April 1, 2025 • 35 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler, Dick Fain, and Jackson Felts react to last night’s Mariners loss and the crowd at T-Mobile Park, then Softy talks to Huskies Head Coach Jedd Fisch about the o-line, Demond Williams, and his team before some Fun w/ Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
All right, Well, we're here at Husky Stadium for day
one of Husky football spring practice. I was out with
Jedfish in his office today, which has changed a little bit,
Dick since Calin Debor was here.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
There's a candy dispenser now on the wall.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Really, there's a treadmill where refrigerator used to be there
in the corner. Still has the bed there. So they're
doing their own thing. I mean, everybody shows up and
they want to leave their own mark, you know that.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
So I had a nice little thirteen to fourteen minute
conversation with Jetfish there. He is right there. He's not
hard to spot, by the way. The only guy that's
wearing a visor when it's fifty degrees. He likes to
wear the white too, which I last covered, by the way.
So we're here from Jed in a few minutes from now.
But Day one of Husky spring practice. Offense is going
to be in the dempse indoor. The defense is going
to be out here inside Husky Stadium. I believe Scotty Graham,
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the running back coach, is going to come by and
join us on the air around six o'clock tonight. We're
gonna hear from Christian Cable. By the way, he's been
a long time since Christian has graced our airwaves from
on Montlake or is it something else?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
What's the name of his webs site? Is it on Montlake?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I think it's on hasn't changed and that's what it was.
This hasn't changed, has it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
There should be like an offshoot off Montlake where you
get all the good stuff right, all the all the
juicy rumors off Montlake.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's still okay.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So he'll join us at four, John Wilner will join
us at five, and then Brian Schmetzer from the Brian
Schmittzer Orchestra, head coach of the Sounders, joining us at
five forty five tonight right here ninety three three kJ IRFM.
So I don't know where do we start, man. I mean,
the Mariners last night got roughed up a bit by
the Tigers. I mean it really was just Emerson Hancock.
The bullpen did a pretty good job, only gave up
three runs the rest of the way using a planthera
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of pictures last night, including our guy Taylor Sasseto. I
really hope he's made Echiro. By the way, I hope
he's found the courage to meet each Azuki. He told
us on the air last week he was so nervous
because he grew up in Japan. He was a kid,
his dad was in the military, and you know, obviously
back in the day each Row was here in Seattle
with the Mariners, and he was he was a fan,
he said. When he showed up in Seattle, he was
so nervous to meet him. He hasn't even really officially
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introduced himself yet. So next time we tell to Taylor
sa saying, I know, he got to ask him if
he's actually met Eachi Row. He said he really hadn't
even met Eggar Martinez yet. By the way, he was
sore nervous for him. But good job by the bullpen
last night. Good to see the bats come alive. I mean,
nobody wants to give the offense any credit in a
game where you fall behind six nothing. You gotta crawl
yourself back and score some runs. But the offense did
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come alive a little bit last night. I mean, look,
Hancock to me yesterday, I agree with what you said
off the Aar Dick. I don't think he was as
bad as the box score says, but he was still
pretty bad. But I mean two thirds of an inning,
seven hits, six runs, all learned to walk, no case
at a home run. And there's a couple of things
that stood out to me about the game yesterday. First
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of all, I want to know if I'm the only
guy that thinks this, and apparently I might be because
we brought this up in cross talk and I'm getting
crushed now with the text line I cannot understand the
god darn word Ryan Roland Smith is.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Saying on the ear.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm sorry, I just can't. He's got this heavy Australian accent.
I feel like I have to like stop what I'm
doing and look at the TV and focus on every word.
Am I the only one here who thinks that? I know?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Jackson's like, well, if you grew up and if you
watch British soccer broadcasters, which I don't do, by the way,
then maybe I would have had you know, a little
more acclamation and it'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You've been to Australia, you talk to those people every
week on the radio.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So I want to know outside of people like Dick
and Jackson who watched soccer and go on the air
in Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Okay, am I the only.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One that has a hard time understanding what the hell
Ryan Rowland Smith is saying on the broadcast? And then
nearly that stood out to me and I was looking
at the home run that I think it's Maloy for
the Tigers that hit yesterday, lawyer Malloy. No, I believe
his last name is Maloy. If I'm not mistaken, I
gotta maybe double check that. Maybe I'm getting that wrong.
I think it's Maloy.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It was a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was a very good joke, very good joke. No ha,
it's just so cold out here. My brain's not working,
so I apologize. But Julio looks slow to me in
center field. He's at a couple of balls, including last night,
and there was one of the A series and I
think at the top of the wall for a home
run where he looks like he's a step slow in
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getting to the ball.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So I'm curious if you guys see that too.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I don't know if if it even impacts twenty three
year old guys. But it's damn cold at T Mobile Park,
and it feels like I noticed that the first day
I ever walked into T Mobile Park where it felt
like it was sixty degrees outside of T Mobile Park,
and you get inside TM Mobile Park and it feels
like it's forty seven degrees right when it's forty seven outside,
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it feels dang close to forty or thirty five inside.
And I'm wondering if just you know, you're standing out
there in the outfield. I know young guys are supposed
to be limber and stuff, but you know, you just
I don't think you can move like you can move
when it's closer to room temperature out there.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, then why are other teams having no problems?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Are they?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
They quick in the outfield?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah, well you asked about the defense. Yes, the quickness
to get this is the ball. This is who the
Rodriguez man. He should be one of the best in
the game. He should be.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Getting all these balls. I mean is I thought his
speed in his defense he was a five to two guy.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And hey, look, maybe I'm being too hard of a guy.
I'm not saying he stinks. I'm not saying to cut
the guy or trade him or get rid of him.
I'm not saying any of that. I'm just saying that
to me, he looks a step slow. I think there's
been a couple of balls that have been hitting in
his general vicinity that I think maybe it's fair to
expect him to either a get closer to making a
play or be make a play.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So I think it's just something to keep an eye on, Dick.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
To be totally honest with you, I mean, look the
handcock thing, you know whatever, the guy didn't have it
last night, he got roughed up. He'll go to Tacoma,
he'll rub some dirt on it, figure something out, get
back up here sooner than later, and maybe even make
his next start. I got I got no clue what's
going on with him. We'll see what happens with George Kirby.
But it kind of feels like they need a win tonight,
right because otherwise you're talking about I thought that's one.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
It is one yesterday. It shouldn't matter.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Not saying for me, I'm just saying for the general population,
for people that like to wig out and lose their mind.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Look, good people are.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Are already wigging out and losing their mind. And if
Logan Gilbert can't get her done tonight, or the offense
can't back up Logan Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I mean just that that.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ground swell right of of just chaos and panic is
going to just keep building.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Well, if you want to give me two options to lose,
there's there's one that I prefer more than other for
this team. And I would prefer to lose last night
game right where you score something, you score a requisite
number of runs, your sixth starter, not your fifth starter.
Your sixth starter gets roughed up in a game and
you fight your way back and make a baseball game
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out of it. I would much rather lose that way
than I would lose two to one, where your starter
gets felix every single time.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Because you feel like your pitching can eventually bounce exactly.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I mean, you're confident that you're not going to get
that very often from your picture stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
But there's a number that and I mean you talked.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
About the the the attendance figures.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Of the first set they draw last night.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
By the way, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Okay, because I don't think it's fair necessarily to compare
Series one last year versus Series one this year. Because
it was Boston and Oakland. You're gonna draw more for
Boston than you are for Oakland. I don't care what month.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, because the entire city of Pallup shows up to
watch the last with their pig veritas.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Right all right now, I think apples to apples is
what you have here. You had Cleveland Monday Tuesday, Wednesday
Friday or Monday Tuesday Wednesday of last year, and now
you're you're got an apples to apples comparison twenty one
to three last year for the Monday game fifteen thousand
last night. Yeah, that's a twenty five percent decrease on
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an apples to apples comparison to a Monday in early
April last year.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
So that's that's really really scary.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
My whole point about Thursday's game was just I don't
remember going to an opening day and looking up and
seeing that big of a section that was vacant at
Opening night, right. I mean again, maybe just the crowd
number was similar to what it's been in years past,
couple thousand here, a couple thousand there, But there was
a big ass section dick of seats that was unoccupied
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and you could have spread out and you could have
had a road to yourself. And I don't remember thinking
that or seeing that, at least not for a long
damn time. I think it was the second smallest opening
day crowd ever in that stadium and they've been opened
for twenty six years.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, we're got a break. We're at you Dub
for Husky football springball day number one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We just say we're here from the head coach Jet Fish.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is there a big ten All Conference honoree on the
offensive line? Where's the pass rush coming from? What is
a fair expectation for year two with Jed and company.
We're here from the head coach of the Huskies, live
from you Dub. We're live from you Dub. That conversation
is on tape. I don't want to light to you.
I'll wait until six o'clock to light you when we
go off the year at six to twenty. We're got
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to break in here from the head coach Jetfish. Next
on ninety three three KJARFM, you're.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
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Speaker 8 (09:07):
F Williams Out of the Gun on third down and
four takes a snap quarterback run, running part side of
the field, sprinting to.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The right pylon, steps into the end zone. Touchdown Washington.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Demond Williams does what only Demond Williams can do with
those speedy legs, races off into the end zone from
seven yards out, and the Huskies once again are a
pat away from tying it up under the sun.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Hey, by the way, I know this has uh well,
it's got a little bit of something to do with
Husky football because they are a sponsored by the way,
inside the zone for all the home games here. I
just saw a tweet a couple hours ago that if
you're riding a Washington State ferry later this year, Dix
Drive In is gonna be on all Washington State ferries.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
How freaking is that?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Jackson's softy?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
What I do?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Finish the tweets.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Dick's Drive In will begin operating on Oh, son of
a bitch.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It's April, damn it?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, how did I fall for that?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It says in the tweets.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, but yeah, you get so excited after the first
couple of words.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
You just kinda win.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
That seems something see that's that's an April fool's joke.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
That's plausible. You know what, Like what Tiger Woods did today.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I didn't see what he is said.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
He's playing in the Masters, like he miraculously healed in
a barometric chamber two weeks after tearing his achilles.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And I am as nexting my gal jasmine over there
at Dick's driving's right now, and I.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Am not happy. I am not happy.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Was it a di tweet or Washington Dick's Tweetswe?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know what I think they owe us? They owe
us a month with the Deluxe and like that, you
want to mess with me like that? Who can play
at this game? Two can play at that game? I
forget about it, man, whatever, I was all fired up.
I was like, am I crazy?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I was gonna take an extra Faerry ride just cause?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Totally no kidding?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Man, all right, Jed Fish had a chance to catch
up with him before day one. If Husky spring practice today,
and there seems to be like this little groundswell of
people that think the Huskies might be a dark horse
to challenge for the playoff or maybe win the Big
Ten or challenge for the Big Ten Championship.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Jumping on my well wagon.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I may be.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Making that up and imagining that, but I thought I
read that somewhere, or maybe it's just what you've been
telling me.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Somebody somewhere I wrote something about the Huskies being a
dark horse, and I ran that idea by Jeed Fish
and asked him, you know what he expects in your
number two out of his team?
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Well, I think we're We're such a different team than
we were a year ago. I mean, last year we're
coming off of what one returning starter, you know, Now
we have twelve I think returning starters. And some of
the guys that are really returning starters didn't start maybe
in the bowl game or the last couple of games
because they got hurt. But I think a healthy team,
a healthy Washington team, is in a good spot.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Now. We got to see what a young quarterback can do.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
We got to see what some of these transfers that
came in and expect to play some freshmen.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
But I think we're gonna be better.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, there's a lot of conversation about the offensive line
in this town, not just with you, but with a
Seahawk as well. It seems like when the Seahawks have
an issue. The Ouscies also have an issue. But tell
me about the line. How much better should they be?
How much of a jump should they take from the
group that we saw in the year last year in
the Sun Bowl.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is for a two
year span, this group got a little spoiled with two
for a first round pick, a second round pick at
both tackle position, which we came from at the last
spot we were at. You know, that's different. That changes
the game. And when you had, you know, an All
American center. So now we're back at it. We've revamped
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our offensive line. We have guys that have experienced we
had we were playing with the players that had never
had any experience, so you know, we lived with that
and that was part of the process of building the
team back up. It wasn't anything like anything I've been
at before, so we needed to make sure that. You know,
now our center is back, Now, our tackle's back. Now
we brought in a very good tackle, We've got a
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guard back. We brought in young players. We have so
much more competition, so I expect us to be a
lot better.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, is there a potential not to put you on
a spot right now.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's only April, for God's sakes, But is.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
There a potential All Big Ten honoree type player potentially
on that offensive line.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
We haven't even got on the field yet, I hope so,
you know. I think the other part of it that's
very unique that we all have to remember is we're
now in the Big Ten. Up until last year we
were in the Pac twelve. What you were required to
do as a Pac twelve offensive lineman was very different
than what you're required to do.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
As a Big ten offensive lineman.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
How's it different?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
The size that you go against, the run games are
completely different. I mean, our offense was six in the country,
I mean six in the Big Ten last year out
of eighteen, and yet I would have thought that it
felt like we were like far below that in terms
of what our production really was because we're so used
to the Pac twelve and the Pac twelve offenses. So
it's a different offense, it's a different defense. We were
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playing against some of the best defenses in the country.
Our defense was ninth in the Big Ten and twenty
eighth in the country. Our offense was sixth in the
Big Ten and sixtieth.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
In the country.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, yeah, you know, last year, I think a lot
of people looked at the twenty twenty four season, at
least I know a lot of folks in the media
did as well.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
It's kind of a rebuilding gig.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I mean, you mentioned it was unlike anything you've ever
been a part of in football. Did you give yourself
a little bit of a break last year? Did you
find yourself frustrated last year? How did you kind of
handle the ups and downs of that whole rebuild last season?
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Oh, the world. I'm always going to hold myself to
the highest standard. So I was always frustrated. I felt
we let some games go that we probably shouldn't have.
We probably won some games maybe in the you know,
people didn't expect us to also, right.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
So it probably evened out.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
I think we were good enough to win three more
games that we didn't win, But I also think there
were some games that we did win that a lot
of things had to go right for that to happen.
So yeah, I mean I was a tough myself. I
was tough on our staff, I was tough on our players.
But this is a brand of year, and you know,
this is what it comes down to you, you know,
finish one year six and six and then you know,
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get to a bowl game and have a thirty five
to thirty four shootout, and now there's an opportunity to
see how good we can be this coming year.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, Jed, how much did the performance by demand in
that ball game kind of catapult you guys with some
momentum into the offseason?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You think, yeah, I think it certainly makes everyone feel good,
right about the Jonah coming back, Demon coming back, Denzel
coming back. You see those guys, and you know, Denzel
only played half of the ball game, Jonah was as
sick as a dog for the bowl game, and Demond
had his really second start and showed what he can do.
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So I think there's a lot of excitement and energy
in our building, in our locker room, I hope on
our fan base about what Demon can do leading this
team for a long time, and then getting Derpy back,
and getting Parker back, and getting some of these guys
that were out, Duce Davis back, having Davis to Caario
Davis and Price Socke at the corner position. I think
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it's just leading to a better team.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It's hard for me to imagine a nineteen year old
kid being looked at as a leader. Is he a
leader though he's played one year? He just turned nineteen.
Do you look at him as a leader. Do the
kids look at him as a leader.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
Yeah, I think his leadership is showing up. I would say,
you know that whole saying, like, when your best player
are your best leaders, you have the best team. I
would say it's very clear to me. On offense, Joonah
Coleman is an elite leader. But what demand showed us
this winter in terms of winter conditioning, when he was
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calling the team up, when he was addressing the team,
when he was holding the team to high, high standards.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
The team is following him. Obviously.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
When you're talented, it's easy to become a good leader.
And he's very talented, and he's vocal, and he holds
the guys accountable, and it's pretty fun to watch it.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Jedfish with us and coach.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You've lost some wide receivers obviously to the NFL Draft.
You got some guys banged up, like Denzel Boston. Tell
us about the group of kids that demand Williams gonna
be chucking the football too.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Yeah, this spring spring will be fun well, you know,
we brought in Amury Evans from Penn State, so that'll
be the first new face that we'll see that's a veteran.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Rashid is back, and Rashid.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Started having a nice year for US the second half
of the season. I expect more from him. But then
we've got five young freshmen that we signed, three of
which are here already, Chris Lawson, Marcus and also Raydon Vinesbright.
And when you look at those three guys, I mean,
Marcus came from Modern Day and Rayden came from IMG,
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Chris came from Archbishop Beard, and you know the guys
that come from big time programs, which is always nice
to see what they can do. And then it's gonna
be time for Kevin Green to step up. It's gonna
be time for Audra Harris expecting an object to start
in the slot for US day one today, So it's
exciting to see what he's going to do. I think
we got some lot of talent, some youth, but it'll
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be fun.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Well, the tight end spot, to me is also a
question mark. And I gotta tell you I brought this
up at the press conference yesterday. The thing with Quintin
Moore drives me nuts. I mean, the fact that a
guy comes off the sideline and costs him a season
at that age that he'll never get back. I almost
feel like people aren't barking into the wind enough about
what happened to Quintin Moore and the injustice that he
went through last season.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
How is he doing?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
What can you expect out of him this season?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Yeah, it's such a unique situation.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
I mean, twelve plays into the season and Quintin Moore
never played another snap, and I think we all kind
of not wee but a lot of people just didn't
even kind of forgot about it even happened, and it
was a significant injury and to lose it. Luckily, we
were able to get that year back and we're able
to now have Quinton lead us. He's going to do
individual right off the bat he's back. You know, we're
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not going to have them in competitive team periods just
yet because we're really wanting to get him healthy. He's
going to be a substantial help to our program. And
Decker de Graf was a freshman All American, So Decker
now coming back with Quinton, and then we obviously brought
in Kate Eldridge from USC who's a Washington native. And
then we brought in some young kids. I think our
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tight end room is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, Jed, you could take these defensive questions in any
order you want, but I'd say, for me, the big
three questions on defense would be, how do you replace
Carson Bruner, how do you replace Steve Belichick? And where's
that pass rush on that defensive front going to come from?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So tackle those in whatever order or way you want.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Sure, Well, Steve did a great job for us.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
He has a great football acumen, great football mind, was
able to put us in a really good position in
a lot of areas. On defense, I think we hired
someone elite as well, Ryan Walters. You look at the
defense he ran at Illinois. You look at the fact
that he's been a Big ten defensive coordinator slash head
coach for four years going on five. Now there's an
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experience with the league, which you really what you need.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
UH so really excited about Ryan.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
In terms of Brunner, you know, that was a position
that we had.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Incredible experience at with Zoe and Brunner and Drew Fowler.
You know, we went out and we went we brought
in two guys with great experience in ex Ray Alexander
and Buddha from Washington State, two guys that are longtime starters.
Then we bring in Jacob Mono, who is a three
year starter at Arizona. So we've you know, kind of
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replaced their production with with production. We didn't replace it
with potential. That was an important part for that linebacker position.
We went production for production. And then with the pass rushers,
a healthy Isaiah Ward, a healthy Zach Durfy, a healthy
Jacob Lane, a healthy Duce Davis. I'll put that up
against anybody. And then we brought in Ontario. You know,
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we've got Alinius Davis, a healthy Javon Parker, a healthy
Armam Parker. Now you're looking at a pass rush group
of both edges and interior guys. The healthy part of
it's the most important.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, And you mentioned a lot of guys that are
new and some guys that are gone. Should we as
fans just get used to this that every year the roster,
whether it's twenty five, thirty, forty percent, whatever that number is,
is going to change. And the idea of falling in
love with a player for three or four sometimes five
years on campus, those days might be over.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
I think you got to fall in love with the logo,
and you got to fall in love with the uniform,
and then you got a hope that has met as
good of a culture as we can provide here, We'll
keep as many people here as possible, always knowing that
in this new day and age, the amount of flipping
of the roster is just going to be what it is.
And we can't get wrapped up and who did we
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lose in the portal?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
I know everybody does, or who did we gain? Who
did we not sign? Who did we sign?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Every year is its own entity and we can't get
We can't get crazy as fans about who's walking in
who's walking out, as long as we all represent Washington
the right way.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
How are you enjoying all of this? Because this is
not Tucson weather here whatsoever. I have no idea how
you've done this, but you've managed to keep your tan
from Arizona. Okay, So tell me about Seattle. I mean, look,
everybody always says happy wife, happy life. Right does the
wife like seat? Do the kids like Seattle? How does
the fish family find the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
So far?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
After being in places where the sun shined a lot.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Yeah, the sun did shine a lot in la and
in Arizona. But you know, our family is really beginning
to acclimate now. They didn't move here till June of
last year, so this is their first winter that we
just got through.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
This has been nine months that they've been here.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
And I think I really feel that they're beginning to
really enjoy it. We love our home, we love our players,
we love coming to work. My wife loves driving over
the bridge over the water to come over and visit.
My kids are happy. So everybody's in a good place
right now. There's a lot different than it was a
year ago when we were dealing with a lot of
personal issues going into spring ball, as well as trying
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to figure out who our team is going to be.
So everybody's happy, everybody's in a good place, and I
think it's going to lead to a lot of success.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, before you go, we talked about this on the
day that you get hired at your press conference, and
you brought it up that, hey, look I've made a
lot of stops. I mean, it's my resume speaks for itself.
What I'd like selfishly is for Jetfish to plan a
flag and maybe stick around for a while, right is that?
Are you looking at that as a possibility now that
the revolving door of moving trucks and moving vans may
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come to an end for a while here.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Yeah, I think that we're very happy here and the
idea of planning a flag is a great feeling.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
It's you want to have a legacy.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Yeah, you want to have you know, you want your team,
you want your program.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
This is a place you could win a championship.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
We have been on a quest to have a chance
to be a head coach at a place you can
win a championship. We believe as a family this is
a place to do it. So we're ecstatic to get
into year two.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
You'll find this out of me a lot. I lie,
I got one more the nil space.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
About a year you and I were talking and you
said you were about a third of what Ohio State had.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
How much improvement have you made since then?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Tell me about your comfort level with where we are
budget wise all that?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (24:12):
Right now, what we're at is when it looks at
revenue share, the revenue shares are going to be equal.
Outside of revenue share, what's going to be critical is
that when we get into this real nil space, which
should happen here pretty soon, we need the community of
Seattle to engage with the community of our players and
let our players and the community start becoming more involved
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with business, more involved with marketing, more involved with the
companies around here, and we could really build a great
partnership because if we can get there, we can get
some of the best players in the country.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
All right, then day one spring Ball. Appreciate this, we'll
talk down the road.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Let's go do it.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Appreciate it, all right, So good stuff from jet Fish.
I thought the guy asking the questions was kind of mediocre,
to be honest with you, not his best performance. He
was fine, it'll pass for day one. But I guess
my question to you guys is this, what do we
have in DeMont Williams. How special is Demon Williams? Because
if Demon Williams is everything that we think he's going
to be, then it really is not gonna matter much
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who's playing wide receiver for example, that you dubb, because
he'll make everybody around him better if the offensive line
breaks down and he can scramble and take off and
make chicken salad from Chicken Crap. He's gonna make everybody
around him better. He's gonna be the ultimate cheat code
dick if he is what we think he is he is, and.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
We've got a great wide receiver corps.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Even if Demon Williams was an elite, there is a
lot of talent in that wide receiver room.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
And you know, when you my.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Expectations for Demn Williams, I told you I think he's
in New York. Maybe not the end of this year,
but I think he's in New York by the end
of next year. Okay, I think he's that good.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I mean I.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
See things in this kid that I've almost never seen
before in anybody. Not to say that he's gonna be
the greatest college football quarterback of all time, but he
does some special, special things you just don't see.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, I would not go with you yet on calling
the wide receiver corp great just because they haven't proven
it yet. Right Like Kevin Green played one year at
Arizona and caught eight balls, is a three star recruit.
Amari Evans the transfer from Penn State. I mean, they
run that offense out there where it's not really conducive
to a guy making a ton of plays. A wide
receiver he is, but he really slowed down at the
end of the year though, man, I mean he was
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on a trajectory. Mario was concerned he was going to
break his record with touchdowns, and he just completely came
to a screeching halt in the second half of the year.
So I would not call them great yet. Is the
potential there probably, But I mean, look, I mean, I'm
not going to compare him to you know, not a
punk Billain and Roma Dunesay, because that's the best wide
receiver class that you Dubb has ever had. I mean,
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that's not great, that's elite. But I'm curious what Christian
Cable thinks about all that. We'll ask him. He's gonna
swing by a round four. But a big thanks to
jet Fish for coming over. You missed it. You can
get it on the podcast and maybe get it again
in the six pm hour.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
We'll see if you're lucky, if we in a giving movie,
we might give it to you again.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
In the six pm hour, We're gonna break a little
fun with audio and then Christian Caple is gonna hop
on and talk some dogs with us live from U
dub for day one of spring ball coming up on
ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's now time for Sufday in Diggs one with audio
Jimmy g.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Paunch Star Jimmy mister Garoppolo.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
All right, here we are the day you've all been
waiting for, Baby Day one of Husky Football. Let bring
practice live from the greatest setting in college football, Husky Stage.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Thanks Tony.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
How many games in a row they won and homes
at twenty?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Now nineteen?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I thought it was twenty and twenty whatever it is.
It's getting close to twenty, or it is twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Twenty two because they got CSU and UC Davis in
the first two games of the year. The big one
is gonna be the Buckeyes.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Baby. September twenty seventh, Ohio State is.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Rolling into town to put an end to U Dub's
dominance and Husky Stadium.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We'll see what happens on that day. I thought it
was twenty in a row.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That's fifteen dating back to twenty two.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Just look up go to Google and type in longest
home winning streaks in college football. That's kind of how
you can do it twenty. I'm pretty sure it's twenty anyway. Whatever,
it's a, it's a it's a long time. So they
got they got Ohio State, they got Rutgers, they got Illinois,
they got Purdue, they got Oregon.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
If they extend this thing and win all seven.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
They're gonna earn it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Man, Yeah, they're gonna want to earn it for sure.
There you go.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Christy Cable told me on Motley, Well, he'll be here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
In fifteen minutes. So we should have just, you know
what we should have done. I should have just waited
to ask him. How are you even thinking about it?
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
How about a little fun with audio slash? Hey did
you hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Let's start in college football?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
The Coastal Carolina football program yesterday, announcing it a social
media video. The concessions at every home game this year
will be free to all fans.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
What's the damage?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Free?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Free?
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Well what about for this.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Free as well?
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Free?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
All the free?
Speaker 10 (28:55):
Do you want some nachos?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah? Free too?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
All free?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
All free?
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Free?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Can I get fifteen?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Free?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Free? Drink all of it free?
Speaker 10 (29:04):
Have to drinks, drinks.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, I'll talk free tel free there you go, free
free sweet.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
That's right till Nation this fall in Brooks Stadium, every fan,
every game, always free free concessions, popcorn, nachos, hot dog, fountain,
drinks and water for every fan this fall.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, So the first thing I thought of is there's
a reason why they're doing that. They must not be
drawing fans, right, I mean you kidding me? Like, if
they're drawn fans, why would they be giving stuff away
for free. I looked at the William and Mary game,
which was the opener for Coaster Carolina.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
They drew four people to that game and week number two.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
No, I haven't seen the numbers, but I mean my
question to Dick yesterday, Jackson was if if a team
locally did that, would that force you to go to
more games, sit in traffic, pay for parking, and go
to more games.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
If nachos, hot dogs, what else is it? Soda? Pop water?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
If that was all free, would you be more apt
to go?
Speaker 11 (30:01):
One hundred percent? If the Mariners did that, I'd go
to Like you know, from my I don't know what,
I go five ten games a year, I'd probably go
twenty games a year.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I really wow, you go to ten extra games?
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Well you got you guys know that I would drive
thirty minutes for free food, So exactly that's true.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
I mean, I, by the way, app State at Coastal
Carolina drew nineteen four.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Last what's the stadium capacity? Any idea guarantee it's bigger?
How much better it might be at twenty five thousand
seat park?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I got no idea.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
But for me, stuff like that, like hot dogs and
nachos and pretzels and soda pop, that does nothing for me,
nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I would I.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Told you yesterday that I would probably go to two
or three more Mariner games if for.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
No other reason that I'm feeding my family for free.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Loo because you're a cheaper.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Absolutely, they should find the cheapest people out there and
market it straight to them.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Find their social media feeds. Then there's some kind of
algorithm that can tell you who's cheap on the internet.
You just go after those people.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean, look, if the Mariners started offering like free
kid Valley burgers and free beers and cocktails and pizza
things like that, I don't know, but I'm just saying,
if it was something.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Significant like, you've seen what these hot dogs look like.
You've seen what these NAT shows look like.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Right, I'm not getting in the car and sitting in
traffic and paying the park and being annoyed for a
free hot dog that tastes like it fell off a
truck twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh you're right. Brooks Stadium's capacity is twenty one thousand.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Here you go.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
They were pretty darnfull year out of state.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Well good for them. People are talking about coast of
Carolina when they otherwise wouldn't be. It's smart marketing man.
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear today?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
After the Mariners beat the A's on Sunday thanks to
Julios two run homer the sixth inning, A's postgame show
host Chris Townsend questioned what analyst Shooty Babbitt had to
say about j Rod on NBC's Sports Bay Area.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
He could change a whole complexity, and that's what superstars do.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
And in my humble opinion, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Know he's a superstar.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
He is on his way.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You what, you don't become a superstar, Hall of Fame
All Star in one.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Year, So you're telling me.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
A guy hits a hanging slider and he's still hitting
a buck something and he had a bad year last year,
and you got him to be in the Superstar Huh, Well.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
We might as well run you out on the bump.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Let you pitch the next time. I mean, if you.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Don't have no, I have a big contract.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
I know they gave him a big contract, and I
think some people in Seattle may be regretting that they
gave him that big contract. I don't I don't know
if I'm ready to call him a superstar yet. I
don't know if I can go back to last year,
wasn't that great? Oh my gosh, he's one pitch and
you're putt him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
He's had one off year.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Now you're ready? How many years on the big league?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Can I be honest with you? Yes, I didn't hear
a lot of that clip. I wasn't paired to this.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
There was just there was a guy that had no
idea who Julio rod I was.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I was actually just texting a buddy of mines.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I mean, I'm sorry, So so this guy is complimenting
Julio's ripping on him, saying that Mariner fan should be
nervous about the big contract they gave him, which there's
some sense in that, right.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I mean, the guy's only been in baseball for a
couple of years.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
I don't ever the contracts that bit. That's because they
so much intentively.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Even if it doesn't pan out, so what, there's no cap,
get out of it. Buy him out right, give him
the Bobby Bonilla, give him twenty five million a year
for the next hundred years, or whatever the hell it is.
So I think in the end the contract will be fine,
because in four or five years from now, it'll look
like nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Right, it looks like a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
For him to get three hundred to four hundred million.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Dollars, he's got to be consistently in the top in
the MVP comp Well.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's why, that's why this is so important for them
to win now, because you still have Julio in context
not making a ton of money, Kirby Gilbert, Bryce Miller,
Brian Wu. None of them are really making any money
for at least a couple two three years.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
As a collective.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That's why this is so damn important now for these
guys to take advantage of this and.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
So far they haven't done yet. All right, adic did
you happen to hear that?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Dick?
Speaker 11 (33:59):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Which one you want next? Jackson?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
The White Sox were pitching a team no hitter in
the seventh inning yesterday against Minnesota with two outs and
Willie Castro at the plate. John Shriffed had this poorly
time call for NBC Sports Chicago Mike Vassel.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
White Sox pitchers still have not given up a hit
three to.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Two, And of course, as soon as I say it,
I still don't believe.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
In an announcer James, I don't think it's a thing.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
No, I don't think anything we can do up here
will effect anything that goes on down there.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Oh you can.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
You cannot believe it if you want, John, But it's real.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Jackson doesn't think it's real.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
That was not edited whatsoever.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
That was.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yes, yeah, I mean I'm a big fan of it,
of not saying the no hitter and all that stuff
and whatever. So I just wouldn't do it if I
were doing a game, because it's not worth it to
take crap from idiots like us. That's right, in case
you are the reason why or in case. It does
time up where you say something and the next pitch
is a base hit. Why why would you bother?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Why?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Well, I know what.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
I know one one guy that vehemently denies the broadcaster checks,
and that's Dave Simms and Jackson.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Jackson he has called multiple no hitters.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
He called Felix's perfect game. But my question to Dave.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Is how many no hitters would you have called it?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You hadn't called that's right, man, you know what. I'm
totally with you. I I agree. It's a real deal, man,
it's a real thing. You don't want to mess with
the universe. Man, don't even remotely.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Think about that. We've got time for one more.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Jackson or no?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, yes, yeah, okay, yes, okay yes, Dick says, yes,
you say no. All right, we're gonna break. Christian Capele
will join us next. Talk some Husky football from day one?
Have you dubbed springball? Coming up on ninety three three
kJ R f M
There go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
All right, Well, we're here at Husky Stadium for day
one of Husky football spring practice. I was out with
Jedfish in his office today, which has changed a little bit,
Dick since Calin Debor was here.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
There's a candy dispenser now on the wall.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Really, there's a treadmill where refrigerator used to be there
in the corner. Still has the bed there. So they're
doing their own thing. I mean, everybody shows up and
they want to leave their own mark, you know that.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
So I had a nice little thirteen to fourteen minute
conversation with Jetfish there. He is right there. He's not
hard to spot, by the way. The only guy that's
wearing a visor when it's fifty degrees. He likes to
wear the white too, which I last covered, by the way.
So we're here from Jed in a few minutes from now.
But Day one of Husky spring practice. Offense is going
to be in the dempse indoor. The defense is going
to be out here inside Husky Stadium. I believe Scotty Graham,
(00:48):
the running back coach, is going to come by and
join us on the air around six o'clock tonight. We're
gonna hear from Christian Cable. By the way, he's been
a long time since Christian has graced our airwaves from
on Montlake or is it something else?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
What's the name of his webs site? Is it on Montlake?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I think it's on hasn't changed and that's what it was.
This hasn't changed, has it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
There should be like an offshoot off Montlake where you
get all the good stuff right, all the all the
juicy rumors off Montlake.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's still okay.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So he'll join us at four, John Wilner will join
us at five, and then Brian Schmetzer from the Brian
Schmittzer Orchestra, head coach of the Sounders, joining us at
five forty five tonight right here ninety three three kJ IRFM.
So I don't know where do we start, man. I mean,
the Mariners last night got roughed up a bit by
the Tigers. I mean it really was just Emerson Hancock.
The bullpen did a pretty good job, only gave up
three runs the rest of the way using a planthera
(01:35):
of pictures last night, including our guy Taylor Sasseto. I
really hope he's made Echiro. By the way, I hope
he's found the courage to meet each Azuki. He told
us on the air last week he was so nervous
because he grew up in Japan. He was a kid,
his dad was in the military, and you know, obviously
back in the day each Row was here in Seattle
with the Mariners, and he was he was a fan,
he said. When he showed up in Seattle, he was
so nervous to meet him. He hasn't even really officially
(01:57):
introduced himself yet. So next time we tell to Taylor
sa saying, I know, he got to ask him if
he's actually met Eachi Row. He said he really hadn't
even met Eggar Martinez yet. By the way, he was
sore nervous for him. But good job by the bullpen
last night. Good to see the bats come alive. I mean,
nobody wants to give the offense any credit in a
game where you fall behind six nothing. You gotta crawl
yourself back and score some runs. But the offense did
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come alive a little bit last night. I mean, look,
Hancock to me yesterday, I agree with what you said
off the Aar Dick. I don't think he was as
bad as the box score says, but he was still
pretty bad. But I mean two thirds of an inning,
seven hits, six runs, all learned to walk, no case
at a home run. And there's a couple of things
that stood out to me about the game yesterday. First
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of all, I want to know if I'm the only
guy that thinks this, and apparently I might be because
we brought this up in cross talk and I'm getting
crushed now with the text line I cannot understand the
god darn word Ryan Roland Smith is.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Saying on the ear.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm sorry, I just can't. He's got this heavy Australian accent.
I feel like I have to like stop what I'm
doing and look at the TV and focus on every word.
Am I the only one here who thinks that? I know?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Jackson's like, well, if you grew up and if you
watch British soccer broadcasters, which I don't do, by the way,
then maybe I would have had you know, a little
more acclamation and it'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You've been to Australia, you talk to those people every
week on the radio.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So I want to know outside of people like Dick
and Jackson who watched soccer and go on the air
in Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Okay, am I the only.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One that has a hard time understanding what the hell
Ryan Rowland Smith is saying on the broadcast? And then
nearly that stood out to me and I was looking
at the home run that I think it's Maloy for
the Tigers that hit yesterday, lawyer Malloy. No, I believe
his last name is Maloy. If I'm not mistaken, I
gotta maybe double check that. Maybe I'm getting that wrong.
I think it's Maloy.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It was a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was a very good joke, very good joke. No ha,
it's just so cold out here. My brain's not working,
so I apologize. But Julio looks slow to me in
center field. He's at a couple of balls, including last night,
and there was one of the A series and I
think at the top of the wall for a home
run where he looks like he's a step slow in
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getting to the ball.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So I'm curious if you guys see that too.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I don't know if if it even impacts twenty three
year old guys. But it's damn cold at T Mobile Park,
and it feels like I noticed that the first day
I ever walked into T Mobile Park where it felt
like it was sixty degrees outside of T Mobile Park,
and you get inside TM Mobile Park and it feels
like it's forty seven degrees right when it's forty seven outside,
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it feels dang close to forty or thirty five inside.
And I'm wondering if just you know, you're standing out
there in the outfield. I know young guys are supposed
to be limber and stuff, but you know, you just
I don't think you can move like you can move
when it's closer to room temperature out there.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, then why are other teams having no problems?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Are they?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
They quick in the outfield?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah, well you asked about the defense. Yes, the quickness
to get this is the ball. This is who the
Rodriguez man. He should be one of the best in
the game. He should be.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Getting all these balls. I mean is I thought his
speed in his defense he was a five to two guy.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And hey, look, maybe I'm being too hard of a guy.
I'm not saying he stinks. I'm not saying to cut
the guy or trade him or get rid of him.
I'm not saying any of that. I'm just saying that
to me, he looks a step slow. I think there's
been a couple of balls that have been hitting in
his general vicinity that I think maybe it's fair to
expect him to either a get closer to making a
play or be make a play.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So I think it's just something to keep an eye on, Dick.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
To be totally honest with you, I mean, look the
handcock thing, you know whatever, the guy didn't have it
last night, he got roughed up. He'll go to Tacoma,
he'll rub some dirt on it, figure something out, get
back up here sooner than later, and maybe even make
his next start. I got I got no clue what's
going on with him. We'll see what happens with George Kirby.
But it kind of feels like they need a win tonight,
right because otherwise you're talking about I thought that's one.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
It is one yesterday. It shouldn't matter.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Not saying for me, I'm just saying for the general population,
for people that like to wig out and lose their mind.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Look, good people are.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Are already wigging out and losing their mind. And if
Logan Gilbert can't get her done tonight, or the offense
can't back up Logan Gilbert.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I mean just that that.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ground swell right of of just chaos and panic is
going to just keep building.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Well, if you want to give me two options to lose,
there's there's one that I prefer more than other for
this team. And I would prefer to lose last night
game right where you score something, you score a requisite
number of runs, your sixth starter, not your fifth starter.
Your sixth starter gets roughed up in a game and
you fight your way back and make a baseball game
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out of it. I would much rather lose that way
than I would lose two to one, where your starter
gets felix every single time.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Because you feel like your pitching can eventually bounce exactly.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I mean, you're confident that you're not going to get
that very often from your picture stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
But there's a number that and I mean you talked.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
About the the the attendance figures.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Of the first set they draw last night.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
By the way, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Okay, because I don't think it's fair necessarily to compare
Series one last year versus Series one this year. Because
it was Boston and Oakland. You're gonna draw more for
Boston than you are for Oakland. I don't care what month.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, because the entire city of Pallup shows up to
watch the last with their pig veritas.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Right all right now, I think apples to apples is
what you have here. You had Cleveland Monday Tuesday, Wednesday
Friday or Monday Tuesday Wednesday of last year, and now
you're you're got an apples to apples comparison twenty one
to three last year for the Monday game fifteen thousand
last night. Yeah, that's a twenty five percent decrease on
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an apples to apples comparison to a Monday in early
April last year.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
So that's that's really really scary.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
My whole point about Thursday's game was just I don't
remember going to an opening day and looking up and
seeing that big of a section that was vacant at
Opening night, right. I mean again, maybe just the crowd
number was similar to what it's been in years past,
couple thousand here, a couple thousand there, But there was
a big ass section dick of seats that was unoccupied
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and you could have spread out and you could have
had a road to yourself. And I don't remember thinking
that or seeing that, at least not for a long
damn time. I think it was the second smallest opening
day crowd ever in that stadium and they've been opened
for twenty six years.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, we're got a break. We're at you Dub
for Husky football springball day number one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We just say we're here from the head coach Jet Fish.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is there a big ten All Conference honoree on the
offensive line? Where's the pass rush coming from? What is
a fair expectation for year two with Jed and company.
We're here from the head coach of the Huskies, live
from you Dub. We're live from you Dub. That conversation
is on tape. I don't want to light to you.
I'll wait until six o'clock to light you when we
go off the year at six to twenty. We're got
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to break in here from the head coach Jetfish. Next
on ninety three three KJARFM, you're.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
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Speaker 8 (09:07):
F Williams Out of the Gun on third down and
four takes a snap quarterback run, running part side of
the field, sprinting to.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The right pylon, steps into the end zone. Touchdown Washington.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Demond Williams does what only Demond Williams can do with
those speedy legs, races off into the end zone from
seven yards out, and the Huskies once again are a
pat away from tying it up under the sun.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Hey, by the way, I know this has uh well,
it's got a little bit of something to do with
Husky football because they are a sponsored by the way,
inside the zone for all the home games here. I
just saw a tweet a couple hours ago that if
you're riding a Washington State ferry later this year, Dix
Drive In is gonna be on all Washington State ferries.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
How freaking is that?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Jackson's softy?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
What I do?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Finish the tweets.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Dick's Drive In will begin operating on Oh, son of
a bitch.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It's April, damn it?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, how did I fall for that?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It says in the tweets.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, but yeah, you get so excited after the first
couple of words.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
You just kinda win.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
That seems something see that's that's an April fool's joke.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
That's plausible. You know what, Like what Tiger Woods did today.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I didn't see what he is said.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
He's playing in the Masters, like he miraculously healed in
a barometric chamber two weeks after tearing his achilles.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And I am as nexting my gal jasmine over there
at Dick's driving's right now, and I.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Am not happy. I am not happy.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Was it a di tweet or Washington Dick's Tweetswe?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You know what I think they owe us? They owe
us a month with the Deluxe and like that, you
want to mess with me like that? Who can play
at this game? Two can play at that game? I
forget about it, man, whatever, I was all fired up.
I was like, am I crazy?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I was gonna take an extra Faerry ride just cause?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Totally no kidding?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Man, all right, Jed Fish had a chance to catch
up with him before day one. If Husky spring practice today,
and there seems to be like this little groundswell of
people that think the Huskies might be a dark horse
to challenge for the playoff or maybe win the Big
Ten or challenge for the Big Ten Championship.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Jumping on my well wagon.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I may be.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Making that up and imagining that, but I thought I
read that somewhere, or maybe it's just what you've been
telling me.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Somebody somewhere I wrote something about the Huskies being a
dark horse, and I ran that idea by Jeed Fish
and asked him, you know what he expects in your
number two out of his team?
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Well, I think we're We're such a different team than
we were a year ago. I mean, last year we're
coming off of what one returning starter, you know, Now
we have twelve I think returning starters. And some of
the guys that are really returning starters didn't start maybe
in the bowl game or the last couple of games
because they got hurt. But I think a healthy team,
a healthy Washington team, is in a good spot.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Now. We got to see what a young quarterback can do.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
We got to see what some of these transfers that
came in and expect to play some freshmen.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
But I think we're gonna be better.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, there's a lot of conversation about the offensive line
in this town, not just with you, but with a
Seahawk as well. It seems like when the Seahawks have
an issue. The Ouscies also have an issue. But tell
me about the line. How much better should they be?
How much of a jump should they take from the
group that we saw in the year last year in
the Sun Bowl.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is for a two
year span, this group got a little spoiled with two
for a first round pick, a second round pick at
both tackle position, which we came from at the last
spot we were at. You know, that's different. That changes
the game. And when you had, you know, an All
American center. So now we're back at it. We've revamped
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our offensive line. We have guys that have experienced we
had we were playing with the players that had never
had any experience, so you know, we lived with that
and that was part of the process of building the
team back up. It wasn't anything like anything I've been
at before, so we needed to make sure that. You know,
now our center is back, Now, our tackle's back. Now
we brought in a very good tackle, We've got a
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guard back. We brought in young players. We have so
much more competition, so I expect us to be a
lot better.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, is there a potential not to put you on
a spot right now.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's only April, for God's sakes, But is.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
There a potential All Big Ten honoree type player potentially
on that offensive line.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
We haven't even got on the field yet, I hope so,
you know. I think the other part of it that's
very unique that we all have to remember is we're
now in the Big Ten. Up until last year we
were in the Pac twelve. What you were required to
do as a Pac twelve offensive lineman was very different
than what you're required to do.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
As a Big ten offensive lineman.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
How's it different?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
The size that you go against, the run games are
completely different. I mean, our offense was six in the country,
I mean six in the Big Ten last year out
of eighteen, and yet I would have thought that it
felt like we were like far below that in terms
of what our production really was because we're so used
to the Pac twelve and the Pac twelve offenses. So
it's a different offense, it's a different defense. We were
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playing against some of the best defenses in the country.
Our defense was ninth in the Big Ten and twenty
eighth in the country. Our offense was sixth in the
Big Ten and sixtieth.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
In the country.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, yeah, you know, last year, I think a lot
of people looked at the twenty twenty four season, at
least I know a lot of folks in the media
did as well.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
It's kind of a rebuilding gig.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I mean, you mentioned it was unlike anything you've ever
been a part of in football. Did you give yourself
a little bit of a break last year? Did you
find yourself frustrated last year? How did you kind of
handle the ups and downs of that whole rebuild last season?
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Oh, the world. I'm always going to hold myself to
the highest standard. So I was always frustrated. I felt
we let some games go that we probably shouldn't have.
We probably won some games maybe in the you know,
people didn't expect us to also, right.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
So it probably evened out.
Speaker 9 (14:48):
I think we were good enough to win three more
games that we didn't win, But I also think there
were some games that we did win that a lot
of things had to go right for that to happen.
So yeah, I mean I was a tough myself. I
was tough on our staff, I was tough on our players.
But this is a brand of year, and you know,
this is what it comes down to you, you know,
finish one year six and six and then you know,
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get to a bowl game and have a thirty five
to thirty four shootout, and now there's an opportunity to
see how good we can be this coming year.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, Jed, how much did the performance by demand in
that ball game kind of catapult you guys with some
momentum into the offseason?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You think, yeah, I think it certainly makes everyone feel good,
right about the Jonah coming back, Demon coming back, Denzel
coming back. You see those guys, and you know, Denzel
only played half of the ball game, Jonah was as
sick as a dog for the bowl game, and Demond
had his really second start and showed what he can do.
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So I think there's a lot of excitement and energy
in our building, in our locker room, I hope on
our fan base about what Demon can do leading this
team for a long time, and then getting Derpy back,
and getting Parker back, and getting some of these guys
that were out, Duce Davis back, having Davis to Caario
Davis and Price Socke at the corner position. I think
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it's just leading to a better team.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It's hard for me to imagine a nineteen year old
kid being looked at as a leader. Is he a
leader though he's played one year? He just turned nineteen.
Do you look at him as a leader. Do the
kids look at him as a leader.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
Yeah, I think his leadership is showing up. I would say,
you know that whole saying, like, when your best player
are your best leaders, you have the best team. I
would say it's very clear to me. On offense, Joonah
Coleman is an elite leader. But what demand showed us
this winter in terms of winter conditioning, when he was
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calling the team up, when he was addressing the team,
when he was holding the team to high, high standards.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
The team is following him. Obviously.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
When you're talented, it's easy to become a good leader.
And he's very talented, and he's vocal, and he holds
the guys accountable, and it's pretty fun to watch it.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Jedfish with us and coach.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You've lost some wide receivers obviously to the NFL Draft.
You got some guys banged up, like Denzel Boston. Tell
us about the group of kids that demand Williams gonna
be chucking the football too.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Yeah, this spring spring will be fun well, you know,
we brought in Amury Evans from Penn State, so that'll
be the first new face that we'll see that's a veteran.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Rashid is back, and Rashid.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Started having a nice year for US the second half
of the season. I expect more from him. But then
we've got five young freshmen that we signed, three of
which are here already, Chris Lawson, Marcus and also Raydon Vinesbright.
And when you look at those three guys, I mean,
Marcus came from Modern Day and Rayden came from IMG,
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Chris came from Archbishop Beard, and you know the guys
that come from big time programs, which is always nice
to see what they can do. And then it's gonna
be time for Kevin Green to step up. It's gonna
be time for Audra Harris expecting an object to start
in the slot for US day one today, So it's
exciting to see what he's going to do. I think
we got some lot of talent, some youth, but it'll
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be fun.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Well, the tight end spot, to me is also a
question mark. And I gotta tell you I brought this
up at the press conference yesterday. The thing with Quintin
Moore drives me nuts. I mean, the fact that a
guy comes off the sideline and costs him a season
at that age that he'll never get back. I almost
feel like people aren't barking into the wind enough about
what happened to Quintin Moore and the injustice that he
went through last season.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
How is he doing?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
What can you expect out of him this season?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Yeah, it's such a unique situation.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
I mean, twelve plays into the season and Quintin Moore
never played another snap, and I think we all kind
of not wee but a lot of people just didn't
even kind of forgot about it even happened, and it
was a significant injury and to lose it. Luckily, we
were able to get that year back and we're able
to now have Quinton lead us. He's going to do
individual right off the bat he's back. You know, we're
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not going to have them in competitive team periods just
yet because we're really wanting to get him healthy. He's
going to be a substantial help to our program. And
Decker de Graf was a freshman All American, So Decker
now coming back with Quinton, and then we obviously brought
in Kate Eldridge from USC who's a Washington native. And
then we brought in some young kids. I think our
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tight end room is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, Jed, you could take these defensive questions in any
order you want, but I'd say, for me, the big
three questions on defense would be, how do you replace
Carson Bruner, how do you replace Steve Belichick? And where's
that pass rush on that defensive front going to come from?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So tackle those in whatever order or way you want.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Sure, Well, Steve did a great job for us.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
He has a great football acumen, great football mind, was
able to put us in a really good position in
a lot of areas. On defense, I think we hired
someone elite as well, Ryan Walters. You look at the
defense he ran at Illinois. You look at the fact
that he's been a Big ten defensive coordinator slash head
coach for four years going on five. Now there's an
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experience with the league, which you really what you need.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
UH so really excited about Ryan.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
In terms of Brunner, you know, that was a position
that we had.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Incredible experience at with Zoe and Brunner and Drew Fowler.
You know, we went out and we went we brought
in two guys with great experience in ex Ray Alexander
and Buddha from Washington State, two guys that are longtime starters.
Then we bring in Jacob Mono, who is a three
year starter at Arizona. So we've you know, kind of
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replaced their production with with production. We didn't replace it
with potential. That was an important part for that linebacker position.
We went production for production. And then with the pass rushers,
a healthy Isaiah Ward, a healthy Zach Durfy, a healthy
Jacob Lane, a healthy Duce Davis. I'll put that up
against anybody. And then we brought in Ontario. You know,
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we've got Alinius Davis, a healthy Javon Parker, a healthy
Armam Parker. Now you're looking at a pass rush group
of both edges and interior guys. The healthy part of
it's the most important.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, And you mentioned a lot of guys that are
new and some guys that are gone. Should we as
fans just get used to this that every year the roster,
whether it's twenty five, thirty, forty percent, whatever that number is,
is going to change. And the idea of falling in
love with a player for three or four sometimes five
years on campus, those days might be over.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
I think you got to fall in love with the logo,
and you got to fall in love with the uniform,
and then you got a hope that has met as
good of a culture as we can provide here, We'll
keep as many people here as possible, always knowing that
in this new day and age, the amount of flipping
of the roster is just going to be what it is.
And we can't get wrapped up and who did we
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lose in the portal?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
I know everybody does, or who did we gain? Who
did we not sign? Who did we sign?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Every year is its own entity and we can't get
We can't get crazy as fans about who's walking in
who's walking out, as long as we all represent Washington
the right way.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
How are you enjoying all of this? Because this is
not Tucson weather here whatsoever. I have no idea how
you've done this, but you've managed to keep your tan
from Arizona. Okay, So tell me about Seattle. I mean, look,
everybody always says happy wife, happy life. Right does the
wife like seat? Do the kids like Seattle? How does
the fish family find the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
So far?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
After being in places where the sun shined a lot.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Yeah, the sun did shine a lot in la and
in Arizona. But you know, our family is really beginning
to acclimate now. They didn't move here till June of
last year, so this is their first winter that we
just got through.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
This has been nine months that they've been here.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
And I think I really feel that they're beginning to
really enjoy it. We love our home, we love our players,
we love coming to work. My wife loves driving over
the bridge over the water to come over and visit.
My kids are happy. So everybody's in a good place
right now. There's a lot different than it was a
year ago when we were dealing with a lot of
personal issues going into spring ball, as well as trying
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to figure out who our team is going to be.
So everybody's happy, everybody's in a good place, and I
think it's going to lead to a lot of success.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, before you go, we talked about this on the
day that you get hired at your press conference, and
you brought it up that, hey, look I've made a
lot of stops. I mean, it's my resume speaks for itself.
What I'd like selfishly is for Jetfish to plan a
flag and maybe stick around for a while, right is that?
Are you looking at that as a possibility now that
the revolving door of moving trucks and moving vans may
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come to an end for a while here.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Yeah, I think that we're very happy here and the
idea of planning a flag is a great feeling.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
It's you want to have a legacy.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Yeah, you want to have you know, you want your team,
you want your program.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
This is a place you could win a championship.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
We have been on a quest to have a chance
to be a head coach at a place you can
win a championship. We believe as a family this is
a place to do it. So we're ecstatic to get
into year two.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
You'll find this out of me a lot. I lie,
I got one more the nil space.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
About a year you and I were talking and you
said you were about a third of what Ohio State had.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
How much improvement have you made since then?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Tell me about your comfort level with where we are
budget wise all that?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (24:12):
Right now, what we're at is when it looks at
revenue share, the revenue shares are going to be equal.
Outside of revenue share, what's going to be critical is
that when we get into this real nil space, which
should happen here pretty soon, we need the community of
Seattle to engage with the community of our players and
let our players and the community start becoming more involved
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with business, more involved with marketing, more involved with the
companies around here, and we could really build a great
partnership because if we can get there, we can get
some of the best players in the country.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
All right, then day one spring Ball. Appreciate this, we'll
talk down the road.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Let's go do it.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Appreciate it, all right, So good stuff from jet Fish.
I thought the guy asking the questions was kind of mediocre,
to be honest with you, not his best performance. He
was fine, it'll pass for day one. But I guess
my question to you guys is this, what do we
have in DeMont Williams. How special is Demon Williams? Because
if Demon Williams is everything that we think he's going
to be, then it really is not gonna matter much
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who's playing wide receiver for example, that you dubb, because
he'll make everybody around him better if the offensive line
breaks down and he can scramble and take off and
make chicken salad from Chicken Crap. He's gonna make everybody
around him better. He's gonna be the ultimate cheat code
dick if he is what we think he is he is, and.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
We've got a great wide receiver corps.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Even if Demon Williams was an elite, there is a
lot of talent in that wide receiver room.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
And you know, when you my.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Expectations for Demn Williams, I told you I think he's
in New York. Maybe not the end of this year,
but I think he's in New York by the end
of next year. Okay, I think he's that good.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I mean I.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
See things in this kid that I've almost never seen
before in anybody. Not to say that he's gonna be
the greatest college football quarterback of all time, but he
does some special, special things you just don't see.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, I would not go with you yet on calling
the wide receiver corp great just because they haven't proven
it yet. Right Like Kevin Green played one year at
Arizona and caught eight balls, is a three star recruit.
Amari Evans the transfer from Penn State. I mean, they
run that offense out there where it's not really conducive
to a guy making a ton of plays. A wide
receiver he is, but he really slowed down at the
end of the year though, man, I mean he was
(26:18):
on a trajectory. Mario was concerned he was going to
break his record with touchdowns, and he just completely came
to a screeching halt in the second half of the year.
So I would not call them great yet. Is the
potential there probably, But I mean, look, I mean, I'm
not going to compare him to you know, not a
punk Billain and Roma Dunesay, because that's the best wide
receiver class that you Dubb has ever had. I mean,
(26:41):
that's not great, that's elite. But I'm curious what Christian
Cable thinks about all that. We'll ask him. He's gonna
swing by a round four. But a big thanks to
jet Fish for coming over. You missed it. You can
get it on the podcast and maybe get it again
in the six pm hour.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
We'll see if you're lucky, if we in a giving movie,
we might give it to you again.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
In the six pm hour, We're gonna break a little
fun with audio and then Christian Caple is gonna hop
on and talk some dogs with us live from U
dub for day one of spring ball coming up on
ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's now time for Sufday in Diggs one with audio
Jimmy g.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Paunch Star Jimmy mister Garoppolo.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
All right, here we are the day you've all been
waiting for, Baby Day one of Husky Football. Let bring
practice live from the greatest setting in college football, Husky Stage.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Thanks Tony.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
How many games in a row they won and homes
at twenty?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Now nineteen?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I thought it was twenty and twenty whatever it is.
It's getting close to twenty, or it is twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Twenty two because they got CSU and UC Davis in
the first two games of the year. The big one
is gonna be the Buckeyes.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Baby. September twenty seventh, Ohio State is.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Rolling into town to put an end to U Dub's
dominance and Husky Stadium.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We'll see what happens on that day. I thought it
was twenty in a row.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That's fifteen dating back to twenty two.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Just look up go to Google and type in longest
home winning streaks in college football. That's kind of how
you can do it twenty. I'm pretty sure it's twenty anyway. Whatever,
it's a, it's a it's a long time. So they
got they got Ohio State, they got Rutgers, they got Illinois,
they got Purdue, they got Oregon.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
If they extend this thing and win all seven.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
They're gonna earn it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Man, Yeah, they're gonna want to earn it for sure.
There you go.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Christy Cable told me on Motley, Well, he'll be here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
In fifteen minutes. So we should have just, you know
what we should have done. I should have just waited
to ask him. How are you even thinking about it?
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
How about a little fun with audio slash? Hey did
you hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Let's start in college football?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
The Coastal Carolina football program yesterday, announcing it a social
media video. The concessions at every home game this year
will be free to all fans.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
What's the damage?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Free?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Free?
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Well what about for this.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Free as well?
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Free?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
All the free?
Speaker 10 (28:55):
Do you want some nachos?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah? Free too?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
All free?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
All free?
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Free?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Can I get fifteen?
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Free?
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Free? Drink all of it free?
Speaker 10 (29:04):
Have to drinks, drinks.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, I'll talk free tel free there you go, free
free sweet.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
That's right till Nation this fall in Brooks Stadium, every fan,
every game, always free free concessions, popcorn, nachos, hot dog, fountain,
drinks and water for every fan this fall.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, So the first thing I thought of is there's
a reason why they're doing that. They must not be
drawing fans, right, I mean you kidding me? Like, if
they're drawn fans, why would they be giving stuff away
for free. I looked at the William and Mary game,
which was the opener for Coaster Carolina.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
They drew four people to that game and week number two.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
No, I haven't seen the numbers, but I mean my
question to Dick yesterday, Jackson was if if a team
locally did that, would that force you to go to
more games, sit in traffic, pay for parking, and go
to more games.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
If nachos, hot dogs, what else is it? Soda? Pop water?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
If that was all free, would you be more apt
to go?
Speaker 11 (30:01):
One hundred percent? If the Mariners did that, I'd go
to Like you know, from my I don't know what,
I go five ten games a year, I'd probably go
twenty games a year.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I really wow, you go to ten extra games?
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Well you got you guys know that I would drive
thirty minutes for free food, So exactly that's true.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
I mean, I, by the way, app State at Coastal
Carolina drew nineteen four.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Last what's the stadium capacity? Any idea guarantee it's bigger?
How much better it might be at twenty five thousand
seat park?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I got no idea.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
But for me, stuff like that, like hot dogs and
nachos and pretzels and soda pop, that does nothing for me,
nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I would I.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Told you yesterday that I would probably go to two
or three more Mariner games if for.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
No other reason that I'm feeding my family for free.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Loo because you're a cheaper.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Absolutely, they should find the cheapest people out there and
market it straight to them.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Find their social media feeds. Then there's some kind of
algorithm that can tell you who's cheap on the internet.
You just go after those people.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean, look, if the Mariners started offering like free
kid Valley burgers and free beers and cocktails and pizza
things like that, I don't know, but I'm just saying,
if it was something.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Significant like, you've seen what these hot dogs look like.
You've seen what these NAT shows look like.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Right, I'm not getting in the car and sitting in
traffic and paying the park and being annoyed for a
free hot dog that tastes like it fell off a
truck twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh you're right. Brooks Stadium's capacity is twenty one thousand.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Here you go.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
They were pretty darnfull year out of state.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Well good for them. People are talking about coast of
Carolina when they otherwise wouldn't be. It's smart marketing man.
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear today?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
After the Mariners beat the A's on Sunday thanks to
Julios two run homer the sixth inning, A's postgame show
host Chris Townsend questioned what analyst Shooty Babbitt had to
say about j Rod on NBC's Sports Bay Area.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
He could change a whole complexity, and that's what superstars do.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
And in my humble opinion, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Know he's a superstar.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
He is on his way.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You what, you don't become a superstar, Hall of Fame
All Star in one.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Year, So you're telling me.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
A guy hits a hanging slider and he's still hitting
a buck something and he had a bad year last year,
and you got him to be in the Superstar Huh, Well.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
We might as well run you out on the bump.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Let you pitch the next time. I mean, if you.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Don't have no, I have a big contract.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
I know they gave him a big contract, and I
think some people in Seattle may be regretting that they
gave him that big contract. I don't I don't know
if I'm ready to call him a superstar yet. I
don't know if I can go back to last year,
wasn't that great? Oh my gosh, he's one pitch and
you're putt him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
He's had one off year.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Now you're ready? How many years on the big league?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Can I be honest with you? Yes, I didn't hear
a lot of that clip. I wasn't paired to this.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
There was just there was a guy that had no
idea who Julio rod I was.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I was actually just texting a buddy of mines.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I mean, I'm sorry, So so this guy is complimenting
Julio's ripping on him, saying that Mariner fan should be
nervous about the big contract they gave him, which there's
some sense in that, right.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I mean, the guy's only been in baseball for a
couple of years.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
I don't ever the contracts that bit. That's because they
so much intentively.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Even if it doesn't pan out, so what, there's no cap,
get out of it. Buy him out right, give him
the Bobby Bonilla, give him twenty five million a year
for the next hundred years, or whatever the hell it is.
So I think in the end the contract will be fine,
because in four or five years from now, it'll look
like nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Right, it looks like a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
For him to get three hundred to four hundred million.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Dollars, he's got to be consistently in the top in
the MVP comp Well.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's why, that's why this is so important for them
to win now, because you still have Julio in context
not making a ton of money, Kirby Gilbert, Bryce Miller,
Brian Wu. None of them are really making any money
for at least a couple two three years.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
As a collective.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That's why this is so damn important now for these
guys to take advantage of this and.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
So far they haven't done yet. All right, adic did
you happen to hear that?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Dick?
Speaker 11 (33:59):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Which one you want next? Jackson?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
The White Sox were pitching a team no hitter in
the seventh inning yesterday against Minnesota with two outs and
Willie Castro at the plate. John Shriffed had this poorly
time call for NBC Sports Chicago Mike Vassel.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
White Sox pitchers still have not given up a hit
three to.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Two, And of course, as soon as I say it,
I still don't believe.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
In an announcer James, I don't think it's a thing.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
No, I don't think anything we can do up here
will effect anything that goes on down there.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Oh you can.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
You cannot believe it if you want, John, But it's real.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Jackson doesn't think it's real.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
That was not edited whatsoever.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
That was.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yes, yeah, I mean I'm a big fan of it,
of not saying the no hitter and all that stuff
and whatever. So I just wouldn't do it if I
were doing a game, because it's not worth it to
take crap from idiots like us. That's right, in case
you are the reason why or in case. It does
time up where you say something and the next pitch
is a base hit. Why why would you bother?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Why?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Well, I know what.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
I know one one guy that vehemently denies the broadcaster checks,
and that's Dave Simms and Jackson.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Jackson he has called multiple no hitters.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
He called Felix's perfect game. But my question to Dave.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Is how many no hitters would you have called it?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You hadn't called that's right, man, you know what. I'm
totally with you. I I agree. It's a real deal, man,
it's a real thing. You don't want to mess with
the universe. Man, don't even remotely.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Think about that. We've got time for one more.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Jackson or no?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, yes, yeah, okay, yes, okay yes, Dick says, yes,
you say no. All right, we're gonna break. Christian Capele
will join us next. Talk some Husky football from day one?
Have you dubbed springball? Coming up on ninety three three
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