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Speaker 2: Hey, good up, tonoon, everybody, welcome to Eye on the
Speaker 2: Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Ribera
Speaker 2: and with me Today's Orning Monday guy Mike Quinn. But
Speaker 2: then we got Mike, Mike, we got Henry, and we
Speaker 2: got Matt in with us for a full discussion about
Speaker 2: how about them wildcats? And I mentioned that this time
Speaker 2: last week on a good note, what the hell happened?
Speaker 3: Well, we took Utah's playbooks. We did. We decided to
Speaker 3: we decided to.
Speaker 2: Drive the ball down in the field goal range and
Speaker 2: kick the Instead of kicking the field goal, we go
Speaker 2: for it on fourth down. Yeah, and then it turns
Speaker 2: around and goes the other way. We were just saying
Speaker 2: the other day, I mean that last week the same thing.
Speaker 2: That's what you was a downfall of Utah. Right, This
Speaker 2: was a downfall for us and we can't and you
Speaker 2: and you know that if you go for field goals
Speaker 2: at some point, those four points, those four points, those
Speaker 2: four points five times, right, because you're you're you're not
Speaker 2: getting seven, you're getting four three three, they're losing four
Speaker 2: every time. They're gonna bite you, and they and they
Speaker 2: definitely bit them. Yeah, I mean, well, you know, and
Speaker 2: that's the thing about it. I mean, there's no guarantee
Speaker 2: you're gonna get a touchdown anyway, right, you know. And
Speaker 2: the other thing is this, I mean, we run, we
Speaker 2: we try and run it. The first time we ran, uh,
Speaker 2: we tried to run inside the tackles. Okay, we got
Speaker 2: a we got an undersized offensive line, we've got an
Speaker 2: undersized back, and we're trying to run inside the tackle.
Speaker 3: We ran.
Speaker 2: When you run outside the tackle, we were running outside
Speaker 2: the tackles. When we're running traps and we're running sprints,
Speaker 2: then we're making some yardage, but we can't run up
Speaker 2: the middle. So so both Henry, you were there right, ye,
Speaker 2: we were coming to the car. And what did you
Speaker 2: tell me about that offense?
Speaker 4: The play calling was that was so good against Utah?
Speaker 4: Just wasn't there, so we didn't.
Speaker 2: I think he got a lot of praise for that
Speaker 2: game against Utah. Same guy. I think if we're gonna
Speaker 2: say yay for you, what the hell happened to you exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: I didn't agree with a lot of it, a lot
Speaker 2: of the calls that they were making. The we started
Speaker 2: running outside the tackles later on and we started making
Speaker 2: some yards. But every think we talked about someone called
Speaker 2: it the big discussion last week. Later in the weeks, like, oh,
Speaker 2: we need thirty rushes a game. We need to run
Speaker 2: the ball thirty times a game.
Speaker 3: That's not that.
Speaker 2: This is not that team that runs thirty times a game.
Speaker 2: Our defense is holding. Our defenses was pretty stout. They
Speaker 2: run three times, so we ran. Okay, so technically we
Speaker 2: ran thirty times, but Fafida got sick. But they looked, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so Fefida got six of those rushes. You know, that's
Speaker 2: that's the other thing, you know, Faffida we got when
Speaker 2: he gets outside the pocket and he's on the move,
Speaker 2: that's the way he plays the best. Okay, he can
Speaker 2: he can throw the ball on the move, and we
Speaker 2: got him standing in the back and he's getting balls
Speaker 2: knocked down. I mean, he's he's not the biggest quarterback
Speaker 2: in the league. Yeah, he's You got to get him moving,
Speaker 2: You got to get this offense has got to go
Speaker 2: slide to slide, side to side to both you guys,
Speaker 2: Henry and Matt, your thoughts on house Fufida has played
Speaker 2: let's let's say Saturday and then prior to Saturday.
Speaker 4: I think in the first half Saturday, he would say
Speaker 4: it himself, he did not play well. But I think
Speaker 4: the second half he played well enough to win that game.
Speaker 4: I mean the red zone offense. They need to work
Speaker 4: on the reds in offense to play call trying to
Speaker 4: attack the corners too much. They got to get over
Speaker 4: the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: And last year, that's was two years ago, that that
Speaker 2: was their number one thing, right, they get into the
Speaker 2: red zone, they couldn't score.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and Matt, what do you think about
Speaker 3: the offensive and sign?
Speaker 5: The play call was terrible honestly in my opinion, But
Speaker 5: you know, last week against Utah, you he looked great,
Speaker 5: but this week not so much. You know, there's Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's not much to say. Honestly, I don't was it impressed.
Speaker 5: Was it impressed?
Speaker 3: Did you?
Speaker 2: The game was too late, So we'll get to that too,
Speaker 2: because go ahead, and Ry, we talked the other topic
Speaker 2: we had and you were there at Mike. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: what happened to the crowd. Yeah, it just was you know,
Speaker 2: we didn't have a lot to begin with him. Boy
Speaker 2: I tell you what, later on, there wasn't a lot
Speaker 2: to end with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and people just left a half time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, were you one of those? Uh? I might
Speaker 2: have been one of the ones that Yeah, I went.
Speaker 2: I went with my wife and boy, I tell you what,
Speaker 2: she didn't stay up much past seven thirty. The boss
Speaker 2: said this. I said, let's go, man, we were racing
Speaker 2: to the car. But yeah, I mean I watched the
Speaker 2: rest of the game. Fortunately it was on TV, which
Speaker 2: is which is nice that they've been shown on TV.
Speaker 2: So go ahead, No, okay, So Henry and the kids,
Speaker 2: well I was ready. I was trying to find somebody
Speaker 2: to come on the shell and say what a great
Speaker 2: job you're doing. I'm not I'm going to catch that car.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So what was it like? Kids? Student wise?
Speaker 4: It was first it was packed to start, but once
Speaker 4: the second half, second half, I mean compared to the
Speaker 4: previous years, there was still a lot of tea people,
Speaker 4: but they worked like one.
Speaker 3: Like the section I was near, like the whole section.
Speaker 3: People just left.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Tucson and Bill who called earlier. It's hey,
Speaker 2: I'm not speaking out of my my butt or asked whatever.
Speaker 2: This just the way this you've been here, how long
Speaker 2: you say it?
Speaker 1: Am?
Speaker 3: I am? I wrong? No?
Speaker 2: No, I mean you're not gonna You're not gonna hold
Speaker 2: this crowd that late. You know it might be an
Speaker 2: exciting game. I mean, you know, the game wasn't all
Speaker 2: that exciting. To tell you truth, we weren't playing very well.
Speaker 2: Uh in the first half. It's het me point out,
Speaker 2: but it's like, yeah, you know, I think that people
Speaker 2: came in thinking that this is going to be some
Speaker 2: a lot of offensive fireworks.
Speaker 3: And uh, what did you say to me earlier?
Speaker 2: This was the easy pick of the week, was Yeah,
Speaker 2: the easy pick of the week was the under I
Speaker 2: mean we just kind of shut down Utah pretty well.
Speaker 2: Uh defense has been playing really good. Our offense is,
Speaker 2: you know, struggling.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I guess now it's like everyone's going in the wrong direction,
Speaker 2: you know, which is another thing?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Man, you played How does this happen five weeks and
Speaker 2: then you had.
Speaker 5: A spring practice? Honest I couldn't tell you. Honestly, there's
Speaker 5: there's no excuse.
Speaker 3: I don't know. You know it, you do you don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you coaching at the end.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go there, let's go there.
Speaker 3: They do you think they're expanding the playbook?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're trying to Yeah, trying to open trying to
Speaker 5: open up the playbook, you know, maybe go deeper into
Speaker 5: the playbook.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm I don't know. I really
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: So disciplined, Well, you talked about the coach and stuff
Speaker 2: that I don't want to rag it and bucked. Uh
Speaker 2: what do you think hevin been a former player, Mike
Speaker 2: a coach? I mean an observer what I played? Okay,
Speaker 2: and you played well? Okay, give me on the phone
Speaker 2: with your coach.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 2: So I feel and I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: It's a question this team lacks something. It lacks something.
Speaker 2: What does it lack?
Speaker 5: I say, leadership. I just look at the coach and
Speaker 5: I just don't get the coach. Yeah, I just don't
Speaker 5: get the totally get it, totally get it. And that's
Speaker 5: that's one vote for that. And I don't disagree with that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I guess I would say discipline.
Speaker 2: You know, they don't have the discipline to run the
Speaker 2: right routes, make the right decisions go to the right directions.
Speaker 2: I mean, if they're talking, like you said, we're five
Speaker 2: weeks in and we got people going the wrong directions.
Speaker 3: I just don't see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the things that I thought I was
Speaker 2: really impressed with last week was the urgency. They played hard.
Speaker 2: The week before they did not where does that come from.
Speaker 2: It's like, and Matt, you've played if you respect the coach,
Speaker 2: and not to say they don't respect him, you played
Speaker 2: your ass off for him and you I don't see that.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm missing something, but that's what I see is missing.
Speaker 5: I think right now the players are playing for each other.
Speaker 5: They're not threat they're not being I don't want to
Speaker 5: say they're not being pushed by the coaches, but sometimes
Speaker 5: you can. You know, your coaches can like amp you
Speaker 5: up to give it your all. But right now, I
Speaker 5: think they're just doing it for each other. So when
Speaker 5: they're down, you know, it's more like the players are
Speaker 5: leading themselves to come back and fight, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, are they doing it for each other?
Speaker 2: They're doing it for themselves.
Speaker 5: Okay, well you can say for each other themselves, you know,
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't know. I just feel like coaching wise,
Speaker 5: there is not much there to be proud of.
Speaker 3: If that makes sense. No, no, it makes total sense.
Speaker 2: They're well three and two, three and two, and okay,
Speaker 2: maybe some people they thought were going to be that
Speaker 2: be three and two going in.
Speaker 3: Not like this. Yeah, see that's thinking about it.
Speaker 2: If you sat there and and then you had these
Speaker 2: discussions with Jay before the season, if we would have
Speaker 2: been three and two right now, we probably would have
Speaker 2: been going, Okay, well there you go.
Speaker 3: We're in a good place.
Speaker 2: You know, we're in a good place right now at
Speaker 2: three and two where we thought we'd be. But the
Speaker 2: way we're three and two, it's how you gained the weight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's how you gained the weight. It's just really something,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, we should have you really thought
Speaker 2: that we were going to have an uptick. Things were
Speaker 2: going in the right direction after Utah. Yeah, people are
Speaker 2: host Hey, it was all And Jake called last week
Speaker 2: at this time right to say, I want everybody to
Speaker 2: give the coaches a break here. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if Jay's listening now you can call back and see
Speaker 2: you know. But but but what it is, and I
Speaker 2: party was guilty of it too, because to me, it
Speaker 2: was a premature evaluation. Yeah, you know, and I think
Speaker 2: we suffered from that a lot. Is there appeal for that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but because we were back on track. We're back on track.
Speaker 2: And what was the question I asked of all you guys,
Speaker 2: can you trust this team before last week? Can you
Speaker 2: trust this team? And they prove that you can't right
Speaker 2: now it's like you have no idea who's going to
Speaker 2: show up next next week? Right, well, then we get it,
Speaker 2: we get we get a team that could be b YU. Wait, wait,
Speaker 2: let's go to the to the to the guys who
Speaker 2: kind of our students then kind of know some things.
Speaker 2: What's your prediction? And it's really early.
Speaker 3: I don't know even.
Speaker 4: I think they got to work on their preparation because
Speaker 4: their best game was off the bye week. They haven't
Speaker 4: been able to prepare for They always start off slow,
Speaker 4: it feels like coming out these games and they have
Speaker 4: to adjust. And that time, I thought you were gonna
Speaker 4: tell me that they were gonna be b I think
Speaker 4: knowing how Arizona play is just the history of Arizona.
Speaker 3: They will be by you.
Speaker 4: But also b YU right now is a much better team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like we've played them in previous years, so you
Speaker 5: know we have Yeah, but again I feel like Team
Speaker 5: Mac and like if T MAXX are offense. So if
Speaker 5: they find a way to take them out the game
Speaker 5: and no other players step up, yes, aps right.
Speaker 3: And what's and that hasn't happened this whole time, Double
Speaker 3: triple team him and let everybody else beat you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess so, yeah, just double them and then
Speaker 5: put your best corner on the second receiver he was.
Speaker 2: I didn't write about the game because I didn't know
Speaker 2: what the hell the right, but I would have said, what,
Speaker 2: you can't win games when you're guarantee guys. Team Mac
Speaker 2: can't fumble, right, I mean he can't honestly that one.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna blame him. I'm not gonna blame him
Speaker 2: that it was a good play. You know he's trying to.
Speaker 2: It's just you know you but Superman can't lose his cake.
Speaker 2: Superman can't lose his cap. But he lost his cap.
Speaker 2: The kicker Loop, who got Player of the Week here,
Speaker 2: lost his cap ball.
Speaker 3: But it's been five weeks and now the receiver stepped up. No,
Speaker 3: I and that's another issue. So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You gotta make the drives, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how does this conversation change if t Mac
Speaker 2: doesn't fumble that ball because we're rolling. We were, we
Speaker 2: we cruised down, we hit another, another couple of plays,
Speaker 2: we take a field goal, we win the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, So now now we sit there and is
Speaker 2: the coach a genius? I mean, there's this team. Can
Speaker 2: you trust the team? And I still thinks it all
Speaker 2: based on that one play. You're still you still kind
Speaker 2: of wonder God, this struggle, God it looks bad, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, but they want I don't know.
Speaker 3: The narrative is still do you trust this team? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think I still I still think no, no, No,
Speaker 2: they won the game exactly exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have I would have been like, okay, well
Speaker 2: we got we we survived that game there, but we
Speaker 2: made like I said, we made some of you survived
Speaker 2: that Jamie, thinking we could very easily be three and
Speaker 2: two or two and three or whatever, you know.
Speaker 5: And honestly we we have we have a go runner back,
Speaker 5: but like Conley, Yeah Conley, right, but after that, that's it,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: So, so Connley is a good running back, able to
Speaker 2: run every down. Well, he's not gonna be able to
Speaker 2: run inside the tackles. He's proven, you know you're not.
Speaker 2: I mean it's fourth, it's it's fourth and one and
Speaker 2: we're running a we're running a dive play.
Speaker 3: And he's our big site fifteen. He's not gonna knock anybody.
Speaker 3: He's a good back. Though. If I'm not, I'm not talking.
Speaker 3: You can get to the outside guy.
Speaker 2: We got a couple of minutes before we're gonna get
Speaker 2: Brian Peterson from as Deserts Form, who covers the team. God,
Speaker 2: I was just gonna think of something and I forgot
Speaker 2: about trusting the team. I've lost it. So it'll come
Speaker 2: back to me in a sense. So we have Brian
Speaker 2: Peterson and then we're gonna get to George malo Ulu,
Speaker 2: who a former u of a quarterback here many years ago.
Speaker 2: You're probably in school when he was. No, it was
Speaker 2: just he graduated right when I should. Yeah, so you
Speaker 2: know I asked him to come on, how much pressure
Speaker 2: is it to be the quarterback at you? Because he
Speaker 2: came in thirty years ago, right thirty years ago, and
Speaker 2: there was no social media, there was no Also, he
Speaker 2: also didn't get paid right, So there's this and that
Speaker 2: little if.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get paid.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna get paid, Michael Quinn, don't you think
Speaker 2: you get a little little controversy or you get a
Speaker 2: little criticism even when you didn't wide open Now that's
Speaker 2: why open. That's like this, it's ranted. Guandhi head Okahoma State.
Speaker 2: It's like going, you know, uh, don't come after my
Speaker 2: my players, you know, come after me. It's like going, Oho,
Speaker 2: your players are free game now, okay, because we're kicking
Speaker 2: in five thousand dollars a piece into this, right, you know,
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Speaker 2: your players, guess what open season?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: That's the market on that Because Mike Quinn, I know
Speaker 2: the people you hang out with.
Speaker 3: I know you. I could get tiring.
Speaker 2: You need another five thousand, and this is what I'm getting, right, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: I'm getting a broken car with no tires, right exactly? Yeah,
Speaker 2: what are you What are you gonna do with my
Speaker 2: next five thousands?
Speaker 3: Right? How are you gonna spend it? Exactly? Go ahead, Matt,
Speaker 3: what are you thinking? Oh no, this go we get
Speaker 3: take a break.
Speaker 2: Right, We're good, you know good, We're gonna have Brian
Speaker 2: Peterson get his thoughts on one of his tweets that
Speaker 2: we thought was very, very important and I've said it
Speaker 2: all along, so we'll get Brian not just important, stunning.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with Mike
Speaker 2: Quinn today, Henry and Matt. Now we have Brian Peterson
Speaker 2: from from Azy Desert's form.
Speaker 3: How are you doing, Brian? Good? Thanks trapping me back.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you because I thought the
Speaker 2: tweet of the weekend, the tweet of the game was yours,
Speaker 2: and it was the you beat a top ten team,
Speaker 2: you lay an egg the next I've seen it for
Speaker 2: thirty seven years, You've seen it for a number of years.
Speaker 2: It's probably not a shock to you, but it bears saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: This was the sixth consecutive time that Arizona football has
Speaker 6: lost the game immediately after beating a top ten team.
Speaker 6: The one previous to this was in twenty twenty two
Speaker 6: when they had that landmark win at UCLA, who was
Speaker 6: number nine, came home and looked listless in a eleven
Speaker 6: point loss to Washington State.
Speaker 3: The last time they won.
Speaker 6: The game immediately after beating a top ten team was
Speaker 6: in two thousand and eleven, twenty ten, I think when
Speaker 6: they just barely beat Cal ten to nothing and then
Speaker 6: got blown out the next game, or excuse me, ten
Speaker 6: to nine against counting blown out. I mean, these are
Speaker 6: different teams, there's different coaching staff, so it's not like
Speaker 6: there's a weird correlation causation thing, or you could just
Speaker 6: say it's just a very Arizona thing that every time
Speaker 6: something goes to for the program, it has to regress
Speaker 6: to the mean, and you know, the the the access
Speaker 6: have to tilt back the right way.
Speaker 3: Your honor. I think it's a second one where it's
Speaker 3: very Arizona.
Speaker 2: You're you've been here a long time, you're a student,
Speaker 2: You're you're you're pretty fair and balanced. You you don't
Speaker 2: you know raw raw the Arizona, which is very noble
Speaker 2: of you. And I've seen it. I've seen it in
Speaker 2: basketball too. You know, Tell them they can't against the
Speaker 2: Dukes and they win. Tell them they can against Clemsons,
Speaker 2: they can't.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 2: It's just the way it is, I mean to me,
Speaker 2: And you've seen it, Brian that sometimes or most of
Speaker 2: the times, that Arizona doesn't know how to handle prosperity.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a fair way to say it. And I mean,
Speaker 6: as much as you want the players to avoid the
Speaker 6: right quote unquote outside noise, Brent Brennan has kind of
Speaker 6: mentioned it, because you know, this stuff is on their
Speaker 6: phones all the time, and short of taking away their phones,
Speaker 6: which a former Arizona baseball coach did at LSU this
Speaker 6: year when his team was struggling, you can't keep them
Speaker 6: from seeing this stuff. You have to hope that they
Speaker 6: either don't look or they don't let it get.
Speaker 3: To them, either the good or the bad.
Speaker 6: You know, we've seen under Tommy Lloyd that every time
Speaker 6: they lose a game, they suddenly play one of their
Speaker 6: best ones. So it's almost like they're motivated by a
Speaker 6: poor performance. But here, I mean, I don't think that
Speaker 6: they didn't try or anything like that, or didn't put
Speaker 6: in good effort. It's just everything that could possibly go.
Speaker 3: Wrong to not be able to win that game. Did right? No?
Speaker 2: No, No, I go with how would you evaluate Noah
Speaker 2: to this point? Maybe maybe in Saturday's game and then
Speaker 2: the rest of the season.
Speaker 6: I mean, I do think he is at sometimes overthinking
Speaker 6: things and other times not thinking enough. Like I mean,
Speaker 6: there's been times where it's clear he's trying to get
Speaker 6: the ball to Temac no matter what and doesn't see
Speaker 6: other people that are open. But then maybe there's other
Speaker 6: times where because he's not you know, t Mac is
Speaker 6: not open and he doesn't go there there's no one else,
Speaker 6: and then it becomes this indecisiveness, and I mean it
Speaker 6: just comes down to just not being a reliant on
Speaker 6: that one thing. And I don't think he doesn't want
Speaker 6: to throw the ball to other people's He's just assuming
Speaker 6: that he can get it to that playmaker. I thought
Speaker 6: that he had turned a corner when he was finding
Speaker 6: he and Burnett at Utah in some of those big plays,
Speaker 6: especially the one that the last touchdown, because Burnett broke
Speaker 6: off his route and he they connected and had that
Speaker 6: great connection. But you didn't see that in this last game.
Speaker 6: I mean there were times where he was back there
Speaker 6: for five or six seconds and no one was open,
Speaker 6: and he just like didn't know what to do in
Speaker 6: that kind of situation. Some of that's also because of
Speaker 6: the fact that, I mean, Brennan said it again today
Speaker 6: that like people were going in the wrong direction, which
Speaker 6: is just such a strange thing to think considering that
Speaker 6: they they practiced these plays over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the uh so are they asking uh Noah to
Speaker 2: do things that he maybe is not It's not his
Speaker 2: primary skill set. And what I'm really getting at here
Speaker 2: is he seems to be h this year, setting in
Speaker 2: the pocket a long time, uh and not you know,
Speaker 2: not looking to run.
Speaker 3: We're not rolling them out, We're not uh you know,
Speaker 3: getting him.
Speaker 2: Outside the pocket, uh to create plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't really.
Speaker 6: I don't think they want him to scramble a lot
Speaker 6: just because you know, he there. There's a considerable drop
Speaker 6: off to the backup quarterback, whereas last year you have
Speaker 6: Delora still if something were to happen, just like they
Speaker 6: were okay with Delora scrambling because they knew, they felt
Speaker 6: that that Tafida would be able to do it. So
Speaker 6: I don't think they want to put himself at harmstress.
Speaker 6: But yes, I am surprised that they aren't doing more
Speaker 6: plays where they're they're moving him out of the pocket
Speaker 6: by design.
Speaker 3: I mean, the.
Speaker 6: The the cover ex excuse me, the pathwocking has been great,
Speaker 6: Like he's had a lot of time, but you know,
Speaker 6: that's just you shouldn't.
Speaker 3: Need that much time.
Speaker 6: And if there's times where he is rolling, then you
Speaker 6: are going to see, especially if they're in any sort
Speaker 6: of a zone, you're going to see some people that
Speaker 6: are going to react to that, and that can lead
Speaker 6: to some players opening up. So maybe, particularly after this game,
Speaker 6: considering how much he was sitting there, that this is
Speaker 6: something that they would go to. But it's surprising that
Speaker 6: they haven't really gone to that.
Speaker 2: So so did Brendan. He talked about the guy's not
Speaker 2: knowing where they're going. Do you understand you say why
Speaker 2: that was happening.
Speaker 6: He said it was just kind of well he was
Speaker 6: saying it was a mix of personnel and coaching and
Speaker 6: that they're not making sure. You know, he's always going
Speaker 6: to take that responsibility that him and his coaches are
Speaker 6: not making sure people know where they're.
Speaker 3: Supposed to go.
Speaker 6: But I think there is a certain level to it
Speaker 6: at some point, like in baseball, you tell someone don't
Speaker 6: swing at a bad pitch, but you can't keep them
Speaker 6: from swinging a bad pitch. They're going to swing at
Speaker 6: a bad pitch.
Speaker 3: That's on the player.
Speaker 6: And so I do think that this is a lot
Speaker 6: on the players themselves, but also the coaches are they
Speaker 6: need to recognize where there are limitations. And he's made
Speaker 6: mentioned both Saturday and today about are they running too
Speaker 6: much scheme? Are they asking people to do things they
Speaker 6: can't do? And I think one place where that may
Speaker 6: be is they do a lot of pulling on run plays,
Speaker 6: which leads to these plays going very slow.
Speaker 3: But that's an area where.
Speaker 6: If someone is going in the wrong directions to a
Speaker 6: huge issue. If you are going much more of the
Speaker 6: just straightforward run blocking, that would have less of an
Speaker 6: issue because you're not having somebody just come completely unblocked
Speaker 6: because someone ran the wrong way.
Speaker 3: Yeah but no, okay, so that would be good.
Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right that you you you minimize the
Speaker 2: the movement if you will, and the decision making, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, eliminate from that that from the formula. But
Speaker 2: we don't have the offensive line that's going to blow
Speaker 2: people straight off the ball. We saw that on the
Speaker 2: fourth down place where we're trying to run the ball
Speaker 2: straight at the middle. The pulling is what opens up
Speaker 2: what's opened up and running. So how do they fix that.
Speaker 6: Well, the pulling open up the running.
Speaker 3: If the people pull the right direction.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, right, So it is a little bit of mix.
Speaker 6: But I mean, if you're if you're going with six
Speaker 6: offensive linemen plus a fullback and all that, that should
Speaker 6: be enough even without having to move someone in an abs
Speaker 6: direction because they're just they're yes, as you said, they're
Speaker 6: not good enough to have these complicated kind of run
Speaker 6: blocking schemes.
Speaker 3: But they are holding up. They're not getting like.
Speaker 6: It's not a case where these guys are getting into
Speaker 6: the backfield because the defense is just blowing them over.
Speaker 6: They're getting in the backfield because there's no one there
Speaker 6: where that person is supposed.
Speaker 3: To be blocking somewhere. So I think it comes down
Speaker 3: to just simplifying it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me, let me let me ask another question,
Speaker 2: because right on that, you're you're absolutely right. I think
Speaker 2: the past block and has been has been really really good.
Speaker 2: If if he has had a lot of time in
Speaker 2: the pocket, but he's taking a lot of sacks. Is
Speaker 2: he he's getting hit last He's got hit pretty hard
Speaker 2: a couple of times he did. But I'm saying he's
Speaker 2: still has he has time in the pocket, Okay, I
Speaker 2: mean the pocket at some point is going to collapse.
Speaker 2: Is he not finding anyone open or is he just
Speaker 2: not doesn't have good decision making?
Speaker 6: I'm I think a lot of it is just that,
Speaker 6: like no one is getting open, and if you look,
Speaker 6: if you focus on the routes themselves, these guys aren't
Speaker 6: getting any sort of separation. They're not doing anything to
Speaker 6: kind of break free from anybody. And I think he's
Speaker 6: waiting for Teamac to be able to get away, and
Speaker 6: if that doesn't happen, no one else is doing it
Speaker 6: like it's They're usually trying to have multiple guys either
Speaker 6: directly on or near Team AC and what there's usually
Speaker 6: someone on defense. I noticed it a lot with Texas
Speaker 6: Tech and even with UTAH that is essentially watching what
Speaker 6: Fafita is doing a safety and as the more he
Speaker 6: looks towards Teamac, they start moving that way. They don't
Speaker 6: have to do that with anybody else because none of
Speaker 6: these guys are finding themselves getting open too much. But
Speaker 6: then there when they do start to move away from
Speaker 6: their guys to focus on Teamac, someone is open. And
Speaker 6: that it almost like if there's a way to do
Speaker 6: like a playfake or an eye fake where you're really
Speaker 6: drawing all the defense by looking at Temac and that
Speaker 6: leaves someone else open. But I think once he looks
Speaker 6: at team Ac, he stays on Temac.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I asked the guys in the room here, maybe
Speaker 2: fifty even if go do, what's this team lacking? And
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but it's lacking something.
Speaker 2: Do you see them lacking anything, whether it be hard,
Speaker 2: playing hard for the coach, playing hard from is there
Speaker 2: something that you see that maybe they're missing.
Speaker 6: No, I mean, I don't think this team lacked in
Speaker 6: any sort of effort or any sort of desire. It's
Speaker 6: it's so much about execution, but I think there is
Speaker 6: also just there aren't enough plays that you are guaranteed
Speaker 6: to get positive yardage. We've discussed this with myself and
Speaker 6: other writers, both in the press box and beyond that.
Speaker 6: There's not a lot of stuff over the middle, and
Speaker 6: there's not a lot of stuff that is just like
Speaker 6: make sure you're getting five yards on first down or
Speaker 6: quick stuff. It's it's all deep shots or just like
Speaker 6: very short games to the sideline, and there's not enough
Speaker 6: where you're putting yourself in second and six, second and five,
Speaker 6: third and three, third and two. They're trying to get
Speaker 6: twenty yards on every play or they're only getting two yards.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Henry talked about this and you know this,
Speaker 2: that Noah's going after big yardge.
Speaker 3: Last year he never really did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he was zero for nine on passes.
Speaker 3: That were twenty air yards or more.
Speaker 6: In this past game, he made some of those big
Speaker 6: throws against Utah, but those were also I mean one
Speaker 6: of those involved him rolling out and the other was
Speaker 6: a great blitz pick up where he was able to
Speaker 6: find on the first third and eleven on that last
Speaker 6: scoring drive. So it's there. It's just that those were
Speaker 6: on third down. I'm talking about like on first and
Speaker 6: second down. It's not like they're throwing it fifty yards
Speaker 6: down the field, but they're trying to get like a
Speaker 6: twenty five yard game where they can get like an
Speaker 6: eight yard game.
Speaker 2: Right right, So according to well, not according to your tweet,
Speaker 2: which I thought was fantastic because I've a thousand times
Speaker 2: even Oscar, you can do it in any sport here.
Speaker 2: But maybe this gives Arizona hope for this week because
Speaker 2: they're going to be underdogs against BYU, which wouldn't be
Speaker 2: a shock, right if they did win, oh, not at all.
Speaker 6: And that is also a very Arizona thing to suddenly
Speaker 6: to look I mean, considering how bad they looked against
Speaker 6: Kansas State and then to be able to go and
Speaker 6: win at Utah. Yes, they had an extra week, but
Speaker 6: this time BYU is the one with extra time. But
Speaker 6: you know, there's so many weird things that happen in
Speaker 6: college football. Apparently BYU at night compared to BYU during
Speaker 6: the day is such a different thing. That they are
Speaker 6: not a good team when they played during the day,
Speaker 6: and they're almost unbeatable at night. And this goes back
Speaker 6: several years. So there are those kind.
Speaker 3: Of weird things.
Speaker 6: But yes, it would be very typical for as bad
Speaker 6: as they looked last game to then just go up
Speaker 6: to BYU and win. There are concerns that BYU isn't
Speaker 6: nearly as good as It's five to oh record indicates
Speaker 6: that they've had a lot of good fortune that Kansas
Speaker 6: State game.
Speaker 3: They had I think.
Speaker 6: Two or three defensive or special teams touchdowns, so I
Speaker 6: think they maybe scored seventeen points on offense in that game.
Speaker 6: So they're not an explosive team or anything like that.
Speaker 6: They I think they're very beatable. It's just Arizona. Arizona's
Speaker 6: going to have to be more risky on third and
Speaker 6: fourth down and more conservative and willing to just take
Speaker 6: what they can get on the early down.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's switch excers just for a moment here. I
Speaker 2: said and asked you in the Red Blue game. I
Speaker 2: don't think I made any twenty dollars bets with you
Speaker 2: this time, which is good for you, I guess. But
Speaker 2: what were your impressions? What were your impressions?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's you shouldn't get anything super positive or
Speaker 6: super negative or super definitive at of something like that,
Speaker 6: because it's all just a glorified practice and all that.
Speaker 6: I did enjoy the defensive intensity that you would see.
Speaker 6: It didn't have that all star game kind of you know,
Speaker 6: everyone's just dunking on each other and doing behind the
Speaker 6: back passes, and that bodes well for what is expected
Speaker 6: to be a very tough Big twelve schedule where they're
Speaker 6: not going to be able to just win these games
Speaker 6: where they're scoring ninety something points, that they're going to
Speaker 6: have to rely on defense when the offense ultimately doesn't
Speaker 6: do well. So I was happy to see that. I
Speaker 6: was very impressed with just the overall versatility of Carter
Speaker 6: Bryant's game, not just in the game itself, but also
Speaker 6: the fact that he was the only guy that competed
Speaker 6: in both a three point contest and the dunk contest,
Speaker 6: and that he did well in both of those, So
Speaker 6: he has a lot going.
Speaker 3: For him there.
Speaker 6: And I also I would have a little bit of
Speaker 6: concern about the fact that not just that Motiv Kribis
Speaker 6: hasn't didn't play in that game, but that apparently he
Speaker 6: hasn't practiced in a few weeks because of whatever injury
Speaker 6: he's dealing with. If he's not ready for the season,
Speaker 6: then it really changes a lot of stuff. They make
Speaker 6: it seem like he will be, but if he's not,
Speaker 6: then you know, what are you going to do at
Speaker 6: the five? Is Bsar going to be the guy or
Speaker 6: are they just going to have to go a smaller
Speaker 6: route and have Tobey a loca.
Speaker 3: Be that guy, right, No, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I think my breakout guy will be Henry, although I
Speaker 2: totally screwed up last year, so I'm incredible when I
Speaker 2: picked uh uh the kid who in Jinia, Mexico.
Speaker 3: What's you name?
Speaker 6: Well, for you, I'm more concerned if you you just
Speaker 6: need to remember all the names of the guards, because
Speaker 6: you were showing your afterwards where you could not remember
Speaker 6: all three guards.
Speaker 2: Well, Brad's I don't know why that could happened to
Speaker 2: read twice. Just you know, two names, two names. I'm
Speaker 2: good with three, but not so much.
Speaker 3: Thanks?
Speaker 2: Thanks uh, Brian, see if you forget who you are?
Speaker 3: Thanks Brian. Thanks Brian, appreciate it as having radio. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I feel any more comfortable, especially
Speaker 2: with the guys going in directions they shouldn't.
Speaker 3: Have been going to. I can't believe he even admitted.
Speaker 2: That that was the number one thing, because I got
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Speaker 2: he getting out, they're going. I don't think that they're
Speaker 2: properly coached. What are you doing? I mean, so scatter
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 2: Fox Scorch Fortune fifty on Steve. You're Michael Quinn and
Speaker 2: we got heavy and we got that good discussion so far.
Speaker 2: Let's not screw this up, of course we will. They
Speaker 2: got three here to come here out of halftime and
Speaker 2: h and lay An eggs.
Speaker 3: I still I still believe.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, you don't expect that from t mac Yes,
Speaker 2: and tumbles happen stuff like that. He also, I don't
Speaker 2: know about this, guys, but he's not that he's doing
Speaker 2: this purposely. But that one had his catches. The one
Speaker 2: had to catch that he does all the time. That
Speaker 2: came up a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was one in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 4: I think it was out the flea flicker he could
Speaker 4: have got if he tried it too.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, there's one, maybe two that he
Speaker 2: could have cut and not to say because he had.
Speaker 2: There was one he dropped with two hands in that
Speaker 2: signature out leaping some guy and pulling it in. Hey,
Speaker 2: like I said, you can't do it all all the time,
Speaker 2: and and he didn't. You can't expect that much. I
Speaker 2: mean that all the time. But he's looking for the
Speaker 2: he's looking for the flash all the time. Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 2: I want to get on Sports Center, right, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't know that, but not sometimes when you play football,
Speaker 5: like it's easier to reach the ball with one hand.
Speaker 3: Oh I get it into I get it. So that's
Speaker 3: maybe what he.
Speaker 2: And he's good at it, but but you know, what
Speaker 2: the hell do normal people?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: One of the guys, one of the guys who who
Speaker 2: texted me during the game, said he's losing a lot
Speaker 2: of money. He's losing a lot of money here because
Speaker 2: he's not doing and I'm thinking, you're crazy. The guy
Speaker 2: is good, he's not some scout. Isn't going to say
Speaker 2: you remember that night against Texas Tech he dropped those No,
Speaker 2: he's good. Yeah, he's good. He's going to be fine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's going to be drafted. I mean that that decision
Speaker 2: has been made.
Speaker 4: Right, We're talking about him like this and he's still
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty one yards.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right, I know, you're exactly right. Perspective, right,
Speaker 2: perspective exactly. Just Arizona just didn't come out and play
Speaker 2: in the first half, and maybe maybe there are two
Speaker 2: teams on that field, and Texas Tech did exactly what
Speaker 2: it needed to do to win the game too. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: they played pretty up there. They are a good team.
Speaker 2: Texas Tech is a good team.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They four and one now, yeah it could be five one.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, is Arizona a good team? I
Speaker 2: think Arizona is a good team.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: I think that they play poorly, but I think that
Speaker 2: they are a good team. I do think we can
Speaker 2: run the ball. Like I said, I think we can
Speaker 2: run the ball, but we can't run the ball inside
Speaker 2: the tackles. We can run the ball if we go
Speaker 2: the right directions and we're running the running the counters
Speaker 2: and the traps, I think we can run them.
Speaker 3: To all you guys, is that solvable? Is what ails them?
Speaker 2: Solvable? Yes, with the tackles running. If they can't do it,
Speaker 2: they just can't do it. If they But let's thing
Speaker 2: about it. You can't be who you're not right, Okay,
Speaker 2: Like like I've been saying about ffiedaf Fefida is not
Speaker 2: going to be the guy that's going to be able
Speaker 2: to stand there in the pocket and and delivery. He's
Speaker 2: got he's gotten balls slapped down. He's a he's gonna
Speaker 2: be most short mobile quarterback. He is extremely good. Okay,
Speaker 2: but you need to do things. You need to be
Speaker 2: able to coach your talent. You don't just sit there
Speaker 2: and say, okay, this is the offense that I run. Okay,
Speaker 2: well I agree with you. You go with what get
Speaker 2: you there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's as being more mobile more in the
Speaker 3: more mobile.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what other word to use, but barsata. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. You know when t mac ran in
Speaker 2: a couple of those crossing you know, across the middle,
Speaker 2: uh patterns, caught the ball and get in in full
Speaker 2: stride where it's that's dangerous there. It's it's Jerry Rice
Speaker 2: like you know that you can just get it and
Speaker 2: go yeah and kind of get that talent and then
Speaker 2: run away from people. Absolutely, yeah, give him, get him
Speaker 2: the ball. You don't really uh like Brandon was saying,
Speaker 2: it's like when you don't need to need to get
Speaker 2: him the ball thirty yards down the field, you can
Speaker 2: get in the ball five yards down the field and
Speaker 2: let him come up with something. Yeah, guys, what would
Speaker 2: you guys do? Well, I didn't ask about the offensive
Speaker 2: offensive college. Uh, that's that's a concern. It's been a
Speaker 2: concern all year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, outside of the Utah game, the play calling is
Speaker 4: not in grade. I think we haven't really seen them
Speaker 4: with a huge lead really where they can just run
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 3: But they got to get to.
Speaker 2: That right, well, you Mixico, they finally did that right
Speaker 2: Eventually could first game of the season. What do you
Speaker 2: expect them? That was even closer than your thought would be. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: So they do not have an explosive offense right now. No,
Speaker 2: And the one thing that you could rely on coming
Speaker 2: into the season was what yeah, the explosive box. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we were really concerned about the defense. If if you
Speaker 2: were to give a grade to the defense right now,
Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask Brian this, except I couldn't
Speaker 2: get a word in edgewise with Utah and the But
Speaker 2: if you were gonna if you were going to give
Speaker 2: a defense a grade, what grade would you give the
Speaker 2: defense right now?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: B plus? Yeah, I was gonna say that du Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I think yeah, okay, so okay, so we
Speaker 2: know there's that.
Speaker 3: Would you give the what would you give the offense?
Speaker 1: Se?
Speaker 3: Minus? It's not a D. See I give a C.
Speaker 3: Yeah you said minus.
Speaker 4: I mean they only start seven against k Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, that's fair. I mean that's fair. That a seventy
Speaker 3: two ish? What is that minus?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're inconsistent. I still think that we're trying to
Speaker 2: do things that we're not good at. Now, I will
Speaker 2: tell you we were we were running the h we
Speaker 2: were running Connley out and short pass to Conmedy get
Speaker 2: into the ball and Glenn Lenham run. Okay, which is
Speaker 2: almost like a run play. But it's a you know,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a quick hitting thing. Those
Speaker 2: things we can do. Get Condley outside, get him out
Speaker 2: and moving. I would get Forfita out and moving. You know,
Speaker 2: this offense is going to have to move the defense
Speaker 2: a little bit. We are not big enough to run
Speaker 2: people over. You've never been ever, No, I don't think
Speaker 2: we ever have have been. But and that we were just.
Speaker 3: Not so so Matt. So, Matt, you.
Speaker 2: Think so lest year Yeah, oh no, no, I'm talking
Speaker 2: about offensive line.
Speaker 3: I'm talking more more people. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, so you you went out right, was it four
Speaker 2: years ago, three years ago, something like that? So so,
Speaker 2: but you were you were not with the team, you
Speaker 2: were with the other walk on.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, what were your impression of
Speaker 2: the team, But you were because Arizona's never been big. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they kind of out athletic you almost. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It's you run the offense.
Speaker 3: So okay.
Speaker 2: So I worked with the Army football team for a
Speaker 2: real long time. They run the option the reason they
Speaker 2: run the options because they get undersized lineman. They're not
Speaker 2: gonna blow people off the ball. They're gonna do They're
Speaker 2: gonna angle, they're gonna block you at angles. They're gonna
Speaker 2: run around people. They're gonna have misdirections. Uh, that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that we need to go to the
Speaker 2: option because they certainly don't. I mean, we've got a
Speaker 2: much better quarterback star quarterback then, But you know, we
Speaker 2: gotta we got to do those things. We got to
Speaker 2: get the defense moving. So am I and that they
Speaker 2: have to do more athletic you'll definitely definitely, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: And and and here we are and they're not. They're
Speaker 3: not that. I don't know. There's how many games left? Six? Five? Seven? Non, No,
Speaker 3: not seven.
Speaker 2: They're three and two. I think there might be seven. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's seven. There's gotta be twelve games. So of those
Speaker 2: seven games that we were talking about this before, and
Speaker 2: of course, let's do the premature evaluation here, overreaction, over reaction. Wait, no, true, Uh,
Speaker 2: I think that Henry said, Well, I'll let Henry see
Speaker 2: what he said. I'll give him the benefit of doubt.
Speaker 2: We got to call though and welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: You're on the air.
Speaker 18: How you guys, this is Gabriel thing.
Speaker 3: How are you? How are you doing? After that Saturday.
Speaker 18: Arizona short have won that game. To be honest with you,
Speaker 18: the one thing that I I mean wasn't wasn't Noah
Speaker 18: Sefida like turning over the ball I think two times.
Speaker 18: And then I think in the earlier in the fourth
Speaker 18: quarter not sticking to the run game and simbling for
Speaker 18: a field goal but then miss it. That's when Arizona loss.
Speaker 18: And then as a matter of fact, when team att
Speaker 18: fumbled the ball, and I think I listened to Brett
Speaker 18: Brett Bremman's press conference and he when I was watching it,
Speaker 18: he seemed really pissed off to me, And I think,
Speaker 18: did you guys see that he was more pissed off
Speaker 18: on Saturday?
Speaker 2: Well think, oh, yeah, you know, it's why you say that.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of recalling what He looked more upset than
Speaker 2: he has in the in the past. But he doesn't
Speaker 2: look like a guy who gets pissed off just like a.
Speaker 18: Yeah, he doesn't look like coach rich Rod Reid is
Speaker 18: like cussing. I've seen like all the time but he
Speaker 18: did say that I think the offense needs to be better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, I.
Speaker 18: Think I think the coaches on the offensive side needs
Speaker 18: to coach better.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 18: I'm not calling anyone to be fire. I'm just come on,
Speaker 18: you guys, just what week on? Are we on six
Speaker 18: weeks of college football?
Speaker 3: Or what coming up? Six weeks?
Speaker 2: It is a new coaching staff, it is a new system. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's some learning. There's gonna be a learning curve. At
Speaker 2: what point do you say, Okay, we've learned enough. Every
Speaker 2: week's the learning experience. Yeah, well I don't know. Six
Speaker 2: we gave thanks a bunch. I was wondering about you.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling because you sound a little bit
Speaker 2: more pragmatic than pissed off.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean it's not scheme, it's not play calling. Okay,
Speaker 18: what is it? Then? Is it more coaching? Okay? Come on,
Speaker 18: I mean for lunch. As we hate on jet Fish
Speaker 18: and his being a used car he being a used
Speaker 18: car car salesman. He basically put the fear of God
Speaker 18: in and the players last year. Yeah, is there anything
Speaker 18: like that?
Speaker 3: Well, you know what you say, fear of God.
Speaker 2: I won't go that far, but that's but but but
Speaker 2: that's kind of the thing I was asking you, guys,
Speaker 2: what's missing here? And it might not be the fear
Speaker 2: of God, but some kind of fear would work. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you gotta be displayed. Yeah, thanks Gape, thanks for the
Speaker 2: callins always you welcome.
Speaker 6: They're down Arizona, go cap.
Speaker 2: So guys, uh, that's exactly we kind of didn't say that,
Speaker 2: but that's what I'm missing. That you don't have to
Speaker 2: have him cussing and kneling and really being pissed in
Speaker 2: the press conference. It's it's what they you played, you coached.
Speaker 2: They have to have some sense of respect or fear
Speaker 2: of you to work there, to want to run through walls.
Speaker 3: If part of the cliche, but that's what it is
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, So, so he is Brendan is not obviously
Speaker 2: not an overly emotional guy in terms of yelling, screaming
Speaker 2: and that works up. But he's successful. He's been successful, Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean I have confidence that he's gonna get to
Speaker 2: the point where they're doing doing the right things, They're
Speaker 2: going in the right direction, running the place correctly. But
Speaker 2: you gotta yeah, I don't know. So you've had coaches
Speaker 2: a low mistakes you. You have one way. I know you, coach.
Speaker 2: You're painting the ass. You're you're a do it my way.
Speaker 2: You're a tyrant. Am I incorrect in my evaluation with you?
Speaker 2: No that I'd like to be labeled as a tyrant.
Speaker 2: You can talk to my kids. Yeah, I've seen that too.
Speaker 2: I've seen as a father and as a coach. Uh
Speaker 2: matt uh. There's a there's a little more pep in
Speaker 2: your step or want when you have somebody not ragging you,
Speaker 2: but kind of getting on you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'll say when I don't want to say again a
Speaker 5: fear of a coach, but you know, when you mess
Speaker 5: up on a play, for example, when they're out there
Speaker 5: not knowing the right place, right right right, that should
Speaker 5: never happen if you have a certain level of Again,
Speaker 5: I don't want to say fear, but I don't know
Speaker 5: what the word is, right, You just wouldn't do that?
Speaker 2: Well? Sometimes, what about the fear of not playing? That's it,
Speaker 2: That's where I wanted to go with it. Wouldn't you say,
Speaker 2: get get him out of there? Yeah, it's like someone's
Speaker 2: the third time that you've run the wrong damn direction. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's sub let's get somebody else in, but do we
Speaker 2: have the depth where we can do that?
Speaker 3: Maybe running back, No, running back, we definitely don't.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe a receiver, because you guys are talking who
Speaker 2: are the receivers that they're going to Team mack and.
Speaker 3: Who's two B? Who's two? It the crack guy but
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but you don't know, which means you don't know.
Speaker 2: And then we said Burnette. I said Burnette because he's
Speaker 2: kind of like the second go to that. So there's
Speaker 2: two and it stops it too, all right?
Speaker 3: Not good?
Speaker 2: Right? No, yeah, you gotta there has to be somebody
Speaker 2: else that we can get the ball to. Kind of
Speaker 2: we're throwing we're throwing the ball to Connley uh successfully
Speaker 2: for the backfield.
Speaker 3: This is this.
Speaker 2: Is this make you appreciate last year's a receiving core
Speaker 2: of of kid who's at San Francisco right now Kellen
Speaker 2: uh t mac and then another.
Speaker 5: Thirty there's three. Yeah, so you can also look at
Speaker 5: that though, is it the loss of talent? Like, do
Speaker 5: you think if we had the same talent that would
Speaker 5: will be flourishing right now?
Speaker 3: Do you think I think you could be doing better? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: with the same coach, with the same coach. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 3: tell it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I think so, because you know the
Speaker 2: thing is that, like I said, uh, Fafita is holding
Speaker 2: out of the ball. All right, okay if he's kids,
Speaker 2: like Brandon mentioned about separation, right, if we can get
Speaker 2: some separation.
Speaker 3: Let me Yes, you saw have you ever seen no
Speaker 3: Fafina in real life? Yeah? Short guy? And what what
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 5: I'm like five nine, he's not over five nine. I
Speaker 5: don't care what the stats are saying.
Speaker 3: With that.
Speaker 2: With that, we got to go. We'll get to that
Speaker 2: on the other side.