November 11, 2025 • 37 mins
RICK NEUHEISEL (CBS sports) The Dawgs fell flat in Wisconsin, but a 10-win season is still out there for the Huskies. Jedd Fisch’s conundrum. A look at this week’s key matchups. Is LSU really trying to get out of paying Brian Kelly? :30- The Ol’ Judge is here and it’s time to debate! - Dan Wilson will and should win AL Manager of the Year. - John Schneider and Mike MacDonald are the hottest GM/Head Coach combo in the NFL right now. - The Bengals should just sit Burrow for the remainder of the year at this point and call it a lost season. - It is perfectly awesome for someone to have already enjoyed a glass of holiday nog. :45- We close out the show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to talk all things college football.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh, it's a wonderful time in the week here on
Chuck and Buck our opportunity to talk college football. Former
you dub, a head coach and one of the faces
of the coverage of college football on Seaberos, Rick new
Isel is with us right here on Chuck and Buckome morning,
sirp Okay, got very shy since last Yeah he's not
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usually shy. Yeah yeah, usually it's somebody. Maybe he's just
more soft spoken today. Ah, I didn't like. You can't
hear me. I didn't hear anything at all. Yeah, you're
gonna have to speak up, little bit, coach. So we'll
say if we can work on that connection. I am
excited to hear from coach on a number of topics,
including the ones that we're wrestling with here in Seattle.
(01:10):
So we'll effort on trying to get a better connection
here with a Coach new Isel and get him on
the show for you. But yes, a lot of different
ground to cover. We just played the Jedfish audio from
his press conference and he's trying to sell that he
wants to be here. We've already kind of covered the
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fact that it's unfortunate if that's not the case, or
if it is the case that he wants to be here,
and yet he keeps getting dragged down. But I guess
that goes with I mean, you did sort of earn
the reputation of jumping around a lot, and so we'll
see how it goes from here. I think we've got
Coach new Isel again.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Coach you there, I am here. I'm sorry. All of
a sudden, I was getting ready to say how is everybody,
and whammo, you were gone, oh wow. Sometimes it goes
like that. Ask the poor Huskies in Wisconsin. Yeah it
didn't know.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well wow, but.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Hey they get to a tone. Here comes Purdue and
then UCLA and then the Ducks. What better way to
finish a year with the threesome right there? So see
they can do it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But to spend two weeks talking about the path is
there to make the playoff? I don't know if anybody
was going as far as predicting it around these yer parts,
but certainly we discussed the path being there, and then
for the door to get slammed like it did in Madison,
Wisconsin Saturday, I mean, how crushing is that to the
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program to lose that football game.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's that's a tough one because, like you said, the
games they remember played in November and have a chance
to play for the big prizes and really have an
excellent opportunity to do so. So, but it's time to
dust yourself off, pick yourself up, and see if you
can't play your best football down the stretch. A ten
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win season is still out there, and regardless of what
it means for postseason, a ten win season is a
hallmark that people pay attention to.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I mean, what is the re How does something like that?
I mean the defense I think to some degree did
their part. They still gave up thirteen, but not I
mean it was a good it's the offense. I mean,
I was a step back from thinking this was the
best offense, their most explosive offense in college football, when
even when they were ranked there after a few games
end of the year. But they do have an explosive quarterback,
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running back and a wide receiver too, and yet to
go out there and do what they did in Madison
was unexpected, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, and I think Jedwos go as far as say unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You have to now this is a quality d defense.
Luke Pickle's always going to have a good defense. They
just can't throw them. They just can't muster much in
the way of offense. And that was the case the
other night. They only had two hundred and five yards
of offense. So you have to manage this game differently.
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You have to play knowing that this is going to
be a low scoring game, and you have to make
sure that you understand the value of possession and field position.
Time of possession is important. The Huskies only had the
ball twenty eight minutes and thirty eight seconds. In that
kind of game, you have to understand we're going to
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make you go the long field. The fake punt was
a monumental play. You can't let them have that opportunity.
Those are the things that you just have to you
have to. It's like Oregon when they went to Iowa.
Oregon knew that they would have to play Iowa football
in that kind of environment, and they were able to
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do it and came away with a victory eighteen to sixteen.
That isn't exactly the Star Wars, you know, version of
Oregon football that we've come to know and love. This
was ground and pound, and the Huskies, for whatever reason,
didn't adapt like that. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I know Luke Fickle's not had a great year there
in Madison, but I'll give him this. That guy is
impervious to weather conditions. He didn't look like he was
effected at all. I saw Mike Holmgren's mustache freeze over
one time in a game in Wisconsin, and yet he
just like took he took the brunt of the storm
and acted like he was on the beach in Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
We read that he was he's an old nose guard.
He doesn't look like he was a nose guard, but
he was a three hundred and ten pound nose guard.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
For the New Orleans Saints, so that guy is rugged,
no question about it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
He's on the Ed Cunningham diet. Remember Ed Cunningham the
first time I saw him. After three days, I do, well.
I want to talk about Washington a little bit. I mean,
we had a big story here, a lot of rumors,
a lot of smoke, a lot of coaching vacancies, and
we happen to have a head coach that hops around
a lot. And Jed fish well yesterday at the podium,
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he was his most adamant that he wasn't going anywhere.
I feel bad for him if that's not true, because
I do believe that it is affecting the program and
maybe his locker room as well. But on the other hand,
I mean, he did sort of earn his reputation as
moving around a lot, and I guess that goes with
the territory. What's your take on the entire situation.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I only know what my conversations have been with Jed.
I haven't talked to him during the season, but I
certainly talked to him in the preseason, having gotten to
go over there and watch the guy's practice. He loves Washington.
He loves it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I know there's a big story out there about his
family not being in Seattle. I know his daughter wanted
to finish school in Tucson, and so they're back in Tucson,
letting her have this high school year there. And I
can totally understand that. I hope folks can understand it
as well. But his his belief in the Husky program
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was sincere when he talked about it to me. I
also understand that his alma mater is open. You know,
you know the all alma mater alimony deal. Right, So
as soon as your alma mater is open, everything's you're
going there. Uh. And and if you're at your alma mater,
everybody wants you to stay there because you might be
getting like clerk Lee at Vanderbilt, right, you've got to
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So there's all this kind of tension about it. But
I believe that Jet is happy. That doesn't mean I
know that Jet is staying, but I do know that
Jet is happy in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, how the idea of I mean, I think you
dub is a legitimate, uh, you know, college program, and
and a lot of people would love to have this
job and stick with this job. I also think that
it was somewhat understandable.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And Bucky, he's getting paid legitimate college money, right, He's
getting paid seven and a half million bucks. That's the
hell of the deal.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah and yeah, I mean it was understandable to me
when Caitlin de Bor has the opportunity to go to Alabama,
because that's just a different beast, right, And maybe there's
a few other that are in that program. And yet
if there's a second tier of blue bloods, I think
you dubs in there. Where do you think you dubbed
stacks up? I mean, because I think that everybody over
there would hate for nothing more than to be considered
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a stepping stone to some bigger program.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I had a really good job at Colorado and had
a maybe the top one or two recruiting class going.
And when I came to Washington and talked to Barbara
Hedges back then and thought about what I knew about Washington,
having played against him at uc from my vantage point
at UCLA and having seen that crowd and knowing what
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Don James was able to build there. Washington's a premier job,
a premier job, and because the fans are premier fans,
they get behind the program. And I believe that Jed
understands that the only job that I think he would consider,
he's not going to consider UCLA. He might use it
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for leverage, but the only job he would consider would
be the Florida job because it's his alma mater. That
would be the only one. And I'm not sure that
they have any other name than Lane Gippin on their
list right now, so I wouldn't worry. I just know
that how I felt about Washington, it is premiere and then.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Some Rick new Isold is with us. So we got
a lot of other ground to cover here on this Tuesday.
But one more question about the Dogs. Do we have
to worry about two and eight perdue based on the
way that the team Playeds last Saturday?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
They're pesky, But I think that there's enough pride in
the Husky locker room, and I would guess that there's
enough pride in the Husky locker room, especially on the
offensive side, to atone for what was not a good
enough performance last week. And I would expect that they'd
come out and play their tails off. And by the way,
on the subject of the Husky game, my team from
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two thousand, the Rose Bowl champions are going to get
honored this weekend and I unfortunately I'm not going to
be able to be there, but I want to give
a shout out to the two thousand Rose Bowl champs
and all the kids that I had the great privilege
to coach and the coaches that will be there. I
just want you guys to know I'll be thinking about you.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, minute, that's not good enough.
You've got a helicopter drop in surprise, don't you that's
what you're.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Going I wished I did. I you know, I got
to work, I got to pay bills.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
They're going to roll a cake out there in the
middle of the field and you're going to jump out
of it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You don't know how hard I pushed for this game too.
I was trying to get it to be the Ohio
State game because they told me they were going to
do that this year, and I was hoping that EBS
would send us out right, but the CBS crew were
already already sending out the NFL guys on a remote.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And then I was trying to make it the Oregon
game at the end so that maybe we could come
out and so forth. But it just didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Man. You got to get here. You know what your
son looks. I could your son looks just like you,
So you know you can just put your son on
CBS and then you can show up from there.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He might rather than go to Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He might rather rick New Isles with us. Right here
are College Football Insider and his segment, of course, brought
to you by Taco Time. All right, so what are
your expectations for tonight's college football playoff rankings? How much
shake up are you anticipating?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, I don't see a whole bunch. Obviously, the ACC
took some shrapnel last week with Virginia losing, Louisville lou losing,
even Duke losing at Connecticut, even though it wasn't a
conference game, So that's a for sure deal that they're
only going to get one team in. I think the
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Texas Tech victory for over b YU will obviously help them.
They'll move ahead of BYU, but it'll with Utah being
there and BYU's victory over Utah, I think they'll still
be very comfortable to get two teams in. Notre Dame
obviously needs to keep plotting away. That was an impressive
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win over Navy in terrible conditions and now they get pit.
I don't see much in the way. I think you
will see Texas A and M go ahead of Indiana
and be the number two team in the country.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, I'm expect the Texas to make its debut tonight
and then I don't know who gets that twelve feet
is it James Madison? Right now? Are they the top?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
All there's a lot of publicity coming out from the
American Conference. It's about strength to schedule and who they're
really playing and so forth. Because of all the teams
at the top of that American there are I think
four or five teams with one loss in the American East.
Carolina is in that number and North Texas is in
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that number, and then South Florida and Navy played this week.
So lots to happen in the always exciting American Conference.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
All right, Well, let's talk about some of these games
this week. In very interesting schedule this weekend. I know
I asked you last week in any chance the Navy
can knock off Notre Dame and you said no, and
you were right. Any chance Pitt can knock off Notre Dame?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, Pitt. Pat Nardoozi is a terrific defensive coach and
terrific defensive coaches can't be that unless they can stop
the run. So I think Pat Nardoozi and company can
get Notre Dame's running game corral. That doesn't mean extinguish it,
but they can corral it. And if they can, then
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it becomes a CJ car game. And we'll wait and
see which of the two freshman quarterbacks first year quarterbacks here,
Mason Heinchell will have the better game. Since they put
Mason Hinschell in the game, Pitt has not lost. They've
been outstanding. And the two losses that they do have
on their schedule, they had seventeen point or ten point
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lead against West Virginia, seventeen point lead against Louisville and
lost both those games because of turnovers. So Pitt's dangerous
this week, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Good. I want them to be really dangerous this week,
all right. So I don't like that Texas and Oklahoma
are in the SEC. I still wish Texas was in
the Southwest Conference and Oklahoma was in the Big Eight,
to be honest with you, but they did get They
are giving us a blue blood bath this weekend. I
mean to have Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas versus Georgia
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on the samee day. My goodness, it's not the SEC
football that I'm familiar with, and yet that's certainly two
really fascinating blue blood matchups right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
There, incredible blue blood matchups. And for the boys that
are coming from the Big twelve, there must wins. If
they find ways to win both at Georgia and at Alabama,
they'll be right back in that College Football playoff. They're
sitting right off the right off the line of demarcation
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there because an ACC team and a Group of five
team have to be in there. They were ranked eleven
and twelve last week, so they are right on the
cusp of getting there, and these would be signature wins.
Neither of them can really afford a loss, given that
they fought. Both lost twice, Oklahoma of course, having one
of those losses against Texas just behind Texas, but both
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have stalwart defenses and these are going to be great games.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
USC is coming off a nice win over Northwestern. They've
got Oregon looming, though. Is this a trap game against Iowa?
I mean, normally trap games aren't against ranked opponents who
are coming off a pretty solid effort against Oregon, But nonetheless,
are they going to be looking ahead to the Ducks.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
If this game were in Kinnick Stadium, I would be
taking in Iowa all day long. But because it's in
the coliseum, I think se will have enough in their offense.
They handled Michigan, which is, you know, pretty stout defense
at home. I think that they'll handle business against Iowa.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, do you have a Taco Time pick of
the week for us?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You just nailed it was to take the Trojans. Okay,
I was going to take the Trojans. I think they're
a six and a half point favorite. I just think
that based on you know, McKay Lemon, Jakobe and Jade
and Mayava, those three guys, plus a running game that's
been pretty consistent, more consistent than any other year previous.
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With Lincoln Riley as the head coach, I think they
can handle Iowa and will do so comfortably.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right, very good Taco Time pick of the week.
And I still got a couple of minutes, so I
get to actually ask you about the mess at LSU
before we get done here. So are they really trying
to back out of owing Brian Kelly the money that
they so proudly were willing to eat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This is the new game. This is the new game
because of this, you know, giant contracts. What happens now
is they hire private investigators to basically look into the
life of the head coach, and they're trying to find
some dirt, some thing that qualifies under that could get
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you out. I mean you imagine like putting pictures down
somebody's personal life and saying, hey, you've got to take
this money or we're going to let out these pictures.
And and it's disgusting. No one put a gun to
the h and set up for Brian Kelly, this much did.
(18:19):
But they did. And and the fact that the guy
wants the money, I mean, he didn't want to be fired.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, just stay there.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But the fact that they would fight him love is
disgusting and unfortunate, but it's the it's the sign of
the times.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, for no other reason, we got to get our
arms around this because we just can't let this keep
de evolving, you know, this this sort of activity. So
oh man, these are ripples I did not see coming
on this pond. So coach, thank you, we appreciate your
great stuff. I hope you can somehow swing it, maybe
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clone yourself between now and Saturday, so you can get
out here to get on or alongside your team.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It would be a treat to be back in Husky Stadium.
But those boys will they'll cherish the memories. They'll cherish
the memories. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, thanks coach Rick new Iel joining us right here.
His segment brought to you by Taco Time. I was
gonna try to make you feel like your radio was
going nuts and do one of these things like coming
back moment, bucking and I but no, that was not
your radio. Some of them was going along with his phone.
(19:35):
But he was talking about some really interesting stuff and
it was the last question of the segment. So I
was trying to push through. There we did. We got
through it.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
You got the gist of what he was saying, is
doing that?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, I think you got the gist. The gist was gotten. Yep.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Run, it's already been burtt in all right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Coming up next, the old judge stops by, and man,
we a bone or two to pick with him on
kJ R is now in the court room fifty fifth. Yep.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
It's quite a family, quite a lineage.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I mean by people before me or having more babies, right, yes,
in order for me to keep getting further down the line.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Okay, wait, good on your grandpa. I think I said
fifty fifth every time? Oh is it every single time? Yeah? Definitely, Yeah,
pretty consistent with that.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
He thinks he said fifty fifth every time you sold that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It goes all the way back to your Scandinavian roots.
The Cornhole legacy is it's long, quite strong. Yeah, it's deep.
A lot of Vikings named cornhole.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Oh oh that's what you think.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well, maybe not in their native tongue.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
It was like horn yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, a lot of them named horn hung. Yeah.
So anyway, we're very impressed with your lineage. By the way,
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this is how the Old Judge works. Once week, the
Old Judge comes into our studios with his big giant gabble,
and I bring up a few subjects that Ashley and
I discuss. Once the judge has hurt enough of our nonsense,
he slams his gavel. Gabble, gabble, gavel, and then he
(21:35):
sets the record straight. And it does become official in
the annals of history, does it? Though? It is officially
spoken in the annals of history? Okay, that's true. Okay, yeah,
it is officially.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
It has been said, right, it's been there.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Whatever you say will be said.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Will have good said, someone will have heard it right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Right at that?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
All right, Well, let's get into it. I got a
pretty lengthy list here today in the courtroom. Dan Wilson
will and should win the American League Manager of the
Year award tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I'm sorry, Dan, but no, and no, I am not
as down on Dan Wilson as some people.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I will say, but that would be hard to do.
But I I do not think.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I do think there was still enough questions and enough
question marks that we had this season that there's room
for improvement. And I wouldn't put him as the top
of the American League.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, I mean, he's the only manager I watched manage
every game this year, but I had enough problems with
him that here, even in Seattle. I don't think that
he should. I think it should be Alex Cora, who's
not even a finalist. And I also don't think that
he will. I think John Schneider will win. Me cavill Gall.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
No, I don't think he's going to win. And as
much as I would like to say I think he should,
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna attempt to try to
dissect it down because I can't dissect John Schneider and
Steven Vote the way that I can dissect him. Was
he perfect? Nope, not even close to it. Is there
things that I disagree with, sure, But.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I think he did a really good job.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, he did end up taking this team that
they had to stick around before the trade deadline moves.
They had to be within it to where the organization
wanted to go for it, and so he did a
darn good job basically from starting to finish, of putting
these guys in a position to where they would go
make moves, and then when they did, we were as
close to gett into a World Series as possible that said,
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I just give I give the nod to John Schneider
because of the well documented overhaul of what they did
as far as their offensive production, how they went about
having better at bats, and we watched for seven games
against US in seven games against the Dodgers as well,
So to me, i'd give it.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
To John Schneider a lot of games against the Yankees though,
because the Yankees sucked.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Speaking of John Schneider, John Schneider and Mike McDonald are
the NFL's hottest coach GM combo.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Right now, it's hard to see who might be well. Philadelphia, Yeah,
I'd say right now in this moment, especially recency bias,
two blowout wins, you made a trade just to amp
up an already good looking offense.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
You've got a very strong defense. It looks right now
like you are pulling all the right strings. So in
this very moment, yes, they are the hottest duo.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I agree with you. They're not the best, they're not
the most accomplished, certainly, but man, this feels like a
marriage made in heaven. John's coming off maybe his best
draft that he's ever had, seemed to push all the
right buttons. Took a year for he and Mike to
get on the same page on the type of personnel
that Mike needed to run the program as he saw
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it in his brilliant, weird genius mind of his. And
even guys I said this Monday, Ty Okadau and Drake Thomas,
like John's in this position now. It's like even when
I just pick off a couple scrubs, you've turned them
into something good. Yeah. So I think they're magical right now.
I don't think they're the best, but I do think
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they are the.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Hottest Caravel Cavil. It's hard to argue with them not
being the hottest. I mean, to me, if you're talking
about the hottest, you're talking about temperature right now. Well,
I mean they've in the last couple few weeks have
jumped from a team that maybe going into the season
was like, I think this team might be pretty good.
Like what they saw out of defense. We'll see what
Sam Donald's all about. Well, the idea to move on
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from who they had at quarterback before to Sam Donald.
Combine that with the defense that still looks like it's
growing and flourishing. It doesn't feel like it's capped out
by any stretch. They played a bunch of this season
without all their players, for crying out loud, and so yeah,
I think that there's they probably are. They've climbed up
to the top of the power ranking, so I think
that that's an entire organization thing. I think Mike McDonald
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was recognized as a defensive guru, I mean, a mastermind
at that side, and now it's coming to fruition. You're
seeing that it that's not false. So that's John Schneider
good good choice on picking him and then pulling all
the strings that they've pulled and bringing in the most
important position and looking like an upgrade in Sam Donald
who's playing like an MVP as of late anyways, most
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of the season. Anyways, Yeah, I think they probably are
the hottest. Good job judge.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
That take was.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Hot, sizzling, that's right.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The Bengals should just set Joe Burrow at this point
for the rest of a loss season and start fresh
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
No, and I don't think that Joe Burrow wants them
to just sit him. I mean, he said he's been
trying everything to get his toe back to being okay
and being ready to play, And I don't think there's
especially right now. I don't think their season is lost yet.
Now if they lose the next two games leading up
to Thanksgiving, well then maybe you're looking at trying to
give him a little bit more time to be healthy
(27:19):
and not push it, because the last thing you want
is a set back. But right now, two weeks to
go till he thinks he's coming back.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
No, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I'm with you one hundred percent. And then I would
just add something to it. I think Joe Burrow needs
to freaking play some football. Is this gonna happen every
year with you? Dude? And by the way, this whole
brave I stay in the pocket and take hits. It's stupid. Yeah,
get rid of the damn football because you can't withstand
the punishment that you are willingly taking on the football field.
(27:50):
Talk to Tom Brady in the offseason on how to get
rid of the football because your team needs you. Gavel, gavel, Gavel.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I think for sure they should allow him to come
back if he's ready to come back, because of the
division they play, and the leader in that division right
now is the Steelers and they're five and four, so
there are two games ahead of them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So it's right there. Now.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I think that the Ravens are getting healthy and the
Ravens are probably the team to beat in that division,
but all kinds of crazy things can happen. You've got
a whole second half of the season to play, and
their best chance is to have him at the helm.
But I like your point there, that little added thing where, yeah,
it's good for you. I like being I like guys
that are tough. They're standing willing to stand there and
(28:29):
throw when they're looking down the barrel at a pass
rusher coming at them. At the same time, you got
to protect yourself. It's like, you know, your availability is
one of your best best abilities, and he hasn't been
very available.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Having every year to him and it's just like he
wears this badge of honor of like I'll take the hit. Well,
you're stupid.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yeah, no one's ever questioned his toughness, that's for sure.
But you know at some point it is going to
catch up with you, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Finally, it is perfectly awesome that somebody may or may
not have had his or her first cup of holiday
eggnog last night on November tenth.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Cavel Gavel Cavel cavel. Hell, no, wait a minute, we
didn't even get that answer.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, thrown court, bring nonsense, whoever you are. Bet it
was delicious.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I bet it was fire in the fireplace, or at
least you had.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
One on in your mind.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I bet there was.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I bet there was see wait to soak it all.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
And I bet, dumb cavel, I bet it was so good,
dumb that this person had a.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Second God, this person might be my new hero.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And this person didn't even put alcohol in it. Oh wow,
wait till the alcohol. That's cavel gavel.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Okay, you're onto something that you did put alcohol to,
just have the festive drink with no alcohol?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Pretty delicious contempt. Contempt, Maggie, I mean this person, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
This person might need to how to upgrade this supposed
up nog.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, now I get to do I mean, this person
gets to do it again in another time the right way.
Guilty of premature celebration. Guilty. This person's got a huge heart.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I think that's that having that nog that's equivalent of
three pumps.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well done. One last thing's next Sports Radio ninety three
point three kJ r f M. My final segment here
on chugging Back here on this Tuesday, it's time for
one last thing. We go round the room, round the horn.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Some people that would have been a good show, name
well maybe Buck got.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Obviously the day we'll find out today where Dan Wilson
lands on the Manager of the Year award.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And and I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
To be frustrated or upset, right, I mean, it's I
would vote for him, but then again that's probably just
it is just because I know him and I like him,
and I'm I think that he did a good enough job.
So but that said, it's it's rower right almost here,
cal Rawley better win the MVP. I know that there's
a lot of people probably leading the direction. I love
(31:17):
Aaron Judge, I love what he does, but it's just
not even close in my opinion, and not even close,
not even close, not even close to the I mean,
the most outstanding offensive season, Aaron Judge, the most Valuable Player.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's not even close. Well, we're gonna talk a lot
about it, by the way, for the next three days.
I do think it's close, but I do think it's
also definitive Like I mean, I think it's a close vote,
but I think it's definitively col.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah, that to me, that feels like it's not I mean,
if it's definitive, I feel like it's not close to me.
It's just there's just too many things that should go
into any most race, and it can be obvious that
you won the race.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You could have a like, you know, a photo finish,
and it can be very obvious who won the race,
but it could still be a close race.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I guess, yeah, if you look at it as a
photo finish, but yeah, you can tell without having to
go down to the super duper slow motion. It just
seems not even close to me, to be honest, It
just because of how valuable it is the po to
play the position that he played plays just doesn't even
seem close to me when you compare that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, Well that's Thursday. We'll be talking about it
a lot the next couple of days, Ashley. What's your
won last thing?
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Well, this happened over the weekend, but obviously I didn't.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I don't get to do a one last thing on Mondays,
so I've been saving it. So I just wanted to
give a shout out to dub women's soccer because they
had a very low point and a very high point
all in one week, losing their goalie Mia Hammett to
a tremendously courageous cancer battle, and then going out and
winning the Big Ten championship in penalty kicks. Not every
team in Seattle struggles in penalty kicks. Kidding, kidding, kidding,
(32:59):
kidd from inside the house. So mad, Yeah, no, I'm
sure Jackson was mad at the first game. I'm not
talking about the game three. Their penalty kicks. First game,
there was no excuse to miss those. But we were
talking about you dub soccer. So they will now head
to the Women's College Cup in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But they don't.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
It doesn't start un till December fifth, so they've got
a while of practice and waiting and.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
We at least that's consistent with the MLS. They have
a weird schedule.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Yeah, wait a month and then play again.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Makes sense? Well, they will they blend in a tournament
or three.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Probably. There's a couple of the books.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Okay, yeah, I did see who they are.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
It was Liberty that they beat Michigan State. No, no, no,
the face Montana.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Montana, Yeah, okay, Montana. I think when I think of Montana,
I think of Liberty.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yep, and Ryan Divish.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, all right, I will close uh with this. Uh,
we were talking earlier. I've referenced this a couple of times,
but Dick Vane's pager and I was just telling Bucky
during the break. I get your thought on this, Like,
I get like the phones that we have and they're marbles.
(34:10):
They're just technological marbles, there's no getting around it. And
I get like how convenient they are for us, and
especially when you have children and you know you're worried
about your you know, your wife's well being, or if
you get stranded on the side of your own well being,
you get stranded on the side of the road. It's
I mean, that is the best thing about these phones.
(34:34):
That said, since I really, since I don't have children,
and since I really don't worry about my own safety.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The idea of Dick Fane's pager world. When we you
got home and you went to your answering machine and
you were so excited to have like four messages on
your answering machine. Oh four messages, Yeah, and you played
them back versus, damn it, who's calling me now? I
(35:02):
don't want to talk. I can't talk now. That that
mentality that I have now about getting phone calls because
of this thing, this apparatus right here, versus once upon
a time I used to love coming home to how
many people called me. I don't know what happened. I
don't know what changed, but I blame this thing. Yeah, well,
(35:22):
at one point I did not.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
I didn't realize how much I didn't want to be
able to be contacted until I was able to be
contacted exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, that's the best way of putting it right there.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yeah, this is for outgoing calls, incoming texts, but outgoing
phone calls. I don't know the last time I answered
a phone called it it was like, no, if I
thanks for calling.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But if I was wanting to talk to you right now.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
I would have called you or I would have texted you,
probably said, hey, did you want to chat for a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I didn't. I just think Dick Fane's page Your World
where he really needed to know when he got his calls,
so you can get to that. Well, he was either
that or he was selling drugs in college.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Sorry, mister, it's probably the drug aspect. I just don't
know what was going on that makes the most sense.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I don't know what do you need a pager. I
never had a pager. I never did either. I never
did either. Yeah, but that was by that world, Like
if you really had to know your phone calls, that's
what you had it for. If I really need to
know this moment, who's trying to get a hold of me,
I have a pager, and then I can go find
a phone as soon as possible so that I can
(36:33):
call this person back. I didn't have one. I don't
think you're unless you were a drug dealer. I don't
think your life was that important. It might have been.
He might have been the band's rug. I'm going with it. Yeah, yeah,
all right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at six am.
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There's a bit of an out of play
It's time to talk all things college football.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is college football and I want you to get
it all over yourself.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh, it's a wonderful time in the week here on
Chuck and Buck our opportunity to talk college football. Former
you dub, a head coach and one of the faces
of the coverage of college football on Seaberos, Rick new
Isel is with us right here on Chuck and Buckome morning,
sirp Okay, got very shy since last Yeah he's not
(00:50):
usually shy. Yeah yeah, usually it's somebody. Maybe he's just
more soft spoken today. Ah, I didn't like. You can't
hear me. I didn't hear anything at all. Yeah, you're
gonna have to speak up, little bit, coach. So we'll
say if we can work on that connection. I am
excited to hear from coach on a number of topics,
including the ones that we're wrestling with here in Seattle.
(01:10):
So we'll effort on trying to get a better connection
here with a Coach new Isel and get him on
the show for you. But yes, a lot of different
ground to cover. We just played the Jedfish audio from
his press conference and he's trying to sell that he
wants to be here. We've already kind of covered the
(01:31):
fact that it's unfortunate if that's not the case, or
if it is the case that he wants to be here,
and yet he keeps getting dragged down. But I guess
that goes with I mean, you did sort of earn
the reputation of jumping around a lot, and so we'll
see how it goes from here. I think we've got
Coach new Isel again.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Coach you there, I am here. I'm sorry. All of
a sudden, I was getting ready to say how is everybody,
and whammo, you were gone, oh wow. Sometimes it goes
like that. Ask the poor Huskies in Wisconsin. Yeah it
didn't know.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well wow, but.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Hey they get to a tone. Here comes Purdue and
then UCLA and then the Ducks. What better way to
finish a year with the threesome right there? So see
they can do it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But to spend two weeks talking about the path is
there to make the playoff? I don't know if anybody
was going as far as predicting it around these yer parts,
but certainly we discussed the path being there, and then
for the door to get slammed like it did in Madison,
Wisconsin Saturday, I mean, how crushing is that to the
(02:42):
program to lose that football game.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's that's a tough one because, like you said, the
games they remember played in November and have a chance
to play for the big prizes and really have an
excellent opportunity to do so. So, but it's time to
dust yourself off, pick yourself up, and see if you
can't play your best football down the stretch. A ten
(03:08):
win season is still out there, and regardless of what
it means for postseason, a ten win season is a
hallmark that people pay attention to.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I mean, what is the re How does something like that?
I mean the defense I think to some degree did
their part. They still gave up thirteen, but not I
mean it was a good it's the offense. I mean,
I was a step back from thinking this was the
best offense, their most explosive offense in college football, when
even when they were ranked there after a few games
end of the year. But they do have an explosive quarterback,
(03:41):
running back and a wide receiver too, and yet to
go out there and do what they did in Madison
was unexpected, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, and I think Jedwos go as far as say unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You have to now this is a quality d defense.
Luke Pickle's always going to have a good defense. They
just can't throw them. They just can't muster much in
the way of offense. And that was the case the
other night. They only had two hundred and five yards
of offense. So you have to manage this game differently.
(04:17):
You have to play knowing that this is going to
be a low scoring game, and you have to make
sure that you understand the value of possession and field position.
Time of possession is important. The Huskies only had the
ball twenty eight minutes and thirty eight seconds. In that
kind of game, you have to understand we're going to
(04:38):
make you go the long field. The fake punt was
a monumental play. You can't let them have that opportunity.
Those are the things that you just have to you
have to. It's like Oregon when they went to Iowa.
Oregon knew that they would have to play Iowa football
in that kind of environment, and they were able to
(04:59):
do it and came away with a victory eighteen to sixteen.
That isn't exactly the Star Wars, you know, version of
Oregon football that we've come to know and love. This
was ground and pound, and the Huskies, for whatever reason,
didn't adapt like that. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I know Luke Fickle's not had a great year there
in Madison, but I'll give him this. That guy is
impervious to weather conditions. He didn't look like he was
effected at all. I saw Mike Holmgren's mustache freeze over
one time in a game in Wisconsin, and yet he
just like took he took the brunt of the storm
and acted like he was on the beach in Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
We read that he was he's an old nose guard.
He doesn't look like he was a nose guard, but
he was a three hundred and ten pound nose guard.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
For the New Orleans Saints, so that guy is rugged,
no question about it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
He's on the Ed Cunningham diet. Remember Ed Cunningham the
first time I saw him. After three days, I do, well.
I want to talk about Washington a little bit. I mean,
we had a big story here, a lot of rumors,
a lot of smoke, a lot of coaching vacancies, and
we happen to have a head coach that hops around
a lot. And Jed fish well yesterday at the podium,
(06:09):
he was his most adamant that he wasn't going anywhere.
I feel bad for him if that's not true, because
I do believe that it is affecting the program and
maybe his locker room as well. But on the other hand,
I mean, he did sort of earn his reputation as
moving around a lot, and I guess that goes with
the territory. What's your take on the entire situation.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I only know what my conversations have been with Jed.
I haven't talked to him during the season, but I
certainly talked to him in the preseason, having gotten to
go over there and watch the guy's practice. He loves Washington.
He loves it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I know there's a big story out there about his
family not being in Seattle. I know his daughter wanted
to finish school in Tucson, and so they're back in Tucson,
letting her have this high school year there. And I
can totally understand that. I hope folks can understand it
as well. But his his belief in the Husky program
(07:09):
was sincere when he talked about it to me. I
also understand that his alma mater is open. You know,
you know the all alma mater alimony deal. Right, So
as soon as your alma mater is open, everything's you're
going there. Uh. And and if you're at your alma mater,
everybody wants you to stay there because you might be
getting like clerk Lee at Vanderbilt, right, you've got to
(07:30):
So there's all this kind of tension about it. But
I believe that Jet is happy. That doesn't mean I
know that Jet is staying, but I do know that
Jet is happy in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, how the idea of I mean, I think you
dub is a legitimate, uh, you know, college program, and
and a lot of people would love to have this
job and stick with this job. I also think that
it was somewhat understandable.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And Bucky, he's getting paid legitimate college money, right, He's
getting paid seven and a half million bucks. That's the
hell of the deal.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah and yeah, I mean it was understandable to me
when Caitlin de Bor has the opportunity to go to Alabama,
because that's just a different beast, right, And maybe there's
a few other that are in that program. And yet
if there's a second tier of blue bloods, I think
you dubs in there. Where do you think you dubbed
stacks up? I mean, because I think that everybody over
there would hate for nothing more than to be considered
(08:25):
a stepping stone to some bigger program.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I had a really good job at Colorado and had
a maybe the top one or two recruiting class going.
And when I came to Washington and talked to Barbara
Hedges back then and thought about what I knew about Washington,
having played against him at uc from my vantage point
at UCLA and having seen that crowd and knowing what
(08:52):
Don James was able to build there. Washington's a premier job,
a premier job, and because the fans are premier fans,
they get behind the program. And I believe that Jed
understands that the only job that I think he would consider,
he's not going to consider UCLA. He might use it
(09:14):
for leverage, but the only job he would consider would
be the Florida job because it's his alma mater. That
would be the only one. And I'm not sure that
they have any other name than Lane Gippin on their
list right now, so I wouldn't worry. I just know
that how I felt about Washington, it is premiere and then.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Some Rick new Isold is with us. So we got
a lot of other ground to cover here on this Tuesday.
But one more question about the Dogs. Do we have
to worry about two and eight perdue based on the
way that the team Playeds last Saturday?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
They're pesky, But I think that there's enough pride in
the Husky locker room, and I would guess that there's
enough pride in the Husky locker room, especially on the
offensive side, to atone for what was not a good
enough performance last week. And I would expect that they'd
come out and play their tails off. And by the way,
on the subject of the Husky game, my team from
(10:10):
two thousand, the Rose Bowl champions are going to get
honored this weekend and I unfortunately I'm not going to
be able to be there, but I want to give
a shout out to the two thousand Rose Bowl champs
and all the kids that I had the great privilege
to coach and the coaches that will be there. I
just want you guys to know I'll be thinking about you.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, minute, that's not good enough.
You've got a helicopter drop in surprise, don't you that's
what you're.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Going I wished I did. I you know, I got
to work, I got to pay bills.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
They're going to roll a cake out there in the
middle of the field and you're going to jump out
of it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You don't know how hard I pushed for this game too.
I was trying to get it to be the Ohio
State game because they told me they were going to
do that this year, and I was hoping that EBS
would send us out right, but the CBS crew were
already already sending out the NFL guys on a remote.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And then I was trying to make it the Oregon
game at the end so that maybe we could come
out and so forth. But it just didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Man. You got to get here. You know what your
son looks. I could your son looks just like you,
So you know you can just put your son on
CBS and then you can show up from there.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He might rather than go to Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He might rather rick New Isles with us. Right here
are College Football Insider and his segment, of course, brought
to you by Taco Time. All right, so what are
your expectations for tonight's college football playoff rankings? How much
shake up are you anticipating?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, I don't see a whole bunch. Obviously, the ACC
took some shrapnel last week with Virginia losing, Louisville lou losing,
even Duke losing at Connecticut, even though it wasn't a
conference game, So that's a for sure deal that they're
only going to get one team in. I think the
(12:10):
Texas Tech victory for over b YU will obviously help them.
They'll move ahead of BYU, but it'll with Utah being
there and BYU's victory over Utah, I think they'll still
be very comfortable to get two teams in. Notre Dame
obviously needs to keep plotting away. That was an impressive
(12:31):
win over Navy in terrible conditions and now they get pit.
I don't see much in the way. I think you
will see Texas A and M go ahead of Indiana
and be the number two team in the country.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, I'm expect the Texas to make its debut tonight
and then I don't know who gets that twelve feet
is it James Madison? Right now? Are they the top?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
All there's a lot of publicity coming out from the
American Conference. It's about strength to schedule and who they're
really playing and so forth. Because of all the teams
at the top of that American there are I think
four or five teams with one loss in the American East.
Carolina is in that number and North Texas is in
(13:16):
that number, and then South Florida and Navy played this week.
So lots to happen in the always exciting American Conference.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
All right, Well, let's talk about some of these games
this week. In very interesting schedule this weekend. I know
I asked you last week in any chance the Navy
can knock off Notre Dame and you said no, and
you were right. Any chance Pitt can knock off Notre Dame?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, Pitt. Pat Nardoozi is a terrific defensive coach and
terrific defensive coaches can't be that unless they can stop
the run. So I think Pat Nardoozi and company can
get Notre Dame's running game corral. That doesn't mean extinguish it,
but they can corral it. And if they can, then
(14:02):
it becomes a CJ car game. And we'll wait and
see which of the two freshman quarterbacks first year quarterbacks here,
Mason Heinchell will have the better game. Since they put
Mason Hinschell in the game, Pitt has not lost. They've
been outstanding. And the two losses that they do have
on their schedule, they had seventeen point or ten point
(14:24):
lead against West Virginia, seventeen point lead against Louisville and
lost both those games because of turnovers. So Pitt's dangerous
this week, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Good. I want them to be really dangerous this week,
all right. So I don't like that Texas and Oklahoma
are in the SEC. I still wish Texas was in
the Southwest Conference and Oklahoma was in the Big Eight,
to be honest with you, but they did get They
are giving us a blue blood bath this weekend. I
mean to have Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas versus Georgia
(14:59):
on the samee day. My goodness, it's not the SEC
football that I'm familiar with, and yet that's certainly two
really fascinating blue blood matchups right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
There, incredible blue blood matchups. And for the boys that
are coming from the Big twelve, there must wins. If
they find ways to win both at Georgia and at Alabama,
they'll be right back in that College Football playoff. They're
sitting right off the right off the line of demarcation
(15:32):
there because an ACC team and a Group of five
team have to be in there. They were ranked eleven
and twelve last week, so they are right on the
cusp of getting there, and these would be signature wins.
Neither of them can really afford a loss, given that
they fought. Both lost twice, Oklahoma of course, having one
of those losses against Texas just behind Texas, but both
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have stalwart defenses and these are going to be great games.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
USC is coming off a nice win over Northwestern. They've
got Oregon looming, though. Is this a trap game against Iowa?
I mean, normally trap games aren't against ranked opponents who
are coming off a pretty solid effort against Oregon, But nonetheless,
are they going to be looking ahead to the Ducks.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
If this game were in Kinnick Stadium, I would be
taking in Iowa all day long. But because it's in
the coliseum, I think se will have enough in their offense.
They handled Michigan, which is, you know, pretty stout defense
at home. I think that they'll handle business against Iowa.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, do you have a Taco Time pick of
the week for us?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You just nailed it was to take the Trojans. Okay,
I was going to take the Trojans. I think they're
a six and a half point favorite. I just think
that based on you know, McKay Lemon, Jakobe and Jade
and Mayava, those three guys, plus a running game that's
been pretty consistent, more consistent than any other year previous.
(17:08):
With Lincoln Riley as the head coach, I think they
can handle Iowa and will do so comfortably.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right, very good Taco Time pick of the week.
And I still got a couple of minutes, so I
get to actually ask you about the mess at LSU
before we get done here. So are they really trying
to back out of owing Brian Kelly the money that
they so proudly were willing to eat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This is the new game. This is the new game
because of this, you know, giant contracts. What happens now
is they hire private investigators to basically look into the
life of the head coach, and they're trying to find
some dirt, some thing that qualifies under that could get
(17:56):
you out. I mean you imagine like putting pictures down
somebody's personal life and saying, hey, you've got to take
this money or we're going to let out these pictures.
And and it's disgusting. No one put a gun to
the h and set up for Brian Kelly, this much did.
(18:19):
But they did. And and the fact that the guy
wants the money, I mean, he didn't want to be fired.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, just stay there.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But the fact that they would fight him love is
disgusting and unfortunate, but it's the it's the sign of
the times.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, for no other reason, we got to get our
arms around this because we just can't let this keep
de evolving, you know, this this sort of activity. So
oh man, these are ripples I did not see coming
on this pond. So coach, thank you, we appreciate your
great stuff. I hope you can somehow swing it, maybe
(18:58):
clone yourself between now and Saturday, so you can get
out here to get on or alongside your team.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It would be a treat to be back in Husky Stadium.
But those boys will they'll cherish the memories. They'll cherish
the memories. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, thanks coach Rick new Iel joining us right here.
His segment brought to you by Taco Time. I was
gonna try to make you feel like your radio was
going nuts and do one of these things like coming
back moment, bucking and I but no, that was not
your radio. Some of them was going along with his phone.
(19:35):
But he was talking about some really interesting stuff and
it was the last question of the segment. So I
was trying to push through. There we did. We got
through it.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
You got the gist of what he was saying, is
doing that?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, I think you got the gist. The gist was gotten. Yep.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Run, it's already been burtt in all right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Coming up next, the old judge stops by, and man,
we a bone or two to pick with him on
kJ R is now in the court room fifty fifth. Yep.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
It's quite a family, quite a lineage.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I mean by people before me or having more babies, right, yes,
in order for me to keep getting further down the line.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Okay, wait, good on your grandpa. I think I said
fifty fifth every time? Oh is it every single time? Yeah? Definitely, Yeah,
pretty consistent with that.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
He thinks he said fifty fifth every time you sold that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It goes all the way back to your Scandinavian roots.
The Cornhole legacy is it's long, quite strong. Yeah, it's deep.
A lot of Vikings named cornhole.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Oh oh that's what you think.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well, maybe not in their native tongue.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
It was like horn yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, a lot of them named horn hung. Yeah.
So anyway, we're very impressed with your lineage. By the way,
before we get going with the Old Judge, Seattle International
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Discover your Drive for tickets Seattle Autoshow dot com. All right,
this is how the Old Judge works. Once week, the
Old Judge comes into our studios with his big giant gabble,
and I bring up a few subjects that Ashley and
I discuss. Once the judge has hurt enough of our nonsense,
he slams his gavel. Gabble, gabble, gavel, and then he
(21:35):
sets the record straight. And it does become official in
the annals of history, does it? Though? It is officially
spoken in the annals of history? Okay, that's true. Okay, yeah,
it is officially.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
It has been said, right, it's been there.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Whatever you say will be said.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Will have good said, someone will have heard it right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Right at that?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
All right, Well, let's get into it. I got a
pretty lengthy list here today in the courtroom. Dan Wilson
will and should win the American League Manager of the
Year award tonight.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I'm sorry, Dan, but no, and no, I am not
as down on Dan Wilson as some people.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I will say, but that would be hard to do.
But I I do not think.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I do think there was still enough questions and enough
question marks that we had this season that there's room
for improvement. And I wouldn't put him as the top
of the American League.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, I mean, he's the only manager I watched manage
every game this year, but I had enough problems with
him that here, even in Seattle. I don't think that
he should. I think it should be Alex Cora, who's
not even a finalist. And I also don't think that
he will. I think John Schneider will win. Me cavill Gall.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
No, I don't think he's going to win. And as
much as I would like to say I think he should,
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna attempt to try to
dissect it down because I can't dissect John Schneider and
Steven Vote the way that I can dissect him. Was
he perfect? Nope, not even close to it. Is there
things that I disagree with, sure, But.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I think he did a really good job.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, he did end up taking this team that
they had to stick around before the trade deadline moves.
They had to be within it to where the organization
wanted to go for it, and so he did a
darn good job basically from starting to finish, of putting
these guys in a position to where they would go
make moves, and then when they did, we were as
close to gett into a World Series as possible that said,
(23:46):
I just give I give the nod to John Schneider
because of the well documented overhaul of what they did
as far as their offensive production, how they went about
having better at bats, and we watched for seven games
against US in seven games against the Dodgers as well,
So to me, i'd give it.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
To John Schneider a lot of games against the Yankees though,
because the Yankees sucked.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Speaking of John Schneider, John Schneider and Mike McDonald are
the NFL's hottest coach GM combo.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Right now, it's hard to see who might be well. Philadelphia, Yeah,
I'd say right now in this moment, especially recency bias,
two blowout wins, you made a trade just to amp
up an already good looking offense.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
You've got a very strong defense. It looks right now
like you are pulling all the right strings. So in
this very moment, yes, they are the hottest duo.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I agree with you. They're not the best, they're not
the most accomplished, certainly, but man, this feels like a
marriage made in heaven. John's coming off maybe his best
draft that he's ever had, seemed to push all the
right buttons. Took a year for he and Mike to
get on the same page on the type of personnel
that Mike needed to run the program as he saw
(25:09):
it in his brilliant, weird genius mind of his. And
even guys I said this Monday, Ty Okadau and Drake Thomas,
like John's in this position now. It's like even when
I just pick off a couple scrubs, you've turned them
into something good. Yeah. So I think they're magical right now.
I don't think they're the best, but I do think
(25:31):
they are the.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Hottest Caravel Cavil. It's hard to argue with them not
being the hottest. I mean, to me, if you're talking
about the hottest, you're talking about temperature right now. Well,
I mean they've in the last couple few weeks have
jumped from a team that maybe going into the season
was like, I think this team might be pretty good.
Like what they saw out of defense. We'll see what
Sam Donald's all about. Well, the idea to move on
(25:56):
from who they had at quarterback before to Sam Donald.
Combine that with the defense that still looks like it's
growing and flourishing. It doesn't feel like it's capped out
by any stretch. They played a bunch of this season
without all their players, for crying out loud, and so yeah,
I think that there's they probably are. They've climbed up
to the top of the power ranking, so I think
that that's an entire organization thing. I think Mike McDonald
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was recognized as a defensive guru, I mean, a mastermind
at that side, and now it's coming to fruition. You're
seeing that it that's not false. So that's John Schneider
good good choice on picking him and then pulling all
the strings that they've pulled and bringing in the most
important position and looking like an upgrade in Sam Donald
who's playing like an MVP as of late anyways, most
(26:41):
of the season. Anyways, Yeah, I think they probably are
the hottest. Good job judge.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
That take was.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Hot, sizzling, that's right.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The Bengals should just set Joe Burrow at this point
for the rest of a loss season and start fresh
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
No, and I don't think that Joe Burrow wants them
to just sit him. I mean, he said he's been
trying everything to get his toe back to being okay
and being ready to play, And I don't think there's
especially right now. I don't think their season is lost yet.
Now if they lose the next two games leading up
to Thanksgiving, well then maybe you're looking at trying to
give him a little bit more time to be healthy
(27:19):
and not push it, because the last thing you want
is a set back. But right now, two weeks to
go till he thinks he's coming back.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
No, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I'm with you one hundred percent. And then I would
just add something to it. I think Joe Burrow needs
to freaking play some football. Is this gonna happen every
year with you? Dude? And by the way, this whole
brave I stay in the pocket and take hits. It's stupid. Yeah,
get rid of the damn football because you can't withstand
the punishment that you are willingly taking on the football field.
(27:50):
Talk to Tom Brady in the offseason on how to get
rid of the football because your team needs you. Gavel, gavel, Gavel.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I think for sure they should allow him to come
back if he's ready to come back, because of the
division they play, and the leader in that division right
now is the Steelers and they're five and four, so
there are two games ahead of them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So it's right there. Now.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I think that the Ravens are getting healthy and the
Ravens are probably the team to beat in that division,
but all kinds of crazy things can happen. You've got
a whole second half of the season to play, and
their best chance is to have him at the helm.
But I like your point there, that little added thing where, yeah,
it's good for you. I like being I like guys
that are tough. They're standing willing to stand there and
(28:29):
throw when they're looking down the barrel at a pass
rusher coming at them. At the same time, you got
to protect yourself. It's like, you know, your availability is
one of your best best abilities, and he hasn't been
very available.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Having every year to him and it's just like he
wears this badge of honor of like I'll take the hit. Well,
you're stupid.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yeah, no one's ever questioned his toughness, that's for sure.
But you know at some point it is going to
catch up with you, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Finally, it is perfectly awesome that somebody may or may
not have had his or her first cup of holiday
eggnog last night on November tenth.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Cavel Gavel Cavel cavel. Hell, no, wait a minute, we
didn't even get that answer.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, thrown court, bring nonsense, whoever you are. Bet it
was delicious.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I bet it was fire in the fireplace, or at
least you had.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
One on in your mind.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I bet there was.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I bet there was see wait to soak it all.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
And I bet, dumb cavel, I bet it was so good,
dumb that this person had a.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Second God, this person might be my new hero.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And this person didn't even put alcohol in it. Oh wow,
wait till the alcohol. That's cavel gavel.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Okay, you're onto something that you did put alcohol to,
just have the festive drink with no alcohol?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Pretty delicious contempt. Contempt, Maggie, I mean this person, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
This person might need to how to upgrade this supposed
up nog.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, now I get to do I mean, this person
gets to do it again in another time the right way.
Guilty of premature celebration. Guilty. This person's got a huge heart.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I think that's that having that nog that's equivalent of
three pumps.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well done. One last thing's next Sports Radio ninety three
point three kJ r f M. My final segment here
on chugging Back here on this Tuesday, it's time for
one last thing. We go round the room, round the horn.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Some people that would have been a good show, name
well maybe Buck got.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Obviously the day we'll find out today where Dan Wilson
lands on the Manager of the Year award.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And and I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
To be frustrated or upset, right, I mean, it's I
would vote for him, but then again that's probably just
it is just because I know him and I like him,
and I'm I think that he did a good enough job.
So but that said, it's it's rower right almost here,
cal Rawley better win the MVP. I know that there's
a lot of people probably leading the direction. I love
(31:17):
Aaron Judge, I love what he does, but it's just
not even close in my opinion, and not even close,
not even close, not even close to the I mean,
the most outstanding offensive season, Aaron Judge, the most Valuable Player.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's not even close. Well, we're gonna talk a lot
about it, by the way, for the next three days.
I do think it's close, but I do think it's
also definitive Like I mean, I think it's a close vote,
but I think it's definitively col.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah, that to me, that feels like it's not I mean,
if it's definitive, I feel like it's not close to me.
It's just there's just too many things that should go
into any most race, and it can be obvious that
you won the race.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You could have a like, you know, a photo finish,
and it can be very obvious who won the race,
but it could still be a close race.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I guess, yeah, if you look at it as a
photo finish, but yeah, you can tell without having to
go down to the super duper slow motion. It just
seems not even close to me, to be honest, It
just because of how valuable it is the po to
play the position that he played plays just doesn't even
seem close to me when you compare that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, Well that's Thursday. We'll be talking about it
a lot the next couple of days, Ashley. What's your
won last thing?
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Well, this happened over the weekend, but obviously I didn't.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I don't get to do a one last thing on Mondays,
so I've been saving it. So I just wanted to
give a shout out to dub women's soccer because they
had a very low point and a very high point
all in one week, losing their goalie Mia Hammett to
a tremendously courageous cancer battle, and then going out and
winning the Big Ten championship in penalty kicks. Not every
team in Seattle struggles in penalty kicks. Kidding, kidding, kidding,
(32:59):
kidd from inside the house. So mad, Yeah, no, I'm
sure Jackson was mad at the first game. I'm not
talking about the game three. Their penalty kicks. First game,
there was no excuse to miss those. But we were
talking about you dub soccer. So they will now head
to the Women's College Cup in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But they don't.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
It doesn't start un till December fifth, so they've got
a while of practice and waiting and.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
We at least that's consistent with the MLS. They have
a weird schedule.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Yeah, wait a month and then play again.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Makes sense? Well, they will they blend in a tournament
or three.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Probably. There's a couple of the books.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Okay, yeah, I did see who they are.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
It was Liberty that they beat Michigan State. No, no, no,
the face Montana.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Montana, Yeah, okay, Montana. I think when I think of Montana,
I think of Liberty.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yep, and Ryan Divish.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, all right, I will close uh with this. Uh,
we were talking earlier. I've referenced this a couple of times,
but Dick Vane's pager and I was just telling Bucky
during the break. I get your thought on this, Like,
I get like the phones that we have and they're marbles.
(34:10):
They're just technological marbles, there's no getting around it. And
I get like how convenient they are for us, and
especially when you have children and you know you're worried
about your you know, your wife's well being, or if
you get stranded on the side of your own well being,
you get stranded on the side of the road. It's
I mean, that is the best thing about these phones.
(34:34):
That said, since I really, since I don't have children,
and since I really don't worry about my own safety.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
The idea of Dick Fane's pager world. When we you
got home and you went to your answering machine and
you were so excited to have like four messages on
your answering machine. Oh four messages, Yeah, and you played
them back versus, damn it, who's calling me now? I
(35:02):
don't want to talk. I can't talk now. That that
mentality that I have now about getting phone calls because
of this thing, this apparatus right here, versus once upon
a time I used to love coming home to how
many people called me. I don't know what happened. I
don't know what changed, but I blame this thing. Yeah, well,
(35:22):
at one point I did not.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
I didn't realize how much I didn't want to be
able to be contacted until I was able to be
contacted exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, that's the best way of putting it right there.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yeah, this is for outgoing calls, incoming texts, but outgoing
phone calls. I don't know the last time I answered
a phone called it it was like, no, if I
thanks for calling.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But if I was wanting to talk to you right now.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
I would have called you or I would have texted you,
probably said, hey, did you want to chat for a minute.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I didn't. I just think Dick Fane's page Your World
where he really needed to know when he got his calls,
so you can get to that. Well, he was either
that or he was selling drugs in college.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Sorry, mister, it's probably the drug aspect. I just don't
know what was going on that makes the most sense.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I don't know what do you need a pager. I
never had a pager. I never did either. I never
did either. Yeah, but that was by that world, Like
if you really had to know your phone calls, that's
what you had it for. If I really need to
know this moment, who's trying to get a hold of me,
I have a pager, and then I can go find
a phone as soon as possible so that I can
(36:33):
call this person back. I didn't have one. I don't
think you're unless you were a drug dealer. I don't
think your life was that important. It might have been.
He might have been the band's rug. I'm going with it. Yeah, yeah,
all right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at six am.
Coming up next, it's Kid and It's MJ on Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM.
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