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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we're joining us right now on the radio show.
A lot of people getting excited for Jonah Coleman, Adam
Mohammad and a guy who was personally responsible for their
success or failure. All the pressures are lying on his shoulders.
Running back coach Scottie Graham from U DUB with us
right now from U DUB Spring Ball.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Scottie, how are you man?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Doing great? Thank you guys for having me on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, I appreciate it. Man.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So day ones in the books, what do you think good?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
A lot of energy, a lot of new guys, you know,
a lot more guys on the field right now, so
it feels a little bit better. I think this time
last year were about fifty five sixty guys on the field.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I was gonna say, just kind of compare the atmosphere
today to what you guys were looking at a year ago.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Man, A lot more voices, a lot of guys that
are in tune to the culture. So the energy and
how we practice. You know, last year we got a
we had to teach how we practice. So this year
now they know how we practice. And the radio roll, what.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Are the goals for the next few weeks? I mean,
how do you ramp things up? What do you what
are you trying to accomplish over the next few weeks?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Basics and fundamentals. Spring balls about fundamentals and competing. So
you want to keep as simple as you can while
that he was throwing your offense, but really giving guys
a chance to compete.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right, Well, you've been with Jonah Coleman now for a while. Right,
you know what this kid's all about.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And I gotta be honest with you, we have not
yet Scotty had a chance to really get to know
him as a person, as a kid. Yet we see
the wrecking ball that he is on the football field, obviously,
but take us behind the curtain little bit, talk about
what kind of kid he is, what kind of teammate,
what kind of leader he is.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'll start off by saying, Jonah Colemen made a Dean's
List three semesters in a row. Wow, I toley type
of kid he is. He's rock solid. He trusted me
from day one. He committed on his dad's birthday, and
he committed early to us in Arizona and we left
to come here. He literally just said I'm following my coach.
So that that said a lot in volume saur relationship,
and it's incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Talk about what he looks like now. I saw the
Instagram photo. He's he's trimmed down, but he's still big.
So what is he be doing in the off season
to kind of shape his body.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I think a lot of guys get through this season
and decide they're gonna change their body for the combine.
Jonah wanted to show them the body at work when
he's really in shape. So for him, he took the
weight training, stretching and everything you do. And this is
why development so important. Most kids want to come in
and start as a freshman and tear ey thing up,
and then by your junior if you haven't done anything,
(02:19):
you don't get drafted anyway. So you look at Jonah's
career play a little bit as a freshman, a lot
as a sophomore, and obviously junior. Last year he really
showed the country what type of running back he is
and now he's taking it to another level. Was nutrition
and everything he's doing, because you know your body's and moneymaker,
and he decided I'm gonna change my body into a moneymaker.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, there's only so much and Scottie Graham again, the
running backs coach that you dubb is with us on
the years. You know, there's only so much tread on
that running back tire, right obviously. I mean it's almost
like unfair when these guys get to the NFL that
they they use you up for your five years and
then you're done or they move you on to something else.
But how big of a debate was it, honestly? You
think for him last year when he decided to come
(02:58):
back to you versus entering the NFL draft, I.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Think the relationship with coach Fish starts with him, yeah,
and me and the rest of the guys on offense.
You know, this is a this is our fifth year together.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So that familiarity is something that was really important to him.
And in graduation, you know, one of the things I
talked to all the young people about about graduating. If
you don't graduate, I don't know how many gears you
playing in NFL. I play seven and I stopped playing
when I was twenty eight years old, right, And most
guys will leave school at twenty one years old to
my seven years from now, what are you gonna do?
And most guys say, I'll go back to school. You're
not going back to school.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Once you're done, You're done, right, Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
What does he want to do? I mean, what's uh,
what does he end do besides football? Because we just
see the football player. What are his interest what are
his hobbies?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I think you can do some broadcasts in his firstonality.
He's tremendous. Uh, he's funny. He loves coaching. He coaches
the guys in the room. I think he'd be a
tremendous coach.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I think he'd be a great office of coordinator. He
loves football. Uh, he can do so many things in football.
Work for a brand, uh, you know a Nike, Adidas.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I think it's so many things he can do. You
know there there will be tons of windows for him.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well clearly and broadcasting. We've showed Dick and it doesn't
take much. It takes a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It takes confidence and the kid is confident.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Well that as great as he is, and you want
him on the field all the time, but you got
to get twenty four on the field too. And you
know what makes Adam Muhammad so special because he just
kind of jumped off the field to when we were
watching him last year.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I told everybody that listened to me last year when
I got here, they were yelling other backs that I said,
don't forget about Adam Muhammad and Adam's development, just like
Jonah did. And it is ironic. He wore twenty four
at the time, so Jonah sophomore, he won him twenty
four and they into a single digit and a single digit.
So I think the sky's lymth Adam. Adam's a team player.
Just miss the Dean's list. I pride my room on
(04:40):
making the Dean's list. We had two running backs who
made the Dean's List, Julian McMahon who's a freshman. He
made the Dean's List. So Adam's getting really close. So
I tried to you know, my room just makes you're smart,
because if you plan on playing in the NFL, the
smart man is always gonna win. Right.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well, uh, Scotty Graham again, you burning backs coaches with
us and Scotty obviously are running back sometimes is only
as good as their offen of line, right, there's no
question about that. You mentioned the years you spent in
the NFL. You had some big games in the National
Football League, and I'm sure you credited your offensive line
for for all of them, But what do you see
from that group today that maybe will give Husky fans
some confidence that things are getting better there.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But he should always be confident. Jeff Fisher's coaching the team,
and they could see what we did in Arizona. You
gotta get the right guys. You can't win with quality.
You can't win without quality players. I think we got
some quality players, some young guys that are gonna play
and and they're gonna develop, So I think they're gonna
a chance. Developed last year, our office line, we didn't
have five office line the last year. Then we had
six and two of them were hurt so were we
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had to play both office lines on both sides of
the field last year during a spring game. So, you know,
having that depth in that competition Max another year, having
both the Hatchet brothers back, you know, Drew has a party,
We got some competition, and competition. Pree's out the best,
and I think when you have that many quality people,
and then and I don't coach Witch, he was he
was a running back assistant for me for two years
(05:57):
and then he worked with BC with O line last year,
and I think He's one of the best office line
coaches in the crunchy kind of a hitting gym. If
you look at coach Fish's history, he finds hidden gems.
He just finds good people man, and you know, he
allows him to coach and we get it done.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Scotta Graham joined US running backs coach and you know,
the second leading rusher on the team last year, and
sack yardage counts against your rushing yards. But it was
Demon Williams and he only started a couple of games.
What does that do for the rest of your backfield?
When you have a quarterback that can bust a seventy
yard touchdown run.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You probably can describe for the small monthly Yeah, I
couldn't say eyebro shot in the air, I'm smiling. You're like,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Maun look better on TV radio Jonah could teach you
that when he becomes a broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
By the way, running back the running back coach is
the happiest guy in the building. And obviously the office
of coordinating coach Daugherty uh coaching damon up because he
allows defenses. Now you have to play everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, have you have you ever been around anybody like
Demon Williams. I mean, we're making a lot of comparisons,
and the easy ones Kyler Murcas are both the same size. Right,
But do you see anybody NFL college at Ohio State
ever seeing anybody quite like him?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Probably Troy Smith was stature, Okay, I don't think True
had the wheels like that, right, demands fast, He's like
really fast, like bye bye fast wow. And he's only
gona get stronger. He's bigger now, so he's gonna get stronger.
He's gonna get faster. And I think you love about
them on the most he plays quarterback and his legs
aren't a necessary part of his game, but he's going
to help elevate his game and it really is gonna
(07:38):
put defenses in conflict.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You will have a successful season as the running backs coach,
and you throw throw out the throw out wins losses,
just just based upon.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The performance of your room. What would a successful season
do you look like?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Going to the college playoffs? I don't only worry about statistics.
We don't worry about that that'll come. But we want
to go to the playoffs. Yeah, we want to win
a big end title and go to the playoff.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
How's that happen.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We have to play physical, got hi under ball? Uh huh,
gotta be physical, have great attitude, come together as a team,
and continue to develop like we did today. Today was
a great first start. But we've got a stacked days now.
We got you know, fourteen more days ago, and we
want to make sure we have that same energy and
effort that we have today. So we just want to
stack it. Look at the tape tonight, correct the mistakes.
Come back out on Thursday and have a great win,
and have a great one on Saturday. Pad it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah. Seven years in the NFL, Is that right? That's fact?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Seven years in the NFL. Jets, Minnesota, Remember your best
game ever as a pro?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Tell me, Kansas City Chiefs. How many yards?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
One hundred and sixty months?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Right here? How many carries?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Thirty three?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
How about that? You know he played? He doesn't know this.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
The coach Graham played with the Bengals with my son's
basketball coach this year, Tremaine Mac that's my guy.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Tremaine was the heck safe from Yeah, but if you
met if you met coach Mack, who wins that battle? Me?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay, check it. He's good. But he wasn't that good?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Not enough to slow down the train? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I mean you got thirty three carries one hundred and
sixty six yards in a touchdown thirty to ten December
twenty sixth, nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Pretty damn good. Did the kids here know what a
big deal you were?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
By the way, No, you know what, It's not about me, Yeah,
it's about them. So I know you know the fact
that I play, you know, always did. Would say, how
can you say you weren't good? I'm like, because I
read the under advertising over deliver right, and to me,
I want them to know what type of teammate I was.
And so when you talk to warm Moon and he goes, man,
he was a great teammate. You know when we hit
those things and Chris Forrester talks about being a great teammate,
(09:38):
those are things I want to be before.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I love it. Hey, go get in this year and
we'll talk sooner. Man, I appreciate this cruciate you guys,