Furness Show 8-23: Mayor IPA! Danny O'Neil, Kym Hilinski, Rob Rang and Brandon Huffman

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Headlines are brought to you by Buddies, Goodies and glass
should be brought to you by Georgetown Brewing today. And
that's who it is brought to you. Bye, George. That's
what we're doing the show. Heck yes, that's what we are.
Manners back in action tonight with the new manager and
the Doug got His name is Dan Wilson. Jerry Depotto
fired Scott Service yesterday. How did Scott Service find out
about that? Well, sat on a ticker at the bottom
of the screen. That's good. Danie O'Neil coming up in

(00:28):
about fifty minutes. We'll talk about with him. Seahawks traded
linebacker Darryl Taylor the Chicago Bears twenty twenty five sixth
round pick for Darryl Taylor in return. So interesting there
that the Seahawks trade a guy that was a second
round pick, expected to be a sack guy and everything else. Nope,
no more. He is on the way out of town. Jess.
Let's get to the show.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Jerry is Dan an interim manager or is he the
manager moving forward? He's the manager moving forward.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Instead of just making him the interim Why did you
go say he's the manager of looking for.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
No Hey, We've known Dan for you know, the almost
his entire professional career. He has been a part of
the Mariners family. We have known him here, like I
said to this group for nine years.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Text us at four nine one and hit the talkback
mike on the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And he embodies the traits that that I think will
go a long way toward paving the road the next
stage in our journey.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I also believe that that walking in the door as
an introm anything, and I've been that in my life.
Walking in the door as an instrument anything doesn't really
allow you to weligh the appropriate groundwork.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
This is the News Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
All right, welcome in here we are. It's a Georgetown
Brewing man. He's here. My sister's just got here. My
guy Douglas. Yeah, my guy Doug lau Renson, who is
always at the front of the line for Mayor release day.
Go Koobs. I just got a picture with Doug and Manny,
Dogs and Cats coming together for the release of The
Mayor twenty twenty four and cheers to everyone here. What

(02:07):
a great day. Thank you so much to Manny, to Roger,
to Matt, to the whole crew, Dave, everybody here at Georgetown. Man,
what an awesome day this is and joining us. This
is our fifth year of doing the Mayor IPA. Every
single cent I'd like to say every dollar, but every
cent of the beer sold growlers to go pints here

(02:30):
at the brewery today and all through the next couple
of weeks, every single part of it goes right back
to the three charities Plensky's Hope, Avery, Huffman, DIPG and
also the Jordan Morris Foundation. It's a great beer. I'll
tell you about it in a second. I'll tell you
about the show here as well. Daniel Neal is gonna
come up with twelve twenty today and we'll talk to

(02:52):
either Matt or the brewer, Matt Edwards A. Matt will
join us from Georgetown at twelve forty five to tell
you about the beer itself. You beer and out there.
It's really drinkable, really good. Uh And no I'm not
I've had like four ounces of it.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Alt you sound battle tested.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I only have four ounces, had four ounces.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Hey, it's noon on a Friday. You got it's gonna change.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
That is gonna change. We're expecting a lot of fun here.
This is the so the fifth year we've done the beer. Actually,
we take a step back before I get to that.
I was telling Jess earlier. We're gonna get into service
and to poto with Danny O'Neil, and I can't wait
for his perspective coming up at twelve twenty. Guy, that's
covered Seattle sports forever. Everyone knows Danny he's gonna join

(03:36):
usport a great calumn for his newsletter. We'll get into
all that at that point. That might be the one
kind of negative part of our show today. In a sense,
it's a Friday. It feels like football seasons upon us
and it actually starts tomorrow with Week zero games. But
it feels like, you know, if you're a Husky fan,
you should be heading out to Montlake right now and
tailgating in the rain and getting ready to sit there

(03:56):
in the drizzle watching football. If you're if you're a
high school parent, you feel like boys feels like a
Friday night. Yeah, it's gonna rain our kids high school game.
That's what it feels like. It feels like October. That's fine,
it's it's a beer time. This is about the beer.
But we're gonna keep it really positive today, Jess. I just.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
It's Friday, h in.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
This day for me is so special. It's so humbling
to see what this company does for us and for
those three charities, and to have the beer sitting there
and looking up. For five years now, we've had this
beer on tap for a couple of weeks a year.

(04:39):
It's just it's just there's too much good that comes
from what they do and the three foundations we support
for Honestly, for me to go down this, I'll spend
a little bit of time criticizing service in to Poto
at twelve twenty and after that, Honestly, I just want
to make this a fun, positive show.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
I think everyone would like that.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I'm gonna reserve my real feeling and opinions until Monday.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah, have yourself a weekend.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I just didn't like anything about yesterday's news conference, but
but that's Monday. Today is about this and it's about
the beer. And like I said, we'll spend some time
with Danny doing that. Stuart Mandel's going to join us
weekly visit college football season start this weekend. We're gonna
get our guy on at one o'clock today. Kim Holensky
is in Pullman and we'll tell you why she's there.
Really cool thing. One of the things that we support

(05:24):
with this charity and this these foundations. She's gonna join
us coming up at one forty five today, and then
Rob rang will get us ready for the weekend and
the Seahawks final preseason game, which is tomorrow. He'll get
us ready with that talk about the young guys he's
seen so far. So that's coming up at two o'clock today. Listen,
if you guys want to fire off a talk back,
feel free, vent, scream yell, I'll let you do that.

(05:47):
And Jess loves getting home.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
I love editing them. I'm just I'm getting some really
good texts.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
I know that you're out there at the brewery, but
I'm here in studio and just got a text from
Keith C that says, just grabbed three Mayor growlers. We
got another one Koug for Life, another one from the
five six two h three, A lot of prayer hands
and everyone is really really proud of what you're doing,

(06:13):
and so am I.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
I just want that out here.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, I do appreciate that. It's it for me, It's
it's I'm the conduit. But I'm really lucky because we
have so many cool people. Uh Manny's sitting here. Manny's
Palel was one of the really foundational beers in our
in our area, in our state, and uh Manny and
Roger own the brewery. I mentioned Matt, he's a sales manager.

(06:36):
Dave is a is the GM of the building here
and and runs everything. Jack running the bar behind us today.
I mean, I can't speak highly enough about all these
people that are so awesome and do so much to
support these these things. And the beer story is a
wild one. It's it came out of one of the
worst times in our world, the pandemic of all things.

(07:00):
Probably a decent example. I think of how in the
darkest time sometimes there's a shining light. And in the
pandemic year, it worked out well. It worked out really
well for.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Us, and that comes there's light that comes from darkness.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yet, Yeah, for sure, Jess, thanks to I was looking
for the exact words, and that's exactly what it is.
It's there's a there's a feel. The beer came out
of that year and that's when it started. And they
didn't say, well, we're just gonna do one and done.
Because you're doing the golf tournam again, We're gonna keep
doing it. And so here we are, five years into this.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Can you talk a little bit about all three charities?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, yes, and Brandon Hoffman will be here at two
thirty and he'll talk more about Avery Huffman. But everyone
knows Brandon. He's our college football recruiting guru. He's the man.
And Brandon I've known since I was doing radio in
Portland in the early two thousands. And he his daughter
Avery died back in twenty seventeen of a rare form

(07:58):
of pediatric braink answered tumor. It's called DIPG. That's the
initials for it. He can pronounce it, I can't. All
I know is it's horrific and there is no cure,
and she was diagnosed with that. We decided at the
one time we're going We were doing the charity at
the time, and it was basically going money to the
Ron McDonald House. They're well supported, some great people, and

(08:19):
we decided to split it between Ron McDonald house and
that in Avery's name. So we started doing that with
Avery and then we ended up going down the road
of the Jordan Moore or the Lynsky's hope. In twenty eighteen,
when when Tyler died and I met the Halnski family,
I did the first TV interview for sit down interview
with with Kim Olensky. And for me, it was really

(08:42):
special that she trusted me to do that. And that
was before she started doing the ESPN ones and the
and you know, some other stations around here did some
and you know, I just I was so moved by
her story. I've never been in that move doing a
TV story before. It was very off the grid for
me because normally I'm doing you know, sports. But she
looked at me in the eye and said, I you know,

(09:02):
you're gonna do something. She says, we're all going to
do something here to promote mental health awareness, especially in
our student athletes. And she looked at me and she said,
you're gonna do something here. Looked at my photographer, Erica,
who I know. He glanced back at Erica and she's
just in tears. She's got two sons, and I said, well, yeah,
we're gonna do something. We're gonna you know, change some
of our charity stuff and replace Ron mcdonaldhouse with you

(09:24):
guys and and and you, and so we started donating.
That was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Then twenty twenty hit
my son was diagnosed with diabetes.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
I'm gonna kill you, ye, do it, dude.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
People need to hear this because it's the people behind
the stories.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
They don't. You're not reading an ad, you're being you Well.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Jordan Moore's Foundation in twenty nineteen when he was diagnosed
did so much and uh so it was good. So
we were gonna do that. Then the pandemic hit. And
then when the pandemic hit, it was yeah. I was like,
we're gonna have a golf tournament, and these guys here
Georgetown said we're gonna brew a beer and we'll make
up for the money you're not gonna make with the
golf tournament. They did that and then some and they've

(10:11):
been doing ever since. So it's five years into it.
So and Jordan Morris Foundation for Kids with Type one
diabetes young people, he does a soccer camp every year
that my wife and I volunteered at along with Kiefer,
and we did that out at Preston at the where
east Side Football Club practices and is located. Shout Out
to Chance for I runs that and it's for kids.
One hundred and fifty kids all have Type one diabet.

(10:32):
It's amazing, amazing thing. He also does a ton of
stuff at Children's They put together some gift packets and
then the bigger thing he did and this is where
he helped Keifer whenning get to the breaks against Danny.
But he they do a Jordan Morris meets with a player,
a young person, not a player, but a young person
who's just been diagnosed, recently diagnosed with type one diabetes.
He meets with them after every game home and away,

(10:53):
and it's massively impactful and it's it's basically it's just
kind of like, hey man, you can get through this, right,
you can get through this. And he did it with
my son and amazing. So that's where we are. We're
drinking beer for charity today.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
You know what what better way to send spend a
FRI Day Exactly?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think it's amazing, Yeah, well it is, and the
beer is fantastic we'll tell you about the beer coming
up at let's see twelve you can you get Danny
on here? Now I need to be negative and talk
about the mirrors.

Speaker 6 (11:25):
Okay, let's put some dirt on this sunshine.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, damn you, Jess, I'm gonna kill you right now.
All right.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Hey, I'm crying back here, man.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
All right? So yeah, come on by studio by, So
come on by, we'll be here. I'll be here a
couple hours after the show today. Kind of pacing Michelle.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
I'm gonna shoot down there.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'm gonna pacee myself with the beer today. But come
on down, buy a pint, buy a grour to go
have some fun. Uh, Dannie O'Neil.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
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Speaker 2 (12:07):
We're back on a Friday afternoon. It's a beer Friday.
And how is it a beer Friday? Well, we're at
Georgetown Brewing down here and beautiful Georgetown. We're at the
brewery and it is day one of the mayor release.
It is out. Danie O'Neil is standing by Danny. How
are you.

Speaker 7 (12:24):
I'm doing quite well.

Speaker 8 (12:25):
If you're at the Georgetown Brewery, that's one of my
favorite places. Many chow Is is one of my favorite
people in the world.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
He and a big reason that I can agree with
you with that is not only does he make the
best beer in the area, but the what they give
back to the community is unbelievable. Like it, it's truly
unbelievable what they give back. And yeah, it's it's crazy. Yeah,
this is the fifth year we've done the charity beer.
It's on tap, Pintes to drink, here, growlers to go.

(12:53):
We're gonna be here for a long time this afternoon.
Come on by, grab something, grab and every single cent
go to Helenski's Hope, Jordan Moore's Foundation, and Avery Huffman
dipg more. On that, we'll talk about the beer for
you beer nerds coming up at twelve forty five, So
sticking around for that. But Danny's with us. Danny I
said today because of the charity and all the great
work that's involved today, I'm gonna only do one negative

(13:17):
segment today and congratulations you and me are doing that
one segment right here. I love it, Danny wrote in
his newsletter. I got it this morning and I read
it with great interest. Mariners pick a fall guy. That
about sums it up right there. We'll go deeper into this,
but that's the big topic of the day, so let's
just jump it right into it right now. When you

(13:38):
saw the news, and you probably saw it exactly the
same time Scott's service did, by the way, because Jerry
didn't tell him before he leaked itt to Ken Rosenthal yesterday,
as we found out in the news conference later. When
you saw the news, what went through your mind?

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Well, I don't think anybody could be shocked.

Speaker 8 (13:55):
Because you lose eight of nine in the way that
they have and really are in a death spiral.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
You want to change something, and one.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
Of the easiest significant changes to make is to swap
out the manager. I don't see a huge downside to
changing up the manager. I don't think it's going to
be super effective. I don't expect that it's going to
change anything. The only hesitation I have about it is
that say they finished with the winning record over these

(14:26):
final thirty four games and then try to say, hey,
we got things squared away. We've got the manager right now,
everything else is fine. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.
The manager is not the big problem, even if changing
the manager has this upturn in results. And I guess
I looked at it as you're asking me to rank
the four things that have led to this disappointment of

(14:50):
this season. One being payroll and the limits on payroll,
two being the personnel decisions made by the front office,
three being the performance of the and four being the
managerial decisions. I'm not gonna say that the managerial decisions
are the least impactful on this but they're one of
the two least impactful along with the actual player performance.

(15:14):
Like that, I don't think guys are not trying. I
think they're trying and just not succeeding. And I think
generally Scott's done a pretty good job. I don't think
this was the cause or the main cause of the problems,
but I'm not going to lay down.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
In front of a bus to to sort of say
they shouldn't have fired Scott either.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, I would agree, and I thought that was a
good way to put it when you wrote about it today.
I'm gonna come back to the pote on a second,
but with Jerry and or with with Scott and looking
at the overall record, you know, nine almost nine years,
eight and three quarters years one playoff appearance. How much
of that does truly fall though, on the manager? In

(15:55):
most sports, there isn't a coach that would survive more
than four or five years without going to the playoffs,
then sneaking in one year in year seven, and then
still not going the next couple of years. That would
have never happened in basically the NBA, the NHL, the NFL,
probably even MLS, what have you. How much do you
think falls on the manager of the fact that they've

(16:17):
only been there one time in their tenure in the nine.

Speaker 8 (16:20):
Years, well, you look at it, they've they've been here
nine years. How many years would you say that they've
met and exceeded expectations? There's definitely two that I would say,
the season they made the playoffs and the year before that,
and maybe one of the years they didn't make the
playoffs but won like eighty eight games in.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
That first three years.

Speaker 8 (16:43):
So I do think that's that's part of it of Hey,
they've overall, you've had more disappointment than success and There's
been a lot of patience shown here with not just.

Speaker 7 (16:56):
The front office but with the manager.

Speaker 8 (16:58):
What makes it strange for Seattle and for the Mariners
is that you had this very the first three years
of the Depoto Service regime where we've got a veteran
corps seeger Cano Fernandez and then Nelson Cruz, and we
think we can get to the.

Speaker 7 (17:15):
Playoffs and they didn't.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
But they had the fifth best overall record in the
American League at that time, so it's hard to say
they were wrong, right, They just didn't in any one
of those seasons have the fifth best record in the
American League. It was a little bit unlucky, unlucky, and
then they recalibrate and say we're gonna We're gonna rebuild.
So for the next two years, we have no expectations.
We know they're gonna stink, and they do stink, and

(17:40):
then they start to come out of it. So you
start to feel like, Okay, overall, they've done a pretty
good job, but these past two years where they've plateaued,
and Darry pointed it out in the story the interview
he gave Rosenthal before the firing was announced, that hey,
there's blame to go around, and he's right about that.

(18:00):
I just don't think that the primary blame is on Service.
But I think they just need a more comprehensive clearing
of the decks. I don't think it can just be served.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I agree with you, I totally agree. Just for the context.
Is Danny talking about this, and because we didn't discuss
this yesterday, I think it is important Daniel and Neil
joining us, by the way, his weekly visit. He'll tell
you about the great writing he's doing, and you get
it delivered right to your inbox like I did this morning.
And it's just it's easy. There's no pay Wallas go boom,
thanks for coming. This is how far out they finished
from first place during the Scott Service era nine twenty

(18:33):
three fourteen thirty nine games out, nine games out, five
games out, sixteen games out. That year they went to
the playoffs, by the way, when they are sixteen games out,
but they finished second of the division two games out.
Last season, but they finished third in the division. I
mean they haven't even sniffed really a division title in

(18:56):
the tenure there. I'm with you. Listen to Potle. I
pretty much figured he was gonna be on his way out.
If they don't have this miracle and the Hail Mary,
you know, Cordell to Michael Westbrook goes into the end zone.
I guess we go back and go really old Doug Flutie.
But I think unless this happens as Hail Mary with
with with Dan Wilson happens Danny, I figured the POTO

(19:20):
would be out. But lo and behold, he hired a manager,
not on an interim basis. They let him hire a
manager for the foreseeable future. That doesn't sound like John
Stanton has any desire or any inclination to get rid
of Jerry Depota at the end of the year.

Speaker 8 (19:34):
Now, that was very much My first reaction was, Okay,
he's not an interim manager. Are you saying that Jerry's
hired the next long term manager and that.

Speaker 7 (19:42):
He's going to be here for that, Because look, if
you want to tell me, there's no point in firing Jerry.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
Right now because you can't make trades and you can't
sign players, there's nothing that that would do.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
Okay, fine, I'll go with that. You can maybe having.

Speaker 8 (19:57):
A different voice in there with the manager Wilson for
the Hail Mary, like you talked about it.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
Okay, fine, I can go along with that, But if
you're telling.

Speaker 8 (20:04):
Me that you've already made the decision now that hey,
we think other than this, we're gonna stay of the
course with the front office.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
I have some real reservations. If you're gonna punch.

Speaker 8 (20:13):
Services ticket, I'm not sure how you don't punch Jerry's too.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
My good friend Nathan Bishop on with us every Monday
on Mulla MOOI wop stuff. He uses the term all
the time, and I think yesterday was an example of
this because of what you just said. If Jerry's safe,
which it sure seems like he's safe right now, they're
not serious about winning? Do you think they're serious about winning?

Speaker 8 (20:42):
Not if they keep Jerry and everything we've I'm no
longer gonna give them.

Speaker 7 (20:47):
The benefit of the doubt. This is what no.

Speaker 8 (20:50):
No, I don't think they're serious about winning. I think
they're serious about appearing to want to win more than
they are serious about winning. Because if you were serious
of winning, you don't just give away au Henria Swarez.

Speaker 7 (21:04):
You don't just give him.

Speaker 8 (21:05):
Way because we need to get that money so we
can buy something else.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
Because we've got this limited fund. They've gave away a
Johnnia Swarz, and if you look at what Suarez's flash.

Speaker 8 (21:15):
Numbers are, they're significantly better than what the Mariners have
gotten out of third base this year.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
I'm not saying he's.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Worth the salary he's making, but if you're serious about winning,
you don't.

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Put rap Jared Telmant around.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
Evan White and Marco Gonzalez's contract so someone else will
swallow it. And I feel that we've given this franchise
a huge benefit of the doubt over the past two
years and said, well, they did sign Julio to a
long run, long term contract, and they did trade for Castillo,
and they did extend Castile, so.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
Let's give them the benefit of the doubt.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
This isn't necessarily what we saw in the late nineties
when they would never get a left fielder Ford Lou like,
let's give them the benefit of the doubt. At this point,
I'm out of the benefit of the doubt, and children
show me that they're more worries about actually winning than
just appearing to want to win.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
I'm not going to assume that they want to win,
because firing the manager is very much what you do
when you want to appear to want to win. We're
not gonna take this anymore. So we're gonna throw you.

Speaker 8 (22:17):
Fire the offensive coordinator, you fire the hitting coach.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
We're not gonna and so right now.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
No, I think that this is something that you do
to buy yourself time and to make people think you
look like you're serious, as opposed to actually being serious
about it.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
I totally agree, and I think that's a frustrated Listen.
It's it's without argument that to Poto and his regime
of scouts and analytical people and others have built up
a very competitive team, a really good farm system, an
elite pitching staff that's the best in the at least

(22:52):
in the starting staff, the best in baseball. All those
things are true. We've seen it all, Denny. You've covered
a lot for people that don't cover the little thing
called the NBA. We used to have that in Seattle
and covered the NFL as a beat writer for the
Times for a lot of years. You've covered a ton
of sport. You understand how it works. There's a lot
of times where the architects of an organization can build

(23:15):
something up to a certain point. Sark left on his own,
but I think Sark's a good example. At Washington they
were really good guys going in the NFL every year.
They weren't going to get over the hump with Sark.
They did with Chris Peterson. They got lucky, Sark decided
to take another job. They have to fire on book,
thanks for coming, whatever happened all the other stuff. Sometimes
you get to a point where someone's done enough, but

(23:36):
you need the next guy to come in and take
to the next level. Danny, I truly believe that's what
they need with this organization, not just the manager, but
all the way through.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah, I would agree with you, because there's not much
that has happened that would lead me to believe that
things are going to get better in the short term.
What has happened that would make you think that they're
going to be better on offense next year? They're probably
going to do another swap. If they keep the same guys,
keep doing what they've done, which is a million incremental changes,

(24:07):
and like hopefully when we shake it up and everything
falls back into place, will be a little bit better.
And if we're just that little bit better, then we'll
make it into the playoffs. And if we make it
into the playoffs like no, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 (24:17):
The goal isn't to sneak into the wild card one
out of every three years. The goal is to get
over the humps. And I would agree with you if.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
You asked me to say, is it more likely than
not that they get over the hump with someone new
or with this guy?

Speaker 7 (24:29):
I would say it with someone new.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
We'll revisit this next week after they have the three
this weekend, and they got the games next week two
against Tampa, and we'll revisit. Let me before I finish
things soft daniel'neil joining us his weekly visit. Love talking
to him, and he'll tell you about how you can
read his great work, that he's still doing best sports
writing you'll get for Seattle Sports out of New York City. Ever,
I'd make the arguments, Grace. I'd make the arguments just

(24:52):
great sports writing. But we'll let Danny tell you about
that in a second. You wrote about Derek Hall the
other day, and I love that because we had Derek
Hall on the radio show that day, and how many
times have you had this when you were doing radio
or even just as a beat writer, where he said, damn,
why haven't I talked to that guy before, like he
was unbelievable. He's like the most well spoken, humble, just

(25:14):
incredible young man. Was basically born dead if you remember,
I remembers the story that his mom told and when
he was young, his mom was young, turned her life around.
Just incredible guy. And oh, by the way, Danny, he's
six foot four, two sixty chiseled and has been the
most violent impactful player, not just in preseason games but
mini camp OTAs. We've been watching this since May, like

(25:37):
where the hell did this dude come from?

Speaker 7 (25:39):
It was so fun to watch that play. And I'm
a huge ship to crit because I'll sit.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
There and say, like, I don't really take it seriously.

Speaker 7 (25:46):
It's a preseason game. You can't really tell. And then
all of a sudden, I'm standing up off my sofa,
think can you look at that? Where he really did?

Speaker 8 (25:55):
There was a tight end coming at full speed at
him and he just crunched him. Then he knocked over
the guards, then he jumped on the book. Here You're like, yeah,
That's what I'm talking about. It was absolutely fantastic and
he is a great personality.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
He also has I don't know if he still has
it I know last year he has an absolutely enormous truck,
just huge.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
I like to say, if that's what I want my
defensive end drafting, they don't want a small, sporty car.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
I want bigfoot, I want the grave.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
I want some huge tires and I want some big
able to roll over opponents with impunity.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
So give me Yeah, lift it up, baby, lift it up. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
So I'm I got very excited.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
That's that's a hum Milan. Hugh Millan always talks about.
He says, listen, I want when I look in the
parking lot, I want to see my cornerbacks. I want
to see Devin Witherspoonreek Wolland. I want to see those guys.
I want them to be getting out of the loudest,
most flamboyant car. There is like just like they gotta
have rims, they gotta have everything you want them coming

(27:04):
out of that. He always talks about that. I like
your I like your definition of what a d lineman is.
I think the offensive linement has to drive one thing,
and that's a pickup probably with a lift kit, that's
got mud flaps and dirt, and maybe they put the
dirt on themselves because they live in the city. It
doesn't matter. But you like, that's what they have to drive.
Let's let the you know, yeah, I would throw in there.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
It's okay if you've got a gun rack back there
and you put a fishing rod.

Speaker 7 (27:29):
For sure that that's also a good look for the
offensive line.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yes, I love it. I absolutely love it, Uh, Danny
O'Neil with us joining us here, love having them on
every week ton of fun. Well, we will see what
happens this weekend. Obviously, people, we all want the Mariners
to win. Part of me doesn't want Jerry to be right.
So I'm kind of honest. I gotta be honest with you.

(27:54):
I'm a little conflicted. And and here's the reality is this.
They've got to play almost seven hundred baseball the rest
of the way if the Astros, and that's if the
Astros just play five hundred ball, and the Astros did,
by the way, last night, they had two games in
hand on Seattle, which means nothing unless they win those
two games. Well, they've won one of them. They beat

(28:16):
Baltimore and Baltimore last night that was a big win
by them and really not good for Seattle. So we'll
see what happens with the next week. Tell people about
all the great writing you're doing, where they can find
and where they can get your stuff.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
It's very easy.

Speaker 8 (28:29):
It is a newsletter called the dang Apostrophe, and as
Ian said, you can sign up for it at dannyo'neil
dot com and you put in your email address and
I will send you a note for free every single
Wednesday and venture down at Georgetown. I would like to
offer a public service announcement not to do what I
did several years ago. This was when I was still drinking.

(28:50):
I was with John Boyle. We were coming from the
vMac and we were getting dangerously close to when the
brewery was going to close, and we got to that
off ramp and I kind of rolled through that stop
sign and as we screwed.

Speaker 7 (29:04):
It up, I said, oh, did I just cut off
that school bus? And John said, I think you did.
And so that was the day I cut off a
school bus on my way to the brewery. And I
would encourage everyone call that it's okay, it's okay to
have a little patience. The growlers will still be there.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Danny, I can I can assure you there are still
growlers here. They don't ever run out of beer here.
It's never happened. I've been, I've been. I got here
in two thousand and six, back to my hometown. I
met these guys in spring of seven, and I've never
seen him run out of beer. It's amazing. It's a really,
it's a wait. They make more beer every day, and
I've already had a bunch of cook fans rolling here

(29:44):
and we still haven't run out. Uh yeah, I was
okay you started telling the story. I was gonna say
when Danny was still drinking, I was thinking of New Orleans.
But we'll tell that story a different day. Where's Danny?
Can we find Danny? Where did Danny go? Eric Williams,
the old writer? Have you seen Danny? I'm like, no, man,
I thought he was with you now. I thought I
see you guys now now, And actually, Danny, you were safe.
It's down at the hotel at the bar.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Waiting for all of us good old dire exit.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Danny looks ups. Where do you guys been? I don't know.
We'll think called the French Quarter. But that's cool. We'll see.
Oh buddy, great to hear your voice. Go check out
the newsletter. We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 7 (30:21):
Sounds great.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
We'll tell you about the beer coming up.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Next Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist broadcast
studio back to Ian Fernetz, powered by Seattle's closest sports book,
SNOWP Call me Casino on Sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ r FN.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Now brilliant, by the way, news from the Mariners. They
made it official just a couple of moments ago. Dan
Wilson announced that Hall of Fame designated hitter Edgar Martinez
is now the Mariners major League hitting coach for the
remainder of twenty twenty four season. That does any of them.
He's not permanent, unlike Dan We'll Wilson, who was handled
the permanent job yesterday. But we're keeping things positive today
because we're here at Georgetown Wide. It's the release of

(31:06):
the Mayor IPA fifth annual Mayor Release, fifth annual time
we've done this beer. I say, we the guys in
Georgetown put it all together. Manny's standing to our left,
but no, he doesn't like publicity. Every time I say, hey, man,
you want to pop on the radio, we'll talk about
what great work georgetowns we have. Matt do it. Quote unquote,
have Matt do it. Matt Connolly is the sales manager,

(31:28):
oversees all this stuff, and he joins me right now,
good friend of the show, good friend of the station,
and a big part of the community as well. And
here we are. Cheers my friend. Five years. Thank you,
great to see you. This so fun. This is for
you Aple. Going back in time. I told the story
briefly earlier, but we've had a golf tournament. I've had
a golf tournament since this is our twelfth year. Well
twelfth year we would have had the golf turnam. We've

(31:49):
had eleven of them. And we started out with Roal
McDonald house and I met Manny you Roger Crystal in
two thousand and seven, oh Man a sport restaurant, John
Howie's old restaurant there in Fisher Plaza for the Bob's
Brown Ale release. And John Howie called me and he said, hey,
and I've known John forever. Is his wife is married

(32:13):
to one of my best friends, is my best one
of my best friend's sister. Sorry, that would be weird
John anyway, He said, Hey, they Georgetown. You heard Georgeown.
I go, yeah, they make Mannies. He goes yeah, great Breweriy, great,
they do this big cheerity thing. Can you come out
in MC so. I did it at that met you guys.
Was inspired by all the work you do in the community.
We've had a relationship ever since I started doing this

(32:34):
golf tournament. We've told that story. You guys supported that
from day one and have always supported it. And then
the pandemic hit and it was like the worst timing
because it was the first year we were going to
include the Jordan Morris Foundation, which for me was really
special because that was right after my son was diagnosed
with type one diabetes Helensky's Hope. It would have been
our second year of working with Lensky's Hope and our

(32:55):
fourth year of working with Avery Huffman. And somewhere along
the way at Common, probably over a beer, although we
weren't supposed to be drinking beers publicly back then, but
maybe we were somewhere in the back, said hey, why
don't we just do it. We do charity beers all
the time. It's just do a charity beer. Great idea,
and here we are. Yeah, year five. Yeah, tell people
about the mayor and what they can get out of
this thing.

Speaker 9 (33:14):
Well, first, thing I'd say is it's Ian's brainchild. So
thank you for everything you do to commit to the community.
Not only to us as a brewery. We've been good
friends and you've given us a lot of support, but
to the local community with everything you do in local
sports scenes, but also these charities. And like you and
I were talking about half an hour ago, maybe an
hour ago, every time you see a new charity, your

(33:38):
heart goes out to them, someone you know, someone you
believe in. You want to just go. Can we bring
them on board? But yeah, you're already supporting three charities
that said the easy part was for us. Many and
Rogers say, yep, we'll support and then we make beer.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's what we do.

Speaker 9 (33:53):
So Ian, you're the mayor. What do you want? You
want an ipa that's fruity, it's punchy, it's got a
great little aroma. Knows uh. This year's finish for me
is just a little bit drier than years past. Doug
was here earlier and he said, oh, it's it's not
a swite, just different ways to describe kind of how
that feels to each palette. But little drier, good tropical
fruit forward. I p a it's going down easy. So

(34:17):
far too It's going down too easy?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Is the problem? We're mixing one. I'm looking up on
the wall and I'll just give you an example what
these guys do. There's two other charity beers. Hope is up.
There goes the breast cancer Survivors. Right is what that says? Yes, yeah,
hold on, possibilities emerge, yeah, and d mar is going on.
Hundred percent of the proces go to the Raal McDonald

(34:40):
house Cherries, which also, of course is where Bob's brown
Ale goes to correct the the well into seven figures
at this place, and Roger Manny specifically have donated over
the years in our community. I just don't know if
our community understands the how generous they are, and they
are very generous, you guys as a brewery, very generous.
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (34:58):
I think the community under stands. I think there's enough
penetration and support, penetration of our beer into the market
and support by a lot of fans of our beer
who understand different things that we've done. We feel like
it is noticed. We feel like our fans say a
lot of it to us. And let's face it, Manny
and Roger still love being out in the community. So
they see a lot of these people who are garnering

(35:20):
that support from what the birds do.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Some some businesses are owned by big corporations, these guys
are still its local ownership and they understand the community.
Husky's making beer for a cougar. I don't know, how
could that not perfect marriage? Absolutely, I mean it's unbelievable.
Today I say go dogs by the way off and
I say go dog. I do say go dogs. Yes, man,
I'll go dogs. No, I can say it today. Today's today.

(35:42):
There's a couple of days of the year I'll say
go dogs, and today is definitely one of them. The beer,
and I think this is the important thing before I
let you go a Matt the beer. When you buy
a pint or a growler, it's not hey, a buck
goes to the charity or fifty percent goes to charity.
How much goes it's.

Speaker 9 (36:00):
Man and Roger take out their cost of doing business
to make the beer, and all the other money that
would normally go in the pockets of the brewery goes
to the charity instead.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
It's amazing.

Speaker 9 (36:10):
So we make zero, fortunately we lose zero, but the
charity's winning.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
This one, which is absolutely awesome. So come on down,
get a pint, get a growler. Growlers to go, they've
got We've got listen Seahawk preseason game tomorrow. There is
a local baseball team still playing, so I would get
like four or five grollurers. If you're sitting home watching
those guys this weekend, you might need it. And but
the beer is fantastic. It wanted to ward a couple
of years ago, the brewers Matt Edwards. Yes, if you

(36:39):
want to know who Matt Edwards is, there's a little
thing called Buddy's Off out there in the market, right
He had a.

Speaker 9 (36:43):
Bit of his brain child, that's for sure. He knows
what he's doing.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
Couple text about missing body. We have our listener in
Texas who's like, man, that's the thing I miss most.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
Just so you know, tell him thanks, Chess, and tell
him to find some friends who can ship it to him.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I will exactly. We can't, No, you cannot, And it's
gonna stay right here in the Pacific Northwest. Basically, this
is the only place you can get it. We may
do a little event like we did last year somewhere,
but right now, the only place you can get it's
here at the Breweriso. Come on down. Where are you guys?
Hours down here ten am to eight pm every day
of the week. Bo, So come on by, pick it up.
We're gonna be here for a while. Show ends at three.
We'll stick around for a couple hours afterwards. We've got

(37:20):
some other family and friends coming down. Ashley's here, which
is awesome. Great to see you again. Greig Bell Pop
bye a minute ago. My sisters are here, they're hanging out,
and yeah, the whole Furness family and my wife's gonna
be down here a little while as well. So we're
gonna make it a big party. I know. We got
the neighborhood coming down and so many other We gut
some great listeners that are here too, that have already
popped by, So come on by, say hello. That's Matt

(37:40):
Manny's off to our left half. Matt do it quote unquote,
There you go. I did it, You did it, well done.
Now I'm gonna go do this. There you go. Cheers
to Georgetown. Come on by, pick up a gar hour
or a pot of the mayor coming up next. Cheers Ey, cheers,
Well we come back. College football is upon us. How
about that. Stuart Mandel from The Athletic Talking all Things

(38:01):
college Football told you we're going to keep it positive.
Today we'll talk college football. Doesn't get better than that.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Next Live from the R and R Foundation, Specialists broadcast
studio back to Ian Furnett's powered by Seattle's Closest sports book,
snowp Call me Casino on Sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ r FM.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Welcome back in Sports Ready nine three point three kJ
r FM. E in Furness with you this Friday. It's
a that's what we call a beer Friday. And what
do I mean by that? While we're at Georgetown brewing
because it is a huge day for us, huge day
for me, but mostly for the foundations that we support
with the Mayor Charities to my golf tournament. Now, this
the brewing of the beer the Mayor IPA. It's on tap,

(38:48):
it's flowing, growlers and pints, growlers to go. Pints are
ready here all the benefit three great charities. Those include
Jordan Morris Foundation to help young people with Type one diabetes.
Very near and dear to my heart, Avery Hoffman DPG Foundation,
our friend Brennan Huffman's daughter. It's the Foundation named in
honor of her and pediatric brain cancer and also Helensky's

(39:09):
Hope mental health awareness for college athletes. And that's probably
a good transition into our next guest here, who joined
us on the Beacon Plumbing hotline. He'll do this again
all throughout the year. Excited to have Stuart Mandel from
the Athletic on with us. Stuart, how are you, my friend?

Speaker 10 (39:26):
Ian?

Speaker 4 (39:26):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I'm great. I know you're probably familiar with Thelensky's Hope Foundation.
They've done so much in college athletics the last few years.
Named after of course, you know Tyler Helensky and the
Lynsky family's done a great job with mental health awareness.
That's one of the reasons we're enjoying beers on a
Friday Steo.

Speaker 11 (39:42):
I don't know how many people know this, but Ryan
Helenski is still in college football.

Speaker 10 (39:46):
I know.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
It's amazing, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (39:49):
Northwestern.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, he's a number two at Northwestern. He's bounced around
a little bit from South Carolina to Northwestern and I
we're close with the Lensky family. Talk to Kim all
the time. They've got some cool stuff coming out too. Thirty.
I think it's thirty student athletes across the country tape
some videos about mental health and what it means to them,
and I think part of that. Both Ryan and the
oldest son, Kelly, are very involved with that. My son's

(40:12):
actually part of it. He's on one of the kids
that they tape stuff with. So we'll tell you more
about that. It's a big deal, and I honestly, Stewart,
I don't want to start on a downer, but I
think one of the things is and we're here to
celebrate today. You wrote a story in The Athletic that
just caught my attention and just I know it's a
grind and I think it's really interesting, but you talked
about how hard it's going to be and how challenging

(40:34):
it might be with this new college football playoff. I'll
let you take it from there. But there are some
concerns right for the health of student athletes playing up
to what an NFL schedule seventeen plus games.

Speaker 10 (40:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (40:46):
Absolutely, I mean every year there's teams that just get
ravaged by injuries, and now you're going to increase the
disposure by in some cases three maybe even four games.
You know, the teams that reach the national champ game
if they didn't get a first round by it's a
seventeen game season. And I'm old enough to remember when

(41:06):
they played eleven games and if you didn't make a
bowl game, that's it. You played eleven games. So it's
just an insane amount of extra games. But the coaches
are obviously mindful of that. If you're the coach at
Alabama or Georgia Ohio State and you are pretty you know,
have reasonably your team will go far. Klen de Borr
in that article told me about, you know, hopefully they'll

(41:27):
have games where they're updig and they can rest guys.
You know, Kirby Smart talks about how once they get
to the postseason they ramp they ramp down quite a
bit in practice, So it'll be interesting to see how
various coaches adjust to that.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
I think, you know, one of the things I think
does help a little bit would be the fact that
in college you do have these big rosters, and you know,
a lot of us have always kind of questioned some
of the soft parts of schedules for some teams along
the way, but man, this is where if you're playing
an FCS team later in the year, what you and
you know, you're going to the playoffs around the verge
of it, good time to start playing, you know, the

(42:05):
second third string guys in games, if you can get
to that point. NFL teams don't have that ability. NFL
teams stressed somewhere between eight, for example, eight or nine
offensive linemen. College teams obviously go three D plus in
those things. So maybe that helps along the way. Stewart
is some of those late games or some of those
games where you can really kind of ease guys in,
because that's a that's a lot to ask these guys

(42:25):
also sometimes hopefully most of the time, but sometimes they're
student athletes as well, right.

Speaker 11 (42:31):
Yeah, allegedly, Look, it helps the playoff. You know, for
the most part of the playoff will fall you know,
during their break, so that helps with the with the
academic side of it. But yeah, I just think everything
in college sports is dictated by money, TV networks, and

(42:51):
I don't know that many people have in the sport
have really thought long and hard about the toll it
will take on athletes. And that's not even you know,
factoring in I was looking at Oregon schedules we were
recording our podcast, The Audible earlier, and we were looking
at schedules and it's like, man, over a span of
a month towards the end of the season, they're making

(43:13):
three trips to Eastern or Central time zone. And then
you know, if they're fortunate enough to make the playoffs,
they're gonna or if they're fortun enough to make the
Big Ten title game, they have to travel Indiana half
pus for that, and then you might travel somewhere else,
you know, far away for your first round games. And
you know, eighteen nineteen year old kids, twenty year old
kids are who are in excellent shape, are you know,

(43:36):
much less privy to our prone to jet lag? Or
you know me personally, I travel for forty eight hours
on exhausted. I don't think that's the case necessary for them.
But what about when you start stacking three, four, five
long distance lights in a row more in a short
amount of time.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
It's a good point, Delphi Neflete, John, It's a good point.
I I I think you and I talked even last
year about this, or I mentioned it, or I probably
maybe I just complained about it. People said, for Nest,
stop complaining, But it was, you know, the Seahawks schedule
last season when I was traveling covering them, I think
we had four Eastern time zone trips in six weeks.

(44:12):
I think it was, or maybe seven weeks. For seven
weeks of the season, we were in the Eastern times
on all the time, and I was flying commercial. That's
a lot harder than flying on a charter flight. But
even so, you go across country that many times, that's hard.
What have you heard from the Dan Lannings or people
around you know, Washington kind of keeps it to itself.
But I've got to think that it's not just the

(44:35):
non revenue Olympics so called Olympic sports that are concerned
about the new travel that the teams in the out
West and the Big Ten are going to have, or
even frankly, the Bay Area schools are going to have
with the ACC It's it's gonna take us toll on
football players too, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (44:51):
For the most part, when I ask head coaches about this,
they downplay it. They don't seem to be all that
worried about the travel. Even in the no revenue sports
where we've all been concerned on the athletes's behalf. A
lot of the athletes will tell you, like in a
softball player, we spend the first month of the season
traveling endlessly.

Speaker 10 (45:12):
You know.

Speaker 11 (45:12):
Basketball players have come up in the AAU culture where
they're traveling every weekend, so they're downplaying it. Let's just see, like,
let's go through a season of this. There's some games
on USC or Oregon schedules that just based on the matchup,
you're like, there's no way they're going to lose that game.
But let's see if they start tripping off in some
of those games. When we're in Oregon, Oregon has their

(45:34):
biggest game of the year against Ohio State, and then
right after at home. Six days after that, they play
a Friday night game at Purdue. They are much better
than Purdue, but that's that's a quick turnaround for a
long trip.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
I wonder if Oregon jumps out of me just from
that standpoint, because Washington's not expected to be anywhere near
a contender like they were last season in UCLA even
worse USC, who knows. I mean, they've got a long
ways to go, but Oregon's truly a national championship contender.
We'll see how it takes its toll on them at
the end of the year. Because It's one thing if
you're Ohio state and you taking one trip out east

(46:09):
or out west, or Michigan taking one trip out early
to west. But if you're Oregon and Washington others, you're
going back and forth quite a bit. Stuart mandel Joni
is from The Athletic. I love the mail bag question.
First of all. Let me just say this and you
may hate me forever. Stewart, I like the preseason polls.
I like Top twenty five. I think it gives us
a great barometer and something to kind of base things on.

(46:31):
It's not the end of the world if you are
or are not ranked, and I know people get upset
about you all it's top one. We don't even look
at the polls all that stuff. I think they're fun.
But you know, you wrote about who's maybe too highly
ranked or shouldn't be in the top ten versus teams
it could be and I want to start with just
the one team. Texas is really intriguing to me. We
think they've got a quarterback that could be a Heisman

(46:52):
Trophy candidate, but yet they have got to be a
guy behind them that's everyone knows the name Manning. They
got some running back depth issues as well. SARC had
that team going last season. But as you pointed out,
it's not like Texas has been this juggernaut powerhouse for
a lot of years. They had a really good season
last year. Is Texas overrated?

Speaker 10 (47:10):
You know?

Speaker 11 (47:11):
We know historically speaking, at least one top ten team
is just going to bomb like USC last year for example,
Texas A and M you know a couple of years
ago where they go eight and five, And it's hard
to sit here in August and say I think this
team is going to be that because there's a reason
they're ranked that high. On paper, they look really good
in Texas obviously after the season they had last year

(47:33):
with the quarterback they have coming back with the talent
across that defense. But I think if there's two red flags,
one is they've had some really bad injury luck with
their running backs. They lost two of their They already
were replacing Jonathan Brooks, who was a star last year,
and they lost two of their top three running backs
to season ending injuries. And with the league there about

(47:53):
the well, first of all, the play in Michigan in
Week two, and then some of the teams are going
to play in the SEC. They got to be balanced.
They can't run the ball. That's gonna be problematic. And
also as good as they were last year and obviously
you know took Washington right down to the final play,
this is gonna be a harder league they're gonna be
playing in then the Big twelve. You know, they were
Big twelve champs last year, but winning at a high

(48:15):
level in the SEC is going to be harder. So
I'm not gonna stay here and say Texas, you know,
market down is going to go seven and five. But
if it ends up happening, there'll be reasons that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Stuart Manadel from the Athletic is joining us here a
weekly visit and we'll be doing this all season long. Dates, times,
days of the week to be determined. Where We're gonna
let Stewart's people work that out with my people. My
people as one person is Jess and Stuart's people as
one person. But hey, I'm I'm curious about and this

(48:46):
is gonna be Ian's mail bag question for Stuart Mandel
off the cuff. I'm gonna throw this at you. If
you what would you tell Washington State and Oregon State
fans to root for this season? Besides, way, we hope
our team's doing really well, but they're not playing for
a conference championship. Probably getting into college football playoff is
a long shot. Normally it's a long shot at best.

(49:07):
Even with twelve teams, it probably still is, or kind
of in this never never land. What would you what
would your advice be to Washington State and Oregon State
fans about? You know, what are you rooting for? Besides hey,
I just want to see my team play well and
win every week? What are they playing for this year?

Speaker 11 (49:21):
Okay, so I told Jess about this offline, but I
kind of was doing doing our pre season bowl projections
and I kind of came across this quirk where you
guys may know the old tackball teams are still going
to go to Pak Fall Bowls this year, right Rala
Mobile Vegas gol whatnot. But the Bulls thought to follow
the same rule they did before. They can't pass on
a on a tenanc team to take an eight and

(49:44):
four teams. So, if I'm Washington Oregan State, to your point,
so have a good season and then root for the
old packball teams to think So, yeah, we already.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Do with Stewart team I'm already doing that. I'm already
doing that heavy and hard. But Okay, I like it.
I like what you're going with this.

Speaker 11 (49:59):
Like, from a EV standpoint, I'm sure Alma Bole, which
is the highest goowal outside the playoffs for the Pac twelve,
would love to have sc Oregon one of these big
name schools. But they can't just do that, right, So
I think what would be interesting, and let's use Wazoo
as an example. If they went ten and two and,
by the way, against this you know, mostly bound West schedule,
I think that's definitely doable. You know, they're not going

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to get the kind of exposure during the regular season
that they used to, right They're playing a bunch of
games against Presno State, Hawaii, San Diego State, Utah State,
et cetera. But then they could end the season in
you know, the kind of bowl they would have played
in before when they were in the FACT twelve.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I like that well. And yeah, because first of all,
I'd already be reading against what I almost I almost
think i'd want to do this. I'd probably want to
root for Oregon maybe to get to the College Football
Playoff r because I'm assuming they're going to have the
best season, right, get get root for Oregon to get
in the CFP, and root for well, we always root
for Washington to stink and get their teeth kicked in
and didn't happen the last two years and Kalin's gone,

(51:00):
but I'll root for that anyway, and then root hard
for the two southern California schools to lose too, right.
And then if you finish, yeah, nine, if we finished
nine and three in Pullman and they finished like you said,
you know, eight and four or seven and five, that's
good for Wazoo or good for Oregon. I think organ
State's going to struggle, but good for our schools up here.

Speaker 11 (51:21):
In the scenario I had, you know where, I just
kind of took teams from my predicted standings and placed
them in the bowls. Utah and Oregon moved up to
the playoffs. Washington, Ucla didn't weren't bull eligible, Colorado wasn't
bull eligible. Issue wasn't bull eligible. So suddenly it starts
to you know, the path starts to clear. And I
don't think you have season are very good. I think

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they've got a lot of issues.

Speaker 7 (51:43):
So the path is there.

Speaker 11 (51:45):
It's just a matter of both these schools. They both
lost a lot of guys in the portal. Is how
talented are these teams at this point? I still think
in Wazuo's case in particular, like if the Pack twelve
were still in place, they would be a competitive power
for school. So if that's the case, about six seven
games of the schedule they should win, and that's just

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how do they do from there?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
I asked this as a as a Heisman voter and
also as an interested onlooker from about thirty one hundred
miles away. Is cam Ward really a Heisman Trophy candidate?
Do you think? Is he going to have that kind
of season with Miami?

Speaker 11 (52:22):
I think the hype has gotten a little far ahead there.
You guys saw him out close last couple of years.
But he's very talented. He's going to have some great
weapons around him. I mean, having the idea of cam
Warden Jamian Martinez, you know, seeming up in Miami obviously
has a lot of people excited about the games. I
wouldn't put him necessarily a Heisman conversation yet, but I
do think he's an upgrade from what Miami has had

(52:44):
over the last, you know, many years.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Damian Martinez I can. I can buy that one though,
I'll tell you him. With a good team, with a
lot of people watching, I can buy that all day
for that guy. Let me a couple more things before
you let goes to it.

Speaker 10 (52:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
They're joining us for at Georgetown Brewing. It is the
day of the Mayor release. The Mayor ipa an award
winning beer by the way a couple years ago, and
the Washington Beer Awards is out, great tasty ale everything.
And this isn't like some beers out there. You hear
one percent, ten percent, one dollar whatever go to charity.
Every single cent is donated by Georgetown, from the brewing
to the labor everything goes right back to our three charities,

(53:23):
Wensky's Hope, Avery, Huffman, DIPG and then also the Jordan
Morris Foundation. Come on by, grab a pint, grab a growler.
Seahawks in town this weekend, Mariners as well. You can
grab a growler for your tailgating or watching at home,
or have a pint here at the brewery with us.
We'll be here for a while even after the show today.
Two more things, Stuart. One, I'm always I mentioned Brandon Huffman.
I love Brennan. I've known him for twenty almost twenty

(53:44):
five years when he was back with Rivals and stuff
like that. Does a great job covering recruiting. His job
has changed, as you can imagine now with the portal,
it's not just high school kids, it's all across the country.
And he and I have had this discussion and he's here,
he's at the brewery, and we've kind laughed about it,
like you can give a guy, you know, their star
bases and all those things are you know, they do

(54:05):
a lot of work in it. I think sometimes they
get an unffair shake. They know what they're doing, especially
at twenty four to seven and and guys at the
athletic and everybody else that covers recruiting. But you miss
every now and then. Is it safe to say that
everyone missed on Malachi Nelson? For people don't know he
was the top quarterback recruit in the country, or one
of the top ones a couple of years ago, went
to usc transferred, went to Boise State, and now he

(54:26):
is number two behind some dude named Maddix Matson who's
a red shirt sophomore.

Speaker 11 (54:32):
Hey, now, who knows, maybe Maddox Madison's going to be
the highestman. I sure seems like they did.

Speaker 7 (54:41):
Yeah, And this.

Speaker 11 (54:41):
Started to trickle out at last year, where everybody assumed
because he was a five star guy, he'll come in,
he'll spend a year, you know, understudying the cab Williams,
and he'll be the guy. And words started to trickle
out like, no, he does not look good in practices.
Miller Moss was obviously ahead of him for one. Now,
in a previous era would have said, okay, well he's

(55:02):
only a freshman, give them time to develop. But that's
not how it works anymore. They these kids with that
kind of recruiting status expect to be the starter no
later than their second year at a school. So you know,
first he transfers out. Clearly he doesn't think he's going
to be the guy to see this year, and now
he's not getting the job at Boys State. So it
was an interesting class that year. There were five five
star TVs, which is a lot, and a couple of them.

(55:26):
Nico at Tennessee Jack snarled, Oklahoma are going to be
their qbs this year. Arch Manning is waiting his turn
behind quinn Ewers. But then two of the five have
already transferred Malchi and Dante More who's going to be
He started as a true freshman last year at UCLA,
but he'll leave the backup to Dylan Gabriel this year.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
I would also mention that we know a five star
quarterback here quite well. Uh Sam Hewart who was a
five star, went to Washington, didn't work went to an
FCS school, Cal Pauly, that didn't work out, and now
he's number three at Utah. Now, I guess if you're
number threet Utah, there's pretty damn good chance you can play. Unfortunately,
because they've had all times of depth issues you know, lately,

(56:07):
and Cam Rising should be hopefully hopefully for Kyle and
that's the one pack twelve team I'm rooting for. I
also worked in Salt Lake and NW Kyle well for
a long time. But I with Cam Rising's injury history,
who knows, maybe Sam will be there. But yeah, the
five star quarterback recruit is a dicey thing, final thing
for Stuart Mandell. We have Week zero games this week.
I think we only have the one right, that's two

(56:28):
FBS teams Florida State, Georgia Tech that's in that's in Ireland,
can Georgia Tech hang with Florida State.

Speaker 11 (56:37):
I think so, just because Florida State is reloading and
I think they're probably still the more talented team. But
there's going to be a lot of guys, a lot
of very inexperienced guys playing key roles for Florida State. Obviously,
you guys have seen DJ up close, so you know that.
I mean, Mike Norvello obviously thinks highly of him to
bring him in as the QB, but he's definitely got

(56:59):
to see and Jordan Tech has been under the radar
for a long time, but they finally seem to be
on the off swing. So yeah, I think it's possible.
I think that would not be a great start though
for the Noles if they lose that game.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
No, it would not be Southern Utah. Utah are playing it,
so then Newtah's a big SKY team, and I think
Kansas is playing an FCS school, Missouri is playing Murray State.
Murray State's always a team that would scare you a
little bit. I don't think you'd want to play them
necessarily early on. But it's week zero, and then next
week it's week one, and we will talk again about
actual football games. In the meantime, Stuart Mandel's stuff all
available at The Athletic, theathletic dot com mail bag stories

(57:38):
everything you're looking for for college football. Bruce Velman and
Stewart do the best job out there in the country
covering college football. That's why I want to go to
get the Athletic. Also, Stuart tell people what the podcast
you guys do as well. It's a good, great podcast too.

Speaker 11 (57:51):
Yeah, Bruce Salmon and I do the audible and we
do it twice a week once the season starts, so
not quite in the schedule yet, but we will usually
do one on Sundays after Saturday's games and another.

Speaker 10 (58:03):
One on Wednesdays.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Great having you on. Enjoy the conversations, especially those of
us that love college football. We got a ton of listeners.
This is a big, big thing for us in our city.
So we'll talk more. We've got big ten haction this
year with the Husky's going to the Big ten sol.
Lots of things that discussed with Stewart this year. We'll
talk to you next week. Thank you, my friend. Thank you,
Stuart Mandel. More to come. We're at Georgetown Brewing. Come
on by grab a Pine, grab a growler of the
Mayor IPA all the benefit of our three Gate Charity's

(58:27):
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Speaker 1 (58:32):
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Speaker 2 (58:46):
Hi, We're back at Georgetown Brewing. It is just absolutely
fantastic to be here today. And the best thing about
it is we figured out the technology. And here's a
terrifying thing it is. It's now extremely easy and turnkey
for for me to do a radio show here and
beer while you do it. It's really crazy. Go we

(59:08):
plugged in and did a radio show. It was that simple.
We ran a cable I did. We didn't. Dave did
from Georgetown.

Speaker 5 (59:16):
I'm here Fridays on the doc.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
I feel like if for a beer Fridays could be happening.
I like that idea a lot. So we're here at Georgetown.
If you're just joining us, it's the Mayor Day. Mayor
Beer Days. Our debut of the twenty twenty four Mayor
i PA it is out. It is on tap. We
are drinking it right now. It is delicious. I think
actually might be having a Manny's.

Speaker 12 (59:35):
A man I am having a Manni's now because the
mayor I PA has six point alcohol.

Speaker 5 (59:40):
I had the first one and went, wow, that went
straight to my head.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Yeah, it's it's one. It's it's something. Yeah. It's been
anywhere between six four and close to eight over the years.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
Well, okay, so we met somewhere in the middle of.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
This We met somewhere in the middle of this year.
That's a beautiful thing about brewing beer. I'm told by
the people. These guys are all chemists, right, yeah, but
the best kind. But there is no you know things,
very hops, very varietals, very I can't bet sure. They've
got a new brewing tanks in there. Those things are
they're trying to They were in there testing earlier. See
if they do. Johnny Utah taste the same in those

(01:00:14):
tanks as the Old's a lot. It's a science. Nothing
I understand it. I just like the beer. But it's fantastic.
It's an award winning beer. One of Washington Beer were
a couple of years ago. Come on down. Every single
dollar goes to Lensky's Hope, Jordan Morris Foundation, and also
Avery Huffman, dipg Ashley Ryan is here. You heard this
morning you didn't get enough of her. She's here right now. Hi, Hi,

(01:00:35):
how are you?

Speaker 13 (01:00:36):
I'm great?

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
This is so fun.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
How was the Morning Show today? I caught bits and pieces.

Speaker 12 (01:00:41):
It was actually like the least depressing show we've had
all week, I think, which is surprising. I think because
there's some hope about Dan Wilson and what the they
at least are acknowledging that there was something that needed
to be done. Chuck did bring up multiple times the
fact that Jerry did allude in his press conference to

(01:01:02):
the fact that maybe he needs to back off a
little bit of some stuff, and that's promising if he
actually does it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
I was, you know, our buddy Mike Farrell here from
the Times can't talk to him on the air.

Speaker 12 (01:01:15):
There's no Yeah, there's a word that I'm trying to
think of that he's not banned, but it's something shouted out, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Mike, Mike said, Mike's Scott's services, and fully to blame
for Mary's class, but something had to be done, and
I think we all agree that that's that's very much
the case. Yeah, that something had to be done. It's
a final Chuck brought this up for this week and
I couldn't agree with them morrow. We had him on
the show yesterday. What I liked about that is it's
might as well take a final shot, ye like it's
a hail Mary in football, Take a shot, don't just
take a knee, Take a shot and away you go.

Speaker 12 (01:01:43):
So and there wasn't necessarily a time that they could
have done it other than this, right, because he just
came off beating the Mets and everybody's riding high. I
think the only other time where this would have been
an opportunity is when we were swept by the Angels.
And at that point it still seemed too early. And
now we look back and it's like, and maybe we
should have done it that maybe then, but even then.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Like how much you've got a whole roster of guys
that have underperformed, right, and at what point is it
systemic in the entire organization? And that includes you know,
not just ownership. Ownership doesn't dictate how you know, what
your your approaches at the plate and things like that.
I during this whole process, I do like listening to Bucky,
especially in the morning, because Bucky has a perspective none
of us can have. Yeah, and it's something's broken. He

(01:02:26):
said that something's broken. I'm not going to read it today,
but I did get a text from a major league
baseball scout that I said, what are you? What are
your thoughts or just one of the general thoughts in baseball?
And he's a pro scout, so he's traveling all around
the area, around the league and watching teams. And I'll
read them on money because today is a positive day.
It's all positive. And you know who likes that the best,
the positive world glass half full, vac back there, so

(01:02:49):
she likes it when we're allay.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
No, I'm more half full too.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
And the thing I didn't like, though, I guess, is
Wilson permanent?

Speaker 12 (01:02:59):
I thought was I will say I was surprised because
it seems like a rushed choice. But then as you
hear like I, apparently they've been thinking about this and
talking about this.

Speaker 7 (01:03:07):
I do like.

Speaker 12 (01:03:10):
Regard, I guess, taking out the fact that it's permanent.
I like the move to put Wilson in place because
he is a part of the organization, but not a
part of the day to day.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
So he's a fresh voice.

Speaker 12 (01:03:21):
And I think one of the biggest things he has
going for him is his relationship with Cal Rawley. You've
got a leader on the team that loves I mean,
they get along so well. And so he's I mean,
I haven't spoken to Cal. I don't know, but you
have to assume he's bought it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Well, it's conduit to that, all right, Okay, but overall
fans are okay this morning, I haven't even.

Speaker 12 (01:03:43):
Looked to talk back to The Jerry anger is so real.
But I will tell you it doesn't matter what they
would have done, the Jerry Anger. It's like it's so
far past.

Speaker 5 (01:03:51):
The only thing that can be repaired.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Ashen and Jess, I know, we gotta go just real quick.
Do you think the only thing that appease Mariners fans
right now are two things? One one, if the team
was sold in two, if the team wins the World Series,
that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
It's it's both because that's the other thing is the ownership.

Speaker 12 (01:04:06):
It's like, well, but the owners aren't going to just
they're the only people that can sell the team, are
the owners?

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
They can't fire themselves? Yeah, exactly, So in that order.
I think that's what has to happen. Yeah, because that
has to happen for a world series.

Speaker 7 (01:04:20):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
I agree. All right, Ashley, your work is done for
the day. You can enjoy a beer.

Speaker 13 (01:04:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:25):
Okay, good, I will thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Host of Booze News had to come down and check
things out. Come on by Georgetown. We got a great
crowd people rolling in. It's so much fun today. This
is just like an uplifting, really really good day. What
does it all meant? That's the question, like why are
we doing this? Why do we do the beer? Why
do we do the golf tournament? Well, Kim Olinsky Lensky's hope,
Tyler Lensky's mom, she's going to join us next. She'll

(01:04:48):
explain where the money goes, at least on their end.
If you're buying a pint, buying a growler, you don't
want to miss it. Kim Olinsky, who's actually in Pullman
right now putting some things together that we're helping pay for.
She's coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
All right, welcome back in Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. Hat a good time today down here at Georgetown.
It is a Mayor release day. This is the fifth
annual we have released the Mayor I p A. I'm
staring at the sign right now, Mayor the Mayor i
PA seven percent alcohol by volume. So it's a nice
and it doesn't taste like that. That's the only that's

(01:05:43):
the only downside, Kim Holensky, is it doesn't taste like that.
It goes down really nice and easy. But you know what,
it's all for the charities. Lensky's Hope, Avery Huffman, d
IPG and Jordan Morris Foundation. Kim Holensky joins us right
now from Pullman, Washington, and we're gonna obviously we've talked
so much about Lynz. Just real quick, what's going on
on in Pullman today? What brings you to Pullman, Washington?

(01:06:05):
God's country out there?

Speaker 13 (01:06:07):
Yeah, well it is a polose right, It's gorgeous out here.
The people are wonderful. I'm with Koog's. I'm actually at
College Hillfreads and they took over helping us put together
our Student Athlete Mental Health Week boxes last year. So
I did it for the first three years by myself,
you know, just bought these boxes for michaels and stickers.

(01:06:29):
And then they said, no, no, no, we're going to
jump in and help you. So we did it here
last year. And I was on the show with you
last year when you know, Georgetown and the mayor beer
was flowing, and I'm out here again, you know, a
year later, almost to the day, putting together these boxes.
And I have to tell you they're just so beautiful

(01:06:50):
because we have your mayor logo on it and we
have Georgetown Brewing their logo on it as a sponsor
for Student Athlete Mental Health Week, and these boxes are gorgeous.
I'm going to send you one. Georgetown is going to
get one too. But so these boxes are going to
go out to over two hundred campuses across the country.

(01:07:10):
They're full of helmet decals, the pel pens for the coaches,
hair ribbon hair ties for our female athletes, cheer ribbon,
temporary tattoos, and it's our wristbands and it's just it's
a week where we get together. It's like the first
week of October this year, the fifth through the twelfth.

(01:07:31):
And it's a way that we let our student athletes know,
our collegiate and our high school student athletes how much
they matter, how much their mental health matters, and how
they just have to take care of it. And it's
the way we come together to support them. And we're
so grateful for your support, you know, Ian, what you've
done for Georgetown, what you've done, we couldn't take these

(01:07:53):
steps without you. We're just grateful for the love that
you know, the Pacific Northwest and Washington can needs to
show hope.

Speaker 7 (01:08:01):
And Tyler, well, I got.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
To say that the boxes themselves and I posted a
couple of pictures on social media today and and they
look spectacular and probably all due respect to you, Kim,
I love you to death, but probably look a little
nicer than the Michaels ones that were putting together in
your house in South Carolina. Good, you know, and a
big shout out to you know what, shout out to

(01:08:25):
college He'll because I think, you know, for for things
like Kelnsky's hope to work, you have to have companies
and people that step up and donate and say, like
you know, it's not about the profit today, it's not
about you know, we do well as a business and
but but here's our thanks back to the community. You know,
Georgetown does that. Georgetown does that, and then some I

(01:08:46):
you know, I've told the story earlier. These guys over
the years, well and I mean well into seven figures
of donations to our community. Ron McDonald Houise, the Jildn's
Hospital and what we do for Lensky's hope and other people,
breast cancer research, so many things. And it's like that
could have gone into Roger Manny's owner's pockets and you
know that's but it doesn't. And College Hill is a

(01:09:08):
small company. But man, shout out to them, Kim, give
them our love from Seattle.

Speaker 7 (01:09:14):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Whatever we can do to buy from them, I'm I'm
going down that road on the boxes.

Speaker 13 (01:09:18):
They're awesome. And I can tell you this. So from
the very first time that I was here, after time
to pass, I sat with Tony Post and outside of
Ferdinand's if you know that place where they said the
Google Gold chief well, and we talked about Helensky's hope,
and Tony always said, College Hill will be here for you,
just like you promised me in that park and just

(01:09:40):
like Georgetown has done, and it's you know, there are
aren't enough words to express our gratitude, but you you
know it from from what we share with you and
and Keifer and you know, your whole family. You're just
you're just so great and you've helped us more than
words can really express.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Well, the box mean a ton as well, and I'll
just I'll tell you what that means. I mean for
for Keifer's team at Whitworth, And what I like is,
you know, it's over two hundred campus as you send
them to, so it's not all Power five D one
Alabama whoever it's you know, when Whitworth gets their box
every year and coach Samberg gets it, it it there's
there's a conversation that takes place like there is and

(01:10:20):
he takes those like before you put the green sticker
on the back of your helmet as a pirate. There's
a conversation. And I hope the rest of the coaches
across the country are doing the same thing. I'm sure
they are. It means a ton to all those kids,
I know, it means a ton to our kids. It
means a ton of Keif to have that sticker on
his helm at the last couple of years, and this
is his final year. It's it's it's Ryan's final year.

(01:10:41):
It's it's it means a lot, Kim. Just for those
who are just joining us, Kim Lynskey joined us Lensky's Hope.
We are sitting here at Georgetown Brewing today. It is
the Mayor release day. Come on down, pick up your
pints and growlers. Growlers to go pints here. I'm gonna
stick around for a couple hours after the show. My
lovely wife is kind enough to come down and be
my dd so mixing in a lot of water today.

(01:11:03):
It's been a long day already, but it's We're gonna
have a great time and celebrate, So come down and
get it. Every cent goes to Helensky's Hope, Jordan Moore's Foundation,
and also Avery Huffman. Kim, just real quick before if
people are tuning in, and I always like to reset,
I think most people know Tyler's story, but Helensky's Hope
started after that, And tell us where you started and

(01:11:24):
where you are today and what are you most proud
of in terms of what Helensky's Hope has accomplished.

Speaker 13 (01:11:30):
Well, it started a question, I mean just you know,
it started in Poland just a few days after Tyler died,
and I thought, you know, if our sweet Tyler, who
has loved and doted on by so many people, including
Mike leach right, if he could struggle and suffer in
silence and take his life with that as knowing how

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many other Tylers are out there. And so that's our
mission really is to not lose another Tyler. And we
speak to our student athletes from the lens and the
eyes of a you know, they matter, Their mental health matters.
I think probably the proudest thing. I think it's just
the connections, you know, the connections that we've made with

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people like you, with Georgetown, with our student athletes, with
College Hill. You know, it's the Pacific Northwest, across the country,
across the world. It's you know, kindness and love really
go a long way. And I think that's that's what
matters most to us. We just got to take care
of each other.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
It is and it's it's it's admirable, uh and courageous
what you and Mark and Kelly and Ryan have done
and and everyone around you. I know you've got a
lot of huge support group, friends and family across the country.
And uh, I just think, I just think the world
of what you guys do. I think it's also, as
you said, so vitally important. It's amazing in today's world that,

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you know, we've tried to bring up mental health awareness,
we still talk about all the time. I think there's
far too many I'm gonna be on my soapbox for
a second, kid, there's far too many companies out there.
I'm not even talking to student athletes by just companies
that just don't care about, you know, the mental health
of their employees or their people. And certainly I think
college athletics has gotten better. But Kim, wouldn't you say

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your son's in the middle of it still? Wouldn't you
say it's still hard because because of the pressures of Nil.
And Mark mentioned this to us when he came to town.
There's families out there that are saying, hey to their
kids who are eighteen or seventeen, even in high school, Yeah,
go chase the money you need to take care of
your family. That's just too much for a young person.

Speaker 13 (01:13:31):
I absolutely agree with you. Nil is just a strange
monster to me. I don't understand it.

Speaker 6 (01:13:39):
I get it.

Speaker 13 (01:13:39):
I do want these kids to make money, right, but
I think the pulture that's put on them with NIL,
the transfer a portal, what they went through with COVID,
social media, there's just way too many things on their plate.
And we always remind them that they are students first
before they are athletes. And the coaches that realize that,

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you know, here at w SU, you know he is
and he has figured out you always can see him,
you know, in a in a three hoodie, that white
three hoodie, and I love it, and I do think
that I do too. And I do think our coaches
are figuring out if they're taking care of the mental
health of their student athletes, they're going to be much

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better athletes, so much happier people, you know, on the court,
off the court, on the field, in the classroom. And
I think that's that's just our job as coaches and
as a society to take care of one another.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
I it's it's a little thing sometimes, but for coach
Dickert to be wearing that hoodie as often as he does,
and he didn't coach Tyler like that's that's the thing
that's but it meets it means so much. And obviously,
you know, I mean, we're blessed to have him in
Pullman and we missed Mike leads to to this day,
you know, and everyone that. Yeah, but listen, great work.

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We will have extra pint for you and for Mark
as the day goes on. And uh, I just knows
as well as those post pictures are posted, you know,
whether it's Jordan's soccer camp for kids with T one D,
the research for avery and the and that horrible, horrible
form of pediatric cancer, or these boxes. When I see
those boxes, I know that all these pints and stuff

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we're selling today, that's helping that cause out. And that's
that's awesome. And you know what, we're kogs. We like
to drink beer and uh and and so what better
way to do it. And on top of that, this
is also a day and I've mentioned this a bunch
of kim and I'll wrap it up with this. I'll
let you finish. This is also a day that I
don't we and you guys are the same way. I
don't care. I'll say go dogs today, I'll say go

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ducks today. It doesn't matter. Roll tide, you give it
to me. You know, fight on. It doesn't matter because
mental health and ope is about all schools. It started
in Pullman. We love Pullman, but it's.

Speaker 9 (01:15:52):
All schools, right it sure is.

Speaker 13 (01:15:54):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Cheers, go Koug's go dogs. Go everyone and say hi
to our friends in big thanks to those the College
Hill group out There is a Tony posting right. I
think it is our guy. Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 13 (01:16:06):
Yeap, just walk through here. I'll tell him Hey for you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
Thanks, Thanks, Cam, I appreciate. We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 13 (01:16:12):
Okay, thank you. Hate everyone there.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Bye.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
That is Kim Helensky. Helensky's hope. We're at Georgetown, so
much more to come. If you're out and about, swing
on by. It's a great party today. It's a Friday. Yeah,
the weather's not great, but the beer's cold and it's
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Speaker 5 (01:16:46):
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r FM. Alrighty, here we go. It's a Friday. It's
the day before. We got some football to talk about. Yeah,
it's preseason, but you know what, no better guy to
talk about preseason football than the guy that knows about
the young guys. Our good friend, Rob Rang joins us,
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was just there last week, Rob, I had the what
was it the Italian one? What do they call it?
The flag pizza? I think it is is kind of
the Italian Oh, it was unbelievable, dude, unbelievable. How are you?
I am doing very well.

Speaker 4 (01:18:28):
I think I might have to get one of those
Italian flag pizzas and a body from from a Farrella
Ferrelli's as well as if I understand correctly, you are
at Georgetown Brewery right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Now, I am indeed no mayor of all leaving the premises.
So if you're out and about, go by yourself at
Georgetown Brewer, because you know what, those guys support what
we're doing today, and we could not appreciate them more
for what they do. All right, Ranger, let's let's get
to it. What jumped out at you from last week's
preseason game before we look ahead of this preseason game.

Speaker 10 (01:18:55):
Well, and there's a couple of things.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
I mean, for one, just the development of fam I
think is an obvious storyline, and I'm not suggesting any
way that he is going to take over for Gino Smith.
But still there was the beautiful touchdown throw to Esauf
Winston that we saw, just the terrific touch on the ball.
But there was another throw earlier, or actually a lack
of a throw, where he was forced out of the pocket.

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He wanted to scramble and chose not to instead just
recognizing that the best situation there was just to run
the ball out of balance and punt. And that was
the thing that Sam holl got himself in trouble with
a year ago when he led the NFL with seventeen interceptions,
and that, of course has been the dominant storyline with
Sam hel up to this boat for a lot of

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his critics. But a lot of those folks also don't
recognize the fact that he was the most sacked quarterback
in the NFL. He was kind of forced into some
of those, you know, just frankly from a football perspective,
immature decisions. It was good to see the maturation that
we've seen from him. I think that we'd be rem
we didn't talking about the guard battle between Aton Bradford

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and right guard and you know, Christian Haynes, and just
was very impressed by both of them, just as I
was a week before against the Los Angeles Charger is
a really physical team, but Tennessee Titans probably solves on
physicality as well, and so to see that battle just get.

Speaker 10 (01:20:18):
Even more intense, I think that's pretty exciting as well.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
I'm gonna go back to the current team in a second,
but before I do that, thoughts on Darryl Taylor, second
round pick a few years ago bounced. I mean, just
as have just the most up and down Seahawk tenure
red shirted basically his rookie season, which would have been
to what twenty twenty right, the COVID year, didn't play
at all, then came back was kind of a factor

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a few times in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two
was okay, twenty three felt like he took a massive
step back, and now he's kind of the odd guy
out with boy Mafe Nasheno Nuosu and frankly Derek Hall
stepping up. I know they they probably I don't think.
I don't maybe they're gonna cut him. But how surprised
were you they traded for a late round draft pick?

Speaker 10 (01:21:07):
I wasn't that surprising.

Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
The reality is is that Daryld Taylor has never played
with the physicality that Pete Carroll preferred and that Mike
mcdall apparently demanded, you know. And so that's the thing
is that Daryld Taylor is a pass rush specialist, and
the Seahawks run defense a year ago was so woeful
that it really shined the light on how bad he

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was at setting the edge and playing any type of consistency,
whether it be physicality, whether it be the awareness of
the football, you know, somewhat even question maybe even his
desire and toughness.

Speaker 10 (01:21:44):
You know, I think that's difficult to do.

Speaker 4 (01:21:46):
But at the same time, he had twenty one and
a half sacks over the last four years for the
Seahawks scene and and that would lead the squad. So
you know, with all due respect to you, again, you
changed those two and boy Mafe and Leonard Williams, et cetera,
et cetera. It is a little bit of a gamble,
and I think that the talented pass rushers and Dane

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Taylor remains a very talented pass rusher.

Speaker 10 (01:22:09):
They still are worth something.

Speaker 4 (01:22:10):
So I think rather than the moan in the fact
that the Seawks quote unquote only got a sixth round
pick for a second round investment in two years back, instead,
I think that Daryal Taylor was absolutely on the on
the breaking point here of making this roster and as
you said, Derek Hall's ascension this offseason really is one

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of the things that allowed the Seas to make this move.
I think by getting the extra sixth round pick, it's
a it's a coup for Seattle for a player that
they probably weren't going to get in it. It reminds
me that the trade that they just made as well,
treeing the cornerback Mike Jackson for the linebacker here Michael Barrett,
that I actually think is a candidate to make Seaalles

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fifty three and certainly be a quality practice squad just
because of his run defense. So that's my kind of
convoluted way to get back to point that Darryl Taylor,
in my opinion, is a pass for a specialist for
a team that has to stop the run before they
worry about the pass, and instead they basically want up
doing the exact same thing as far as acquiring a
linebacker that I think is you know, of course is

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very familiar with Mike and Gallon system after playing for
him at Michigan and is a little bit more of
a scheme fit for what they're looking to do.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Yeah, tell us about Michael Barrett.

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
Well, he's under you know, last year we talked so
much in the pre draft process about my favorite inside
linebacker in this class.

Speaker 10 (01:23:32):
It was Barrett's teammates Junior Colson, who.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
Wound up going the second round to the Chargers to
Jim Harbaugh, of course's former head coach of Michigan with Barrett.
We're talking about a guy who is a little bit shorter,
a little bit slower, but he was one of the
best run stuffy inside linebackers and all the college football
and he is just the epitome of reliability. You know,
we might remember a former stey Off linebacker a little

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bit study David Hawthorne, and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
A little bit he reminds me of, Okay, this'll be
stopping right there. That's exactly what I was trying to
figure out the other day, who Michael Barrett was, and
who he looks like and who he kind of plays like.
That is David Hawthorne. It's David Hawthorne. I was thinking
Kevin Saint Pierre, right, or Kevin Sitt What was his name,
Kevin Pierre Lewis, Kevin Peters. Yeah, but no, it is

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He's Yeah, he's David Hawthorne. That's exactly who he is.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Well, and again, he's just a he's a quality run
stuffing linebacker. And I think the Seahawks already have a
similar player in that in John Radagan. But yeah, you know,
knowing that that, you're still a little bit worried about
the linebacker depth. You know, with Jerome Baker, of course,
is not yet to be on the field for any
kind of meaningful staffs at this point. And you know,

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you like what you've seen from Patrick O'Connell, Easton Gibbs,
et cetera, et cetera, But I just think that that
Barrett is better in the trenches, and uh, he is
one of those kind of guys that, again, I think
that he's got a chance to make this rock.

Speaker 10 (01:25:00):
I can't wait to see him Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:25:02):
I think that he's going to get onto the field
just because he's probably going to be much more familiar
with Sal's.

Speaker 10 (01:25:07):
Defense, or.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
Most to be.

Speaker 4 (01:25:10):
He's expected to wear number forty three, and again, he
is going to be one of those guys who is
very much going to have a lot of a lot
of eyes on him Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
I want to get to a little bit of there's
the college game. I want to talked about it before
you go. But let me get asking a general term.
You've gone around and done a lot of camp tours,
and you've seen a lot of different rookies around the league.
Who are the guys that have jumped out.

Speaker 10 (01:25:33):
At you well?

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
Among the just in general, I think I have to
mention guys like Michael Parsons and Patrick Chapan at the
corner from the Denver Broncos. I mean Michael Parsons, the
edgresher and linebacker straordinaire for the Dallas Cowboy game.

Speaker 10 (01:25:47):
He's just the best playeroff team. I mean, he's unbelievable player.

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
Patrick Satan I was there a day when the Broncos
hosted the Packers, I think and Jordan Love fresh off
of his you know, NFL record contract and all the
talent they tackles Albert wide receiver because Sezer can basically
just blanket his side of the field. The Seahawks have
some terrific corners. There's going to be another terrific corner
in Seattle, of course for the opener. So that to

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me is a fascinating one. Uh of the rookie bottom
Murphy the second. I mean see Ale's own defense tackle
was unbelievable what we've seen his improved play the entire time.
But I have to mention a couple of their first
round picks slected right around him. The Raiders first round
six on a tight end, brock Bowers just looks like
a Cooper cupsoff there ian we just say how.

Speaker 10 (01:26:33):
How easy his movement is, how reliable receiver. He's going
to be a star?

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Are you? Are they using Bowers? Is Is he truly
a tight end or is he kind of a kind
of a hybrid guy?

Speaker 4 (01:26:46):
They where I saw they they mostly line him up
as a traditional tight end, but they also put him
on the wing and and also the flat receiver, and
so they were doing all kinds of things with him.
They've got a second tight end, and I shouldn't even
call him a second.

Speaker 6 (01:27:00):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
He was selected in the second round the year before
Michael Mayer from Notre Dame, who also is an excellent
tight end.

Speaker 10 (01:27:07):
The Raiders. The Raiders are gonna be funny.

Speaker 4 (01:27:09):
They're they're gonna be doing a lot more kind of
too tight end and old school offense, I think, And
I think that actually fits in well with Gardner Minshew,
just because he gets the ball out of town so quick.

Speaker 10 (01:27:20):
So the Raiders will be interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
And then five, I got to mention a couple of
other rookies just because they were not selected in the
first round. And unfortunately for Seahawks fans, these two players
both play for the Los Angeles Rams. The running back
Blake Krum really looks terrific, another former Michigan player. And
then Brandon take excuse me, Brandon Braydon fifth excuse me
to Florida State defect tackle that the Rams stick in

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the second round. You know I mentioned before Bier Murphy
the second was the most explosive defensive player I've seen
on the road this year as far as rookie Braydon
fist is right there with him. The Rams have another
very good defensive lineman. So you know that's something that
Again's not gonna be happy about. But the truth is
out there. The Rams are pretty good as well.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
I love it. Rob rang joining us here, brought to
you by Farelli's Pizza where at Georgetown Brewing Mayor I
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Come on by for rounding about. It's beer Friday, all
for very very well, three very good causes. Uh Rob
let me uh, let me let me one more NFL
before we get to college. Bow Knicks named the starting
quarterback this week for the Denver Broncos. Significant here because

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they open their season at Lumen Field against the Seattle Seahawks.
It felt like Sean Payton was doing some posturing in
OTAs in mini camps in the first part of training camp.
I don't think any of us are really surprised that
he's going to be the starter. In fact, I think
is Pennicks the only guy that won't start Week one
of all the rookies, right, he's the only guy that won't.

Speaker 10 (01:28:48):
Possibly Drake May and New England as well.

Speaker 7 (01:28:50):
Okay, but yeah, but.

Speaker 10 (01:28:52):
Otherwise, yeah, it looks like gonna be a lot of
rooky starting.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
You saw, you saw bo Nicks, you were in Denver,
you watched their practice. Is what do you think?

Speaker 10 (01:29:02):
I was impressed?

Speaker 4 (01:29:03):
H You know, the thing is that Bo Nick is
he's an impressive young man, just just who how he
carries himself in the leadership and can just see that
the sixty one game as a starter of experiences at
the major college level of course Auburn and Oregon. Uh,
he just is confident who he is, and I think
that that rubs off on his teammates. He was did

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not seem that all surprised, to mention before saw that
the Broncos hosting the Packers. You know, the Packers had
a very talent defensive line and edge rushers, and it
didn't seem to shave him. So that I think is
interesting his his actual skill set. Physically speaking, he doesn't
have a massive arm, but he's very athletic, and he
had got one of the quickest releases of any quarterback

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that's got in a lawful long time. And that fish
didn't really nicely with Sean Payton's offense. So I think
what's gonna be interesting is they I think they're gonna
see Bonnick.

Speaker 10 (01:29:58):
Be successful in Sean payt offense. I just don't know
that it necessarily is going to happen week Florida, of.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
Course, and it's going to be the very first Friting
quarterback ever to come into Seatley and try that's.

Speaker 10 (01:30:07):
A pretty Daunton thing. But I have to give the
broadcast credit.

Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
That they selected the court that hits their offense and
has the mental maturity to be able to handle being
throned in the spotlight immediately.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
All right, I got a real quick before Lee go.
I just there are some college games tomorrow on the
dock at Florida State Georgia Tech playing in Ireland. That's
the only ranked team is Florida State number ten. The
other one I guess that would catch my attention. SMU
Nevada because those are both FBS teams. What jumps out
at you for the weekend watching for fans?

Speaker 10 (01:30:35):
Well, the first one is you said Florida State and
Georgia Tech in Ireland. I mean doublin Ireland. That's pretty cool.
After bat and Florida State has got one of my
favorite pass rushers this year, Pastor.

Speaker 4 (01:30:44):
Payton, number eleven. He's six foot five, two hundred and
forty five pounds. He reminds me of another former Florida
State seminole, Josh Sweat, who the Philadelphia Eagles stole a
few years back in the fourth round. He since become
a pro bowler, but he had durability issues. And because
Patrick Payton is as long and lean as as Sweat

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is again six foot five, two hund and fifty pounds,
looks more like a small forward than a defensive end,
then you have some durability questions with him. But he
just really used his hands well and he's got some
bursts to him, so he's the most exciting one. H
of course the quarterbacks. I always butcher his name dj LA.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
If you're butchering, we all are so anyway, Yes, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:31:31):
The time to ponetically spell it out for myself, Dju anyways,
but strong, I'm strong on quarterback. We're just talking about
Bonisky and you know, and bon Nick looked like he
was not going to be an NFL process a couple
of years ago, and his assent has been remarkable. That's
the same thing here with DJ. I mean, he went
from Clemson to Oregon State to now Florida State. He's

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six foot four, he's two hundred fifty pounds. In three
years as a starter, he's never thrown more interceptions than
type he took him the last two years, he's got
a forty eight to fourteen touchdown intercept three. The young
man is improving and he's still on the twenty three
years old. So again, I think the Florida State quarterback
whose name many people will butcher, but I think that's

(01:32:16):
some of the ones that are going to be butchering him.
It's probably gonna be NFL scouts. So he's somebody that
we certainly should be keeping an.

Speaker 10 (01:32:21):
Eye on as well.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
My Frank Gray stuff, we'll talk to you next week,
and we do. So it's Week one of the college
football season, which is ladies and gentlemen. If you thought
this was his wheelhouse, wait till next week when he's
throwing out names of guys that were left guard of
this team, right guard of that team, like he did
with Christian Haynes last year at some school named Yukon.
So we'll do that next week. Thanks my friend, looking
forward to it, and take care, Bendy, Rob brang Branch

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Speaker 14 (01:34:28):
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Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
Now, do you feel like you should be covered a
high school game tonight? I mean it's probably a good thing.
I'm not, but it's definitely football weather. Now summer went
bye bye quick, God, I mean, are you kidding me?
I look outside. I got up this morning and I'm like, oh,
put the shorts and T shirt on. No, none of
that's gonna happen. That's not gonna happen. If you could
the story of Avery and why we're here.

Speaker 14 (01:34:55):
Avery was six and a half years old in the
summer twenty fifteen where she was diagnosed with an in
off brain tumor and it was, you know, upon diagnosis,
it was terminal and she battled it for seven and
a half months, went from being a normal, healthy kindergartener
to a week after school got out having a problem
with her I we thought it was just an eye issue.
Turned out it was a brain tumor. And when we
went to the doctor's office, we went to the hospital.

(01:35:16):
They said, go make a lifetime of memories, and we
had about six to twelve months to make those memories.
We got seven and she passed away in February of
twenty sixteen, and three months later, a man and I
decided to start a foundation in her name so that
if a parent was ever given a diagnosis like that,
they would not be told go make a lifetime of
memories in six to twelve months, that there would be

(01:35:38):
opportunities for their child to fight in the treatment. And
right here in our own backyard at Seattle Children's Hospital,
they're doing phenomenal work. Doctor Nick Fatanz is doing great
work and we've raised over a million dollars for this foundation,
supporting hospitals all around the country, but more locally, it's
Seattle Children's to help give parents an opportunity to fight
for their child.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Our buddy James is here from Children's Hospital. We got
a chance to meet with him, my wife and I
did last year, and all the great work they do
with Children's is just an amazing, amazing thing that we
have here in our community. Are there in roads being made?
There are there are?

Speaker 14 (01:36:12):
And you know I mentioned doctor Batanza at Seattle children
I mean he is one of the prominent researchers and
doctors in the world treating it. Kids are coming from
all over the United States to Seattle to be treated
by his groundbreaking treatment. And you know, our foundation has
been supporting his lab for the last couple of years,
and we're now seeing a fight being put up. We're

(01:36:32):
now seeing kids responding to the treatment much more positively
than when it was first kind of coming on the scene.
And you know, when every time a kid is told
that this is a fatal diagnosis, you don't want to
hear that. You want to hear that there's opportunities to
fight back. And they're the kids responding really well to
the treatment. The doctors, they're they're even more embolden to

(01:36:54):
keep fighting and fighting a cure.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
One of the things that we've you know, in our country,
we've got such great advances in medicine. There are certain
things that you hear, and really the first two that
come to my mind are three are letters. It's not
the disease, it's like d ipg als things like that,
and there's just it's there's no hope. So it's great
to hear there is hope. I want to go back

(01:37:17):
a little bit because I asked kind of. You know,
I know why because I met with Cam Hilensky right
after Tyler's death, and you know, I know with Jordan
it was important to him to start something as well.
It's why it's important for me to do this the
beer in the golf tournament. But for you and Amanda
and your family and your beautiful daughter Addison's here today,
Congratulations on your oldest getting engaged and graduating in grad school.

(01:37:41):
It's unbelievable. And your son CA's down. He's gonna be
is he the Kronkite School.

Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
He's in the Kronkite School. Another kid wants to major
in journalism.

Speaker 5 (01:37:49):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
That's good for him'll take It's a great school too.
Why was it so important for you and Amanda?

Speaker 14 (01:37:55):
You know, Aby would be going into her sophomore year
in high school this year, and we've been able to
watch her friends, her best friends when she was in
kindergarten in first grade, grow up, and she didn't get
that opportunity, and we would give anything to have her back,
have her bickering with Addison and you know, fighting over
the things.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
That well, you know, what she be telling Addison is
to stay away from the boys.

Speaker 14 (01:38:15):
In middle school, Avery would be That's what I'm telling
you right now, Addison, Avery would be scaring the boys away.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Seventh and eighth grade boys, bad, worse, no worse for
human beings on the planet.

Speaker 14 (01:38:24):
Yeah, crush it. But you know, you see, these kids
had that opportunity to grow up and Avery didn't get
that opportunity. And we would do anything to have her
back and have those opportunities, but we don't. So we
want people to if their child has ever diagnosed with this,
we want them to be able to let their kid
go to prom let their kids go to high school,

(01:38:44):
let them do all the things. But more importantly, we
want people to keep remembering Avery and saying her name.
And even though she's not here, when we have an event,
when we talk Avery Sean, we have the AVERYHAP and
VIPD Foundation, we're still saying her name.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
Yeah, and that's that's so damn important. Let's a little
bit of football before I let you go. Brandan Huffins here,
big big years coming up for different ways Washington. How
much of a rebuild are the Huski's in right now?
It's a rebuild? Is that a fair term?

Speaker 14 (01:39:12):
Absolutely? I mean, one offensive starter back a defensive, starter back.
I mean almost wholesale changes across the board. You know,
the transfer portal can help you. It can help you
resuscitate things pretty quickly. We saw what USC did when
they went from four and eight to twelve and one
or twelve and two and Lincoln rallies first year there.
I don't know that Washington going fifteen and ohero or
fifteen and one needs that kind of that. They're not

(01:39:34):
going to be in the National Championship Game this year.
They could be in the playoff because Jed Fish has
done a good job of turning around Progres. He did
it at Arizona. They're a horrible year one, they lost
at home. Dude, I think Northern Arizona. Two years later
they won ten games. So the portal can help you
get healthy very quickly. But you're now going into the
Big Ten. You now have a schedule that's pretty formidable
in the Big Ten side of things. Their non conference

(01:39:56):
is pretty pretty simple. But I think it's he's able
to think that they can go to a ball and
be competitive in the beginning. I don't see them getting
blown out. I don't think you're gonna have a twenty
twenty one type season, but there's wholesale changes there, and
you're mixing a lot of different guys from different programs
into one, and the chemistry is always the hard part
when you're bringing in a lot of transfers.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
I always look at this and you know, with the
portal as we go through it. And I was talking
to Kim about it earlier. Lensky and you know the
Lensky family, Well, we were talking with this earlier and
she said, you know, there's so much pressure on these
young people. And again, Brandon does all the recruiting college football,
and your job has changed dramatically. It used to be
you and I would talk about high school kids every year.
Now you're talking about high school and college kids every year.

(01:40:39):
Mental health awareness, mental health is so huge. She brought
this up. How stressful is it's cool to talk about
I'm making this money, I got this nil deal on
all these things. What do you see on the other
side with families and kids? I mean, for them, it
is life changing money.

Speaker 14 (01:40:56):
First of all, you're getting a life changing opportunity to
play college football, play this game you love, and have
somebody pay for your schooling. But now you're getting money
on top of that. There's a lot of pressure and
a lot of times, and I've said this for years
ian with this job. The kids are great. It's the
adults that screwed up. Whether that's the boosters, whether that's
the athletic department, whether that's the coaches. A lot of
times it's the fans. And now there's this mindset in

(01:41:18):
social media, Well, these guys want all the perks that
come with nil. They want to get paid, So we're
gonna treat them like professionals. The fans are, the coaches
are too. They're looking at him as line items. Coaches
are saying, hey, we gave you, we promised you this
much to get you here. You're not producing, so you're
either gonna take a cut or you're gonna leave. And
now these coaches are in theer so much pressure from

(01:41:39):
their administration, from their boosters that if the player's not
contributing within year one, they're being kicked to the curbas
So now a kid thinks he's gonna have this life
changing opportunity, and then after a year they're like, you
know what, you're not changing our lives enough. As a coach,
We're gonna send you somewhere else. So they're facing this
pressure and fans fill this entitlement because these guys are
getting anil, they can be even more ruthless to them

(01:41:59):
if they're not winning, if they're not performing it. So
these kids are already dealing with a lot of the
pressure and they're being kind of a lot of times
the strings are being pulled by adults. Tell them you're
going here because of the life changing opportunity money that
they're gonna give you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
It's I think I find that interesting because you know,
Mike Gundy, he's kind of a wing nut, and you know,
we all criticize Mike and probably right for the soul
a lot of times. Well, he brought up the other day,
I'm just I'm done no more coming in and asking
for more nil money, Like just play the damn season. Yeah,
that's it.

Speaker 14 (01:42:24):
And then the problem is is that you've got a
lot of guys that are now using this as leverage
because they're essentially on everybody's on a one year contract anymore,
unloaded free agency, unlimited free agency. You got guys that
are at four schools. You know, Washington State just saw
it up close and personal with cam Ward. You know,
I'm gonna either go to the NFL. I'm gonna go
to the school it's gonna pay me a lot of money,
and he goes to a school that has not done
a great job of developing their quarterbacks of the last

(01:42:45):
ten years, but they've done a great job of developing checkbooks.
And so guys are sometimes being forced into making decisions
or they're making the decisions based on the money part
of it rather than the football part.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
I know, I kind of laughed. Jess will probably agree.
I think that the running back from Oregon State and
Martinez has a better chance to be a Heisman Trophy candidate.
The camp Ward down there hasn't he.

Speaker 14 (01:43:04):
I mean, Cam Wore could be like Justin Herbert his
best football we played in the NFL in that offense.
But yeah, I mean, if you're a running back and
now you got a quarterback, who's gonna expect to have
this many throws and all that, You know, there's no
balance in offenses anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
So Little World. Well more importantly, you need a beer.
I do you need a beer? The mayor is waiting
for you over there, and we'll get Brandon hooked up.
Brandon Huffan, twenty four to seven Sports and of course
Avery Huffman website.

Speaker 14 (01:43:30):
Is averystrongdipg dot org. Go there, go to any of
our social media channels at Avery Strong

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
DPG raise a glass people come on down and portion
one third of the money goes right to that, along
with Jordan Morris, and of course all this is hope,

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