November 4, 2025 • 37 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Jon Wilner about the UW playoff expectations and rankings, plus major games coming up, then they discuss the Huskies in the Big Ten before Sounders Head Coach Brian Schmetzer joins the show.
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he is the pope of the pack, the big ten
bearon himself now six and four after another win. Nice,
he took Nebraska plus the points against USC on Saturday.
Our friend Johnny Wilder, how are you man.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Go Huskers?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, you did well, we'll see if you take him again.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
By the way, we'll see we'll get the window, LORI,
and you're picking a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But we got the TV on up here.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
We got Greg McElroy and Joey Galloway, the former Seahawk,
waiting for the CFP rankings. And I don't know, I mean,
I guess we're expecting the Huskies to be ranked in
the top twenty five. How surprised would you be if
they were not in the top twenty five tonight?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Well, first of all, keep me posted because I have
YouTube TV.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
So I got no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
That'll text you my I'll text you my Fubo password.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
I would think Washington would be. I'm gonna say.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
They got to be behind Michigan. That's the issue. Michigan
always gotta be behind USC.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I would probably guess Huskies twenty three, twenty two.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Twenty three right in there.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
That's kind of where we are too, So we'll see,
you know, kind of big picture on the on the Dogs.
I was taking a look at you know, projected we're
gonna have a sixteen team playoff eventually, right not this year,
but very very soon, John, the Huskies would have made
five of the last eight sixteen team playoffs. What is
a reasonable expectation for the Huskies to have when that
goes to sixteen?
Speaker 8 (02:29):
Like?
Speaker 7 (02:29):
How often should we be expecting to make that sixteen
team playoff?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Oh, that's a great question, and it gets into so
much too, because you have to account for you know,
rev share, and you've got to account for Washington's financial
situation and the impact that can have on the resource
allocation for football. I would say two out of every
four years would probably be reasonable too. Out every five
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maybe low end, but something right in there.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I mean Washington is.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I mean, if you're listing the Big Ten football programs
in order of you know, resource historical success recruiting, Washington
is I don't know, six ish, probably.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Right around there. That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
And if it's a sixteen team playoff and the Big
Ten is sending at minimum four probably five I would
think that two at every four years is probably reasonable
for the Huskies.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
And I mean, look, we're gonna get the rankings here
in just a minute. But they got a chance to
do something big. I mean, they got three really winnable
games with Wisconsin, Purdue, and UCLA before they end up
playing the Oregon Ducks and the final game of the
regular season. So you go nine to two with a
chance to make that Oregon game meaningful? Is this a
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playoff team? If they can run the table and finish
the season ten and two?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
In your mind, I think that they will have a
great chance if they're ten and two, And the thing
is that they won't be in the Big Ten championship game,
and that probably would help them because it avoids loss
number three.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Right, So they're ten and two, and in that scenario,
they're probably ahead of USC Raking.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So would John rankings just came out there? Twenty third,
twenty third country?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Okay, there we go perfectly fair. And I think that
if you would ask a Washington fan on August thirtieth, hey,
we're going to be twenty third in the first CFP release,
what ninety five percent would say?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Okay? We'll take it, you know. So no, I don't think.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
There's any any room for complaint in Seattle the way
things have gone, And certainly if they went out, they
would have a great chance to get in. And also,
you know, the cherry on top is probably put Oregon
on the brink and not getting in.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Well, and we played a clip today from Bruce Feldman
Jackson was that from the Weekend? By the way, that
clip that you played it from a couple of days ago,
and I guess they're doing like a hot take thing
or whatever he said, Bruce Feldbman did. His prediction is
Oregon is not going to make the playoff, meaning they
lose to you dub, maybe they lose to Iowa. I mean,
I don't know, does it a ten and two Oregon
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team and a ten and two Washington team, do they
both make it or does one kick the other out
depending on who wins that game in Seattle.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Yeah, I don't think both would make it. And the
other thing is Oregon's got to play USC so they've
got they have the hardest schedule, and I think that
was probably part of I haven't talked to Bruce, but
my guess is part of a sinking is Oregon between Washington,
USC and Iowa. You know, there's maybe two losses in there,
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certainly one and that's going to put or if Oregon
finishes nine and three, they're.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Out right same with the Huskies, right correct?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
If somehow they both end up ten and two, the
winner of the game at the end of the season
would have a huge eventche I mean, I would think
it'd be a no brainer.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You take the winner of that game.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Wow, how about the deree of difficulty for the next
three Husky games? I mean, each and each one in
a nutshell looks pretty easy, but you got to go
three and oh. So even if your percented chance of
winning is eighty percent of each one, it's tough to
go three and oh. Who who potentially could trip them up?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, I think the US the UCLA game.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Is a little bit dangerous, more dangerous than it might
seem given UCLA's record. It will be their final home
game for their seniors because because they play USC in
the coliseum, So you know, for like Nico and those guys,
I think they would probably be pretty jacked up. And
they have pretty good players and they've got a good quarterback,
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So I think that will.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Be a dangerous game for Washington.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
And you know this game is is a little bit
of a trap. I look, the weather forecast is not
good and Wisconsin defense is pretty decent.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
So the big thing.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
If Washington can get to seventeen points, probably got a
good chance to win, certainly twenty the way Wisconsin's offense
has gone lately. But if it's rare, you know, if
it's winning and raining in Madison, that's gonna be hard.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, guys, So I'm just thinking out loud here. And
John Wilner again is with us on the radio show.
Courtesy is simply Seattle. So Husky's win six and seven
a year ago, they're six and two now. So they're
twelve and nine right under Jedfish in the twenty one
games he's coached here. They've got six games of the
twenty one, two against Wazoo, one against Colorado State, one
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against UC Davis, one against Weber and one against Eastern Michigan.
They're five and one in those six games, with the
one loss coming in the Apple Cup last year, right,
Dick in Seattle, So you're seven and eight in the
other games you've played yet here you are a year
and a half after Kalin de Moore blew up the
roster and you're.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Back in the top twenty five?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Is this affirmation that they did the right thing by
moving to the Big ten? Because if they're a Pac
twelve team and there's seven and eight in the other
fifteen games they've played, are they.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Getting this kind of recognition right now?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Probably they are gonna be seven and eight? Iff, I
mean how many what they've got a lost of Michigan
and a lost to.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Ohio State in there.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Yes, you know, So I would argue that if they
had stayed in the Pac twelve, they wouldn't be seven
and eight in those fifteen games. They'd be nine and
six or ten and five, And they don't. They wouldn't
have the travel, they wouldn't have the nine am kickoffs,
they wouldn't have the Big tens offensive and defensive lines
to contend with. So I'm not sure it's apples and apples,
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but I do think that, yeah, you know, being in
the Big ten. Winning if you're in the Big ten
certainly helps you, but it's also harder to win.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But can we to softeas point?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Can we all agree now that it's easier to make
the playoffs out of the Big Ten than it would
have been if the PAC twelve stayed together.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
You know, we were there, because the whole thing would
be different. If the PAC twelve was still intact, The
playoffs setup would be completely different, and the Big ten
and the SEC would there would be more balanced within
the Power five. The format would be different, and I
would argue Washington would have a better chance. Now are
you talking about PAC twelve with USC and UCLA or
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the second version?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Second verse? The second version?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well, I mean in that case, Washington and Oregon would
be running the league, and you know, you could argue
that PAC twelve would have a decent chance of getting
two teams in every year.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Right John Wanners with us and John, we talked about
Wisconsin coming up this weekend. I mean, what what has
happened to that program?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
May?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I mean again, I'm not saying that Wisconsin's on par
with Ohio State and Penn State and Michigan, but you know,
they're they're a decent program and right now they're just
an absolute train wreck. They have no quarterback whatsoever to
speak of. They've got no skill players that anybody covets
at the next level, at all the fans aren't going
to games. I saw online last week before the buye
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tickets for the UDUB game against the Huskies are nine
dollars nine bucks to get in the door at Camp
Randall this weekend. What happened to Wisconsin football?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
The beer is more expensive at Camp Randall than the
it is ticket price.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You're not exaggerating, that is a fact.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
No, No, I'm not. I'm not so.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
I think a couple of weeks one they have lost
their starting quarterback to a knee injury.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I think it's three years in a row.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
But over and above that, they got away from what
made them really good for so many years, which was
the Barry Albarez system of getting NFL offensive line and
then NFL running back and just pounding teams in the submission.
And you know, I think they started to get away
from that a little bit under PAULK. Christ and then
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with Luke Fickle they had they just haven't gotten it back.
And also their nil game is terrible, and so they
don't They don't have the money to pay for players
as part of the problem, but a lot of it
is getting away from a system that worked for decades
and that was perfect for their the players that can
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recruit right Wisconsin, you can get three hundred pound offensive
linemen a lot easier than you can get dynamic receivers.
I mean, it's kind of like Utah with their recruiting pool,
and and it worked.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
It worked for years, and then they got away from it.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
John, since we's been talking a lot today about the
depth of the Big Ten, I've been meaning to ask you,
how close are we to that three versus six and
four versus five game in the conference that would determine
playoff berths? Is that a potential like next year thing.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That was.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Pretty closely but not completely tied to the automatic bids
for the playoff?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Right the Tony Petiti, the Big Ten commissioner, one of
the Big Ten, to have four automatic bids in the playoffs.
The two teams that play in the championship game would
both be in, and then you'd have three six, four
five to create you know, more interesting games and more
good TV, more TV dollars and TV ratings on championship weekend.
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So if they don't if the if the automatic qualifier
model doesn't get adopted for the playoff, I'm not sure
that they're going to do it. Because then you're looking
at potentially eliminating both teams that are playing in the
three verse six if it's if it's in that large
situation and not an automatic bid.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Update on the rankings, by the way, Husky's twenty three.
The CFP rankings are coming out right now, Michigan twenty one,
Iowa twenty, USC nineteen. The Ducks are at number nine,
so obvious they were waiting on Ohio State Indiana to
see where they end up. But there'll be seven big
ten teams in the top twenty five when it's all
said and done.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Do you like it?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Where's Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Notre Dame?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
God, I just had I think they're tenth if I'm
not mistaken, Okay, Yeah, let me time a big one. Yeah,
let me confirm that for you though in a minute.
But Oregon, Iowa, how risky a proposition is this for
the Ducks on Saturday in Iowa?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Well preview here of the Windealorean. I think it's a
pretty big risk. Yeah, you know, the weather is supposed
to be bad in Iowa City as well, and they
played Indiana to a very close That was the closest
game Indiana's had by far. It was twenty to fifteen.
And you know, Iowa plays good defense. They actually can
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score a little bit this year. Right, they put on
thirty nine against Rutgers, kind of like what you dubbedd
I think that's that's gonna be a tough game for
the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah. Yeah, by the way, Notre Dame is tenth, by
the way, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
That's a big one.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Everybody's got to be rooting against Notre Dame because they
will suck up one of those seven at large berths
and that could be that could be the fourth Big
Ten bid right there.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
That could be Washington's bid.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
If Notre Dame gets in, it could be no Big
Ten four that gets bumped out.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Very easy for me to do. I've been rooting against
Notre Dame.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
For about a half a century, so that's very easy
for me to do. John rarely is the biggest game
of the college football weekend coming from the revamped Big twelve.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But who do you like?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
And now number seven BYU and the new college Football
Ball against number eight Texas Tech.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah, it's good for the Big twelve to get a
little bit of a little bit of love. Right, They
got game day and I think it's the Big Noon game,
or you know, it's A or maybe it's the ABC game.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
Good for the Big.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Twelve, huge game for the playoff for the Big twelve race.
I have been of the mindset that Texas Tech spent
that thirty million dollars very wisely, and their defense is
like would be a good SEC or Big ten defense,
And in the Big twelve it's a great defense. And
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BYU is very good, and you got to give them
credit for being resourceful and finding ways to win.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But I kind of think they're going to be a
little bit overmatched.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, yeah, all right, well let's get to it.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Then.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
By the way, they just came out with Buckeye's number one,
Indiana number two. No surprise there, but there were some
folks that maybe thought that Indiana would climb up and
grab that number one spot.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Where I assume A and M three in Alabama four.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Correct, Yes, those are the four teams with the buy
Alabama against the winner of the Memphis Georgia game, Ohio
state winner of the Oregon Texas Tech Game, A and
M winner of Virginia Ole Miss and Indiana winner of
Notre Dame, and BYU for now, but speaking of winners.
Another big one for you, Matt Ruhle getting the cover
against USC at home on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You're six and four on the EU year so far.
The Windelorean is.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Back on the proper path, John, to get to seven
and four in your first eleven games.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Who do you like this week?
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Yeah, and Nebraska covered even with losing their quarterback for
the second half. I will take Iowa and I think
am I getting six and a half?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yes? In that yes, correct, six and a half.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I will take it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I think that they're you know, they're good, and it's
it's going to be tough in the in that weather.
I think for Dante Moore, we saw Oregon, you know
the Wisconsin game.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oregon did not look very good.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And the weather in Iowa City is going to be
a lot like the weather in Eugene, and the opponent
is going to be much much better.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Well if they if Oregon loses, they got it went
out and that means beating USC and U dub in
the final three games of the regular season for them
before the Big Ten championship game, so they would have
to win out. So, I mean the picture that you're
kind of painting is that Oregon could be done if
they lose to Iowa this weekend. That could be the
first nail on the coffin for the Ducks. Man, So
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go hot guys. But Dick brought the question up earlier.
Our Husky fans kind of in a backwards way rooting
for Oregon to win to make that game more meaningful
after Thanksgiving? Or does it even matter if they're ten
and two with a win against a top twenty Oregon team.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Does it even matter where they're ranked? Are they in
no matter what at ten and two?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Or should we be rooting for the Ducks to be
as good as possible in that game?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yeah? I actually wrote about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Washington Oregon need each other to win because they both
teams want the opponent to be as highly ranked as
possible in the season finale. So actually Washington wants Oregon
to be Iowa because it's if it's close, and there
are many scenarios in which Washington is on the border.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
For that last spot or two.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
The more marquee the victory over Oregon, the better for
Washington's resume, And there's.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
No other way to do it, Like we can't get
what we need by notre dame falling off or something else.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
It's kind of like a special spot in hell for
the fiz of Bot having to root for the other.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
God.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I love it, all right, John, you're the man, great stuff.
We're talking a week nice Thanks all right.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
John Wilner says Huskies should be rooting for ducks, and
ducks should be rooting for huskies.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Do we really believe that makes sense? Can we stomach that?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
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CFP rankings have come out. Ohio State number one, Indiana
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two A and M three, Caitlin de Boorn Alabama four, Georgia, Ole,
miss BYU, Texas Tech, Oregon, Notre Dame, Virginia, Memphis Big ten,
USC nineteen, Iowa twenty, Michigan twenty one, you dubbed twenty three,
and the initial CFP rankings that have come out today.
And I don't know, man, Maybe I'm just being a
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little bit emotional here. Maybe I'm not raising the bar
like I should. But I think I think two things. Okay,
I was talking to Jimmy Doherty today over at you
dub the offensive coordinator, who's got the best job in
the world, by the way, because if the offense stinks,
nobody rips him. They ripped the head coach because Jimmy
didn't call plays right. So it's a great gig to have.
He's ocan name, but Jedfish calls the plays. And I
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told him there's only one Husky game where they've played
and lost where I felt good walking out of the stadium.
And you probably know the game I'm talking about. LSU
Bang two thousand and nine. Two thousand and nine, they
go oh to twelve, and the next year they push
those guys all the way to the brink and then
they beat USC the next week, remember that at Husky Stadium.
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So that's the only time Jackson and Dick where I
felt really good about a loss because I felt like, man,
this is just is this gonna be different? It's going
to be different, right, And it was different right this
CFP ranking that came out today, maybe I'm being a
total friggin' homer, And if I am, you'll tell me.
I just think to go from where they were in
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February of two thousand and twenty four, when the roster
got blown to bits, when Kaitlyn de Moore took off,
to a year and a half later being in the
top twenty five of the first CFP rankings that come
out for year two under Jetfish, I think it's an accomplishment.
I think it's I think it's real progress for this
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football team because everything has to be looked at in context, right,
the context of where this roster was, where the offensive
line was, where the entire starting offense was, where the
transfer portal. I mean, dude, they had nobody, They had
nothing left after Kavin de Boor took off and for
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Jetfish to a year and a half later, have these
guys in the first CFP rankings that come out the
next season, the first CFP rankings of year two.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think it's meaningful. It's a testament to two Do
you agree with that, by the way, absolutely? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
It's a testament to two super quality brands. The brand
of the University of Washington, which is top fifteen in
college football and has been for fifty years, and the
brand of the Big Ten. And you're putting those two together.
And I've always been probably the more optimistic of the
two of us than you have of what the new
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nil and the city of Seattle means for this football program.
And I think it is huge because I think the
Huskies are uniquely set up to fly with this group
around them, of all these corporate sponsors, than all the
dollars that we have in this city.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, here's what I think.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I think that there's a huge difference though, between being
twenty third and being in the top five, right, gigantic,
and that's where's the arrow, right, But that's where we
all want to be in the end. So that's the
question for me is in this conference can they get there?
And this conference, can they get to kind of similar
where they were in the old PAC twelve, where every
November comes around and you can paint a picture of
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them winning the Big Ten Championship, like that's what I want.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
They're not gonna win it.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
That's gonna be tougher than a one pack twelve because
there's more teams. There's eighteen teams, and I totally get
that there's tougher competition.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You got more elite programs.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
I mean in the old PAC twelve you had maybe
three elite programs and you might have now five or six. Right,
and now with the arrival of Indiana, who knows what
they're going to be doing, right, So I think it's
going to be very difficult, But I still think that
that's the goal, right, The goal is every single November
to paint some kind of a picture where you can say,
all right, here's the path to playing in the Big
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Ten Championship and maybe winning it and go into a
Rose Bull or going to the CFP or the Final
four or the Top twelve or sixteen or Field of
sixty four, whatever the hell it's going to be in
ten years from us. Hope not that that is still
my goal for this football team, But I think for now,
for two day, and.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Maybe only for today and maybe only for this year. Right.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I think it's fair, in my opinion, for Usky fans
to sit back and look at what Jed Fish has done.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Absolutely, And I think one of the things too, is
we're learning that money has such an enormous meaning right now,
where if you invest in a guy like Demon Williams
and you have an idea of exactly how you want
this whole thing. I mean, Jed credit to him. He
came in here. I don't think it was just a
let's see what we can do in one year. It's
a we have a three plus year plan. We understand
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the money will take, we understand the I want to
build relies on demand Freakin' Williams, and we can just
roll the I mean, he was talking up demand in
the first half of last season like he is always.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
This has been the guy.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
This has been his plan, and Jed's smart enough to
have the next plan figure it out. So if you
can continue to raise the money, invest in whatever plan
that is right now, it's the I mean, you can
just continue to roll and eventually one of those plans
will have enough other plans around it to take.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You to a championship.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And that's kind of the point Jackson, is that it's
not really just about Jedfish. Because, Dick, if what you're
talking about happens to be reality, that Washington can survive
in this thing long term, thrive, well, then they're gonna
need the money from the donors. They're gonna need an
ad with a list of coaches. If and when Jedfish
takes off, they're gonna need a president to give them
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everything they need to compete in the Big Ten. So
like Jedfish, I mean, look, I think again, I'm kind
of talking out of both sides of my mouth, but
I think both of these things are accurate and can
be true. Of course, I think they're true. Otherwise I
wouldn't be saying them. I'd be lying on purpose to you.
I think Jedfish has done a marvelous job. I also
don't think Jetfish is long for this job at job,
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so I think you give him credit for what he's done.
But at the same time, I also hope to God
that Pat Chunn has a list of coaches ready to go,
and that Robert Jones, right the new president, the guy
from Illinois, has a vision for what to do to
keep this thing relevant no matter who the head coaches
that that guy, whoever it is, has all the resources
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he needs.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yes, and the resources will be there. Now the decision
has to be correct. They got to find the right guy.
You can't go and grab Mark Helfrich, the second Coming
or the second coming of Tyrone Willingham or the second
coming of Willie Taggart. I mean, that can't happen. You
got to have the right guy when Jedfish leaves. But
before Jetfish leaves, I'd like to see, and I'm a
big Jetfish fan, I would like to see Jed Fish
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beat a team that has more talent than he is.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Right, because that hasn't happened yet, right.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
I would like to see him upset a team, and
it starts in the last game of the regular season
with Oregon. That is his first real opportunity to beat
a team that has more talented.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Absolutely, well, I just look at the text line because
we're done with text amonials, and I can look at
it now without the fear of.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Sure you never look at it before. It's fear of.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Criticism from Jackson three to six. Oh, I dig softy,
thank you I'm a dog, but we are irrational with
our expectations. So what should the expectations because my expectations
are again, every November comes around and guys, if you're
going to play in an eighteen team conference, is probably
going to be six or seven teams on the first
of November that can see a path to playing in
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the Big Ten championship.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And I want to be one. We should be one
of that. I want to be one of that.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Nair.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
So what should the expectations be? Smart guy? Well three six?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Oh like Johnson, I dig softy guy, what should your
expectations be?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
John Wilner said, every other year in the playoffs? I
think that's a reasonable expectation once it's a sixteen team playoff, right,
what was what was your stat that you had in
the last eight years the Washington Huskies would have made
a sixteen team playoff. That's more than fifty percent. Are
you telling me we're twelve? So maybe it just to
four out of it?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
But why would it be less in the Big Ten?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You're saying five out of eight? Maybe it's four out
of eight, which is now, wait for it, every other year.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
We see I don't I don't think it would be
four out of it I think I think it's less
than that, but I would say you ease it your
question there three out of two to three?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, right, But at the end of the day, because the.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Competition in the Big ten is miles above the competition
in the packer.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You're also getting more teams in than you would have
been if you're.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
In the package. So I think the number of sixteen
there is important. Like sixteen, maybe we're talking half. I
would I would even drop that to like one at
every three years, but that would be my expectation is
is one at every three years when.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
It's six And it's also about the context of your schedule, right, Like,
for example, they've gotten through the majority of what we
think is the goal.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
They do have Oregon.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I know that, but these next three games, I mean,
anything less than nine and two heading into Oregon is
gonna be a major disappointment.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You're losing as a double big favor.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I looked at the Vegas the Vegas power rankings. The Huskies,
this is their closest game of the next three and
they're ten and a half point.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Fank.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
You just said, how he's got to beat somebody with
better talent than them, and the opposite is losing to
somebody with worse.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Talent than you, which he hasn't done.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
That's one of these next three, which is let's hope
that doesn't happen, because that would be really disappointing. As
high as we are on what's going on, that would
be the exact opposite. Man, we're going to break. Brian
Schmetzer speaking of high high on Life. You thought I
was gonna say something else. They did high on life
after they beat Minnesota. Kind of kicked their ass last night,
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didn't they a little bit?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Jackson. We'll get his thoughts next on ninety three three
kJ ARFM.
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Speaker 4 (29:08):
You know, there really is only one reason why I
was rooting for the Sounders against Minnesota last night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You guys know whatever they won, only one because we
like Brian Schmitzer. I just wanted Brian to be in
a good movie. Yeah, this segment a very sens usually
in a good mood, even after a loss.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, but if the season, if the season ended, and
you know, I'm just a very sensitive.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Guy, and I'm not sure I could handle that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
So I'm glad they won because I was just thinking
about this segment the entire week and I was frightened.
Thank god you won. Actually, man, you kind of kicked
their ass last night. I mean, dude, you scored two
goals in three games against Minnesota this year and then
you go bananas for four last night.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
What the hell happened.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Well, I'm a little disappointed to hear you were nervous
or worried that I'd be in a bad mood.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
I mean, you got to have confidence in your hometown team.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I mean I had a load of confidence in the
guys because I watched them train all week Softy, and
they they were focused, they were laser focused.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
I mean we made some tweets. Look, we brought Musoski on.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
I think that was the right move, and man, guys
were into it from the first couple of minutes. The
crowd was into it because you know the little you know,
the goalkeeper wasting time already.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
In the first two minutes of the game.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
And you know, Christian was a little bit of a
high elbow near midfield. So game got intense very fast,
and it was a great, great outcome for us.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
So how do we carry this over?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
I mean, obviously Minnesota's seen the tape, but go in
depth with us exactly what you did with your attack
to make it work so well in this one.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Well, I think putting Masaski up there and playing Jordan
Dick it was He's not a true winger because we
don't want him out wide all the time.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
I want him to be connected.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
To Musoski, and so he's kind of on the inside
shoulder of the left wing back and the left center
back and he's got to play in that space.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
And Jordan did an excellent job.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
He was the one that got in behind for the
first corner kick whorl Bed scored.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
And he did a lot of good things.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Yeah, and having a striker in the middle like Masoski,
it really paid off.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Am I the only guy that every time I hear
the name Missovsky, I think of the movie Monsters Incorporated.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Out?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, Mike was.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Every time I hear that name, I think Mike Wazowski
from Monsters Incorporated. But Brian Schmetzter is with us, all right.
So how much of last night was about strategic changes?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
In your mind? Honestly, give yourself a pat of the back.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Maybe the coaching staff versus the guys in the field
kind of just figuring it the hell out.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
I think it's a mix fifty to fifty.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
I think they were energized when we rolled out such
an attacking lineup.
Speaker 9 (31:46):
I think Jordan, you know, he likes having help up there.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Sometimes being a loan center forward sometimes you know, it's
hard work, so having a guy up there. But you're right, Softie,
I mean, the guys were up for it. They didn't
want to go home. They didn't want to lose to Minnesota, certainly.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Not in front of the home fans.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
So do you think Minnesota adjusts to your adjustments or.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Do they just continue to play their lame, boring soccer
that got him wins a couple of times against you guys.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
That's a really good question, Dick, because I really don't know.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
I mean, he said in the press, Eric Ramsey's a
good guy, a nice guy like him. He's good coach.
He says, you know, we are who we are.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
But after he took four and he allowed us to
get on top of him with that type of intensity,
he's going to have to come out a little bit more.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Least at least that's what I think.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yeah, so Brian schmatches with us, and Brian you may
have noticed that there's this kind of thing going on
over at you dub and really in college football, where
players can leave whenever the hell they want. So there's
always constant recruiting, right, constant recruiting of players used to
be back in the day. Guy's on your roster, he's
stuck there, he can't go anywhere. But now every single
year Jed Fish has to recruit high school players and
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re recruit his own guys to stick around. How much
of that, honestly, are you doing with obad Vargas he scores.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Two goals for you last night?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Obviously there's going to be a lot of big money
offers coming in.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
When you have a free.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Moment every now and then, do you kind of go
over and tell him how great he is and how
good looking he is, and how much you love and
appreciate having him in Seattle. How much do you feel
you have to almost constantly recruit this guy to stay here.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Well, I don't know if it's exactly the same, but
you're going down an interesting path because look, it's out
there a little bit on some MLS channels.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
I poked a couple of guys before.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
The game, you know, I poked some of the senior players,
and I gave Obed a little bit of a poke,
you know, I said, hey, you know what, I didn't
think that first game in Minnesota.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
You know, it was a good game, but it wasn't
your best.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
And that triantis kid in the middle of a big,
tall kid, you know, had your number a few times.
And Obed responded. And he's got another level or two, Softy.
So as much as I would love to have him
here and make a career for himself, like Christian, you know,
I think he's bound to try at least try to
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go to Europe and maybe play at a slightly higher level.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
But you just never know what happens.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
I mean, you know, he might go there a couple
of years and might not work out for me come back,
and we'd love to we'd love to have him back.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Alex Rodan came off the field left signed at halftime.
What happened there? Was that an injury or just to
switch a rule?
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Well, no was he Look he was steeling his groin,
he had some tightness and his growing But you know
the funny thing about that, Dick, I'll let you in
on this story, was, you know, look, we're winning three nothing,
and Alex was kind of motioning to the bench.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
It was like, yeah, three nothing.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
I think you know, you know, because he has been
dinged up, and it was like, okay, three nothing, I
can kind of coast or I can second half, I
can kind of take it off.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
And then they scored those two goals.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
So the conversation at halftime was, you know, Alex wanted
to continue, He didn't want to, you know, he didn't
want to come off because they he'd just taken two goals.
But we decided to be prudent even a one goal lead,
even with the two goals that we gave up. It
was the right thing to do to just take a
few miles off him because he's pretty beat up.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
How about Kim Keih how close is he to coming
back and giving you a big center back that you
can bring on at the end of games, at least defensively.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Oh, softie, the guys are going to be fighting this
week as who gets on the plane to Minnesota, because
we've got basically everybody healthy except for Paul Ariola and
Pedro de la Vega. So guys are working hard at
training because they all want to be on the trip.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
All right, listen, man, great stuff. Thank you for being
in a good mood once again. And I hope you're
in a better mood even next week when we talk
on Tuesday show. So good luck on Saturday, go get him,
go kick their ass. You're bringing Jackson with you, by
the way, you know that he's going to be on
the plane.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
And guess what, Softie, We're flying on the executive charter plane.
Speaker 9 (36:07):
Well theater with the.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Nice seats that reclined back and tow to to too,
So Jackson's gonna get a little spoiled.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Actually, how about this, Brian, you want to hear something crazy.
Jackson's gotta work. He's got to work our show Friday,
so he's gonna fly commercial on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Yep, ry Jackson.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Awesome, just great, Wait rub it in coach a boy awesome.
Oh God, I love it all right, great stuff, Good
luck Saturday.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
We're talking a week.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
Take care guys, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Brian Schmitzer with us on the radio show. Uh, great,
great win for them, but let's see if they can
keep it going. Every time I see Sean Miller, by
the way, you see a fat Steve Sarkesian, you.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
See the same thing I do.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Next time you see Sean Miller, Texas is playing right
now on ESPN. So I just had that thought jump
into my mind, and it was such a great thought
I thought to share it with you. Jim Boden, what's
the market going to look like for Josh Naylor? What
will it take to get Tarek's Scubalt out of Detroit?
And maybe to the Mariners. Jim Boden gonna join us
(37:13):
and give us answers to every question Mariners are asking,
Mariners fans are asking. Next on ninety three three KJRFL
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he is the pope of the pack, the big ten
bearon himself now six and four after another win. Nice,
he took Nebraska plus the points against USC on Saturday.
Our friend Johnny Wilder, how are you man.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Go Huskers?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, you did well, we'll see if you take him again.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
By the way, we'll see we'll get the window, LORI,
and you're picking a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But we got the TV on up here.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
We got Greg McElroy and Joey Galloway, the former Seahawk,
waiting for the CFP rankings. And I don't know, I mean,
I guess we're expecting the Huskies to be ranked in
the top twenty five. How surprised would you be if
they were not in the top twenty five tonight?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Well, first of all, keep me posted because I have
YouTube TV.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
So I got no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
That'll text you my I'll text you my Fubo password.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How's that?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
I would think Washington would be. I'm gonna say.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
They got to be behind Michigan. That's the issue. Michigan
always gotta be behind USC.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I would probably guess Huskies twenty three, twenty two.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Twenty three right in there.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
That's kind of where we are too, So we'll see,
you know, kind of big picture on the on the Dogs.
I was taking a look at you know, projected we're
gonna have a sixteen team playoff eventually, right not this year,
but very very soon, John, the Huskies would have made
five of the last eight sixteen team playoffs. What is
a reasonable expectation for the Huskies to have when that
goes to sixteen?
Speaker 8 (02:29):
Like?
Speaker 7 (02:29):
How often should we be expecting to make that sixteen
team playoff?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Oh, that's a great question, and it gets into so
much too, because you have to account for you know,
rev share, and you've got to account for Washington's financial
situation and the impact that can have on the resource
allocation for football. I would say two out of every
four years would probably be reasonable too. Out every five
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maybe low end, but something right in there.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I mean Washington is.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I mean, if you're listing the Big Ten football programs
in order of you know, resource historical success recruiting, Washington
is I don't know, six ish, probably.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Right around there. That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
And if it's a sixteen team playoff and the Big
Ten is sending at minimum four probably five I would
think that two at every four years is probably reasonable
for the Huskies.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
And I mean, look, we're gonna get the rankings here
in just a minute. But they got a chance to
do something big. I mean, they got three really winnable
games with Wisconsin, Purdue, and UCLA before they end up
playing the Oregon Ducks and the final game of the
regular season. So you go nine to two with a
chance to make that Oregon game meaningful? Is this a
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playoff team? If they can run the table and finish
the season ten and two?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
In your mind, I think that they will have a
great chance if they're ten and two, And the thing
is that they won't be in the Big Ten championship game,
and that probably would help them because it avoids loss
number three.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Right, So they're ten and two, and in that scenario,
they're probably ahead of USC Raking.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So would John rankings just came out there? Twenty third,
twenty third country?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Okay, there we go perfectly fair. And I think that
if you would ask a Washington fan on August thirtieth, hey,
we're going to be twenty third in the first CFP release,
what ninety five percent would say?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Okay? We'll take it, you know. So no, I don't think.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
There's any any room for complaint in Seattle the way
things have gone, And certainly if they went out, they
would have a great chance to get in. And also,
you know, the cherry on top is probably put Oregon
on the brink and not getting in.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Well, and we played a clip today from Bruce Feldman
Jackson was that from the Weekend? By the way, that
clip that you played it from a couple of days ago,
and I guess they're doing like a hot take thing
or whatever he said, Bruce Feldbman did. His prediction is
Oregon is not going to make the playoff, meaning they
lose to you dub, maybe they lose to Iowa. I mean,
I don't know, does it a ten and two Oregon
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team and a ten and two Washington team, do they
both make it or does one kick the other out
depending on who wins that game in Seattle.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Yeah, I don't think both would make it. And the
other thing is Oregon's got to play USC so they've
got they have the hardest schedule, and I think that
was probably part of I haven't talked to Bruce, but
my guess is part of a sinking is Oregon between Washington,
USC and Iowa. You know, there's maybe two losses in there,
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certainly one and that's going to put or if Oregon
finishes nine and three, they're.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Out right same with the Huskies, right correct?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
If somehow they both end up ten and two, the
winner of the game at the end of the season
would have a huge eventche I mean, I would think
it'd be a no brainer.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You take the winner of that game.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Wow, how about the deree of difficulty for the next
three Husky games? I mean, each and each one in
a nutshell looks pretty easy, but you got to go
three and oh. So even if your percented chance of
winning is eighty percent of each one, it's tough to
go three and oh. Who who potentially could trip them up?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, I think the US the UCLA game.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Is a little bit dangerous, more dangerous than it might
seem given UCLA's record. It will be their final home
game for their seniors because because they play USC in
the coliseum, So you know, for like Nico and those guys,
I think they would probably be pretty jacked up. And
they have pretty good players and they've got a good quarterback,
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So I think that will.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Be a dangerous game for Washington.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
And you know this game is is a little bit
of a trap. I look, the weather forecast is not
good and Wisconsin defense is pretty decent.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
So the big thing.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
If Washington can get to seventeen points, probably got a
good chance to win, certainly twenty the way Wisconsin's offense
has gone lately. But if it's rare, you know, if
it's winning and raining in Madison, that's gonna be hard.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, guys, So I'm just thinking out loud here. And
John Wilner again is with us on the radio show.
Courtesy is simply Seattle. So Husky's win six and seven
a year ago, they're six and two now. So they're
twelve and nine right under Jedfish in the twenty one
games he's coached here. They've got six games of the
twenty one, two against Wazoo, one against Colorado State, one
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against UC Davis, one against Weber and one against Eastern Michigan.
They're five and one in those six games, with the
one loss coming in the Apple Cup last year, right,
Dick in Seattle, So you're seven and eight in the
other games you've played yet here you are a year
and a half after Kalin de Moore blew up the
roster and you're.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Back in the top twenty five?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Is this affirmation that they did the right thing by
moving to the Big ten? Because if they're a Pac
twelve team and there's seven and eight in the other
fifteen games they've played, are they.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Getting this kind of recognition right now?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Probably they are gonna be seven and eight? Iff, I
mean how many what they've got a lost of Michigan
and a lost to.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Ohio State in there.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Yes, you know, So I would argue that if they
had stayed in the Pac twelve, they wouldn't be seven
and eight in those fifteen games. They'd be nine and
six or ten and five, And they don't. They wouldn't
have the travel, they wouldn't have the nine am kickoffs,
they wouldn't have the Big tens offensive and defensive lines
to contend with. So I'm not sure it's apples and apples,
(08:54):
but I do think that, yeah, you know, being in
the Big ten. Winning if you're in the Big ten
certainly helps you, but it's also harder to win.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But can we to softeas point?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Can we all agree now that it's easier to make
the playoffs out of the Big Ten than it would
have been if the PAC twelve stayed together.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
You know, we were there, because the whole thing would
be different. If the PAC twelve was still intact, The
playoffs setup would be completely different, and the Big ten
and the SEC would there would be more balanced within
the Power five. The format would be different, and I
would argue Washington would have a better chance. Now are
you talking about PAC twelve with USC and UCLA or
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the second version?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Second verse? The second version?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well, I mean in that case, Washington and Oregon would
be running the league, and you know, you could argue
that PAC twelve would have a decent chance of getting
two teams in every year.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Right John Wanners with us and John, we talked about
Wisconsin coming up this weekend. I mean, what what has
happened to that program?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
May?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I mean again, I'm not saying that Wisconsin's on par
with Ohio State and Penn State and Michigan, but you know,
they're they're a decent program and right now they're just
an absolute train wreck. They have no quarterback whatsoever to
speak of. They've got no skill players that anybody covets
at the next level, at all the fans aren't going
to games. I saw online last week before the buye
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tickets for the UDUB game against the Huskies are nine
dollars nine bucks to get in the door at Camp
Randall this weekend. What happened to Wisconsin football?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
The beer is more expensive at Camp Randall than the
it is ticket price.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You're not exaggerating, that is a fact.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
No, No, I'm not. I'm not so.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
I think a couple of weeks one they have lost
their starting quarterback to a knee injury.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I think it's three years in a row.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
But over and above that, they got away from what
made them really good for so many years, which was
the Barry Albarez system of getting NFL offensive line and
then NFL running back and just pounding teams in the submission.
And you know, I think they started to get away
from that a little bit under PAULK. Christ and then
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with Luke Fickle they had they just haven't gotten it back.
And also their nil game is terrible, and so they
don't They don't have the money to pay for players
as part of the problem, but a lot of it
is getting away from a system that worked for decades
and that was perfect for their the players that can
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recruit right Wisconsin, you can get three hundred pound offensive
linemen a lot easier than you can get dynamic receivers.
I mean, it's kind of like Utah with their recruiting pool,
and and it worked.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
It worked for years, and then they got away from it.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
John, since we's been talking a lot today about the
depth of the Big Ten, I've been meaning to ask you,
how close are we to that three versus six and
four versus five game in the conference that would determine
playoff berths? Is that a potential like next year thing.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That was.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Pretty closely but not completely tied to the automatic bids
for the playoff?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Right the Tony Petiti, the Big Ten commissioner, one of
the Big Ten, to have four automatic bids in the playoffs.
The two teams that play in the championship game would
both be in, and then you'd have three six, four
five to create you know, more interesting games and more
good TV, more TV dollars and TV ratings on championship weekend.
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So if they don't if the if the automatic qualifier
model doesn't get adopted for the playoff, I'm not sure
that they're going to do it. Because then you're looking
at potentially eliminating both teams that are playing in the
three verse six if it's if it's in that large
situation and not an automatic bid.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Update on the rankings, by the way, Husky's twenty three.
The CFP rankings are coming out right now, Michigan twenty one,
Iowa twenty, USC nineteen. The Ducks are at number nine,
so obvious they were waiting on Ohio State Indiana to
see where they end up. But there'll be seven big
ten teams in the top twenty five when it's all
said and done.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Do you like it?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Where's Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Notre Dame?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
God, I just had I think they're tenth if I'm
not mistaken, Okay, Yeah, let me time a big one. Yeah,
let me confirm that for you though in a minute.
But Oregon, Iowa, how risky a proposition is this for
the Ducks on Saturday in Iowa?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Well preview here of the Windealorean. I think it's a
pretty big risk. Yeah, you know, the weather is supposed
to be bad in Iowa City as well, and they
played Indiana to a very close That was the closest
game Indiana's had by far. It was twenty to fifteen.
And you know, Iowa plays good defense. They actually can
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score a little bit this year. Right, they put on
thirty nine against Rutgers, kind of like what you dubbedd
I think that's that's gonna be a tough game for
the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah. Yeah, by the way, Notre Dame is tenth, by
the way, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
That's a big one.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Everybody's got to be rooting against Notre Dame because they
will suck up one of those seven at large berths
and that could be that could be the fourth Big
Ten bid right there.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
That could be Washington's bid.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
If Notre Dame gets in, it could be no Big
Ten four that gets bumped out.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Very easy for me to do. I've been rooting against
Notre Dame.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
For about a half a century, so that's very easy
for me to do. John rarely is the biggest game
of the college football weekend coming from the revamped Big twelve.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But who do you like?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
And now number seven BYU and the new college Football
Ball against number eight Texas Tech.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah, it's good for the Big twelve to get a
little bit of a little bit of love. Right, They
got game day and I think it's the Big Noon game,
or you know, it's A or maybe it's the ABC game.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
Good for the Big.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Twelve, huge game for the playoff for the Big twelve race.
I have been of the mindset that Texas Tech spent
that thirty million dollars very wisely, and their defense is
like would be a good SEC or Big ten defense,
And in the Big twelve it's a great defense. And
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BYU is very good, and you got to give them
credit for being resourceful and finding ways to win.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But I kind of think they're going to be a
little bit overmatched.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, yeah, all right, well let's get to it.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Then.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
By the way, they just came out with Buckeye's number one,
Indiana number two. No surprise there, but there were some
folks that maybe thought that Indiana would climb up and
grab that number one spot.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Where I assume A and M three in Alabama four.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Correct, Yes, those are the four teams with the buy
Alabama against the winner of the Memphis Georgia game, Ohio
state winner of the Oregon Texas Tech Game, A and
M winner of Virginia Ole Miss and Indiana winner of
Notre Dame, and BYU for now, but speaking of winners.
Another big one for you, Matt Ruhle getting the cover
against USC at home on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You're six and four on the EU year so far.
The Windelorean is.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Back on the proper path, John, to get to seven
and four in your first eleven games.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Who do you like this week?
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Yeah, and Nebraska covered even with losing their quarterback for
the second half. I will take Iowa and I think
am I getting six and a half?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yes? In that yes, correct, six and a half.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I will take it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I think that they're you know, they're good, and it's
it's going to be tough in the in that weather.
I think for Dante Moore, we saw Oregon, you know
the Wisconsin game.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oregon did not look very good.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And the weather in Iowa City is going to be
a lot like the weather in Eugene, and the opponent
is going to be much much better.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Well if they if Oregon loses, they got it went
out and that means beating USC and U dub in
the final three games of the regular season for them
before the Big Ten championship game, so they would have
to win out. So, I mean the picture that you're
kind of painting is that Oregon could be done if
they lose to Iowa this weekend. That could be the
first nail on the coffin for the Ducks. Man, So
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go hot guys. But Dick brought the question up earlier.
Our Husky fans kind of in a backwards way rooting
for Oregon to win to make that game more meaningful
after Thanksgiving? Or does it even matter if they're ten
and two with a win against a top twenty Oregon team.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Does it even matter where they're ranked? Are they in
no matter what at ten and two?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Or should we be rooting for the Ducks to be
as good as possible in that game?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yeah? I actually wrote about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Washington Oregon need each other to win because they both
teams want the opponent to be as highly ranked as
possible in the season finale. So actually Washington wants Oregon
to be Iowa because it's if it's close, and there
are many scenarios in which Washington is on the border.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
For that last spot or two.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
The more marquee the victory over Oregon, the better for
Washington's resume, And there's.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
No other way to do it, Like we can't get
what we need by notre dame falling off or something else.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
It's kind of like a special spot in hell for
the fiz of Bot having to root for the other.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
God.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I love it, all right, John, you're the man, great stuff.
We're talking a week nice Thanks all right.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
John Wilner says Huskies should be rooting for ducks, and
ducks should be rooting for huskies.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Do we really believe that makes sense? Can we stomach that?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Let's talk about it next on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
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Speaker 4 (18:47):
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CFP rankings have come out. Ohio State number one, Indiana
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two A and M three, Caitlin de Boorn Alabama four, Georgia, Ole,
miss BYU, Texas Tech, Oregon, Notre Dame, Virginia, Memphis Big ten,
USC nineteen, Iowa twenty, Michigan twenty one, you dubbed twenty three,
and the initial CFP rankings that have come out today.
And I don't know, man, Maybe I'm just being a
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little bit emotional here. Maybe I'm not raising the bar
like I should. But I think I think two things. Okay,
I was talking to Jimmy Doherty today over at you
dub the offensive coordinator, who's got the best job in
the world, by the way, because if the offense stinks,
nobody rips him. They ripped the head coach because Jimmy
didn't call plays right. So it's a great gig to have.
He's ocan name, but Jedfish calls the plays. And I
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told him there's only one Husky game where they've played
and lost where I felt good walking out of the stadium.
And you probably know the game I'm talking about. LSU
Bang two thousand and nine. Two thousand and nine, they
go oh to twelve, and the next year they push
those guys all the way to the brink and then
they beat USC the next week, remember that at Husky Stadium.
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So that's the only time Jackson and Dick where I
felt really good about a loss because I felt like, man,
this is just is this gonna be different? It's going
to be different, right, And it was different right this
CFP ranking that came out today, maybe I'm being a
total friggin' homer, And if I am, you'll tell me.
I just think to go from where they were in
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February of two thousand and twenty four, when the roster
got blown to bits, when Kaitlyn de Moore took off,
to a year and a half later being in the
top twenty five of the first CFP rankings that come
out for year two under Jetfish, I think it's an accomplishment.
I think it's I think it's real progress for this
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football team because everything has to be looked at in context, right,
the context of where this roster was, where the offensive
line was, where the entire starting offense was, where the
transfer portal. I mean, dude, they had nobody, They had
nothing left after Kavin de Boor took off and for
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Jetfish to a year and a half later, have these
guys in the first CFP rankings that come out the
next season, the first CFP rankings of year two.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think it's meaningful. It's a testament to two Do
you agree with that, by the way, absolutely? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
It's a testament to two super quality brands. The brand
of the University of Washington, which is top fifteen in
college football and has been for fifty years, and the
brand of the Big Ten. And you're putting those two together.
And I've always been probably the more optimistic of the
two of us than you have of what the new
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nil and the city of Seattle means for this football program.
And I think it is huge because I think the
Huskies are uniquely set up to fly with this group
around them, of all these corporate sponsors, than all the
dollars that we have in this city.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, here's what I think.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I think that there's a huge difference though, between being
twenty third and being in the top five, right, gigantic,
and that's where's the arrow, right, But that's where we
all want to be in the end. So that's the
question for me is in this conference can they get there?
And this conference, can they get to kind of similar
where they were in the old PAC twelve, where every
November comes around and you can paint a picture of
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them winning the Big Ten Championship, like that's what I want.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
They're not gonna win it.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
That's gonna be tougher than a one pack twelve because
there's more teams. There's eighteen teams, and I totally get
that there's tougher competition.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You got more elite programs.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
I mean in the old PAC twelve you had maybe
three elite programs and you might have now five or six. Right,
and now with the arrival of Indiana, who knows what
they're going to be doing, right, So I think it's
going to be very difficult, But I still think that
that's the goal, right, The goal is every single November
to paint some kind of a picture where you can say,
all right, here's the path to playing in the Big
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Ten Championship and maybe winning it and go into a
Rose Bull or going to the CFP or the Final
four or the Top twelve or sixteen or Field of
sixty four, whatever the hell it's going to be in
ten years from us. Hope not that that is still
my goal for this football team, But I think for now,
for two day, and.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Maybe only for today and maybe only for this year. Right.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I think it's fair, in my opinion, for Usky fans
to sit back and look at what Jed Fish has done.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Absolutely, And I think one of the things too, is
we're learning that money has such an enormous meaning right now,
where if you invest in a guy like Demon Williams
and you have an idea of exactly how you want
this whole thing. I mean, Jed credit to him. He
came in here. I don't think it was just a
let's see what we can do in one year. It's
a we have a three plus year plan. We understand
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the money will take, we understand the I want to
build relies on demand Freakin' Williams, and we can just
roll the I mean, he was talking up demand in
the first half of last season like he is always.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
This has been the guy.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
This has been his plan, and Jed's smart enough to
have the next plan figure it out. So if you
can continue to raise the money, invest in whatever plan
that is right now, it's the I mean, you can
just continue to roll and eventually one of those plans
will have enough other plans around it to take.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You to a championship.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And that's kind of the point Jackson, is that it's
not really just about Jedfish. Because, Dick, if what you're
talking about happens to be reality, that Washington can survive
in this thing long term, thrive, well, then they're gonna
need the money from the donors. They're gonna need an
ad with a list of coaches. If and when Jedfish
takes off, they're gonna need a president to give them
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everything they need to compete in the Big Ten. So
like Jedfish, I mean, look, I think again, I'm kind
of talking out of both sides of my mouth, but
I think both of these things are accurate and can
be true. Of course, I think they're true. Otherwise I
wouldn't be saying them. I'd be lying on purpose to you.
I think Jedfish has done a marvelous job. I also
don't think Jetfish is long for this job at job,
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so I think you give him credit for what he's done.
But at the same time, I also hope to God
that Pat Chunn has a list of coaches ready to go,
and that Robert Jones, right the new president, the guy
from Illinois, has a vision for what to do to
keep this thing relevant no matter who the head coaches
that that guy, whoever it is, has all the resources
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he needs.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yes, and the resources will be there. Now the decision
has to be correct. They got to find the right guy.
You can't go and grab Mark Helfrich, the second Coming
or the second coming of Tyrone Willingham or the second
coming of Willie Taggart. I mean, that can't happen. You
got to have the right guy when Jedfish leaves. But
before Jetfish leaves, I'd like to see, and I'm a
big Jetfish fan, I would like to see Jed Fish
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beat a team that has more talent than he is.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Right, because that hasn't happened yet, right.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
I would like to see him upset a team, and
it starts in the last game of the regular season
with Oregon. That is his first real opportunity to beat
a team that has more talented.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Absolutely, well, I just look at the text line because
we're done with text amonials, and I can look at
it now without the fear of.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Sure you never look at it before. It's fear of.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Criticism from Jackson three to six. Oh, I dig softy,
thank you I'm a dog, but we are irrational with
our expectations. So what should the expectations because my expectations
are again, every November comes around and guys, if you're
going to play in an eighteen team conference, is probably
going to be six or seven teams on the first
of November that can see a path to playing in
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the Big Ten championship.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And I want to be one. We should be one
of that. I want to be one of that.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Nair.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
So what should the expectations be? Smart guy? Well three six?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Oh like Johnson, I dig softy guy, what should your
expectations be?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
John Wilner said, every other year in the playoffs? I
think that's a reasonable expectation once it's a sixteen team playoff, right,
what was what was your stat that you had in
the last eight years the Washington Huskies would have made
a sixteen team playoff. That's more than fifty percent. Are
you telling me we're twelve? So maybe it just to
four out of it?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
But why would it be less in the Big Ten?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You're saying five out of eight? Maybe it's four out
of eight, which is now, wait for it, every other year.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
We see I don't I don't think it would be
four out of it I think I think it's less
than that, but I would say you ease it your
question there three out of two to three?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, right, But at the end of the day, because the.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Competition in the Big ten is miles above the competition
in the packer.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You're also getting more teams in than you would have
been if you're.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
In the package. So I think the number of sixteen
there is important. Like sixteen, maybe we're talking half. I
would I would even drop that to like one at
every three years, but that would be my expectation is
is one at every three years when.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
It's six And it's also about the context of your schedule, right, Like,
for example, they've gotten through the majority of what we
think is the goal.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
They do have Oregon.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I know that, but these next three games, I mean,
anything less than nine and two heading into Oregon is
gonna be a major disappointment.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You're losing as a double big favor.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I looked at the Vegas the Vegas power rankings. The Huskies,
this is their closest game of the next three and
they're ten and a half point.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Fank.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
You just said, how he's got to beat somebody with
better talent than them, and the opposite is losing to
somebody with worse.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Talent than you, which he hasn't done.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
That's one of these next three, which is let's hope
that doesn't happen, because that would be really disappointing. As
high as we are on what's going on, that would
be the exact opposite. Man, we're going to break. Brian
Schmetzer speaking of high high on Life. You thought I
was gonna say something else. They did high on life
after they beat Minnesota. Kind of kicked their ass last night,
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didn't they a little bit?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Jackson. We'll get his thoughts next on ninety three three
kJ ARFM.
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Speaker 4 (29:08):
You know, there really is only one reason why I
was rooting for the Sounders against Minnesota last night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You guys know whatever they won, only one because we
like Brian Schmitzer. I just wanted Brian to be in
a good movie. Yeah, this segment a very sens usually
in a good mood, even after a loss.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, but if the season, if the season ended, and
you know, I'm just a very sensitive.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Guy, and I'm not sure I could handle that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
So I'm glad they won because I was just thinking
about this segment the entire week and I was frightened.
Thank god you won. Actually, man, you kind of kicked
their ass last night. I mean, dude, you scored two
goals in three games against Minnesota this year and then
you go bananas for four last night.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
What the hell happened.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Well, I'm a little disappointed to hear you were nervous
or worried that I'd be in a bad mood.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
I mean, you got to have confidence in your hometown team.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I mean I had a load of confidence in the
guys because I watched them train all week Softy, and
they they were focused, they were laser focused.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
I mean we made some tweets. Look, we brought Musoski on.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
I think that was the right move, and man, guys
were into it from the first couple of minutes. The
crowd was into it because you know the little you know,
the goalkeeper wasting time already.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
In the first two minutes of the game.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
And you know, Christian was a little bit of a
high elbow near midfield. So game got intense very fast,
and it was a great, great outcome for us.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
So how do we carry this over?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
I mean, obviously Minnesota's seen the tape, but go in
depth with us exactly what you did with your attack
to make it work so well in this one.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Well, I think putting Masaski up there and playing Jordan
Dick it was He's not a true winger because we
don't want him out wide all the time.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
I want him to be connected.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
To Musoski, and so he's kind of on the inside
shoulder of the left wing back and the left center
back and he's got to play in that space.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
And Jordan did an excellent job.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
He was the one that got in behind for the
first corner kick whorl Bed scored.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
And he did a lot of good things.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Yeah, and having a striker in the middle like Masoski,
it really paid off.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Am I the only guy that every time I hear
the name Missovsky, I think of the movie Monsters Incorporated.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Out?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, Mike was.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Every time I hear that name, I think Mike Wazowski
from Monsters Incorporated. But Brian Schmetzter is with us, all right.
So how much of last night was about strategic changes?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
In your mind? Honestly, give yourself a pat of the back.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Maybe the coaching staff versus the guys in the field
kind of just figuring it the hell out.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
I think it's a mix fifty to fifty.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
I think they were energized when we rolled out such
an attacking lineup.
Speaker 9 (31:46):
I think Jordan, you know, he likes having help up there.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Sometimes being a loan center forward sometimes you know, it's
hard work, so having a guy up there. But you're right, Softie,
I mean, the guys were up for it. They didn't
want to go home. They didn't want to lose to Minnesota, certainly.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Not in front of the home fans.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
So do you think Minnesota adjusts to your adjustments or.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Do they just continue to play their lame, boring soccer
that got him wins a couple of times against you guys.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
That's a really good question, Dick, because I really don't know.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
I mean, he said in the press, Eric Ramsey's a
good guy, a nice guy like him. He's good coach.
He says, you know, we are who we are.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
But after he took four and he allowed us to
get on top of him with that type of intensity,
he's going to have to come out a little bit more.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Least at least that's what I think.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yeah, so Brian schmatches with us, and Brian you may
have noticed that there's this kind of thing going on
over at you dub and really in college football, where
players can leave whenever the hell they want. So there's
always constant recruiting, right, constant recruiting of players used to
be back in the day. Guy's on your roster, he's
stuck there, he can't go anywhere. But now every single
year Jed Fish has to recruit high school players and
(33:02):
re recruit his own guys to stick around. How much
of that, honestly, are you doing with obad Vargas he scores.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Two goals for you last night?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Obviously there's going to be a lot of big money
offers coming in.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
When you have a free.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Moment every now and then, do you kind of go
over and tell him how great he is and how
good looking he is, and how much you love and
appreciate having him in Seattle. How much do you feel
you have to almost constantly recruit this guy to stay here.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Well, I don't know if it's exactly the same, but
you're going down an interesting path because look, it's out
there a little bit on some MLS channels.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
I poked a couple of guys before.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
The game, you know, I poked some of the senior players,
and I gave Obed a little bit of a poke,
you know, I said, hey, you know what, I didn't
think that first game in Minnesota.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
You know, it was a good game, but it wasn't
your best.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
And that triantis kid in the middle of a big,
tall kid, you know, had your number a few times.
And Obed responded. And he's got another level or two, Softy.
So as much as I would love to have him
here and make a career for himself, like Christian, you know,
I think he's bound to try at least try to
(34:14):
go to Europe and maybe play at a slightly higher level.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
But you just never know what happens.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
I mean, you know, he might go there a couple
of years and might not work out for me come back,
and we'd love to we'd love to have him back.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Alex Rodan came off the field left signed at halftime.
What happened there? Was that an injury or just to
switch a rule?
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Well, no was he Look he was steeling his groin,
he had some tightness and his growing But you know
the funny thing about that, Dick, I'll let you in
on this story, was, you know, look, we're winning three nothing,
and Alex was kind of motioning to the bench.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
It was like, yeah, three nothing.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
I think you know, you know, because he has been
dinged up, and it was like, okay, three nothing, I
can kind of coast or I can second half, I
can kind of take it off.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
And then they scored those two goals.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
So the conversation at halftime was, you know, Alex wanted
to continue, He didn't want to, you know, he didn't
want to come off because they he'd just taken two goals.
But we decided to be prudent even a one goal lead,
even with the two goals that we gave up. It
was the right thing to do to just take a
few miles off him because he's pretty beat up.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
How about Kim Keih how close is he to coming
back and giving you a big center back that you
can bring on at the end of games, at least defensively.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Oh, softie, the guys are going to be fighting this
week as who gets on the plane to Minnesota, because
we've got basically everybody healthy except for Paul Ariola and
Pedro de la Vega. So guys are working hard at
training because they all want to be on the trip.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
All right, listen, man, great stuff. Thank you for being
in a good mood once again. And I hope you're
in a better mood even next week when we talk
on Tuesday show. So good luck on Saturday, go get him,
go kick their ass. You're bringing Jackson with you, by
the way, you know that he's going to be on
the plane.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
And guess what, Softie, We're flying on the executive charter plane.
Speaker 9 (36:07):
Well theater with the.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Nice seats that reclined back and tow to to too,
So Jackson's gonna get a little spoiled.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Actually, how about this, Brian, you want to hear something crazy.
Jackson's gotta work. He's got to work our show Friday,
so he's gonna fly commercial on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Yep, ry Jackson.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Awesome, just great, Wait rub it in coach a boy awesome.
Oh God, I love it all right, great stuff, Good
luck Saturday.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
We're talking a week.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
Take care guys, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Brian Schmitzer with us on the radio show. Uh, great,
great win for them, but let's see if they can
keep it going. Every time I see Sean Miller, by
the way, you see a fat Steve Sarkesian, you.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
See the same thing I do.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Next time you see Sean Miller, Texas is playing right
now on ESPN. So I just had that thought jump
into my mind, and it was such a great thought
I thought to share it with you. Jim Boden, what's
the market going to look like for Josh Naylor? What
will it take to get Tarek's Scubalt out of Detroit?
And maybe to the Mariners. Jim Boden gonna join us
(37:13):
and give us answers to every question Mariners are asking,
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