August 12, 2024 • 48 mins
Bobby and the guys flew to L.A. this past weekend to film an episode of Too Much Access with the Chargers, and Bobby couldn't believe who he happened to run into while touring the facility! Plus, Washington head football coach, Jedd Fisch, joins Bobby to talk about getting acclimated to dealing with cross-country travel, what makes him still nervous, and what Bill Belichick is really like.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This podcast called twenty five whist stuck in punt ball
and they were a whist So, yeah, it's too bad,
But what did you expect? It's a podcast called twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Five Whistles twenty wine. Welcome, I blew the whistle. But
guess who was here? Eddie just got here. Hey, I'm back.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hold on, I got back. Where it is?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Back?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What's up everybody? We got a lot to talk about.
So we go, and Eddie's you went with us.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
So we flew to Los Angeles and I flew over
and you missed rich Eisen by the way.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's the first thing I asked you when we talked
on the phone. I'm like, did I have miss Richards?
And yep, he was.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
He was awesome, wasn't Was it so cool?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
He just showed up an uber.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Did you play pickleball with him?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, because he came into town.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
He had done the Hall of Fame the night before,
and he was doing the show from our house and
then he was right back on a flight and he
was dressed in like slacks and stuff. So we didn't
play any pickleball. But then I he got to the
airport and his flight was canceled.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh no, I know. So then he said come back,
let's play pickleball.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I didn't know it was canceled till the next day,
So yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He's really cool, right awesome. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm
sorry missed that.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
So we went back out to LA and I was
going to speak at a like a radio conference out
there in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But we flew to Los Angeles and Rich was like, hey,
come do my show.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Because I've hosted a show, I've never done his show.
And mostly I feel like that's like going, hey, we
should get dinner sometime, right, but not do it. You'll
ever put specifics on it. And so was flying to
LA and he goes, oh, you guys are going to
the Chargers. He was like, we're right by the complex.
Let's like come by. So I feel I don't feel bad,
(01:53):
but I feel like a burden because I don't feel
like he really means it. Now full disclosure trans parency.
Rich and I have the same agent, So Jerry is
Rich's agent, Jerry is my agent. And Jerry is like,
he wouldn't invite you unless he wanted you to come
on the show. And I'm like, okay, so we land
and we're already in a pretty tight window, and.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We flew southwest or we fly delta. What do we fly.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Delta?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
We fight Delta to the southwest back And that was
a whole disaster, not southwest fault, because we had get
a flight so late. Dude, I was in c in
the middle, in the back. It was like a four
and a half hour misery fat. So we're getting there
and there's four of us because you're not there obviously
(02:41):
you're dealing with your personal stuff. So it's me, Kevin, Mike,
Dee and Reed and we're going to do this whole thing.
And so I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Miss Rich and we're already like flirting with the last
hour of the show.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So I say, okay, Mike and I are breaking off
and we're gonna go grab an uber Re and Kevin
are gonna go get the rental car and we'll all
just meet over there. We run, we hop an new
ober Boom. I don't normally take anything to fly. I
took a Xanax to fly and sleep as well the
(03:14):
night before and I was like, man, I have a
big day. I need to sleep on the plane. The
thing about not taking Xanax and then you finally take it,
it doesn't wear off. No, no, And so I take
this and I'm just like, I fall asleep on the
plane for a little bit, but I have like an
umbrella of confusion just on top of my head. And
I'm going into richest studio. I'm like, oh, so there's
(03:35):
no green there's no green room or guestro. And they're like, oh,
because we're running so tight, they're like just going going
to the studio hopping the chair like Riches's in the
middle of a segment.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And I and as soon as I sit down, I'm like, hey, man,
I'm on Xanax. I said on the microphone, just because
I knew wasn't gonna be completely right, or if it wasn't,
I need And so they make some jokes like the
first person ever openly admit he's on Xanax. So oh,
I did that segment like a half of a segment.
I stay for a whole other segment. I think in
(04:04):
the end, it ended up being a pretty good appearance.
All the guys got to come in and good to
see all the guys again.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And so we do that and Rich is awesome and
so leave then where do we go to the NFL?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
No, to radio.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Oh, then we go to the radio show because we
have some radio step to record and countdown step to record.
Then in LA sucks balls because dude, it's just like
it's an hour to go twelve minutes. Yeah, yeah, like
at twelve minutes here is an hour there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's why Kobe had a helicopter.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Oh oh.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well he was also like out out of LA.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
But I mean we were a buy where is caught
through your crash?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh, but he would like travel in. So we go
and it takes us an hour to get over to work.
We work, go back to the NFL. In the NFL,
which had nothing to do with the Chargers, they're like, hey,
come tour the media office. NFL was trying without jeopardizing
anything or saying too much. And if I was trying
(05:06):
to hire me for something, yeah, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay, so we go.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't even really know what it is. All I
tell the guys is we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look. Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
He doesn't tell us anything because.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I didn't really know. I didn't really know that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
But when we got so this is the NFL offices, Yes,
it's yes, it's where they shoot everything. It's where they
do Sunday ticket, It's where they zone good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Now, so that's where they do all that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Okay, it's all their all their meat, the studio after studio,
and they're slowly going like and you can use this
anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And I'm like, you guys trying to get me take
a job.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Like I knew there had been some discussions about me
doing some stuff with the NFL, But didn't you feel
like it was like, oh yeah, they were like super
warm and like so lovely, like trying to convince me
to take a job with the NFL.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I didn't know there was a job.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Yeah, he could have done whatever he wanted in that building.
That would have been okay.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They were so nice and what the I same.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I remember talk to like whist Berny Kevin, like I
think they like want to hire on me right now,
I don't even know what for. So we go through
the NFL opposite it's and it's really cool, right, like
oh my god. And they would be like, ah, this
room it's not fully developed yet, dude. It's like the
greatest media technical face.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's like compared to our room, they're like, we're sorry.
This is our is like a garbage can compared to
what they have.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So we do that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We leave there.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
We go over to the chargers and the you know,
it's camp and it was practicing, and so we're getting
toward around the facilities and their facilities aren't really near
the stadium. They're twenty minutes away, but you know, they're normal.
Every day is not at the stadium. Yeah, So they
have these cool things in the lockers where they put
(06:48):
up the starred recruits that they were. Some of them
are not rated, some of them are two stars and
they were five stars. But it's like you're all here,
you're all the same now, and look, you all came
from different place. It was pretty cool because we walked
to the locker room. Now we're walking through the locker
room and Mike goes, don't say who it is, guys,
Mike goes.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Is that so just randomly? Because is that so and so?
And I'm like, what the crap? And so I go
over and I kind of annoyed.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I probably annoyed the charge parts because I spent the
next twenty minutes talking to whomever that might be randomly saw.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Do you know who we saw in the hallway.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No, was it a charger?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No muss, what's just hanging out?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
He was, I mean he lives there now, so he's
head coach USC basketball. Yeah, Eric Musselman, head basketball coach.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I was like, must he's like Bobby.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So we just talked.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
We talked like twenty minutes, just like catching up. That's
just saw him in the complex and so he was
just out watching practice too. Did the stuff there. Drove
down to Sandy. I went to PF Changs again tradition,
we always got.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Drove down to what's up. We just walked in.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Oh, man, I love PF Chain's. Man, it destroyed my stomach,
but I love that place.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, why why did it destroy?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Did you have?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That was like?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It was the spicy uh orange? The orange shaken?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Remember it was.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It was way spicier than normal.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's normally not spicy.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
No.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Even then, I was like, whoa southern California version?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Son of a gun.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
So we went down and did the deal, flew home
and then so we're we had to change our flights.
So I think somebody got drafted with Minnesota. They had
like their feu like a.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yeah, the corner that passed away. They had his service
on that Friday, so.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We were like, let's not go.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
We were going to go from California there, so we
switched our flights last minute to come home. Problem switching
your flight last minute, dude, I was like C ninety
one the last. So not only that, we're already running
a little tight because our flight was at like six
thirty out, so we had to be there like five thirty.
(08:55):
So Kevin's got to drop the rental car off. He
lets us off, like good dad does. That's nice, but
he didn't realize it was twenty minutes away. Yeah, the
rental car play at.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Least ten off site. Yeah, ten fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Of LA one Yeah. Oh San Diego, San Diego. No,
I've never been there, Okay, so anyway, I gotta fly.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I I'm and I sat next to this dude who
had to be six or four calves like big read.
He read us in the middle reads a month reads
A big kid, A big kid, he's just like big
flew home. I was exhausted, but that was what you missed.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh man, sounds like I didn't miss much.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
On opposite, it was crazy to seeing must there. Yeah,
So what did you guys talk about? I just caught
up what we did talk about. There was a lot
of stuff I can't talk about here, No, I know,
but not bad stuff, but just like uh you know,
program stuff for.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Sure, sure, recruiting. Yeah, you talk about what he left
behind a little bit.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
No, because he didn't leave anything behind. Everybody left situations
and what the you.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Know what it is now?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I got you, I got you.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, I know everything is. It was awesome. We had
a great a little run there.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
We'll be talking to Jed Fish, the head football coach
University of Washington just a few minutes, which would be
super cool. The Olympics were a plus. I mean, we
almost lost to Serbia. We haven't been on since then.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Basketball.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, we were down two. They had the ball forty
seconds left. Had they made that three, it's a whole
new ball game, or it's a bad ball game for us.
But they weren't like over ten in the second half
shooting threes.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Basketball is cool in the Olympics because it didn't matter
what team they're playing, like most of them playing in
the NBA anyway. But then you look at the French team, right,
and they got some ballers on there and they play.
They don't play NBA. They don't play in D League.
Like they're awesome, but they don't. They're not even good
enough to play in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I would say that most aren't, like the Serbian guys.
I think they had two NBA players Mgdonovic.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, I think that was it.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But again, some of those guys would rather not play
in G League. Theyoul play, they'd rather play for their
the big European leagues. Well, no, European leagues are bigger,
they can make more money, like the French guy that
dunked on Lebron, but leb was trying to take a
charge to be fair.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Yeah, and I go big and six eight, yeah, but
thick big.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But he was drafted first overall by Boston.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yeah, he played for the Celtics and like he had
a couple of.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Runs where you know they'd come back, NBA would come back,
and they were even talking about I think he plays
for like man U Basketball or something, and he was like,
I'm not going back unless I have like a guaranteed
deal because I make a good living doing so those
European guys, they definitely get to the G League and
play the same four people over and over again and
maybe make no money, yeah, or like play European basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And like you're a god there.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But I watched Canada. It's like, oh wow, Like I
didn't know a lot of NBA guys like Canada, Canadian,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I only did like from the last three months, same
show when they were like getting the Canadian team ready
and it was like, Shay gilligis Alexander could he just not?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Does he have a house in Toronto?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And he didn't make that right.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
But the the France game was awesome, Yeah, and it
got awesome at the end, and I fully, excuse me,
Lebron should have been the MVP of the whole series.
I mean even the Serbia game, Lebron at triple double,
just killing me. Steph closed those games, dude, Like Lebron
(12:22):
was the MVP of the series. Lebron played point guard
or point forward. It was he had the keys to
that car the whole time, and purposefully you knew it
was Lebron series that the first part of the French game,
Steph missed like to like three three pointers and I
was like, oh god, because you just wanted Steph to shine.
This is going to be his only Olympics. And he
(12:44):
did against Serbia. He had a pretty rough go of
it early. Uh, and he definitely did against France. That
that four to three from his hip. Oh my even
my wife point, oh my god. Yeah, he was double
team like he threw it to Durant. Durant was double team.
Do it back to Steph, double teamed while Durant Lebron
were open. Again, Steph just said effort. And the rare
(13:06):
thing with that three was it could hit the rim.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Then went in a rattler. Dude, it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I don't think they covered, but I didn't. I don't
bet uh.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I think there there was air spread fifteen fourteen or fifteen, yeah,
something like that. They did not cover. I think the
eleven was what it ended at.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The basketball was awesome, Yeah, it was cool. I didn't
watch one second in women's basketball.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It is early.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
If Caitlin Clark would have played. How to watch every game,
that's true. I don't watch every game. And they almost
lost at the end.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Did you see how Yeah? No, the buzzer beater that
didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Nope.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
So they played France too, and France. One of their
players had a buzzer beater that they hit but their toe,
their foot was over the line.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
It was pretty clear it wasn't Brooklyn. It wasn't that close.
But it was still on the line and they lost
by one that would have tied it to go no too.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, and our women, they're so far ahead of where
international women's basketball as it shouldn't have even been an issue. Yeah,
where men, You're starting to see a lot of the
NBA guys. It was fun to watch Jokich. They lost, obviously,
but they played in the bronze medal game and they
won it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To watch how happy they were. He was happier with
his teammates that they won.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
The bronze than he was when he won the title
with Denver.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, Like he was like top of the world. It
was awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's people.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I was so happy for him. Yeah, and then he
was at the horse race drinking a beer like with
a white beater shirt on.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
But yeah, that's what's up. The Olympics were awesome. Running
into Musk was super fun. We had some football to
talk about. We'll talk to Jed Fish coming up. Just
a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But why don't we take a break, Mike good on
that break, we'll come right back, Eddied. You watch any
of your Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, our first game, Yeah, we're own one. Yeah. Stet's
and Bennett Stet's and Bennett did play the whole game
and then and they had three PI too. We picked
him off three times, but he won.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
You know, yeah, seas season it's going four, We're going like,
I know, do you what do you think is happening
with Zeke though?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Dude? Like with Zeke?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, like what's gonna have? What's what's his what's his
load going to be?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think he's going to be the main load.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Is he going to be the guy? Is he getting
twenty five carries a game?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah? I think he's going to be the main dude.
I mean, I don't think we have anyone as good
as Zeke. I think Royce Freeman he was good for
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
But I don't even think Zeke is thirty is what's crazy? Yeah,
I think he might be twenty nine years. Zeke's forty
five in my mind, and.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I could be wrong. I might be wrong. Twenty nine
that is crazy to me.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
That's the lifespan of a running back, though, It's like
they they played three solid years and then they're kind
of like, oh do we keep them? Are they still good?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
I don't know, I hear you, but it's always you know,
when they turn thirty, that's when the big down.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He's not even thirty yet. And my final thought of
Zeke is that when he's playing center, I know in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
That was the last time he played with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, so what theys in the rams? It really was
nothing to see.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Nah No, a lot of like rookies, a lot of
you know, the third stringers, just to see what they
can do.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Other rookie preseason debuts. Caleb Williams is a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'll say it, how do you do? I didn't see it?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Four seven ninety five yards thirteen yard run on twenty
snaps versus the Bills.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
He looked really good.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, Caleb Williams has got a big butt.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Like that's what That's what you saw out of his performance.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I like a thick quarterback.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Because Jaden Daniels does not have a thick butt.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It's like my pictures. If I'm gonna invest a bunch
of money in a pitcher. I want a thick butt, huh,
because they're gonna have that's where the powers coming from.
And these quarterbacks and Jaden Daniels runs, he's so thin.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
He's okay.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Kevin durantztin but he didn't have to. He doesn't have
Bosa coming.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Out of him.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So you like Jalen Hurts, Yeah, big butt, Jalen Hurts strong,
Russell Wilson big butt.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Uh, Sure, but he had his time.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean Kyler Murray's but yeah, Kyler.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Murray is thick.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Kyler Murray is small and everyone's like, oh, we were
Kyle Murray.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But he's thick, like for.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
A little guy. Jayden Daniels went two for three, forty
five yards.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
He threw a big one. He threw like a forty
two yard bomb versus the Jets. None of this stuff matters,
but it is kind of cool to see him for
the first time because Kayleb Williams did not play in
the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Whenever they played that.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Game, Drake May two for three, nineteen yards, they just
he just played one series versus the Panthers. Michael Pennix
Junior nine for sixteen and one hundred and four yards.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Who looked Bennix looked pretty good.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yeah, he was slinging it and.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
No chance he overtakes Kirk Cousins unless Cousins gets hurt.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But he looks really good.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah JJ McCarthy through a bad interception, but eleven for seventeen,
one hundred and eighty eight yards, two touchdowns, and then
bow Nick looked freaking awesome. But a lot of short
precisions stuff like make quick decisions, which is what he
did at Oregon.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It absolutely is, and it's probably what but.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
That's what that offense does, even when Drew Brees ran
that offense, right, Yeah, like that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Short precise occasionally.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I mean, Breeze wasn't known as having a cannon, No,
not at all. Yeah, Bone's look really good. But none
of this stuff matters.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
What's crazy is Zach Wilson coming in third stream.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
From what I've heard from my sources, and I don't
have a lot of sources, but like I have like
two sources period, and they're like, Zach Wilson's nothing, He's nothing.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Or something.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
They're like, he's nothing and he's done, I know which
early on it was like is Zach Wilson even gonna start.
Is he going to be the starter?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
How many preseason games do we have? Three? Three?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
It used to be four, four, and then it's gonna
go to two.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What do you think about the kickoff? Are you watching?
It's pretty interesting? Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It feels too clunky. Still I like it because I
think two things. I like Jonathan Taylor wearing the skull cap.
I like it like, let's do safe things. Yeah, make
sure our players hit thirty they're not full of CTE
and making bad life decisions later on because the brains
are all messed up.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Hard to see what team he's on though, with that thing.
But it's all right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
It's even bigger. It's exactly like the helmet, just bigger, bigger.
It's like if you go to a carnival and they.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Draw a character of you. It's like that.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
So I liked it, and I hope more players wear them.
Same thing with the kickoff. It still feels a bit clunky,
but I do understand that this is for the greater good.
It's to keep guys from running forty yards full speed.
Slamming into each other. Right, So whatever is going to
keep the sport.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's like when quarterbacks don't get hit anymore. Yeah, do
you know why?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Because we need them in games because we've seen what happens.
We saw last year multiple times where it's the second
stringer here versus the third stringer.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The games are terrible.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And you guys are like, oh, I know, man up man,
take it like a man. All good, taking it like
a man.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
But I'd rather not lose ten twelve, thirteen, fourteen million
dollars and revenue because people aren't coming to the game
because it's Jed Hoyer.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You know, that's not his person. It was his new employer, Brian.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Brian, I'm thinking of the Cubs. I'm thinking of the
Cubs general manager. So football is back. It's fun, it's awesome,
it's kind of back. Oh, it's back. It's back.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Baby. My son, My son had a good game. My yeah,
he has game. He almost had to pick. He's playing
with varsity, which is so cool. Well, he so what
they do at his age, he's fifth grade, but they
let him play with the sixth graders, and the sixth
graders is varsity. So for them, they have their little
JV team the game or whatever that they play with,
but sometimes they sprinkle in the fifth graders to play
on the sixth grade team. And he's played probably about
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like six or seven snaps with him, which is fun
for you. Oh, it's so proud of him.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, do you worry every time or you just pumped
every time?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I don't worry.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Is mom worried every time?
Speaker 8 (21:02):
No? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Now we're not worried because he's just he loves it
so much that like if he if he did get hurt,
which he has not get hurt knock on wood, but
if he has like any kind of injury, I think
he'll probably second guests like playing again. But he hasn't.
He's had really good protection. He's like he knows how
to hit right, and he plays defense really so he's
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not the one getting hit as much. So I think
he's kind of got a good grip on it. But
if he does get hurt, I feel like he will say,
like maybe I'll not play anymore. So we're waiting for
that to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Or you'll find out that he really really loves it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, I'm scared of that too. He might could be
out of one of those. He might.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeh, that's cool. Reade watching it footboard.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Uh No, I just saw some highlights. Like I saw
the thing with the cap on it, and I was like,
what in.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
The world is that? Have you not seen them practice
with those on?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's weird looking when you first see it, But again
I don't. Did you see the Colts one specifically?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
No, No, I guess it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Look it's the helmet.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'll just see the practice ones, so it doesn't look
all bubbly, and the logos on it literally looks like
but again, it's no more ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I say it ridiculous in a way of like
I understand why I did it.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Steve Tasker back in the day, who played special teams
in Buffalo, had some head issues, so we wore this
big protective helmet. It's like double layered and it's a
doesn't look any different than that, And if everybody wears them.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's normal, then it's normal.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But I saw some people like it looks weird.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Man up, I'm like, you guys, stop saying that this
is dumb. Yeah, dumb, And.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
How I wonder how much it really helps the patting.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, I'm sure it helps a lot.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I'm sure it helps some, but I mean I wonder
how much it really helps because I never wore one.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I would have.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Although I didn't get hit hard enough, it didn't matter.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
But like, maybe we'll go somewhere riot go head on,
you and me head on. But like rams, well, Eddie
and I did this at Kansas State. We got full
padded out in their stadium and he's like, just hit me,
hit me, hit me hard. And I'm like, I don't know, man,
it's all romantic and stuff on TV, but I don't
even like doing the hitting like that hurts.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It hurt a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And so I was like, all right, So we did
form tackle drills.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
We're all right, though, We're all right.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We didn't get injured.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, we got hurt different in different sports, not football, baseball.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Late there for quite a while.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How was your foot?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oh, dude, Like I jogged yesterday. I went for a
jog up some hills. Didn't hurt one bit. It's awesome.
We're back, baby, all right.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
We are moments away from head coach Jetfish from University
of Washington. Now we're gonna get over to Washington head
football coach Jetfish. Coach Fish in his first year at
Washington after spending in the last three years at the
University of Arizona, where he helped turn that program around
big time. Coach Fish has spent time coaching under Bill Belichick,
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Sean McVay, Mike Shanahan. He was college roommates with Eagles
GM Howie Roseman. Really excited to see what he can
do in his first year with Washington and he's in
the Big Ten. All that feels weird here he is,
coach Jetfish.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
How's it going, coach? Thanks for being here.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
It's going great.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
How are you doing pretty good?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I mean with you with the season just like a
couple of weeks away. Are you like where you're just
itching to go to like we are or do you
just look forward to more time to prepare?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
All right, year one, I'm looking for work time to prepare.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
But usually I would say that I'm itching to go,
But right now, practice is what we need the most of.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Whenever you go into a new place, and again, congrats
on the success and getting that job, But how much
language are you actually changing and is it a slow
change or do you go on with a full the
playbook's new, and everyone has to learn all of your terminology.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Now, Yeah, everything is brand new. Every word.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Our offense is all our playbook that we had at Arizona,
most of it similar to what we did at the RAMS,
and then really probably before that even and then defense
it's all brand new. So these kids have had to
learn everything brand new. We haven't carried out for one thing.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Are there some kids who are light years ahead athletically
even just straight football wise, but can't quite get the
concepts and so you kind of have to handle all
personalities different at this point.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
Oh yeah, I mean there's a couple of things, right,
we were able to We had a couple of guys
that came over from Arizona, so they kind of knew
a lot of the stuff that we wanted to get accomplished,
and they knew the verbiage. But for the most part,
you know, everybody's kind of new, and there's certain guys
that pick things up faster. There's certain guys that just
know things a little bit better, and you know, it's
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kind of unique like that. The better athletes are also
usually the ones that are the quicker learners when it
comes to offensive defensive football. So it's been fun to
see how quickly some of these guys have figured it out.
I'd say this, it's a very smart team. This team
knows what they're doing. This team is even though they've
come from all different areas and backgrounds, they are they're
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picking up the scheme really well. Now we just got
to figure out a way to execute it at the.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Level we want to do.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
You think it's advantageous being a first year coach that
you have in helmet communication, like those two together are
going to help more because you're a first year coach
than maybe if it were a different time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, I mean, I.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
Think it's just advantageous to begin with. It's such, it's
it's an easier way to call a game. You know,
when I was when I was in Jacksonville eleven years ago,
we were calling the game through a coach to you know,
helmet communicator, and every ever since then, depending on where
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we were at pro college, you always wish you had
it when you were in college football.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
And to have it back is great.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
And then I do think that there's some reminders and
tips that you can potentially give to the quarterback or
to the mike, linebacker or safety depending on who's wearing it,
that maybe just a little bit of a reminder if
they don't have the experience that other people have, because
this is year one in the offense, year one in
the defense, which is very different. Then let's call it
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some other places where you're year three or you know,
if we were still back at the last place, it
would be year four in the same system.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Do you think with your experience in the NFL it
actually helps with nil in college football because now again
there's a financial hierarchy in college which there also was
in the league.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Yeah, you know, I've kind of said this that we've
gotten almost back to the old days where it was
everyone at eighty five scholarships and then you had to
figure out how you were going to get a player.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Other than because of the scholarship. Now everybody has money.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
The last four years, it was depending on how much
money you had determined how good of a player you
could get. Now, with the revenue share going on next year,
I think the top twenty five programs are gonna be
able to spend pretty similar amount of money. So now
you're gonna have to figure out what's the next separator.
So we've kind of gotten ourselves back in this weird
world where you're going to be back to a facilities discussion,
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You're going to be back to a kind of player
centric focus discussion. You're going to be back to coaches
and who's going to develop you the best because we're
all going to be sharing the same revenue here pretty soon,
at least the top, you know, thirty or forty teams
that can afford it.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
So that's gonna make.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
It awfully interesting, and hopefully the experience we had in
the NFL will give us somewhat of advantage there.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Whenever I was living in Texas and they were like, hey,
move your show to Nashville and you're gonna do this
national show. And so I've lived in an apartment for
like two months and then I found like I had
to like study the neighborhoods and like find a house.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Whenever you move, do you just they just tell you
in an apartment? And then you find do you rent?
Like what's the deal?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
It depends? I don't know if you've seen my resume.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I've moved a bunch, So depending on where I depending
on the situation in life, is kind of determined. You know,
have we rented or have we bought. It's certainly based
on where we were going and what we were doing.
On this case here, I got hired January fifteenth and
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was in an airbnb across the street from campus on
the street with all of our players, with not our players,
but a bunch of college students for about four months
while my wife and kids were finishing out in Tucson
and my kids were going to school. And then we
bought a house and moved into our house on June first,
and I told Amber that on June twenty first, we
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were going to have one.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Hundred people over to the house for a recruiting weekend.
So pressure was on quick.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, that would be tough to have to have. I
just know my wife.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I were like, hey, I have well ten people coming over,
it would not be met warm.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So are you totally moved in?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Everything good?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
We're well, uh, you know, we are totally moved in.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
But we started a project to to make our backyard
more player friendly. So we're putting a pick a ball
court back there, a sport court back there, and it's
a little miniature golf deal, and we're trying to make
it a place where my players want to come hang out,
and our recruits want to come hang out, and you know,
our goal is to open our house to our players
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and become you know, their family and whether it's our
current roster, whether it's our recruits.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
So we have a pretty significant.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Renovation going on back there, which is really putting me
in a great you know, a great place with my
wife right now.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yeah, we just went to a pickleball renovation that itself
took four months to do and was just people all
it's just people. My why could be like there's people
here all the time because there was always something to
be done in the backyard.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Yeah, that's what I'm about. That started last Monday. So
things are going great at the house right now.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
A lot of travel just in general, but now you've
got to travel all the way across the country. And
I was just looking at some of you guys' games
because again, it used to be the Pac twelve used
to be. I mean, you got to like hydrate like
super hydrate now because I fly south. If I fly
southwest over two hours, I got a headache when I
land because I didn't drink enough water. You guys are
flying all over all over the freaking country. Coach Uh,
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how do you prepare your players on time zones? I mean,
is there a playbook yet to that?
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Well, you know, we it's kind of very NFL like
in that regard because when you're playing. I mean I
coached in New England and we were flying across the
country to play in LA. In San Francisco, we played Arizona.
When we were coaching LA, we flew across the country
to play the Giants and Dolphins. So you kind of
steal that playbook. And I would say that playbook is
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one in which you you know, you leave two days early.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
You try to get I.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Guess those scientists call it what circadian rhythms. Right, You've
got to overhydrate before you get on the plane. You've
got to enforce, especially young kids eighteen to twenty two, like,
all right, every thirty minutes, we have to have a
bottle of water completed. We have to make sure that
when we get off the plane we get enough moving around.
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I mean we're flying to Rutgers from Seattle. That's five
hours and whatever. It's like an eight hour and fifteen
minute you know day, let's call it. With the three
hour time frame. In the five hour flight, we're flying
to state college. We're flying at Iowa City, we're flying
to Indianapolis. I mean, all these flights are four or
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five hours long, if not even a little bit more
going to state college. So we've got to come up
with a plan. We think we have a decent plan.
I don't know, we haven't played the game yet. But
you know, it also depends what time you kick off. Like,
if we kicked off at twelve o'clock, that's nine am
our time. I don't know how much football we've played
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at nine am other than training. If we kick off
at seven thirty at night in Seattle, that's ten thirty
at night for some of these East Coast teams. So
I think, really, we're gonna have to figure all that
out as we go, but we're gonna do everything we
can to keep these kids hydrated up and not let
the circumstances define how we play the game.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
See I need to write that and overhydrate before and
then a bottle of water every thirty minutes because I
get off a plane on like my head hurts and
my wife's like, you idiot, this happens every time you fly.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Why do you not drink more water? Coach whenever you're in.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
The NFL and you have the resume that you do
and you've been around so many NFL players, can you
pretty much spot collegiately physically who can make it in
the league.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Yeah, I think you can.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
It's you know, it's one of those challenging things, right,
Like you can stand in front of your college football
team and you could say who's playing on sun who
has the dream to play on Sunday?
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And every person in the room.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Is going to stand up, And then you can kind
of say, like, all right, who has a realistic who
realistically believes they're going to play on Sunday? And they
all keep standing. So, you know, you don't want to
ruin anyone's dream. You don't want to, you know, kind
of tell them a you know, this is probably gonna
be a four year run for you, but you do
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have an idea of what it takes. You kind of
know what their bodies look like in the league, you
know what their work ethic looks like. It's very hard
to just change that over a course of time. So
we spend a lot of time talking about what what
these guys look like like. I show them all the
time pictures of NFL players and I you know, hey,
this is what a safety in the league looks like.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Do you look like this? You look like this when
you're working out? Do you look like this when you're running?
Do you look like this in the weight room?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Is this you?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Or is this what you want to be?
Speaker 8 (34:50):
And if it's not you, are you willing to commit
to trying to get your body to look like that.
We do that with every position group constantly, and it's
it's not trying to make people not feel good about themselves,
but more it's about trying to get these kids to understand, like,
let's have a realistic goal and let's embrace college football.
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I don't think there's a better sport in America than
college football. But if all you're doing is you're just
waiting for the next opportunity and you're not appreciating the moment,
then you're missing out on such great opportunity here. So
we try to encourage them to say, like, hey, yeah,
you might end up being an NFL player, and we're
going to try to do everything we can to help
you there. But like, let's love the fact that you know,
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there's seventy five thousand people watching eleven people play, and
if it was easy, there'd be eleven people watching seventy
five thousand people play.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Thing.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I should look at more ripped up dudes. Then that's
why I need to just see pictures of things I
need to be a coachuration.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Yes, it hasn't worked for me, by the way, I'm
just saying for the players, it could work.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
With your story about how you came up and coaching,
and you know, you were someone who knew you wanted
to be around great leaders so you could learn leadership.
I'm inserting words. You know when I read your stories
about you and Spurrier and the coaches that you worked under.
Do you look for that with people that want to
work for you now where maybe they don't have quite
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the resume, but that you see something in them that
is extra special.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Yeah, you know, I think that for us, we want
to have people that are that aspire to succeed and
grow in the profession. I love people that have been
around great players, great coaches, great players that are inspired
to do certain things. I mean, we have Pete carroll
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son on our staff, Bill Belichick's son on our staff,
or two coordinators. We have John Lynch's son on our
staff as our defensive graduate assistant, with Jack de Rio's
son on our staff as our offensive quality control coach
assistant running back coach. I do that because those guys
know it took their dads. They were moving around as kids,
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they were a part of all different staffs. They heard
the stories from their dads when they got home from work,
so they know, you know what that felt like and
looked like. They know what when their dads were talking
about good coaches or bad coaches and what that meant.
And then we've got some other coaches on our staff
that either played in the league or aspired to play
in the league, and I want those guys to really
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be around that group and be able to not just
be around Brennan and Steve, but also be around Pete
and Bill. And we invite those guys to our building.
Coach Belichick's been here all week. Coach del Rio is
coming tomorrow. I think he'll be here for a week.
Coach Carrol's been around practice a bunch. Because I want
our assistant coaches to be able to grab those guys
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and be like, Hey, what do you think about this
or what do you think we should do here?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
How do I grow in this profession.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
But in the end, you know, I think you just
got to work, you know, every day, like somebody's working
twenty four hours day to take your job.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
I feel like Coach Belichick has shown me a new
side of him where he's actually pretty funny. I've been
watching on TV a lot where you know, you get
the presser he would say nothing, and that was just
the expectation.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
But like, if you're having dinner with him, is he
just like cuttingly funny at times?
Speaker 8 (38:16):
Yeah, he's got a great he's got a great personality,
And yeah, I think that the way he's handled the
media over the years is probably based on thirty something
years of how it went right, Like I don't know
what it was like in nineteen ninety four in the media, right,
and I think all these years have gone on that
he created a persona and he also created a messaging
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that he wanted to give, which really was what we
do in houses in house, and it's really not that
important for the others to know what we're doing in house.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
That was maybe the way he handled it.
Speaker 8 (38:52):
But when you're with them privately, or when you're with
him in a different type of setting, we really enjoy him.
My wife and I've spent many of times out for
dinner and vacation, and you certainly learned so much about
the guy. And he's brilliant. He's brilliant outside of football.
He's so well read and well versed. But he's also
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funny and really a good dude to just hang out with.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Is it crazy to you that you'll just be hanging
out with these dudes? At one point you looked at
as like mentor, Like you just mentioned like three or
four guys, and it's like they could be at your house.
You had Pete, Carroll Belichick, and you're like, man, they
also think I'm cool? Now, Like, isn't that like freaking awesome?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Well, it's cool. I mean, let me just say this.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
I've never called any of them by their first name,
so there's still my mentors.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I have a really hard time not calling them coach.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
And when you're around Coach Carroll or Coach Belichick, like,
you know, I don't think I just look at them,
you know in a way that I just I see
them as somebody that I've looked up to my whole career,
and now to be around him is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
It's pretty awesome. It's cool to be running the practice.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
But I've always said, like, when those guys are a
practice man, I'm the assistant head coach. I still look
at those guys as the head coach, whether they're just
sitting in the stands or watching the game, or whether
they're standing on the practice field talking to me or
one of our coaches. In the end, those guys are
revered and they've done some things in football that we
all just aspire to do.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Is it bad form to show up to Coach Belichick
and say will you signed this football?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Coach?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Like, would that be weird to just have them autograph stuff?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Or you get hey, can we take a quick selfie?
Speaker 8 (40:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Like I feel like I would want to do that
all the time.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
I would want all the coaches that came in, like
they're helping right now.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I would want them all to sign a ball.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
But I so my move is, Coach, if there's somebody
that I'm with and I'm like a massive fan of
I'll have somebody come up and be.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Like, oh, you too should get a picture together.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
That way, I didn't ask, so you could have someone
on your staff be like, hey, we're presenting coach Fish
with his ball, all the assistants that came in. It's
like Coach Carrol, Coach Belichick all on one ball, but
secretly you wanted it.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
And you can have that tip for free.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Coach that's a good tip. I like that idea.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And then you don't have to ask.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
You must get it all the time. People are always
trying to take pictures with you.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
It happens a little bit, but sometimes also people are
like confused as to why other people are taking pictures
with me. So like someone will take a picture and
then someone else will walk up and be like, hey,
who are you? And then then when you have to
explain nobody, it's like they don't care because I'm not
famous to them.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
You know, no question.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Can you go to the grocery store without people being like,
Coach Fish, you're our savior?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Uh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Every now and then we'll get a how we doing
coach go dogs. But there's a lot of things happening
in Seattle. So they are Husky fans though through and through,
and we have a great fan base.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
We have a group.
Speaker 8 (41:50):
You know, I would say that the fans here are
just they They've showed out to everything we've asked them
to do. We know we're going to sell out our games.
We know that sale gating on the water is going
to be incredible. You know, I've heard that you've made
it out to the West Coast a couple of times,
and you know, I was kind of thinking, you can
check out Seattle and be on the water and we'd
get on a boat and do this thing.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
But maybe next year we can get you out here
and you could see.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
It well, Coach, full transparency, all that is true. But
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
We did not come. We did not get invited in time.
We went out to another school, which we won't mention.
Not important, not important, not important at all, not into
a couple other schools. We went to your old school
as well, and they still speak of you extremely lovingly.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
They're not even that mad at.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
You, really, I promise you.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
I'm telling we spent a lot of time there. Even
ex players do not speak ill of Coach Fish. I'm
telling I would just not say anything at all.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
But you are still wait to hear wall.
Speaker 8 (42:51):
I love those kids, and the head coach that got
Coach Brennan is a great a great coach and a
good friend.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
So I'm excited for them. I'm excited route them on.
Speaker 8 (43:00):
But obviously the players over there that we that we
recruited and we brought in there, I can't wait to
watch them succeed. They are fantastic kids and really a
special match out there in.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
Tucson Final three questions. But I'll say this, We're next season,
We're coming out.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
I love it a plus. We're gonna come. Okay, Eddie,
you go.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Ahead, Yeah, coach. I have four boys and they all
play sports, and I tell them, you know your your
body language is important. You know you have bad body language.
The coach is not going to think you're serious and
look like you're listening. Is that important to you?
Speaker 5 (43:33):
Is?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
But body language, bad body language, all that is that
important to you as a coach.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
Fantastic coaching, Tim. I would absolutely tell my kids. I'd
tell my own kids that body languages, Oh, I would
say the most important thing when you're talking to a player,
how they respond. You could feel it, you could see
it if they get disappointed at their shoulders shot and
like walk confidently like I do. Just tell them you
want to walk on the field, and you want to
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tip the field. You want it to look like this
when you're walking downhill all the time. So body language
is critical, great parenting right there.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Thank you coach.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
As a coach, do you still get nervous.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Yeah, yeah, I get nervous or that about game day?
Speaker 5 (44:17):
Yeah yeah, I'm like for a game, I mean I
don't know about I don't know what else you're up to,
but for games like that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
Yeah, I get nervous about it. We're gonna have nothing,
I own money. I get nervous about a lot of things.
But without a question on game there there's nothing more.
There's nothing more exhilarating. But yeah, I mean I have
this like I still have to call the offensive plays
and I always go and through this panic attack.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Like what if I just like freeze, I can't think
of a play. So yeah, we work.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
I work very hard and we work as a staff
very hard to be as prepared as you could possibly be.
But yeah, I mean like, I mean, yeah, I get nervous,
and I try to do the best I can to
alleviate the nerve, the anxiet for our players.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
But I try to I do take it on myself.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
This isn't the final question, but something you just said
about NI own money, So I have a friend who's
a head football coach somewhere. I won't implement him into this,
but he says he spent more time on the phone
ever just he's just talking to people about money, like
he more than he ever thought he would. He is
a head coach of a major program, and he's like,
it's what I do. I dedicate a lot of time
to it. Very similarly, I was asked about running for
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the governor of Arkansas where I'm from, back in the day,
and they were like, you're on the phone all the
time begging for money.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
That's really what it is.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
It feels like, at least until there are some changes,
that it's a lot of politiic and for cash right
now to keep up.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Would you say that's accurate, Yeah, And.
Speaker 8 (45:43):
I'd also say I mean it's kind of frustrating in
a manner that I could imagine for others that you
feel like every conversation you have it's always you're talking
to people, you're trying to get him to build a
relationship with you just moved to a new community, and
then traditionally always stews off and saying, now, if you
can help our program, we would really appreciate it, or
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you know, any hell will make a huge difference in
the success of our program.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
But it's every day. It's every day, it's all day.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
It's every opportunity to send an email, to send a note,
to get.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
On the phone.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Every break that I have is really dedicated to fundraising.
Speaker 8 (46:24):
And it's fundraising for NIL, it's fundraising for our facility,
it's fundraising for our program. I think that's just the
nature of being a college football head coach right now,
and hopefully at some point it'll maybe recalibrate, But right now, yeah,
I would agree with your friend who's a coach that
a lot of our time is spent.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
You on a fundraise.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
All right, final question, your mount rushmore of your favorite
musical artists of all time?
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I need all four of them all time.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Coach Darth Brooks, Billy Joel bon Jovi. I'm from New Jersey.
Account I would say Kenny Chesson.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Wow, from New Jersey with two country country guys, my
wife from Texas.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 5 (47:09):
Yeah, well then that makes sense. Hey, coach, we really
appreciate the time, and we're rooting for you guys, and
we're we're on a boat. Not only are we coming
next year. You promised a boat. We don't care what
body of water it is, but we're going to be
on a boat and we're gonna come up and spend
some time there.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Thank you for the time. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
Thank you, guys, appreciate it. Bobby, thank you man.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Thanks coach all right, thank you guys for being here. Eddie,
good to have you back.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Yure Man, thank you. It was fun to be back.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
Thanks to Coach Fish and I don't know, we'll see
you later on. I don't know what day we're gonna
do another one, probably Friday or so. We have a
ton of scheduled interviews this weekend.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
That was read what do you you know? We're on right?
Speaker 7 (47:51):
Sorry guys, Sorry, it was just big down everything.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Okay over there, we're good.
Speaker 7 (47:56):
We've got a pile over here, but we're good.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
A pile of what cords and and headphones and yeah, connectors?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Whatnot?
Speaker 5 (48:04):
My favorite thing with read any show? And I can
always appreciate his authenticity. Read you watch any sports?
Speaker 3 (48:09):
No? No, he didn't watch it.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
No, I got nothing and watch some clips.
Speaker 5 (48:13):
Oh yeah, lovel yes, so check out the Instagram now,
is uh Bobby bone sports?
Speaker 2 (48:21):
You can go and check it out.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (48:24):
Gotta go, Gotta go to the airport, flying to Baltimore
to do a baseball card thing.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yes we're nerds. Thank you guys, and we will see
you later on this week. By every buddy, what it was,
Thank you,
This podcast called twenty five whist stuck in punt ball
and they were a whist So, yeah, it's too bad,
But what did you expect? It's a podcast called twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Five Whistles twenty wine. Welcome, I blew the whistle. But
guess who was here? Eddie just got here. Hey, I'm back.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hold on, I got back. Where it is?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Back?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What's up everybody? We got a lot to talk about.
So we go, and Eddie's you went with us.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
So we flew to Los Angeles and I flew over
and you missed rich Eisen by the way.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's the first thing I asked you when we talked
on the phone. I'm like, did I have miss Richards?
And yep, he was.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
He was awesome, wasn't Was it so cool?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
He just showed up an uber.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Did you play pickleball with him?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, because he came into town.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
He had done the Hall of Fame the night before,
and he was doing the show from our house and
then he was right back on a flight and he
was dressed in like slacks and stuff. So we didn't
play any pickleball. But then I he got to the
airport and his flight was canceled.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh no, I know. So then he said come back,
let's play pickleball.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I didn't know it was canceled till the next day,
So yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He's really cool, right awesome. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm
sorry missed that.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
So we went back out to LA and I was
going to speak at a like a radio conference out
there in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But we flew to Los Angeles and Rich was like, hey,
come do my show.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Because I've hosted a show, I've never done his show.
And mostly I feel like that's like going, hey, we
should get dinner sometime, right, but not do it. You'll
ever put specifics on it. And so was flying to
LA and he goes, oh, you guys are going to
the Chargers. He was like, we're right by the complex.
Let's like come by. So I feel I don't feel bad,
(01:53):
but I feel like a burden because I don't feel
like he really means it. Now full disclosure trans parency.
Rich and I have the same agent, So Jerry is
Rich's agent, Jerry is my agent. And Jerry is like,
he wouldn't invite you unless he wanted you to come
on the show. And I'm like, okay, so we land
and we're already in a pretty tight window, and.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We flew southwest or we fly delta. What do we fly.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Delta?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
We fight Delta to the southwest back And that was
a whole disaster, not southwest fault, because we had get
a flight so late. Dude, I was in c in
the middle, in the back. It was like a four
and a half hour misery fat. So we're getting there
and there's four of us because you're not there obviously
(02:41):
you're dealing with your personal stuff. So it's me, Kevin, Mike,
Dee and Reed and we're going to do this whole thing.
And so I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Miss Rich and we're already like flirting with the last
hour of the show.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So I say, okay, Mike and I are breaking off
and we're gonna go grab an uber Re and Kevin
are gonna go get the rental car and we'll all
just meet over there. We run, we hop an new
ober Boom. I don't normally take anything to fly. I
took a Xanax to fly and sleep as well the
(03:14):
night before and I was like, man, I have a
big day. I need to sleep on the plane. The
thing about not taking Xanax and then you finally take it,
it doesn't wear off. No, no, And so I take
this and I'm just like, I fall asleep on the
plane for a little bit, but I have like an
umbrella of confusion just on top of my head. And
I'm going into richest studio. I'm like, oh, so there's
(03:35):
no green there's no green room or guestro. And they're like, oh,
because we're running so tight, they're like just going going
to the studio hopping the chair like Riches's in the
middle of a segment.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And I and as soon as I sit down, I'm like, hey, man,
I'm on Xanax. I said on the microphone, just because
I knew wasn't gonna be completely right, or if it wasn't,
I need And so they make some jokes like the
first person ever openly admit he's on Xanax. So oh,
I did that segment like a half of a segment.
I stay for a whole other segment. I think in
(04:04):
the end, it ended up being a pretty good appearance.
All the guys got to come in and good to
see all the guys again.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And so we do that and Rich is awesome and
so leave then where do we go to the NFL?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
No, to radio.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Oh, then we go to the radio show because we
have some radio step to record and countdown step to record.
Then in LA sucks balls because dude, it's just like
it's an hour to go twelve minutes. Yeah, yeah, like
at twelve minutes here is an hour there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's why Kobe had a helicopter.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Oh oh.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well he was also like out out of LA.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
But I mean we were a buy where is caught
through your crash?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh, but he would like travel in. So we go
and it takes us an hour to get over to work.
We work, go back to the NFL. In the NFL,
which had nothing to do with the Chargers, they're like, hey,
come tour the media office. NFL was trying without jeopardizing
anything or saying too much. And if I was trying
(05:06):
to hire me for something, yeah, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay, so we go.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't even really know what it is. All I
tell the guys is we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look. Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
He doesn't tell us anything because.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I didn't really know. I didn't really know that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
But when we got so this is the NFL offices, Yes,
it's yes, it's where they shoot everything. It's where they
do Sunday ticket, It's where they zone good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Now, so that's where they do all that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Okay, it's all their all their meat, the studio after studio,
and they're slowly going like and you can use this
anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And I'm like, you guys trying to get me take
a job.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Like I knew there had been some discussions about me
doing some stuff with the NFL, But didn't you feel
like it was like, oh yeah, they were like super
warm and like so lovely, like trying to convince me
to take a job with the NFL.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I didn't know there was a job.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Yeah, he could have done whatever he wanted in that building.
That would have been okay.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They were so nice and what the I same.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I remember talk to like whist Berny Kevin, like I
think they like want to hire on me right now,
I don't even know what for. So we go through
the NFL opposite it's and it's really cool, right, like
oh my god. And they would be like, ah, this
room it's not fully developed yet, dude. It's like the
greatest media technical face.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's like compared to our room, they're like, we're sorry.
This is our is like a garbage can compared to
what they have.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So we do that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We leave there.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
We go over to the chargers and the you know,
it's camp and it was practicing, and so we're getting
toward around the facilities and their facilities aren't really near
the stadium. They're twenty minutes away, but you know, they're normal.
Every day is not at the stadium. Yeah, So they
have these cool things in the lockers where they put
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up the starred recruits that they were. Some of them
are not rated, some of them are two stars and
they were five stars. But it's like you're all here,
you're all the same now, and look, you all came
from different place. It was pretty cool because we walked
to the locker room. Now we're walking through the locker
room and Mike goes, don't say who it is, guys,
Mike goes.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Is that so just randomly? Because is that so and so?
And I'm like, what the crap? And so I go
over and I kind of annoyed.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I probably annoyed the charge parts because I spent the
next twenty minutes talking to whomever that might be randomly saw.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Do you know who we saw in the hallway.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No, was it a charger?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No muss, what's just hanging out?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
He was, I mean he lives there now, so he's
head coach USC basketball. Yeah, Eric Musselman, head basketball coach.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I was like, must he's like Bobby.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So we just talked.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
We talked like twenty minutes, just like catching up. That's
just saw him in the complex and so he was
just out watching practice too. Did the stuff there. Drove
down to Sandy. I went to PF Changs again tradition,
we always got.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Drove down to what's up. We just walked in.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Oh, man, I love PF Chain's. Man, it destroyed my stomach,
but I love that place.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, why why did it destroy?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Did you have?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That was like?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It was the spicy uh orange? The orange shaken?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Remember it was.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It was way spicier than normal.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's normally not spicy.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
No.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Even then, I was like, whoa southern California version?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Son of a gun.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
So we went down and did the deal, flew home
and then so we're we had to change our flights.
So I think somebody got drafted with Minnesota. They had
like their feu like a.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yeah, the corner that passed away. They had his service
on that Friday, so.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We were like, let's not go.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
We were going to go from California there, so we
switched our flights last minute to come home. Problem switching
your flight last minute, dude, I was like C ninety
one the last. So not only that, we're already running
a little tight because our flight was at like six
thirty out, so we had to be there like five thirty.
(08:55):
So Kevin's got to drop the rental car off. He
lets us off, like good dad does. That's nice, but
he didn't realize it was twenty minutes away. Yeah, the
rental car play at.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Least ten off site. Yeah, ten fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Of LA one Yeah. Oh San Diego, San Diego. No,
I've never been there, Okay, so anyway, I gotta fly.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I I'm and I sat next to this dude who
had to be six or four calves like big read.
He read us in the middle reads a month reads
A big kid, A big kid, he's just like big
flew home. I was exhausted, but that was what you missed.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh man, sounds like I didn't miss much.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
On opposite, it was crazy to seeing must there. Yeah,
So what did you guys talk about? I just caught
up what we did talk about. There was a lot
of stuff I can't talk about here, No, I know,
but not bad stuff, but just like uh you know,
program stuff for.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Sure, sure, recruiting. Yeah, you talk about what he left
behind a little bit.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
No, because he didn't leave anything behind. Everybody left situations
and what the you.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Know what it is now?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I got you, I got you.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, I know everything is. It was awesome. We had
a great a little run there.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
We'll be talking to Jed Fish, the head football coach
University of Washington just a few minutes, which would be
super cool. The Olympics were a plus. I mean, we
almost lost to Serbia. We haven't been on since then.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Basketball.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, we were down two. They had the ball forty
seconds left. Had they made that three, it's a whole
new ball game, or it's a bad ball game for us.
But they weren't like over ten in the second half
shooting threes.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Basketball is cool in the Olympics because it didn't matter
what team they're playing, like most of them playing in
the NBA anyway. But then you look at the French team, right,
and they got some ballers on there and they play.
They don't play NBA. They don't play in D League.
Like they're awesome, but they don't. They're not even good
enough to play in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I would say that most aren't, like the Serbian guys.
I think they had two NBA players Mgdonovic.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, I think that was it.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But again, some of those guys would rather not play
in G League. Theyoul play, they'd rather play for their
the big European leagues. Well, no, European leagues are bigger,
they can make more money, like the French guy that
dunked on Lebron, but leb was trying to take a
charge to be fair.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Yeah, and I go big and six eight, yeah, but
thick big.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But he was drafted first overall by Boston.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Yeah, he played for the Celtics and like he had
a couple of.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Runs where you know they'd come back, NBA would come back,
and they were even talking about I think he plays
for like man U Basketball or something, and he was like,
I'm not going back unless I have like a guaranteed
deal because I make a good living doing so those
European guys, they definitely get to the G League and
play the same four people over and over again and
maybe make no money, yeah, or like play European basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And like you're a god there.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But I watched Canada. It's like, oh wow, Like I
didn't know a lot of NBA guys like Canada, Canadian,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I only did like from the last three months, same
show when they were like getting the Canadian team ready
and it was like, Shay gilligis Alexander could he just not?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Does he have a house in Toronto?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And he didn't make that right.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
But the the France game was awesome, Yeah, and it
got awesome at the end, and I fully, excuse me,
Lebron should have been the MVP of the whole series.
I mean even the Serbia game, Lebron at triple double,
just killing me. Steph closed those games, dude, Like Lebron
(12:22):
was the MVP of the series. Lebron played point guard
or point forward. It was he had the keys to
that car the whole time, and purposefully you knew it
was Lebron series that the first part of the French game,
Steph missed like to like three three pointers and I
was like, oh god, because you just wanted Steph to shine.
This is going to be his only Olympics. And he
(12:44):
did against Serbia. He had a pretty rough go of
it early. Uh, and he definitely did against France. That
that four to three from his hip. Oh my even
my wife point, oh my god. Yeah, he was double
team like he threw it to Durant. Durant was double team.
Do it back to Steph, double teamed while Durant Lebron
were open. Again, Steph just said effort. And the rare
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thing with that three was it could hit the rim.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Then went in a rattler. Dude, it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I don't think they covered, but I didn't. I don't
bet uh.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I think there there was air spread fifteen fourteen or fifteen, yeah,
something like that. They did not cover. I think the
eleven was what it ended at.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The basketball was awesome, Yeah, it was cool. I didn't
watch one second in women's basketball.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It is early.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
If Caitlin Clark would have played. How to watch every game,
that's true. I don't watch every game. And they almost
lost at the end.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Did you see how Yeah? No, the buzzer beater that
didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Nope.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
So they played France too, and France. One of their
players had a buzzer beater that they hit but their toe,
their foot was over the line.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
It was pretty clear it wasn't Brooklyn. It wasn't that close.
But it was still on the line and they lost
by one that would have tied it to go no too.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, and our women, they're so far ahead of where
international women's basketball as it shouldn't have even been an issue. Yeah,
where men, You're starting to see a lot of the
NBA guys. It was fun to watch Jokich. They lost, obviously,
but they played in the bronze medal game and they
won it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To watch how happy they were. He was happier with
his teammates that they won.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
The bronze than he was when he won the title
with Denver.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, Like he was like top of the world. It
was awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's people.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I was so happy for him. Yeah, and then he
was at the horse race drinking a beer like with
a white beater shirt on.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
But yeah, that's what's up. The Olympics were awesome. Running
into Musk was super fun. We had some football to
talk about. We'll talk to Jed Fish coming up. Just
a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But why don't we take a break, Mike good on
that break, we'll come right back, Eddied. You watch any
of your Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, our first game, Yeah, we're own one. Yeah. Stet's
and Bennett Stet's and Bennett did play the whole game
and then and they had three PI too. We picked
him off three times, but he won.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
You know, yeah, seas season it's going four, We're going like,
I know, do you what do you think is happening
with Zeke though?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Dude? Like with Zeke?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, like what's gonna have? What's what's his what's his
load going to be?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think he's going to be the main load.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Is he going to be the guy? Is he getting
twenty five carries a game?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah? I think he's going to be the main dude.
I mean, I don't think we have anyone as good
as Zeke. I think Royce Freeman he was good for
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
But I don't even think Zeke is thirty is what's crazy? Yeah,
I think he might be twenty nine years. Zeke's forty
five in my mind, and.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I could be wrong. I might be wrong. Twenty nine
that is crazy to me.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
That's the lifespan of a running back, though, It's like
they they played three solid years and then they're kind
of like, oh do we keep them? Are they still good?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
I don't know, I hear you, but it's always you know,
when they turn thirty, that's when the big down.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He's not even thirty yet. And my final thought of
Zeke is that when he's playing center, I know in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
That was the last time he played with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, so what theys in the rams? It really was
nothing to see.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Nah No, a lot of like rookies, a lot of
you know, the third stringers, just to see what they
can do.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Other rookie preseason debuts. Caleb Williams is a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'll say it, how do you do? I didn't see it?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Four seven ninety five yards thirteen yard run on twenty
snaps versus the Bills.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
He looked really good.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, Caleb Williams has got a big butt.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Like that's what That's what you saw out of his performance.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I like a thick quarterback.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Because Jaden Daniels does not have a thick butt.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It's like my pictures. If I'm gonna invest a bunch
of money in a pitcher. I want a thick butt, huh,
because they're gonna have that's where the powers coming from.
And these quarterbacks and Jaden Daniels runs, he's so thin.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
He's okay.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Kevin durantztin but he didn't have to. He doesn't have
Bosa coming.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Out of him.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So you like Jalen Hurts, Yeah, big butt, Jalen Hurts strong,
Russell Wilson big butt.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Uh, Sure, but he had his time.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean Kyler Murray's but yeah, Kyler.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Murray is thick.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Kyler Murray is small and everyone's like, oh, we were
Kyle Murray.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But he's thick, like for.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
A little guy. Jayden Daniels went two for three, forty
five yards.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
He threw a big one. He threw like a forty
two yard bomb versus the Jets. None of this stuff matters,
but it is kind of cool to see him for
the first time because Kayleb Williams did not play in
the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Whenever they played that.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Game, Drake May two for three, nineteen yards, they just
he just played one series versus the Panthers. Michael Pennix
Junior nine for sixteen and one hundred and four yards.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Who looked Bennix looked pretty good.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yeah, he was slinging it and.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
No chance he overtakes Kirk Cousins unless Cousins gets hurt.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But he looks really good.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah JJ McCarthy through a bad interception, but eleven for seventeen,
one hundred and eighty eight yards, two touchdowns, and then
bow Nick looked freaking awesome. But a lot of short
precisions stuff like make quick decisions, which is what he
did at Oregon.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It absolutely is, and it's probably what but.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
That's what that offense does, even when Drew Brees ran
that offense, right, Yeah, like that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Short precise occasionally.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I mean, Breeze wasn't known as having a cannon, No,
not at all. Yeah, Bone's look really good. But none
of this stuff matters.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
What's crazy is Zach Wilson coming in third stream.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
From what I've heard from my sources, and I don't
have a lot of sources, but like I have like
two sources period, and they're like, Zach Wilson's nothing, He's nothing.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Or something.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
They're like, he's nothing and he's done, I know which
early on it was like is Zach Wilson even gonna start.
Is he going to be the starter?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
How many preseason games do we have? Three? Three?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
It used to be four, four, and then it's gonna
go to two.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What do you think about the kickoff? Are you watching?
It's pretty interesting? Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It feels too clunky. Still I like it because I
think two things. I like Jonathan Taylor wearing the skull cap.
I like it like, let's do safe things. Yeah, make
sure our players hit thirty they're not full of CTE
and making bad life decisions later on because the brains
are all messed up.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Hard to see what team he's on though, with that thing.
But it's all right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
It's even bigger. It's exactly like the helmet, just bigger, bigger.
It's like if you go to a carnival and they.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Draw a character of you. It's like that.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
So I liked it, and I hope more players wear them.
Same thing with the kickoff. It still feels a bit clunky,
but I do understand that this is for the greater good.
It's to keep guys from running forty yards full speed.
Slamming into each other. Right, So whatever is going to
keep the sport.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's like when quarterbacks don't get hit anymore. Yeah, do
you know why?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Because we need them in games because we've seen what happens.
We saw last year multiple times where it's the second
stringer here versus the third stringer.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The games are terrible.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And you guys are like, oh, I know, man up man,
take it like a man. All good, taking it like
a man.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
But I'd rather not lose ten twelve, thirteen, fourteen million
dollars and revenue because people aren't coming to the game
because it's Jed Hoyer.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You know, that's not his person. It was his new employer, Brian.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Brian, I'm thinking of the Cubs. I'm thinking of the
Cubs general manager. So football is back. It's fun, it's awesome,
it's kind of back. Oh, it's back. It's back.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Baby. My son, My son had a good game. My yeah,
he has game. He almost had to pick. He's playing
with varsity, which is so cool. Well, he so what
they do at his age, he's fifth grade, but they
let him play with the sixth graders, and the sixth
graders is varsity. So for them, they have their little
JV team the game or whatever that they play with,
but sometimes they sprinkle in the fifth graders to play
on the sixth grade team. And he's played probably about
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like six or seven snaps with him, which is fun
for you. Oh, it's so proud of him.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, do you worry every time or you just pumped
every time?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I don't worry.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Is mom worried every time?
Speaker 8 (21:02):
No? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Now we're not worried because he's just he loves it
so much that like if he if he did get hurt,
which he has not get hurt knock on wood, but
if he has like any kind of injury, I think
he'll probably second guests like playing again. But he hasn't.
He's had really good protection. He's like he knows how
to hit right, and he plays defense really so he's
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not the one getting hit as much. So I think
he's kind of got a good grip on it. But
if he does get hurt, I feel like he will say,
like maybe I'll not play anymore. So we're waiting for
that to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Or you'll find out that he really really loves it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, I'm scared of that too. He might could be
out of one of those. He might.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeh, that's cool. Reade watching it footboard.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Uh No, I just saw some highlights. Like I saw
the thing with the cap on it, and I was like,
what in.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
The world is that? Have you not seen them practice
with those on?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's weird looking when you first see it, But again
I don't. Did you see the Colts one specifically?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
No, No, I guess it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Look it's the helmet.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'll just see the practice ones, so it doesn't look
all bubbly, and the logos on it literally looks like
but again, it's no more ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I say it ridiculous in a way of like
I understand why I did it.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Steve Tasker back in the day, who played special teams
in Buffalo, had some head issues, so we wore this
big protective helmet. It's like double layered and it's a
doesn't look any different than that, And if everybody wears them.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's normal, then it's normal.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But I saw some people like it looks weird.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Man up, I'm like, you guys, stop saying that this
is dumb. Yeah, dumb, And.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
How I wonder how much it really helps the patting.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, I'm sure it helps a lot.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I'm sure it helps some, but I mean I wonder
how much it really helps because I never wore one.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I would have.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Although I didn't get hit hard enough, it didn't matter.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
But like, maybe we'll go somewhere riot go head on,
you and me head on. But like rams, well, Eddie
and I did this at Kansas State. We got full
padded out in their stadium and he's like, just hit me,
hit me, hit me hard. And I'm like, I don't know, man,
it's all romantic and stuff on TV, but I don't
even like doing the hitting like that hurts.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It hurt a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And so I was like, all right, So we did
form tackle drills.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
We're all right, though, We're all right.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We didn't get injured.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, we got hurt different in different sports, not football, baseball.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Late there for quite a while.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Though.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How was your foot?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oh, dude, Like I jogged yesterday. I went for a
jog up some hills. Didn't hurt one bit. It's awesome.
We're back, baby, all right.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
We are moments away from head coach Jetfish from University
of Washington. Now we're gonna get over to Washington head
football coach Jetfish. Coach Fish in his first year at
Washington after spending in the last three years at the
University of Arizona, where he helped turn that program around
big time. Coach Fish has spent time coaching under Bill Belichick,
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Sean McVay, Mike Shanahan. He was college roommates with Eagles
GM Howie Roseman. Really excited to see what he can
do in his first year with Washington and he's in
the Big Ten. All that feels weird here he is,
coach Jetfish.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
How's it going, coach? Thanks for being here.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
It's going great.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
How are you doing pretty good?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I mean with you with the season just like a
couple of weeks away. Are you like where you're just
itching to go to like we are or do you
just look forward to more time to prepare?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
All right, year one, I'm looking for work time to prepare.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
But usually I would say that I'm itching to go,
But right now, practice is what we need the most of.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Whenever you go into a new place, and again, congrats
on the success and getting that job, But how much
language are you actually changing and is it a slow
change or do you go on with a full the
playbook's new, and everyone has to learn all of your terminology.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Now, Yeah, everything is brand new. Every word.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Our offense is all our playbook that we had at Arizona,
most of it similar to what we did at the RAMS,
and then really probably before that even and then defense
it's all brand new. So these kids have had to
learn everything brand new. We haven't carried out for one thing.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Are there some kids who are light years ahead athletically
even just straight football wise, but can't quite get the
concepts and so you kind of have to handle all
personalities different at this point.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
Oh yeah, I mean there's a couple of things, right,
we were able to We had a couple of guys
that came over from Arizona, so they kind of knew
a lot of the stuff that we wanted to get accomplished,
and they knew the verbiage. But for the most part,
you know, everybody's kind of new, and there's certain guys
that pick things up faster. There's certain guys that just
know things a little bit better, and you know, it's
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kind of unique like that. The better athletes are also
usually the ones that are the quicker learners when it
comes to offensive defensive football. So it's been fun to
see how quickly some of these guys have figured it out.
I'd say this, it's a very smart team. This team
knows what they're doing. This team is even though they've
come from all different areas and backgrounds, they are they're
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picking up the scheme really well. Now we just got
to figure out a way to execute it at the.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Level we want to do.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
You think it's advantageous being a first year coach that
you have in helmet communication, like those two together are
going to help more because you're a first year coach
than maybe if it were a different time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, I mean, I.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
Think it's just advantageous to begin with. It's such, it's
it's an easier way to call a game. You know,
when I was when I was in Jacksonville eleven years ago,
we were calling the game through a coach to you know,
helmet communicator, and every ever since then, depending on where
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we were at pro college, you always wish you had
it when you were in college football.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
And to have it back is great.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
And then I do think that there's some reminders and
tips that you can potentially give to the quarterback or
to the mike, linebacker or safety depending on who's wearing it,
that maybe just a little bit of a reminder if
they don't have the experience that other people have, because
this is year one in the offense, year one in
the defense, which is very different. Then let's call it
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some other places where you're year three or you know,
if we were still back at the last place, it
would be year four in the same system.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Do you think with your experience in the NFL it
actually helps with nil in college football because now again
there's a financial hierarchy in college which there also was
in the league.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Yeah, you know, I've kind of said this that we've
gotten almost back to the old days where it was
everyone at eighty five scholarships and then you had to
figure out how you were going to get a player.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Other than because of the scholarship. Now everybody has money.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
The last four years, it was depending on how much
money you had determined how good of a player you
could get. Now, with the revenue share going on next year,
I think the top twenty five programs are gonna be
able to spend pretty similar amount of money. So now
you're gonna have to figure out what's the next separator.
So we've kind of gotten ourselves back in this weird
world where you're going to be back to a facilities discussion,
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You're going to be back to a kind of player
centric focus discussion. You're going to be back to coaches
and who's going to develop you the best because we're
all going to be sharing the same revenue here pretty soon,
at least the top, you know, thirty or forty teams
that can afford it.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
So that's gonna make.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
It awfully interesting, and hopefully the experience we had in
the NFL will give us somewhat of advantage there.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Whenever I was living in Texas and they were like, hey,
move your show to Nashville and you're gonna do this
national show. And so I've lived in an apartment for
like two months and then I found like I had
to like study the neighborhoods and like find a house.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Whenever you move, do you just they just tell you
in an apartment? And then you find do you rent?
Like what's the deal?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
It depends? I don't know if you've seen my resume.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
I've moved a bunch, So depending on where I depending
on the situation in life, is kind of determined. You know,
have we rented or have we bought. It's certainly based
on where we were going and what we were doing.
On this case here, I got hired January fifteenth and
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was in an airbnb across the street from campus on
the street with all of our players, with not our players,
but a bunch of college students for about four months
while my wife and kids were finishing out in Tucson
and my kids were going to school. And then we
bought a house and moved into our house on June first,
and I told Amber that on June twenty first, we
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were going to have one.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Hundred people over to the house for a recruiting weekend.
So pressure was on quick.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, that would be tough to have to have. I
just know my wife.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I were like, hey, I have well ten people coming over,
it would not be met warm.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So are you totally moved in?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Everything good?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
We're well, uh, you know, we are totally moved in.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
But we started a project to to make our backyard
more player friendly. So we're putting a pick a ball
court back there, a sport court back there, and it's
a little miniature golf deal, and we're trying to make
it a place where my players want to come hang out,
and our recruits want to come hang out, and you know,
our goal is to open our house to our players
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and become you know, their family and whether it's our
current roster, whether it's our recruits.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
So we have a pretty significant.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Renovation going on back there, which is really putting me
in a great you know, a great place with my
wife right now.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yeah, we just went to a pickleball renovation that itself
took four months to do and was just people all
it's just people. My why could be like there's people
here all the time because there was always something to
be done in the backyard.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Yeah, that's what I'm about. That started last Monday. So
things are going great at the house right now.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
A lot of travel just in general, but now you've
got to travel all the way across the country. And
I was just looking at some of you guys' games
because again, it used to be the Pac twelve used
to be. I mean, you got to like hydrate like
super hydrate now because I fly south. If I fly
southwest over two hours, I got a headache when I
land because I didn't drink enough water. You guys are
flying all over all over the freaking country. Coach Uh,
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how do you prepare your players on time zones? I mean,
is there a playbook yet to that?
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Well, you know, we it's kind of very NFL like
in that regard because when you're playing. I mean I
coached in New England and we were flying across the
country to play in LA. In San Francisco, we played Arizona.
When we were coaching LA, we flew across the country
to play the Giants and Dolphins. So you kind of
steal that playbook. And I would say that playbook is
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one in which you you know, you leave two days early.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
You try to get I.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Guess those scientists call it what circadian rhythms. Right, You've
got to overhydrate before you get on the plane. You've
got to enforce, especially young kids eighteen to twenty two, like,
all right, every thirty minutes, we have to have a
bottle of water completed. We have to make sure that
when we get off the plane we get enough moving around.
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I mean we're flying to Rutgers from Seattle. That's five
hours and whatever. It's like an eight hour and fifteen
minute you know day, let's call it. With the three
hour time frame. In the five hour flight, we're flying
to state college. We're flying at Iowa City, we're flying
to Indianapolis. I mean, all these flights are four or
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five hours long, if not even a little bit more
going to state college. So we've got to come up
with a plan. We think we have a decent plan.
I don't know, we haven't played the game yet. But
you know, it also depends what time you kick off. Like,
if we kicked off at twelve o'clock, that's nine am
our time. I don't know how much football we've played
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at nine am other than training. If we kick off
at seven thirty at night in Seattle, that's ten thirty
at night for some of these East Coast teams. So
I think, really, we're gonna have to figure all that
out as we go, but we're gonna do everything we
can to keep these kids hydrated up and not let
the circumstances define how we play the game.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
See I need to write that and overhydrate before and
then a bottle of water every thirty minutes because I
get off a plane on like my head hurts and
my wife's like, you idiot, this happens every time you fly.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Why do you not drink more water? Coach whenever you're in.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
The NFL and you have the resume that you do
and you've been around so many NFL players, can you
pretty much spot collegiately physically who can make it in
the league.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Yeah, I think you can.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
It's you know, it's one of those challenging things, right,
Like you can stand in front of your college football
team and you could say who's playing on sun who
has the dream to play on Sunday?
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And every person in the room.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Is going to stand up, And then you can kind
of say, like, all right, who has a realistic who
realistically believes they're going to play on Sunday? And they
all keep standing. So, you know, you don't want to
ruin anyone's dream. You don't want to, you know, kind
of tell them a you know, this is probably gonna
be a four year run for you, but you do
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have an idea of what it takes. You kind of
know what their bodies look like in the league, you
know what their work ethic looks like. It's very hard
to just change that over a course of time. So
we spend a lot of time talking about what what
these guys look like like. I show them all the
time pictures of NFL players and I you know, hey,
this is what a safety in the league looks like.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Do you look like this? You look like this when
you're working out? Do you look like this when you're running?
Do you look like this in the weight room?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Is this you?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Or is this what you want to be?
Speaker 8 (34:50):
And if it's not you, are you willing to commit
to trying to get your body to look like that.
We do that with every position group constantly, and it's
it's not trying to make people not feel good about themselves,
but more it's about trying to get these kids to understand, like,
let's have a realistic goal and let's embrace college football.
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I don't think there's a better sport in America than
college football. But if all you're doing is you're just
waiting for the next opportunity and you're not appreciating the moment,
then you're missing out on such great opportunity here. So
we try to encourage them to say, like, hey, yeah,
you might end up being an NFL player, and we're
going to try to do everything we can to help
you there. But like, let's love the fact that you know,
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there's seventy five thousand people watching eleven people play, and
if it was easy, there'd be eleven people watching seventy
five thousand people play.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Thing.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I should look at more ripped up dudes. Then that's
why I need to just see pictures of things I
need to be a coachuration.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Yes, it hasn't worked for me, by the way, I'm
just saying for the players, it could work.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
With your story about how you came up and coaching,
and you know, you were someone who knew you wanted
to be around great leaders so you could learn leadership.
I'm inserting words. You know when I read your stories
about you and Spurrier and the coaches that you worked under.
Do you look for that with people that want to
work for you now where maybe they don't have quite
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the resume, but that you see something in them that
is extra special.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Yeah, you know, I think that for us, we want
to have people that are that aspire to succeed and
grow in the profession. I love people that have been
around great players, great coaches, great players that are inspired
to do certain things. I mean, we have Pete carroll
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son on our staff, Bill Belichick's son on our staff,
or two coordinators. We have John Lynch's son on our
staff as our defensive graduate assistant, with Jack de Rio's
son on our staff as our offensive quality control coach
assistant running back coach. I do that because those guys
know it took their dads. They were moving around as kids,
(37:04):
they were a part of all different staffs. They heard
the stories from their dads when they got home from work,
so they know, you know what that felt like and
looked like. They know what when their dads were talking
about good coaches or bad coaches and what that meant.
And then we've got some other coaches on our staff
that either played in the league or aspired to play
in the league, and I want those guys to really
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be around that group and be able to not just
be around Brennan and Steve, but also be around Pete
and Bill. And we invite those guys to our building.
Coach Belichick's been here all week. Coach del Rio is
coming tomorrow. I think he'll be here for a week.
Coach Carrol's been around practice a bunch. Because I want
our assistant coaches to be able to grab those guys
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and be like, Hey, what do you think about this
or what do you think we should do here?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
How do I grow in this profession.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
But in the end, you know, I think you just
got to work, you know, every day, like somebody's working
twenty four hours day to take your job.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
I feel like Coach Belichick has shown me a new
side of him where he's actually pretty funny. I've been
watching on TV a lot where you know, you get
the presser he would say nothing, and that was just
the expectation.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
But like, if you're having dinner with him, is he
just like cuttingly funny at times?
Speaker 8 (38:16):
Yeah, he's got a great he's got a great personality,
And yeah, I think that the way he's handled the
media over the years is probably based on thirty something
years of how it went right, Like I don't know
what it was like in nineteen ninety four in the media, right,
and I think all these years have gone on that
he created a persona and he also created a messaging
(38:40):
that he wanted to give, which really was what we
do in houses in house, and it's really not that
important for the others to know what we're doing in house.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
That was maybe the way he handled it.
Speaker 8 (38:52):
But when you're with them privately, or when you're with
him in a different type of setting, we really enjoy him.
My wife and I've spent many of times out for
dinner and vacation, and you certainly learned so much about
the guy. And he's brilliant. He's brilliant outside of football.
He's so well read and well versed. But he's also
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funny and really a good dude to just hang out with.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Is it crazy to you that you'll just be hanging
out with these dudes? At one point you looked at
as like mentor, Like you just mentioned like three or
four guys, and it's like they could be at your house.
You had Pete, Carroll Belichick, and you're like, man, they
also think I'm cool? Now, Like, isn't that like freaking awesome?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Well, it's cool. I mean, let me just say this.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
I've never called any of them by their first name,
so there's still my mentors.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I have a really hard time not calling them coach.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
And when you're around Coach Carroll or Coach Belichick, like,
you know, I don't think I just look at them,
you know in a way that I just I see
them as somebody that I've looked up to my whole career,
and now to be around him is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
It's pretty awesome. It's cool to be running the practice.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
But I've always said, like, when those guys are a
practice man, I'm the assistant head coach. I still look
at those guys as the head coach, whether they're just
sitting in the stands or watching the game, or whether
they're standing on the practice field talking to me or
one of our coaches. In the end, those guys are
revered and they've done some things in football that we
all just aspire to do.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Is it bad form to show up to Coach Belichick
and say will you signed this football?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Coach?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Like, would that be weird to just have them autograph stuff?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Or you get hey, can we take a quick selfie?
Speaker 8 (40:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Like I feel like I would want to do that
all the time.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
I would want all the coaches that came in, like
they're helping right now.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I would want them all to sign a ball.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
But I so my move is, Coach, if there's somebody
that I'm with and I'm like a massive fan of
I'll have somebody come up and be.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Like, oh, you too should get a picture together.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
That way, I didn't ask, so you could have someone
on your staff be like, hey, we're presenting coach Fish
with his ball, all the assistants that came in. It's
like Coach Carrol, Coach Belichick all on one ball, but
secretly you wanted it.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
And you can have that tip for free.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Coach that's a good tip. I like that idea.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And then you don't have to ask.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
You must get it all the time. People are always
trying to take pictures with you.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
It happens a little bit, but sometimes also people are
like confused as to why other people are taking pictures
with me. So like someone will take a picture and
then someone else will walk up and be like, hey,
who are you? And then then when you have to
explain nobody, it's like they don't care because I'm not
famous to them.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
You know, no question.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
Can you go to the grocery store without people being like,
Coach Fish, you're our savior?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Uh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Every now and then we'll get a how we doing
coach go dogs. But there's a lot of things happening
in Seattle. So they are Husky fans though through and through,
and we have a great fan base.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
We have a group.
Speaker 8 (41:50):
You know, I would say that the fans here are
just they They've showed out to everything we've asked them
to do. We know we're going to sell out our games.
We know that sale gating on the water is going
to be incredible. You know, I've heard that you've made
it out to the West Coast a couple of times,
and you know, I was kind of thinking, you can
check out Seattle and be on the water and we'd
get on a boat and do this thing.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
But maybe next year we can get you out here
and you could see.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
It well, Coach, full transparency, all that is true. But
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
We did not come. We did not get invited in time.
We went out to another school, which we won't mention.
Not important, not important, not important at all, not into
a couple other schools. We went to your old school
as well, and they still speak of you extremely lovingly.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
They're not even that mad at.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
You, really, I promise you.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
I'm telling we spent a lot of time there. Even
ex players do not speak ill of Coach Fish. I'm
telling I would just not say anything at all.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
But you are still wait to hear wall.
Speaker 8 (42:51):
I love those kids, and the head coach that got
Coach Brennan is a great a great coach and a
good friend.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
So I'm excited for them. I'm excited route them on.
Speaker 8 (43:00):
But obviously the players over there that we that we
recruited and we brought in there, I can't wait to
watch them succeed. They are fantastic kids and really a
special match out there in.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
Tucson Final three questions. But I'll say this, We're next season,
We're coming out.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
I love it a plus. We're gonna come. Okay, Eddie,
you go.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Ahead, Yeah, coach. I have four boys and they all
play sports, and I tell them, you know your your
body language is important. You know you have bad body language.
The coach is not going to think you're serious and
look like you're listening. Is that important to you?
Speaker 5 (43:33):
Is?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
But body language, bad body language, all that is that
important to you as a coach.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
Fantastic coaching, Tim. I would absolutely tell my kids. I'd
tell my own kids that body languages, Oh, I would
say the most important thing when you're talking to a player,
how they respond. You could feel it, you could see
it if they get disappointed at their shoulders shot and
like walk confidently like I do. Just tell them you
want to walk on the field, and you want to
(43:58):
tip the field. You want it to look like this
when you're walking downhill all the time. So body language
is critical, great parenting right there.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Thank you coach.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
As a coach, do you still get nervous.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Yeah, yeah, I get nervous or that about game day?
Speaker 5 (44:17):
Yeah yeah, I'm like for a game, I mean I
don't know about I don't know what else you're up to,
but for games like that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
Yeah, I get nervous about it. We're gonna have nothing,
I own money. I get nervous about a lot of things.
But without a question on game there there's nothing more.
There's nothing more exhilarating. But yeah, I mean I have
this like I still have to call the offensive plays
and I always go and through this panic attack.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Like what if I just like freeze, I can't think
of a play. So yeah, we work.
Speaker 8 (44:45):
I work very hard and we work as a staff
very hard to be as prepared as you could possibly be.
But yeah, I mean like, I mean, yeah, I get nervous,
and I try to do the best I can to
alleviate the nerve, the anxiet for our players.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
But I try to I do take it on myself.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
This isn't the final question, but something you just said
about NI own money, So I have a friend who's
a head football coach somewhere. I won't implement him into this,
but he says he spent more time on the phone
ever just he's just talking to people about money, like
he more than he ever thought he would. He is
a head coach of a major program, and he's like,
it's what I do. I dedicate a lot of time
to it. Very similarly, I was asked about running for
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the governor of Arkansas where I'm from, back in the day,
and they were like, you're on the phone all the
time begging for money.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
That's really what it is.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
It feels like, at least until there are some changes,
that it's a lot of politiic and for cash right
now to keep up.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Would you say that's accurate, Yeah, And.
Speaker 8 (45:43):
I'd also say I mean it's kind of frustrating in
a manner that I could imagine for others that you
feel like every conversation you have it's always you're talking
to people, you're trying to get him to build a
relationship with you just moved to a new community, and
then traditionally always stews off and saying, now, if you
can help our program, we would really appreciate it, or
(46:05):
you know, any hell will make a huge difference in
the success of our program.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
But it's every day. It's every day, it's all day.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
It's every opportunity to send an email, to send a note,
to get.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
On the phone.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Every break that I have is really dedicated to fundraising.
Speaker 8 (46:24):
And it's fundraising for NIL, it's fundraising for our facility,
it's fundraising for our program. I think that's just the
nature of being a college football head coach right now,
and hopefully at some point it'll maybe recalibrate, But right now, yeah,
I would agree with your friend who's a coach that
a lot of our time is spent.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
You on a fundraise.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
All right, final question, your mount rushmore of your favorite
musical artists of all time?
Speaker 2 (46:48):
I need all four of them all time.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Coach Darth Brooks, Billy Joel bon Jovi. I'm from New Jersey.
Account I would say Kenny Chesson.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Wow, from New Jersey with two country country guys, my
wife from Texas.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 5 (47:09):
Yeah, well then that makes sense. Hey, coach, we really
appreciate the time, and we're rooting for you guys, and
we're we're on a boat. Not only are we coming
next year. You promised a boat. We don't care what
body of water it is, but we're going to be
on a boat and we're gonna come up and spend
some time there.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Thank you for the time. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
Thank you, guys, appreciate it. Bobby, thank you man.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Thanks coach all right, thank you guys for being here. Eddie,
good to have you back.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Yure Man, thank you. It was fun to be back.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
Thanks to Coach Fish and I don't know, we'll see
you later on. I don't know what day we're gonna
do another one, probably Friday or so. We have a
ton of scheduled interviews this weekend.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
That was read what do you you know? We're on right?
Speaker 7 (47:51):
Sorry guys, Sorry, it was just big down everything.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Okay over there, we're good.
Speaker 7 (47:56):
We've got a pile over here, but we're good.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
A pile of what cords and and headphones and yeah, connectors?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Whatnot?
Speaker 5 (48:04):
My favorite thing with read any show? And I can
always appreciate his authenticity. Read you watch any sports?
Speaker 3 (48:09):
No? No, he didn't watch it.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
No, I got nothing and watch some clips.
Speaker 5 (48:13):
Oh yeah, lovel yes, so check out the Instagram now,
is uh Bobby bone sports?
Speaker 2 (48:21):
You can go and check it out.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (48:24):
Gotta go, Gotta go to the airport, flying to Baltimore
to do a baseball card thing.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yes we're nerds. Thank you guys, and we will see
you later on this week. By every buddy, what it was,
Thank you,
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