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Speaker 3: fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera and with me today is
Speaker 3: a guy back by popular demand or I just needed
Speaker 3: somebody like Quinn. Hey, thanks Dave, good to be back. Yes,
Speaker 3: people liked people like you. Either I made you or
Speaker 3: just you know whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had my family call in. Yeah, that's four people.
Speaker 4: You're like that.
Speaker 2: That's how the Gonzales is start.
Speaker 3: They have like South South, Avers, Southern Arizona, and Tucson covered.
Speaker 3: So you know, hey, you want the Gonzales guy back? Yeah,
Speaker 3: bring him back? Hey, creeping back, Okay, whatever. Hey, and
Speaker 3: we got our guy Henry in for the board op op,
Speaker 3: the most crucial part of this show. Good to see you, Henry.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you a question later. You probably know
Speaker 3: the question. Good to see you.
Speaker 2: Hey, how about them wildcats? How about them wildcats? How
Speaker 2: about them wildcat?
Speaker 3: I thought, I thought, holy crap, who are these who
Speaker 3: are these guys? And I don't I'm not gonna go negative,
Speaker 3: although I might come up with a scenario or too,
Speaker 3: Mike to say what really happened, But both of you,
Speaker 3: this is a question for both of you. What do
Speaker 3: you think happened Saturday night? And don't screw with my hip.
Speaker 3: Don't screw with my thing that we talked about.
Speaker 2: You don't want me.
Speaker 5: Lay the well, no, I think it's kind of you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's funny.
Speaker 2: It's like I was thinking about this coming in.
Speaker 5: It's like if anyone says they had this beforehand, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well if you picked it.
Speaker 5: Them winning in in that kind of dominant fashion against Utah,
Speaker 5: it's like.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody who thought they were gonna win. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, you.
Speaker 5: Know, I guess you could outside shot. I'm a little fan.
Speaker 5: I'm excited. Yeah, Okay, now I'm interested. I think that
Speaker 5: they can win. But boy, I tell you what, it's
Speaker 5: they won pretty dominantly. I mean other than that, uh
Speaker 5: you know, start of the fourth quarter kind of uh touchdown,
Speaker 5: the defense shut him down, and that was the suspect part.
Speaker 5: I mean, we look, we knew Fafita was going to
Speaker 5: throw the ball. We knew Tim Mac was going to
Speaker 5: catch the ball.
Speaker 2: The uh.
Speaker 5: You know, we knew that we'd be able to run
Speaker 5: the ball a little bit. But uh, boy, I tell
Speaker 5: you what, I didn't think the defense was going to
Speaker 5: do that well against you.
Speaker 3: They did great, they did great. Uh and we'll get
Speaker 3: to that point in a second. Okay, So they did great,
Speaker 3: and I'll kind of be Steve Rivera because everyone expects
Speaker 3: it to be.
Speaker 2: Do you see my story yesterday? Dream my story? Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, did it strike you at all? I know I
Speaker 3: don't profound you, so yeah, yeah, nothing in there I thought,
Speaker 3: you know. Okay, no, yeah, well let me point it
Speaker 3: out to you. I'll bring I'll do your homework for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, there you go. So remind me what I read,
Speaker 3: so remind me how memorable that was. I'll bury the leader.
Speaker 3: I'll pull it out for you. So okay, we saw
Speaker 3: a pretty good team right there.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what happened to the first week? The second
Speaker 2: week of the third week? Okay?
Speaker 5: Again, I think I mentioned this last time, and I
Speaker 5: wonder if this was the case. Part of it is
Speaker 5: buying into the system. Part of it is getting into
Speaker 5: that and understanding where this stuff all fits. And I
Speaker 5: wonder if this bye week really got this team focused
Speaker 5: on kind of doing the things, you know, everyone pulling
Speaker 5: the oars in the same direction. I do think that
Speaker 5: it was a lot of that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the question did you read the story blah
Speaker 3: blah blah, and what happened the first two three weeks?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: So you saw this team that played very well, right,
Speaker 3: probably the best that's played since Oklahoma ago. So now
Speaker 3: you have this team, what about the previous three weeks?
Speaker 3: Where's that team? Don't you think it's still there lingering?
Speaker 3: Because all of a sudden, I think it could be.
Speaker 3: So which team is right? And that's the thing about it.
Speaker 3: You gotta you gotta wonder who comes out?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: You know who? Who's who's next? You know, is it
Speaker 5: doctor Jackeler, mister Hyde?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: It comes out for the next hand. You can't have
Speaker 2: buys every week, No, you can't. You can't, Ebody.
Speaker 5: Well, the other thing is is maybe they what they did,
Speaker 5: is they they they jelled? Maybe they got together, like
Speaker 5: I said, maybe they're all pulling the same you know,
Speaker 5: next week, you know, I you know, I guess you
Speaker 5: always you always say this like, oh, well, next week
Speaker 5: will really tell. Okay, but I think next week really
Speaker 5: will tell. I mean, are we going to regress back
Speaker 5: to week one, two, three, or are we going to
Speaker 5: jump uh into you know what we've done and carry
Speaker 5: that through Now. The other thing is is I think
Speaker 5: Kansas State has proven that they're pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was a good team you played. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we're having this conversation. Arizona played great. They look
Speaker 3: like the Arizona team that we thought they would be.
Speaker 3: What do you think the conversation in the sports talk
Speaker 3: show in Salt Lake is happening right now?
Speaker 2: What do they say? I think they're waiting for their
Speaker 2: quarterback to come back? Okay, No, are they saying, did
Speaker 2: we screw this thing up? Or what? Or is Arizona
Speaker 2: better than us or what? What do you think?
Speaker 5: There's no no, no, no, no, no, there's no one. There's
Speaker 5: no one in Utah right now that thinks we're better
Speaker 5: than Utah. Okay, okay, right now, what they're thinking, what
Speaker 5: I was thinking the whole time is why aren't they
Speaker 5: running the ball? They got a freshman quarterback in there?
Speaker 5: About Utah? Yeah, yeah, it's like they got a freshman
Speaker 5: quarterback in there. They had run the ball successfully a
Speaker 5: couple of times, and they're throwing the ball all over
Speaker 5: the place and they're not being successful doing it. I
Speaker 5: think that that's I think they're getting into the fact, like, hey,
Speaker 5: let's not panic here. We're still really, really good. Arizona
Speaker 5: had a really good game. That is not the real Arizona.
Speaker 5: That's not the real Utah. Let's let's next week it'll
Speaker 5: be different.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's go back to the conversation that we
Speaker 3: had before the show started. Okay, we can figure that
Speaker 3: Utah's pretty good, right, Arizona's owned them the last week
Speaker 3: two years. Yes, and more power to you, and that's great,
Speaker 3: that's fantastic. But they've beaten up pretty much everybody else.
Speaker 3: You're right, So let me say this. So Utah goes
Speaker 3: down and moves them all pretty well, right, get into
Speaker 3: the red zone, they have a chance to score, and
Speaker 3: they don't. Arizona stout and and they hold them. They
Speaker 3: do it again, they go down and what do you
Speaker 3: you know what I'm thinking right after those two I'm
Speaker 3: thinking this this coach, this Utah coach who's a very
Speaker 3: good coach, will have says you can stop us twice,
Speaker 3: We're gonna continue to do this until we score and
Speaker 3: beat the crap out of you.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm thinking.
Speaker 3: This guy has to go on this because they could.
Speaker 2: Have easily had six points if he wanted it.
Speaker 3: But but he chose to say, Okay, you stopped us,
Speaker 3: we're still gonna do it again, and we're gonna do
Speaker 3: it again.
Speaker 2: It didn't happen. But what were you thinking?
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 5: I was thinking that this guy went in there is thinking, look, eventually,
Speaker 5: we're gonna beat you anyway, so we're just gonna keep
Speaker 5: doing this. Eventually we're going to score. Yeah, you got
Speaker 5: us at one time, but you're not gonna get us again.
Speaker 5: And then it happened, and then it happened again. But see,
Speaker 5: it's one of those things where they just had you
Speaker 5: see the coaches. Coaches do this thing when it's like going, oh,
Speaker 5: touchdowns are gonna win. Field goals aren't gonna win this game.
Speaker 5: We're gonna need to score touchdowns. But I think he
Speaker 5: had a lot more confidence in his defense than that. Sure,
Speaker 5: it's not like he was questioning whether and at his
Speaker 5: defense would be good. I really believe that it was
Speaker 5: one of those things where he's just like going, I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna get rid of this game quick, and we're
Speaker 5: gonna just keep running it out.
Speaker 2: Sure, So, Henry, what did you think? I thought?
Speaker 6: I thought the opening drive they were really looking to
Speaker 6: get seven, and when it came the fourth down, they
Speaker 6: didn't even really hesitate to kick the field, but they
Speaker 6: were just we're expecting to get seven, so they Yeah,
Speaker 6: and even the second drive when it was fourth and goal,
Speaker 6: they thought they should add a touchdown there, so they
Speaker 6: did it again, and then Arizona kept stopping them, so
Speaker 6: they had to keep going for touchdowns on just settling
Speaker 6: for points.
Speaker 3: So I think that game was won or lost on
Speaker 3: both sides. Arizona game confidence like crazy after that second, fourth,
Speaker 3: fourth and two whatever it was, and they said, hey,
Speaker 3: we got something here, and you tell us they can
Speaker 3: we just blew fourteen points or at least six.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, the but there they were throwing the ball
Speaker 5: on all Yeah. Those it was surprising. It's like you're
Speaker 5: moving the ball on the ground. It's like, why are
Speaker 5: you throwing the ball again again? Stavis. It's like going,
Speaker 5: come on, you know that guy, that guy's shut down.
Speaker 5: You know NFL receiver played out of his mind, and
Speaker 5: he was pretty good, pretty hid that game. So we'll see.
Speaker 5: Not to take away anything from Arizona. They deserve that win.
Speaker 5: And now the season starts. I think Jay and I
Speaker 5: talked about this all the time. I think we and
Speaker 5: I you and I talked about it a little that Okay,
Speaker 5: the first four games they win, if they go three
Speaker 5: and one, there's a chance that they could win eight
Speaker 5: because the two games that they're gonna be the toughest,
Speaker 5: or the third game, in the fourth game, the b
Speaker 5: way you game all these other games are they're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 5: now you never know. Maybe we were pretty sure and
Speaker 5: thinking that, but but you think, maybe find out what
Speaker 5: people are like. And again i'd go back to the
Speaker 5: column where we don't know what what team's gonna show up.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't know, and that's the thing about it.
Speaker 5: You you sit there and you wonder who happens you know,
Speaker 5: next game. I thought it was interesting. And this may
Speaker 5: sound a little silly, I guess unless that you've played.
Speaker 5: But they had a problem with their flight to lay
Speaker 5: oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And they sat there and
Speaker 5: they got up. They were up at one two in
Speaker 5: the morning eating hamburgers, and that Brennan was saying. Coach
Speaker 5: Brendan was saying things about that. It's like going, you know,
Speaker 5: that does bond a team?
Speaker 3: And you know, it may be one of those things
Speaker 3: where they needed something silly like that to just kind
Speaker 3: of become a team, because boy, they've got some great
Speaker 3: individual performers. You know, they get a couple of guys
Speaker 3: that are going to go go to the NFL, and
Speaker 3: they got a lot of people who aren't. And so
Speaker 3: you know, there are a lot of people that with nil,
Speaker 3: a lot of people without, So you wonder it's like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of possibility for division. But they certainly
Speaker 3: came together, there's no doubt about it. We'll talk they
Speaker 3: were really good. In fact, we're going to talk to
Speaker 3: Lamont Lovett, who was on that flight to to Salt Lake.
Speaker 3: He obviously does the color analysts for for the other
Speaker 3: station at twelve ninety who covers the team, so get
Speaker 3: his insights on that. But I think that's a great point.
Speaker 3: How did that help or did it hurt? But I
Speaker 3: think you're you're right. I think you're onto something. And
Speaker 3: then at the second hour, we're going to have the
Speaker 3: Scooby Wright, who obviously was in the trenches for a
Speaker 3: few years and and played in these types of games.
Speaker 3: I think he was part of the game when they
Speaker 3: beat Utah over there, just the difficulty in doing that,
Speaker 3: and obviously his insights because he's got he does. He's
Speaker 3: one of those dudes that does bleed red blue. So
Speaker 3: so we'll see what he says and get his impressions
Speaker 3: on all that. But we'll talk about that which you
Speaker 3: talked about with the bonding us against everybody, even even
Speaker 3: the pilots or the or the play Yeah, because no,
Speaker 3: you're right, You're right, I just I would if you're
Speaker 3: a fan, I'm sure you hope that this continues. Oh sure,
Speaker 3: then that you use the word to regress. But it's
Speaker 3: just kind of stayed the course, stayed the course and
Speaker 3: just kind of continue to get better. I hear that
Speaker 3: all the time. It doesn't happen, but it could. Well, No,
Speaker 3: I mean I do believe that they could get better.
Speaker 3: I do believe that they could continue doing this. I
Speaker 3: tell you, the defensive line was much aligned. I mean
Speaker 3: they aligned. They were you know, people did not think
Speaker 3: that they were good Like me. I just had a
Speaker 3: conversation with somebody. We were talking about how the defensive
Speaker 3: line was getting blown off the ball.
Speaker 2: And this was a former you.
Speaker 5: Have a aligneman, and it's like they did not keep
Speaker 5: blown off the ball.
Speaker 3: They played very good. If they keep doing that, they'll
Speaker 3: be all right. You played sports, you coach sports. You
Speaker 3: saw sports that army. And if there's anything I've learned
Speaker 3: in this world of doing what I do for a
Speaker 3: long time, you can't predict the emotions of players at
Speaker 3: any time.
Speaker 2: They played out of their mind emotionally.
Speaker 3: You can see them attack, you could see them be aggressive,
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, this was not the team I saw
Speaker 3: two weeks ago, which was a different and kind of
Speaker 3: almost a malaise.
Speaker 2: It was just very, very blah.
Speaker 5: Well, the question comes up, then, is uh is this
Speaker 5: a team that plays to their opponents? And we've seen
Speaker 5: that thousands of yeah, yeh yeah, yeah. You get to
Speaker 5: get blown out by uh, you know, get beat by
Speaker 5: an NAU and then you go out and you beat.
Speaker 2: A top ten. Should I bring up Arizona basketball?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I wasn't get a jenxus, but yeah.
Speaker 3: I've seen it a thousand times.
Speaker 2: And that's the curse of sports. It is.
Speaker 5: Well, they're college players, these are nineteen twenty twenty one
Speaker 5: year old kid.
Speaker 3: True, true, but it happens that everything. Psychology plays a point.
Speaker 3: But you know, if I think, you know, if I
Speaker 3: think it was, how do you explain it was? On
Speaker 3: the first round losses? They walk into the arena. Oh,
Speaker 3: we've beaten guys like this all year? What makes me
Speaker 3: think it's not gonna happen today?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: And then also, and you're down ten with two minutes left.
Speaker 5: Right, and you and your beat, Well, that's what you
Speaker 5: wonder if Utah, if Utah walked in and said, said, hey, listen,
Speaker 5: this is Arizona, this is our place. We just beat
Speaker 5: a really good team. You know how easy this is
Speaker 5: going to be, sweetheart, I will see you after the game.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of shot.
Speaker 3: We'll have another non alcoholic drink and yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 3: Will be almost good to go, Henry.
Speaker 2: One minute? Okay? Cool? Any more thoughts on that game? Henry?
Speaker 2: Where was it one?
Speaker 6: I think the true freshman quarterback looked like a.
Speaker 2: True fris quarterback. That's another point. That's another point. Actually,
Speaker 2: he looked like he was about twelve years old. Did
Speaker 2: you see him behind that face mask? Boy? Well, the
Speaker 2: thing is he's been good another spot. He's played well,
Speaker 2: destroyed Oklahoma State last week, so okay, we'll talk more
Speaker 2: about it. We'll bring that up with Lamont on the
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to I in thebaut here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with me the days.
Speaker 3: Mike Quinn right now.
Speaker 2: On the phone.
Speaker 3: We have leamontin love it, one of the well the
Speaker 3: Arizona football radio color analysts.
Speaker 2: Lamont How are you?
Speaker 16: I'm doing great?
Speaker 11: How you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine? Can you hear us? Okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, great?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, how was that trip for a guy like
Speaker 3: you and Brian? You're not strapping it up or getting
Speaker 3: dirty with them, but how was it for you guys?
Speaker 4: Oh? It was.
Speaker 16: It was a lot of fun. I mean, anytime that
Speaker 16: you can anytime that you can get a victory from
Speaker 16: a top ten win on the road, it's it's a
Speaker 16: pretty big deal. And and so yeah, we were, we
Speaker 16: were thrilled and kind of still kind of high from
Speaker 16: the game after we got home. So it's always.
Speaker 2: An exciting So were you were you on them? Were
Speaker 2: you on the team plane when you went and came back?
Speaker 16: You know something that was one of the rare times
Speaker 16: that we were not for for whatever reason, they they
Speaker 16: were bringing some additional people and so the radio team
Speaker 16: we all traveled commercially, so we actually got there. We
Speaker 16: were in Salt Lake City by like two o'clock that
Speaker 16: that on Friday, so we were Yeah, we just kind
Speaker 16: of had the whole night with our by ourselves there there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh uh, Mike, when here, First off, I want to say,
Speaker 5: it's like when when you played, I was here getting
Speaker 5: at Arizona getting my master gree So I'm a little
Speaker 5: little fanboy in here.
Speaker 2: Uh, being an interview on the thing. It's it's good
Speaker 2: to talk to you.
Speaker 5: The uh I got to ask you, uh, the the
Speaker 5: time that they had delayed and then the Hamburgers at
Speaker 5: two o'clock in the morning and all the things that
Speaker 5: coach Brynan was talking about. Was that a benefit? Do
Speaker 5: you think was it a bonding thing for the team
Speaker 5: or was it like, no, it's just hamburgers.
Speaker 16: I think it was I mean, I think everything is
Speaker 16: is what you make of it. I think one of
Speaker 16: the benefits of it was still they got a chance
Speaker 16: to do their walkthrough at the whole, you know, on
Speaker 16: the facility. They still got to do all of their
Speaker 16: regular you know, Friday prep. They were here instead of
Speaker 16: having to travel on the road to do it, So
Speaker 16: it may have benefited them from that standpoint. I don't
Speaker 16: know if there was an advantage or a disadvantage either way.
Speaker 16: I really think that, you know, the two weeks that
Speaker 16: they kind of had to stew over that loss that
Speaker 16: they had and you know, feel like that kind of
Speaker 16: everybody was against them, kind of feel like their backs
Speaker 16: were against the wall. And then people questioning you know,
Speaker 16: the players, people questioning the coach and staff, people questioning everything.
Speaker 16: I think that probably was their biggest motivation. I don't
Speaker 16: think anything could have motivated them more than that. And
Speaker 16: I think that you know, also knowing that this team
Speaker 16: has talent, you know they and they knew they had talent,
Speaker 16: and the public knows they have talent, and I think
Speaker 16: that that's what was so disappointing about them, you know,
Speaker 16: struggling the way they have early on. So I think
Speaker 16: that you know, all those things you feel challenged, you know.
Speaker 16: And I coach told me, you used to always say that,
Speaker 16: you know, a wildcat that's backed into a corner is
Speaker 16: the most dangerous, you know, type of wildcat that there is.
Speaker 16: And I get you know what he's saying is when
Speaker 16: you're when you're back against the wall, you can do
Speaker 16: one of two things. You know, you can fight, or
Speaker 16: you can you know, get attacked. And these guys were,
Speaker 16: and they had them of the mindset that you know,
Speaker 16: we're we're gonna we're gonna go up, come back and
Speaker 16: get bond together, fight harder, and and everybody made the coaches,
Speaker 16: coach better and made the players play better.
Speaker 3: One of the things that I'm sure you you noticed this,
Speaker 3: but I'm asking anyway. Uh, the biggest difference on Saturday
Speaker 3: from two weeks ago was this team attacked. I mean
Speaker 3: they were aggressive, uh, compared to in my mind, this
Speaker 3: is just my interpretation or meli observation, was two weeks
Speaker 3: ago Kansas State. They were indifferent. It was like we're here,
Speaker 3: but let me get the hell out of here. Saturday,
Speaker 3: it was like we're gonna attack, We're going to be
Speaker 3: aggressive and not just sometimes all the time.
Speaker 2: Did you see that as well.
Speaker 16: No question about it. I think that's a really astute assessment.
Speaker 16: I mean, if you think about it, you know, when
Speaker 16: the when the first offensive drive they had, you know,
Speaker 16: they started, they came out going no huddle. They were
Speaker 16: they were you know, they were throwing. They spread the feel.
Speaker 16: As soon as they got a first down, they sped
Speaker 16: up the temple and started going to huddle. So they
Speaker 16: were already like, okay, we're attacking you right off the date.
Speaker 16: And then after they you know, moved the ball right
Speaker 16: down the field on them on the defensive side of
Speaker 16: the ball, they were like they had their ears pinned
Speaker 16: back the entire time. I mean they were coming, you know,
Speaker 16: and you could really see whenever they had a chance
Speaker 16: to blitz and heat up that quarterback, they were just
Speaker 16: bringing it. And they were and they were coming from
Speaker 16: with different a lot of different variety of ways that
Speaker 16: they attacked. And so it was and then if they
Speaker 16: didn't get the fact they were hitting the quarterback, I
Speaker 16: mean I noticed like in the second half or second
Speaker 16: quarter man he was getting up slow and he was
Speaker 16: limping around Wilson, I mean they were smacking him. He
Speaker 16: was taking some big hits and I was like, whoa
Speaker 16: these guys are And the stat line at the end
Speaker 16: of the game, which was which was so impressive. It's
Speaker 16: seven tackles for lost three sacks. I mean, they were
Speaker 16: getting after them.
Speaker 11: It was it was.
Speaker 16: It was incredible to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we've we've had uh uh one question I
Speaker 5: have for you about, uh, the running game. So the
Speaker 5: the the running backs. I mean, we seem to have
Speaker 5: a pretty good stable of running backs right now. Are
Speaker 5: we running the ball enough? We're certainly running it pretty effectively.
Speaker 5: Uh when we do run, are we running it enough
Speaker 5: for we relying on Fafita and t Mac and the
Speaker 5: rest of the crowd to carry the game.
Speaker 16: That's a good question too. I think you know, you
Speaker 16: got to see them a little bit more early on
Speaker 16: maybe run the ball. They ran it effectively early on,
Speaker 16: and then against k State, you saw them kind of
Speaker 16: get away from it because they were you know, they
Speaker 16: fell behind, and so that kind of, you know, kind
Speaker 16: of took away their their ability to really establish the
Speaker 16: run because they were playing from behind it running the balls,
Speaker 16: you know, it takes time off the clock. So I
Speaker 16: think that that's a little bit It was a little
Speaker 16: bit of that what you saw there. But you know,
Speaker 16: if you look at Brennan's teams, if you look at
Speaker 16: the center of the state team, they ran the heck
Speaker 16: out of the ball last year, and they threw the
Speaker 16: ball to the tight end a lot last year. They
Speaker 16: did all those things, and they and they were they
Speaker 16: were a really physical team that really you know, they
Speaker 16: established a run and so they've they've kind of been
Speaker 16: a little bit not not it hasn't been the identity
Speaker 16: that that Brennan's teams were in the last couple of years.
Speaker 16: And so I think that that's what they really got
Speaker 16: a chance to focus on. You know, with the two
Speaker 16: weeks that they had off, they got a chance to
Speaker 16: just look at what they do well, what they're not
Speaker 16: doing well, and what they want to be, what they
Speaker 16: want the personality to be. And they just went back
Speaker 16: to the you know, the drawing board on all of it.
Speaker 16: And I think we saw a snapshot in this last
Speaker 16: game and what they want to be at and that
Speaker 16: that team that they played against, make no mistakes. They're
Speaker 16: not easy to run the ball on. And Arizona was
Speaker 16: getting seven eight yards a clip on the right. They
Speaker 16: were killing in the game and that's so it's a
Speaker 16: valid question, you know, by saying are they running it enough?
Speaker 16: But I think that that's just a little bit more
Speaker 16: of them just kind of, you know, just just in
Speaker 16: their mind being resolute about the fact that we're going
Speaker 16: to run the ball and not saying like, well, I
Speaker 16: wonder can we run the ball? It was more or
Speaker 16: less no, We're running the ball. And that's that's kind
Speaker 16: of how they played.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean the reason why, I you know,
Speaker 5: one reason why I asked that, uh after Utah scored
Speaker 5: that touchdown right it started the fourth quarter. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm sitting there saying, it's like going home, my god,
Speaker 5: here we go. We got to get control of the
Speaker 5: game again. Let's start running the ball right down their
Speaker 5: throats and we just we threw the ball, through the ball,
Speaker 5: through the ball, scored a touchdown.
Speaker 4: I mean worked.
Speaker 2: I'm just yeah, you know, it's like, can we control
Speaker 2: the ball and run the game out? Anyway? I think
Speaker 2: that was a great answer.
Speaker 16: I think you will start seeing more of that. Yeah,
Speaker 16: I think you will start seeing more of that, though.
Speaker 16: I do think you start seeing more of it. But
Speaker 16: I think that to their to their to the Arizona's difference.
Speaker 16: I think that was one of those those situations where
Speaker 16: where you know, that's the strength of that Utah defense
Speaker 16: is stopping to run and and I don't know if
Speaker 16: they wanted to try to fall in, you know, and
Speaker 16: that they needed to score on that last drive and
Speaker 16: they needed to get the crowd out of it. So
Speaker 16: I think that's kind of what you saw there, good mode,
Speaker 16: the way they were.
Speaker 2: So so them on.
Speaker 4: Let me let me.
Speaker 3: I've said this secret for a long time. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I'm right or not, but I believe I am.
Speaker 3: And you're a former player, so you know this. One
Speaker 3: of the things that that is untold is the emotions
Speaker 3: of a player eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one years old. Right,
Speaker 3: you go in thinking that your stuff doesn't stink, your
Speaker 3: girlfriend's just left you, or whatever.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: You go in and I'm sure you've come up against
Speaker 3: the teams when you played that. Okay, we go on
Speaker 3: the field, we expect to win, and you don't. How
Speaker 3: much does that play a part? Did that play a part?
Speaker 3: On Saturday? Where like you said, Arizona had a lot
Speaker 3: to prove, Utah said, oh, it's Arizona we're just going
Speaker 3: to show.
Speaker 2: Up and beat them.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm sure they had something to do with it too.
Speaker 16: I think the fact that it was a perfect storm,
Speaker 16: yeah right, you wass thinking and there they were thinking
Speaker 16: in their mind, I'll, you know what, we're going to
Speaker 16: get them back. I've been here and a lot of
Speaker 16: you know, uh, we're gonna we're gonna pay this payback
Speaker 16: for what they did to us last year. It was
Speaker 16: just a little bit cocky on their end, thinking like,
Speaker 16: you know, they're down and we're gonna we're gonna make
Speaker 16: them pay. And then at the same time Arizona, I
Speaker 16: don't think they appreciated how how much Arizona's backs were
Speaker 16: against the wall. Everyone was thinking, this is gonna be
Speaker 16: a bad season for him, and you know, they hadn't
Speaker 16: looked good in any of their games really, and they
Speaker 16: hadn't put together a complete game yet. And I think
Speaker 16: that you know, these those are the type of games
Speaker 16: where you know what's on the other end of that
Speaker 16: that you know, it could be an embarrassing, you know,
Speaker 16: butt whooping if you guys, you know, showed up there
Speaker 16: with anything less than than the way they played. And
Speaker 16: so I just really think that it had a way
Speaker 16: of just making these guys lock in and and I
Speaker 16: and I do have respect for the coaches that they
Speaker 16: haven't in the room at Arizona, and and and and
Speaker 16: they stood up like I really believed that they would
Speaker 16: do in an adverse situation. Well, it was nice to
Speaker 16: see everyone raise their their level.
Speaker 3: Well, you talked a little about being a little maybe
Speaker 3: uh cocky or whatever, but you talked it, and we
Speaker 3: talked about this, Mike and I. So I thought the
Speaker 3: game right right away, Utah goes down, they get stuffed,
Speaker 3: and they have the chance to score, they decide not
Speaker 3: to go for the three to get stuffed. They do
Speaker 3: it again, get in the red zone, get stuffed, and
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, God, what do you have?
Speaker 2: Just has some cajonies on him.
Speaker 3: He just thinks that we're just gonna go down there
Speaker 3: and do this every time, whether they stop us or not.
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking, holy crap. But converseially, it was this
Speaker 3: confidence that it may not have had before.
Speaker 16: Yeah, no, it works against him, it really is. It's
Speaker 16: just like you're saying, like if you're going to a fight,
Speaker 16: and I'm gonna I'm gonna be the bully here, and
Speaker 16: you go out and the bully walks up to you
Speaker 16: and you punched the bully in the face, and he's
Speaker 16: like questioned and everything, and I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 16: what did I just get myself in?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 16: And that's that's what it looked like. You know, two
Speaker 16: times in a row they were like, we're gonna, we're
Speaker 16: gonna flex on you and they got knocked back. And
Speaker 16: so yeah, that kind of really established, you know, the
Speaker 16: way the attitude of that game and the way that
Speaker 16: what was going to happen. You know, that established the
Speaker 16: tune and the tempo of what was going to happen
Speaker 16: the whole the whole night. So it was it wasn't dogfight.
Speaker 16: It was awesome to mutch.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this, but somebody just
Speaker 3: texted me about about the offense obviously looked a little
Speaker 3: bit more exciting, a little more fluid.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: There are some reports, at least talk that Dino was
Speaker 3: not calling the shots.
Speaker 2: Do you know that?
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, no, that's accurate. It was confirmed today, So
Speaker 16: Brand confirmed that that basically it was the what's the
Speaker 16: coach's name? Yeah, and and and I had got wind
Speaker 16: of it too prior to the game, that that he
Speaker 16: was going to be that he was going to be
Speaker 16: calling the plays. And it was it was, it was
Speaker 16: obvious to just watching the game. They were there. They
Speaker 16: were definitive differences in the game and and and so
Speaker 16: you know, I think that you know, when you when
Speaker 16: you're when you care about you know your program, and
Speaker 16: when you care about you know everything, you got to
Speaker 16: make tough decisions. I think they made it. You know,
Speaker 16: he to me, honestly, they proved his metal right there,
Speaker 16: because you know, it takes it takes guts to say,
Speaker 16: you know what, this is not working out the way
Speaker 16: I wanted to work out, and I got to do
Speaker 16: something about it. And I just think it showed maturity
Speaker 16: on everybody's Then it's Dino still going to have a
Speaker 16: huge role. It's not like he's you know, not going
Speaker 16: to be you know, but they, you know, they maybe
Speaker 16: they felt like Atkins, could you could maybe do it
Speaker 16: a little bit better, and you know the proof, the
Speaker 16: proof was in the pudding, and it looked pretty darn
Speaker 16: good in that game. That's the best that the offensive
Speaker 16: looked from a consistency standpoint all year they looked. And
Speaker 16: that was you know, that was a tough defensive unit
Speaker 16: that they played against. I mean, they absolutely shut everybody
Speaker 16: down they played this year. So yeah, that was that
Speaker 16: was That was a great performance by Arizona LA.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask I'm gonna ask a Steve question here
Speaker 5: that he was posing it earlier. What team shows up
Speaker 5: against Texas Tech? Uh, I mean, do we get a
Speaker 5: well I.
Speaker 3: Wrote this in the column, yes, or I don't know
Speaker 3: if you saw this much so you saw this Arizona
Speaker 3: team hadn't been this good since Oklahoma. But the previous
Speaker 3: three games, you're simple sized, the three games didn't look
Speaker 3: good at all. So now you know that they can
Speaker 3: play this way, but you also know that they could play.
Speaker 2: The other way.
Speaker 16: Yeah, what I what I anticipate. I think what they've
Speaker 16: got to guard against is just complacency more than anything.
Speaker 4: But the good thing is.
Speaker 16: Though they played at a level and they know what
Speaker 16: that feels like now. I think the whole year they
Speaker 16: were kind of searching for that level, you know, like
Speaker 16: what I mean, they were like, we played at this
Speaker 16: level last year, but this team hasn't played at that
Speaker 16: level yet, and I think that they were all kind
Speaker 16: of searching for it. And that was the first time
Speaker 16: in that game where you know, the newstyle play were
Speaker 16: the way they were going to be more aggressive on
Speaker 16: these It looked like that's what they wanted to look like.
Speaker 16: And offensively, you know, they did some of the things.
Speaker 16: They changed a lot of little things they're not going
Speaker 16: to go way into detail on, but they did some
Speaker 16: things that specifically, you know, showed me that they were
Speaker 16: being a little bit more modernized with what they were doing.
Speaker 16: And yeah, I think everything really just came together and
Speaker 16: the discipline was there. They didn't get as many penalties either,
Speaker 16: so you could tell they really locked right on what
Speaker 16: they needed to do. They you could tell that they
Speaker 16: did a lot of self evaluation too, because those things
Speaker 16: got better in that game. And that would that would
Speaker 16: have been a game if they would have pulled the
Speaker 16: same craft in that game. You know that we've been
Speaker 16: seeing a different tune today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you hit on this earlier.
Speaker 5: The defense definitely got better and and and as River
Speaker 5: and you said it's like they're both i mean very aggressive.
Speaker 2: Uh Texas Tech can score some points.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's are they going to be able to get
Speaker 5: to the quarterback before the quarterback gets to gets that
Speaker 5: ball off or is it are we going to be
Speaker 5: chasing people.
Speaker 2: Down all the game.
Speaker 16: You know, I don't know the answer. I don't know
Speaker 16: the answer to that, but I know that I know
Speaker 16: Arizona knows how to play against these type of teams
Speaker 16: though too. You know, they've got I know this, They've
Speaker 16: got this. You know, they got some twists. And I
Speaker 16: think a Kena is really you know, he's kind of
Speaker 16: people playing against spread teams. I think our team is
Speaker 16: actually kind of built to play against spread teams more
Speaker 16: because we've got a lot of dbs. And you know
Speaker 16: what I was more worried about is when we face
Speaker 16: a team like Utah where we had to just you know,
Speaker 16: kind of be kind of kind of blow up, and
Speaker 16: they showed that they could do that. So I really
Speaker 16: think this is going to be one of those those
Speaker 16: secondary type games where you may see an extra DP
Speaker 16: out there, you may see him in and dine packets
Speaker 16: with one linebacker, you know, but this this will be
Speaker 16: the week to do that type of a team. So
Speaker 16: we may see it, we'll see, we'll see, but I
Speaker 16: think that they'll I think they'll be okay. So so
Speaker 16: last question, The biggest thing is that offense needs to
Speaker 16: step up to me.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, i'd score first forty wins
Speaker 3: this baby.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so last question like that before the season started,
Speaker 3: and you know, everybody kind of goes, we'll win this one,
Speaker 3: they'll win that one, they'll do this, and and Jay
Speaker 3: and I were talking about if they can get three
Speaker 3: and one somehow, I mean split the KNNAS State and
Speaker 3: Utah two games, they could win eight, maybe even nine. Okay,
Speaker 3: So in my mind, the season starts now because you
Speaker 3: have this. We also didn't know that b YU is
Speaker 3: going to be by you Colorado maybe better than we thought.
Speaker 2: Things like that. But do you believe you believe that
Speaker 2: maybe the season starts now?
Speaker 16: Oh well, there's no question. I mean, it came on now.
Speaker 16: I mean you're you're into your your conference schedule, so
Speaker 16: you're playing for all the marbles, all the marbles in
Speaker 16: every single game from here on out. And and the
Speaker 16: fact that we want our first one, I mean it
Speaker 16: just it just may gives the next game a little
Speaker 16: bit more. Mean, So yeah, I fully agree with that
Speaker 16: assessment that you know it starts now because and I
Speaker 16: don't really see, you know, any games on our schedule
Speaker 16: where you just circle that and be like, oh that's
Speaker 16: a victory. I really feel like you really balanced conference.
Speaker 16: And yeah, and I think you got to play well
Speaker 16: each week to win. It doesn't mean it doesn't matter
Speaker 16: if you're playing a better team. You just got to
Speaker 16: play well. And that's that's what I think is going
Speaker 16: to come down to, you know, if Arizona can you know,
Speaker 16: and and health is going to play a factor too,
Speaker 16: because you know, injury are a part of the game
Speaker 16: and so you know, how they are able to maneuver
Speaker 16: and manage that part of it too is gonna you know,
Speaker 16: play a huge role in what happens in the season.
Speaker 4: So well, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Well, it's gonna be an exciting rest of the year
Speaker 3: with you and Brian because it's fun, right, Winning is
Speaker 3: fun for you guys, and it's just and there's a
Speaker 3: lot to talk about. I mean, that's that's the fun
Speaker 3: part of the Sure, everyone gets excited when you're winning.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, like you said, there's no games on
Speaker 3: there where you sit there and you say, okay, that's
Speaker 3: a well it's a loss even with that win everybody
Speaker 3: because that means they have to get up, they can't
Speaker 3: overthink things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there's no game on there that we're now
Speaker 5: now there's no game on there that you're like going, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's a loss. We've got the potential to beat every
Speaker 5: team that we're playing. We got a potential to lose
Speaker 5: both ways, right, but we got a tend potential to
Speaker 5: beat them. Thanks a thank you man, Thanks take care
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Speaker 3: What did you think about the game? Were you impressed?
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Speaker 3: My part is and I asked you this before, and
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that Lamont said. And I didn't listen to
Speaker 3: the press convers today. I'm too busy working in my
Speaker 3: real world that the offensive coordinator had switched for this
Speaker 3: one game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know if it's for just this one game, right,
Speaker 5: I mean they did pretty well on what they needed
Speaker 5: to do. First thing I wanted to point out is
Speaker 5: in that first segment, you said that you said, oh,
Speaker 5: you're right more times than thirty two years than I've
Speaker 5: ever known you.
Speaker 2: So it's like, I think I might be onto something here.
Speaker 3: It's because you're in a ten by ten rules exactly,
Speaker 3: and you're closer to the door there you go exactly.
Speaker 2: I gotta get to the door. You need a you
Speaker 2: need a co host. So it's like I can get
Speaker 2: from that or I could leave. Could you excuse excuse me?
Speaker 2: I need to get through the door.
Speaker 5: I think that they I think that they think that
Speaker 5: that we're we're not as good as we played against them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I got a call. I think I know
Speaker 2: who it is on the air.
Speaker 4: What's up, guys, Jake?
Speaker 2: Did they let you out of the room over there?
Speaker 4: You know this work thing is really it's hard.
Speaker 2: It's way overrated. Wait did you say I gotta go
Speaker 2: to the restroom. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Calling from a closet. Hey, Ja, don't on this all right.
Speaker 5: I know I used to call in and give you
Speaker 5: a hard time, but take it easy on me today,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 4: No, you know I'm not You're not the one that
Speaker 4: I want to I want to rip on here. I
Speaker 4: want every every every person who after the third game
Speaker 4: was already saying, Brent Brennan's not the guy. You know,
Speaker 4: Baber's is not the guy. Duayne m keene is not
Speaker 4: the guy. They made a mistake with this coaching staff.
Speaker 4: We suck, We're gonna win four games, all that stuff. Man.
Speaker 4: I was just thinking about that from the time the
Speaker 4: game ended until right now, just like why. I guess
Speaker 4: everybody got those fans, but why.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jay, I was thinking about you about when it
Speaker 5: when Brennan was wearing the lay and we were winning, Uh,
Speaker 5: thinking yeah, Jay, maybe maybe Jay was onto something that
Speaker 5: it wasn't delay that was causing the problems.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, stuff like that, like take the layoffs, You're
Speaker 4: screwing up your coaching. Really yeah, really that's what we're going.
Speaker 3: So, you know, I don't know what Quentin was thinking
Speaker 3: about you during the game. Which is kind of scared me.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about you for I was thinking about
Speaker 3: you for one reason. You're You're over eight wins still
Speaker 3: has a.
Speaker 4: Chance, it does it, does you know? Steve? I mean really,
Speaker 4: you know when we were talking eight wins, we were
Speaker 4: still talking they get to eight wins going too and two? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right now, Yet, like you guys, like you guys said
Speaker 4: in the last segment, things have changed, right, all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, how good is BYU? All of a sudden,
Speaker 4: how good is Colorado? Although Colorado's got to come here,
Speaker 4: Arizona's got to go to BYU. Maybe Central Florida is
Speaker 4: not as good as you know. Maybe what we were
Speaker 4: marking as a loss of Central Florida, maybe that's the
Speaker 4: loss of BYU. The thing is, it's still in play.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing about what happened with the king. Everything's
Speaker 4: in play. Everything is in play for Arizona. And and
Speaker 4: and that's the thing that thinking about the win, I'm like,
Speaker 4: holy crap, these guys did something huge by winning at Utah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not just winning, I mean we pretty much dominate
Speaker 5: the Utah there. Yes, uh and so so it wasn't
Speaker 5: it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't like, hey, we came
Speaker 5: back when they were sleeping, we beat them, and uh
Speaker 5: and that and and and we beat a good team.
Speaker 5: And I don't want to hear about you know this,
Speaker 5: uh freshman quarterback.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think if the other guy was there, we still
Speaker 5: win that game because we dominated both sides of the ball.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Let's not forget that quarterback beat the hell out of
Speaker 4: Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2: Yes, localho absolutely right, Absolutely, that's so.
Speaker 5: So we said in the last segment that there's no
Speaker 5: there's no game that you can circle and say, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's definitely a loss. But is there a game in
Speaker 5: there that you could say that there's you know or no,
Speaker 5: none of that. You're going to be like, hey, that's
Speaker 5: that's definitely a win. But I don't think anyone's a
Speaker 5: loss either. I mean you can assume there and go
Speaker 5: we're going to lose that game.
Speaker 4: We we said that at the you know, before the
Speaker 4: season that after the Kansas State and Utah games, arizonmost
Speaker 4: could be now could could have been favored in the
Speaker 4: rest of their games, and they might be, but they
Speaker 4: might they're not going to be favorite of BYU. That's
Speaker 4: in two weeks, so you know, they're gonna be an
Speaker 4: underdog at b YU. They probably be favored over Colorado.
Speaker 4: Who knows what happens to Central Florida from here on ou,
Speaker 4: you know, they I don't know. I looked at the
Speaker 4: schedule now and I see them favored in all but
Speaker 4: maybe two road games.
Speaker 3: It's funny because ESPN, after after Colorado beat the Central
Speaker 3: Florida last on Saturday or whatever day it was, they
Speaker 3: us being projected that they'll be the favorite for every
Speaker 3: game the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe they will be okay, but if Arizona,
Speaker 4: here's the deal that Arizone's only got three road games left. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're all winnable games.
Speaker 16: They're all winnable games.
Speaker 4: Now, they're going to be hard, you know, if they
Speaker 4: win all three of those, I mean, that's a hard
Speaker 4: thing to do. But you look at the home schedule,
Speaker 4: they shouldn't lose at home.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you, Jay, we talked to Laman,
Speaker 3: as you heard, and then you coaching the switch for
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator. I can't remember, and maybe it had and
Speaker 3: I just don't remember because I don't cover football like
Speaker 3: they did basketball. That ever happening in season one and two,
Speaker 3: that obviously was a spark.
Speaker 4: Well, something happened for sure, right because the play calling
Speaker 4: was I mean you I don't remember sitting there and saying, well,
Speaker 4: that was a bad play call or that was a
Speaker 4: bad play call. Now when when when Noah Cafita winds
Speaker 4: up to throw to go deep on third and eleven,
Speaker 4: you know, on that last touchdown drive, I'm like, you
Speaker 4: only need eleven yards? Why throwing it over every and
Speaker 4: then and he made a great throw, and then and
Speaker 4: then the and then the throw to key On Burnett.
Speaker 4: You go, they saw some somebody is seeing something because
Speaker 4: they just moved the ball, not at will, but pretty
Speaker 4: damn well all night long. Yeah you're even questioning, you
Speaker 4: guys are running the ball really well. Okay, so, but
Speaker 4: they threw the ball really well too, And so you
Speaker 4: have to give them credit for going with what they
Speaker 4: thought was going to work and not just continuing to
Speaker 4: run the ball because it was working. That maybe they
Speaker 4: knew that they needed to keep them, you know, off
Speaker 4: balance with the throws. And when I mean, Steve, I've
Speaker 4: been watching football here for a really long time and
Speaker 4: I've said this a million times. I don't remember a
Speaker 4: throw like the one no made at key On Burnette
Speaker 4: from the touchdown on the run forty yards in the
Speaker 4: air to a spot at the back of the end
Speaker 4: zone and then for Keon Burnett to make that catch.
Speaker 4: I can't think of a pass like that in the
Speaker 4: history of Arizona football. Now there may be one, there
Speaker 4: may be a few, but I don't remember any. None.
Speaker 4: Come none, come to my you know, come right up front.
Speaker 4: To think of a throw that won. Was that good
Speaker 4: at a time that it meant that much?
Speaker 2: Okay. I don't want you to lose your job and
Speaker 2: have to come back here, so you better get off the.
Speaker 4: All right. I just want to say, let this team play.
Speaker 4: Quit calling out the coaches because they make one bad call.
Speaker 4: They had a bad game. They they they made up
Speaker 4: for all you guys who are out there on social
Speaker 4: media ripping on this coaching staff. I want to see
Speaker 4: you come back and say I was wrong.
Speaker 2: Thought you were talking to me.
Speaker 4: You look there was I mean they for what happened
Speaker 4: at at Kansas State, criticism was was warranted. Right. You
Speaker 4: guys looked bad, from the coaching staff to the players
Speaker 4: and even you said they just looked lackadaisical and yeah,
Speaker 4: but to take it a step further and say, after
Speaker 4: three games, friend, Brennan is a terrible coach and he's
Speaker 4: not the guy. Those are the people that I'm like,
Speaker 4: what the hell? Those are the ones that piss me.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, man, thanks for that cou.
Speaker 4: Time.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was Jay obviously, but it makes good points,
Speaker 3: which of course that was. That's the first time in
Speaker 3: four years. Maybe he's better as a caller than there.
Speaker 3: You go, better and better calling it.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's right, I mean, give it a give
Speaker 3: it a rest. Everybody's reactionary. Here's also too though you
Speaker 3: have a good game, you're gonna switch to the other
Speaker 3: sign says we're.
Speaker 5: Not gonna get well, sure, you know, it's like going
Speaker 5: what when when you're winning, everything is great. But the
Speaker 5: other thing about social media, how many likes or comments
Speaker 5: do you get by saying that was a good game?
Speaker 5: You know, no one's gonna be like okay, no, no,
Speaker 5: you get them when they're when you're when they're pissed.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, exactly.
Speaker 5: It's like going you know that the bad takes are
Speaker 5: the things that people comment on, and that's what people
Speaker 5: People don't go on social media, so they don't get likes.
Speaker 3: You weren't that outside. Oh you're just like that almost
Speaker 3: say hey you look good, right exactly exactly. Okay, we
Speaker 3: gotta go, we gotta go, we got to come back.
Speaker 3: We got breaking news. We've got some big breaking news
Speaker 3: in fact at the top of the hour with Henry
Speaker 3: involving basketball, men's basketball.
Speaker 2: So let's go and come back.