October 14, 2025 • 35 mins
RICK NEUHEISEL (CBS Sports) joins the show and he’s making some bold predictions! Guess who made headlines again last weekend? Is Curt Cignetti setting himself up for Coach of the Year again!?!?!? What happened to Penn State? :30- It’s time to introduce RYON HEALY to the Ol Judge! - Jorge Polanco is clutch… - At this point, Bryan Woo just shouldn’t start a game in this series… - What’s with all the surprise? The Blue Jays aren’t better than the Mariners at anything… - Without need to see any of them, every member of Bucky’s billiards team has a much better physique than Alejandro Kirk… How is Healy feeling about Game 3 back in Seattle? :45- We close out the show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Each time to talk all things college football.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
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Time, not those new Heidels. Used to be a moniker
of mine. I mean, just sell you know now.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
This is college football, and I want you to get
it all over yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
By the way, I saw how you spread some history
and some love and the Apple Cup there on CBS.
So I hope you're spreading that same Mariner thing right
now on the set. I hope Aaron Taylor's getting an
earfull of Mariner baseball talk from you.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I am just amazed at the heat index of the
Seattle sports scene.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I mean, the.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Seahawks are on fire, the Dogs are on fire, the
Mariners are going to go to the World Series. It's
too good to be true.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We're not gonna pinch ourselves. We're just gonna keep riding it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So I have expected you guys to be in Toronto today,
but as you were in Detroit the last time I spoke.
But ride this thing, ride it and find a way
to capture the crown. What a thrill that would be.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I'd be amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
All right, So you're gonna have to explain something to me,
because how in the world has Jerry Neuheisel been the
story of the week in college football two weeks in
a row. I mean coach, I mean putting aside obviously
the family connection, the obvious family connection. I've never seen
a turnaround like this for a football team in the
middle of the year ever in the history of watching
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college football. What on earth has your son due to
none there in UCLA to turn this thing around out.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
There, Listen, it's easy to sit there and say, oh,
it's all about Jerry. You got to give credit to
Tim Skipper, the head coach, who all of a sudden
tried to make it's fun again. You got to give
credit to Kevin Coyle, who literally two weeks ago was
an analyst at Syracuse. He comes in because he was
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with Tim a year ago at Fresno. They come in
and concoct a defense that's working. And then Jerry, who'd
been there for six years. And if you think about it.
He'd coached the quarterbacks when he first got there, then
he coached the wide receivers, So all the wide receivers
that are on the roster this year are all kids
that Jerry recruited. And then he's had the tight end
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room this year, so he knows all the tight ends.
So he knows all these guys, and he now he's
kidding to coach Nico and coach some confidence back in
the Nico, And all of a sudden it's starting to
take hold. There's some good players, they just were not
necessarily organized in a way that they needed to be.
And so you put all these guys working together, and
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then you add that extra little thing called belief, and
something special can happen, and it's wonder it all take place.
Now it's gonna get harder. It's Maryland this week. And
then they go on the road to a school called Indiana.
I don't know if you're familiar. The Hoosiers are playing
big time college football.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, let's talk about Indiana. A huge win. I mean,
I mean, Kurt Signetti was National Coach of the Year
last year. You don't normally win that award two years
in a row because your program can't possibly go to
another extraordinary level, but he might pull this thing off.
He might be National Coach of the Year back to
back years if what we're seeing out of the Hoosiers
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is real.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I had a front row seat for the Count's job
this last weekend there in Eugene, and I call him
to count because he's got the same suntan as Dracula.
It is a remarkable job of coaching, and yet it's
just fundamental football. He is the master of fundamental football.
That defense did a great job at keeping and inside
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their edges. They set edges and made you know, spilled
to their help. So there was no real big plays
save the one kind of confusion in the back end
that Dante More hit the touchdown pass early. That was
the one explosive play. After that, they just made him
go ten eleven, twelve play drives. And usually if you
do that over the course of a game, the offense
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will make a mistake and put themselves behind the sticks
and it's not sustainable. And that is exactly what took place.
And add to that, Fernando Mendoza on the offensive side,
who has a howitzer for a throwing arm and was
able to take all the outs that were thrown and
back shoulder throws that were available to him, and he
did it masterfully. So no accident, Eugene. That was a
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really good football team on the road getting that win,
and it was the first time in the history of
Indiana football, who right now is the losingest team in
the history of the NCAA more losses than any other team.
They that's their first win over a top five team
on the road. They had only one other under their belt.
That was in nineteen sixty seven, a home win against Purdue.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And before we get to the Huskies, I do want
to ask about one other coaching question for you, because, man,
when this season started, Penn State ranks number two in
the country. A lot of people believing that this was
the year if they're going to get it done, They're
going to get it done this year. They're going to
get over that hurdle and they're going to be the
Ohio State or the Michigan and have a shot at
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the national championship. For US to not even be halfway
through the college football season and James Franklin out of
a job, has there been anything more surprising this year?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
In college football than that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, that's a free fall. That is an absolute freefall.
Tom Petty song is blaring in my ears right now.
I am. I am sitting here thinking about what I
said before the season started about if not now, when
given all the people that the pieces that were coming back,
Allen and Singleton in the backfield, Allers the quarterback, they
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went and spent money to get Paynia and Hudson wide
receivers from sc and Syracuse respectively. They had all the
pieces and all the coaches were back. As a matter
of fact, they went and got the defending national champion
defensive coordinator, the first three million dollar assistant coach in Knowles,
to come and be the architect of the defense. There
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was no reason for this, and they had the softest
of non conference schedules, but it went out like the
air out of a balloon. After that loss to Oregon
in double overtime, they go out in UCLA hands it
to them. It wasn't an accident. And then they get
beat by Northwestern, and I'm hearing that Adidas, who had
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spent incredible amounts of money to take that school away
from Nike, were part of the deal, and they can't
watch this investment go down go downhill. So I think
they put up some money to handle the buyout, and
we're moving on at Penn State, which means it's the
most attractive job out there. It's an amazing turn of events.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Wow, yeah, without a doubt. Well, another amazing turn of
events was you dub and the way they came roaring
back after kind of falling behind a little bit this
weekend against Rutgers. So, I mean, how impressed with Demon
Williams and just the Washington team now sitting at five
and one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You guys remember me telling you after I went to
practice that I thought Demon Williams was his talented the
guys I've seen in recent memory. I watched him now.
Obviously he can run. He's a gifted little athlete that
can make people miss. And the Buckeys were the best
at basically caging him and keeping him in the pocket,
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right because they have the wherewithal to do that. When
he gets loose, he's a menace, and he was a
menace to the Scarlet Knights the other night, to the
tune of one hundred and thirty six yards on the
ground ten plus per But he's also a gifted passer,
And that's what caught my attention when I was at practice.
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I mean, the guy he can throw it from a
thousand of He would be the shortstop on a baseball team.
And he can go in the hole and throw the
strike to throw you out at first. And he can
go up the middle and then turn his body and
contort it to make the play at first as well,
and the ball is going to spend beautifully. That's who
he is. And that's no accident that he put four
hundred yards up. Now, will it be harder against Michigan, Yes,
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But when you start with we can't let him run,
you can imagine what else is available to Jed when
he's architecting an offense. He is a absolute weapon and
then some. And don't count him out of this Heisman race.
If the Huskies continue to.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Be hot, well, nobody's running away with it, that's for sure.
And that was very Heismany Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Night, Very Heismany. I was a part of a quarterback
performance when Marcus ran for two hundred and three for
three hundred. This was every bit as entertaining and exceptional.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
All right, So Michigan, I mean they don't look like
World beaters this year. But they are at home, and
this is the stiffest challenge other than Ohio State that
this team's faced this year. They didn't get the buck Eyes,
they didn't get that done at home. I mean, what
kind of a chance do you give the dogs Saturday
in the Big House.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, I think the fact that Jed's coach there will
help because he'll kind of be able to talk to
the team about the mystique of the Big House and
all of that. You know, it's not a loud place,
because it's a bowl in the place, you're going to
be able to hear. This is all going to come
down to. There's Wink Martindale able to craft the same
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kind of plan that Patricia did and keep Demand's legs
at bay. And if that be the case, then it's
all going to come down to third down conversions. Because
if the Huskies can play on third down, play efficiently
on third down, they're better than Michigan on offense. That's
a fact. Michigan runs the ball sc was able to
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corral them in the running game. That hadn't been the
case with the Trojans in the Lincoln Riley era. That
they were able to and sc also ran for over
two hundred yards out rushed Michigan. And if Washington can
do that with both the mon and Jonah Coleman, this
sets up really well for the Dogs. I will not
be shocked with a I know they are underdog, but
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I will not be shocked with the Husky victory.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Well, yeah, I mean Rutgers is not the same running
team that they typically were last year. You mentioned it
last week with the.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, they lost the non guy. Yeah, they kind of
leaning on Calliac manus. They threw the ball fifty times
in this game.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, the Dogs. Yeah, And yet the Dogs to some
degree diffened up. I mean, they still ended up getting
a little over one hundred yards, but it was not
one of those college running performances where you got Rayan over.
So do you feel like there's enough scene in the
pants of this d line to slow down the Justice
Haynes kid from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
To me, that's always the answer when they take one
on the chin at Michigan is we've got to run
the ball. And that was their key when they went
to Nebraska and won. They had big runs and Justice
Haynes is a heck of a player. They've got a
couple of you know, Robbins to his batman. But the
bottom line is this is going to be the key,
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and Jed will know this. They have to stop the
running game, and I would suspect if they're starting to,
you know, meet loggerheads in the running game, that Bryce Underwood,
their quarterback, will also incorporate its legs and it'll be
interesting if they add more of that to the equation
when the Huskies get the town.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
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How about the Kougs. By the way, got to give
a little bit of love to the Kougs. They scared
the crud out of Ole Miss on Saturday. They almost
sent Lane Kiffin's dream season a reeling Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That was an awesome performance by Jimmy Rogers Bunch. You know,
I think the Cougar program got built bad cards in
the current lot that they're in, but the way they're
fighting is awesome. I think that ech House kid, the
quarterback zebby ech House is fun to watch and I
wish it would have happened, But they certainly got close.
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We know, close doesn't count unless you're playing hand grenades
or horseshoes. But the bottom line is that that was
a hell of an effort, hell of an effort way
to go coog.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well, it was a classic trap game scenario that almost
caught all miss because they're looking forward to Georgia the
following week, So how do they bounce back from that
near loss to actually give an a effort that they'll
require to beat the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know they're an underdog at Georgia, but I've not
seen Georgia more vulnerable than they are this year. And
this is a product of the transfer portal and the resources.
You know, it used to be that Kirby learned from
Nick Saban, and Nick Saban would stockpile defensive line talent,
just stockpilot. I went to a practice and saw thirteen guys,
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and I said to the guy next to me, if
I had two of them, I'd still be coaching just
two of those guys. And that's the way Georgia was
when they won those back to back titles. Now those
guys are taking you know, lucrative deals to go elsewhere,
and they don't have the same kind of numbers, so
this is more of a fair fight. I think Ole
Miss beating Georgia in Oxford last year was not an accident,
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so I think this is a last possession type of game.
And this Trinidad Chambliss, the kid that was at Farris
State last year as a Division two quarterback, is a
college football story and then some. So I got to
cut my fingers crossed that Kippen and company get it
done in Athens.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Vegas for whatever reason, started off with an opening line
of Alabama destroying Tennessee by like two touchdowns. I think
Kaitlin de Bores righted the ship to some degree, but
he's not operating. Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson tied just yet.
I don't know if they demolish many opponents, especially of
the eleventh ranked team in the country. Any idea why
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that was such a lopsided, you know, opening line.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I don't have any idea unless there's some injuries that
I'm not aware of. The bottom line here is ty Simpson,
the Alabama quarterback is really good, really playing well. And
we all know how good that duo of de Boor
and Grub are in terms of teaching and giving them
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some concepts that are fail safe. They've they've done a
nice job. So Simpson is having fun, and they've got
three really good receivers. The Horton kid that they got
from Miami, along with Ryan Williams, who was this freshman sensation,
and then a Husky fans will remember Jeremy Bernard. Those
three guys are all having a great year. So Alabama
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is ready to play, but they're not fantastic defensively, and
so what Alabama is now doing is they're adding time
of possession to the equation. Both the last two wins
over Vanderbilt and then last week against Missouri were thirty
seven minutes. That's a weapon. So Tennessee is going to
have to be able to run the ball. Most teams
have been able to do that against Alabama. If Tennessee
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can run the ball, this Aguilar, the kid that came
from Ucla when Nico came to use came from Tennessee
to Ucla. He ended up going to Tennessee. He's been terrific.
And they got this receiver, I think he's six to five,
Chris Brasel. That is a weapon. And then so I
think that game's a fourth quarter game just because it
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almost all is, especially since Hypel's been mining the store
there in Knoxville.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Utah has destroyed every team they face except Texas Tech,
who destroyed them. So how good is Texas Tech? But
I really believe in this Utah team, and yet they're
facing THEYU in the Holy War.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Who wins it?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, both of them have running quarterbacks. I think it's
going to be most entertaining game of the weekend because
Bear Bachmeier, this freshman who wears number forty seven at quarterback,
has been a blast to watch. And this kid, Devin Dampier,
who was a thousand yard rusher as well as a
accomplished passer for New Mexico. They have borrowed this new
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wave of the future where you go get the coach
and the quarterback to come to your place. So both
those guys came from New Mexico, Jason Beck and Dampier,
and they're having great success. The one loss, as you mentioned,
the Tech, was when Dampier was a little nicked up,
So if he's running around, I think we're in for
a treat. I'm going to take Utah on the game,
but wouldn't be surprised at any outcome.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Well, I think every right thinking person hates use SC
and Notre Dame. Right, But it's a rivalry I don't
ever want to see go anywhere, coach, So they're actually
talking about breaking this thing up. We might have to
savor these matchups. I mean, it's not the time of
the year it's supposed to be at, but it's still
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one of our great rivalries.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Who wins it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I'm going to go with the Trojans. The fact that
they ran the ball for over two hundred yards against
Michigan says they can go up against the big boys.
I thought Miami ran the ball effectively against Notre Dame
in that opening game. They just Notre Dame just lost
their center. That'll be a blow to them. I'm going
to take the Trojans, assuming that they can be stout
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against the run and not let you know that Notre
Dame offense just kind of dominate the thing. They've got
a couple of really dynamic running backs. But I'm going
to take the Tropans. This Makai Lemmon, by the way,
if you've not watch them, he's the receiver for us.
He leads the big tennis. He's Pooka Nakua the second.
He's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yeah, he's really fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
All right, well, it's gonna be another great Saturday. Do
you got a Taco Time Pick of the week or
have we already covered it?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I think we covered it. I'm taking the trojans, uh.
I'll lay the seven and a half or eight and
give me a Lincoln and Company and see if we
can't do some damaging out then.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
All right, great stuff, Thank you sir. We appreciate it,
enjoy it all, and we'll talk.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Again next week.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
All right, take care.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
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Wow? All right?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Coming up next, the old Judge is stopping by, and
I can't wait to see the look on Ryan Healey's
face when he meets some sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ R f M. A former Mariner, Ryan Heally's
been joining us here throughout the postseason after every Mariner
game as a an analyst.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He's been terrific for us. Boy looking straight back that possible. Yeah,
And so we decided it was high time that he
met the old Judge and entered the courtroom.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Welcome into my courtroom, mister Heally.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
You guys are full of surprises. I'm looking at Bucky's
groom in the mustache. He's locked in. He's got a
gabble that I hope was handmade by you, because I
will not accept anything other it was not.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
There's a listener of ours, Barry. That's right, Barry Works
is his company. He made it because Ashley bought me
a gavel that is this big. It's like four inches long.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Is the gabble for ants actually hereside the building.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It looked like a toothpick in Bucky's hands. Frankly, yeah, yeah,
he's got it there.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Don't laugh at the size of the gavel. It's Ashley's gavel.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I did use it buy that's yes, well this is
now this started.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Just a quick background. I haven't given this in a while.
So Bucky always gets baseball cards sent to be signed
by our listeners, and for whatever reason, he gets sent
a card and it just says the Old Judge on it,
which has never been Bucky's nickname one day in his
entire life.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Never Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So we decided to use that uh and form it
into a bit. And so here we go. We're gonna
have Ryan Healey meet the old Judge. Here's how it works. Ryan,
I'm gonna go over a few different Aeronner scenarios here
a few statements. Then you will give an opinion. I
will give an opinion. We don't have to disagree on it.
And whenever the old Judge has hurt.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Enough, gavel gavel gasl.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Slams the gavel he weighs in, and whatever he says goes.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And love the Bucky, Bucky, you look great today. By
the way, did you get some extra sleep? You look
really well rested.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yeah you will. That
will go a long ways in my courtroom. Eally smart man.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
All right, so here we go number one. Hooray Polanco
as the game winning RBI in three state playoff games.
But analytics community dismisses the notion of a skill for
clutch hitting. So Ryan is or hey, clutch or not?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Yeah, a hundred percent this, Thank goodness, analytics left something
to be determined by the naked eye because otherwise US
baseball players would have nothing left to do with the computers.
And then I can't say that word, but the computers
would take over all of our jobs and responsibilities in
this space.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
But yeah, he's clutch.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
He's showcasing it, he's he's commanding strikes one, he's executing
when the moment's the biggest.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
All right, I just want to get you guys fired
up because I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But I'm gonna say no, analytics, Gavel, gall Galvel, shut
your mouth. You do not preface some stupid comment like that, like, oh,
I'm just gonna get the judge and heally pissed off. No,
do that again, you'll be held in contempt. It's without
a doubt that there's a clutch factor. I don't even
understand how you take that stat out of the whole thing.
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It's because you can't quantify it, because not everybody gets
his equal amount. I don't care if you get the
equal amount. If you're hitting fourth, that's because your coach
thinks you're good at driving guys in. If you're hitting ninth, yeah,
can you turn the line up over? Please? Can you
have a tough ab that's where you're at. And and
luckily we have or eight Polunco because he is proving
that he is about as clutch as you can get.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh that's pretty determined. Gavel slam right there? You damn
right all right? Second one, Ryan, At this point, Brian
Wu just shouldn't start a game in the series.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
How dare you say that out loud? Brian Wu is
the Savior. He will start. If it's not this series,
it'll be Game one of the World Series. Brian Wu
is a saint, and you don't say anything other.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
A good argument.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I gonna say this. I mean, if they give the
ball to Bryce Miller on Game five, I don't think
anybody could be upset by that. I don't think anybody
should be worried about that. I do believe, though, we've
got to test Brian at some point before before you
potentially reach a World Series. And I don't think we
can beat the Dodgers without Brian wu starting and performing
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well in a game or two.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
So I'm gonna say I need to see him, cavel, cavel, cavel.
I want to see him start definitely before the World Series.
But I'm not worried about him starting. It's not a
matter of okay, I'm if he's ready to come back.
I'm bumping Bryce Miller.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
At this point, you're still I mean, you somewhat have
recovered from the fifteen inning game in the long five.
I mean you basically are back to where everybody's gonna
have their rest. But I don't think there's anything wrong
with just running one guy out there after another. If
this thing goes to game five, I think he's going
to be ready to rock and roll. He threw a
bullpen or some some live abs to some guys yesterday.
I think he's going to be ready to rock and
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roll on Friday, and I think they run him out
there on Friday. That's gonna be a nice situation where
you're gonna get to see and it's not necessarily you're
runninghim out there in a game seven necessarily where you're
not one hundred percent sure. Now he's going to react
after having missing some time. Can't do that, can't do that,
all right?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Next one, I would love to see him open with
like a two winning start. Let him go through his
normal routine and then have Bryce Miller piggyback off of him,
like I would love to see Brian. We'll get that
opportunity depending on where the series shaken out.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I like that. I like that. Not a bad idea, ma'am.
You already had stated your case, sir, judge had already
made his declaration.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Is okay, I'll take my slap on the hand he's dead.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Just to make a great point. Yeah, yeah, it was
a great point, by the way, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Next one, I don't understand all the surprise. The Blue
Jays aren't better than the Mariners anything.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Disagree with that.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
They strike out a heck of a lot less than
our guys, But I'm not surprised because these are two
high quality teams. What I am surprised about, though, is
how much emotion went into the Blue Jays Yankee series.
And I feel like there was almost a massive celebration
of the Yankees lose and everything that was publicized in
the media, that they didn't have that same undertone of
tenacity and just eagerness to want to embarrass the Mariners.
(25:26):
The Mariners almost came in here as underdogs because yes,
to the lower ranked seed, but everyone anticipated they're gonna
be exhausted, their bullpens dead, they used three starting pitchers.
They were the underdogs, and they're now showcasing the ability
of doubt me please, because we got plenty of depth
in this roster pitching and hitting.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think they've got the better starting rotation, the better bullpen,
and the better lineup. I mean, I don't get the
surprise out there. I think the Blue Jays might have
a better defense. Hem Andez can pick it at short
and var show's a Gold Glover, and Guerrero actually has
won a Gold Glove, and apparently Alejandro Kirk's gonna win
the Gold glove so they can pick it defensively. But man,
I'll take pitching and hitting over a team having better
(26:05):
defense than me.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Gavel, Gavel. We're a better team than they are. I
think there might be some things where they can you
know the fact that they do put the ball in
play a little bit more. I think without Bobaschett you
most certainly have a better lineup. Even with him, I
think you got a better lineup. But I don't think
that's a contest. The starting rotation, no doubt about it.
And when it comes down to bullpen, I think that
(26:28):
we're going to have a better bullpen. I do think
that there's this is not going to be a walkover.
You're up to zero, but that's a really good team.
That's a team that finished with the most wins of
anybody in the American League. I don't think you can
snooze on this squad because on any given night, these
guys can come out and beat you. Yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
There's no doubt final one, at least for the old Judge.
Without need to see any of them. Every member of
Bucky's Billiard's team in North Bend has a way more
athletic physique than Alejandro Kirk.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Hey, let's go me.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
I don't think so. I think is a gabble.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Gabble. You're saying, you think there's somebody on my pool
league team that looks worse than Alejandro Kirk.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Yeah, that boy can swing it, that boy can't take it.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I'm not saying he's not a good baseball player. No,
he couldn't be. All right, galll gavel bailiff. Take that
guy away, handcuffed, shackles, the whole deal. But I need
a spit mask on him. He needs everything that we
can possibly do. No, there, he is a damn good
baseball player. But there's a reason we they call this
baseball players are not athletes. It's because of people like him.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
You said, athletic build. An athlete is the way they move,
not the way they look.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Exo facto, Alejandro Kirk is a better athlete than all
your pool team.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Bring the whole building a lot longer. Kirks run circles
around to him.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
He is not running anywhere you see him. He can
barely get out of a squad.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
A ladder drilled. That boy's got some quick feet under
that big box because.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
He can't pick his knees up higher than two inches.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You don't need to.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
He running running really fast. He just hit them all
over the fence.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
If he hadn't run hurdles, he'd have to go under them.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Heally, I'm not gonna argue that point. There you go,
you won a point.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I'm glad that Ryan met the old.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Judge here today. Fun all right, So, uh, last thing
for you before we let you go and we'll talk
to you again.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I guess Thursday, Thursday? What do you think game number three?
How you feeling about it? Coming home to oh and
and having him in the crosshairs in the of playing
at Team Obile.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I woke up this morning with Kobe Bryant on my mind.
I just like jobs out finished.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
And I hope that that mentality was taken from Toronto
back home to Seattle.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Of Wow, that was unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
We just went two up in their home park and
we got to go back to our home stands, and
it might be a little bit trauma like last time
we were here to play fifteen inning games and we
can't do that again. Like, my legs are still sore.
So I hope that the focus to the mentality is
like job's not finished. Like Bieber's coming off of a
really rough start from the Yankees, Let's get after him
early and getting their bullpen. Because we've done that, We've
been really successful. George Kirby, stay right there. We have
(29:15):
a arrested bullpen. We have we have a lot of
depth that was able to get some work in. If
I'm the Mariners, I'm walking in laser focus knowing how
I need to execute this game three and get the
crowd and the fans involved really really early, because that's
gonna that's gonna steer in their favor.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Great stuff, man, thanks for coming into the courtroom. That
was fun.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Thank you guys for having me all right.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Ryan Heley, former Mariner, joining us right here on Chuck
and buck One Last Thing, next Sports Radio ninety three
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Last thing time, Bucket, you get us going.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
We talked about it. I'm sure you saw the eight six'
two double play last night and The dodgers do Your kirchen.
Voice what's he?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Saying, oh you just never know what you're gonna.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
See they like.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
That that's there's there's a few times where excuse, me
where he says something like, that and it's, like WHY
i have seen that? BEFORE i hadn't seen that play.
Before i've never seen that one, EITHER i, mean for
(30:36):
those that didn't see, it like centerfielder goes, back tries
to rob a home, run jumps, up hits his, glove clanks,
out hits the, wall top of the, wall then he
catches it in the, air bases, loaded and still somehow
they forced to Ask ernandez out at the. PLATE m,
like that's The it's definitely the deepest that guy's ever
(30:59):
been thrown out at home play a force.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Before i'm going to correct it's nitpicking a little, bit
BUT i don't want Ta OSCAR i like him too
much to be. LABELED i think it was Key. K
i think it Was. Enrique her name was that it
was the one that got called out at. Home but
the same thing applies also. YESTERDAY i, mean we've never
seen a ball get away from a first baseman and
it hit U Gino swatz in the back while he's
(31:24):
sitting on the top, step and it really looked like
nobody knew what the rule was and they had to
spend time like figuring out is he in?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Play is he out of? Play is the top step
of the?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
DUGOUT i just never.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Know you gotta, SAY i never know whose baseball just
WHY i love it so. Much you never never.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Know, yeah, YEAH i just get back just getting the
dug out or go down one step to where we
don't Have BECAUSE i was sitting there thinking to, Myself
i'm pretty sure he's out of, play and most certainly
was going to go out of play whether he was
sitting there or. Not but if they would have called
him back to first, base it all been, like, mm
got a whole dugout for seats and your set on the.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
TOP i, MEAN i guess you just Gotta oh you
would have been mad At. Geno, yes, OH i, see,
YEAH i didn't. KNOW i honestly looked At bucky at
that moment And i'm just, LIKE i don't know what
the rule is.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
HERE i don't know what they're going to.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
SAY i don't know what they're gonna, come what's gonna
come out of their mouth?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Here? Next but, STRANGE, yep baseball for, You? Ashley what you?
Won last?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
THING i gotta NOW i have the contagious thing of
forgetting to turn off the.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
MICROPHONE i had the one last. Thing what Was? Oh,
Yes SO i was.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Talking to coach In New heizel before he came on
the air with you, guys and he was, like oh,
gosh just must he's so exciting to, be you, know
up there right, now and like it just seems like
everything's going right In seattle. SPORTS i, say, well, coach
you Know seattle though everybody's, like, ooh is it too
good to be?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
True what's gonna go?
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Wrong so you can't really get too. Excited you can be.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Excited but then all of a sudden there's this like
and he's just, laughing and he, goes, oh it's.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Fine they're going to The World, Series and it made
my heart.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Stop did it start? AGAIN i believe so we may
have to come in.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
THERE i believe.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It. DID i believe we're.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Good BUT i was, like, oh you can't say.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
THAT i think the embodiment AND i always feel this
way is. Softy and he's done these videos after each
of the last two, wins and there's there are curse
words in. There, yes he's got a pot rubbed off on.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Him i've never heard him cuss, before you, haven't, No.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
But there are curse words in, there but he's whispering
in both of, them like he can't say it out.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Loud, yeah he needs to not hold it. In it's
like he's talking like you know they, say like don't
hold in a, sneeze you, know blow something out or.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
He's got to get it.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Out but he's like faces turned all, red, angry Whishper
god can't hear.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Me he won't take it away from.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Feel like someone's waiting to snatch it.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Away all, right just, quickly my one last. THING i
Guess Doug eddings was not.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That bad of an umpire during the regular.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Season somebody sent me his stats from the regular, season but,
boy he was terrible yesterday he saves.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
All, yeah that's. Good, yeah glad you.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Season all, right we'll talk to you tomorrow at six.
Am our postgame coverage will continue throughout the. Playoffs but
of course No mariner game, tonight So bucky AND i
actually get to go home and do the routine for
the first time in a couple of. Weeks but we
will be on the call postgame show, wise that is
(34:31):
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By the way, I saw how you spread some history
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So I hope you're spreading that same Mariner thing right
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I mean, the.
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Seahawks are on fire, the Dogs are on fire, the
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
We're not gonna pinch ourselves. We're just gonna keep riding it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So I have expected you guys to be in Toronto today,
but as you were in Detroit the last time I spoke.
But ride this thing, ride it and find a way
to capture the crown. What a thrill that would be.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I'd be amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
All right, So you're gonna have to explain something to me,
because how in the world has Jerry Neuheisel been the
story of the week in college football two weeks in
a row. I mean coach, I mean putting aside obviously
the family connection, the obvious family connection. I've never seen
a turnaround like this for a football team in the
middle of the year ever in the history of watching
(01:43):
college football. What on earth has your son due to
none there in UCLA to turn this thing around out.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
There, Listen, it's easy to sit there and say, oh,
it's all about Jerry. You got to give credit to
Tim Skipper, the head coach, who all of a sudden
tried to make it's fun again. You got to give
credit to Kevin Coyle, who literally two weeks ago was
an analyst at Syracuse. He comes in because he was
(02:12):
with Tim a year ago at Fresno. They come in
and concoct a defense that's working. And then Jerry, who'd
been there for six years. And if you think about it.
He'd coached the quarterbacks when he first got there, then
he coached the wide receivers, So all the wide receivers
that are on the roster this year are all kids
that Jerry recruited. And then he's had the tight end
(02:35):
room this year, so he knows all the tight ends.
So he knows all these guys, and he now he's
kidding to coach Nico and coach some confidence back in
the Nico, And all of a sudden it's starting to
take hold. There's some good players, they just were not
necessarily organized in a way that they needed to be.
And so you put all these guys working together, and
(02:56):
then you add that extra little thing called belief, and
something special can happen, and it's wonder it all take place.
Now it's gonna get harder. It's Maryland this week. And
then they go on the road to a school called Indiana.
I don't know if you're familiar. The Hoosiers are playing
big time college football.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, let's talk about Indiana. A huge win. I mean,
I mean, Kurt Signetti was National Coach of the Year
last year. You don't normally win that award two years
in a row because your program can't possibly go to
another extraordinary level, but he might pull this thing off.
He might be National Coach of the Year back to
back years if what we're seeing out of the Hoosiers
(03:37):
is real.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I had a front row seat for the Count's job
this last weekend there in Eugene, and I call him
to count because he's got the same suntan as Dracula.
It is a remarkable job of coaching, and yet it's
just fundamental football. He is the master of fundamental football.
That defense did a great job at keeping and inside
(04:01):
their edges. They set edges and made you know, spilled
to their help. So there was no real big plays
save the one kind of confusion in the back end
that Dante More hit the touchdown pass early. That was
the one explosive play. After that, they just made him
go ten eleven, twelve play drives. And usually if you
do that over the course of a game, the offense
(04:23):
will make a mistake and put themselves behind the sticks
and it's not sustainable. And that is exactly what took place.
And add to that, Fernando Mendoza on the offensive side,
who has a howitzer for a throwing arm and was
able to take all the outs that were thrown and
back shoulder throws that were available to him, and he
did it masterfully. So no accident, Eugene. That was a
(04:46):
really good football team on the road getting that win,
and it was the first time in the history of
Indiana football, who right now is the losingest team in
the history of the NCAA more losses than any other team.
They that's their first win over a top five team
on the road. They had only one other under their belt.
That was in nineteen sixty seven, a home win against Purdue.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And before we get to the Huskies, I do want
to ask about one other coaching question for you, because, man,
when this season started, Penn State ranks number two in
the country. A lot of people believing that this was
the year if they're going to get it done, They're
going to get it done this year. They're going to
get over that hurdle and they're going to be the
Ohio State or the Michigan and have a shot at
(05:30):
the national championship. For US to not even be halfway
through the college football season and James Franklin out of
a job, has there been anything more surprising this year?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
In college football than that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, that's a free fall. That is an absolute freefall.
Tom Petty song is blaring in my ears right now.
I am. I am sitting here thinking about what I
said before the season started about if not now, when
given all the people that the pieces that were coming back,
Allen and Singleton in the backfield, Allers the quarterback, they
(06:04):
went and spent money to get Paynia and Hudson wide
receivers from sc and Syracuse respectively. They had all the
pieces and all the coaches were back. As a matter
of fact, they went and got the defending national champion
defensive coordinator, the first three million dollar assistant coach in Knowles,
to come and be the architect of the defense. There
(06:25):
was no reason for this, and they had the softest
of non conference schedules, but it went out like the
air out of a balloon. After that loss to Oregon
in double overtime, they go out in UCLA hands it
to them. It wasn't an accident. And then they get
beat by Northwestern, and I'm hearing that Adidas, who had
(06:46):
spent incredible amounts of money to take that school away
from Nike, were part of the deal, and they can't
watch this investment go down go downhill. So I think
they put up some money to handle the buyout, and
we're moving on at Penn State, which means it's the
most attractive job out there. It's an amazing turn of events.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Wow, yeah, without a doubt. Well, another amazing turn of
events was you dub and the way they came roaring
back after kind of falling behind a little bit this
weekend against Rutgers. So, I mean, how impressed with Demon
Williams and just the Washington team now sitting at five
and one.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You guys remember me telling you after I went to
practice that I thought Demon Williams was his talented the
guys I've seen in recent memory. I watched him now.
Obviously he can run. He's a gifted little athlete that
can make people miss. And the Buckeys were the best
at basically caging him and keeping him in the pocket,
(07:44):
right because they have the wherewithal to do that. When
he gets loose, he's a menace, and he was a
menace to the Scarlet Knights the other night, to the
tune of one hundred and thirty six yards on the
ground ten plus per But he's also a gifted passer,
And that's what caught my attention when I was at practice.
(08:05):
I mean, the guy he can throw it from a
thousand of He would be the shortstop on a baseball team.
And he can go in the hole and throw the
strike to throw you out at first. And he can
go up the middle and then turn his body and
contort it to make the play at first as well,
and the ball is going to spend beautifully. That's who
he is. And that's no accident that he put four
hundred yards up. Now, will it be harder against Michigan, Yes,
(08:29):
But when you start with we can't let him run,
you can imagine what else is available to Jed when
he's architecting an offense. He is a absolute weapon and
then some. And don't count him out of this Heisman race.
If the Huskies continue to.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Be hot, well, nobody's running away with it, that's for sure.
And that was very Heismany Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Night, Very Heismany. I was a part of a quarterback
performance when Marcus ran for two hundred and three for
three hundred. This was every bit as entertaining and exceptional.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
All right, So Michigan, I mean they don't look like
World beaters this year. But they are at home, and
this is the stiffest challenge other than Ohio State that
this team's faced this year. They didn't get the buck Eyes,
they didn't get that done at home. I mean, what
kind of a chance do you give the dogs Saturday
in the Big House.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, I think the fact that Jed's coach there will
help because he'll kind of be able to talk to
the team about the mystique of the Big House and
all of that. You know, it's not a loud place,
because it's a bowl in the place, you're going to
be able to hear. This is all going to come
down to. There's Wink Martindale able to craft the same
(09:47):
kind of plan that Patricia did and keep Demand's legs
at bay. And if that be the case, then it's
all going to come down to third down conversions. Because
if the Huskies can play on third down, play efficiently
on third down, they're better than Michigan on offense. That's
a fact. Michigan runs the ball sc was able to
(10:08):
corral them in the running game. That hadn't been the
case with the Trojans in the Lincoln Riley era. That
they were able to and sc also ran for over
two hundred yards out rushed Michigan. And if Washington can
do that with both the mon and Jonah Coleman, this
sets up really well for the Dogs. I will not
be shocked with a I know they are underdog, but
(10:31):
I will not be shocked with the Husky victory.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Well, yeah, I mean Rutgers is not the same running
team that they typically were last year. You mentioned it
last week with the.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, they lost the non guy. Yeah, they kind of
leaning on Calliac manus. They threw the ball fifty times
in this game.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, the Dogs. Yeah, And yet the Dogs to some
degree diffened up. I mean, they still ended up getting
a little over one hundred yards, but it was not
one of those college running performances where you got Rayan over.
So do you feel like there's enough scene in the
pants of this d line to slow down the Justice
Haynes kid from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
To me, that's always the answer when they take one
on the chin at Michigan is we've got to run
the ball. And that was their key when they went
to Nebraska and won. They had big runs and Justice
Haynes is a heck of a player. They've got a
couple of you know, Robbins to his batman. But the
bottom line is this is going to be the key,
(11:30):
and Jed will know this. They have to stop the
running game, and I would suspect if they're starting to,
you know, meet loggerheads in the running game, that Bryce Underwood,
their quarterback, will also incorporate its legs and it'll be
interesting if they add more of that to the equation
when the Huskies get the town.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
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How about the Kougs. By the way, got to give
a little bit of love to the Kougs. They scared
the crud out of Ole Miss on Saturday. They almost
sent Lane Kiffin's dream season a reeling Saturday.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That was an awesome performance by Jimmy Rogers Bunch. You know,
I think the Cougar program got built bad cards in
the current lot that they're in, but the way they're
fighting is awesome. I think that ech House kid, the
quarterback zebby ech House is fun to watch and I
wish it would have happened, But they certainly got close.
(12:38):
We know, close doesn't count unless you're playing hand grenades
or horseshoes. But the bottom line is that that was
a hell of an effort, hell of an effort way
to go coog.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well, it was a classic trap game scenario that almost
caught all miss because they're looking forward to Georgia the
following week, So how do they bounce back from that
near loss to actually give an a effort that they'll
require to beat the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know they're an underdog at Georgia, but I've not
seen Georgia more vulnerable than they are this year. And
this is a product of the transfer portal and the resources.
You know, it used to be that Kirby learned from
Nick Saban, and Nick Saban would stockpile defensive line talent,
just stockpilot. I went to a practice and saw thirteen guys,
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and I said to the guy next to me, if
I had two of them, I'd still be coaching just
two of those guys. And that's the way Georgia was
when they won those back to back titles. Now those
guys are taking you know, lucrative deals to go elsewhere,
and they don't have the same kind of numbers, so
this is more of a fair fight. I think Ole
Miss beating Georgia in Oxford last year was not an accident,
(13:50):
so I think this is a last possession type of game.
And this Trinidad Chambliss, the kid that was at Farris
State last year as a Division two quarterback, is a
college football story and then some. So I got to
cut my fingers crossed that Kippen and company get it
done in Athens.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Vegas for whatever reason, started off with an opening line
of Alabama destroying Tennessee by like two touchdowns. I think
Kaitlin de Bores righted the ship to some degree, but
he's not operating. Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson tied just yet.
I don't know if they demolish many opponents, especially of
the eleventh ranked team in the country. Any idea why
(14:30):
that was such a lopsided, you know, opening line.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I don't have any idea unless there's some injuries that
I'm not aware of. The bottom line here is ty Simpson,
the Alabama quarterback is really good, really playing well. And
we all know how good that duo of de Boor
and Grub are in terms of teaching and giving them
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some concepts that are fail safe. They've they've done a
nice job. So Simpson is having fun, and they've got
three really good receivers. The Horton kid that they got
from Miami, along with Ryan Williams, who was this freshman sensation,
and then a Husky fans will remember Jeremy Bernard. Those
three guys are all having a great year. So Alabama
(15:15):
is ready to play, but they're not fantastic defensively, and
so what Alabama is now doing is they're adding time
of possession to the equation. Both the last two wins
over Vanderbilt and then last week against Missouri were thirty
seven minutes. That's a weapon. So Tennessee is going to
have to be able to run the ball. Most teams
have been able to do that against Alabama. If Tennessee
(15:38):
can run the ball, this Aguilar, the kid that came
from Ucla when Nico came to use came from Tennessee
to Ucla. He ended up going to Tennessee. He's been terrific.
And they got this receiver, I think he's six to five,
Chris Brasel. That is a weapon. And then so I
think that game's a fourth quarter game just because it
(15:59):
almost all is, especially since Hypel's been mining the store
there in Knoxville.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Utah has destroyed every team they face except Texas Tech,
who destroyed them. So how good is Texas Tech? But
I really believe in this Utah team, and yet they're
facing THEYU in the Holy War.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Who wins it?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, both of them have running quarterbacks. I think it's
going to be most entertaining game of the weekend because
Bear Bachmeier, this freshman who wears number forty seven at quarterback,
has been a blast to watch. And this kid, Devin Dampier,
who was a thousand yard rusher as well as a
accomplished passer for New Mexico. They have borrowed this new
(16:40):
wave of the future where you go get the coach
and the quarterback to come to your place. So both
those guys came from New Mexico, Jason Beck and Dampier,
and they're having great success. The one loss, as you mentioned,
the Tech, was when Dampier was a little nicked up,
So if he's running around, I think we're in for
a treat. I'm going to take Utah on the game,
but wouldn't be surprised at any outcome.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Well, I think every right thinking person hates use SC
and Notre Dame. Right, But it's a rivalry I don't
ever want to see go anywhere, coach, So they're actually
talking about breaking this thing up. We might have to
savor these matchups. I mean, it's not the time of
the year it's supposed to be at, but it's still
(17:25):
one of our great rivalries.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Who wins it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I'm going to go with the Trojans. The fact that
they ran the ball for over two hundred yards against
Michigan says they can go up against the big boys.
I thought Miami ran the ball effectively against Notre Dame
in that opening game. They just Notre Dame just lost
their center. That'll be a blow to them. I'm going
to take the Trojans, assuming that they can be stout
(17:51):
against the run and not let you know that Notre
Dame offense just kind of dominate the thing. They've got
a couple of really dynamic running backs. But I'm going
to take the Tropans. This Makai Lemmon, by the way,
if you've not watch them, he's the receiver for us.
He leads the big tennis. He's Pooka Nakua the second.
He's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yeah, he's really fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
All right, well, it's gonna be another great Saturday. Do
you got a Taco Time Pick of the week or
have we already covered it?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I think we covered it. I'm taking the trojans, uh.
I'll lay the seven and a half or eight and
give me a Lincoln and Company and see if we
can't do some damaging out then.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
All right, great stuff, Thank you sir. We appreciate it,
enjoy it all, and we'll talk.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Again next week.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
All right, take care.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
All right, Rick new Isil joining us right here on
Chugging Buck in the Morning, a segment brought to you
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Speaker 4 (18:52):
I would have come down here to watch the game
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Speaker 5 (19:00):
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You could have been Taco Time. I would have been.
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Speaker 4 (19:08):
How do you beat that? You can't?
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Wow? All right?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Coming up next, the old Judge is stopping by, and
I can't wait to see the look on Ryan Healey's
face when he meets some sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ R f M. A former Mariner, Ryan Heally's
been joining us here throughout the postseason after every Mariner
game as a an analyst.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He's been terrific for us. Boy looking straight back that possible. Yeah,
And so we decided it was high time that he
met the old Judge and entered the courtroom.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Welcome into my courtroom, mister Heally.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
You guys are full of surprises. I'm looking at Bucky's
groom in the mustache. He's locked in. He's got a
gabble that I hope was handmade by you, because I
will not accept anything other it was not.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
There's a listener of ours, Barry. That's right, Barry Works
is his company. He made it because Ashley bought me
a gavel that is this big. It's like four inches long.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Is the gabble for ants actually hereside the building.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It looked like a toothpick in Bucky's hands. Frankly, yeah, yeah,
he's got it there.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Don't laugh at the size of the gavel. It's Ashley's gavel.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I did use it buy that's yes, well this is
now this started.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Just a quick background. I haven't given this in a while.
So Bucky always gets baseball cards sent to be signed
by our listeners, and for whatever reason, he gets sent
a card and it just says the Old Judge on it,
which has never been Bucky's nickname one day in his
entire life.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Never Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So we decided to use that uh and form it
into a bit. And so here we go. We're gonna
have Ryan Healey meet the old Judge. Here's how it works. Ryan,
I'm gonna go over a few different Aeronner scenarios here
a few statements. Then you will give an opinion. I
will give an opinion. We don't have to disagree on it.
And whenever the old Judge has hurt.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Enough, gavel gavel gasl.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Slams the gavel he weighs in, and whatever he says goes.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And love the Bucky, Bucky, you look great today. By
the way, did you get some extra sleep? You look
really well rested.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yeah you will. That
will go a long ways in my courtroom. Eally smart man.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
All right, so here we go number one. Hooray Polanco
as the game winning RBI in three state playoff games.
But analytics community dismisses the notion of a skill for
clutch hitting. So Ryan is or hey, clutch or not?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Yeah, a hundred percent this, Thank goodness, analytics left something
to be determined by the naked eye because otherwise US
baseball players would have nothing left to do with the computers.
And then I can't say that word, but the computers
would take over all of our jobs and responsibilities in
this space.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
But yeah, he's clutch.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
He's showcasing it, he's he's commanding strikes one, he's executing
when the moment's the biggest.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
All right, I just want to get you guys fired
up because I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But I'm gonna say no, analytics, Gavel, gall Galvel, shut
your mouth. You do not preface some stupid comment like that, like, oh,
I'm just gonna get the judge and heally pissed off. No,
do that again, you'll be held in contempt. It's without
a doubt that there's a clutch factor. I don't even
understand how you take that stat out of the whole thing.
(22:31):
It's because you can't quantify it, because not everybody gets
his equal amount. I don't care if you get the
equal amount. If you're hitting fourth, that's because your coach
thinks you're good at driving guys in. If you're hitting ninth, yeah,
can you turn the line up over? Please? Can you
have a tough ab that's where you're at. And and
luckily we have or eight Polunco because he is proving
that he is about as clutch as you can get.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh that's pretty determined. Gavel slam right there? You damn
right all right? Second one, Ryan, At this point, Brian
Wu just shouldn't start a game in the series.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
How dare you say that out loud? Brian Wu is
the Savior. He will start. If it's not this series,
it'll be Game one of the World Series. Brian Wu
is a saint, and you don't say anything other.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
A good argument.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I gonna say this. I mean, if they give the
ball to Bryce Miller on Game five, I don't think
anybody could be upset by that. I don't think anybody
should be worried about that. I do believe, though, we've
got to test Brian at some point before before you
potentially reach a World Series. And I don't think we
can beat the Dodgers without Brian wu starting and performing
(23:34):
well in a game or two.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
So I'm gonna say I need to see him, cavel, cavel, cavel.
I want to see him start definitely before the World Series.
But I'm not worried about him starting. It's not a
matter of okay, I'm if he's ready to come back.
I'm bumping Bryce Miller.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
At this point, you're still I mean, you somewhat have
recovered from the fifteen inning game in the long five.
I mean you basically are back to where everybody's gonna
have their rest. But I don't think there's anything wrong
with just running one guy out there after another. If
this thing goes to game five, I think he's going
to be ready to rock and roll. He threw a
bullpen or some some live abs to some guys yesterday.
I think he's going to be ready to rock and
(24:11):
roll on Friday, and I think they run him out
there on Friday. That's gonna be a nice situation where
you're gonna get to see and it's not necessarily you're
runninghim out there in a game seven necessarily where you're
not one hundred percent sure. Now he's going to react
after having missing some time. Can't do that, can't do that,
all right?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Next one, I would love to see him open with
like a two winning start. Let him go through his
normal routine and then have Bryce Miller piggyback off of him,
like I would love to see Brian. We'll get that
opportunity depending on where the series shaken out.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I like that. I like that. Not a bad idea, ma'am.
You already had stated your case, sir, judge had already
made his declaration.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Is okay, I'll take my slap on the hand he's dead.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Just to make a great point. Yeah, yeah, it was
a great point, by the way, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Next one, I don't understand all the surprise. The Blue
Jays aren't better than the Mariners anything.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Disagree with that.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
They strike out a heck of a lot less than
our guys, But I'm not surprised because these are two
high quality teams. What I am surprised about, though, is
how much emotion went into the Blue Jays Yankee series.
And I feel like there was almost a massive celebration
of the Yankees lose and everything that was publicized in
the media, that they didn't have that same undertone of
tenacity and just eagerness to want to embarrass the Mariners.
(25:26):
The Mariners almost came in here as underdogs because yes,
to the lower ranked seed, but everyone anticipated they're gonna
be exhausted, their bullpens dead, they used three starting pitchers.
They were the underdogs, and they're now showcasing the ability
of doubt me please, because we got plenty of depth
in this roster pitching and hitting.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think they've got the better starting rotation, the better bullpen,
and the better lineup. I mean, I don't get the
surprise out there. I think the Blue Jays might have
a better defense. Hem Andez can pick it at short
and var show's a Gold Glover, and Guerrero actually has
won a Gold Glove, and apparently Alejandro Kirk's gonna win
the Gold glove so they can pick it defensively. But man,
I'll take pitching and hitting over a team having better
(26:05):
defense than me.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Gavel, Gavel. We're a better team than they are. I
think there might be some things where they can you
know the fact that they do put the ball in
play a little bit more. I think without Bobaschett you
most certainly have a better lineup. Even with him, I
think you got a better lineup. But I don't think
that's a contest. The starting rotation, no doubt about it.
And when it comes down to bullpen, I think that
(26:28):
we're going to have a better bullpen. I do think
that there's this is not going to be a walkover.
You're up to zero, but that's a really good team.
That's a team that finished with the most wins of
anybody in the American League. I don't think you can
snooze on this squad because on any given night, these
guys can come out and beat you. Yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
There's no doubt final one, at least for the old Judge.
Without need to see any of them. Every member of
Bucky's Billiard's team in North Bend has a way more
athletic physique than Alejandro Kirk.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Hey, let's go me.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
I don't think so. I think is a gabble.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Gabble. You're saying, you think there's somebody on my pool
league team that looks worse than Alejandro Kirk.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Yeah, that boy can swing it, that boy can't take it.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I'm not saying he's not a good baseball player. No,
he couldn't be. All right, galll gavel bailiff. Take that
guy away, handcuffed, shackles, the whole deal. But I need
a spit mask on him. He needs everything that we
can possibly do. No, there, he is a damn good
baseball player. But there's a reason we they call this
baseball players are not athletes. It's because of people like him.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
You said, athletic build. An athlete is the way they move,
not the way they look.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Exo facto, Alejandro Kirk is a better athlete than all
your pool team.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Bring the whole building a lot longer. Kirks run circles
around to him.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
He is not running anywhere you see him. He can
barely get out of a squad.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
A ladder drilled. That boy's got some quick feet under
that big box because.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
He can't pick his knees up higher than two inches.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You don't need to.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
He running running really fast. He just hit them all
over the fence.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
If he hadn't run hurdles, he'd have to go under them.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Heally, I'm not gonna argue that point. There you go,
you won a point.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I'm glad that Ryan met the old.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Judge here today. Fun all right, So, uh, last thing
for you before we let you go and we'll talk
to you again.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I guess Thursday, Thursday? What do you think game number three?
How you feeling about it? Coming home to oh and
and having him in the crosshairs in the of playing
at Team Obile.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I woke up this morning with Kobe Bryant on my mind.
I just like jobs out finished.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
And I hope that that mentality was taken from Toronto
back home to Seattle.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Of Wow, that was unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
We just went two up in their home park and
we got to go back to our home stands, and
it might be a little bit trauma like last time
we were here to play fifteen inning games and we
can't do that again. Like, my legs are still sore.
So I hope that the focus to the mentality is
like job's not finished. Like Bieber's coming off of a
really rough start from the Yankees, Let's get after him
early and getting their bullpen. Because we've done that, We've
been really successful. George Kirby, stay right there. We have
(29:15):
a arrested bullpen. We have we have a lot of
depth that was able to get some work in. If
I'm the Mariners, I'm walking in laser focus knowing how
I need to execute this game three and get the
crowd and the fans involved really really early, because that's
gonna that's gonna steer in their favor.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Great stuff, man, thanks for coming into the courtroom. That
was fun.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Thank you guys for having me all right.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Ryan Heley, former Mariner, joining us right here on Chuck
and buck One Last Thing, next Sports Radio ninety three
point three kJ R f M, then twice today, final segments,
(30:00):
Last thing time, Bucket, you get us going.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
We talked about it. I'm sure you saw the eight six'
two double play last night and The dodgers do Your kirchen.
Voice what's he?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Saying, oh you just never know what you're gonna.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
See they like.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
That that's there's there's a few times where excuse, me
where he says something like, that and it's, like WHY
i have seen that? BEFORE i hadn't seen that play.
Before i've never seen that one, EITHER i, mean for
(30:36):
those that didn't see, it like centerfielder goes, back tries
to rob a home, run jumps, up hits his, glove clanks,
out hits the, wall top of the, wall then he
catches it in the, air bases, loaded and still somehow
they forced to Ask ernandez out at the. PLATE m,
like that's The it's definitely the deepest that guy's ever
(30:59):
been thrown out at home play a force.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Before i'm going to correct it's nitpicking a little, bit
BUT i don't want Ta OSCAR i like him too
much to be. LABELED i think it was Key. K
i think it Was. Enrique her name was that it
was the one that got called out at. Home but
the same thing applies also. YESTERDAY i, mean we've never
seen a ball get away from a first baseman and
it hit U Gino swatz in the back while he's
(31:24):
sitting on the top, step and it really looked like
nobody knew what the rule was and they had to
spend time like figuring out is he in?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Play is he out of? Play is the top step
of the?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
DUGOUT i just never.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Know you gotta, SAY i never know whose baseball just
WHY i love it so. Much you never never.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Know, yeah, YEAH i just get back just getting the
dug out or go down one step to where we
don't Have BECAUSE i was sitting there thinking to, Myself
i'm pretty sure he's out of, play and most certainly
was going to go out of play whether he was
sitting there or. Not but if they would have called
him back to first, base it all been, like, mm
got a whole dugout for seats and your set on the.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
TOP i, MEAN i guess you just Gotta oh you
would have been mad At. Geno, yes, OH i, see,
YEAH i didn't. KNOW i honestly looked At bucky at
that moment And i'm just, LIKE i don't know what
the rule is.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
HERE i don't know what they're going to.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
SAY i don't know what they're gonna, come what's gonna
come out of their mouth?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Here? Next but, STRANGE, yep baseball for, You? Ashley what you?
Won last?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
THING i gotta NOW i have the contagious thing of
forgetting to turn off the.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
MICROPHONE i had the one last. Thing what Was? Oh,
Yes SO i was.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Talking to coach In New heizel before he came on
the air with you, guys and he was, like oh,
gosh just must he's so exciting to, be you, know
up there right, now and like it just seems like
everything's going right In seattle. SPORTS i, say, well, coach
you Know seattle though everybody's, like, ooh is it too
good to be?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
True what's gonna go?
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Wrong so you can't really get too. Excited you can be.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Excited but then all of a sudden there's this like
and he's just, laughing and he, goes, oh it's.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Fine they're going to The World, Series and it made
my heart.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Stop did it start? AGAIN i believe so we may
have to come in.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
THERE i believe.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It. DID i believe we're.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Good BUT i was, like, oh you can't say.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
THAT i think the embodiment AND i always feel this
way is. Softy and he's done these videos after each
of the last two, wins and there's there are curse
words in. There, yes he's got a pot rubbed off on.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Him i've never heard him cuss, before you, haven't, No.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
But there are curse words in, there but he's whispering
in both of, them like he can't say it out.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Loud, yeah he needs to not hold it. In it's
like he's talking like you know they, say like don't
hold in a, sneeze you, know blow something out or.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
He's got to get it.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Out but he's like faces turned all, red, angry Whishper
god can't hear.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Me he won't take it away from.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Feel like someone's waiting to snatch it.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Away all, right just, quickly my one last. THING i
Guess Doug eddings was not.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That bad of an umpire during the regular.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Season somebody sent me his stats from the regular, season but,
boy he was terrible yesterday he saves.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
All, yeah that's. Good, yeah glad you.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Season all, right we'll talk to you tomorrow at six.
Am our postgame coverage will continue throughout the. Playoffs but
of course No mariner game, tonight So bucky AND i
actually get to go home and do the routine for
the first time in a couple of. Weeks but we
will be on the call postgame show, wise that is
(34:31):
tomorrow night's, game, obviously and so we'll talk to you
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