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Speaker 1: balance with a team, um that's probably gonna give up

433
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: forty plus to Oregon State this weekend. That that's it.

434
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: So you fire a defensive coordinator when you know that

435
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the talent to do his job properly.

436
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: This is a scapegoat move and pretty typical. So you

437
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: have and he was there, he was there before someone.

438
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things where it's like, all right,

439
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 1: well that wasn't your guy. So Arizona is actually lasting

440
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: the conference and scoring defense. They're giving up thirty five

441
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: points a game, and in contrast, look at Utah. Utah

442
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: has given up ten points a game. Oregon has given

443
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: up four team points a game cal twenty and then

444
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 1: and then you start to gradually get get worse. So

445
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 1: that's where and they're last in the conference rushing defense

446
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: though they are seventh in the conference, giving up a

447
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine yards per game. Past defense, they're

448
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 1: giving up three hundred ten yards a game, and in total,

449
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: that puts them for a grand total of eleventh in

450
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: the conference. That two hundred and sixty nine I'm sorry,

451
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty nine yards giving up per game.

452
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: And when you look at their interceptions, there's third in

453
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: the conference and interceptions will tie for a second with

454
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: with nine interceptions. So they're doing a good job taking

455
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: the ball away, but it's probably because teams are so

456
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: excited to throw the ball against them. I mean, so,

457
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,239
Speaker 1: I mean, but but also the thing I look at

458
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: it is with defense. People don't realize how closely connected

459
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: defense and offense are. That that they believe that if

460
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: you have a bad offense and a great defense that yeah, yeah,

461
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: we got a chance. Yet no, not really, because if

462
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: your offense is not moving the football, your defense is

463
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: continuously playing in short fields, which makes it very difficult.

464
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: And then you add in Arizona's the worst punting team

465
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: in the Pac twelve and only thirty five yards a punt.

466
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: How are you supposed to how are you supposed to

467
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: survive like this as a defense? I mean, I feel

468
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: like you could put the Bears in in a situation

469
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: where if they're always playing from the fifty end the

470
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: forty end, you're they're gonna get a lot more points

471
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: scored on them. It doesn't matter who you have over there.

472
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: I mean, my Drew doesn't have to be thirty five

473
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: points a game, but they're gonna give up a lot

474
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: more points than they would if they had a better offense.

475
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: And the players spent so much time this year defending

476
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: Marcel Yates and putting responsibility on their own shoulders that

477
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: it really makes you wonder if they're behind the firing,

478
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: if they believe that it's a good idea, Like I'm

479
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: sure Cecil will do a good job. He he's an

480
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: easy guy to like, he's all about that team. But

481
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: you know, I'm on Chuck Seesar's Twitter account right now

482
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: and he's already like favoriting tweets that you know, different

483
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: journalists UH fired off down here saying, like, you know,

484
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: Kevin Someone should have let him coach in the first place,

485
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: So that's not great, Like, you know, I this is UH.

486
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: I just think it's kind of a recipe for disaster

487
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: down here. I don't think Kevin Someone, Um, I'm not

488
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: sure if he understands what it is that he's working

489
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: with in Tucson and some of the drawbacks and limitations

490
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: to UH to recruiting down here. But it seems like

491
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: he has what he wants on the offensive side of

492
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: the football. Now, if he would just make a permanent

493
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: move toward that, you know, with Grant Gonnell be in

494
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: his his quarterback and then using the past to set

495
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: up the run, maybe they'd have the ball for a

496
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: little bit longer and have less turnovers and less three

497
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: and ounced which give their defense. And they're very very

498
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: young secondary. Um some breathers as as you said, But

499
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: as it stands right now. You know, even when this

500
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: team was four and one, I told you I thought

501
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: they were gonna finish four and eight. I haven't changed

502
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: my mind on that. Like, this is not a very

503
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: talented team and needs more time, especially on the defensive

504
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: side of the football, to sort of grow up together.

505
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: And and and and you know now they have an

506
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Speaker 1: interim defensive coordinator, and I don't think that that's necessarily

507
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: going to be the most helpful thing. Um, you know,

508
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: while they're waiting to figure out whether or not they're

509
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna have Chuck Seas along there permanently or Okay, so

510
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: mid season firing. Actually this is not even a mid

511
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: season firing. This is the end of season firing. They

512
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you really gain from them

513
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: because you put yourself in a recruiting situation now right

514
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: in that there is there is a continuity. You're gonna

515
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: have negative recruiting from the people you're competing against like Colorado,

516
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: Arizona State, Utah. You know all those teams cal who

517
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: you're kind of in that tier with, You're gonna have

518
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: negative recruiting from them. Saying well, you don't you don't

519
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: know Kevin something, he might be on the hot seat.

520
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be your defensive coordinator? What if you don't

521
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: fit in the scheme? Those are the things that that happened.

522
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: And what is what is the new defensive coordinator going

523
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: to do? What is he gonna do? Is he gonna

524
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: uh come up with some new scheme? Now, No, he can't.

525
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: It's too late in the game and you're dealing with

526
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: college kids, like you can't flip the scheme. The only

527
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: thing that he can do is take the same defense

528
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: that they're running, make different calls and maybe tweak the

529
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: scheme slightly as opposed to change the scheme because that

530
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,479
Speaker 1: won't work mid season, right and they're sitting right now

531
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: as far as recruiting goes, just about five weeks away

532
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: from the early signing day, ranked sixty five in the country,

533
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: and most of their more decent recruits are on the

534
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football. Their highest ranked I mean,

535
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: they they they've got an outside shot at a kid

536
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: named Jason Harris who's a six ft eight defensive end

537
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: um and and has about twenty offers in both football

538
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: and basketball. His dad, Seawan Harris is like inducted into

539
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: the U of A Hall of Fame, and his brother,

540
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: Jason Harris, is probably their best defensive lineman now, so

541
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: they think they're probably going to land him. But other

542
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: than that, you know, most of their recruits that they've

543
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: landed this year, their three star recruits are on the

544
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football. On the defensive side of

545
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: the football, you know, they've got a couple of defensive

546
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: backs and a and a and a defensive end um

547
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: that are you know, they're okay, but there's no there's

548
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: no world beaters. You know, they've only got thirteen commitments there,

549
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: ranked sixty five right now, and the best guy they

550
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: probably have is a guy in Carrie Crump, defensive back

551
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: out of Culver City, California. So you know, we'll see

552
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: if they're at risk of losing any of the commitments

553
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: that they currently have. But they're already kind of behind

554
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: the eight ball when it comes to recruiting in the

555
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: first place. Um, but maybe Chuck ce So, a guy

556
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: who actually does love Tucson and is you know, has

557
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: spent a lot of his life there, can recruit to

558
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: Tucson a little bit better than you know, Marcel Yers

559
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: who came over from Boise State a few years ago.

560
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: So maybe it'll actually give him a boost. You know. Now,

561
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: wasn't that what Kevin Something was brought over for was

562
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: to be able to recruit. I mean it's the same

563
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: thing like yeah, yeah, because he he had Texas A

564
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: and M in the top ten over and over over.

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00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: I mean it's the same thing like Chip Kelly U

566
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: C l A. He should be able to recruit. You

567
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: bring in Um, I mean you look at people who

568
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: are crushing it in the back two of recruiting and

569
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: have been. You have Washington crushing it, Oregon crushing it.

570
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: Um Stanford has been crushing it even considering their circumstances.

571
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: They're always in the top twenty in recruiting. And and

572
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: you have usc who used to be crushing it in recruiting,

573
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 1: And that's part of the reason why I say that

574
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: that they have to let Clay Helton go because they

575
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: can't recruit right now. And if you are recruiting is

576
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: the lifeblood of a program, you can have the greatest

577
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: coaches that you want to have. Look at look at

578
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: how most people regard uh Justin Wilcox and his staff

579
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: at cow versus the results that they're getting this year

580
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: because they're just short on talent and they lost their quarterback.

581
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: Recruiting matters, And it's gonna matter that U c l

582
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: A because if Chip Kelly didn't find a way to

583
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: recruit better athletes, it the rebuild it's going to take

584
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: even longer. Yeah, And then honestly, like in Kevin Someone's

585
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: tenure so far at Arizona, there's not really one single

586
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: player that they have gotten that they shouldn't have. There's

587
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: not really you know, they Jalen Curry was a very

588
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: talented wide receiver, but guess who his high school quarterback was,

589
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: Grant Canell, Like he came over with his high school quarterback,

590
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: So that's not a huge surprise. Um, you know, So

591
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 1: he's not doing the best job in the world of

592
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: of of recruiting down there, the defenses and shambles, He's

593
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: continued to have the same type of weird quarterback issues

594
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: that he brought over from Texas A and m It

595
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: just it all spells trouble and and you know, maybe

596
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: Chuck Cecil is the answer. But you know, I don't

597
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: think they're going to jump from eleventh in the conference

598
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: up into the top half when they still have teams,

599
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, when they still have to worry about Oregon

600
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: State this weekend and that's not going to be an

601
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: easy win. But we'll get into those in just a minute.

602
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: Um uh, we want to talk about the the Pack

603
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: twelve South scenarios because right now you have the UM

604
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: in the stand things you have oh we're not doing

605
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 1: with them, okay, So in in the standings in the

606
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:14,959
Speaker 1: PAC twelveth South, you have USC leading the conference with

607
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: the and they control their own destiny. There's only one

608
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: team that controls their own destiny in the South at USC.

609
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: They win their last what four Pack twelve games, and

610
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: they are in They play Oregon this weekend, Arizona State

611
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: Cow and then u CEE l A on November. And

612
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: mind you, we didn't necessarily believe that we would be

613
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: in this situation. But here is the problem. If USC

614
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: wins US and this this goes to Pack twelve schedules,

615
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: which are just so insanely dumb. Sometimes USC plays their

616
00:37:55,360 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: last game on November. Everybody else in the conference plays

617
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: that very next weekend, so USC has an idle week,

618
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: an off week, the last week of conference play for everybody,

619
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: and then there is the PAC twelve championship game a

620
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 1: week later. So how on earth is it competitively fair

621
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Speaker 1: to have a team coming off of a idle week

622
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: and off week? Plankton, and they already know who they're

623
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: gonna be playing, because unless Oregon drops four straight games

624
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: including uh yeah, so unless they dropped to USC, Oregon State, UM,

625
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: Arizona State, and Arizona they are going to they would

626
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: need to lose all four of those games and then

627
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: have Oregon State when all of their could win their

628
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: last five games to to not win the conference. So

629
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Speaker 1: how on earth is that competitively fair? Rouph? You know,

630
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: I don't think it is, But you also can't you know,

631
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: plan for USC to have been in the mix. Um,

632
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, obviously rest is a helpful thing in this conference.

633
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: You know, Arizona State had three tough games in a

634
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: row and runs into U c l A, who had

635
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: played one game in twenty days, and look which team

636
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: looked more fresh. So you know, obviously you can get

637
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: a competitive advantage from rest, but I think we've also

638
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: seen time and time again in the NFL. You know,

639
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: teams that earned these by weeks end up looking like

640
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: crap when the other team has been in playoff mode

641
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: for a week already. So you know, it's sometimes it

642
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: can be a wash um And uh, I mean I

643
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that maybe that's something that

644
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: could work out in USC's favor. But then you're also

645
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: saying like, oh man, the you're saying like, oh wow,

646
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Speaker 1: Clay Helton has an egg st a week to prepare. Um,

647
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: you know that brilliant coach, He'll do something with that.

648
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that anybody's out there saying

649
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: play Hilton is uh you know, so would you be

650
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: saying a different story if this were Urban Meyer coaching USC?

651
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, probably probably, But yeah, so so that

652
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: that's the inherent problem. So so you got USC leading

653
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: the conference, controlling their own destiny. Utah is also at

654
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: four and one. U c l A is still mathematically

655
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: alive in the conference for the for the for the

656
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: conference title. Arizona State is at two and three, which

657
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: most people did not expect. And Arizona State, I was

658
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: sorry Arizona two and three out of the conversation, and uh,

659
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: Colorado is just dead meat. They are dead in the water.

660
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 1: So what how do you see this thing shaking out?

661
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: Bro Well? Um, the only way that USC can survive,

662
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: can make a mistake this weekend and survive is if

663
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: Utah makes that same mistake. Um. And I think that

664
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Speaker 1: if if that scenario happens, if the Pack twelve North

665
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: dominates the weekend h and both Utah and USC lose,

666
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: I think USC is gonna win the Pack twelve South

667
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: if you talk and take care of business at Washington.

668
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: I don't trust USC, even if even if they beat Oregon,

669
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 1: I don't trust USC to win four in a row

670
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: to close the season out. Well, So I think that well,

671
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: I think that Utah really determines their own fate going

672
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: into today because if you are going into this this weekend,

673
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: because if they beat Washington, all the pressure is on

674
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: USC to be perfect, and I don't think that they

675
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: will be. But if Utah loses, I think it's over.

676
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's a it's a burrito if

677
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: they lose, because they would then need USC to lose

678
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: two more games. Yeah, probably not UM. And then there

679
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: are college football and Rose Bowl implications that people really

680
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: don't realize. There is a major league Rose Bowl implication

681
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: this weekend. So if Washington beats Utah and then Utah

682
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: goes on I'm sorry, and then Oregon manages to get

683
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 1: into the College Football playoff, Now the Rose Bowl gets

684
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: to choose which team that it wants, and it has

685
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 1: a choice, and it would have the choice most likely

686
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,720
Speaker 1: provided that Washington finished nine and three and then Utah

687
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: finished what tennant tennant too, they would have the choice

688
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: of UM. And then that would probably put USC in

689
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: a position to win the Pack twelve South. So now

690
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: you could have a scenario where you have Utah, who's

691
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: tennant too, could be a top fifteen team, top twelve

692
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: team who gets UM who the Rose Bowl would have

693
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: to choose between USC, who played in the conference championship,

694
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: or Utah, who played in the conference championship with two losses,

695
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: or Washington who beat them and and and so now

696
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: you put the Rose Bowl in a position to choose,

697
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: and then there's a head to head with Washington, and

698
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: then where would they all be ranked. Who do you

699
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: think the conference would would choose under those scenarios. I

700
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: know there's a lot to unpack there. I think that

701
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: you'd have to go with Washington just because of the

702
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: head to head win. But it gets even stranger than that,

703
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: because what if U Tall wins out and what if

704
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: you what if USC wins out also? And then what

705
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: if USC wins the Pack twelve champion and chip against Oregon?

706
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: You would have an eleven and one Utah that's probably

707
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: not going to make the College Football Playoff or the

708
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. That's crazy, dude, that would be crazy. That

709
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: would be definitely crazy. I mean, have USC win when

710
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: the conference go to the Rose Bowl and then you're

711
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: sitting there with two teams. You have an eleven and

712
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: one team in Utah, attendant to team in Oregon and

713
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: well sorry attendant three yeah sorry, and and an eleven

714
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: and two team in Oregon and you're sitting there and

715
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: they could end up in like San Diego and l Pass. Yeah. Well, well,

716
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Speaker 1: I I think that one of one of them would

717
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Speaker 1: get a New Year's Six Bowl I mean, I would

718
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: have to know a true And the reason why I

719
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: say that is because especially Oregon, because last year Washington

720
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: State got snubbed and the conference didn't really say much.

721
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of that was due to

722
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: the function of it was Washington State. And then you

723
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Speaker 1: have Oregon, who's a national brand, which is going to

724
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Speaker 1: at least attract eyeballs for a for a playoff team.

725
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for a bowl game, yeah, I mean I'm

726
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: not when it comes to this, I don't think I'm

727
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: team Chaos because that that would be just such a

728
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: giant headache to have two teams that probably deserve consideration

729
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: for major, major major bowls and to have one of

730
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: them end up, you know, in the Holiday Bowl chasing

731
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Speaker 1: a twelve wins an unranked team or against a team

732
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: from the bottom of the yea like yeah, taking on

733
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: taking on a seven and five Iowa State, dude. So

734
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: here is what I believe is going to happen in

735
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: the college football playoff. At this point, we we can

736
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: cover it every week. I think that you have obviously,

737
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: I think eight team playoff is a way to go.

738
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: You have the five Power five champions, two at large bids,

739
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: and the highest ranked Nonpower five school. I think that

740
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: that is the ultimate way to go. You reward teams

741
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: were winning their conference, and also you have ways to

742
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 1: accommodate teams like like that chaos scenario with you talk

743
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: chaos scenario with UH with Obama beating l s U,

744
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: same same thing. So I think that right now that

745
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: you have the scenario of that, you're gonna have an

746
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: undefeated Big Ten winner in Ohio State, Penn State. But

747
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: Minnesota could crash the party. And I think that it's

748
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: crazy that Minnesota could jump through all the requisite hoops

749
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: finished thirteen and old, and people would be debating in

750
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: the Big Ten and they would be debating, Oh, should

751
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: we put Minnesota in or should we put in an

752
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: undefeated I'm sorry, a one loss didn't win their conference.

753
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: UH At Alabama, I'm like, come on, bro, come on,

754
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: Alabama schedule is cup kakery this year. It's trash And

755
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: you would be debating that. So there's an undefeated Big

756
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: tim winner. Then there's the SEC champion, provided that it

757
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: is not a two lost Florida or a two lost Georgia.

758
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: And because under that scenario the SEC champion could either

759
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: would probably get left out depending on how strong everybody

760
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,919
Speaker 1: else's resume is, or you can have a one lost

761
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: team or two SEC teams get in. Then there's Clemson,

762
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: who doesn't for the third spot. Who doesn't I mean

763
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: mine g d s are not in order of uh,

764
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, like one of who they would play UM.

765
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: But you got Clemson, no competition in the A c C.

766
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: They'll finish undefeated with a string of blowouts. And I

767
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,760
Speaker 1: think that the Pact twelve is actually in that fourth

768
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,760
Speaker 1: position in terms of priority at this point in time.

769
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: Especially if Utah and Oregon finished eleven and one playing

770
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: the Pack twelve Championship, You're gonna have like a number

771
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Speaker 1: four team or a number five team playing a number

772
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: six team or number seven team, and that's gonna be

773
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: hard to keep the lose the winner out of the

774
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: College football playoff. And then you have the Big twelve

775
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: pulling up the rear right now because Oklahoma lost, but

776
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: they're one loss is better than even Georgia's lost to

777
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: South Carolina. And then you have Baylor, who's nobody talking

778
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: about in the same situation as Minnesota. They finished undefeated.

779
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:39,919
Speaker 1: How can you keep a team like that out? It's craziness. Dude. Yeah,

780
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: I mean, the eight team playoff would have been the

781
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: right thing to do all along, but we know that

782
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: the n C Double A only moves incrementally like that.

783
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,280
Speaker 1: We we spent the whole beginning of this podcast talking

784
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: about how they were only reactionary to the whole you know,

785
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: issue of compensation. The only way to force the n

786
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: C Double A's hand on issues like this is to

787
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: have a four team playoff where somehow Minnesota and UH

788
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Baylor both go undefeated and get left out

789
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: or something like. To have to have something be so

790
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: controversial and to happen to a fan base that will

791
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: never shut up about it that you know, things eventually

792
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: are are changed. And I think, you know, the craziest

793
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: thing about all of this is the you know, the

794
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: the n C Double A. What are they addicted to money? Like?

795
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: What will the playoff bring in? Like more money? It's

796
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,479
Speaker 1: not like there aren't eight deserving teams every single year.

797
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: It's not like we're moving to a thirty two team playoff,

798
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: you know. And if you take the highest group of

799
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: five ranked team and you you line them up against

800
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: the number one UM team in the country, you know,

801
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: I think that that's a game that people would absolutely

802
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: die to be able to see. You know that that

803
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 1: that's what you know, that's all you CF ever wanted.

804
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: That's all Boys State ever wanted all these all these years.

805
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: Um So I love that scenario. I think that's definitely

806
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: the direct that they should move in. Um I'm probably

807
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: still two weeks away from being able to even discern

808
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: what possibilities exist, um for for the college football playoffs,

809
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: because we still have you know, there's plenty of nonsense

810
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: that you know, not not every conference is the Pac twelve,

811
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: but there's plenty of nonsense left to be had in

812
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: mind for sure. For sure, I definitely agree with that. Uh,

813
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: now we can get into our games. Ralph. What what

814
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: what I have noticed is what I've noticed with you

815
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: is you have not been bringing up the record, oh

816
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: our official records. So I'm demanding on the next podcast

817
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: that you disclose our records because I've been trusting you

818
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: to keep score of this and and and you you

819
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: you spiked the football on me when you were thirteen

820
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: and one and I was six and I was six

821
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: and eight, and now I have made a resurgence and

822
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,720
Speaker 1: a comeback, and I need my credit I'm a credit

823
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Speaker 1: horror right now. All I'll get you some numbers. I'll

824
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 1: get you some number. Hopefully all have a Hopefully it'll

825
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: be a better week for me. Game up that we've

826
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: got is Utah and Washington. Utah heads up to Seattle.

827
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Speaker 1: Game is gonna be on Fox. This is a we

828
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: We've already talked about why this game is so important.

829
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 1: But this is a critically important game. Oh but but

830
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: before we even get into that, I forgot to announce

831
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: the pac twelve players in a week. For people who

832
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: didn't know or see the announcement, you had C. J.

833
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: Verdell from Oregon two d and fifty seven yards, twenty

834
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 1: three carries, three touchdowns, uh officsive lineman Shane Lemieux from Oregon,

835
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Speaker 1: defensive player Paulson, a debot from Stanford, two more interceptions

836
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: UM and his second career to interception game defensive lineman

837
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: Lecky Poet. I mean they could have given the Pack

838
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: twelve defensive player, defensive lineman of a week to the

839
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: entire Utah line for the last two weeks. UM special

840
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: teams Camden Lewis from placekicker from Oregon. I cannot believe

841
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: it a placekicker from Oregon One put back to a

842
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: player in the Week and then also Freshman of the

843
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: Week Keaton Slovis thirty four, four oh seven and four touchdowns,

844
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: all career highs um. Okay, So back to the game

845
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:39,800
Speaker 1: in Seattle, Ralph, who do you have and why? Um?

846
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: I am going with Washington in this game, and it

847
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: all has to do with the fact that I don't

848
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: think that Tyler Hunley is healthy. I don't think he is.

849
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: I think that he was left in a little bit

850
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: longer than he should have been against Arizona State. I

851
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: think that he he looked miserable in in uh in

852
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: Cows and really that came down to just being able

853
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: to hammer, you know, a busted nail. Um. You know,

854
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: Cow's got enough of their own issues. But I think

855
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: the team goes as Tyler Huntley goes, and you know,

856
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: I think that Washington is going to be able to

857
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: completely sell out for the run in this game because

858
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't I honestly don't think that that Tyler Huntley

859
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: is UM. I think it'll be a really, really, really

860
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: low scoring game, but the home team eeks one out

861
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: and pisses the whole conference off. UM. I have a

862
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: low scoring Washington. Utah has dominated the last couple of weeks.

863
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: They've been a very strong team after they'd lost to

864
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: the USC extremely maybe even the most dominant team in

865
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: the conference. But I think it with Oregon, I think

866
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: you get more people getting getting a better shot, you know,

867
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: because they have a bigger target on their back at

868
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,919
Speaker 1: But oh man, see here here's the problem. I've said

869
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: with you Ta all year. There's a couple of times

870
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: that Tyler Huntley is gonna have to be great, not

871
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: just good. He's gonna have to be great at least

872
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: two to three times this season for Utah to win

873
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: the to win the conference, well, to to win at

874
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: least their side of the conference, and throughout there. Throughout

875
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: this season, They're running game has been very dominant. Their

876
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: defense has been very dominant. So the only games that

877
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley needed to be great the first one was

878
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: USC and he was not great in that game. And

879
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: when and when I say great, I mean the difference

880
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 1: between winning and losing in a special game. Because in

881
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: that game he was twenty two for thirty yards and

882
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Against USC. That is put like that's even

883
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: though it's efficient, he has to have a game like

884
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: Keaton Slova's had, maybe not for four hundred yards, but

885
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: where his rushing and his and his throwing has one

886
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,720
Speaker 1: of these Jalen Hurts type games. And it always falls

887
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: on a quarterback if you're gonna have a special season

888
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: to do some special things. And that's where the situation

889
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: of Utah is. And they're gonna need to be special

890
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: because Washington coming off a bye week, is gonna be mad.

891
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: And when we watched Washington play Oregon, Oregon was playing

892
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 1: extremely well on defense. What Washington did is if you

893
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 1: remember that game, they shifted and motioned pre snap more

894
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: than I've ever seen a team do. I mean it

895
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 1: was every single snap you have two or three people

896
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: moving then motioning back. It got it gets chaotic in

897
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: terms of the communication on the defense. So Utah's defense

898
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 1: is gonna have a their tough this game of the

899
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: season against Washington, I believe, and I don't think that

900
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: Tyler hunty Is is healthy. I think the Washington is

901
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: going to be able to stop the run and better

902
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: than most people have and he's gonna have to throw

903
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,959
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's gonna work. I am going

904
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: with them, even though I don't want this scenario to

905
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: happen because I want Utah and Oregon to end up undefeated.

906
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: The way the conference as a whole has a better

907
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: chance to get into college football playoffs. Ralph, I'm leaning

908
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 1: towards the Washington Huskies right now. You know, I will

909
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: tell you there there is one opportunity for one player

910
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: to absolutely transcend in this game, and that is Zack Moss.

911
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: And I mean if if if Zack Moss, Zack Moss

912
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: could go out and win some awards on Saturday, he

913
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 1: really could because again, you know, if Tyler Huntley is healthy,

914
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: then I'm I would flip this decision in a second,

915
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: but I think it's really gonna fall to this running game.

916
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 1: And if he if he's able to play with the

917
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: grit that he played with, you know against Arizona State

918
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 1: in the second half of that game, Um, then you know,

919
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: I and I think that they've got a chance. They

920
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,959
Speaker 1: got more than a chance. Um, but I just think that,

921
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, they they've had the benefit the last couple

922
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: of weeks of of playing in friendly confines with crap weather,

923
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: and that has covered up for the fact that you

924
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: know that honestly, if they had Tyler Huntley for the

925
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: full game against Arizona State. That's a game that they

926
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: probably win by five six touchdowns, and they probably be.

927
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 1: Had they it would probably would have been thirty five

928
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: nothing over Cal in the first half. I mean, if

929
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: they were, if they were fully healthy, I just don't.

930
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they are. That's no inside information, that's

931
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: just my opinion, and I think that that's what's ultimately

932
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: gonna give give Washington that that mm hmm. Stopping the

933
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: run is going to be paramount, and I can't see

934
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: because Chris Peters is a really good coach, despite what

935
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: some Washington fans idiotically want him fired, which which makes

936
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: zero sense to me. But yeah, he's a really good

937
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: coach and he's going to get this thing. I mean,

938
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna have his team very well prepared, same way

939
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: he did an Oregon game, same way he did. So

940
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: I don't see a scenario where Utah blows anybody out

941
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: because Jacob Easton, even in the games that he hasn't

942
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: played spectacularly, has not been a train wreck like so,

943
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: so the idea that he's a multiple picks or you

944
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: or Washington is not going to be able to score

945
00:58:54,760 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: like worst case scenario, worst case scenario for UM Yeah,

946
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: worst case scenario for Washington. I'm sorry, what worst case

947
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: scenario for Washington? Best case scenario for Utah is a

948
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: cow Washington game from this year or last year, either

949
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: a twelve ten game or you got like a nineteen

950
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: twenty two game. That is best case scenario for Utah

951
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: because Washington I think it's gonna has gotten their offense

952
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: together and that they're going to play significantly better. The

953
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: next game that we got up is the oh oh.

954
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: And here's here's an interesting stat though, is you have

955
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: packed twelve home teams. Home teams in the PAC twelve

956
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: are just sixteen and fourteen Inpact twelve flight, and only Oregon,

957
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: USC and Utah are undefeated at home. Come on, man,

958
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: that like you're supposed to have home field advantage that

959
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 1: does not exist in the PAC twelve. You got um

960
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: all Oregon State plan on PAC twelve network at Arizona.

961
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: This game is a this game obviously it's at Arizona,

962
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: but you have Arizona favorite by six points at home

963
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: with a fire defensive coordinator playing against Oregon State whose

964
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: offense is on fire and has only been really shut

965
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: down in the Pac twelve by really by um by Utah.

966
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: That's the only team that shut this offense down. Jake Lutton,

967
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 1: Artavis Pierce, Isaiah Hodges have all been putting up big

968
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: time numbers. So what's your take on this game, Ralph?

969
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not sure. I'm still trying to talk myself

970
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: into going one way or another. I can tell you

971
01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: that I'm this is probably the game I'm most excited

972
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: for just because I want to see I want to

973
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: see a hundred points and I think we might get it.

974
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: Um in this game because of how efficient Oregon State's

975
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 1: offenses and how explosive Arizona's offense is. Um, I'm a

976
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: little bit concerned at what they're going to continue to

977
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: do and tinker with at the quarterback position for Arizona.

978
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 1: So I'll say this, if they go if they just

979
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: go out and say, you know, Colilte had one bad series,

980
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:33,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna go with Grant Gonell for the rest of

981
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: the game. UM, I don't think they'll win. I think

982
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 1: that this is a game that they need Khalilt in,

983
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: and I think that they need the version of Khalil

984
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 1: Tate from who runs with a reckless, abandoned. And the

985
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: first time that we even really saw that was just

986
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 1: in Spurts last week when he went for over a

987
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: hundred yards against the Pac twelve opponent for the first

988
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: time in two years. And so I mean, if if

989
01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: they can go out there and they can call a

990
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: bunch of designed runs for Khalil take in order to

991
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: set up the past, I think that they'll get this win.

992
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: But I think it'll be a game where it's like,

993
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: you know, fifty five or something like that. UM. I

994
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: do think that Oregon State's offense is gonna go off. UM,

995
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 1: but I I like the home team. I don't know

996
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: if I like the spread UM, and I I know

997
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: that Arizona is kind of a wounded animal right now,

998
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: so it feels counterintuitive to pick them, but they just

999
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: play a little bit different UM at home. I think

1000
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: that Washington is a much more talented team than Arizona,

1001
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: but you at least saw them keep that close because

1002
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: it was in UM Tucson at least for three quarters. Anyway,

1003
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with Arizona in this game. It's

1004
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 1: kind of a coin flip scenario for me. I say

1005
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: they win UM seventy one over under take it, take

1006
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: the over life. Life's too short to be at the Yeah,

1007
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: and and definitely not with these two teams, because there

1008
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: is there's about a point oh one percent chance that

1009
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: this will be a defensive struggle that's not happening because

1010
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: neither team is just spectacular defensively. They're not even necessarily

1011
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: great defensively. Um, you have your you have Arizona, who

1012
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: we've talked to. I'm taking Oregon State. Man. I think

1013
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: that it's a little bit of an it's an upset

1014
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: because Arizona is playing at home. But at the end

1015
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: of the day, you know, or that doesn't feel like

1016
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: well it does to me when Oregon State is the

1017
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 1: second worst rushing defense in the conference. In Arizona is

1018
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: the bet is the second best rushing offense in the country.

1019
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: And ah this man, But but then Arizona's defense is

1020
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: the second sorry, it's the worst scoring defense in the conference.

1021
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: So I don't even know what how to make heads

1022
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: or tails out of this, But I'm going with Oregon

1023
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: State to be against you and pick another wind. Ralph, Oh,

1024
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: we got the color All we got the Colorado Buffalo's

1025
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: playing against the u c l A Bruins, who I

1026
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:36,400
Speaker 1: will take ownership of again if Dorian thumps and Robinson

1027
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: is playing, and we both have and pretty much everybody

1028
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: else I've seen in their power rankings has Colorado is

1029
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: the worst team at this point in time in the

1030
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 1: PACTUAL and U c. L A is trending in the

1031
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: right direction. There three and five right now, and truth

1032
01:04:56,440 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: be told, there are three winds away away from a

1033
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 1: bowl game, which I believe is entirely possible. They have Colorado,

1034
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:14,120
Speaker 1: which is a winnable game. They're at Utah next next week,

1035
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: which I expect him to win that game. I'm joking. Um.

1036
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: Then they play at usc who they beat last year

1037
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 1: under the same circumstances, and cal who may not have

1038
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,880
Speaker 1: their quarterback back. There is a chance they could win

1039
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 1: three out of these last four games and make a

1040
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:34,959
Speaker 1: bowl game. And then Ralph, you will be looking, oh

1041
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: my god, if you see l A makes a bowl

1042
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: game after you said they were going one in eleven,

1043
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: Oh oh, this will be hilarious. Yeah. I mean, it

1044
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: feels like in the way the beginning of the season was,

1045
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, I called my shot and

1046
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: I hit a ball into the sun. But it just

1047
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:57,439
Speaker 1: was a long flyout like this is you know, it's

1048
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: it's definitely it's it's I've I've already be lost, and

1049
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: so everything on here is just icing on the cake. Um.

1050
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: I actually kind of like U c l A in

1051
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: this game. If they employ the same game plan they

1052
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: had against Arizona State, which is to just pound the

1053
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 1: rock with with Joshua Kelly, I think that that will

1054
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: work against Colorado. What's not going to happen is U

1055
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: c l A is not going to stop Stephen Montez

1056
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 1: because Colorado is not silly enough to have an offensive

1057
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: game plan that doesn't include attacking the safeties and corners

1058
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: over the top. Um, you know that, I don't. I

1059
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 1: don't really know what was going through Arizona States. Mind.

1060
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 1: You know when what U c l a's biggest weaknesses

1061
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: is their ability to uh to defend the pass uh

1062
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 1: in in in you know, man situations deep down the field. Um,

1063
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have to worry about that with Colorado.

1064
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 1: They love to air it out. And so I do

1065
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: see U c l A winning this game, but I

1066
01:06:57,920 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 1: think it'll be I think it'll be on the higher

1067
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: scoring side. You know, I'm thinking maybe like a like

1068
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: a thirty seven um u c l a win. Okay,

1069
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 1: see now you're coming with me. Now you're coming with me?

1070
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: Up you says favored by six and a half points

1071
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: in this game. The question, the biggest question is Dorrian

1072
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: Thompson Robinson's health. He went out at the end of

1073
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: last game with a knee injury, but they said he

1074
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: was gonna practice this week and is expected to play,

1075
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: so that gives them a much better chance. And Colorado

1076
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: is just they played better last week after getting just

1077
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:42,919
Speaker 1: just boat raced against Oregon and against Utah. Right, yeah,

1078
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,440
Speaker 1: and I mean they love they love playing Boulder, They

1079
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. I don't know, I can't remember if

1080
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 1: they played in Utah yet, but they they they they've

1081
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: they really have struggled to play on the road. They

1082
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 1: got killed by Washington State. I think it might be yeah,

1083
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: that's yeah, yeah, But they don't play Utah until the

1084
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 1: last game of the season, which will be a clubbing.

1085
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,800
Speaker 1: That will be a I can pick that game right now.

1086
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 1: That will be a drubbing. It doesn't even matter who's

1087
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:16,639
Speaker 1: playing quarterback for Utah. They look good and Boulder, Um,

1088
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 1: there are some games where they start slow. There are

1089
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: some games where they start fast. It's just a matter

1090
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: of that Colorado has yet to put a full game

1091
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 1: together from start to finish. You know they have talent,

1092
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,640
Speaker 1: You know that they can move the football, you know

1093
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 1: that they have exciting athletes. UM, but for some reason

1094
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: they can't execute for the full sixty minutes. And uh,

1095
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: you know that I think that that will continue to

1096
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: play them, especially playing on the road this weekend. Alright,

1097
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 1: the last game up this weekend is you know, a

1098
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 1: game that's near and dear to my my heart. And

1099
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 1: when you look at the ticket, I always keep meaning

1100
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: to break up the ticket prices because I always like

1101
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: to pay attention to them because when on UM on

1102
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: some of these ticket sites. So if you go to

1103
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: if you're on ESPN dot com and you click on

1104
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: their ticket things, right, so it shows you the lowest

1105
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: ticket prices. Lowest ticket price for Utah in Washington seventeen bucks,

1106
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:19,800
Speaker 1: Oregon State Arizona. My mind, you you're gonna be hanging

1107
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 1: out with God in these stadiums if you buy these tickets.

1108
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:28,640
Speaker 1: But fourteen bucks for Oregon State Arizona, U c l A,

1109
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: Colorado fifteen bucks and Oregon USC nineties seven dollar to

1110
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:38,600
Speaker 1: get in the door, dude. Wow. Um, and that's you

1111
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: used to gotta pay for parking in that neighborhood too. Oh,

1112
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 1: if you've never been to a game at the coliseum,

1113
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 1: bring Uber there. Do not do not park there, if

1114
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 1: at all possible. Parking is outrageous. It would actually be

1115
01:09:56,800 --> 01:10:00,160
Speaker 1: cheaper for you to park about five miles away from

1116
01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 1: the stadium for you know, in a parking structure for

1117
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, for like eight bucks, and then Uber back

1118
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,400
Speaker 1: and forth after the game because the closer that you

1119
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 1: are to the stadium, I have seen as much as

1120
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: because mind you, they raised the praise prices depending on

1121
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 1: the quality of the game. And this is a quality game.

1122
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 1: This is going to be and USC fans believe that

1123
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 1: they have a chance to win. You will see parking

1124
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:33,480
Speaker 1: that's right across the street for a hundred dollars American

1125
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: US dollars to park near the coliseum. And if they

1126
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 1: were playing like Utah, it would be fifty bucks, which

1127
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 1: is still outrageous. Yeah, are you gonna end up by

1128
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:51,719
Speaker 1: parked in Uh some dudes backyard who's got a Dodger's

1129
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: cap and a and a and a neck tattoo? Who

1130
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 1: charges you fifty Bucks too, you know, to to to

1131
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:00,840
Speaker 1: park your your car in his yard and find out

1132
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:07,440
Speaker 1: it's not even his yard. Yeah, it's a confusing situation

1133
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, totally. Um. Oregon's favored by four and

1134
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: a half points, which is probably a little bit closer

1135
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 1: line than I think it probably should be. But USC's

1136
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: receivers have been so damn dynamic that they seem like

1137
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: the one piece to the puzzle that could keep this

1138
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 1: game close. Yeah, it's a Thomas Graham game. Lord lots

1139
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: riding on Thomas Graham. I know that makes you nervous,

1140
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 1: But he's coming back home. Um and uh and and

1141
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 1: and hopefully he can hang because uh, you know, these

1142
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 1: are some of his old seven on seven buddies. Um.

1143
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: And they're the best of the best. And I you know,

1144
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: I I think that Lenora and Graham, this is the

1145
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: true test of whether or not this defense deserves to

1146
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: be in the conversation for a potential run at a

1147
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: national championship. You have to be able to handle this

1148
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:13,240
Speaker 1: this wide receiving unit. Um. You can't really ever count

1149
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 1: Slovis out of the game, so you've got to be

1150
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 1: working it on offense. You have to, Um, you have

1151
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 1: to be efficient on offense, and then you have to

1152
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:24,680
Speaker 1: realize that even if you're up two scores in the

1153
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, it doesn't necessarily matter with the way that

1154
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 1: that this USC offense runs. Um. But you know, I

1155
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: think that C. J. Vurdell is peaking at the exact

1156
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:41,880
Speaker 1: right time. I trust Oregon's offensive line against USC's defensive line.

1157
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 1: I don't think USC defensively has shown that they have

1158
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: the ability to slow elite teams down. UM. So I

1159
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: do I like Oregon. I like Oregon in this game.

1160
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 1: I think that it will be dangerous. I think it

1161
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: will be another you know, I think it'll be Oregans

1162
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:00,640
Speaker 1: like third nail bier in four weeks. Um. But I

1163
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 1: do like the Ducks to uh to get a win

1164
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 1: at the call Sea. Yeah, okay, so it could be

1165
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: a nail biter. I just don't think it ultimately will

1166
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:15,479
Speaker 1: be a nail biter. UM. I think Oregon that they

1167
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: get up probably seventeen in the third quarter, and then

1168
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:24,760
Speaker 1: Slovas tries to mount a rally. That's how I think

1169
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 1: this game goes. Because Herbert has not been turning the

1170
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 1: ball over knock on wood, He's um only one interception

1171
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: on the season and USC is having trouble running the football.

1172
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: They are in in the conference. Running the football, USC

1173
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: is eighth in the conference at a hundred forty six

1174
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 1: yards a game. Oregon's number two in the conference, only

1175
01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 1: allowing a tick over a hundred yards of game at

1176
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: a hundred and one yards per game rushing. So that

1177
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: means that you have to throw the football like that,

1178
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 1: that is the way is to throw the football. But

1179
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:09,599
Speaker 1: then Oregon's defense is only allowing two hud seven passing

1180
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: yards a game. And I think that they're gonna play

1181
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 1: defense much the same way that they're gonna take a

1182
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 1: lot of pages out of the b y U playbook,

1183
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 1: drop a lot of people and make Keaton Slovans try

1184
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: to because Oregon's pass rush is really good as well.

1185
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 1: I think they lead the conference in in sects. I

1186
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 1: believe actually they are. Yeah, they're number one in the

1187
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 1: conference in sacks with twenty three. This is a situation

1188
01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: to where that they can they can get home without

1189
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:47,879
Speaker 1: blitzing cover and double cover. Pittman and um and Vaughan's

1190
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 1: the big guys, give him some safety. Help keep you

1191
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:54,719
Speaker 1: USC a third and long, and this could be a

1192
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 1: a very good statement game for the Ducks on national television.

1193
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: I like them to cover the four and a half.

1194
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: I'm laying the four and a half points with them.

1195
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:06,840
Speaker 1: I think that I would take this line. I would

1196
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:08,639
Speaker 1: take the Ducks even if they were favored by seven

1197
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:11,799
Speaker 1: and a half points. I just want to see Johnny

1198
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 1: Johnson score touchdown and call see him. That's all I want.

1199
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 1: That that that that that would be a good That

1200
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: would be an early Christmas present for me. I love

1201
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:21,639
Speaker 1: that kid. I know the amount of work that he's

1202
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 1: put into to get where he's at. I feel like

1203
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: they're finally using him in a more appropriate manner to

1204
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 1: his skill set, and it would be pretty cool to

1205
01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 1: see him in in in l A staying in the end.

1206
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:37,599
Speaker 1: I hope he scores multiple touchdowns. And even bigger than that,

1207
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: I hope he catches all the balls they throw him,

1208
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 1: which is important. Even if he doesn't, just catch the

1209
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 1: balls they throw to you and I will be fine.

1210
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: I will give you a medal because I mean, imagine,

1211
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:56,639
Speaker 1: because Michael Pittman almost went to Oregon. Imagine if Justin

1212
01:15:56,680 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: Herbert one of his wide receivers it was was was

1213
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman. Wow? Wow? And also I think his brother,

1214
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 1: his brother, little little baby Pittman number four for Oregon.

1215
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 1: I think he shows out even though he's a true,

1216
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: true freshman. I think he does have a big game. So, Ralph,

1217
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 1: we have wrapped up. We tend the preview in the

1218
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 1: pack twelve apostles. So much to talk about. I can't

1219
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 1: wait to get to you know, to to see these

1220
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 1: scores and these tallies at the end of the at

1221
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 1: the end of the week. And wait, hold up, I

1222
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:35,599
Speaker 1: was unclear. Are you taking Oregon? Are you're taking USC

1223
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 1: I'm taking I'm I'm taking Oregon, and I feel I

1224
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about it. But I will say, I

1225
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 1: will say, if by some miracle, Keith and Slovis manages

1226
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 1: to win this one, I mean, are we gonna start

1227
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 1: talking about him the way we've been talking about Jade Daniels.

1228
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mmmm. That's very true. That would be a

1229
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,759
Speaker 1: good point, because what there's a scenario where he plays

1230
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:08,120
Speaker 1: well and still loses too. But either way, I don't

1231
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 1: think that I think that j T. Daniels ends up

1232
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 1: in the transfer port. I mean, yeah, I think that. Yeah.

1233
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: I know it's a good story that their roommates and

1234
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 1: everything like that, but I don't think I think that

1235
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: there are enough teams that need a quarterback that and

1236
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: and that j T. Daniels could possibly get the nextra

1237
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 1: year of eligibility with what happened to him, um this

1238
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:32,599
Speaker 1: year to to make up for for any transfer uh

1239
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 1: penalty of any kind and uh and who knows it

1240
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:38,519
Speaker 1: might be a Pack twelve team that ends up um

1241
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:40,719
Speaker 1: that that ends up you know, getting him to plug

1242
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: and plug and play. There's one particular there's one particular

1243
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:48,880
Speaker 1: Pack twelve team who is hurting at quarterback, even though

1244
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 1: J T. Daniels is not you know, Jacob Eesan or

1245
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: or Justin Herbert or even a key Keaton Slova's. At

1246
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: this point, there is one pack to team wattually to

1247
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:04,600
Speaker 1: really who could use his services. It will three that

1248
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:07,759
Speaker 1: would be happy to have. I think you've got cal

1249
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: who who if they get it is an instant upgrade

1250
01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 1: probably even though it's not the type of upgrade they

1251
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:17,599
Speaker 1: necessarily want. I mean, this is not Jared Gohmer Aaron Rodgers,

1252
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: but it's an upgrade. Oregon State because Ladon is gonna

1253
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: be on New Time's gonna be one. And you got

1254
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 1: Stephen Montez and Colorado who might enjoy that sort of

1255
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: sort of dealer as well. Yep. I mean if all

1256
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: else feels, you know, always take them at Wyoming. We

1257
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:40,960
Speaker 1: need we need people when we're both eligible. Though they

1258
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: play football in Wyoming, they do play Come on now

1259
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:46,840
Speaker 1: zo wait hold hold, are are you one of the

1260
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 1: people who was like um, who was part of Josh

1261
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:56,600
Speaker 1: Allen's family, who who like tweet me incessantly because I

1262
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: always talk about him on the radio as being a

1263
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 1: horrible quarterback and a running back playing quarterback for forard

1264
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: of the Bells, I said, you should make the Pro Bowl. Guy.

1265
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:11,599
Speaker 1: Josh Allen can stick up for himself. He's a big boy.

1266
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 1: He doesn't need me. Um. Shout out to Josh Allen

1267
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: for the seven thousand dollars he just had to fork

1268
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: over for throwing a football into the sun uh in

1269
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 1: the stands in Buffalo. He's doing just fine. I'm not

1270
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: worried about though. I don't. I don't go out of

1271
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: my way to defend them. If it works out, it

1272
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 1: works out, of it doesn't it doesn't. I just love

1273
01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: that anybody's even talking about a Wyoming quarterback because there's

1274
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: not a lot of not not a lot of love

1275
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 1: shown to learn. Yeah, well, well whatever, you are a

1276
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 1: Wyoming boy's heart, and I will be there this summer.

1277
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: So I think we're gonna go to yellow Stille. Oh beautiful, beautiful,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. Al Right, guys, peace out,

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Speaker 1: Get you guys on Monday. Don't forget to share the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Tell a friend about the podcast.