can get a college
Speaker 3: job out of there, and now his coaching career is
Speaker 3: probably over or close to it, right, He's not gonna
Speaker 3: be coaching high school anywhere. No, No, So I mean
Speaker 3: back to your point, there's a lot of pressure and expectations,
Speaker 3: and it's creeping down right from well pros to college
Speaker 3: to high school.
Speaker 2: Well. No, we talked even we talked about the youth football,
Speaker 2: the youth football little league by baseball, where the kids
Speaker 2: and the umps are fighting with really, I mean really
Speaker 2: really trying to prove especially like the kid who got
Speaker 2: his butt kicked for the buddy ump and the and
Speaker 2: the and the pace mask. I mean, come on, what
Speaker 2: what what the coach wanted to prove that the guy
Speaker 2: was safer out he's a nine year old kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Here. Let me ask you this,
Speaker 3: because you know your kids played sports. They were playing soccer, right,
Speaker 3: and one of them went to college for soccer, right.
Speaker 2: Did you put pressure on your kids though? Never, never,
Speaker 2: I think, did.
Speaker 3: You look at your kids and say, I want my
Speaker 3: kid to be a professional athlete. No.
Speaker 2: I wanted my kid to be good at what he did,
Speaker 2: happy with what he did, both of them because because
Speaker 2: they were No, my dad wasn't like that. My dad
Speaker 2: was not a helicopter kid. My dad supported me, went
Speaker 2: to everything. I went to everything I went to. IM
Speaker 2: rarely missed a game. So I was that same guy, supportive.
Speaker 2: I was more not entangled with the other guys because
Speaker 2: and I told you the story with some of the
Speaker 2: Hispanic dads in soccer, because there's a lot of us,
Speaker 2: a lot of them, and they would cuss out kids
Speaker 2: and coaches and refs in Spanish. They didn't have a
Speaker 2: clue to know that I was that I knew what
Speaker 2: they were saying because because they didn't know, and I said,
Speaker 2: come on, guys, enough he said, oh you know were saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: what you're saying, No, it wouldn't. It didn't stop me.
Speaker 2: So the coaches and Cosgrove was a coach cause we'd
Speaker 2: have to have meetings with the guys, and he bought
Speaker 2: everybody instead of the people who needed to be talking,
Speaker 2: which which is an issue.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, all three of my kids played
Speaker 3: a bunch of sports through high school. Two of them
Speaker 3: were three sport athletes and one of them was a
Speaker 3: two sport athletes, so they played everything and to me
Speaker 3: and even you know, Little League and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: to me, the most most important thing was for them
Speaker 3: to have fun.
Speaker 2: To have fun enjoyed. It was supposed to be fun.
Speaker 2: Kids should be kids should be kids, and if you're good,
Speaker 2: even better, even better. There were days there were pressure
Speaker 2: because Cameron played at the highest level here and in
Speaker 2: the West. It was yeah, you know, and he was
Speaker 2: the goal. He was like, oh god, please, But it
Speaker 2: was never get on him or because what's the point.
Speaker 2: There's no point.
Speaker 3: I mean, I you know, I yelled at a refer
Speaker 3: to just for bad calls and things like that, but
Speaker 3: you know, but not in a way, not in a
Speaker 3: threatening way like you know, just may have said something
Speaker 3: or you know, all coma ref, you know whatever, stuff
Speaker 3: like that, but not in a way that right, not
Speaker 3: a way that the ref is going to turn their
Speaker 3: head and look at me and like go, what the
Speaker 3: hell are you doing? Right? Just you know, just normal,
Speaker 3: you know, part of the game. But I wanted my
Speaker 3: kids to have fun. I wanted sports to be fun
Speaker 3: because I saw watching them grow up in Little League
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. I saw kids that weren't.
Speaker 2: Having fun to get out of the gate.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, my son. Uh And I bring this
Speaker 3: up because the Little League World Series is getting ready
Speaker 3: to start right the baseball you know, they're showing all
Speaker 3: the regionals and stuff like that. And our all star
Speaker 3: team at Sabina Canaan Little League was really good to
Speaker 3: the point of you know, uh uh. I was an
Speaker 3: assistant coach on it, in the head coach, and we
Speaker 3: had breakfast one time and he said, we were talking.
Speaker 3: He said, we're really good. I said, do you think
Speaker 3: we're Little League World Series good? He says, I don't know,
Speaker 3: but we're really good. We really you know, I can
Speaker 3: see it's going quite away. So we The main thing
Speaker 3: you have to have there is pitching, and you have
Speaker 3: to have more than one really good pitch three before
Speaker 3: and we had that. We had these pictures who could
Speaker 3: just through gas like the kids that you see. This
Speaker 3: was Adam's twelve year old years. This was nineteen or
Speaker 3: two thousand and five, okay, okay, And we were really good.
Speaker 3: But most of the kids, now my son just played
Speaker 3: little league, all right. Most of the kids on that
Speaker 3: team also played club ball all right. And we get
Speaker 3: into we get into our practices, you know, for little league.
Speaker 3: They no, they didn't give one crap about it, and
Speaker 3: they didn't care about the games. There were just more
Speaker 3: games to play, and we flamed out in the district.
Speaker 3: We didn't even get out of disc you know, and
Speaker 3: we lost a game that that eliminated us. Basically, my
Speaker 3: son cried and the other guys just didn't give because
Speaker 3: they were playing all kinds of baseball. They just didn't care.
Speaker 3: This was just mortal. This was just more baseball than
Speaker 3: This wasn't a dream of And those kids go on,
Speaker 3: well a couple of them play high school. That's as
Speaker 3: far as I know. I don't know if they played
Speaker 3: it beyond that.
Speaker 2: So how did that go?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly? And I remember this one time, uh we
Speaker 3: were at my son was that we went to the
Speaker 3: bat There used to be this batting cage out on
Speaker 3: the east side, and I just took them over there,
Speaker 3: you know, just to hit. And we were hitting. And
Speaker 3: about five of those kids from that All Star team
Speaker 3: who were playing on a club team together, we had
Speaker 3: another batting cage with their coach and they looked miserable.
Speaker 3: They were not having fun. And my son, he was
Speaker 3: just there to hit. He just wanted to hit because
Speaker 3: you know, I can't throw. I couldn't throw the way
Speaker 3: these you know, we just took to hit, to have
Speaker 3: fun to hit. And those guys were over there, work
Speaker 3: and work and work and work, completely miserable, standing around
Speaker 3: making fun and not having fun. And we, you know,
Speaker 3: we saw them over it, and like, those guys aren't
Speaker 3: having fun, they're playing, they're doing something that somebody's making
Speaker 3: them do that they don't want to do.
Speaker 2: Well, there's such thing as burnout.
Speaker 3: You did you?
Speaker 2: Did you play burnout? Did it come to you? I
Speaker 2: mean when I got to high school, it was it
Speaker 2: was kind of like, all right, you know, I didn't
Speaker 2: make my high school team.
Speaker 3: So I just kind of like, oh, yeah, you just
Speaker 3: stop playing. Stop playing. I wanted to I wanted to play.
Speaker 3: Third show. You played baseball, Okay, I played hockey.
Speaker 2: That's what you're gonna tell me you You were a
Speaker 2: linebacker as your Texas I have ran over here. You're
Speaker 2: a whistle the guy I saw, of.
Speaker 3: Course, but you know, but that that's the thing. And
Speaker 3: so you know, we're playing in high school and one
Speaker 3: of our pictures, Okay had a sore arm the whole time,
Speaker 3: and then we find out that while we're in season,
Speaker 3: he's taking pitching lessons. I'm like, you're throwing your arm out,
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do? Right? Just stuff like that
Speaker 3: just throw me nuts. And it does. When I hear
Speaker 3: stuff and see stuff like this, like who's to blame
Speaker 3: on all? It's it's usually the parents, often the parents.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the worst thing to happen to kids and parents. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I mean, he is gonna make me a lot
Speaker 2: of money, right right, Well, get me to college or
Speaker 2: you know whatever. Yeah, that's understandable. It's understandable think that way.
Speaker 2: But guess what, what's the percentage one percentage of the kids.
Speaker 3: It's very small. It's really small, you know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's just one of those things that struck me seeing
Speaker 3: this thing with it with these high school coaches saying
Speaker 3: what are you doing? But then also seeing it, you know,
Speaker 3: every time this year rolls around in the Little League
Speaker 3: World Series, you got ready to start. I think back
Speaker 3: to this team that we had that had had the
Speaker 3: talent to be really good. Now I'm not saying this
Speaker 3: team was going to go to the Little League World Series,
Speaker 3: but it was something that we had in the back
Speaker 3: of our minds because that's how good we.
Speaker 2: Thought everybody and everybody thinks that when you put together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's how good we thought this team was.
Speaker 2: I mean, who would think this team from Wilcox Wilcox
Speaker 2: for for but Steve sometimes you know, right, you know
Speaker 2: there are teams that are really damn good. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 2: but that was on the basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you're gonna go to that other.
Speaker 2: Yes, example, because you think you're really good, and you
Speaker 2: are really good, but then you have to go do it.
Speaker 2: You got to go do it, right. You don't understand
Speaker 2: that Clemson's pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: Right, but there's probably nothing more disappointing than knowing how
Speaker 3: much talent and ability you have and you're not even
Speaker 3: coming close to realize. No, I did it in high school.
Speaker 2: We did in high school the four years, number one
Speaker 2: in the state going in and we didn't get to
Speaker 2: the semi finals.
Speaker 3: It was just yeah, I mean, come on, it's just
Speaker 3: the way it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because you think kindly of yourself, you
Speaker 2: know what, the other guys don't give a crap.
Speaker 3: Right, and then you go to the flip side. My
Speaker 3: Adam's a freshman team at Saint Gregory. I was an
Speaker 3: assistant coach on the team. We were just having fun.
Speaker 3: We were not you know, we didn't. We thought we
Speaker 3: were okay, but we didn't. You know, we had one
Speaker 3: really good pitcher. All of a sudden, We're finding ourselves
Speaker 3: in the state semi finals. I'm like, what the hell
Speaker 3: are we doing here? How did the hell did we
Speaker 3: get here? And I think a lot of it had
Speaker 3: to do with how much fun these kids were having. Confidence,
Speaker 3: because if you get if you get to win a game,
Speaker 3: I'll send you win another game, and then I'll send
Speaker 3: you here you are. And we had a blast with
Speaker 3: that team. That was the most fun I ever had
Speaker 3: on any kind of a baseball team. You know, I
Speaker 3: was an assistant coach on this team. Yeah it's great. Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: it's that's That's just what it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, enough about us, Yep, We'll take a break and
Speaker 2: then go to Brian Peterson.
Speaker 3: Peterson talk.
Speaker 2: Was back on the fields after doing stuff this time.
Speaker 2: I just read through got a past cot and Justin's notes.
Speaker 3: I didn't you didn't even say anything about t Mac.
Speaker 3: What's your name? Well? Ryan, not Ryan? Right? What Troy? Troy?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm telling I'm texting Troy right now.
Speaker 3: There isn't a Ryan. There's one right there that's Ryan, right, there.
Speaker 3: I'm telling I'm telling Troy that you couldn't remember, and
Speaker 3: Troy loves me. I'm still gonna tell you. Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: We'll be right back with Brian Peterson from No Asy
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Speaker 1: Steve Prepira and Jacin Solids they have their eye on
Speaker 1: the fall on twosons Sports stay shat Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to wind the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake. Now in the
Speaker 2: phone we have Brian Peterson from Agdesertswarm dot com. Brian,
Speaker 2: how you doing great?
Speaker 14: Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 3: You working on that ten.
Speaker 14: I'm working on staying in the tiny little piece of
Speaker 14: shade that still exists throughout football practice. Nice with my
Speaker 14: big floppy hat and all that.
Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice, because it's so your cage. You
Speaker 2: better and you should know that better. You're right, you
Speaker 2: know all about that. How's it going so far?
Speaker 14: I think it's fine. I mean, this is the first
Speaker 14: fall camp under this regime, and to see how it
Speaker 14: compares to what Jed Fish had done, there's not a
Speaker 14: lot of differences. Maybe some of the individual drills look
Speaker 14: a little differently. You're still hearing Duyna Kina be very
Speaker 14: loud out there, which is something that we heard last year.
Speaker 14: But otherwise and with so many of the same players back,
Speaker 14: it does feel a lot like it was a year ago.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the thing, right, I Mean, we see
Speaker 3: practices in you know, camps, and a lot of times
Speaker 3: we don't even really know what they're doing, right. We
Speaker 3: know that they're on passes, catching passes, blocking, yeah, yeah, yeada,
Speaker 3: but we don't know what's behind all of that, and
Speaker 3: so it all kind of looks the same. I mean,
Speaker 3: I remember watching Kevin Somemlin's practices, except for the fact
Speaker 3: that Kevin Somelan looked disinterested. They looked like a lot
Speaker 3: of other practices that you saw.
Speaker 14: Yes, I mean, it's just what is so unique as
Speaker 14: especially nowadays in college, when there is a coaching change,
Speaker 14: there's usually a mass exodus of players that the roster
Speaker 14: goes and overturns. Jed Fish is dealing with that up
Speaker 14: at Washington Kylin de boor at Alabama and so many
Speaker 14: other places. And the fact that Arizona has at least half,
Speaker 14: if not more, of the people on this roster were
Speaker 14: here last year with a new coaching staff is what
Speaker 14: just kind of makes it so unique?
Speaker 3: Got it? Can you?
Speaker 2: And you could tell that the new coaching staff has
Speaker 2: their full attention and they're bought in.
Speaker 14: I sue yes, And I think a lot of that
Speaker 14: comes from the fact that, particularly for the returners, they
Speaker 14: have tried to keep things as much the same as
Speaker 14: last year as possible. That this isn't like a Kevin
Speaker 14: Summons situation in twenty eighteen when he did bring back
Speaker 14: a fair amount of people like Colotate, but they changed
Speaker 14: a lot of stuff and it backfired. They've kept a
Speaker 14: lot of the verbiage the same, and maybe not the
Speaker 14: schemes are exact, but just so much that is trying
Speaker 14: to stay familiar that the changes feel more like compliments
Speaker 14: than rather than supplements.
Speaker 3: Right, So, who's got your eye out there? There's a
Speaker 3: lot of talk about Kean Burnett. We've seen some stuff
Speaker 3: on him the last couple of days. Who else I
Speaker 3: mean talk about him here than who else?
Speaker 14: I mean? He Ken has really had a great camp
Speaker 14: and he made this finally is his opportunity to break out.
Speaker 14: I mean, he didn't do as much those first two
Speaker 14: years as was expected, but that a lot of that
Speaker 14: had to do with Tanner McLaughlin right, and how great
Speaker 14: he was at that position. The two transfer receivers that
Speaker 14: they added, Jeremiah Patterson and ray Melo Murphy, have both
Speaker 14: looked really, really good, and with iMac not in the
Speaker 14: main mix for these practices so far, it's really allowed
Speaker 14: so many of these other receivers to get opportunities, and
Speaker 14: both of those should be a big part of that.
Speaker 14: The defensive line has so many of these new guys
Speaker 14: on it. Trey Smith from San Jose, Chuba Mai from
Speaker 14: UC Davis. They were here in the spring, but they
Speaker 14: continue to fill that in there on the defensive line,
Speaker 14: and how that rotation works out is going to be
Speaker 14: a big key to it. We're also seeing a lot
Speaker 14: of new offensive linemen. When Raymond Palito find out right
Speaker 14: camp begins he's not going to be available this season,
Speaker 14: that opens up left tackle and Rhino to tie. I
Speaker 14: probably said that really badly, but I know how to
Speaker 14: spell it. That's all that matters has been holding down
Speaker 14: that left tackle spot and if he can, if he
Speaker 14: can hold his own in that position, then it helps
Speaker 14: solidify everything else on the line.
Speaker 2: I think we may have buried the lead to so
Speaker 2: t Mac got a pass today, That's.
Speaker 14: What I've heard. Yeah, yeah, so it's watching what he's
Speaker 14: been doing at practice. It's not a matter of like
Speaker 14: if there was a game on Saturday, he'd be playing.
Speaker 14: But they're they're being careful with him because there's there
Speaker 14: isn't a need to put him at risk when they
Speaker 14: know that he knows everything. And I had asked this
Speaker 14: of Bobby Wade a couple of days ago at practice,
Speaker 14: of how do you make sure you're keeping a guy
Speaker 14: who's off on the side up to speed, especially when
Speaker 14: you're installing essentially a new offense with Dino Babers and
Speaker 14: all these new callplays. And he said it like that
Speaker 14: Timak is still involved in all the meetings and all
Speaker 14: the film and everything, and when he would be off
Speaker 14: on the side and what we've referred to as rehab
Speaker 14: island doing his individual stuff with the strength and medical staff,
Speaker 14: when they would do actual team periods of seven out
Speaker 14: seven or eleven eleven, he'd come over and watch it
Speaker 14: so he can see exactly how it works and he
Speaker 14: can just instantly figure out where he's going to be
Speaker 14: in there. So I don't have any concerns about him
Speaker 14: being fully one hundred percent for the season.
Speaker 3: All right, defensively, again, the ones that we want to
Speaker 3: know about, right, what does Jacob Monu look like? What
Speaker 3: does Justin Flow look like? And then the whole crew
Speaker 3: in the backfield.
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, the secondary is by far the strength of
Speaker 14: this team, with so much veteran experience, Gunnar Maldonado, Dalton
Speaker 14: Johnson trade and Stukes Genesis Smith being almost like a
Speaker 14: grizzled vet as a sophomore with the amount he played
Speaker 14: last year as freshman. Some new additions like Mark Heath
Speaker 14: grows Kill abrew a transfer who could be one of
Speaker 14: the starting cornerbacks. It's a very strong group back there,
Speaker 14: and if they're able to make sure that they go six, seven,
Speaker 14: eight deep on there, they can continue to do those
Speaker 14: dollar packages that Johnny Nansen liked to do. That was
Speaker 14: a suggestion of Duyna Quina, so having that be available,
Speaker 14: it really just it comes down to how that offensive
Speaker 14: excuse me, defensive line fits in with everything. And they
Speaker 14: spoke today about the coaches and players that the mindset
Speaker 14: for this group is trying to really disrupt the backfield
Speaker 14: a lot more than what Johnny Nansen had done. Johnny
Speaker 14: Nansen's defensive line was more about hold up those offensive
Speaker 14: linemen and keep them from getting the push and open
Speaker 14: the holes for the linebackers. This group is trying to
Speaker 14: get into the backfield and really create the chaos themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you've gone to most of them most of the practice.
Speaker 2: Yeah so in your journalism, I how good you think
Speaker 2: there could be?
Speaker 14: You know, I'm making my win total prediction at eight
Speaker 14: for the year, which is above what the Vegas lines
Speaker 14: are saying. I think that's seven and a half.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 14: Their toughest games are all on the road, and so
Speaker 14: you never know what you're going to get in terms
Speaker 14: of playing in these road atmospheres. Having the experience they
Speaker 14: do on both sides that played on the road and
Speaker 14: one games last year should help. It's just a matter
Speaker 14: of will that be the same in these different environments
Speaker 14: in the Big twelve compared to the Pac twelve. I
Speaker 14: mean the Kansas State game Week three, even though it
Speaker 14: doesn't count towards the Big toastandings, how they perform in that,
Speaker 14: even if they don't win, will kind of be indicative
Speaker 14: of how the whole season goes as far as if
Speaker 14: they can be in the hut for the Big twelve
Speaker 14: and get a playoff spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that Looms is a huge game for
Speaker 3: what for the reason you said, because it not being
Speaker 3: a conference game, but it's where I think we're going
Speaker 3: to find out a whole lot about them in the
Speaker 3: you know, in that game, and then they got to
Speaker 3: go to Utah after that. We were talking to the
Speaker 3: Texas tech writer yesterday and you know, they think that,
Speaker 3: you know, they've got a shot to be decent. And
Speaker 3: that's kind of what it is across the league right
Speaker 3: probably eight teams that are going to be really hard
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: Well decent by saying they could go five and zero, yeah,
Speaker 2: in the first five games.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean the preseason at Pole is going to
Speaker 14: come out on Monday, and either like Utah is probably
Speaker 14: going to be the highest ranked team in the conference,
Speaker 14: and if they are twelve, that would be high for them,
Speaker 14: But then there's going to be four or five other
Speaker 14: Big twelve teams that could get ranked. So to see
Speaker 14: that many number in there, but kind of all bunched together,
Speaker 14: and a lot of the early computer rankings have six
Speaker 14: to ten different Big twelve teams kind of in a
Speaker 14: lump in a twenty or thirty spot thing right there
Speaker 14: below the first tier. That just kind of gives you
Speaker 14: indication of how deep the league is, and then it
Speaker 14: comes down to who you're playing and who who everyone
Speaker 14: else is playing. Arizona has an advantage there because they
Speaker 14: don't have to play Kansas, Kansas State, or Oklahoma State
Speaker 14: or Iowa State in the conference in conference play, and
Speaker 14: those are some of their top competitors. The first game
Speaker 14: against Utah will be a big one, but then and
Speaker 14: the Texas Tech one for the first home game will
Speaker 14: be but then they they play one of on paper,
Speaker 14: the weakest schedules in the conference. So if they can
Speaker 14: be competitive, that votes really well for them down the stretch.
Speaker 3: Do you think they do you think they win to
Speaker 3: lose to or split the Kansas State and Utah games,
Speaker 3: you know, both on the road.
Speaker 14: I have them losing both of those games just because
Speaker 14: those are going to be the toughest for right now.
Speaker 14: I mean, who knows what's going to happen from it
Speaker 14: that Kansas State game. If they lose that game by
Speaker 14: a touchdown, then you can still gain a lot of
Speaker 14: value from that, But if they just kind of get
Speaker 14: whooped in it, then you have to reassess and see
Speaker 14: how they're going to be and Utah while they have
Speaker 14: familiar with that program having played them in the Pac twelve,
Speaker 14: that that's on the road to start league play and
Speaker 14: be right back to back on the road, that's a
Speaker 14: very tough sell there. Then you have your buy if
Speaker 14: they had their buy Actually no, the buye is before that,
Speaker 14: but still just having those two in consecutive could be
Speaker 14: really tough.
Speaker 2: So I think you asked Desire this question about the
Speaker 2: season tickets. It may have been somebody else. What's your
Speaker 2: thoughts on the fan base they bought in. Have you
Speaker 2: got an engauge from your site?
Speaker 14: I think they are bought into the extent that they're
Speaker 14: going to give it a shot. But like we all
Speaker 14: know this fan base, all it takes is one bad
Speaker 14: result and they can start searching for the lifeboats. Having
Speaker 14: New Mexico, which I believe they're supposed to be favored
Speaker 14: by close to thirty points as that first game and
Speaker 14: then NAU, it does provide this opportunity for the fans
Speaker 14: to get a really good feel about how this is
Speaker 14: and get some excitement. But if they were then to
Speaker 14: lose the Kansas State and Utah games, then the single
Speaker 14: game tickets for that Texas Tech game could suffer just
Speaker 14: because people get very very there's so much recency bias.
Speaker 14: I mean, I see it even too in all sports.
Speaker 14: The Diamondbacks last year started lost the first two games
Speaker 14: at Philadelphia in the National League Championship Series, and next
Speaker 14: thing you know, they were selling their game three tickets
Speaker 14: for seven dollars on stuff huck because they thought the
Speaker 14: series was over. It's just people overreact.
Speaker 3: We're talking to Brian Peterson Asydesert Swarm dot com. Brian,
Speaker 3: you know these expectations that are around for the program
Speaker 3: is like you said, you know, fans they may lose
Speaker 3: their minds if Arizona comes in at two and two
Speaker 3: or whatever. But you know, we never get this right.
Speaker 3: You know that we've had some ten win seasons and
Speaker 3: they've been high expectations. It's it's a whole lot different,
Speaker 3: especially with as long as it's been since, you know,
Speaker 3: there's been any hope for this program. From a writer's standpoint,
Speaker 3: how do you balance all of that right, Because you've
Speaker 3: got a fan site that you want fans to be
Speaker 3: excited about this program. But on the other hand, if
Speaker 3: you start saying things you can lose credibility or whatever. Right,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm trying to get at you. You're
Speaker 3: trying to be straightforward, but you're.
Speaker 14: Worried about that part. And if I don't have people
Speaker 14: hating me, I'm probably not doing the job right. But yeah,
Speaker 14: I'm never going to sugarcoat things and not point out
Speaker 14: the possibilities of how things can go bad. And at
Speaker 14: some point here before the opener, I'm probably going to
Speaker 14: be writing about just the season after the really good
Speaker 14: seasons in Arizona history and that we've experienced, I mean,
Speaker 14: even most recently as twenty fourteen when they go ten
Speaker 14: and four, when the Pac twelve South make the conference
Speaker 14: title game and play in one of the New Year's
Speaker 14: six Balls, and then the next year, what do they do?
Speaker 14: They lose to BYU, like right out at the gate
Speaker 14: up in Glendale, and it's a disappointing season. And that
Speaker 14: has happened pretty much every time football has had a
Speaker 14: good season. Right that you have to understand that one
Speaker 14: season does not dictate the next. While there are you know,
Speaker 14: on paper, this team should be very good because of
Speaker 14: the people they bring back. The other teams could be
Speaker 14: good too, and things change, and you know what, it
Speaker 14: just doesn't carry over anymore.
Speaker 2: So we've got a couple of minutes left to what's
Speaker 2: going to happen to or for the football program to
Speaker 2: do really well, the defense has to step up, or
Speaker 2: the offense has to do what it needs to do.
Speaker 14: The defense has to do enough to make it so
Speaker 14: that this isn't a team that they can't be a
Speaker 14: team that has to score every time they have the ball,
Speaker 14: because that just puts too much pressure and then you
Speaker 14: force things. You look back at Patrick Mahomes' final season
Speaker 14: at Texas Tech, and he was incredible, but he would
Speaker 14: then throw three interceptions in a game while throwing for
Speaker 14: five hundred yards because his defense gave up points every time,
Speaker 14: and they'd lose games like sixty eight to fifty five.
Speaker 14: You need your defense to just be serviceable. And last
Speaker 14: year the defense did far better than expected. They could
Speaker 14: have given up a few more points each game and
Speaker 14: Arizona was still able to win because of how well
Speaker 14: the offense developed, but the offense didn't feel pressure to
Speaker 14: score every time because the defense was holding its part.
Speaker 14: So I think the defensive side just has to be
Speaker 14: in a case where they are not just guaranteed points
Speaker 14: every time they're on the field.
Speaker 3: How different does duayna Quina look out there? You know,
Speaker 3: he was a defensive backs coach last last year. Now
Speaker 3: he's the guy more visible. We always hear him, right,
Speaker 3: but you see him?
Speaker 13: Is he more?
Speaker 3: Do you hear him more? I guess is what I'm asking.
Speaker 14: You know, I think he's really using that coordinator part
Speaker 14: of the title uh perfectly and that he's he's overseeing
Speaker 14: the defensive backs more than anything else. But like he
Speaker 14: is deferring to Lyle to Uh, to the defensive line coach,
Speaker 14: he's deferring to the linebacker coach and letting them do
Speaker 14: their things with his suggestions of how he'd like to
Speaker 14: see things. But he's not sitting here saying this is
Speaker 14: how you're going to do it. Figure out a way
Speaker 14: to make it work. I mean, he'll be the one
Speaker 14: calling the plays, but he's calling the plays based on
Speaker 14: what those assistants are telling him work best, and that's
Speaker 14: what a coordinator should be doing.
Speaker 2: Well, Brian, I hate to say this, we like you.
Speaker 2: We don't want to hate you, even though you liked us,
Speaker 2: or something like that. So you know, unless you're talking
Speaker 2: just a bunch.
Speaker 14: Of readers, Yeah, it's it's good to be hated, you.
Speaker 3: Know what a lot. He must feel really good.
Speaker 14: It's better to be hated than ignore.
Speaker 3: Hey, there you go.
Speaker 2: Yes, then we'll catch you next week.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Thanks Brian, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Hey Welcome back to Iron the Ball here on Fox
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Speaker 2: There's a game tonight?
Speaker 3: Is there an NFL game? There's a bunch of NFL
Speaker 3: games tonight. The preseason pretty much get started tonight with
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of stuff. All right, So, hey, did
Speaker 3: you see that? It looks like the UFA has its president.
Speaker 2: Oh did they get one? I know they get the
Speaker 2: second guy.
Speaker 3: It's a strange note thing is that they're only going
Speaker 3: to interview one person. The Border Regions is only going
Speaker 3: to interview one person, so they knew who there's like,
Speaker 3: this is what, this is what we're presenting the Border regions.
Speaker 3: Of the Border Regions will vote on him, which that
Speaker 3: doesn't make me feel great.
Speaker 2: Do they say who it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a guy named si esh Garamella. He's the current
Speaker 3: president of the University of Vermont. I was I was
Speaker 3: on the I was on the search committee for that
Speaker 3: hired Li Likens. And I'll just say I'll just say
Speaker 3: it this way. There were three candidates that that got
Speaker 3: interviewed by the search committee and they were all they
Speaker 3: all had to be public and stuff, and I remember
Speaker 3: going into that one one of the one of them
Speaker 3: was where was she at? But anyway, there was a
Speaker 3: favorite among the three right that people thought, Okay, this
Speaker 3: is going to be the one, and she turned out
Speaker 3: to not be the one that got hired because you
Speaker 3: did these interviews and you met them all and then
Speaker 3: we ended up with Peterkins, who was a very good
Speaker 3: president in Arizona. So this worries me in that they're
Speaker 3: only giving the border regients one person to uh who's
Speaker 3: the search committee there? There's there's a there's a search
Speaker 3: committee that gets put together, right. It's usually a bunch
Speaker 3: of community members and then and then they present them
Speaker 3: to present that recommendation to the to the border regions,
Speaker 3: and the border regions makes the hire. So if this
Speaker 3: and usually there's a region on the committee.
Speaker 2: So if this person does not fly, they got to
Speaker 2: go back to the dragon board.
Speaker 3: It sounds like it, right, I mean that that's what
Speaker 3: sounds like there's just this one person. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: who are you and why are you know? Why are
Speaker 3: we only getting you know? I mean right, don't you?
Speaker 3: I mean you go to you go apply for a
Speaker 3: job at McDonald's and they interviewed three or four people
Speaker 3: for a job at McDonald's.
Speaker 2: You think that it's like though that we talked about this. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's a job opening, and I'm sure you've gone through this.
Speaker 2: I know I've gone through this. There's a job opening,
Speaker 2: and the people who are doing the hiring already know
Speaker 2: who they're going to hire. U they just kind of
Speaker 2: go through the formalities of having people in whether it's
Speaker 2: a woman or man, but they already have somebody targeted.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, they open it up right and
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure you've lost the job that way,
Speaker 2: but yeah, there's should be more.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I remember because one of the tests that
Speaker 3: I had on that on that committee was I had
Speaker 3: to actually call a couple of potential candidates. But we
Speaker 3: we were.
Speaker 4: A search committee, right, We were going out and you
Speaker 4: were the.
Speaker 3: Yeah we were looking. Yeah, we were looking for people.
Speaker 3: So I remember calling this one university president and I
Speaker 3: won't say who he was. But you know, and I
Speaker 3: spoke to him, he said, he said, Look, he said, I'll, I'll,
Speaker 3: I'll be considered. I don't mind being considered, but I
Speaker 3: don't I don't want to be considered unless I've got
Speaker 3: a real shot at the job. And I said, well,
Speaker 3: I can't tell you that. I can't. You know what
Speaker 3: I can tell you. What I can tell you is
Speaker 3: that as a member of the search committee, there isn't
Speaker 3: like a favorite in the clubhouse. Okay. What I can
Speaker 3: tell you is that if you agree to an interview,
Speaker 3: you'll get a fair shot job.
Speaker 2: And you're going to him because you think that he's worthy, right,
Speaker 2: Whether he whether he passes the snuff is the question. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you're going he would think. So you tell me this,
Speaker 2: go ahead and tell me. We think we like you.
Speaker 2: We want to talk to you. Uh. And I'm thinking
Speaker 2: to you, well, you're calling me because you think I
Speaker 2: have a chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's worthy. Yeah, And that's what That's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I saying, Look, I wouldn't call you if
Speaker 3: you didn't if we didn't think you know, we're calling
Speaker 3: we're calling one to one to see.
Speaker 2: Were you what were you was that guy. Did he
Speaker 2: have a shot?
Speaker 3: He did? Yeah, No he did. And that's what I
Speaker 3: was telling him, I said, I said from I said
Speaker 3: from my standpoint. I said, Look, I'm not gonna let
Speaker 3: you know that the search committee had I think it
Speaker 3: had twenty people on it. Oh okay, right, some people
Speaker 3: knew who they wanted. Others like me, Sure, okay, here
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, thanks a bunch, Thanks so much for appreciate it. Yes,
Speaker 2: thank you. So So the guy, the guy had a chance.
Speaker 3: To get so he ended up not being a candidate,
Speaker 3: but he said yes to your interview. Well, he said,
Speaker 3: he said, you know, I'm really happy where I am.
Speaker 3: I'd rather you know, I'd rather know.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was fine, especially if you don't want
Speaker 2: you name.
Speaker 3: To be right. Yeah, I'll just the other thing. I'll
Speaker 3: say he was from one of the California state schools. Right.
Speaker 3: But you know the point of this conversation being though,
Speaker 3: is you're going to bring us one guy and that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I get it. Let me ask you this. Okay,
Speaker 2: So you have this guy, do you want him to
Speaker 2: be like, uh, the doctor Robbins sports wise or not?
Speaker 3: Well, you want him him or her, whoever it is.
Speaker 3: But in this case of him, you want whoever is
Speaker 3: university president. They're going to be the university president at
Speaker 3: a power for school now, to have an affinity for sports,
Speaker 3: to like sports, to understand how how how athletes are
Speaker 3: you know, can be and as they always say, the
Speaker 3: front front porch of an institution like Arizona, you certainly
Speaker 3: hope that there's some sort of a commitment to that
Speaker 3: because if they if there's not, let's say, Michael Crow
Speaker 3: maybe doesn't have the commitment that that up at AC
Speaker 3: that people want up there. And we've seen what's happened
Speaker 3: to their their overall program. Yeah, and wea were heart right,
Speaker 3: you know that was that was a tough go for
Speaker 3: in athletics for Arizona for a period of time. You know,
Speaker 3: Robert Shelton was you know, not president for very long,
Speaker 3: but he you know, he was you know, he he
Speaker 3: loves Peterkins, you know he was you know, I got
Speaker 3: to ask the sports questions at his interview, which is
Speaker 3: funny sports former. He was a wrestler and and uh,
Speaker 3: you know so I think you you hope that whoever
Speaker 3: they hire has a has a true understanding of how
Speaker 3: important this is. Two alumni to that that you get
Speaker 3: so much. There's a benefit to having a great athletic
Speaker 3: program at a at a university like Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, we'll see, but within within touching distance,
Speaker 2: but leave a lot of the.
Speaker 3: Decisions to the people who know sports. See and I
Speaker 3: think people you know, your people will probably say that
Speaker 3: maybe Robin's got a little two hands on, a little
Speaker 3: two hands on with sports. But I knew that was
Speaker 3: coming when I heard that he played quarterback in junior.
Speaker 2: Right, and he was very I saw him. You saw
Speaker 2: him at everything on the road and things like that.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, and and he was well he could be
Speaker 2: the guy or was the guy hired someone hired, fish
Speaker 2: hired Tommy, you know, and and Dave was the guy
Speaker 2: in the silence.
Speaker 3: Some good, some bad. But I think and he's stuck.
Speaker 2: By Miller longer than he probably should.
Speaker 3: Have, longer than a lot of people wanted him to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he was you know, over my dead body quote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I I don't know, it's it's.
Speaker 2: We gotta have him on. We got to have him
Speaker 2: on before he goes Robin Robins.
Speaker 3: It says, now, this guy, he was an executive VP
Speaker 3: for Research and Partnerships at Purdue, so he's been at
Speaker 3: a you know, at a big school. He's actually from India.
Speaker 3: I don't know, uh, you know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, anybody else want to call please.
Speaker 3: Do the story it's in there is on a Daily
Speaker 3: Star who wrote, who.
Speaker 2: Wrote, yeah, I saw I saw that out publicly?
Speaker 3: Who put it out? Ali Wolfe wrote that all eighteen
Speaker 3: members of the search committee were unanimous in the recommendation
Speaker 3: to the board to pick Garamella.
Speaker 2: So so they did hire the second in charge? I think,
Speaker 2: didn't they yesterday at a lower rate?
Speaker 3: Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they hired somebody yesterday, the guy who who's active, Oh,
Speaker 2: John Arnold. I think so if they hired somebody, yes,
Speaker 2: I think he was interim. Now he's now the second
Speaker 2: guy in command or second person in command.
Speaker 3: All right, So oh Arnold was with the Board of Region.
Speaker 2: I don't know, well, you know, I think, but I
Speaker 2: think he took a job. But I think he took
Speaker 2: a job and then just for the interim, and then
Speaker 2: he decided to.
Speaker 3: Just It says that he says there was no formal
Speaker 3: timeline for the search, though at the beginning of the
Speaker 3: process of a discussion about moving quickly yea of YadA, yadda.
Speaker 3: It doesn't say. It says Darrimela is not expected to
Speaker 3: start right away if the regions vote to offer him
Speaker 3: the position on Friday, there's a Border Regions meeting on Friday.
Speaker 3: He was still needing to negotiate his departure from the
Speaker 3: University of Vermont. Sources told The Star that he will
Speaker 3: most likely begin his tenure closer to October.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so we try to get maybe uh, doctor
Speaker 2: doctor Robinson before he he likes.
Speaker 3: To come in here, you know, the new studio. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because yeah, well we don't want him to be Yah,
Speaker 3: we went on to come here. Your corner is a
Speaker 3: real mess over there.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'll clean up if my corner is
Speaker 2: the problem in this place. You've got your priorities all
Speaker 2: messed up. You know where we're at, right.
Speaker 3: That's like my daughter's room. Have you been outside and
Speaker 3: it's a little dungeony up there, little dungeon.
Speaker 2: That's kind of nice.
Speaker 3: What about the people, man, Our boys might be listening now,
Speaker 3: Stephen meeball might be listening.
Speaker 2: They know, Exac's why we're we're going to higher Red District.
Speaker 3: They got to finish that McDonald's before we get started
Speaker 3: over there, though it's not done yet. Then on the
Speaker 3: corner out there, all right, anyway, Okay, that's it. I
Speaker 3: brought that up because it's an important piece, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know there's already discussion on social media, but no,
Speaker 3: do you just guys care about sports. It's not you know,
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. And how important it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: I mean, again, it was part of the interview process
Speaker 3: when you know, when I was on the community. We
Speaker 3: have to we have to find out what they think
Speaker 3: about about athletics, and it has to be a big
Speaker 3: piece of what they do. So hopefully, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're this thing with the border
Speaker 3: regions on Friday that because they're gonna they're gonna talk
Speaker 3: to him, and if it's gonna be a uh something
Speaker 3: public where we get to meet him or not. But
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not I guess I don't.
Speaker 14: I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well to start, so start been a while, been
Speaker 2: a while, but seven months eight months uh since you know,
Speaker 2: since all this stuff started to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, And again, I don't want anybody to think
Speaker 3: that I'm like, I don't know this guy. Is he good?
Speaker 3: Is he not good? I have no idea. I'm not
Speaker 3: making any kind of comment about that. I just think
Speaker 3: that we have some expectations. President ought to be and
Speaker 3: we hope if this is the guy, that he's the guy.
Speaker 2: Well, do you think that the committee bettered everybody? Or
Speaker 2: maybe they did that everybody and then they just said
Speaker 2: this is the guy.
Speaker 3: Well, and if they did and we missed it, then
Speaker 3: I apologize if I made it seem like this this
Speaker 3: process wasn't as public as it needed to be. I
Speaker 3: just remember again being on the committee when the committee
Speaker 3: interviewed candidates. The interviews were public. Now, if those things
Speaker 3: happened and we didn't see them or hear about them,
Speaker 3: then that's on us. If they didn't happen and they
Speaker 3: just zeroed in on one guy and they're bringing that
Speaker 3: one guy, that's that's where I think. I feel I
Speaker 3: have a little bit of an issue. So maybe we'll
Speaker 3: find out from Alio.
Speaker 2: Send your letters to Jay if he has an issue
Speaker 2: attention issue.
Speaker 3: I have a tension issues.
Speaker 2: I was with somebody today. I won't say whom that Jay,
Speaker 2: he really holds gredges donet.
Speaker 3: He said that, come on, man, I don't have a
Speaker 3: lot of them. I said, I just have some good,
Speaker 3: juicy ones, that's all.
Speaker 2: Aren't all grudges juicy? As long as I don't see
Speaker 2: you an ID or dateline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you don't see me on dateline. I'm not
Speaker 3: you know, I don't go that far.
Speaker 2: That far, Okay, I said, I'm sorry, you're right, but
Speaker 2: I don't. I'll stop there.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 14: Cool.
Speaker 2: So we have we have Jeff score in as as
Speaker 2: a color called to say, and we have at four seventeen.
Speaker 2: We'll have breaking news, a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 2: even with the quarterback from Arizona. I'm sure you saw that.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that break. You do what I'm talking about, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: not apply to your jersey. So we'll take a break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he walked up, and I'm like, really, what do
Speaker 3: we do? Well? Nothing else to word, Tom Brady jersey, right,
Speaker 3: you find you find it under your spare tire in
Speaker 3: your truck, figured up, as.
Speaker 2: Long as he's not wearing your Montana jersey. Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: take the break and then come back with breaking news.
Speaker 3: Sounds good,