December 13, 2024 • 29 mins
In the second hour, Dick Fain and Hugh Millen chat with Jerry Brewer about the 2024 Seahawks, Geno Smith’s future, Bill Belichick’s move, the College Football Playoff, and Huskies football, then Hugh reacts to Belichick’s move to UNC, and the fallout from it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's roll into the four o'clock hour. Yes,
Christmas time. Jackson's got the Hits being played right now.
Hugh Millen joining us till seven tonight, but right now.
We talked to our friend Jerry Brewer, who was with
us on a weekly basis in the summertime. We hope
to do it again this year. I guess, I guess
my people just have to talk to Jerry's people so
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we can make that happen again. That hasn't happened yet.
But Jerry, how you doing, man?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm doing great, man. It's good to hear your voice.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Absolutely, it's great to have you on again. And you know,
let's start with let's pick up basically on the promo
we just heard from me, and I think he put
it really six succinctly in the promo. He's got running
right now. I mean, this is a Seahawks football team
that it's tough for any of us to make out
what they actually are because there are some games that
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you just leave going what the heck was that I e.
The Giants, i E. The Jets game, even though they won,
you were just like what in the world. And then
at times it's the Atlanta game. It's the Arizona game
from this last week where you're like, man, they they're
just a complete football team on both sides. What is
the Seahawks team in your mind?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
They're a team that's becoming, you know, under a first
year coach, you know, a bunch of first year coordinators
learning a different way.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Of doing things. I think it's starting to take hold.
Not surprised that they're streaky. I mean at three and oh,
I was thinking, oh, well, maybe this thing is.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Going to be a guaranteed eleven wins, and then they
lose five out of six and then now they've come
back to life in a big way. I think what
we've seen the past month is a good indicator of
where they're.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Going to be, you know, moving forward.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But now they got this difficult task of finishing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Rams have already beaten them once.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It doesn't look like they're going to be clear of
the Rams to render that that game you know, at
the end of the season irrelevant. So it does seem
like we're headed in this direction where that last game
is going to be for the division and you know
that's a little bit scary. Uh And hopefully there's still
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some wiggle room where maybe like the number seven seed,
it's still an option. But you know you're sitting there
eight and five, you got you got a month left. Uh,
they really need to go get it. And I think
we're going to learn the next two weeks exactly how
much this team has improved because they're playing you know,
two real you know, big dogs.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
In the NFC.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Indeed, they are in Jerry brew with is Terry. If
you were writing to call them Seahawk related for the
Sunday or or this weekend prior to the game, what
what's top of mind for you? What it would it be,
you know, maybe about this game. Maybe it's about Geno
contract situation. Maybe it's more of a big picture, maybe
it's a micro this weekend. Just what what would be
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the source of uh your the topic for your calm?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, Hugh, I think it would be more big picture,
right like that, This this set of home games, you know,
against the Packers and Vikings. Uh, this is different than
a diminished forty nine Ers team, ailing, different than an
up and down Cardinals team, different from a lost Jets team,
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you know, different, different from you know, you know, having
a de facto home game, you know, in Arizona and
finishing off the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So you know, this is this is there. I look
at it like this, Hugh.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is their time to show that they're a good
football team against the backdrop of this is your opportunity
to show the fans who have very much been in
kind of a proven state, you know, like the I
mean the Rabbit fans are the Rabbit fans. But Loomenfield
is not jumping like it should be jumping. It's jumping
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like uh, like a like a place that was spoiled
for a long time and is trying to figure out
whether they can like invest their heart in this thing
again with just.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The fury that we know that they have.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And so I think this is like, you know, it's
it's perception changing.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I think for this entire.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Many rebuild or whatever word you want to use for
what they're doing under McDonald. And I think that as
good as the Packers and the Vikings have been this year,
these are two teams that aren't going to run away
from you.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It would be very disappointing if it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Were like a Buffalo Bills like outcome, you know, against
either one of these teams and at home, you know,
I mean, you're hoping for one and one.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But you know, I'd like to see them sweep these
two games.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Absolutely, And you know, I'm one of those rabid fans,
and yet they still got to prove it to me.
I still don't know that they're they're a great team
at all. Jerry Brewer joining us the national sports columnists
from the Washington Post, and you know, Hugh alluded to
the Gino situation. I'd love to get your thoughts on that,
because you know, where were you at the beginning of
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the season on giving Gino a new contract and which
direction have you moved in that sense.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm not sure that I've moved anywhere. Like I'm still
trying to trying to figure this out, and you're still
feeling out obviously this being year one with Ryan Grubb.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You know what he wants to do, like how he's
vibing with Gino, how he's learning the pro game.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
The offensive line was in such disarray at the start
of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's almost like.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You have to grade on this weird curve, both the
OC and the quarterback. And now that they have a
little bit of momentum, maybe we'll have a better indication.
You know, I love this game on because you know
they're playing a fifteen million dollar quarterback and a guy
who you know when you put when you go side
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by side and you have a matchup like this. The
Seaofks defense just can't win this game. Just balling out
like they have recently, like Jordan Love and that offense
and Matt Leafloyd. They're gonna find ways to score points
and do some things and it's gonna be incumbent on
the Seahawks. The Seahawks offense to put twenty four points
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at least on the board, I think to win this game.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Jerry Brewer with us and Jerry, let's switch to probably
the topic of the week.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You're not far from there regionally. I know you have
big thoughts on the whole overall structure and the changes
in college football, college sports, and now Bill Belichick he
decides to, you know, just plan himself right in the
middle of all that. What was your reaction to the
news of Belichick in North Carolina this week?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, we had a little bit of a of a
of a runway Hugh right to be like, man, is
this going to happen?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is this really going to happen? And think about it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like my first reaction when it started to bubble up
that he was meeting with the chancellor.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Was like, ah, you know, like he's just doing.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
This to get get some NFL teams out of the
woodwork and see if if anybody wants them.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And then once it got.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Real, you know, I look at it and I say, like,
this is this is going to be like a real
indication of where we are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Uh in college football in general.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And I think like it's more revelatory for the sport
itself than it is for the coach.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Uh. Do I know what Bill Belichick is going to do? No? Do?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think like there are very much ways And I
think the a SEC plays eight, they still want who
plays eight conference games?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm not sure they are.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Even if they play nine. Uh, you can manipulate your
schedule in such a way that you know you have
seven wins. And I mean the ACC, I wish we'd
stop calling it Power four guys. We have a super
two conference setup. That's right, you know that the we
can we have to stop acting like the ACC and
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this revised Big twelve are the same as the SEC
and the Big Ten. It's not even close week to
week and so I'm saying that because you know Mac Brown,
who is just you know, recruiting and goofing off, and
the game has really passed him by.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He was able to get eight wins most years out
of those North Carolina teams, and that wasn't good enough, right.
I think Bill Belichick is a safe bet to have
if he wants to do this for four or five years,
to you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Go eight and four, eight and five most years.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The question is like, what what's his ceiling? What can
he do as a college coacher? And can he win
the acc Does he have some tenancy seasons in him?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Is he going to be happy?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Is he going to be one of these guys who
he's got forty new players every year.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And and it's kind.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of mutual, like they want to get away from him
and he hates them.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Like all those things are to be determined. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The coaching part of college football, I think he will.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Adjust to and be perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We know how good he is at coaching, We know
how good he is at adjusting to the personnel that
he has and just teaching the game. All the other
stuff which how much of college football is purely coaching
your football team, and how much of it is managing
the other stuff, whether it be n I l re
recruiting your players, dealing with boosters, being you know, the
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public faith of like an entire organization, right, Like there's
no Robert Kraft, you know, chumming it up with the
media so that you can just mumble three or four
words in college football, Like, how does he deal.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
With all of that? Is It's fascinating, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'm I'm glad he did it because, like I think
it's going to be the most compelling, you know, story,
and it really mixes some things up in the sport,
and I just I can't wait to see what kind
of talent he gets and what he does well.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Jerry, to your point on the Super two instead of
the power for I totally agree with one hundred percent.
And that's why I was a little bit. Hey, I
got no love for Alabama, but I was a little
bit taken aback by the decision to have SMU going
to the playoffs against Alabama. I mean, nobody in the
right mind would think that SMU is actually a better
football team in Alabama, but some thought that they had
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a better better resume simply because they played an easier
schedule and had one less win. So what needs what
needs changing? Is it simply give the Big ten champ
in the SEC champ the only buy spots or I mean,
do you just eliminate buys all together? How or do
you recede? What would what would eliminate what we have now,
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which is like Arizona State and Boise State getting a
buy in the first round.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, Dick, I don't I don't think that, uh, conference champion,
I mean the automatic bid for the top the you know,
the five top conferences.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like that's enough.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I don't think you need a double reward every conference
champion when you have two conferences that are just head
and shoulders and like, not only two conferences, I mean
these are thirty four teams, right, Like we used to
think of conferences as ten or twelve teams, right, you
are thirty four teams. I mean that's that's what uh
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you know, twenty percent of college football?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So uh yeah, I think you should just do a
true seating. And if you do a true seating, I
think I wrote a column this week.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Kind of breaking that down.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
In Texas and Penn State would have been the three
and four seeds so it would have been all all
SEC Big.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Ten, and so be it right.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Like, I mean, I think there are years when a
dominant Clemson team or a Miami team if they had
had gone and done what they were supposed to do
and run the table in the ACC or on occasion,
maybe a really dominant Big twelve team if you can
still create that, or Boise if Boise had beaten Oregon. Yeah,
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I mean there are scenarios I think where somebody can
break into the buy one of those four bys, right,
But I don't think you can automatically do this thing right.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Like, the most laughable.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Thing I thought in this whole thing was, you know,
all of a sudden, like Clemson back doors its way
in and they are absolutely should be the twelve seed.
But what was Davo doing, you know, minutes before or
the whole announcement when we won the a SEC.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We should get one of those buys, right Exactly. To
have a system where we have to even give consideration
to Clemson possibly being a bye, it's just an absolute joke.
So I think just truly seeding the field.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Like you do in the NCAA basketball tournaments would solve
a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Jerry brewth Listen and Jerry, let's say you were on
the committee and there was an odd number on the
committee and it was the other remainders were absolutely divided
on who should have been the twelfth team, and you're
now the deciding vote. So whatever you submit, that's who's
going in at number twelve. Now, is it Alabama, is
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it SMU, or is it a unnamed third team? In
Jerry Brewer's mind, how would have you solved that and
settled that dispute?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It would have been SMU for me, And I'm thick.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I'm judging, you know, a resume and also common sense
and what I want to reward and what I want
to punish. Do I think that if if you lined
SMU and Alabama up and they played each other, with
Alabama probably win. Yes, you know, but that's too much
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of like a you know, I don't know that it
automatically has to come down to that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You know, I still look at an Alabama team.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Even though they had those tremendous highs with with what
three top twenty five wins and that crazy holding on.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And won that crazy game against Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You know, I'm still docking them and saying, look, you
had a lot of.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Chances to get in this thing. You lost the Vandy.
Vandy went on and went six and six.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Then at the very end of the year, you just
straight up no showed in Oklahoma against a really, really
bad Oklahoma team and they only scored three points in
that game.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And maybe it would have changed my mind. He looked
at that game was.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Like thirty seven thirty one, and your defense didn't play well.
But just to only have a field goal in that game,
you know, I just it's it's the weakest Alabama team
we've seen in quite a long time. They were very
fortunate last year and Nick Saban's last year to get
that fourth spot over Florida State because of Florida State's injuries.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That was the right call.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Then, I think this is the right call now and
for Alabama. You know, just know, if you are fifty
to fifty, you know, if you're on the bubble, you know,
sometimes you're on the right side of the bubble, and
sometimes the bubble burst in your faith.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Jerry, before we let you go. The Huskies finished six
and six this year. The pessimists would say, man, they
weren't even close to competitive against any good to very
good team that they played, and then the optimists would say, well,
god man, we were a missed field goal and a
one yard run against Wazoo from being eight and four
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in Jedfish's first year. So how do you evaluate the
job Jed did this season?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You know, can can you check back with me?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You know, and like, you know October of next year, right, like,
you know, it's you know, the fact that they changed
coaches after the national title game was going to like
put any coach in the situation behind the eight ball,
right like, because now when your coach leaves, that portal
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reopens for everybody. They lost some considerable talent to the
portal that maybe maybe if there was continuity, you know,
you wouldn't have had to deal with all of that.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Certainly you wouldn't have had to deal with all of that.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think Jetfish there's some things about him that I like,
there's some things about him that I really don't know,
and I want to see more, Like I want to
see a team that's more in his image, a team
that's you know.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Bigger and better, more big, tentified up front, which very
much is.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You know, he knows this, right and he's going out
and in his recruiting and portal efforts, he's already starting
to address some of that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I want to see. I want to see Jetfish, you know,
really buy into the.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Fact that he's here, right Like, I mean, I still
there's a certain way about him that makes you wonder
if he's a short timer. I would like to for him,
you know, and there's subtle changes that you may you know,
get to know the media better, get to just like
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really kind of settle into the job.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
But that said, right like, he had to hit.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The ground running and he never got a chance to
really take a breath. And finally he's going to get
a chance to take a breath and be the head
coach at Washington. And that's what you want to see.
You want to see him comfortable and someone who's who's committing,
I think, to the long term unless just something absolutely
blows him away. And so I want to have that feel. Uh,
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you know, I like the fact that, you know, it
seemed to me that that they're becoming, you know, a
little more back.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
To some of their roots and and uh, you.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Know, the way they approach things on the defensive end,
Like but you're going to have some change there.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Most likely, right, Like.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, uh, Bill is probably coming for a son, and
his son.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Did a really really.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Good job with what he had this year, so that's
a little bit of a thing.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't think that's insurmountable, but you know, I think they're.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Okay, let's see, let's see, let's see how they do
in the Frosted Flates Bowl or whatever the hell it is.
I think it's a Brewer Bowl because I came from
Louisville and then came to Seattle, the two college programs
that I've covered the most in my life. You know,
they're going at it in al Paco. So I'm excited
about that game. But just the last point that just
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it's it's I think one of the hardest things in
following college sports now is you never really know where
your program is because we have yet to recalibrate to
the way things have changed, and everything can be so
year to year and there's so many variables to consider.
You don't know exactly what to hang your hat on.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And I'm really.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Interested in how how Jed Fish, who's open to all
of this change, how he normalizes and kind of builds
consistency within his program even though his roster may be
in a constant state of flux.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Jerry, always wonderful to talk to. You have a wonderful
holiday season. Man, all right, you tube man take Okay?
Mary Christmaste here Okay. Jerry Brewer from the Washington Post,
our old friend.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We got to get him back this summer, no question
about it. He was a great weekly guest for us
during baseball season. We'll get Hughes take on this Bill
Belichick to North Carolina situation and how replaceable is Steve
Belichick is defensive coordinator? What kind of job did Belichick
do with this defense? And huge mind? We'll talk about
that next on ninety three point three KJRFM. Now back
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to the Washington State Beat Commissions Football Friday with Saftian
Dick on your home for the NFL Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
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Speaker 1 (20:44):
Softian Deck without the soft One on a Friday afternoon.
Hugh is with us. Our thanks to Jerry Brewer for
joining us. In the last segment, Chuck Palell is going
to give us a little hot stoven man, do we
need a hot stove?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
League?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
On a forty five degree rainy night, that is like
the perfect time for a little warm up by Chuck
Powell's hot stove at six o'clock talking a little potential
Luis Castillo trade. What kind of bats does he want
to bring into this offense. We'll talk a little base
ball at six o'clock with Chuck Powell. But Hugh obviously
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the big story of the week in the sports in
the country. I don't think anything should passes the all
time Super Bowl winner in Bill Belichick heading to college
to be the head coach at North Carolina. I can't
get over Stuart Mandel's comments. Here's Stuart Mandel's quote. It
is a very well known and very very well respected
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college football writer. Congrats North Carolina. You managed to hire
someone completely unqualified to be your next football coach. Unless
he can magically restore eligibility to Tom Brady. I fail
to see how this will end well end quote from
Stuart Mandel. So I guess, I guess that's one side
of the continuum that I'm sure there's another side of
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the continuum, probably a guy that you know, where's a
Carolina Blue sweatshirt every day to work, who is just
totally fired up about this higre. So where do you
stand on the all time great Super Bowl winning coach
heading to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, Dick, I got a lot of thoughts about it, because,
you know, first of all, starting with or not starting
with but just you know, he's got this twenty four
year old girlfriend, you know, and I feel like he's
been trying to stay relevant, you know, taking pictures with
her in mermaid outfits on the beach, and you know,
I don't know. Look, I'm sure it has nothing to it.
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He's a pro. But I think it's interesting that he's
hung around the around the University of Washington.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And so that exposure.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
When he goes up in the press conference and he says,
I've always wanted to coach. I never had the chance
my dad did. I you know, I'm gonna take for
him out his word.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
There can be two truths that he would prefer to
have been, you know, the cowboy coach or some other
you know, good opportunity in the NFL. But I think
it can also be true that he's very excited about this.
I think if he has good people around him, good coordinators,
I think he you know, he's proven that he can
be a good CEO. For the most part, I say,
for the most part because and I touched on these
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numbers this morning, Dick, but I'll just repeat him.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
So Bill Belichick his win percentage in his entire career
is six forty seven. Hey, that's ranked twentieth in the
in the NFL. His win percentage when Tom Brady starts
as his quarterback is seven sixty nine. That would be
good enough on the history of the NFL, number two
all time to only Guy Chamberlain back like in the thirties,
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and one ahead of John Madden.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
By the way, when Tom Brady.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Is not his quarterback, this is going back to Browns
when he was thirty six and forty four. This is
Drew bred Bledsoe going five and eleven and then zho
and two before he got hurt on the mo Lewis
or whatever the jet hit that broke his lungs up.
His winning record again, this is Belichick's winning percentage record
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is four to sixty three, and that would put him
one behind rather Joe Philbond and Jerry Glanville.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So this is a guy.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
And by the one final thought on that, there have
been ten quarterbacks not named Tom Brady who've had more
than three starts for Bill Belichick. Of the ten, only
two have winning records. One of them is Vinny Testaverdi
is seventeen sixteen, one game.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Over five hundred.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
The only one who's the monster over five hundred is
Matt Castle at ten and five. Everybody else has a
losing record. I mean, you know, and so it's really
remarkable his legacy. There's no question he's going, you know,
he's gonna have a bust first ballot Hall of Famer.
But if you really peel the onion, I compare it
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to Nick Saban who has seven championships, six at Alabama
one at LSU. Those seven championships were one with six
different quarterbacks. Only AJ McCarron, who wasn't exactly Joe Namath
right to reference an Alabama luminary. Uh, he's the only
guy that won too. So this is a guy in
saban in Uh, in my opinion, a much better college
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coach than Belichick has been a pro. But I do
think he has the juice. He's got a uh, he's
gonna sell a no nonsense approach. The kind of guy,
the good athlete if they got the nil money, the
kind of guy that would be, you know, a quasi
you know, consider the military academies, you know, stro wanting structure,
that type of guy maturity, wants the pro experience and
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is willing to just you know, doesn't need the fluff,
just wants you know, meat and potatoes, garden variety, good
coaching experience. I could see a lot of players wanting
to play for him.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I did think it was interesting that he chose to
bring up the University of Washington in his press conference,
and he called it a template for how he wants
to run his team in North Carolina. His quote was,
I spent a lot of time around the Washington program.
I was out there in the spring training camp and
during the regular season. I saw a lot of what
they did. I think coach Fish runs a pro program,
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and I think that's very similar to what my thoughts
will be on that. So I don't know how much
that resonates. I kind of feel like it's a big deal,
Like I'm kind of puffing my chest out that Bill
Belichick and his opening press conference at his new school
would be willing to, you know, kind of put Jedfish
in my program. Out there on a pedestal is something
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he is that am I making too much of that?
Does that resonate at all with an eighteen year old
kid or at twenty one year old transfer guy.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, well, I think there's you know, there's a substance,
and then there's the perception of substance, right, And I
think Belichick is going to be a no nonsense guy.
I think if you said, okay, let me go to
pick any of the programs that you think are top
ten or fifteen programs. I mean, I've I got kids
at Oregon and Florida right there there, you know, right,
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and and and.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And other things in between.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
If you just said, okay, what are the attributes of
an NFL experience? You know, the weight training, the the
you know, certainly their schemes, but the practice template, you
know you're gonna have roster construction. I think you you'd
find that there's a hell of a lot of similarities.
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I don't think Jedfish. I think Jedfish is selling that
they're demonstrated, right, demonstrably different. I don't think that they're
demonstrably different. And I think if Bill Belichick had the time,
you know, if his son had been at Georgia Alabama,
he'd South Carolina, Texas, right, you know, he'd probably be saying, oh,
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this is run a lot like the NFL. It's a
nice comment, and I think there's definitely true to it.
I'm not, I'm not. I don't want to peel all
that away, but I don't think it's I don't think
there's just like some huge difference between how Washington and
Bill Belichick want to do it, Like, oh, they're they're
only uniquely the ones that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Are trying to do pro stuff, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
And you know, it comes to mind that Charlie Weiss,
who was Belichick's one of the first, one of his
first offensive coordinators, the offensive coordinator when Brady won his
first Super Bowl, And I think there's a couple in there.
Whenever he went to Notre Dame, if you go back
to his press conference, I should have pulled the quote,
but I can remember him saying, We're going to bring
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NFL style scheming and personnel grouping and the emotion. He's basically
selling it like I'm going to bring my genius brain
with all of my NFL knowledge down to these you know,
these whipper snappers, these local yocals, and I'm just gonna
whip up on them with my you know, so, sir, look,
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I think some of that is definitely over sold.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
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Christmas time. Jackson's got the Hits being played right now.
Hugh Millen joining us till seven tonight, but right now.
We talked to our friend Jerry Brewer, who was with
us on a weekly basis in the summertime. We hope
to do it again this year. I guess, I guess
my people just have to talk to Jerry's people so
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we can make that happen again. That hasn't happened yet.
But Jerry, how you doing, man?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm doing great, man. It's good to hear your voice.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Absolutely, it's great to have you on again. And you know,
let's start with let's pick up basically on the promo
we just heard from me, and I think he put
it really six succinctly in the promo. He's got running
right now. I mean, this is a Seahawks football team
that it's tough for any of us to make out
what they actually are because there are some games that
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you just leave going what the heck was that I e.
The Giants, i E. The Jets game, even though they won,
you were just like what in the world. And then
at times it's the Atlanta game. It's the Arizona game
from this last week where you're like, man, they they're
just a complete football team on both sides. What is
the Seahawks team in your mind?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
They're a team that's becoming, you know, under a first
year coach, you know, a bunch of first year coordinators
learning a different way.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Of doing things. I think it's starting to take hold.
Not surprised that they're streaky. I mean at three and oh,
I was thinking, oh, well, maybe this thing is.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Going to be a guaranteed eleven wins, and then they
lose five out of six and then now they've come
back to life in a big way. I think what
we've seen the past month is a good indicator of
where they're.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Going to be, you know, moving forward.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But now they got this difficult task of finishing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Rams have already beaten them once.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It doesn't look like they're going to be clear of
the Rams to render that that game you know, at
the end of the season irrelevant. So it does seem
like we're headed in this direction where that last game
is going to be for the division and you know
that's a little bit scary. Uh And hopefully there's still
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some wiggle room where maybe like the number seven seed,
it's still an option. But you know you're sitting there
eight and five, you got you got a month left. Uh,
they really need to go get it. And I think
we're going to learn the next two weeks exactly how
much this team has improved because they're playing you know,
two real you know, big dogs.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
In the NFC.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Indeed, they are in Jerry brew with is Terry. If
you were writing to call them Seahawk related for the
Sunday or or this weekend prior to the game, what
what's top of mind for you? What it would it be,
you know, maybe about this game. Maybe it's about Geno
contract situation. Maybe it's more of a big picture, maybe
it's a micro this weekend. Just what what would be
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the source of uh your the topic for your calm?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, Hugh, I think it would be more big picture,
right like that, This this set of home games, you know,
against the Packers and Vikings. Uh, this is different than
a diminished forty nine Ers team, ailing, different than an
up and down Cardinals team, different from a lost Jets team,
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you know, different, different from you know, you know, having
a de facto home game, you know, in Arizona and
finishing off the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So you know, this is this is there. I look
at it like this, Hugh.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is their time to show that they're a good
football team against the backdrop of this is your opportunity
to show the fans who have very much been in
kind of a proven state, you know, like the I
mean the Rabbit fans are the Rabbit fans. But Loomenfield
is not jumping like it should be jumping. It's jumping
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like uh, like a like a place that was spoiled
for a long time and is trying to figure out
whether they can like invest their heart in this thing
again with just.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The fury that we know that they have.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And so I think this is like, you know, it's
it's perception changing.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I think for this entire.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Many rebuild or whatever word you want to use for
what they're doing under McDonald. And I think that as
good as the Packers and the Vikings have been this year,
these are two teams that aren't going to run away
from you.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It would be very disappointing if it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Were like a Buffalo Bills like outcome, you know, against
either one of these teams and at home, you know,
I mean, you're hoping for one and one.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But you know, I'd like to see them sweep these
two games.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Absolutely, And you know, I'm one of those rabid fans,
and yet they still got to prove it to me.
I still don't know that they're they're a great team
at all. Jerry Brewer joining us the national sports columnists
from the Washington Post, and you know, Hugh alluded to
the Gino situation. I'd love to get your thoughts on that,
because you know, where were you at the beginning of
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the season on giving Gino a new contract and which
direction have you moved in that sense.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm not sure that I've moved anywhere. Like I'm still
trying to trying to figure this out, and you're still
feeling out obviously this being year one with Ryan Grubb.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You know what he wants to do, like how he's
vibing with Gino, how he's learning the pro game.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
The offensive line was in such disarray at the start
of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's almost like.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You have to grade on this weird curve, both the
OC and the quarterback. And now that they have a
little bit of momentum, maybe we'll have a better indication.
You know, I love this game on because you know
they're playing a fifteen million dollar quarterback and a guy
who you know when you put when you go side
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by side and you have a matchup like this. The
Seaofks defense just can't win this game. Just balling out
like they have recently, like Jordan Love and that offense
and Matt Leafloyd. They're gonna find ways to score points
and do some things and it's gonna be incumbent on
the Seahawks. The Seahawks offense to put twenty four points
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at least on the board, I think to win this game.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Jerry Brewer with us and Jerry, let's switch to probably
the topic of the week.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You're not far from there regionally. I know you have
big thoughts on the whole overall structure and the changes
in college football, college sports, and now Bill Belichick he
decides to, you know, just plan himself right in the
middle of all that. What was your reaction to the
news of Belichick in North Carolina this week?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, we had a little bit of a of a
of a runway Hugh right to be like, man, is
this going to happen?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is this really going to happen? And think about it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like my first reaction when it started to bubble up
that he was meeting with the chancellor.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Was like, ah, you know, like he's just doing.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
This to get get some NFL teams out of the
woodwork and see if if anybody wants them.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And then once it got.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Real, you know, I look at it and I say, like,
this is this is going to be like a real
indication of where we are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Uh in college football in general.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And I think like it's more revelatory for the sport
itself than it is for the coach.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Uh. Do I know what Bill Belichick is going to do? No? Do?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think like there are very much ways And I
think the a SEC plays eight, they still want who
plays eight conference games?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm not sure they are.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Even if they play nine. Uh, you can manipulate your
schedule in such a way that you know you have
seven wins. And I mean the ACC, I wish we'd
stop calling it Power four guys. We have a super
two conference setup. That's right, you know that the we
can we have to stop acting like the ACC and
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this revised Big twelve are the same as the SEC
and the Big Ten. It's not even close week to
week and so I'm saying that because you know Mac Brown,
who is just you know, recruiting and goofing off, and
the game has really passed him by.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He was able to get eight wins most years out
of those North Carolina teams, and that wasn't good enough, right.
I think Bill Belichick is a safe bet to have
if he wants to do this for four or five years,
to you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Go eight and four, eight and five most years.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The question is like, what what's his ceiling? What can
he do as a college coacher? And can he win
the acc Does he have some tenancy seasons in him?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Is he going to be happy?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Is he going to be one of these guys who
he's got forty new players every year.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And and it's kind.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of mutual, like they want to get away from him
and he hates them.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Like all those things are to be determined. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
The coaching part of college football, I think he will.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Adjust to and be perfectly fine.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We know how good he is at coaching, We know
how good he is at adjusting to the personnel that
he has and just teaching the game. All the other
stuff which how much of college football is purely coaching
your football team, and how much of it is managing
the other stuff, whether it be n I l re
recruiting your players, dealing with boosters, being you know, the
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public faith of like an entire organization, right, Like there's
no Robert Kraft, you know, chumming it up with the
media so that you can just mumble three or four
words in college football, Like, how does he deal.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
With all of that? Is It's fascinating, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'm I'm glad he did it because, like I think
it's going to be the most compelling, you know, story,
and it really mixes some things up in the sport,
and I just I can't wait to see what kind
of talent he gets and what he does well.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Jerry, to your point on the Super two instead of
the power for I totally agree with one hundred percent.
And that's why I was a little bit. Hey, I
got no love for Alabama, but I was a little
bit taken aback by the decision to have SMU going
to the playoffs against Alabama. I mean, nobody in the
right mind would think that SMU is actually a better
football team in Alabama, but some thought that they had
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a better better resume simply because they played an easier
schedule and had one less win. So what needs what
needs changing? Is it simply give the Big ten champ
in the SEC champ the only buy spots or I mean,
do you just eliminate buys all together? How or do
you recede? What would what would eliminate what we have now,
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which is like Arizona State and Boise State getting a
buy in the first round.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, Dick, I don't I don't think that, uh, conference champion,
I mean the automatic bid for the top the you know,
the five top conferences.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like that's enough.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I don't think you need a double reward every conference
champion when you have two conferences that are just head
and shoulders and like, not only two conferences, I mean
these are thirty four teams, right, Like we used to
think of conferences as ten or twelve teams, right, you
are thirty four teams. I mean that's that's what uh
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you know, twenty percent of college football?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So uh yeah, I think you should just do a
true seating. And if you do a true seating, I
think I wrote a column this week.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Kind of breaking that down.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
In Texas and Penn State would have been the three
and four seeds so it would have been all all
SEC Big.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Ten, and so be it right.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Like, I mean, I think there are years when a
dominant Clemson team or a Miami team if they had
had gone and done what they were supposed to do
and run the table in the ACC or on occasion,
maybe a really dominant Big twelve team if you can
still create that, or Boise if Boise had beaten Oregon. Yeah,
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I mean there are scenarios I think where somebody can
break into the buy one of those four bys, right,
But I don't think you can automatically do this thing right.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Like, the most laughable.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Thing I thought in this whole thing was, you know,
all of a sudden, like Clemson back doors its way
in and they are absolutely should be the twelve seed.
But what was Davo doing, you know, minutes before or
the whole announcement when we won the a SEC.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We should get one of those buys, right Exactly. To
have a system where we have to even give consideration
to Clemson possibly being a bye, it's just an absolute joke.
So I think just truly seeding the field.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Like you do in the NCAA basketball tournaments would solve
a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Jerry brewth Listen and Jerry, let's say you were on
the committee and there was an odd number on the
committee and it was the other remainders were absolutely divided
on who should have been the twelfth team, and you're
now the deciding vote. So whatever you submit, that's who's
going in at number twelve. Now, is it Alabama, is
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it SMU, or is it a unnamed third team? In
Jerry Brewer's mind, how would have you solved that and
settled that dispute?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It would have been SMU for me, And I'm thick.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I'm judging, you know, a resume and also common sense
and what I want to reward and what I want
to punish. Do I think that if if you lined
SMU and Alabama up and they played each other, with
Alabama probably win. Yes, you know, but that's too much
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of like a you know, I don't know that it
automatically has to come down to that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You know, I still look at an Alabama team.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Even though they had those tremendous highs with with what
three top twenty five wins and that crazy holding on.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And won that crazy game against Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You know, I'm still docking them and saying, look, you
had a lot of.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Chances to get in this thing. You lost the Vandy.
Vandy went on and went six and six.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Then at the very end of the year, you just
straight up no showed in Oklahoma against a really, really
bad Oklahoma team and they only scored three points in
that game.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And maybe it would have changed my mind. He looked
at that game was.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Like thirty seven thirty one, and your defense didn't play well.
But just to only have a field goal in that game,
you know, I just it's it's the weakest Alabama team
we've seen in quite a long time. They were very
fortunate last year and Nick Saban's last year to get
that fourth spot over Florida State because of Florida State's injuries.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That was the right call.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Then, I think this is the right call now and
for Alabama. You know, just know, if you are fifty
to fifty, you know, if you're on the bubble, you know,
sometimes you're on the right side of the bubble, and
sometimes the bubble burst in your faith.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Jerry, before we let you go. The Huskies finished six
and six this year. The pessimists would say, man, they
weren't even close to competitive against any good to very
good team that they played, and then the optimists would say, well,
god man, we were a missed field goal and a
one yard run against Wazoo from being eight and four
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in Jedfish's first year. So how do you evaluate the
job Jed did this season?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You know, can can you check back with me?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You know, and like, you know October of next year, right, like,
you know, it's you know, the fact that they changed
coaches after the national title game was going to like
put any coach in the situation behind the eight ball,
right like, because now when your coach leaves, that portal
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reopens for everybody. They lost some considerable talent to the
portal that maybe maybe if there was continuity, you know,
you wouldn't have had to deal with all of that.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Certainly you wouldn't have had to deal with all of that.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think Jetfish there's some things about him that I like,
there's some things about him that I really don't know,
and I want to see more, Like I want to
see a team that's more in his image, a team
that's you know.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Bigger and better, more big, tentified up front, which very
much is.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
You know, he knows this, right and he's going out
and in his recruiting and portal efforts, he's already starting
to address some of that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I want to see. I want to see Jetfish, you know,
really buy into the.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Fact that he's here, right Like, I mean, I still
there's a certain way about him that makes you wonder
if he's a short timer. I would like to for him,
you know, and there's subtle changes that you may you know,
get to know the media better, get to just like
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really kind of settle into the job.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
But that said, right like, he had to hit.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The ground running and he never got a chance to
really take a breath. And finally he's going to get
a chance to take a breath and be the head
coach at Washington. And that's what you want to see.
You want to see him comfortable and someone who's who's committing,
I think, to the long term unless just something absolutely
blows him away. And so I want to have that feel. Uh,
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you know, I like the fact that, you know, it
seemed to me that that they're becoming, you know, a
little more back.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
To some of their roots and and uh, you.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Know, the way they approach things on the defensive end,
Like but you're going to have some change there.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Most likely, right, Like.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, uh, Bill is probably coming for a son, and
his son.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Did a really really.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Good job with what he had this year, so that's
a little bit of a thing.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't think that's insurmountable, but you know, I think they're.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Okay, let's see, let's see, let's see how they do
in the Frosted Flates Bowl or whatever the hell it is.
I think it's a Brewer Bowl because I came from
Louisville and then came to Seattle, the two college programs
that I've covered the most in my life. You know,
they're going at it in al Paco. So I'm excited
about that game. But just the last point that just
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it's it's I think one of the hardest things in
following college sports now is you never really know where
your program is because we have yet to recalibrate to
the way things have changed, and everything can be so
year to year and there's so many variables to consider.
You don't know exactly what to hang your hat on.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And I'm really.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Interested in how how Jed Fish, who's open to all
of this change, how he normalizes and kind of builds
consistency within his program even though his roster may be
in a constant state of flux.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Jerry, always wonderful to talk to. You have a wonderful
holiday season. Man, all right, you tube man take Okay?
Mary Christmaste here Okay. Jerry Brewer from the Washington Post,
our old friend.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We got to get him back this summer, no question
about it. He was a great weekly guest for us
during baseball season. We'll get Hughes take on this Bill
Belichick to North Carolina situation and how replaceable is Steve
Belichick is defensive coordinator? What kind of job did Belichick
do with this defense? And huge mind? We'll talk about
that next on ninety three point three KJRFM. Now back
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to the Washington State Beat Commissions Football Friday with Saftian
Dick on your home for the NFL Sports Radio ninety
three point three kJ.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
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Speaker 1 (20:44):
Softian Deck without the soft One on a Friday afternoon.
Hugh is with us. Our thanks to Jerry Brewer for
joining us. In the last segment, Chuck Palell is going
to give us a little hot stoven man, do we
need a hot stove?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
League?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
On a forty five degree rainy night, that is like
the perfect time for a little warm up by Chuck
Powell's hot stove at six o'clock talking a little potential
Luis Castillo trade. What kind of bats does he want
to bring into this offense. We'll talk a little base
ball at six o'clock with Chuck Powell. But Hugh obviously
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the big story of the week in the sports in
the country. I don't think anything should passes the all
time Super Bowl winner in Bill Belichick heading to college
to be the head coach at North Carolina. I can't
get over Stuart Mandel's comments. Here's Stuart Mandel's quote. It
is a very well known and very very well respected
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college football writer. Congrats North Carolina. You managed to hire
someone completely unqualified to be your next football coach. Unless
he can magically restore eligibility to Tom Brady. I fail
to see how this will end well end quote from
Stuart Mandel. So I guess, I guess that's one side
of the continuum that I'm sure there's another side of
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the continuum, probably a guy that you know, where's a
Carolina Blue sweatshirt every day to work, who is just
totally fired up about this higre. So where do you
stand on the all time great Super Bowl winning coach
heading to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, Dick, I got a lot of thoughts about it, because,
you know, first of all, starting with or not starting
with but just you know, he's got this twenty four
year old girlfriend, you know, and I feel like he's
been trying to stay relevant, you know, taking pictures with
her in mermaid outfits on the beach, and you know,
I don't know. Look, I'm sure it has nothing to it.
(22:34):
He's a pro. But I think it's interesting that he's
hung around the around the University of Washington.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And so that exposure.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
When he goes up in the press conference and he says,
I've always wanted to coach. I never had the chance
my dad did. I you know, I'm gonna take for
him out his word.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
There can be two truths that he would prefer to
have been, you know, the cowboy coach or some other
you know, good opportunity in the NFL. But I think
it can also be true that he's very excited about this.
I think if he has good people around him, good coordinators,
I think he you know, he's proven that he can
be a good CEO. For the most part, I say,
for the most part because and I touched on these
(23:15):
numbers this morning, Dick, but I'll just repeat him.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
So Bill Belichick his win percentage in his entire career
is six forty seven. Hey, that's ranked twentieth in the
in the NFL. His win percentage when Tom Brady starts
as his quarterback is seven sixty nine. That would be
good enough on the history of the NFL, number two
all time to only Guy Chamberlain back like in the thirties,
(23:41):
and one ahead of John Madden.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
By the way, when Tom Brady.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Is not his quarterback, this is going back to Browns
when he was thirty six and forty four. This is
Drew bred Bledsoe going five and eleven and then zho
and two before he got hurt on the mo Lewis
or whatever the jet hit that broke his lungs up.
His winning record again, this is Belichick's winning percentage record
(24:07):
is four to sixty three, and that would put him
one behind rather Joe Philbond and Jerry Glanville.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So this is a guy.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
And by the one final thought on that, there have
been ten quarterbacks not named Tom Brady who've had more
than three starts for Bill Belichick. Of the ten, only
two have winning records. One of them is Vinny Testaverdi
is seventeen sixteen, one game.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Over five hundred.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
The only one who's the monster over five hundred is
Matt Castle at ten and five. Everybody else has a
losing record. I mean, you know, and so it's really
remarkable his legacy. There's no question he's going, you know,
he's gonna have a bust first ballot Hall of Famer.
But if you really peel the onion, I compare it
(25:00):
to Nick Saban who has seven championships, six at Alabama
one at LSU. Those seven championships were one with six
different quarterbacks. Only AJ McCarron, who wasn't exactly Joe Namath
right to reference an Alabama luminary. Uh, he's the only
guy that won too. So this is a guy in
saban in Uh, in my opinion, a much better college
(25:23):
coach than Belichick has been a pro. But I do
think he has the juice. He's got a uh, he's
gonna sell a no nonsense approach. The kind of guy,
the good athlete if they got the nil money, the
kind of guy that would be, you know, a quasi
you know, consider the military academies, you know, stro wanting structure,
that type of guy maturity, wants the pro experience and
(25:46):
is willing to just you know, doesn't need the fluff,
just wants you know, meat and potatoes, garden variety, good
coaching experience. I could see a lot of players wanting
to play for him.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I did think it was interesting that he chose to
bring up the University of Washington in his press conference,
and he called it a template for how he wants
to run his team in North Carolina. His quote was,
I spent a lot of time around the Washington program.
I was out there in the spring training camp and
during the regular season. I saw a lot of what
they did. I think coach Fish runs a pro program,
(26:16):
and I think that's very similar to what my thoughts
will be on that. So I don't know how much
that resonates. I kind of feel like it's a big deal,
Like I'm kind of puffing my chest out that Bill
Belichick and his opening press conference at his new school
would be willing to, you know, kind of put Jedfish
in my program. Out there on a pedestal is something
(26:38):
he is that am I making too much of that?
Does that resonate at all with an eighteen year old
kid or at twenty one year old transfer guy.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, well, I think there's you know, there's a substance,
and then there's the perception of substance, right, And I
think Belichick is going to be a no nonsense guy.
I think if you said, okay, let me go to
pick any of the programs that you think are top
ten or fifteen programs. I mean, I've I got kids
at Oregon and Florida right there there, you know, right,
(27:07):
and and and.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And other things in between.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
If you just said, okay, what are the attributes of
an NFL experience? You know, the weight training, the the
you know, certainly their schemes, but the practice template, you
know you're gonna have roster construction. I think you you'd
find that there's a hell of a lot of similarities.
(27:31):
I don't think Jedfish. I think Jedfish is selling that
they're demonstrated, right, demonstrably different. I don't think that they're
demonstrably different. And I think if Bill Belichick had the time,
you know, if his son had been at Georgia Alabama,
he'd South Carolina, Texas, right, you know, he'd probably be saying, oh,
(27:52):
this is run a lot like the NFL. It's a
nice comment, and I think there's definitely true to it.
I'm not, I'm not. I don't want to peel all
that away, but I don't think it's I don't think
there's just like some huge difference between how Washington and
Bill Belichick want to do it, Like, oh, they're they're
only uniquely the ones that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Are trying to do pro stuff, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
And you know, it comes to mind that Charlie Weiss,
who was Belichick's one of the first, one of his
first offensive coordinators, the offensive coordinator when Brady won his
first Super Bowl, And I think there's a couple in there.
Whenever he went to Notre Dame, if you go back
to his press conference, I should have pulled the quote,
but I can remember him saying, We're going to bring
(28:35):
NFL style scheming and personnel grouping and the emotion. He's basically
selling it like I'm going to bring my genius brain
with all of my NFL knowledge down to these you know,
these whipper snappers, these local yocals, and I'm just gonna
whip up on them with my you know, so, sir, look,
(28:55):
I think some of that is definitely over sold.
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