October 13, 2025 • 28 mins
Hugh Millen joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain in the second hour to talk about the Seahawks win over the Jaguars, including the defensive schemes by Mike Macdonald and Sam Darnold, plus UW’s win over Rutgers, Demond Williams, and Michigan ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
kJ RFM.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
All right, I know a guy who's gonna be up
at six am listening to us.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Greg and Mario absolutely break down the Husky game.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's gonna set his alarm for five fifty five, roll over,
turn his alarm off, kiss his wife, wipe the crud
out of his eyes, and then flip on iHeartRadio to
hear us on the air breaking down you up Michigan
at six am on Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Here he is our friend. A little more at four,
Huey Millen, how are you? Man?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I like that fiction.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good'n say, there's zero chance of that happening.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
But let's just dream for a second.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So why don't we do what we kind of always do, man,
and just give you the floor of the view from
fifty thousand feet. Seahawks go on the road, get a
big road win at Jacksonville, coming off their emotional win
Monday night.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Mike McDonald, you is now ten and one on the road.
How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I think that it reminds me. There's been two times
where I feel like I've been in limbo. As you
guys know, I've been very supportive of Mike McDonald as
a coach, really liked the person, really liked the coach.
But going back to a year ago, after the Bills game,
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I was like, oh man, this is just not working.
It was thirty one to ten, and I mean the
Bills had one hundred and sixty four yards rushing to
eighty one passing, twenty nine first downs, and the tape
was just as bad as those numbers. And then things
got a lot better after week. And they did lose
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the next week in an overtime game against the Rams.
That was the Gino one hundred and five yard pick
six and then another interception in the red zone, and
yet the defense was much better, and then they really
took off thereafter. So the game against Tampa Bay, just
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watching how bad. Now, even as bad as it was,
at least you could say going back to Tampa game,
at least you could say that the the the Buccaneers
had two point three yards per rush attempt, so they
were still building the wall. Even in the worst of times.
They were stopping the run.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So that was a.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Note of optimism in that. But the pass rush was dreadful,
the coverage was dreadful. Yeah, they had some guys down
in the secondary, but they're they're front liners up front,
you know, just way to pass it of a tippet
of a pass rushing. So now you wake up on Sunday,
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I read the injury report and it's three, you know,
three guys, and I'm like, okay, let's see what you got,
Mike McDonald. You know, three out of four starters. You're
going against a one lost team, a hot team, and uh,
you know, a talented quarterback, maybe an underperforming quarterback to
some extent, but a talented guy that feeling confident just
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beat the Chiefs. And I just thought that the game
plan was phenomenal. I mean, he got those guys going,
He put the switch to their ass. From an emotional standpoint,
they Leonard Williams, I thought had his worst game as
a Seahawk against the Buccaneers. He had one of his
better ones yesterday. I think it looked like d Law
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was just enraged, and so there was just a lot
more fire. And then the schemes very very broad.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now they only rushed either four or five guys, and
they had an occasional drop eight, but they didn't come
up with heavy blitzes. There was no there was zero
six or seven or eight man rushes, and yet they
presented seemingly a new look to Trevor Lawrence on every play,
and there was disguise coverages. There was lots of stunts
and twists. There were there were blitzes that were taking
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advantage of protection schemes that the the Jaguars were employing.
There was coverage rotation to help the the new guys
and the backups. There was just a really phenomenal game plan.
And as bad as it was against the Buccaneers, and
credit Mike McDonald. He stood at that microphone he said,
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this is on me. I gotta be better. He got
a lot better in seven days, and that's not the
first time we've seen that. So I don't know. I'm
just really glad he's our coach.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Hughge statement made early by Byron Murphy. I mean started
the game with a sack, ended up with seven pressures.
He got four and a half socks on the year.
Are you just seeing a better version of Byron Murphy
or do you think it's a Byron Murphy playing at
a better spot than he was last year.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, he got the sack on a play that was
just tremendous coverage. It was one of the only drop
eights that the Seahawks had in there, and Trevor Lawrence
officially that was six point two seconds. So I would
not really say that first sack was anything that he
did well. Now he did other things well that were hidden.
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He had another sack where they were doing what's called
power pass where the guard in front of him disappears
to go uh to create an illusion of play action
to a greater extent, Well, that kind of opens a gap.
It's hard, that's a hard block for the center. So
he was able to eat that up. He had another
one where he was doing a te stunt where his
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job was to slam the offensive tackle, the left tackle,
who really struggled by the way walker little for Jacksonville,
but to slam him and in essence set the table
for I believe it was Uh. I think it was
Nuoso on that's it doesn't matter, but on that play,
the leverage that he had he was inside leverage on
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the tackle, and then now he had that that vacant
b gap, the gap between the guard and the tackle
to accelerate through. So I think that statistically the statsy
that he had were kind of from scheme and and
that's what I was trying to allude to in the
onset of the of the segment here that Mike McDonald.
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He said, Hey, I'm going to put my guys in
position where it's easier to be successful. And there's multiple examples,
including that fire Murphy here.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let me ask you this because Dick and I got
into an argument, but a little bit of a debate
last week.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We repeat on each other heel exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Before, well just about how much we should allow injuries
to be an excuse for what happened against the Buccaneers
on defense, and I said a little bit, but I'll
just repeat what I said that I always thought that
the star of the show was going to be Mike
McDonald when he came here. I thought his scheme was
going to be the star. And his scheme was the star. Yesterday,
no Witherspoon, no Love, no Reek willing Right. A lot
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of guys out yesterday, just like a lot of guys
out against Tampa.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So why was I able to work yesterday and not
against Tampa? Is it just the opponent? The quality the opponent?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, I think you do when you have a game
like Tampa Bay, you come back and you watch the
tape and it's it's embarrassing. And all eleven guys on
that tape, there's nobody who really played well. Every single
one of them can look and say, wow, that is trash.
You know, you know, we we you know, both personally
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and as a unit. And so if if you've acquired
the guys that you think you've have, and and John
Sneiner has always said, hey, I want to guy. Find
guys with a chip on their shoulder. They have that
competitive edge. It's like, hey, you know the guys on
KG are and all this stuff, nobody's all the All
we're doing is showing the mirror, just holding up the mirror.
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If you don't like what you see, that's on you
because you watch that tape and that's your mirror. That's
what you did. And I think that those guys, they're competitors.
And Mike McDonald, I think they were led by McDonald's
saying hey, this is on me. But there's a natural
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impulse in a competitor that say no, no, no, no, no, man,
that's not on you. There's a funny thing about both
blame and acclaim that the more you give it away,
the more it comes back on you. You know, and
and excuse me with blame. The more you take on it,
the more people want to take it off of you.
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And I think that Mike McDonald took it on him
the blame, and so the players, no, no, no, this
is on us. And they just had a concerted effort.
They had more focus and then so they had to
be an effort thing. But then in the back end
with the coverage, they had to play more sound, communicative
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zone defense and play as a unit tied together to
mend the holes that were open for Baker Mayfield. And
I just thought that they did a great job. And
we've seen that before. Hell, I even noticed in the preseason.
I've made mention that that against against the Raiders in
preseason game number one, they gave up touring thirty two
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air yards on two hundred and ninety six total passing yards.
The next week they went from two thirty two to fifteen.
That to me is it's really an example of the
coaching that you get and the coaching that you got
after Tampa Bay and the teaching and it's like we
got to button u up, and yeah, it was. It
was something I really tipped my hat to Mike McDonald.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Hw At some point we get to a point with
a player where he goes from oft injured to injury prone.
Where on that line are we with Devin Witherspoon Because
this was his seventh game he's missed in his two
plus year career, he missed three and twenty twenty three,
he's missed four this year. So I mean, how long
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does this go before he starts to get the injury
prone tag?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I think it's a good question, and I am influenced
by my experience on the thirty third team where Mike
Getting's the the uh, the president of Pro Scout who
is They're a consultant to the NFL, And I mean,
that's that's the only job he has. He doesn't he
doesn't get on a website and and you know, talk
to all of us. Heah, who's he? He is employed
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by teams like, hey, what should we do to fix
our roster?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And he preaches over and over and over again, he says,
you can't. You've got you've got to get rid of
declining players and injured, injury production, injured, excuse me, injury
prone guys. And so it's a concern and the what
was the weight of him coming out, he was like
one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I remember just saying, oh man, he's uh, he's eight
pounds heavier than one seventy nine, you know. And and
for a guy who throws his body around like that,
I mean, it's just hard as frame. The mind is willing,
but the you know, the frame is the frame. And
so you know, Jalen Carter was the guy that a
lot of us wanted at that number five spot. I'm
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not here to say that that it was a mistake
to take him, because I really love his competitiveness. But
you're right, he keeps stacking up these miss games. It's really, uh,
it's really detrimental.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, he've been sitting here for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We haven't mentioned Sam Donald yet and his game that
he had Sam Donald. If not for Baker Mayfield might
be getting talked about as the MVP of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, he's number one in the league and yards
per attempt? What is he?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Number three in passer rating, number three in QBR.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's given everything you were hoping to get at him.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I mean, what is Sam Darnald doing kind of behind
the scenes that maybe people don't know that you think
they should know you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, I think that he's he is seeing the field
and he's doing things that a lot of quarterbacks find
to be difficult, like that touchdown passed to Cup. If
you if you look at it, when when he goes
to throw the ball, there was so anticipatory and the
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and the corner, the corner that uh was guarding him
that was in a cover zero look he anticipated the
at When I watched it on TV, at first I
thought that that had been an outside leverage defender on
an inside breaking route. That's how how how far outside
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the defender was. Now it turns out that at the
break point that Cup actually had the outside leverage on
an outbreaking route, which is what you want. But the
guy tried to jump it underneath, and so Darnold had
to just put it in a perfect spot. He had
Charles Cross in his face, he had because that was
that was you know, at least at the onset of
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heavy onset blitz, it's set with seven guys and so
so you had Barner getting pushed back in his face.
So that that's beautiful. I mean, he remember the other
one to Cup over the middle where he goes he
goes play action and he goes five step, no hitch.
So he turned, he goes under center and he goes one,
two three four five. Now he turns back. It's a
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three D four innder zone, so there's four underneath. It
looks a lot like a baseball infield, and the window
that he hits is between the shortstop and the third base.
To carry out the analogy, but the third basement was
a dB. It wasn't a linebacker. It was a safety.
And and I don't know, there's a lot of quarterbacks
that be they'd be worried as hell, Like damn, that
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third baseman's gonna fall back in towards the short stop
and get his hands on that ball. The only way
you beat that is with maximum elite timing, and that's
what he does. He just won two, three, four five
and again no hit. If he had taken a hitch step,
then the play's done. But he had to knife it
into that little tiny window and a cup, of course,
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Cup has the great hands and you get a big
gain out of that. That is difficult stuff. And then
there's other there's other things where I see him, his awareness.
He he has shown us really good athleticism. Right, It's
like some of his best plays have been, you know,
at Pittsburgh, you know, beating Patrick Queen for a twenty
seven yard escaping. How about the play against the Cardinals
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where he ran up the middle for thirty you know,
thirty five or I think thirty eight yards whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So he has put his athleticism on display, but he
knows he's not an elite athlete by today's standards. And
so there's oftentimes where he'll be looking and he's got
his looking to his left, and then if he feels pressure,
he knows exactly where his checkdown is. So he's not
trying to scramble around take sacks this necessarily. He just
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he's he's beating the pressure with his mind. Doesn't even
have to move his feet. It's just nowhere.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Like, I know, I've got Charbonne sitting over the B
gap on my right side. I'm gonna look to my
left two or three man a concept. But if anybody
flashes an ugly color flashes in front to me, who
beats one of my defensive linemen, boom, I'm going right
there with the ball.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, he and me a favor hold tight hold
that thought, because I want to talk a lot more
about the game with Jacksonville. Husky's got a big game
against Michigan. Uh just it would be unfair to talk
you dub Michigan and not have you on the air
to discuss the Huskies and Wolverines, considering how far you
go back with that rivalry.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Forgot.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
It would also be unfair not to talk to you
about that unbelievable performance from the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's right, and all the firings we had over the weekend,
by the way, and you know what, we might even
talk some preseason NBA basketball with you. What the hell
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
Shotgun snapped to Damon play faked in.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Jonah steps up in the pocket.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He's gonna run ten fine tom On way.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Of step the end some touchdown. Demon Williams goes.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Over one hundred rushing yards all the day, and what
a touchdown run by DeMont Williams is the Huskies.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Making a two score lead again.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
All right, we'll go back to the Seahawks in a minute,
because we want to make sure we get some time
with Hugh Millon joining us now a little more and
four with you what DeMont Williams and the Huskies did Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And you know, Hugh Dick and I were talking on.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The air that it was just a shame that both
the Husky game and the Mariner game Friday had to
be played at the same time. I mean, I don't
know if you saw the video the game ends and
were like, you know, forty five minutes away from the
Mariner game ending, people were hanging around the concourse. They
were putting the highlights on the jumbo tron, They aired
the first couple of innings on the video board. It
was a really unique atmosphere. But it does suck that
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both those games did not get their own spotlight because
DeMont Williams deserves it. School record five hundred and thirty
eight yard, sixteenth FBS.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Player to throw for four and run for one.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
He just won the Big Ten Player of the Week
again for the second time. What did you make of
what you saw from number two? On Friday pal Well.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I think he's just such a live wire and electric.
I think his acceleration usually there's a distinction between quickness
and speed, and I think we all know that we've
been watching sports long enough, but he is a guy
that has absolute top shelf elite quickness and top shelf
elite speed, and so from that standpoint, he's devastating with
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the ball in his hand. But you know, he's got
a hell of a release. I mean, he looks mechanically
that there's nobody you could name to me that I
would say has a vastly superior release. I think it's beautiful,
it's quick, it comes out over the top, it's consistent.
It's looks way better than some of the other guys
that have his athletic profile, like Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray.
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You know, those guys are you know, equally as fast
or twitchy, respectively. But I just think that demand's a
better throw of the football and you know, more velocity,
it's more natural. So so I think he's getting good protection,
he's got good targets and Rutgers, you know, they just
seem kind of hapless, but but he's been able to
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do it to a lot of people. It's fun to watch.
We kind of expected to see all this, but I
don't know what we expect to see games like that often.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
It's like every time he plays a team that has,
you know, mediocre to limited athleticism, he just looks unbelievable.
Now it's time to step up and obviously you're gonna
face Michigan athletes, which are going to be more similar
to Ohio State athletes than they are to Rutgers athletes.
So what does he need to do to take that
next step in those games?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We've seen him against Oregon, Penn State.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And Ohio State and it hasn't been good in any
one of those games. Now, obviously that's not all his fault,
but what does he need to do to be a
complete player in those games and take the next step.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Well, I think that his opportunities to use his legs
will be there, but they're less frequent. I think having
a firm grasp of of of the progressions in his
in his route sequence, if he can quickly get to
the third or fourth guy and get the ball out
of his hands, I think that's buy and large is
going to be an issue. I mean, uh, there's a
little bit of a blueprint that Ohio State showed Michigan
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if indeed they Now, I don't think the Michigan has
the type of team that that Ohio State has defensively,
but but you're right, they're they're closer to Ohio State
than they are the Rutgers talking about Michigan, and I
think that I think the environment is going to be
relatively lame. I think that the Michigan fans are going
to be disappointed with the Oklahoma loss, are going to
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be disappointed with the relatively poor showing that they had
at sc and and so I don't know, Yes, well
they they maybe, but I don't I don't know that
it's gonna be an electric capt Maybe you know they
got the game day, right, isn't Fox doing a game day?
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You know? So maybe they've got one last gasp in them.
But you know, you had in patent Matt Patricia, who
has three Super Bowl rings, the defensive coordinator for Ohio State,
so he played on on some rundowns. He would play
the bear front, which is a five down front with
the center and both guards covered. So you're you're kind
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of inducing that outside run, but I think they had
the team speed to run it. You know, it's like, hey,
go ahead and try and go go off tackle to us,
We're going to be there. They didn't want to, you know,
defend the up the middle part as much. But but
then that front allows with the defensive ends in that
because there's five guys on the line of scrimmage, the
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defensive line away from Jonah Williams stretch play, he can
come up the field and be in a position to
defend demand on the boot play. So taking the boot
play out was a factor. They they they double covered
Boston in the red zone. A lot of people are saying, well,
that was that was a poor job of getting the
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ball to Boston in the red zone. Hey look, if
they're gonna if they're gonna bracket him down there, There's
there's very few plays that are actually bracket busters. What
you want to do is then find the one on
ones and have good uh concepts in the one on ones.
And I think dead Fish was kind of uh you know,
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but I think he got out coached. He certainly got
out coached in the red zone by Matt Patricia. So
we'll see if if the Wolverines learned anything on that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, look, I mean you were You're talking to a
CBS Player of the game here, Dicky after the eighty
four game against Michigan, when Hugh Millan took the number
two ranked Huskies into Michigan stadium right and knocked out
they were Michigan was number two, they were too. Sorry, yes, correct,
correct by fault. But you wore the player of the game.
Do I have that right, CBS?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I still got a plaque somewhere before that.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Nice, nice, nice, Well, I would like to see it
one day, just to behold and get to uh get
to uh just you know, massage something so great. But uh,
you've been a Michigan fan for a long time, obviously,
way before you were in a Husky fan.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think you're a Michigan fan, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I mean this, this just feels like a game where
if the Huskies can win it, they're six and one,
they're ranked, then they've got UCLA perdue Wisconsin left on
the schedule. I don't know if you guys are watching
what's happening with with Wisconsin, but Badger fans want Luke
Fickles head on a freaking stick right now after the way.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Honestly, it's brutal in Madison. So that's a game they
should win. Ucla looks a little bit different now clearly
than it did. He should still beat a couple of
weeks ago. But you still should win all those. As
you've said, Dick and Hugh, you know this weird thing's
happened at the Rose Bowl, especially when you're playing for
an a ten thousand people.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So I mean, this game kind of guys.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Doesn't you feel like the difference between maybe a seven
or eight win team and maybe even a nine or
ten win team.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Well, I think Washington's got a pass to the playoffs,
and I think that all their games are winnable. I mean,
I think Oregon's quarterback looked non competitive. I was shocked
at how poor they looked, and so you get them
in Seattle. I think Oregon's beatable. Certainly, Michigan's beatable. In
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the environment we're talking about. There are eight teams in
the Big Ten that are two and one, and an
additional one in USC that's three and one. So you
got nine teams with one loss in the conference, and
then the two undefeateds with Ohio State in Indiana, so
it is so wide open, and you know there's a path.
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I mean, obviously the Huskies benefit from not playing Indiana.
You would have said they benefit from not playing Penn State.
But the Knitton lines a zero and three. But of course,
you know that's a representative schedule. They got to play
Afe State, they got to play Michigan, they got to
play Oregon. They're playing enough of the big boys that
you you know, Nebraska is one of those one lost
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teams that Iowa and you know a lot of those
one lost teams you're not playing right. And maybe UCLA's
a fraud in that regard. But I really, honestly I
think that that Washington they play to their capability, that
they could get really hot and they could be a
legitimate contender for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Hugh, I didn't get a chance to. I ask one
more Seahawk questions. I'm gonna do it right here before
we let you go. If you would have told me
through six games that the Seahawks are twenty seventh in
yards per carry and twenty third in yards rushing per game,
I would have told you we're probably two and four
and not four and two. So what do they need
to do to improve that? And why are they still
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able to win despite doing something that they've always seemingly
had to do to win well.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
First of all, the whole outside zone, the celebrated outside
don't and we spent a lot of time discussing since
Clint Kubiak was acquired. I mean, that's been almost a
nothing burger. You know, I was just watching the tape
before coming on with you guys and and Canine and
and uh, you know, the stress the stress play is
just so inconsistent and when it when it fails, it
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really it really gets bottled up out there on the edge.
So I can't say I'm terribly surprised, but you know,
certainly I would have predicted that they would have a
little bit more out of the running game. But I
think that they've made up for it with Sam Darnold
just playing at a an extremely elite level. This is
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the best quarterbacking we've seen in a long time, for uh,
for the Seahawks, and in my opinion, I think he's
surpassing anything Geno Smith ever did at any time as
a Seahawks. You have to go back to the very
very best time. Now you know, we're only six games
into this, so there's a lot of things that Wheels
can wobble. I understand that, but for now, six games
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into this, only the best years of Russ, a couple
of the best years, and maybe the best year from Hasselback.
You're talking, you know, six weeks into this, this is
a top three, four five performance we've seen by a
quarterback in se OK.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
History in my opinion, Hey, Hugh, I know we're late
for a break, but I do got to get a
quick thought from you and all the firings this weekend
in college football. James Franklin out, Jonathan Smith out, Trent
Bray out. We told you about Michigan fans hammering more.
Wisconsin fans are going just killing Luke Fickle right now.
At Wisconsin, I saw a bunch of people that were
just videotaping themselves leaving before they do their famous jump
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around thing at the stadium on Saturday, which.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Is almost a cardinal sin to leave before that.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
It's amazing how much money guys is getting tossed around
in buyouts just so these programs can fire coaches in
the middle of the year. UCLA has already fired their coach,
so what'd you make of the black Sunday in college
football yesterday?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I think there's a feeling that you don't want to
get left behind like a Penn State would, for example,
would say, hey, we've got the juice of our our name.
You know, there's a brand Penn State, Nitney Lions is
a brand unquestionably right, and they don't want to let
it get away. And and things change fast enough that
you feel like, hey, we get the right guy, and
you can you can switch it around in a year
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with the new UH, with the new rules with n
I L and the transfer portal and whatnot. But you know,
I think another component that that has me as a
Husky at least somewhat intrigued is is UH. Is there
a discussion that Jetfish has any interest in those jobs?
And do any of those jobs and and their their
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principles involved in those programs? Are they interested in and
do they have Jeff Jetfish as a candidate. You know,
whether or not he is UH may or may not
be true. But in his state of mind, if he
believes he is or he wants to be right, this
guy that that has a lot of stickers on suitcase
that cannot be debated, and so I just wonder, you know,
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if he has any eyes, you know, for any of
these spots that are opening up.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Here, milling great stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And we will talk this Friday, all right, buddy good
work man rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Geor Expell
kJ RFM.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
All right, I know a guy who's gonna be up
at six am listening to us.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Greg and Mario absolutely break down the Husky game.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's gonna set his alarm for five fifty five, roll over,
turn his alarm off, kiss his wife, wipe the crud
out of his eyes, and then flip on iHeartRadio to
hear us on the air breaking down you up Michigan
at six am on Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Here he is our friend. A little more at four,
Huey Millen, how are you? Man?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I like that fiction.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good'n say, there's zero chance of that happening.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
But let's just dream for a second.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So why don't we do what we kind of always do, man,
and just give you the floor of the view from
fifty thousand feet. Seahawks go on the road, get a
big road win at Jacksonville, coming off their emotional win
Monday night.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Mike McDonald, you is now ten and one on the road.
How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I think that it reminds me. There's been two times
where I feel like I've been in limbo. As you
guys know, I've been very supportive of Mike McDonald as
a coach, really liked the person, really liked the coach.
But going back to a year ago, after the Bills game,
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I was like, oh man, this is just not working.
It was thirty one to ten, and I mean the
Bills had one hundred and sixty four yards rushing to
eighty one passing, twenty nine first downs, and the tape
was just as bad as those numbers. And then things
got a lot better after week. And they did lose
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the next week in an overtime game against the Rams.
That was the Gino one hundred and five yard pick
six and then another interception in the red zone, and
yet the defense was much better, and then they really
took off thereafter. So the game against Tampa Bay, just
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watching how bad. Now, even as bad as it was,
at least you could say going back to Tampa game,
at least you could say that the the the Buccaneers
had two point three yards per rush attempt, so they
were still building the wall. Even in the worst of times.
They were stopping the run.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So that was a.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Note of optimism in that. But the pass rush was dreadful,
the coverage was dreadful. Yeah, they had some guys down
in the secondary, but they're they're front liners up front,
you know, just way to pass it of a tippet
of a pass rushing. So now you wake up on Sunday,
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I read the injury report and it's three, you know,
three guys, and I'm like, okay, let's see what you got,
Mike McDonald. You know, three out of four starters. You're
going against a one lost team, a hot team, and uh,
you know, a talented quarterback, maybe an underperforming quarterback to
some extent, but a talented guy that feeling confident just
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beat the Chiefs. And I just thought that the game
plan was phenomenal. I mean, he got those guys going,
He put the switch to their ass. From an emotional standpoint,
they Leonard Williams, I thought had his worst game as
a Seahawk against the Buccaneers. He had one of his
better ones yesterday. I think it looked like d Law
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was just enraged, and so there was just a lot
more fire. And then the schemes very very broad.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now they only rushed either four or five guys, and
they had an occasional drop eight, but they didn't come
up with heavy blitzes. There was no there was zero
six or seven or eight man rushes, and yet they
presented seemingly a new look to Trevor Lawrence on every play,
and there was disguise coverages. There was lots of stunts
and twists. There were there were blitzes that were taking
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advantage of protection schemes that the the Jaguars were employing.
There was coverage rotation to help the the new guys
and the backups. There was just a really phenomenal game plan.
And as bad as it was against the Buccaneers, and
credit Mike McDonald. He stood at that microphone he said,
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this is on me. I gotta be better. He got
a lot better in seven days, and that's not the
first time we've seen that. So I don't know. I'm
just really glad he's our coach.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Hughge statement made early by Byron Murphy. I mean started
the game with a sack, ended up with seven pressures.
He got four and a half socks on the year.
Are you just seeing a better version of Byron Murphy
or do you think it's a Byron Murphy playing at
a better spot than he was last year.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, he got the sack on a play that was
just tremendous coverage. It was one of the only drop
eights that the Seahawks had in there, and Trevor Lawrence
officially that was six point two seconds. So I would
not really say that first sack was anything that he
did well. Now he did other things well that were hidden.
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He had another sack where they were doing what's called
power pass where the guard in front of him disappears
to go uh to create an illusion of play action
to a greater extent, Well, that kind of opens a gap.
It's hard, that's a hard block for the center. So
he was able to eat that up. He had another
one where he was doing a te stunt where his
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job was to slam the offensive tackle, the left tackle,
who really struggled by the way walker little for Jacksonville,
but to slam him and in essence set the table
for I believe it was Uh. I think it was
Nuoso on that's it doesn't matter, but on that play,
the leverage that he had he was inside leverage on
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the tackle, and then now he had that that vacant
b gap, the gap between the guard and the tackle
to accelerate through. So I think that statistically the statsy
that he had were kind of from scheme and and
that's what I was trying to allude to in the
onset of the of the segment here that Mike McDonald.
(06:04):
He said, Hey, I'm going to put my guys in
position where it's easier to be successful. And there's multiple examples,
including that fire Murphy here.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let me ask you this because Dick and I got
into an argument, but a little bit of a debate
last week.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We repeat on each other heel exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Before, well just about how much we should allow injuries
to be an excuse for what happened against the Buccaneers
on defense, and I said a little bit, but I'll
just repeat what I said that I always thought that
the star of the show was going to be Mike
McDonald when he came here. I thought his scheme was
going to be the star. And his scheme was the star. Yesterday,
no Witherspoon, no Love, no Reek willing Right. A lot
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of guys out yesterday, just like a lot of guys
out against Tampa.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So why was I able to work yesterday and not
against Tampa? Is it just the opponent? The quality the opponent?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, I think you do when you have a game
like Tampa Bay, you come back and you watch the
tape and it's it's embarrassing. And all eleven guys on
that tape, there's nobody who really played well. Every single
one of them can look and say, wow, that is trash.
You know, you know, we we you know, both personally
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and as a unit. And so if if you've acquired
the guys that you think you've have, and and John
Sneiner has always said, hey, I want to guy. Find
guys with a chip on their shoulder. They have that
competitive edge. It's like, hey, you know the guys on
KG are and all this stuff, nobody's all the All
we're doing is showing the mirror, just holding up the mirror.
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If you don't like what you see, that's on you
because you watch that tape and that's your mirror. That's
what you did. And I think that those guys, they're competitors.
And Mike McDonald, I think they were led by McDonald's
saying hey, this is on me. But there's a natural
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impulse in a competitor that say no, no, no, no, no, man,
that's not on you. There's a funny thing about both
blame and acclaim that the more you give it away,
the more it comes back on you. You know, and
and excuse me with blame. The more you take on it,
the more people want to take it off of you.
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And I think that Mike McDonald took it on him
the blame, and so the players, no, no, no, this
is on us. And they just had a concerted effort.
They had more focus and then so they had to
be an effort thing. But then in the back end
with the coverage, they had to play more sound, communicative
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zone defense and play as a unit tied together to
mend the holes that were open for Baker Mayfield. And
I just thought that they did a great job. And
we've seen that before. Hell, I even noticed in the preseason.
I've made mention that that against against the Raiders in
preseason game number one, they gave up touring thirty two
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air yards on two hundred and ninety six total passing yards.
The next week they went from two thirty two to fifteen.
That to me is it's really an example of the
coaching that you get and the coaching that you got
after Tampa Bay and the teaching and it's like we
got to button u up, and yeah, it was. It
was something I really tipped my hat to Mike McDonald.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Hw At some point we get to a point with
a player where he goes from oft injured to injury prone.
Where on that line are we with Devin Witherspoon Because
this was his seventh game he's missed in his two
plus year career, he missed three and twenty twenty three,
he's missed four this year. So I mean, how long
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does this go before he starts to get the injury
prone tag?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I think it's a good question, and I am influenced
by my experience on the thirty third team where Mike
Getting's the the uh, the president of Pro Scout who
is They're a consultant to the NFL, And I mean,
that's that's the only job he has. He doesn't he
doesn't get on a website and and you know, talk
to all of us. Heah, who's he? He is employed
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by teams like, hey, what should we do to fix
our roster?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And he preaches over and over and over again, he says,
you can't. You've got you've got to get rid of
declining players and injured, injury production, injured, excuse me, injury
prone guys. And so it's a concern and the what
was the weight of him coming out, he was like
one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I remember just saying, oh man, he's uh, he's eight
pounds heavier than one seventy nine, you know. And and
for a guy who throws his body around like that,
I mean, it's just hard as frame. The mind is willing,
but the you know, the frame is the frame. And
so you know, Jalen Carter was the guy that a
lot of us wanted at that number five spot. I'm
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not here to say that that it was a mistake
to take him, because I really love his competitiveness. But
you're right, he keeps stacking up these miss games. It's really, uh,
it's really detrimental.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, he've been sitting here for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We haven't mentioned Sam Donald yet and his game that
he had Sam Donald. If not for Baker Mayfield might
be getting talked about as the MVP of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, he's number one in the league and yards
per attempt? What is he?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Number three in passer rating, number three in QBR.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's given everything you were hoping to get at him.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I mean, what is Sam Darnald doing kind of behind
the scenes that maybe people don't know that you think
they should know you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, I think that he's he is seeing the field
and he's doing things that a lot of quarterbacks find
to be difficult, like that touchdown passed to Cup. If
you if you look at it, when when he goes
to throw the ball, there was so anticipatory and the
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and the corner, the corner that uh was guarding him
that was in a cover zero look he anticipated the
at When I watched it on TV, at first I
thought that that had been an outside leverage defender on
an inside breaking route. That's how how how far outside
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the defender was. Now it turns out that at the
break point that Cup actually had the outside leverage on
an outbreaking route, which is what you want. But the
guy tried to jump it underneath, and so Darnold had
to just put it in a perfect spot. He had
Charles Cross in his face, he had because that was
that was you know, at least at the onset of
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heavy onset blitz, it's set with seven guys and so
so you had Barner getting pushed back in his face.
So that that's beautiful. I mean, he remember the other
one to Cup over the middle where he goes he
goes play action and he goes five step, no hitch.
So he turned, he goes under center and he goes one,
two three four five. Now he turns back. It's a
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three D four innder zone, so there's four underneath. It
looks a lot like a baseball infield, and the window
that he hits is between the shortstop and the third base.
To carry out the analogy, but the third basement was
a dB. It wasn't a linebacker. It was a safety.
And and I don't know, there's a lot of quarterbacks
that be they'd be worried as hell, Like damn, that
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third baseman's gonna fall back in towards the short stop
and get his hands on that ball. The only way
you beat that is with maximum elite timing, and that's
what he does. He just won two, three, four five
and again no hit. If he had taken a hitch step,
then the play's done. But he had to knife it
into that little tiny window and a cup, of course,
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Cup has the great hands and you get a big
gain out of that. That is difficult stuff. And then
there's other there's other things where I see him, his awareness.
He he has shown us really good athleticism. Right, It's
like some of his best plays have been, you know,
at Pittsburgh, you know, beating Patrick Queen for a twenty
seven yard escaping. How about the play against the Cardinals
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where he ran up the middle for thirty you know,
thirty five or I think thirty eight yards whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So he has put his athleticism on display, but he
knows he's not an elite athlete by today's standards. And
so there's oftentimes where he'll be looking and he's got
his looking to his left, and then if he feels pressure,
he knows exactly where his checkdown is. So he's not
trying to scramble around take sacks this necessarily. He just
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he's he's beating the pressure with his mind. Doesn't even
have to move his feet. It's just nowhere.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Like, I know, I've got Charbonne sitting over the B
gap on my right side. I'm gonna look to my
left two or three man a concept. But if anybody
flashes an ugly color flashes in front to me, who
beats one of my defensive linemen, boom, I'm going right
there with the ball.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, he and me a favor hold tight hold
that thought, because I want to talk a lot more
about the game with Jacksonville. Husky's got a big game
against Michigan. Uh just it would be unfair to talk
you dub Michigan and not have you on the air
to discuss the Huskies and Wolverines, considering how far you
go back with that rivalry.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Forgot.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
It would also be unfair not to talk to you
about that unbelievable performance from the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's right, and all the firings we had over the weekend,
by the way, and you know what, we might even
talk some preseason NBA basketball with you. What the hell
more with you next? On ninety three to three KJRFF
from the R and.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
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Speaker 2 (15:47):
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
Shotgun snapped to Damon play faked in.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Jonah steps up in the pocket.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He's gonna run ten fine tom On way.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Of step the end some touchdown. Demon Williams goes.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Over one hundred rushing yards all the day, and what
a touchdown run by DeMont Williams is the Huskies.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Making a two score lead again.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
All right, we'll go back to the Seahawks in a minute,
because we want to make sure we get some time
with Hugh Millon joining us now a little more and
four with you what DeMont Williams and the Huskies did Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And you know, Hugh Dick and I were talking on.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The air that it was just a shame that both
the Husky game and the Mariner game Friday had to
be played at the same time. I mean, I don't
know if you saw the video the game ends and
were like, you know, forty five minutes away from the
Mariner game ending, people were hanging around the concourse. They
were putting the highlights on the jumbo tron, They aired
the first couple of innings on the video board. It
was a really unique atmosphere. But it does suck that
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both those games did not get their own spotlight because
DeMont Williams deserves it. School record five hundred and thirty
eight yard, sixteenth FBS.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Player to throw for four and run for one.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
He just won the Big Ten Player of the Week
again for the second time. What did you make of
what you saw from number two? On Friday pal Well.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I think he's just such a live wire and electric.
I think his acceleration usually there's a distinction between quickness
and speed, and I think we all know that we've
been watching sports long enough, but he is a guy
that has absolute top shelf elite quickness and top shelf
elite speed, and so from that standpoint, he's devastating with
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the ball in his hand. But you know, he's got
a hell of a release. I mean, he looks mechanically
that there's nobody you could name to me that I
would say has a vastly superior release. I think it's beautiful,
it's quick, it comes out over the top, it's consistent.
It's looks way better than some of the other guys
that have his athletic profile, like Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray.
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You know, those guys are you know, equally as fast
or twitchy, respectively. But I just think that demand's a
better throw of the football and you know, more velocity,
it's more natural. So so I think he's getting good protection,
he's got good targets and Rutgers, you know, they just
seem kind of hapless, but but he's been able to
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do it to a lot of people. It's fun to watch.
We kind of expected to see all this, but I
don't know what we expect to see games like that often.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
It's like every time he plays a team that has,
you know, mediocre to limited athleticism, he just looks unbelievable.
Now it's time to step up and obviously you're gonna
face Michigan athletes, which are going to be more similar
to Ohio State athletes than they are to Rutgers athletes.
So what does he need to do to take that
next step in those games?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We've seen him against Oregon, Penn State.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And Ohio State and it hasn't been good in any
one of those games. Now, obviously that's not all his fault,
but what does he need to do to be a
complete player in those games and take the next step.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Well, I think that his opportunities to use his legs
will be there, but they're less frequent. I think having
a firm grasp of of of the progressions in his
in his route sequence, if he can quickly get to
the third or fourth guy and get the ball out
of his hands, I think that's buy and large is
going to be an issue. I mean, uh, there's a
little bit of a blueprint that Ohio State showed Michigan
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if indeed they Now, I don't think the Michigan has
the type of team that that Ohio State has defensively,
but but you're right, they're they're closer to Ohio State
than they are the Rutgers talking about Michigan, and I
think that I think the environment is going to be
relatively lame. I think that the Michigan fans are going
to be disappointed with the Oklahoma loss, are going to
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be disappointed with the relatively poor showing that they had
at sc and and so I don't know, Yes, well
they they maybe, but I don't I don't know that
it's gonna be an electric capt Maybe you know they
got the game day, right, isn't Fox doing a game day?
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You know? So maybe they've got one last gasp in them.
But you know, you had in patent Matt Patricia, who
has three Super Bowl rings, the defensive coordinator for Ohio State,
so he played on on some rundowns. He would play
the bear front, which is a five down front with
the center and both guards covered. So you're you're kind
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of inducing that outside run, but I think they had
the team speed to run it. You know, it's like, hey,
go ahead and try and go go off tackle to us,
We're going to be there. They didn't want to, you know,
defend the up the middle part as much. But but
then that front allows with the defensive ends in that
because there's five guys on the line of scrimmage, the
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defensive line away from Jonah Williams stretch play, he can
come up the field and be in a position to
defend demand on the boot play. So taking the boot
play out was a factor. They they they double covered
Boston in the red zone. A lot of people are saying, well,
that was that was a poor job of getting the
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ball to Boston in the red zone. Hey look, if
they're gonna if they're gonna bracket him down there, There's
there's very few plays that are actually bracket busters. What
you want to do is then find the one on
ones and have good uh concepts in the one on ones.
And I think dead Fish was kind of uh you know,
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but I think he got out coached. He certainly got
out coached in the red zone by Matt Patricia. So
we'll see if if the Wolverines learned anything on that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, look, I mean you were You're talking to a
CBS Player of the game here, Dicky after the eighty
four game against Michigan, when Hugh Millan took the number
two ranked Huskies into Michigan stadium right and knocked out
they were Michigan was number two, they were too. Sorry, yes, correct,
correct by fault. But you wore the player of the game.
Do I have that right, CBS?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I still got a plaque somewhere before that.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Nice, nice, nice, Well, I would like to see it
one day, just to behold and get to uh get
to uh just you know, massage something so great. But uh,
you've been a Michigan fan for a long time, obviously,
way before you were in a Husky fan.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think you're a Michigan fan, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I mean this, this just feels like a game where
if the Huskies can win it, they're six and one,
they're ranked, then they've got UCLA perdue Wisconsin left on
the schedule. I don't know if you guys are watching
what's happening with with Wisconsin, but Badger fans want Luke
Fickles head on a freaking stick right now after the way.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Honestly, it's brutal in Madison. So that's a game they
should win. Ucla looks a little bit different now clearly
than it did. He should still beat a couple of
weeks ago. But you still should win all those. As
you've said, Dick and Hugh, you know this weird thing's
happened at the Rose Bowl, especially when you're playing for
an a ten thousand people.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So I mean, this game kind of guys.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Doesn't you feel like the difference between maybe a seven
or eight win team and maybe even a nine or
ten win team.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Well, I think Washington's got a pass to the playoffs,
and I think that all their games are winnable. I mean,
I think Oregon's quarterback looked non competitive. I was shocked
at how poor they looked, and so you get them
in Seattle. I think Oregon's beatable. Certainly, Michigan's beatable. In
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the environment we're talking about. There are eight teams in
the Big Ten that are two and one, and an
additional one in USC that's three and one. So you
got nine teams with one loss in the conference, and
then the two undefeateds with Ohio State in Indiana, so
it is so wide open, and you know there's a path.
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I mean, obviously the Huskies benefit from not playing Indiana.
You would have said they benefit from not playing Penn State.
But the Knitton lines a zero and three. But of course,
you know that's a representative schedule. They got to play
Afe State, they got to play Michigan, they got to
play Oregon. They're playing enough of the big boys that
you you know, Nebraska is one of those one lost
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teams that Iowa and you know a lot of those
one lost teams you're not playing right. And maybe UCLA's
a fraud in that regard. But I really, honestly I
think that that Washington they play to their capability, that
they could get really hot and they could be a
legitimate contender for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Hugh, I didn't get a chance to. I ask one
more Seahawk questions. I'm gonna do it right here before
we let you go. If you would have told me
through six games that the Seahawks are twenty seventh in
yards per carry and twenty third in yards rushing per game,
I would have told you we're probably two and four
and not four and two. So what do they need
to do to improve that? And why are they still
(24:43):
able to win despite doing something that they've always seemingly
had to do to win well.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
First of all, the whole outside zone, the celebrated outside
don't and we spent a lot of time discussing since
Clint Kubiak was acquired. I mean, that's been almost a
nothing burger. You know, I was just watching the tape
before coming on with you guys and and Canine and
and uh, you know, the stress the stress play is
just so inconsistent and when it when it fails, it
(25:13):
really it really gets bottled up out there on the edge.
So I can't say I'm terribly surprised, but you know,
certainly I would have predicted that they would have a
little bit more out of the running game. But I
think that they've made up for it with Sam Darnold
just playing at a an extremely elite level. This is
(25:36):
the best quarterbacking we've seen in a long time, for uh,
for the Seahawks, and in my opinion, I think he's
surpassing anything Geno Smith ever did at any time as
a Seahawks. You have to go back to the very
very best time. Now you know, we're only six games
into this, so there's a lot of things that Wheels
can wobble. I understand that, but for now, six games
(25:57):
into this, only the best years of Russ, a couple
of the best years, and maybe the best year from Hasselback.
You're talking, you know, six weeks into this, this is
a top three, four five performance we've seen by a
quarterback in se OK.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
History in my opinion, Hey, Hugh, I know we're late
for a break, but I do got to get a
quick thought from you and all the firings this weekend
in college football. James Franklin out, Jonathan Smith out, Trent
Bray out. We told you about Michigan fans hammering more.
Wisconsin fans are going just killing Luke Fickle right now.
At Wisconsin, I saw a bunch of people that were
just videotaping themselves leaving before they do their famous jump
(26:34):
around thing at the stadium on Saturday, which.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Is almost a cardinal sin to leave before that.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
It's amazing how much money guys is getting tossed around
in buyouts just so these programs can fire coaches in
the middle of the year. UCLA has already fired their coach,
so what'd you make of the black Sunday in college
football yesterday?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I think there's a feeling that you don't want to
get left behind like a Penn State would, for example,
would say, hey, we've got the juice of our our name.
You know, there's a brand Penn State, Nitney Lions is
a brand unquestionably right, and they don't want to let
it get away. And and things change fast enough that
you feel like, hey, we get the right guy, and
you can you can switch it around in a year
(27:19):
with the new UH, with the new rules with n
I L and the transfer portal and whatnot. But you know,
I think another component that that has me as a
Husky at least somewhat intrigued is is UH. Is there
a discussion that Jetfish has any interest in those jobs?
And do any of those jobs and and their their
(27:41):
principles involved in those programs? Are they interested in and
do they have Jeff Jetfish as a candidate. You know,
whether or not he is UH may or may not
be true. But in his state of mind, if he
believes he is or he wants to be right, this
guy that that has a lot of stickers on suitcase
that cannot be debated, and so I just wonder, you know,
(28:04):
if he has any eyes, you know, for any of
these spots that are opening up.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Here, milling great stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And we will talk this Friday, all right, buddy good
work man rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
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