Breaking down all the exes at Oh, it's Steve Lavera and Jakin Salaz. This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay, and I'm hoping Jay has some breaking news. This is I on the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. You know, Steve, I probably shouldn't have even played that because I don't have much,
but we got some stuff to talk about. We can also take your calls because we're not going to be able to take calls pretty much the rest of right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, if you want to give us a call this segment, feel free to do that. Five two zero, four one six seventy four forty. Because we do have Greg Woods from the Spokesman Review and Spokane, he cars Washington State Football. He'll be joining
us as guests in the next segment. Then in the last segment, we got our five Friday Fab five Friday picks such as they are, So if you want to give us a call, now's the time five speak for yourself. Four one six All right, Well, obviously the big news was the Braves got beat last night. So now three three one hundred win teams in the regular season went down in flames in the playoffs with one win and nine losses combined, the Dodgers, the Orioles, and the Braves. The Braves
is historic because they were having a historic offensive season. Everybody was saying they may have been the best offense ever, ever, ever, ever. And you know, I didn't think that the Dodgers had any chance in hell of taking them out. And now the Braves are out here, We got we do have a color higher on the air and I on the ball. How's it going? I'm not you know what, I don't even want to talk
to you, Brian. You know, you were texting me and you'd even let me get out of the damn stadium, and you're and you're giving me crap about the game the other night, and I and I'm proud of it. You are proud of it. So what do you got, man? Well, I'm still I'm pretty worried about the game this weekend. My my biggest problem is the emotional toll last week's game took on the team rightly, so right, So I don't know, I don't know because I think they
feel pretty good about themselves after that game last year. I you know, I agree with you. I agree with you. I don't agree with Jay's assumption, but I agree with you. Okay, Well, hey, weren't you the one that said I was Somebody called me a moron? Last week? Was it you about my prediction for no? No, no, I got called I don't remember that. I don't remember that word. Somebody called me a name? Are you wife? Public? I don't know what to think of this game, right, I mean, what what do you think?
It's? This is a This is really difficult because I watched that U c l A. Washington State game last week and they did not impress me at all. What defense did? They just didn't look that good. And but it's hard, you know, it's really hard to tell. You know. I hope the U of A players look at it is. We should have won that game, but we didn't. You know, we have to get past that. But we know that we have six games ahead of it
that could really change the way this program's moving forward. Next six games. Yeah, I asked about the Washington State game because they had I think they had like three or four turnovers, right, and they played UCLA close despite those turnovers. I agree they didn't look impressive, but that was one game or a snapshot of the season. Had you watched Arizona play Stanford, you would have thought, what, yeah, the same thing exactly. We'll get
by fifty against Washington exact exactly exactly. So you know, one snapshot is not enough. But beat on the road up there is not going to be easy. I think the one thing, it's gone from twelve to seven and a half. It was eight yesterday. That's what we're using. So so, Brian, would you take the seven and a half? That's a tough
one exactly, that's really difficult. I don't think so exactly. Yeah, yeah, I mean my biggest problem is going on the road and we still don't know who the quarterback is going to be, and uh, I hope it's not DeLaura, only to the fact that whenever he seems to play this team, he has a difficult time. There's a lot of he's trying to
do. Maybe he's trying to do too much. That's where I think that's where Jed got is out where he doesn't have to play him and just kind of Jayden will going to rest to one more week, get you to buy, and then you two more weeks to get really healthy. Then you then you can play. But he has but he has a real problem though. If by chance Arizona wins his game, it's difficult for the fans to say, let's go back to DeLaura. Yeah. I don't know that guy though.
I don't think he cares about what the fans stake, which of course is probably not wise, but it is what it is. Well, they're the ones who buy the tickets. Well sometimes yea. Sometimes just because you buy a ticket doesn't make you a freaking coach. I know that's fun to play one though the radio. Yes, I hope you're doing it for the couch, like Justin says, all right, Brian, thanks much, man. I just had to call. I did to give you one day at
least. You know, I appreciate you letting a little buffer zone in there for a day. I do appreciate that, Brian. That tells me you're a good friend. Well, the good thing is he stopped worrying Dodger stuff. Yeah yeah, oh my Dodg you gear got put away yesterday. All right, man, Thanks about have a great weekend at least he was he was, He can be more and more like Steve, like what he didn't make well. I think Brian is a Cardinals fan. But his son Adam,
he's got a son Adam as well, is a Braves fan. So I haven't heard from Adam since Thursday, since night before last. All these good teams just went to went south. Yeah yeah, yeah, anyways, all right, okay, what else did I have just finished? I'm just following this up because we brought up a couple of times. Lexi Thompson almost made the cut, missed it by us. She was, she had a great ditch. She shot at sixty nine today to under part sixty nine,
so she she missed it by once. She would have been the first one since like like forty or fifty years to make a first female to make a cut in a man tournament. That's fantastic anyway. And again, if somebody, it's gonna take somebody like her because she's a big hitter, I mean a really big hitter on tour and to be able to keep up with the long, the long courses that the men play, it's gonna take somebody like her, you know, as opposed to you know, some sort of a
finesse player on the on the LPGA tour. But she just missed it by a stroke. That's too bad. All right, Uh, this isn't really breaking news. The athletic just put this out today as a stat there's a story about it. If I told you, well, we all know Bill Belichick's record, Yeah, without Tom Brady is not obviously the year as good as Tom Brady told you. He is one hundred. I'm trying to do this math here. He's like one hundred and fifty five games over five hundred
with Brady. Okay, what would you what would you think his record without Tom Brady is from a percentage standpoint without overall throughout his entire career. Yeah, probably, Yeah, that's close. He's eighty and ninety two eighty and yeah, because he had a long career before all this happened. Yeah, he had a career and it wasn't very good. It wasn't very good. Right, That's why in fact her that in he lucked into Tom Brady. And now that people think he's the greatest coach that ever lived. No,
I think I think there's a reason for that. Yeah, and he's just his teams are just bad that this team is really bad right now. Yeah, I don't know what they what they saw on in uh in mac Jones when they went he got it. But he's just not the guy. It's so it's so strange how there's a lot of not the guy called the Giants don't have one. Yeah, I mean, he's terrible day. He's making forty million dollars this year. There's a lot of those guys who are just
on the team and they're not any good. You know, what's his name, y Oklahoma kid, Yoklahoma dude. Oh yeah, yeah, Tampa Bay. Yeah, the one nobody likes. Mayfield, Yeah, Baker Mayfield. You know, just a guy. Got some rookies out there, you know, even even Trevor Lawrence. He's been decent, but he's not been great. He's not been number one draft pick. Great. Yeah, right, a generational, generational guy. All right. Going back to baseball, Uh,
the playoffs resume starting Sunday. You've got Texas and Houston and the Alcs gotta hate Houston and it's an all Texas event obviously. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna text, well, he knows this, Francisco knows you hate him. Just let him him the only the only you know, one of the top two seeds in the in the in the league that made the made the al c s. And then on on Monday, the the other series starts. You left Texas and Houston earlier in the day, and then at five
o'clock our time, the Diamondbacks are at the Phillies. I'll tell you what it is loud if you signed you any of the I watched a bunch of it. I watched almost all of it last night. It is loud Philly. Yeah. Yeah, it's a crazy place. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what what's this what's his name? Harper saying this is just a fantastic environment. Yeah, it's it's a great environment. So anyways, so I really I don't have any other breaking news,
you know, Okay, I said, seen a couple of things. You talked about. The golfer obviously, Lexi Thompson, Well, sure you're gonna play or not. He's ready. He's ready, he said, he's ready to go. I thought he was out for the playoffs. Uh. In fact, Chris Chris here with ninety two point nine was gonna bet me he was gonna pitch, and I'm thinking, there's no way I thought he was out for this whole playoff. Who knows. I guess they need him.
They need him. But if he goes against Verlander in Game one or whatever it is, it's gonna be tough because Verdlander's already beating him once. Okay, did you see that? Did you see the end of that? Uh? Houston w Virginia. I'm trying to look for you. You haven't seen the club. I haven't seen the clip. No, well, they score touchdown West VIDI scords go ahead touchdown. Yeah late, you know, with
you know, twenty seconds left or something like that. Yeah, they they get a celebration penalty, so they have to kick off fifteen yards short from what they do that gives that gives Houston a chance to they throw like a ten yard pass to get within striking distance of the end. So and then they throw a hail Mary and get it and win the game. Yeah, not only win the game, flip the spread, uh, you know, flipped all over. I immediately got a text message from from my brother who
was trying to finish like a five leg parlay with that one. And no, there's been a lot of really big, very unhappy. He was very very unhappy. Takes them personal. Okay, you know it. So it's a lot of those this year. There's somebody against him. No, that's my other brother Gen never mind, that's not Rick. But but I I can't again, like you said, a horrible, horrible beat last night in
that in that game. Interesting games tonight, you got you got. As we said, Colorado is giving eleven to Stanford, but they're at home. So that's uh, you know, that's something that should be interesting. You know, in our group, there's a lot of people, most people taking Colorado. I saw Colorado was the most bet on the spread and the money line on one of the betting websites. Colorado did sound like a seven to eight point game in it it's eleven point spread, eleven points. I don't
trust. I don't trust them like they trust them before. Yeah, well maybe they get an energy with Hunter Buck. Yeah, so I don't know, you know, yeah, I mean it's a it's god be interesting to see what happens there and if they keep the module, you know, the spotlight's kind of come off of them a little bit. Are they fired up for going to Stanford? Some of these guys. You know, you go
to stan with Stanford coming to town. Stanford's kind of, I don't know, kind of an unexciting team, right, they don't do it very much, so anything spectacular very much. So they nearly beat Arizona, so they you know, they they're good enough. So we'll see what happens with that eleven point seems like a lot, I don't know. Yeah, okay, that's there's one more thought. Oh did you see that? Who's that? Uh? Kittle had that T shirt about Dallas. You gotta find the Dallas
that just to be a pro. So they find him. They find him for doing that. They think he came out on TV. At least they got a lot of video. But how much you think they find him? Five thirteen thousand dollars? It's like ten bucks to you. And that's that's in the change bucket. Yeah right, right right, and it's for just kinda hate. Could you match that? Could you reach back there? I got a egoing change and change we'll drop it in the can as we go by the NFL. Right, got so okay, say you're not right,
We're going to the CDO. Uh yeah, the CDO. Mike A Mountain game tonight. Fun, looking forward to getting the getting myself some nachos, get a little sideline. Welcome to the northwest Side, son. I know they're going to be north of Broadway Klopaniels, aren't they. Well, they don't say that. I don't say that. You might surprise you. You might surprise you. Just stup in my neck of the woods. It's all I get it. The safeway that I go to. Halipaniews are so weak
over Okay, up takeularly give them some special hall ofpenions. Cdo. Although I will say there's one of those current seti as you know, one of those it's got you know, and they go south of twenty second Street to get their stuff. Okay, Okay, they're they're halapaniels, They're they're green Chili's why they they put a hole in you. I'm gonna see if your response to this, because he would know, tell Jada relax, They'll be
fun. All right. Let's let's take our second break. Greg Woods yeh from the The Spokesman Review and it spoke, we'll be here to talk to us a little bit about what he thinks. What he thinks. We're going to see from in this game tomorrow, I predict that he's going to predict a Washington State win. No, I don't disagree with you. I don't disagree with you. Another one of those young guys, very young guy. You guys, good head of hair, though, a good head of hair,
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Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball here for Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Jenkins Alas down on the phone. We have Greg Woods from the Spokane Review Journal out in Spokane. How are you doing? Rig Hey and dude good? How are you guys doing great? Great? Great to hear from you talk about this weekend's big game. We talked about it down here. It's kind of lost a little luster, at least in our minds. We could be wrong, given that
they just came coming off the USC win. They'll have a bye next week, you will see one. I'm yeah, you know what I'm talking about. And now what's the vibe up there? Well, I mean they are coming off their first loss. I guess you see it lay last weekend, so a little bit you know, of a different vibe. Just trying to get the pass rust going because that was you know, a big reason why they lost last week, and trying to get their run game going, which
is never really found the rhythm yet. So yeah, you know, serious aren't there, you know, quite as high as they were, you know what, the first four, but they still still pretty confident that age. Where where do you put Washington State in the pack? You know, we sort of uh, you know, the sort of this thing. You know, it's Washington, Washington, USC, Oregon, initially Utah, but they've you know, they've lost the game. U c l A not really up
in that echelon. Where do you put Washington State, you know, in the league is among the rest of those teams. Yeah, I think I think you said the best kind of after those first three kind of in that fourth a lot. I think I think that's uh pretty safe to say. I mean those three are you know, doing those things and and I I mean for me, it's hard to see uh the twobes eclipsing them or kind
of finding ways to beat them. So I think they're pretty comfortably in that four spot, which is no, you know, is nothing to see that because those those first three teams are you doing their thing and they all gossips. So yeah, I kind of that fourth pot, fourth pot you spite UCLA loss and Utah is still out there or do you think there's a group
of them in that spot. Well, I mean, like for me, like the u c l A loss for for WS is a little bit of an outlier because u c l A has this like crazy crazy pass for us and that really got to wash your face off with the vine. And I don't think any of these other teams that you mentioned at the top have a pass for us like that that could really disru up you know, Cameraward game.
So I think as long as you know they can keep you know camera Ward upright, and there's not another team like U C. L A that can do that. I think I think they're pretty safe in that spot for sure. Well that's saying a lot. So yeah, you mentioned the Running game. You did it. That was part of your story that you did this week that they've had some issues with the Running game. What what are the issues do you think? Well, I think part of the issue is
just baked into their identity. Like I'm trying to feel a comparison, like these guys are just so like they have the offensive linements to facilitate their offense, which has always been an air raid offense, and so there the offensive line, and they have are their pass block and they do a pretty good job of that. So part of it is just like you know, the first numb themselves are not built to be awesome run blockers, which is usually
fine because they have an awesome pass uh you know, passing attack. But I think part of it is just kind of part of who these guys are, which again it's not always a bad thing, but that's an issue. I think, like you know, the running backs themselves, the Key Watson Stale Jenkins of I don't know, I just think like Watson hasn't been able to kind of you know, get a step on guys looks at tased low
maybe, and then Jake is kind of more of a scatbacks. He hasn't had as many opportunities, but he also isis I don't think he had any carrious against UCLA, so a lot less opportunities for him. And then yeah, Watson has not top of it. So it's it's kind of, you know, if you different factors for sure, So you're telling them about Ward. He was thought up to be one of the top quarterbacks in this group
there's about five six of them, including Jayden Dolaura. He had been living up to that expectation outside of last week when he was getting rushed a lot. What is his outlook moving forward? Yeah, I think it all kind of depends on whether or not he can stay up right. Because the first I mean four games of the season, he was he is he and he
looked off. I mean against August State, I think he had, like you know, before the yards of the year completely like I think his first nineteen passes of the game, and so for them it's always just about kind of keeping him clean and it's also for him, it's also about kind of not trying to do too much. It's like you said, he is, you know, he's been awesome. He also has this kind of like two DDI, you know, ability to escape pressure and you know and kind of
stay on his speed. But that's also kind of come back to buy him where he's holding onto the ball too long and you know, not making great decisions like last week. And so I think like for him, as long as he you know, one has time to throw, he's you know, I think he's been great. And then as long as he's not overthinking it and kind of just getting his bought of his guys, he can just be awesome. You up for the long run for sure? Sound like somebody we
know, Jans talking about Jayden you are dog. I thought you were talking about Jade de Laura there for a second. Let me ask you that because you know that's one of the storylines down here, you know, Jade and De Laura going back to Washington State. Is he going to play? Is he not going to play? All that kind of stuff? Is there any attention to that over there? They're good? Does anybody up there care that Jade Delawa is coming back to Washington State. I mean he was really only
there, he only played for a year. Yeah, I think some people might care. I think the players, the coach here kind of moved on because they already played him one last year and Tuson and they they picked them off four times in that one and uh, you know, you know, won that game. So I think like the coach, the players, it's more of a hey, you know, he kind of moved on, and whole matchup is just kind of like, uh, it's kind of like last year, you know, like they played with consent that has a big come
going for Dicker, and then they played this year. It's like, Okay, it's cool, but it's not really the same played to one. So I think it's like kind of the same deals here with Jane Dolaura, where it's one, I mean they don't nobody's gonna play and and two they already played it one, so it doesn't really have the same kind of kind of lost into that match up for sure. And he may not even play, yeah, and he might not even play. So what's what's the impression of
Arizona up there? You know, they they I mean, they had they had USC on the ropes last week. They played a really good game against Washington the week before, but they were both losses. You know, what's you know, is there still a feeling that these guys aren't that good? There's still what's the feeling about them? What? What are fans expecting to see? I think for w SU, it's definitely I don't know if a cyber release is the right phrase, but coming off with U C l A,
it's definitely a little bit of an easier match. But I think is the way they see it because you know, like you talked about, you know, with UCLA pass us and their defense, which I mean I turned into one of the best in the country that you know, they the hard
time with that. So I think getting an I don't know easy is the right word, but a worse defense, and you know, and in Arizona is gonna kind of give them a little bit of respite and that in that way, and I think they look at it as a kind of a chance to you know, get the running game going, which you know, like I said, is not trying to rhythm yet. And I think I think they look at it as a chance to kind of get a warded back on
track. After throwing these two picks last here. So I mean they're definitely overlooking them. But when you back them up because a defense like U. C. L A. I think they look at it as I mean, anyway, tell you this. You know they you know, they're taking it all seriously for sure, but I think like at least on the outside, it's more of a hey, you know this this is a like said, not an easier game maybe, but you know, a chance going to get
offense back on drag? Right? Is any of the stuff that's happened with you know, realignment and stuff like that. Does that having any kind of an impact on how these guys are going out, you know on the field, chip on their shoulder, anything like that maybe or was that maybe early in the season much anymore? I mean, how's how is that? Has
that had any impact on how they're doing on the field. I don't know, like on like a play by play basis that has any impact because I think they would play as hard whether or not they were, you know,
included in this re alignment or not. Right, But I think that like against Cycle, when they play you done the Seattle, that'll be a big one in that way, And obviously when you play the Apple Cups rivalry, but because they had such a huge hand and you know, Damon Orgon getting out to the Big Ten, I think those two games, I think they might have a lot bit more juice forts because at the last second, those two guys, you know, pulled out a deal and headed to the Big
ten. So I think, I like with Arizona, there's not really that as much going on, but I think later season it might come up a little bit more. For sure. What's the weather look like that? It's beautiful? I mean right now my mouthside talking to you guys and not like a coffee shop, and it's like mid sixties right now, I think, And yeah, it's good, it's great. So that kind of fits in and that helps Arizona. Yeah, because these guys down here talking about the
weather, they always go in November and it's freezing. Well, now here's not another excuse. So here you go. I guess I have to see. Yeah, so I saw from your from your your feed that you took over this beat in the summer. How much of the realignment stuff did you have to do? Was a total chaos for you? How did you? How did you how did you make your way through that and how much of that did you you know, were you in the middle of Yeah, well,
definitely a crazy time to start covering a team like that. I definitely did not to be crazy at least it this way I first took the job.
But yeah, like right away that was a lot of what I was riding A boy was hey, you know Colorado as the left and you know, later on like you know, Oregon and washing last, and so it was like, hey, like where do these guys fit and all of this and how they feel about it. I remember like the morning of when the news are watching an organ relieving with acting now, that was right in the middle of their practice, and so like right as our news came now you
know, they were doing their things, practicing, and of course, I mean they had no idea, you know, they couldn't have done anything different, but it was just kind of surreal to like watch them the practice while
the conference is like, you know, you know apart. So, yeah, it's been a lot of writing about that, but I can't complain any know, we get paid to write and you know, talk about sports, so it's a good well you do have I think it's not correct in saying this, the president speak is pretty open with so you've been at least getting some good quotes from good people. See what's sorry. The president of the university has been outspoken about what's going on, very outspoken and and helps your
job, helps with your job. Yeah, I mean him, Him and the ad Pat Shung have not their feelings at all. They have been very forward and like, hey, you know this is not right. You know, we in Oregon, they are sticking together and uh, you know, we're gonna, you know, find a way through this. And so yeah, I mean, I like a few weeks ago, I got ten on the phone and the uh you know, and and any of his you know, in public comments. He has not been side can to speak his mind.
So now it's like, hey, you know, we're getting good stuff. So they're just doing they're thing, trying to figure out what next, and who knows. We talked about this so briefly yesterday that maybe at the end of the day, whichever day that is, Oregon and Oregon State and Washington State could end up where everybody ended up in the Big twelve. They're they're trying hard to make there to manifest that reality. For sure, there's
you know, a million rumors on social media that that's gonna happen. But I think we got away from this host who can kind of play out to see how that well go for sure? Okay, all right, Greg, well appreciate it. Okay, you got to call the game for us. What do you think? Uh? I think it was. I think as long as their offense can uh you know, you know, do their thing. It's county hard. I saw them down. Do I do I give you a score? Do I have to say? Yeah? Score? How
many I think it'll be? I don't know. Let's just throw out a number. Let's say let's say it was you like, I don't know, twenty seven seventeen. How about that? Okay, No, that's cool. All right, thank you very much. Thanks again, appreciate it's fun talking to you and hopefully we'll do it again. Yeah, Son, Trey, thank you, guys, thank you so much. So we have we have
a minute or two. Jay, so so you that was not a surprise, him saying that Justin's evaluation was not a surprise because he covers it. Try you know what you know, you don't know what you don't know, and they don't know much about the other team. I bring up Fau every year, no, every moment now because you didn't know, we didn't know, we didn't see him. Uh So not a shock that each guy who
covers the team picked their own team. Here's the thing, though, it tells me that what he said tells me that they really do because of its reputation, Because Arizona's reputation, they have no idea of the defense exactly. And that's the thing that's struck. And I think because I think even though they saw USC and Caleb Williams last week, this this offense at Washington State has is pretty dark good. I just don't think that Arizona knows how pretty
good it is. But you stuffed him. They did, stuffed them with the rush. Can it happen again with you UA's defense. That's that's the key in it to me, That's that's the thing. Can Arizona's defense continue to play well enough to keep a Washington's defense offense off the field. So all right, we're going to be right back. We got the fab five Friday pick coming up, so we hope you'll stick around and see the ridiculousness of all of that. So we'll be right back. If you're an Arizona
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here, but real quick. In the Oregon Washington game, our future game, I've got Washington minus the three. I thought you were gonna go that way. I'm going to Oregon plus or plus the three three is even three three three, it's three on then all right, man, we'll post our picks tonight, so take a look at those and don't bet on mine. We'll see you on Monday.