November 8, 2024 • 19 mins
Rick Neuheisel of CBS Sports joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to discuss UW on the road at Penn St., Lincoln Riley’s status at USC, the big playoff stakes, and his pick.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
All right, we are live at Penn State getting ready
for you doub and the Nitny Lions tomorrow pregame one
kickoff at five right here on ninety three three kJ
arfm but here courtesy of our pals at Taco Time.
But by the way, I also heard guys that Robbie
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may bump into him tonight at some point as well.
But joining us right now on the radio, so normally
on Thursdays, but with us here on a Friday, our
friend Rick new Heiseel, how are you man?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I am wonderful and I have apologize for forgetting my
phone as I took my wife to the airport in
New York yesterday. But it turns out it was serendipitous
because now you're on the program, so well.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I just don't get how somebody forgets their phone. I mean,
if I forget my phone, I realize it in like
five seconds, I start to cry and I have to
go home.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I'm a little older. I'm a little older than you.
I have yet to have it a fix to my body.
Like most people in much younger than I can't go
anywhere without it. I don't have that affliction.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, good for you. It's a disease for sure, and
I suffer from it. But hey, I'm here in the
Happy Valley at Penn State. Never been here. Can't wait
to see what this thing looks like tomorrow. I drove
by telling Dick in the first year, you're gonna love it. Well,
I drove by the standing love It scared the hell
out of me. I mean, the place is freaking enormous.
So what is the atmosphere with this white out going
to be like for those of us that are here
to see this in person.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
So years ago, when I was coaching for the Ravens.
Joe Paterno invited me. He and I became pals on
these Nike trips, and he invited me to the Ohio
State game, which was a white out, and I brought
my three sons and we were on the field. And
I mean, you are going to feel an electricity tomorrow
night that is unique to college football. Obviously, Husky Stadium
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gets like that when you know, tequila plays or what
have you. We've heard all we have the magic in
Seattle as well. But this is going to be fun.
And you're going to sing a bon Jobie song tomorrow night,
like louder than you've ever sang it, and it's going
to be like, Okay, this is cool. But I think
the Huskies are up to the challenge. And by the way,
while in town, you got to go get a little
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ice cream from the creamery tomorrow and get a little
Peachey Paternal.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
All right, peach Paternal. They still have that on the menu.
Huh interesting, okay, bill on the menu.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
So Rick, when you're in the locker room going into
a house of horrors like that, you know, a night game,
white out, massive amount of people. I mean, is it
a different conversation that you have with your team than
when you just have a typical twelve thirty start against
anybody else.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's you don't have to do anything to get your
team in a spirit to play. The emotion and the
andrenaline will be pumping. So now it's about a calmness.
And if you think about Washington on the road and
this first year in the Big Ten, whether it be
the Rutgers game or the two early games in the
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Indiana and Iowa, they've started well, but they haven't finished.
So right now it's got to be a situation where
they go out and just play within themselves. Because when
they've done that against usc and or Michigan, they played beautifully.
And to me, that's what can happen tomorrow night. This
is a fourth try on the road, on the long trip.
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It's a big venue. You're gonna love playing here. Now,
just enjoy it, but play within yourself and just as
Steve Belichick will have said a million times after his father,
just do your job.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, absolutely, well, Rick new Heisel's with us turnaesee at
taco time. So what is Steve Belichick gonna tell us
guys about the job in defending this Tyler Warren kid.
He had seventeen catches against usc Udub's got fifty five
catches from their leading receiver Rick and Jarles Jackson. This
guy's got fifty one from the tight end spot. So
put your old defensive hat on, if you ever wore
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that back in the day, and tell me what Steve
Belichick should do to slow this kid down.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I said this at halftime of that SC game, I said,
you better find Warren or he's scoring. And the very
first drive in the second half, he lines up at
center and caught a touchdown pass. I mean, honest to goodness,
they had a formation and Andy Kotalnikki, who's their offensive coordinator,
came over from Kansas, has been a breath of fresh air.
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Minus the game where they kind of reverted back and
were a little pedestrian against Ohio State. He has found
ways to get Tyler Warren the ball. So, obviously Steve Belichick,
who comes from that Belichickian principle of take way what
they do best, there will be a plan for forty four.
You better know where he is on every down.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Speaking of Belichick, I may just be being a Husky
homer here, but I think the Husky defense and coordinator
Steve Belichick have been a couple of the greatest secrets
in college football this year. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Rick? As a matter of fact, we had Jed Fish
on our program on Full Ride on Sirius XM, and
I asked him, do Steve is he liking college football?
And he said, you know, he brings his kids out
to practice, which was never allowed, you know, with his
dad being the coach, and Jed was obviously on that
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staff as well. But he brings his kid out and
the kids can race the players and you know, get
to know the players, and he's kind of falling for
this college game in this college atmosphere. And it wouldn't
be surprising that, you know, he says, I want to
do this. I want to raise my kids in this
kind of environment. No guarantee in that regard, but Jed
seemed optimistic that there was a chance he would be
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around for a while.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, I think a lot of Husky fan I don't
know if there's ever been a time in history, Rick,
where Husky fans are keeping an eye on what's happening.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
At Florida right and for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I mean, you got a guy in Jed Fish went
to Florida Where's the Visor as a tribute to Steve Spurrier.
And then it was just coming out yesterday that Billy
Napier is not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Now here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I saw this statement from like the ad and it
just said he's.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Not going anywhere. Well when next year? End of this year,
because we've seen plenty.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Of people come out and make statements like that and
then all of a sudden they get whack. So I've
heard that Florida has approved, the regents have approved is
buy out if they do want to go down that road,
which is twenty five million. But do we think that
Billy Napier is locked and loaded for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I think the fact that he said this before they
head into this gauntlet of the next few weeks where
they have Texas this week, I think Florida who that Texas,
it's Ole miss and then it's Florida State still left
on the schedule, so they've got a haunted house of
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a schedule. I think he said this just so that
he protects Billy Napier. I don't think they want to
pay the buy out. I think they want to do
exactly and finish the season. The fact that they played
so hard against Georgia and had a chance to win
before Lagway got hurt, I think sealed the deal, and
I think he just wanted to put the rest all
the thoughts about doing anything. Lane Kiffin had been the
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number one guy that's Florida fans for targeting. I know
Jed's going to be in that conversation, especially if they
finish as well as Husky fans hope they do. But
the bottom line is, I believe that Jed's going to
be in Seattle for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Rick, we got to see firsthand why USC fans are
clamoring at Lincoln Riley right now. I mean, what did
you think of him benching Miller Moss? I mean, it
wasn't Moss that decided to throw at thirty of the
first thirty nine plays instead of running Woody marks down
our throw.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
What did you think of that call by Riley? And
now he's in the portal, by the way, Moss.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, it's an amazing thing that Lincoln Riley. And by
the way, it runs in the family. Garrett Riley, the
offensive coordinator at Clemson, had cade Klubnick throw at fifty
plus times as well. When Phil Maffa literally has thirty
carries for one hundred and seventy yards, I mean, why
are you not continuing to run the ball? And Woody
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Marks for USC is averaging five point seven per carry
and has over eight hundred yards rushing, but they won't
hand it off. It is a confusing thing. I don't
know if there's you know, a deal made with these
wide receivers to get him to come down, that they're
going to get these kind of touches. But Benching Moss
I understand it because they were having to use, you know,
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extra guys to chip the defensive ends because they just
don't trust their tackles and Jade and Mayava. The transfer
for Munlb is a little bit more agile, but to me,
they're missing out not running the ball more, and it'll
be interesting to see if if that'll become part of
Lincoln Riley's plan going forward.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
With my own, well, I gotta be honest with I
think got they run the ball and both haves. I
think we lose last weekend against US excuse that guy
was the best back, I mean, maybe even better than
Kayden Johnson.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
He came shot.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Fantastic, he had a monster game against Penn State, and
yet they wouldn't run him. It's just it's confounding given
I mean, they're ahead of if you they're like eighty
something in the country and rushing and you have to
go all the way up into the thirties to find
somebody who's rushing for more yards per carew.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, here's why I love this twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Rick and people said it's going to ruin the regular season,
and I always thought, Nope, you're wrong, it's going to
enhance it because we got there's a couple of games
this weekend, including Georgia and Ole Miss where if all
Miss has any shot, they have to win out Alabama
and LSU Alabama has any shot, they got to win
out the hell have we ever in November given a
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damn about what a two loss team is doing on Saturday?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And now we care because of the twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Man, isn't this exactly what the twelfth team playoff was
meant to do.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It's the greatest thing we've ever done. And I'll say
it again when we have those playoff games on December
twentieth on a Friday night and then the three games
on December twenty first. On that Saturday, We're gonna sit
and see those home stadiums rocking, hopefully some really good
competitive games that go into the fourth cortern. We're gonna
ask ourselves why have we been doing this forever? Because
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college football always delivers? And I couldn't agree with you
more after that CFT came out the other night, the
top seventeen teams all can win out and get to
the playoff. And that's seventeen fan bases, including ones that
Iowa State and BYU and others that are sitting there
going We've never had this kind of chance. Even Colorado
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has a chance. The Colorado Texas Tech game this week
and is a monumental one for both those teams because
the winner of the Big twelve gets in and they
both still have a chance.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Rick you mentioned BYU, the Holy War is opposite of
what we thought it was going to be. We thought
it was going to be BYU trying to knock Utah
out of the playoff race, and instead it's the opposite.
It's Utah trying to knock BYU out of the playoffs.
Can they do it?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I just I think Kyle Whittingham is one of the
best out there. He's so consistent. But it has been
ridiculous how pedestrian that they've been offensively without Sam Rising.
And while this kid that's playing quarterback is a good player,
he just isn't consistent enough, so I think. And it's
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like a three or four point line. It's shocking to me,
but that was the case when Byu went back to
play UCF as well. They got no respect. So give
me the Cougars. I'll lay whatever the number is, and
I take Byu. Klanifocky is the heck of a.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Coach, no doubt. Hey, who do you like at that, Georgie?
Your old miss game?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
George is coming off not playing so good a week.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm taking Georgia, even though Carson Beck has been an
accident waiting to happen and uh, and obviously Ole Miss
coming off a great performance at Arkansas. I just think
that for netic defense and Kirby Smart will give them
another They don't they don't respect your speech, even though
everybody in the country thinks they're one of the best teams.
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It will be, Uh, it'll be a wild scene, but
I'm going to take Georgia in that game.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Who is the best team in the country right now?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oregon. Oregon's the best team in the country because they
have the most capable quarterback in terms of handling all
the situations. Uh, he's very, very you know, efficient diligence.
I think he's a coach's best friend. And as long
as they stay competent in both offense and defensive lines,
they're the best team right now.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
All right, Well, you got back in the win column
a week ago, my friends with Minnesota Illinois two that's right,
two out of three, or I think it's two out
of three.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You know, what, the hell with it, We'll give it
to you anyway, two out of three.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It is two out of three Cincinnati, Minnesota lost with Arkansas,
but two and one the last three games, two and
two the last four. Let's make it three out of
four and let's get this done here. Who do you
like tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'd love Washington tomorrow night, but I'm not jinxing our husky.
I love getting thirteen. I love getting thirteen and a half.
I think they, especially since it's not an early game,
they'll be ready. They're going to be jazz to play
in this environment and Will Rodgers is a capable guy.
But I'm going to take Alabama and Baton Rouge. I
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think they're a two and a half point pick. Listen,
that situation in LSU is much like the one we
talked about at USC. They throw the ball too much
and Garrett Nusmeyer is prone to throw it to the
other team. I think that LSU the last place team
in rushing the football, and the SEC will come back
to hauntum even though they've got a home field advantage.
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I'm going to take Milroe and company to get it
done in the Bayou.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hey, By the way, before you go on that, what
happened to Jaln Milroe? I mean I saw him play
a couple of weeks ago and he just looks awful
throwing the football.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I don't know what has happened, but they've had a
bye week and hopefully they get back to what they
showed in that first half against Georgia. It's going to
be a scene in Baton Rouge. It's a playoff game.
Both teams have a chance to make it to Alabama
was ranked eleventh in the first CFP. They can bolster that,
and they've got the mercer in Auburn and one other
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down the stretch, maybe Mississippi State. That to me gives
them a great chance to finish strong. I'm going to
take role tiders in this, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I love it? All right, enjoy it. We'll talk in
a week. Man, appreciate this code.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Nice coach, Hey, enjoy happy valley, my friend.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, Hey, hang out a second, Hey, hang on, Hey,
let's hear it for Rick. New highs from everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
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Speaker 3 (15:12):
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Speaker 2 (15:16):
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Speaker 4 (15:46):
All Right, Dick probably figured this out.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
There's a reason why I stuck in a question about
that Georgia Ole Miss game. Oh I got you for coach,
all right, and I totally agree with him. I mean
I saw this line and I was actually little bit surprised.
And you mentioned earlier how you liked to up on
teams that are coming off tough losses or maybe tough performances,
and I think we all agreed. Georgia did not play
well versus Florida a week ago, and they're going.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
To ole Miss this weekend to take on Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And maybe, just maybe because you asked Rick who the
best team in the country was, somebody could maybe make the.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Argument for Georgia certainly, maybe they.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Are the best team in the country and they're given
two and a half, they gonna win by three at
ole Miss coming off that game that you know, Kirby
Smart ripped their ass last week after that Florida Absolutely
Kirby Smart versus Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Would you see how.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Did you see how piss Kirby was in the press
conference when they asked him.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
About a visor.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
No, he just shot He's just shot him down.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
He was like, sorry, I don't waste time on which
visor I picked. He is so dead on focus this week.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I love it. Well, let's take Georgia. The hell with it?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Given two and a half at Ole Miss. Rick likes him,
and so do I. I mean, we're sitting here pick number twenty.
There's not much left in the tank. And I saw
that game, and I'm actually shocked that nobody's taking it yet.
So Bulldogs laying the two and a half dick against
old is the game?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You agree, it's fact, you hate it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
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Speaker 5 (17:07):
I think they're a better team if I'm taking a
quarterback at the next level, I'm certainly taking Old Missus
quarterback over George's quarterback. But you don't just win with quarterbacks,
you win with the rest of the team as well.
And you know, this Ole Miss team has had problems
against good team scoring points. They scored plenty of points
when they play Georgia, Southern and Furman and Middle Tennessee.
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But when they played what the hell's When they played
Kentucky they scored seventeen. Yeah, when they played Oklahoma, they
scored twenty six. When they played LSU, they took them
to overtime. And so scored only twenty six. So yeah,
this Georgia team should be able to hold the old
miss right around twenty to twenty four and that should
be enough for Georgia to cover.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Well, I'll tell you what we are.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We are about a week away from just closing our
eyes and just pointing at the scoreboard to pick a
game in fact or fiction. Okay, So let's hopefully we
can make at least ourselves kind of maybe a little
bit of redemption this week with our selections. Georgia minus
the points is the pick factor fiction to four nine,
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Now with Rick Neuheisel, here's softy and dead.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
All right, we are live at Penn State getting ready
for you doub and the Nitny Lions tomorrow pregame one
kickoff at five right here on ninety three three kJ
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But by the way, I also heard guys that Robbie
talking himself. The Taco Time King will be here in
attendance tomorrow at Beaver Stadium watching this game, so we
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may bump into him tonight at some point as well.
But joining us right now on the radio, so normally
on Thursdays, but with us here on a Friday, our
friend Rick new Heiseel, how are you man?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I am wonderful and I have apologize for forgetting my
phone as I took my wife to the airport in
New York yesterday. But it turns out it was serendipitous
because now you're on the program, so well.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I just don't get how somebody forgets their phone. I mean,
if I forget my phone, I realize it in like
five seconds, I start to cry and I have to
go home.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I'm a little older. I'm a little older than you.
I have yet to have it a fix to my body.
Like most people in much younger than I can't go
anywhere without it. I don't have that affliction.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, good for you. It's a disease for sure, and
I suffer from it. But hey, I'm here in the
Happy Valley at Penn State. Never been here. Can't wait
to see what this thing looks like tomorrow. I drove
by telling Dick in the first year, you're gonna love it. Well,
I drove by the standing love It scared the hell
out of me. I mean, the place is freaking enormous.
So what is the atmosphere with this white out going
to be like for those of us that are here
to see this in person.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
So years ago, when I was coaching for the Ravens.
Joe Paterno invited me. He and I became pals on
these Nike trips, and he invited me to the Ohio
State game, which was a white out, and I brought
my three sons and we were on the field. And
I mean, you are going to feel an electricity tomorrow
night that is unique to college football. Obviously, Husky Stadium
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gets like that when you know, tequila plays or what
have you. We've heard all we have the magic in
Seattle as well. But this is going to be fun.
And you're going to sing a bon Jobie song tomorrow night,
like louder than you've ever sang it, and it's going
to be like, Okay, this is cool. But I think
the Huskies are up to the challenge. And by the way,
while in town, you got to go get a little
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ice cream from the creamery tomorrow and get a little
Peachey Paternal.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
All right, peach Paternal. They still have that on the menu.
Huh interesting, okay, bill on the menu.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
So Rick, when you're in the locker room going into
a house of horrors like that, you know, a night game,
white out, massive amount of people. I mean, is it
a different conversation that you have with your team than
when you just have a typical twelve thirty start against
anybody else.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's you don't have to do anything to get your
team in a spirit to play. The emotion and the
andrenaline will be pumping. So now it's about a calmness.
And if you think about Washington on the road and
this first year in the Big Ten, whether it be
the Rutgers game or the two early games in the
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Indiana and Iowa, they've started well, but they haven't finished.
So right now it's got to be a situation where
they go out and just play within themselves. Because when
they've done that against usc and or Michigan, they played beautifully.
And to me, that's what can happen tomorrow night. This
is a fourth try on the road, on the long trip.
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It's a big venue. You're gonna love playing here. Now,
just enjoy it, but play within yourself and just as
Steve Belichick will have said a million times after his father,
just do your job.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, absolutely, well, Rick new Heisel's with us turnaesee at
taco time. So what is Steve Belichick gonna tell us
guys about the job in defending this Tyler Warren kid.
He had seventeen catches against usc Udub's got fifty five
catches from their leading receiver Rick and Jarles Jackson. This
guy's got fifty one from the tight end spot. So
put your old defensive hat on, if you ever wore
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that back in the day, and tell me what Steve
Belichick should do to slow this kid down.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I said this at halftime of that SC game, I said,
you better find Warren or he's scoring. And the very
first drive in the second half, he lines up at
center and caught a touchdown pass. I mean, honest to goodness,
they had a formation and Andy Kotalnikki, who's their offensive coordinator,
came over from Kansas, has been a breath of fresh air.
(04:46):
Minus the game where they kind of reverted back and
were a little pedestrian against Ohio State. He has found
ways to get Tyler Warren the ball. So, obviously Steve Belichick,
who comes from that Belichickian principle of take way what
they do best, there will be a plan for forty four.
You better know where he is on every down.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Speaking of Belichick, I may just be being a Husky
homer here, but I think the Husky defense and coordinator
Steve Belichick have been a couple of the greatest secrets
in college football this year. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Rick? As a matter of fact, we had Jed Fish
on our program on Full Ride on Sirius XM, and
I asked him, do Steve is he liking college football?
And he said, you know, he brings his kids out
to practice, which was never allowed, you know, with his
dad being the coach, and Jed was obviously on that
(05:37):
staff as well. But he brings his kid out and
the kids can race the players and you know, get
to know the players, and he's kind of falling for
this college game in this college atmosphere. And it wouldn't
be surprising that, you know, he says, I want to
do this. I want to raise my kids in this
kind of environment. No guarantee in that regard, but Jed
seemed optimistic that there was a chance he would be
(05:59):
around for a while.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, I think a lot of Husky fan I don't
know if there's ever been a time in history, Rick,
where Husky fans are keeping an eye on what's happening.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
At Florida right and for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I mean, you got a guy in Jed Fish went
to Florida Where's the Visor as a tribute to Steve Spurrier.
And then it was just coming out yesterday that Billy
Napier is not going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Now here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I saw this statement from like the ad and it
just said he's.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Not going anywhere. Well when next year? End of this year,
because we've seen plenty.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Of people come out and make statements like that and
then all of a sudden they get whack. So I've
heard that Florida has approved, the regents have approved is
buy out if they do want to go down that road,
which is twenty five million. But do we think that
Billy Napier is locked and loaded for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I think the fact that he said this before they
head into this gauntlet of the next few weeks where
they have Texas this week, I think Florida who that Texas,
it's Ole miss and then it's Florida State still left
on the schedule, so they've got a haunted house of
(07:05):
a schedule. I think he said this just so that
he protects Billy Napier. I don't think they want to
pay the buy out. I think they want to do
exactly and finish the season. The fact that they played
so hard against Georgia and had a chance to win
before Lagway got hurt, I think sealed the deal, and
I think he just wanted to put the rest all
the thoughts about doing anything. Lane Kiffin had been the
(07:28):
number one guy that's Florida fans for targeting. I know
Jed's going to be in that conversation, especially if they
finish as well as Husky fans hope they do. But
the bottom line is, I believe that Jed's going to
be in Seattle for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Rick, we got to see firsthand why USC fans are
clamoring at Lincoln Riley right now. I mean, what did
you think of him benching Miller Moss? I mean, it
wasn't Moss that decided to throw at thirty of the
first thirty nine plays instead of running Woody marks down
our throw.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
What did you think of that call by Riley? And
now he's in the portal, by the way, Moss.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, it's an amazing thing that Lincoln Riley. And by
the way, it runs in the family. Garrett Riley, the
offensive coordinator at Clemson, had cade Klubnick throw at fifty
plus times as well. When Phil Maffa literally has thirty
carries for one hundred and seventy yards, I mean, why
are you not continuing to run the ball? And Woody
(08:26):
Marks for USC is averaging five point seven per carry
and has over eight hundred yards rushing, but they won't
hand it off. It is a confusing thing. I don't
know if there's you know, a deal made with these
wide receivers to get him to come down, that they're
going to get these kind of touches. But Benching Moss
I understand it because they were having to use, you know,
(08:49):
extra guys to chip the defensive ends because they just
don't trust their tackles and Jade and Mayava. The transfer
for Munlb is a little bit more agile, but to me,
they're missing out not running the ball more, and it'll
be interesting to see if if that'll become part of
Lincoln Riley's plan going forward.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
With my own, well, I gotta be honest with I
think got they run the ball and both haves. I
think we lose last weekend against US excuse that guy
was the best back, I mean, maybe even better than
Kayden Johnson.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
He came shot.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Fantastic, he had a monster game against Penn State, and
yet they wouldn't run him. It's just it's confounding given
I mean, they're ahead of if you they're like eighty
something in the country and rushing and you have to
go all the way up into the thirties to find
somebody who's rushing for more yards per carew.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, here's why I love this twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Rick and people said it's going to ruin the regular season,
and I always thought, Nope, you're wrong, it's going to
enhance it because we got there's a couple of games
this weekend, including Georgia and Ole Miss where if all
Miss has any shot, they have to win out Alabama
and LSU Alabama has any shot, they got to win
out the hell have we ever in November given a
(10:02):
damn about what a two loss team is doing on Saturday?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And now we care because of the twelve team playoff.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Man, isn't this exactly what the twelfth team playoff was
meant to do.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It's the greatest thing we've ever done. And I'll say
it again when we have those playoff games on December
twentieth on a Friday night and then the three games
on December twenty first. On that Saturday, We're gonna sit
and see those home stadiums rocking, hopefully some really good
competitive games that go into the fourth cortern. We're gonna
ask ourselves why have we been doing this forever? Because
(10:35):
college football always delivers? And I couldn't agree with you
more after that CFT came out the other night, the
top seventeen teams all can win out and get to
the playoff. And that's seventeen fan bases, including ones that
Iowa State and BYU and others that are sitting there
going We've never had this kind of chance. Even Colorado
(10:57):
has a chance. The Colorado Texas Tech game this week
and is a monumental one for both those teams because
the winner of the Big twelve gets in and they
both still have a chance.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Rick you mentioned BYU, the Holy War is opposite of
what we thought it was going to be. We thought
it was going to be BYU trying to knock Utah
out of the playoff race, and instead it's the opposite.
It's Utah trying to knock BYU out of the playoffs.
Can they do it?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I just I think Kyle Whittingham is one of the
best out there. He's so consistent. But it has been
ridiculous how pedestrian that they've been offensively without Sam Rising.
And while this kid that's playing quarterback is a good player,
he just isn't consistent enough, so I think. And it's
(11:43):
like a three or four point line. It's shocking to me,
but that was the case when Byu went back to
play UCF as well. They got no respect. So give
me the Cougars. I'll lay whatever the number is, and
I take Byu. Klanifocky is the heck of a.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Coach, no doubt. Hey, who do you like at that, Georgie?
Your old miss game?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
George is coming off not playing so good a week.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm taking Georgia, even though Carson Beck has been an
accident waiting to happen and uh, and obviously Ole Miss
coming off a great performance at Arkansas. I just think
that for netic defense and Kirby Smart will give them
another They don't they don't respect your speech, even though
everybody in the country thinks they're one of the best teams.
(12:24):
It will be, Uh, it'll be a wild scene, but
I'm going to take Georgia in that game.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Who is the best team in the country right now?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oregon. Oregon's the best team in the country because they
have the most capable quarterback in terms of handling all
the situations. Uh, he's very, very you know, efficient diligence.
I think he's a coach's best friend. And as long
as they stay competent in both offense and defensive lines,
they're the best team right now.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
All right, Well, you got back in the win column
a week ago, my friends with Minnesota Illinois two that's right,
two out of three, or I think it's two out
of three.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You know, what, the hell with it, We'll give it
to you anyway, two out of three.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It is two out of three Cincinnati, Minnesota lost with Arkansas,
but two and one the last three games, two and
two the last four. Let's make it three out of
four and let's get this done here. Who do you
like tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'd love Washington tomorrow night, but I'm not jinxing our husky.
I love getting thirteen. I love getting thirteen and a half.
I think they, especially since it's not an early game,
they'll be ready. They're going to be jazz to play
in this environment and Will Rodgers is a capable guy.
But I'm going to take Alabama and Baton Rouge. I
(13:44):
think they're a two and a half point pick. Listen,
that situation in LSU is much like the one we
talked about at USC. They throw the ball too much
and Garrett Nusmeyer is prone to throw it to the
other team. I think that LSU the last place team
in rushing the football, and the SEC will come back
to hauntum even though they've got a home field advantage.
(14:06):
I'm going to take Milroe and company to get it
done in the Bayou.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hey, By the way, before you go on that, what
happened to Jaln Milroe? I mean I saw him play
a couple of weeks ago and he just looks awful
throwing the football.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I don't know what has happened, but they've had a
bye week and hopefully they get back to what they
showed in that first half against Georgia. It's going to
be a scene in Baton Rouge. It's a playoff game.
Both teams have a chance to make it to Alabama
was ranked eleventh in the first CFP. They can bolster that,
and they've got the mercer in Auburn and one other
(14:44):
down the stretch, maybe Mississippi State. That to me gives
them a great chance to finish strong. I'm going to
take role tiders in this, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I love it? All right, enjoy it. We'll talk in
a week. Man, appreciate this code.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Nice coach, Hey, enjoy happy valley, my friend.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, Hey, hang out a second, Hey, hang on, Hey,
let's hear it for Rick. New highs from everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
They love your coach, They still love your coach, They
still love you.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
All right, man, tell him you enjoy Go dog.
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Speaker 4 (15:46):
All Right, Dick probably figured this out.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
There's a reason why I stuck in a question about
that Georgia Ole Miss game. Oh I got you for coach,
all right, and I totally agree with him. I mean
I saw this line and I was actually little bit surprised.
And you mentioned earlier how you liked to up on
teams that are coming off tough losses or maybe tough performances,
and I think we all agreed. Georgia did not play
well versus Florida a week ago, and they're going.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
To ole Miss this weekend to take on Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And maybe, just maybe because you asked Rick who the
best team in the country was, somebody could maybe make the.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Argument for Georgia certainly, maybe they.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Are the best team in the country and they're given
two and a half, they gonna win by three at
ole Miss coming off that game that you know, Kirby
Smart ripped their ass last week after that Florida Absolutely
Kirby Smart versus Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Would you see how.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Did you see how piss Kirby was in the press
conference when they asked him.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
About a visor.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
No, he just shot He's just shot him down.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
He was like, sorry, I don't waste time on which
visor I picked. He is so dead on focus this week.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I love it. Well, let's take Georgia. The hell with it?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Given two and a half at Ole Miss. Rick likes him,
and so do I. I mean, we're sitting here pick number twenty.
There's not much left in the tank. And I saw
that game, and I'm actually shocked that nobody's taking it yet.
So Bulldogs laying the two and a half dick against
old is the game?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You agree, it's fact, you hate it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It's fiction to four nine four five one right now,
I'll brack to you by the emeral Queen Casino.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I think they're a better team if I'm taking a
quarterback at the next level, I'm certainly taking Old Missus
quarterback over George's quarterback. But you don't just win with quarterbacks,
you win with the rest of the team as well.
And you know, this Ole Miss team has had problems
against good team scoring points. They scored plenty of points
when they play Georgia, Southern and Furman and Middle Tennessee.
(17:27):
But when they played what the hell's When they played
Kentucky they scored seventeen. Yeah, when they played Oklahoma, they
scored twenty six. When they played LSU, they took them
to overtime. And so scored only twenty six. So yeah,
this Georgia team should be able to hold the old
miss right around twenty to twenty four and that should
be enough for Georgia to cover.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Well, I'll tell you what we are.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We are about a week away from just closing our
eyes and just pointing at the scoreboard to pick a
game in fact or fiction. Okay, So let's hopefully we
can make at least ourselves kind of maybe a little
bit of redemption this week with our selections. Georgia minus
the points is the pick factor fiction to four nine,
four to five one. Right now, I'll brought to you
(18:09):
by the Emerald Queen. We are at Penn State for
the game tomorrow. Pregame from the stadium starts at one,
kickoff at five. Big thanks to our friends at Venue
Kings and Delta Airlines. And by the way, Anthony bay
Rudi le Venue King is gonna hop on with us
at about five forty five tonight. He's got a para
tickets for the next Sea Hawk home game against the Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
He's gonna be given away.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We're gonna ask him on the air, dake it five
forty five tonight for his prediction for tomorrow's u DUB game,
I want you to text in Venue Kings your first
and last name and the total amount of points scored
from Anthony's prediction. Whatever you think it is, right, you
think he's gonna say thirty twenty fifty twenty nine to
ten thirty nine, right, whatever, So texting your first and
(18:49):
last name, the words Venue Kings, and the total number
of points you think that Anthony will predict will be
scored tomorrow in the Penn State UDUB game closest to
the Pin's gonna win a parent tickets for the next
Seayok game.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Curnesy at venue Kings dot com will do that.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
At five forty five tonight, Lee Sterling, our handicapper, joins
us we are live at Penn State right here on
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