December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
- SCOTT EKLUND (Dawgman247) joins us on National Signing Day and the Dawgs have landed a big recruit in Trez Davis. Scott gives us all the details on the newest Husky recruiting class. Where is the local talent going or has it been a down year in the state? :30- AL KINISKY (Kraken Audio Network Color Analyst) The Kraken haven’t played since Saturday, but they’re back at it tomorrow in Edmonton who had their number when the teams met last time. Can they get vengeance tomorrow? What’s up with the power play and how can we fix it? Any injury updates? :45- We close out the show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Signing Day, and that is pretty much an annual reason
for Ashley and I to call out for Scott Ekland
to join us here on the radio program from the
dog Man. Guys, you can follow Scott. They do tremendous
work of recruiting and covering Washington Athletics. Make sure you're
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following Scott personally at Scott e k l U n
D there on Twitter, and it will lead you to
all of his wonderful work on his various websites, which
we will cover here in a moment. But let me
first tell Scott Eckland, Hey, Happy National Signing Day to you, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Thanks man early Christmas for recruiting as definitely I know.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I know, I know this is it for you. So
and it sounds like Washington got a nice little surprise
gift under the tree here this morning. We got breaking
news to deal with here, Scott, what can you tell
us about wide receiver Tres Davis.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, it's I'm pretty sure. I've only talked to him
once and I didn't ask him out. It's pronounced his name,
but I'm pretty people have told me it's Trey Davis.
Trade Davis six six out of West Monroe, Louisiana can
do a lot of different things for you. Isn't Isn't
a guy who you can kind of pigeonhole in one
one area. He's a he's got he's got really good speed.
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That's kind of his trademark. He's got great open field
running ability. UH could actually be in a return man
at some point. So Washington is doing a lot to
upgrade the the weapons outside that are at the disposal
of Demon Williams, because if you want Demon Williams to
have success, obviously he's got to have an offensive line
in front him, but he's also got to have some
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people to throw to. And over the last two classes,
this is this now makes I believe it's ten wide
receivers in the UH in their recruit last two recruiting classes.
And so they've added a lot of talent, and now
we need to see see what it looks like in
springball and how things kind of pan out the way
they battle.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Scott Ecklund is though, this talking about Husky recruiting here
on the National Signing Day, And of course, so now
most of this stuff has already been done, so we'll
get to some of the things that have already been accomplished,
But what else are you working on? What else are
you keeping an eye on? What else could break today
that we would put in the you know, breaking news category?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well as far as what are we waiting on, We're
waiting on ten more guys to get their letters in
and some of the the you know, some of those
guys are some of the biggest guys in the class,
including Cody Green, a five star officsive tackle out of
Southern California. He's a local kid that went that moved
down to modern day kind of that legendary program down there.
He's we're still waiting on him to sign. He's going
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to sign a little later this morning. Brian Bonner, the
big time running back out of Valencia that Washington was
able to get in the class. They also have raj
On Duncan who is a cornerback defensive back out of mcclimbon's.
So we're still kind of waiting on some of those.
Another ones, Jaron Jones, who a lot of people are
comparing to a guy like Trent McDuffie, which Tusky fans
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saw on other Trent McDuffie out there. I think they'd
be pretty happy about that. So just ten guys. I'm
not worried about any of them except for one, Dre Pollard.
He's a guy who is kind of deciding between Washington
and Stamford. He committed to Washington a while ago. He's
out of Clark High School in Las Vegas. That if
you want to talk about breaking news, that's kind of
what we're waiting for, waiting to see what he's done.
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He's kind of gone dark, not really talking to a
lot of people. So it's a lot of second and
third hand sources, school sources, program sources, and things like that.
Some people are saying he's locked in with Washington, some
people are saying he's headed to Stanford, and then others
are saying he hasn't made up his mind yet. So
it's it's kind of those crazy pre draft information that
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guys like melk Hyper guys you know that that followed
the draft so closely get and and you just have
to kind of sort through it and figure out what's
real and what isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Where's all the local talent this year, Scott, where's the
Washington High school talent? Because I mean, there are various
lists out there and the players are few and far between.
This particular recruiting year coming out of the state of Washington,
and it felt to me like, Man, the state of
Washington high school football had been on a role here. Hell,
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we practically handed Ohio state and national championship here last year.
So has this just been a down year for high
school talent here in Washington.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, I mean, Washington does have four local guys committed
to them, Tom Malou out of Annie right, it's only
in their second year as with a football program. They
got the top guy in the state, Derek Coleman Brus
out of Kennedy Catholic. They also have let's see Audiyong Yang,
an officive lineman out of pew All Up. And there's
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one more that I know I'm forgetting off the top
of my head, but you know, they've got several guys.
Oh ramzak Froon who just admitted out of Bethel High School.
He was Adrius Rainey Salay's teammate down at Bethel High
School down there and span Away. So you know, they
got some of the top guys in the state. But
as far as you know, some of the Washington offered
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ten guys in I think actually it might be eleven
guys in the state of Washington. This pat this this
recruiting cycle, but there was only like four or five
that they really pursued hard. Another one could be adding
his name to the list later this week. Brendan Huffman
kind of broke this on our message board. I don't
want to take credit for it, but Brendon Huffman broke
that David Schwerzel, a defensive lineman out of Oday High School,
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had committed to UCLA, flipped to Stanford when the UCLA
situation happened and they fired Deshaun Foster, and then recommitted
to UCLA. I think it was Monday, It might have
been yesterday, but definitely on Monday or yesterday that he
recommitted to UCLA And now things are back open and
it sounds like Washington has a good chance of reeling
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him in. But it might not happen today. It might
happen either tomorrow or Friday. So you know, we'll just
have to wait and see on that. But as far
as you know, do we have guys on the caliber
of the Mecca at A Buka and uh and the
other guy I'm totally z who had Molaau. So yeah,
those guys. There just haven't been guys on that level yet,
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you know, in the last couple of years. Now Derek
Coleman Brussa has that potential, but I mean he's he's
a legit six five, two hundred and seventy five pounds
and he's gonna play defensive end defensive tackle for Washington.
He's a lot like J. T. Two Malau and a
lot of what he does might not be quite on
that elite athleticism, you know level yet, but he's pretty
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close and not far away. But you know, there just
hasn't been the same kind of five star talent to
come out of the state and if there did. If
there had been, Washington would be competing with everybody in
the country like they did with Derek Coleman Brusa, but
they would be doing it for multiple guys instead of
just Colan brus So that I mean, you know, it
isn't a bad class, and I think the depth of
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the class is pretty good because there's a lot of
guys who are signing with powerful programs, but right now
Washington turned their focus to about five or six key
guys and those are the ones who are signing with them.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Scott Eckland is with us covering high school recruits on
twenty four to seven at Dogman and twenty four to
seven sports dot Com as well, and he's joining us
here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning, says he
always does on the National Signing Day his Christmas as
we talk about Washington recruiting and just overall national recruiting,
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because let's face it, we're in a transition period in
a lot of ways in college football. Scott, I mean,
this day has changed for you, for players, for coaches,
for staffs everywhere. And I mean I just I look
at the top three hundred and you've got a guy
going to Maryland. For goodness, Ay, when Maryland never get
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a top ten recruit. We saw guys flip from Georgia
to Vanderbilt yesterday. I mean, things are things are weird,
things are different, and maybe good. I don't know. How
do you feel about it as somebody that has loved
this recruiting process your entire.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Life, Well, I don't love the direction things are going now.
I will say I do like the fact that the
blue blood programs, the the you know, top ten programs
in the country. That's schools like Oregon and you know,
from a marketing standpoint, they haven't been a top ten
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program from a win standpoint, but they seem to always
be in that group, in that top ten group, especially
on the recruiting trail. But schools like Oregon school schools
like Ohio State, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Michigan, schools like
that are having to battle a lot harder with these
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up and coming programs, is what I'd like to call them,
you know, or programs that have a good reputation, they
might just not be They might be right on that
outside of the of the blue blood program kind of situation. So,
you know, NIL has obviously changed a lot of that.
The fact that kids can transfer all over the place,
I mean one of the things that I think. I
mean that they've got to figure out a way to
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do in an equitable way, because I don't think players
shouldn't have the ability to move around if the coach
that they signed with leaves. Because you go to a job,
guess what you have to You have to either stick
it out or you can leave if you don't want
to work for the people that are that own that business.
And same with with colleges. You know, if a kid's
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going to a school and things just aren't working out
there for whatever reason, he should be able to leave.
But we're not going to let players do that. So
I don't know how to do it. People a lot
smarter than me have to figure this out. But the
problem is the fan bases have no buy in on
it with a lot of these kids, because they know
that the second jetfish decides to go to an NFL
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program for a you know, as a take a job
with an NFL team, or they know that, you know,
the USC fans know that Lincoln Riley could be looking
somewhere else, or Ryan Day or you know, all these
coaches that either could get fired or could leave for
greener pastures. Those kids can just jump right into the portal.
And so that's why a lot of these coaches are
advocating for the portal not to open until after springball,
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even for kids whose coaches left. That way, hey, they
get a chance to be be recruited by the new staff,
and they also get a chance to work with them
during spring football, and then they can make an educated
decision instead of these snap judgments that these kids make
that they have to make because they only get like
a five or fifteen day window, whatever it is to
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make that decision. So I think the luster is a
little bit off of signing day like that compared to
what it used to be, just because a lot of
fans don't have that buy in with these guys because
they know they could leave at the drop of a hat.
But you know, it's still an important building process for
Washington and all these other programs, and so a lot
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of fans are still bought in. I think they just
aren't quite as bought in as they were before.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There's the potential for my favorite sports story of the year,
and it could go down today. It might be happening
right before our eyes. I'm sure you know more about
this than I do, and so I do want to
get your take on it. But the number one overall
prospect in the country, not in every circle, I'm sure,
but in a lot of circles is LSU pledge Lamar Brown.
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And the story today is that maybe he's not going
to sign with LSU. So there is a chance that
this kid out of Mississippi and Lane Kiffin, who had
to leave Ole, miss just to get the LSU in
time for today so that he didn't lose recruits, might
lose the best recruit in the country. And believe me, Scott,
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I would like nothing more in the world than if
we found out in an hour Lamar R. Brown is
signing with ole miss and the whole reason he was
leaving the state to begin with is because he hated
Lane Kiffin's guts. That would be amazing, Scott.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, Lane Kiffin is is
a lightning rod. Definitely, he draws it, he doesn't shrink
away from it, and you know he can be entertaining
at times, but there's other times when you're just shut up,
just do you know whatever. And I don't know if
you've seen the tweets from from some of his former
players that are out there that where he said, you know,
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the team asked me to stay, but the school wouldn't
let me, and the players like, yeah, that isn't what
you said in your meeting with us, Wow, And nobody
nobody said that to us or to you. Nobody none
of us said that you they wanted you to stay
and coach, so that, you know, I mean, that's just
kind of who he is and you know that going in.
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But yeah, I mean, it's happened a lot. I mean, dude,
this is the least craziest thing that could happen on
signing day. There was one where a kid faxed in
his letter of intent upside down to the school that
he had pledged to, and then they sent it back.
They said, hey, you need to turn it over and
send it. This is when they sent faxes by the way, right,
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you need to you need to send it back to
a space up and so he said, okay, I will,
and then he faxed it into Ohio State, so to
a different school. There's another one where a mom wouldn't
refuse to sign and ran away with the letter of intent,
wouldn't let the kids sign. So trust me, there is
as crazy as it sounds. What you the scenario you
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you mapped out, and don't get me wrong, it's still crazy,
but it doesn't even it isn't even a realm of
what could be crazy on finning day.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Scott Ecklin is whether it's he's seen a signing day
or two from a dog man joining us here to
talk about what you dubb is doing primarily and so
let's go back to that to finish out the conversation.
I mean, I'm seeing top twenty. Is that good with you?
Do you like this class for Jedfish? Is it another
example of a step in the right direction for building
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this program.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, it is top twenty, but it's actually top thirteen.
It's number thirteen in the country. So the scary thing
is it is the fifth best class in the Big ten,
and in the Big ten has five of the top thirteen,
and at the SEC has six of the top thirteen
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in the country. So that means there's only two programs
and that's Notre Dame and Miami that have better classes
that aren't in one of the big two conferences. So
it just shows you how a lot of as much
as we might say things have kind of opened up,
the talent level is still going to the top two
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conferences in the country. Yeah, in the Big ten in
the SEC, so but no, as far as Washington love
the class, I mean they got the best guy from
the state of Washington. They got two of the three
best from the state of Nevada in Gavin Day of
the Safety Out of Faith Lutheran and and then Dominic Carris,
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one of the top linemen on their board of six
eight three and fifty pounds offensive tackle. They've got, they've
got some good running backs. They've got a heck of
a wide receiver class in Mason James out of Norman
North in Oklahoma, Blaze Lavisa out of Illinois. And then
they got the two guys you know we met. We
talked about Trey Davis earlier. We didn't even mention Jordan Clay,
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who might be the biggest get of the four, and
he committed to Washington yesterday. He flipped his commitment from
Baylor to Washington. He's out of Texas, San Antonio, San
Antonio something. He's out of San Antonio, so anyway, he's
had a he's had a program down there. So Washington
has one of the best wide receiver classes. He's six three,
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two hundred pounds, Blaze Lavisa's about six to one five.
You also have Mason James, who's a little on the
smaller side. He's more of like your slot receiver. And
then you got Trey Davis who can do a bunch
of different things for you. So they're wide receiver classes.
I don't want to say it's second to none, but
it's it's pretty darn good. And then you got a
really good defensive back class and Kasani Giles, Gavin Day,
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who I already mentioned, you got Jaron Jones, Uh, you
got some big time guys. Two more other big time
guys in the class from that are defensive back, so
it's it's a really good solid overall class. The defensive
line is really picked up from a recruiting standpoint over
the last couple of weeks. And getting David Schwerzel just
add another great piece if they do end up getting
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him by the end of the week. So just a
good overall building class and something that Jedfish can go. Okay,
now we can turn to the portal see how many
guys of ours are deciding to leave and how we
need to fill in things because they're losing there's two
starting corners, they're they're losing five or six defensive lineman
from the rotation. They're losing two of their offensive linemen
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to graduation and Garon Hatchett and Carver Willis. So they've
got some work to do to fill in some holes.
But the talent level is definitely building for Washington.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Excellent, excellent, excellent. All right, Tom, let's promote something where
people need to know to get this information all day
long from you and your gang.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, first thing that people need to know is the
two four seven Sports national broadcast is up on our board.
So just go over to dog Man dawg m an
dot com. Sign in there, get on our recruiting board,
I'm sorry, on our Signing Day board, and that's where
all of the information is. We have that pinned up
at the top for you. You can watch that show
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over there. We've got all of the commits as they
come in and with their signings. We're updating all those things,
and we're gonna have some superlatives from the class that
I usually do. Usually I do it the day after,
but it's probably gonna be two days after because i
am down in Hawaii, So I'm going to spend some
time with my family. Haven't been able to do that
this whole week because I've been getting ready for today.
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So I'm gonna spend some time with the family later
today and then but have something up for you guys
on Friday on superlatives. And also I'll look ahead of
what the twenty twenty seven classes because we never stop
on the recruiting trail. So come on over to dog Man.
Lots of stuff to talk about all.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Right, awesome stuff. Thank you as always, we appreciate. We'll
bug you real soon.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, sounds good. Check you guys have a good one,
all right.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Scott Eckland joining us again. Go to two four seven
sports dot Com Washington dot two four seven Sports dot Com.
Also follow me at Dogman two four seven as well.
They always do a tremendous job covering Washington Athletics and
particularly the recruiting aspect of it. So big day for
him today, Christmas for Scott Ekland and the dog Man guys,
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and I hope they enjoyed it all. Coming up next,
Al Kanisky's gonna join us every day with Al's like Christmas.
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. Oh every Wednesday,
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humday we get the chance to chat with color analysts
for yours. Yeah, it'll cracking back in action tomorrow against
the Edmonton Oilers. Al Kiniski is with us right here
on Chuck and Buck. Good morning out, Good morning Chuck, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Happy week after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Did
you have a nice celebration?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I did? I did, and I'm paying for it now,
you know, go tight things up the queen now and crystals,
so I can eat the same way and geez, less
than three weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, I'm wondering. I guess Bucky ate turkey for like
sixteen straight meals and he loved every second of it.
So he's not one that complains about leftovers.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
L No, nothing wrong with from leftover turkey for turkey sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, Well, we've got an issue with this cracking
team all of a sudden this year. And I realize
you go through hot and cold spells, and so I'm
not so worried about a three game losing streak at
this point in the year. But should I be worried
about a power play that suddenly has gone ice ice
cold here? Ol?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, I mean, it's tough to put your finger on
what's going on. I will say, you know, you're coming
off of a few games with teams with fantastic special
teams groups. Now that's not an excuse because you're going
to face those throughout the season. But I think this
team is just looking for that right combination of guys,
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that right to set up in the offensive zone. There.
You know, I started counting shot at Temps last games
on the power play and it's not like they're only
getting one or two shot attemps. There are a temp
to put the puck on net, but for whatever reason,
it's missing the net, it's getting blocked, it's getting deflected
up over the glass, and so the shot attempts are there.
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They've got to find ways to get the puck through,
and I think a little more traffic in front and
you'll start seeing more of these goals either going off
of deflections that are intentional by it by cracking players,
or they'll create secondary chances that then cracking players can
pick up and find the rebounds on.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, let's play a little armchair Lane Lambert here. I mean,
what kind of combination would you like to see him
try to maybe unlock this thing. Who are some players
that you think could possibly create some chemistry there on
the power play?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Well, I think there's a couple of parts to that answer.
Number one is, you know, on the downside, you've lost
Jaden Schwartz for a period of time and he was
a key part of the power play. But it creates
opportunities for others. So if I'm Lane Lambert, I'm obviously
excited to have Jared McCann back he's been back for
a couple of games so far, He's obviously a part
of that power play and can have a big impact
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on it. So if we say, like for like, maybe
Jaden Schwartz and Jared McCann are are, you know, balance
each other out? You know what, one takes it down,
one brings it up, and you think, well who else
could be out there? Well, because of Jaden Schwartz being injured,
you're giving Berkeley to cat In a chance on the
power play as well. And he hasn't scored a goal yet,
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but I see it so coming, so close, and I
think that, you know, one of the things Lane Lamberte
said yesterday is you know he wants to puck. He
you know, he's so close, and I think once he
starts gets his first one, they'll start coming in bunches.
So between Jared McCann being back and the opportunity for
Berkeley Catten to get in and a couple of games
with these guys getting some power play time under their belts,
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I think you'll start to see that percentage start to
inch back up.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
How long is Schwartz going to be out? What are
you hearing?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, we're hearing four to six weeks. And it's crazy, Chuck,
because this season we're hearing about so many injuries and
it's not Hey, you know, he's going to be out
for a few days or a week. You know, it's
it's four to six weeks. In some cases it's months.
You know, Like, the injuries are real this season. And
I don't know if it's the compressed schedule that's causing this.
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I'm sure somebody is going to do some research and
figure out how many you know, injuries called them low, mid,
and high level. You know, days, weeks, and months have
happened in the first twenty four games this season versus
last season, this season before, but it feels like it's higher.
So yeah, that's what we're hearing about. Jayden Schwartz is
four to six weeks and you know, we probably won't
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see him back on the ice until January.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
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action tomorrow. Maybe a little extra rest will help, but
certainly the opponent doesn't help. This is a team and
Edmonton that we know is one of the most talented
in all of the National Hockey League and they just
beat you for four to squad the last time you
played them. So not exactly the easiest team to get
back on the horse with.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
No, it's not, but I'll tell you check. The team
has had four days of practice, and if you look
at the schedule, other than maybe the Olympic break, there
isn't a break where you get that much time to
work on your game. And I think it's been a
good opportunity for the guys to, like I said, get
through that Thanksgiving break, have four days of practice, look
at film, look at what went wrong in that last
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Edmonton game, and then roll into Edmonton tomorrow with a
bit of a chip on their shoulder. And I think
you're going to see that in this game, whether it
be the physicality of the game, whether it be the
intensity of the game. Think the guys are a little
a little annoyed of how how things went last game,
and you're going to see a very different outcome. At
least that's what I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is this offensive thing just going to be an issue
all year long? It certainly was last year. We didn't
win as many one goal games a year ago. The
defense didn't seem to be quite as sharp as it
was the previous season. And so I mean, is this
offensive thing we were feeling earlier in the year like
maybe that that issue had been solved a little bit?
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Are you what is your long term expectation of whether
or not we've got the offensive pieces for this not
to become a problem.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
You know, Chuck, I went to the Seahawk game on Sunday,
and I think after the fourth field goal and defensive touchdown,
I thought, does this team not know how to score touchdowns?
But they end up winning it. They end up shutting
out you know, their opponent in the Detroit Lions. It's like, well,
wait a second, defense does matter here, and you know,
there are other ways to win ball games. And I
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think that's what the Kraken are dealing with this season,
is they're recognizing that scoring isn't necessarily an issue, as
you say, It's just that defense is the priority and
keeping the opposition you know, with goals against low enough
where you stay in the game for as long as possible,
and then taking advantage of your opportunities when you get them. Now,
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the part of those opportunities see above is the power play.
You have to take advantage of those because that's your
chance to get on the board if you're keeping the
opposition at two goals, at three goals, at one whatever.
But I think you're not going to see a lot
of games from this team where they win six nothing
in whatever city or against whatever team they're playing. It's
going to be a lot of four to two wins,
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three to one wins, three two wins. And you know,
from a player's perspective, I'm okay with that. You know,
sometimes the fans don't like it. They want to see
a lot of goals, But at the end of the day,
the players just want to know what's the strategy on
how to win hockey games. And if it's a defense
for mentality, then you've got all twenty guys pulling in
the same direction. They'll go out and do it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Just win baby, Just win baby. That's what it's all about,
all right. Okay, so you talked about Thanksgiving, what's your
closing move. What's your pie? What's your go to pie
at the end of Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Well, I love a pecan pie and I get it
in simple It's butter, it's sugar, it's pecans. But you
know what, it's a simple pie. It's delicious. My mother
in law makes it homemade, and I swear I end
up eating about three quarters of it because it mostly
because I don't share it with anybody, but I do
not like pumpkin pie, so everybody else can enjoy that
on their own. And you actually had apple pie on
(27:36):
the table this year as well, So three different kinds
of pie on the Kanskie Thanksgiving table, and I eat
most of one of them.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All right, The Caniskys, they think of it all I
really do. All right, man, Well, thank you very much.
We'll be listening tomorrow night, and we'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
All right, Chuck talk you Den, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
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Everett fits you and Al KINISKI will be on the
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than what he was The last call of a crack
(28:16):
compie sounds really good. I like the conpie. It kind
of gets overlooked in the conversation.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
I don't want like a lot of it, but I
want a piece.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
But I do love pumpkin and I was not like
that as a kid. But I can't even imagine Thanksgiving it.
I feel bad for people that don't like pumpkin pie.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I don't not like it. It's just not my go to.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well it's the go to.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But you don't like coffee. That's the key, because the
pairing of the two is the best.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I would never drink coffee at and I didn't drink.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Coffee as a kid, and it's probably why I didn't
like pumpkin pie.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And you do like like a pumpkin spice latte, don't you?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I do?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I used to get it every year, but I stopped
doing that when I moved here. I was forced.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, I get it by powers beyond softy.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yes, let's call it softy, all right? We're going to
close out the show with one last thing. Next al
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for you to do. But we're going to close out
the show with one last thing. No Bucky Jacobson, he
took off on us at nine o'clock. He's going to
go down and party with buddies.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Oh yeah, it's Benny's birthday bash.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh, Benny's Birthday Bash.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It is a hoot annual tradition.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Can you imagine the fiftieth. Can you imagine the high jinks.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Oh, it's going to be madness.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I think Benny's going to be mailed to another country.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I hope so, because that'd be funny, not for Benny's sake,
just for fun and a big crate.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I think that's how that's going to end up. I
think it's very hangover, like classic Benny class. It's a
classic Benny Friends move.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
That's right, classic Jets move.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Uh huh, all right, Ashley, what is your one last thing?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Well, we got a text earlier today talking about how
you Dub Oregon is not a rivalry game because you
Dub has not beaten Oregon very much in the last
twenty years. So I said, well, that's not quite how
a rivalry works, Like, it's not just about if one
team's dominant now then there's the rivalry's over. And he's like, yeah,
that's exactly how it works. It's a historical matchup. But
(31:06):
UDUB isn't close to Oregon's biggest game on the schedule. Okay,
well that's not always true, so it.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Wasn't even true two years agame, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
So Also, I didn't want to. I just wanted to.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
It's interesting because this isn't the first text we've gotten
that of people that don't quite understand rivalries and how
they come about or how they stick around. And so
I went to our trustee online just to say, does
a rivalry game have to be the biggest game on
a team schedule? And AI says, no, it does not
have to be the biggest game, but sometimes it could be,
(31:40):
especially if championship or playoff implications are also on the line.
Factors that make a rivalry game big. This is a
rivalry game, deep historical animosity and tradition. These two teams
have been playing since nineteen hundred, often scheduled at the
end of the season.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
When did Oregon and Washington play last game? Okay?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
And high emotional investment from both fan bases. Yeah, I'd
say it checks the list of a rivalry. So just
wanted to I just get an again, because it's not
the first person that kind of like. I even looked
at Wikipedia's definition of a rivalry the state of two
people are groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Man,
(32:22):
just because you don't think that this person also is,
by the way, not a fan of either team. So
just because you have no emotional investment in a game
played between two teams that you don't care about doesn't
make it not a rivalry.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. It sounds like a rogue weirdo.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
But again, as I said, it's not, it's not the
first person. Yeah, That's why I was like, I feel
like people are having they think that the level of
competition has something to.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Do with the rivalry.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well, I think it does. Historically, Yes, every year and
this this has certainly been a strange rob from the
standpoint of one team beat the tar out of the
other one for almost the entirety of the rivalry, and
then all of a sudden, for a quarter century, the
(33:09):
script got flipped and we thought that we had even
the playing field with the Klein de Boor era, and
then that got pulled out from underneath us, and Jetfish
trying to get us back to that point here in
the last couple of years and in the successive seasons,
we gotten closer to it. Obviously, it was a much
better showing this year than it was a year ago. So,
(33:29):
I mean, Oregon's got it going on, and yet man,
their fans are really having a hard time with success.
You guys do not have a great reputation out there,
not that Washington doesn't have its fair share of.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
But Bucky was saying that it was Ducks fans that
were driving him crazy at the game.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, well you got a Duck fan saying, man, Duck
fans are annoying. Boy. Yeah. So I don't know, And
I think Dan Lanning being such a turd great coach
turd y has sort of amped it up, amped that up.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
As It's like Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh that was
the other text that San Francisco and the Seahawks is
not a rivalry.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I was like, it is long way of saying it
is a rivalry, and right now, Oregon certainly is getting
the best and they've got a better program right now,
and it doesn't look like it's going to be slowing
down anytime soon. So challenged Jetfish and the Huskies to
get it back where it needs to be so that
those three people can understand that it actually is a rivalry,
(34:28):
because it's really important for me.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
To those And they said, had this been the only one,
I wouldn't have ever brought it up.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
But this is not the only person.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
And I'm like, I just don't get why rivalries are
so complicated to some people, don't make it a bigger
deal than it is.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
It rivalry.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, they have hot they sometimes they're hotter than sometimes
they cool off. But yeah, rivalries are rivalries. They are
what they are. New ones can be made, but old
ones rarely die.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yes, exactly. And that was the other one, is that
you can't make a new rivalry. I'm like, yes you can.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
These people.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's based on like a gate like an
NFC US championship, where all of a sudden you really
hate each other.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I mean, I think this happened then. I think the
Seahawks have had There are different patches since I've been here.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
When I first got here, the Cardinals were the No,
it was the Niners. It was the Niners. But then
the Cardinals seem to have like a little stretch.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
West as they were. Yeah, we couldn't figure out their formula.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
And they were having huge battles. Yeah, and now it
feels like it's the Rams.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Yeah it's okay, but I still have they They're.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
All rivals, they're division rivals. All right. I'll close with
this my one last thing. I guess the Shawn Watson's back. Yeah,
I saw that this twenty one day practice window opened up.
I don't know if they'll play again for the Cleveland Browns,
but I suppose if you've got some time to try
to figure that out. You ought to spend some time
(35:53):
trying to figure that out, because you have created a
big ass mass.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, they'll figure out how to make it messy.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
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Speaker 6 (36:30):
Morning traffic has really calmed down now, but there's still
some congestion in renting northbound four oh five after
Signing Day, and that is pretty much an annual reason
for Ashley and I to call out for Scott Ekland
to join us here on the radio program from the
dog Man. Guys, you can follow Scott. They do tremendous
work of recruiting and covering Washington Athletics. Make sure you're
(00:20):
following Scott personally at Scott e k l U n
D there on Twitter, and it will lead you to
all of his wonderful work on his various websites, which
we will cover here in a moment. But let me
first tell Scott Eckland, Hey, Happy National Signing Day to you, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Thanks man early Christmas for recruiting as definitely I know.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I know, I know this is it for you. So
and it sounds like Washington got a nice little surprise
gift under the tree here this morning. We got breaking
news to deal with here, Scott, what can you tell
us about wide receiver Tres Davis.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, it's I'm pretty sure. I've only talked to him
once and I didn't ask him out. It's pronounced his name,
but I'm pretty people have told me it's Trey Davis.
Trade Davis six six out of West Monroe, Louisiana can
do a lot of different things for you. Isn't Isn't
a guy who you can kind of pigeonhole in one
one area. He's a he's got he's got really good speed.
(01:19):
That's kind of his trademark. He's got great open field
running ability. UH could actually be in a return man
at some point. So Washington is doing a lot to
upgrade the the weapons outside that are at the disposal
of Demon Williams, because if you want Demon Williams to
have success, obviously he's got to have an offensive line
in front him, but he's also got to have some
(01:39):
people to throw to. And over the last two classes,
this is this now makes I believe it's ten wide
receivers in the UH in their recruit last two recruiting classes.
And so they've added a lot of talent, and now
we need to see see what it looks like in
springball and how things kind of pan out the way
they battle.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Scott Ecklund is though, this talking about Husky recruiting here
on the National Signing Day, And of course, so now
most of this stuff has already been done, so we'll
get to some of the things that have already been accomplished,
But what else are you working on? What else are
you keeping an eye on? What else could break today
that we would put in the you know, breaking news category?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well as far as what are we waiting on, We're
waiting on ten more guys to get their letters in
and some of the the you know, some of those
guys are some of the biggest guys in the class,
including Cody Green, a five star officsive tackle out of
Southern California. He's a local kid that went that moved
down to modern day kind of that legendary program down there.
He's we're still waiting on him to sign. He's going
(02:42):
to sign a little later this morning. Brian Bonner, the
big time running back out of Valencia that Washington was
able to get in the class. They also have raj
On Duncan who is a cornerback defensive back out of mcclimbon's.
So we're still kind of waiting on some of those.
Another ones, Jaron Jones, who a lot of people are
comparing to a guy like Trent McDuffie, which Tusky fans
(03:03):
saw on other Trent McDuffie out there. I think they'd
be pretty happy about that. So just ten guys. I'm
not worried about any of them except for one, Dre Pollard.
He's a guy who is kind of deciding between Washington
and Stamford. He committed to Washington a while ago. He's
out of Clark High School in Las Vegas. That if
you want to talk about breaking news, that's kind of
what we're waiting for, waiting to see what he's done.
(03:25):
He's kind of gone dark, not really talking to a
lot of people. So it's a lot of second and
third hand sources, school sources, program sources, and things like that.
Some people are saying he's locked in with Washington, some
people are saying he's headed to Stanford, and then others
are saying he hasn't made up his mind yet. So
it's it's kind of those crazy pre draft information that
(03:47):
guys like melk Hyper guys you know that that followed
the draft so closely get and and you just have
to kind of sort through it and figure out what's
real and what isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Where's all the local talent this year, Scott, where's the
Washington High school talent? Because I mean, there are various
lists out there and the players are few and far between.
This particular recruiting year coming out of the state of Washington,
and it felt to me like, Man, the state of
Washington high school football had been on a role here. Hell,
(04:18):
we practically handed Ohio state and national championship here last year.
So has this just been a down year for high
school talent here in Washington.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, I mean, Washington does have four local guys committed
to them, Tom Malou out of Annie right, it's only
in their second year as with a football program. They
got the top guy in the state, Derek Coleman Brus
out of Kennedy Catholic. They also have let's see Audiyong Yang,
an officive lineman out of pew All Up. And there's
(04:52):
one more that I know I'm forgetting off the top
of my head, but you know, they've got several guys.
Oh ramzak Froon who just admitted out of Bethel High School.
He was Adrius Rainey Salay's teammate down at Bethel High
School down there and span Away. So you know, they
got some of the top guys in the state. But
as far as you know, some of the Washington offered
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ten guys in I think actually it might be eleven
guys in the state of Washington. This pat this this
recruiting cycle, but there was only like four or five
that they really pursued hard. Another one could be adding
his name to the list later this week. Brendan Huffman
kind of broke this on our message board. I don't
want to take credit for it, but Brendon Huffman broke
that David Schwerzel, a defensive lineman out of Oday High School,
(05:37):
had committed to UCLA, flipped to Stanford when the UCLA
situation happened and they fired Deshaun Foster, and then recommitted
to UCLA. I think it was Monday, It might have
been yesterday, but definitely on Monday or yesterday that he
recommitted to UCLA And now things are back open and
it sounds like Washington has a good chance of reeling
(05:57):
him in. But it might not happen today. It might
happen either tomorrow or Friday. So you know, we'll just
have to wait and see on that. But as far
as you know, do we have guys on the caliber
of the Mecca at A Buka and uh and the
other guy I'm totally z who had Molaau. So yeah,
those guys. There just haven't been guys on that level yet,
(06:22):
you know, in the last couple of years. Now Derek
Coleman Brussa has that potential, but I mean he's he's
a legit six five, two hundred and seventy five pounds
and he's gonna play defensive end defensive tackle for Washington.
He's a lot like J. T. Two Malau and a
lot of what he does might not be quite on
that elite athleticism, you know level yet, but he's pretty
(06:46):
close and not far away. But you know, there just
hasn't been the same kind of five star talent to
come out of the state and if there did. If
there had been, Washington would be competing with everybody in
the country like they did with Derek Coleman Brusa, but
they would be doing it for multiple guys instead of
just Colan brus So that I mean, you know, it
isn't a bad class, and I think the depth of
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the class is pretty good because there's a lot of
guys who are signing with powerful programs, but right now
Washington turned their focus to about five or six key
guys and those are the ones who are signing with them.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Scott Eckland is with us covering high school recruits on
twenty four to seven at Dogman and twenty four to
seven sports dot Com as well, and he's joining us
here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning, says he
always does on the National Signing Day his Christmas as
we talk about Washington recruiting and just overall national recruiting,
(07:40):
because let's face it, we're in a transition period in
a lot of ways in college football. Scott, I mean,
this day has changed for you, for players, for coaches,
for staffs everywhere. And I mean I just I look
at the top three hundred and you've got a guy
going to Maryland. For goodness, Ay, when Maryland never get
(08:00):
a top ten recruit. We saw guys flip from Georgia
to Vanderbilt yesterday. I mean, things are things are weird,
things are different, and maybe good. I don't know. How
do you feel about it as somebody that has loved
this recruiting process your entire.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Life, Well, I don't love the direction things are going now.
I will say I do like the fact that the
blue blood programs, the the you know, top ten programs
in the country. That's schools like Oregon and you know,
from a marketing standpoint, they haven't been a top ten
(08:35):
program from a win standpoint, but they seem to always
be in that group, in that top ten group, especially
on the recruiting trail. But schools like Oregon school schools
like Ohio State, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Michigan, schools like
that are having to battle a lot harder with these
(08:56):
up and coming programs, is what I'd like to call them,
you know, or programs that have a good reputation, they
might just not be They might be right on that
outside of the of the blue blood program kind of situation. So,
you know, NIL has obviously changed a lot of that.
The fact that kids can transfer all over the place,
I mean one of the things that I think. I
mean that they've got to figure out a way to
(09:18):
do in an equitable way, because I don't think players
shouldn't have the ability to move around if the coach
that they signed with leaves. Because you go to a job,
guess what you have to You have to either stick
it out or you can leave if you don't want
to work for the people that are that own that business.
And same with with colleges. You know, if a kid's
(09:38):
going to a school and things just aren't working out
there for whatever reason, he should be able to leave.
But we're not going to let players do that. So
I don't know how to do it. People a lot
smarter than me have to figure this out. But the
problem is the fan bases have no buy in on
it with a lot of these kids, because they know
that the second jetfish decides to go to an NFL
(10:01):
program for a you know, as a take a job
with an NFL team, or they know that, you know,
the USC fans know that Lincoln Riley could be looking
somewhere else, or Ryan Day or you know, all these
coaches that either could get fired or could leave for
greener pastures. Those kids can just jump right into the portal.
And so that's why a lot of these coaches are
advocating for the portal not to open until after springball,
(10:24):
even for kids whose coaches left. That way, hey, they
get a chance to be be recruited by the new staff,
and they also get a chance to work with them
during spring football, and then they can make an educated
decision instead of these snap judgments that these kids make
that they have to make because they only get like
a five or fifteen day window, whatever it is to
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make that decision. So I think the luster is a
little bit off of signing day like that compared to
what it used to be, just because a lot of
fans don't have that buy in with these guys because
they know they could leave at the drop of a hat.
But you know, it's still an important building process for
Washington and all these other programs, and so a lot
(11:07):
of fans are still bought in. I think they just
aren't quite as bought in as they were before.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There's the potential for my favorite sports story of the year,
and it could go down today. It might be happening
right before our eyes. I'm sure you know more about
this than I do, and so I do want to
get your take on it. But the number one overall
prospect in the country, not in every circle, I'm sure,
but in a lot of circles is LSU pledge Lamar Brown.
(11:33):
And the story today is that maybe he's not going
to sign with LSU. So there is a chance that
this kid out of Mississippi and Lane Kiffin, who had
to leave Ole, miss just to get the LSU in
time for today so that he didn't lose recruits, might
lose the best recruit in the country. And believe me, Scott,
(11:55):
I would like nothing more in the world than if
we found out in an hour Lamar R. Brown is
signing with ole miss and the whole reason he was
leaving the state to begin with is because he hated
Lane Kiffin's guts. That would be amazing, Scott.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, Lane Kiffin is is
a lightning rod. Definitely, he draws it, he doesn't shrink
away from it, and you know he can be entertaining
at times, but there's other times when you're just shut up,
just do you know whatever. And I don't know if
you've seen the tweets from from some of his former
players that are out there that where he said, you know,
(12:31):
the team asked me to stay, but the school wouldn't
let me, and the players like, yeah, that isn't what
you said in your meeting with us, Wow, And nobody
nobody said that to us or to you. Nobody none
of us said that you they wanted you to stay
and coach, so that, you know, I mean, that's just
kind of who he is and you know that going in.
(12:53):
But yeah, I mean, it's happened a lot. I mean, dude,
this is the least craziest thing that could happen on
signing day. There was one where a kid faxed in
his letter of intent upside down to the school that
he had pledged to, and then they sent it back.
They said, hey, you need to turn it over and
send it. This is when they sent faxes by the way, right,
(13:13):
you need to you need to send it back to
a space up and so he said, okay, I will,
and then he faxed it into Ohio State, so to
a different school. There's another one where a mom wouldn't
refuse to sign and ran away with the letter of intent,
wouldn't let the kids sign. So trust me, there is
as crazy as it sounds. What you the scenario you
(13:36):
you mapped out, and don't get me wrong, it's still crazy,
but it doesn't even it isn't even a realm of
what could be crazy on finning day.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Scott Ecklin is whether it's he's seen a signing day
or two from a dog man joining us here to
talk about what you dubb is doing primarily and so
let's go back to that to finish out the conversation.
I mean, I'm seeing top twenty. Is that good with you?
Do you like this class for Jedfish? Is it another
example of a step in the right direction for building
(14:06):
this program.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, it is top twenty, but it's actually top thirteen.
It's number thirteen in the country. So the scary thing
is it is the fifth best class in the Big ten,
and in the Big ten has five of the top thirteen,
and at the SEC has six of the top thirteen
(14:28):
in the country. So that means there's only two programs
and that's Notre Dame and Miami that have better classes
that aren't in one of the big two conferences. So
it just shows you how a lot of as much
as we might say things have kind of opened up,
the talent level is still going to the top two
(14:50):
conferences in the country. Yeah, in the Big ten in
the SEC, so but no, as far as Washington love
the class, I mean they got the best guy from
the state of Washington. They got two of the three
best from the state of Nevada in Gavin Day of
the Safety Out of Faith Lutheran and and then Dominic Carris,
(15:12):
one of the top linemen on their board of six
eight three and fifty pounds offensive tackle. They've got, they've
got some good running backs. They've got a heck of
a wide receiver class in Mason James out of Norman
North in Oklahoma, Blaze Lavisa out of Illinois. And then
they got the two guys you know we met. We
talked about Trey Davis earlier. We didn't even mention Jordan Clay,
(15:35):
who might be the biggest get of the four, and
he committed to Washington yesterday. He flipped his commitment from
Baylor to Washington. He's out of Texas, San Antonio, San
Antonio something. He's out of San Antonio, so anyway, he's
had a he's had a program down there. So Washington
has one of the best wide receiver classes. He's six three,
(15:57):
two hundred pounds, Blaze Lavisa's about six to one five.
You also have Mason James, who's a little on the
smaller side. He's more of like your slot receiver. And
then you got Trey Davis who can do a bunch
of different things for you. So they're wide receiver classes.
I don't want to say it's second to none, but
it's it's pretty darn good. And then you got a
really good defensive back class and Kasani Giles, Gavin Day,
(16:21):
who I already mentioned, you got Jaron Jones, Uh, you
got some big time guys. Two more other big time
guys in the class from that are defensive back, so
it's it's a really good solid overall class. The defensive
line is really picked up from a recruiting standpoint over
the last couple of weeks. And getting David Schwerzel just
add another great piece if they do end up getting
(16:42):
him by the end of the week. So just a
good overall building class and something that Jedfish can go. Okay,
now we can turn to the portal see how many
guys of ours are deciding to leave and how we
need to fill in things because they're losing there's two
starting corners, they're they're losing five or six defensive lineman
from the rotation. They're losing two of their offensive linemen
(17:07):
to graduation and Garon Hatchett and Carver Willis. So they've
got some work to do to fill in some holes.
But the talent level is definitely building for Washington.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Excellent, excellent, excellent. All right, Tom, let's promote something where
people need to know to get this information all day
long from you and your gang.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, first thing that people need to know is the
two four seven Sports national broadcast is up on our board.
So just go over to dog Man dawg m an
dot com. Sign in there, get on our recruiting board,
I'm sorry, on our Signing Day board, and that's where
all of the information is. We have that pinned up
at the top for you. You can watch that show
(17:47):
over there. We've got all of the commits as they
come in and with their signings. We're updating all those things,
and we're gonna have some superlatives from the class that
I usually do. Usually I do it the day after,
but it's probably gonna be two days after because i
am down in Hawaii, So I'm going to spend some
time with my family. Haven't been able to do that
this whole week because I've been getting ready for today.
(18:09):
So I'm gonna spend some time with the family later
today and then but have something up for you guys
on Friday on superlatives. And also I'll look ahead of
what the twenty twenty seven classes because we never stop
on the recruiting trail. So come on over to dog Man.
Lots of stuff to talk about all.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Right, awesome stuff. Thank you as always, we appreciate. We'll
bug you real soon.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, sounds good. Check you guys have a good one,
all right.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Scott Eckland joining us again. Go to two four seven
sports dot Com Washington dot two four seven Sports dot Com.
Also follow me at Dogman two four seven as well.
They always do a tremendous job covering Washington Athletics and
particularly the recruiting aspect of it. So big day for
him today, Christmas for Scott Ekland and the dog Man guys,
(18:53):
and I hope they enjoyed it all. Coming up next,
Al Kanisky's gonna join us every day with Al's like Christmas.
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. Oh every Wednesday,
(19:19):
humday we get the chance to chat with color analysts
for yours. Yeah, it'll cracking back in action tomorrow against
the Edmonton Oilers. Al Kiniski is with us right here
on Chuck and Buck. Good morning out, Good morning Chuck, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Happy week after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Did
you have a nice celebration?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I did? I did, and I'm paying for it now,
you know, go tight things up the queen now and crystals,
so I can eat the same way and geez, less
than three weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, I'm wondering. I guess Bucky ate turkey for like
sixteen straight meals and he loved every second of it.
So he's not one that complains about leftovers.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
L No, nothing wrong with from leftover turkey for turkey sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, Well, we've got an issue with this cracking
team all of a sudden this year. And I realize
you go through hot and cold spells, and so I'm
not so worried about a three game losing streak at
this point in the year. But should I be worried
about a power play that suddenly has gone ice ice
cold here? Ol?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, I mean, it's tough to put your finger on
what's going on. I will say, you know, you're coming
off of a few games with teams with fantastic special
teams groups. Now that's not an excuse because you're going
to face those throughout the season. But I think this
team is just looking for that right combination of guys,
(20:48):
that right to set up in the offensive zone. There.
You know, I started counting shot at Temps last games
on the power play and it's not like they're only
getting one or two shot attemps. There are a temp
to put the puck on net, but for whatever reason,
it's missing the net, it's getting blocked, it's getting deflected
up over the glass, and so the shot attempts are there.
(21:10):
They've got to find ways to get the puck through,
and I think a little more traffic in front and
you'll start seeing more of these goals either going off
of deflections that are intentional by it by cracking players,
or they'll create secondary chances that then cracking players can
pick up and find the rebounds on.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, let's play a little armchair Lane Lambert here. I mean,
what kind of combination would you like to see him
try to maybe unlock this thing. Who are some players
that you think could possibly create some chemistry there on
the power play?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Well, I think there's a couple of parts to that answer.
Number one is, you know, on the downside, you've lost
Jaden Schwartz for a period of time and he was
a key part of the power play. But it creates
opportunities for others. So if I'm Lane Lambert, I'm obviously
excited to have Jared McCann back he's been back for
a couple of games so far, He's obviously a part
of that power play and can have a big impact
(22:06):
on it. So if we say, like for like, maybe
Jaden Schwartz and Jared McCann are are, you know, balance
each other out? You know what, one takes it down,
one brings it up, and you think, well who else
could be out there? Well, because of Jaden Schwartz being injured,
you're giving Berkeley to cat In a chance on the
power play as well. And he hasn't scored a goal yet,
(22:26):
but I see it so coming, so close, and I
think that, you know, one of the things Lane Lamberte
said yesterday is you know he wants to puck. He
you know, he's so close, and I think once he
starts gets his first one, they'll start coming in bunches.
So between Jared McCann being back and the opportunity for
Berkeley Catten to get in and a couple of games
with these guys getting some power play time under their belts,
(22:49):
I think you'll start to see that percentage start to
inch back up.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
How long is Schwartz going to be out? What are
you hearing?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, we're hearing four to six weeks. And it's crazy, Chuck,
because this season we're hearing about so many injuries and
it's not Hey, you know, he's going to be out
for a few days or a week. You know, it's
it's four to six weeks. In some cases it's months.
You know, Like, the injuries are real this season. And
I don't know if it's the compressed schedule that's causing this.
(23:17):
I'm sure somebody is going to do some research and
figure out how many you know, injuries called them low, mid,
and high level. You know, days, weeks, and months have
happened in the first twenty four games this season versus
last season, this season before, but it feels like it's higher.
So yeah, that's what we're hearing about. Jayden Schwartz is
four to six weeks and you know, we probably won't
(23:40):
see him back on the ice until January.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Al kaniskis with us our color analysts Husky Excue me Huskies.
I was looking at a Huskies read yeah, yeah, a
Husky fan, but crack an analyst and he joins us
every Wednesday at this tondanks to the Queen Anne Beer
hall hole with the legendary smash burger and your pre
post and away game a headquarters. Well, get back at
(24:05):
action tomorrow. Maybe a little extra rest will help, but
certainly the opponent doesn't help. This is a team and
Edmonton that we know is one of the most talented
in all of the National Hockey League and they just
beat you for four to squad the last time you
played them. So not exactly the easiest team to get
back on the horse with.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
No, it's not, but I'll tell you check. The team
has had four days of practice, and if you look
at the schedule, other than maybe the Olympic break, there
isn't a break where you get that much time to
work on your game. And I think it's been a
good opportunity for the guys to, like I said, get
through that Thanksgiving break, have four days of practice, look
at film, look at what went wrong in that last
(24:48):
Edmonton game, and then roll into Edmonton tomorrow with a
bit of a chip on their shoulder. And I think
you're going to see that in this game, whether it
be the physicality of the game, whether it be the
intensity of the game. Think the guys are a little
a little annoyed of how how things went last game,
and you're going to see a very different outcome. At
least that's what I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is this offensive thing just going to be an issue
all year long? It certainly was last year. We didn't
win as many one goal games a year ago. The
defense didn't seem to be quite as sharp as it
was the previous season. And so I mean, is this
offensive thing we were feeling earlier in the year like
maybe that that issue had been solved a little bit?
(25:30):
Are you what is your long term expectation of whether
or not we've got the offensive pieces for this not
to become a problem.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
You know, Chuck, I went to the Seahawk game on Sunday,
and I think after the fourth field goal and defensive touchdown,
I thought, does this team not know how to score touchdowns?
But they end up winning it. They end up shutting
out you know, their opponent in the Detroit Lions. It's like, well,
wait a second, defense does matter here, and you know,
there are other ways to win ball games. And I
(26:00):
think that's what the Kraken are dealing with this season,
is they're recognizing that scoring isn't necessarily an issue, as
you say, It's just that defense is the priority and
keeping the opposition you know, with goals against low enough
where you stay in the game for as long as possible,
and then taking advantage of your opportunities when you get them. Now,
(26:23):
the part of those opportunities see above is the power play.
You have to take advantage of those because that's your
chance to get on the board if you're keeping the
opposition at two goals, at three goals, at one whatever.
But I think you're not going to see a lot
of games from this team where they win six nothing
in whatever city or against whatever team they're playing. It's
going to be a lot of four to two wins,
(26:44):
three to one wins, three two wins. And you know,
from a player's perspective, I'm okay with that. You know,
sometimes the fans don't like it. They want to see
a lot of goals, But at the end of the day,
the players just want to know what's the strategy on
how to win hockey games. And if it's a defense
for mentality, then you've got all twenty guys pulling in
the same direction. They'll go out and do it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Just win baby, Just win baby. That's what it's all about,
all right. Okay, so you talked about Thanksgiving, what's your
closing move. What's your pie? What's your go to pie
at the end of Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Well, I love a pecan pie and I get it
in simple It's butter, it's sugar, it's pecans. But you
know what, it's a simple pie. It's delicious. My mother
in law makes it homemade, and I swear I end
up eating about three quarters of it because it mostly
because I don't share it with anybody, but I do
not like pumpkin pie, so everybody else can enjoy that
on their own. And you actually had apple pie on
(27:36):
the table this year as well, So three different kinds
of pie on the Kanskie Thanksgiving table, and I eat
most of one of them.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All right, The Caniskys, they think of it all I
really do. All right, man, Well, thank you very much.
We'll be listening tomorrow night, and we'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
All right, Chuck talk you Den, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Crack will be in Edmonton next to the tree in
Edmonton to take on the Oilers tomorrow. It'll be six
o'clock puck will drop. We've got the action for you
right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM.
Everett fits you and Al KINISKI will be on the
call al weighing about seven pounds more. It sounds like
than what he was The last call of a crack
(28:16):
compie sounds really good. I like the conpie. It kind
of gets overlooked in the conversation.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
I don't want like a lot of it, but I
want a piece.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
But I do love pumpkin and I was not like
that as a kid. But I can't even imagine Thanksgiving it.
I feel bad for people that don't like pumpkin pie.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I don't not like it. It's just not my go to.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well it's the go to.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But you don't like coffee. That's the key, because the
pairing of the two is the best.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I would never drink coffee at and I didn't drink.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Coffee as a kid, and it's probably why I didn't
like pumpkin pie.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And you do like like a pumpkin spice latte, don't you?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I do?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I used to get it every year, but I stopped
doing that when I moved here. I was forced.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, I get it by powers beyond softy.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yes, let's call it softy, all right? We're going to
close out the show with one last thing. Next al
Kiniski segment again brought to you by Queen and Beer Hall.
It's Chuck Bucks not here Ashley Sports Radio ninety three
point three KJRFM hard For those of you with interest,
(29:30):
andrews Hurst and I are going to be recording a
new stove podcast, our third of the off season, as
soon as the show comes to a close here in
a matter of minutes. So we'll have that out for
you a little bit later on today, a Winter Meetings
preview for you as Yes, andrews Hurst myself, we've been
doing a Mariner's off season podcast now four years and
(29:51):
so we will record our next episode coming up a
little bit later on this morning, So make sure you're
looking for that and check it out. We would love
for you to do. But we're going to close out
the show with one last thing. No Bucky Jacobson, he
took off on us at nine o'clock. He's going to
go down and party with buddies.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Oh yeah, it's Benny's birthday bash.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh, Benny's Birthday Bash.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It is a hoot annual tradition.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Can you imagine the fiftieth. Can you imagine the high jinks.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Oh, it's going to be madness.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I think Benny's going to be mailed to another country.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I hope so, because that'd be funny, not for Benny's sake,
just for fun and a big crate.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I think that's how that's going to end up. I
think it's very hangover, like classic Benny class. It's a
classic Benny Friends move.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
That's right, classic Jets move.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Uh huh, all right, Ashley, what is your one last thing?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Well, we got a text earlier today talking about how
you Dub Oregon is not a rivalry game because you
Dub has not beaten Oregon very much in the last
twenty years. So I said, well, that's not quite how
a rivalry works, Like, it's not just about if one
team's dominant now then there's the rivalry's over. And he's like, yeah,
that's exactly how it works. It's a historical matchup. But
(31:06):
UDUB isn't close to Oregon's biggest game on the schedule. Okay,
well that's not always true, so it.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Wasn't even true two years agame, right exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
So Also, I didn't want to. I just wanted to.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
It's interesting because this isn't the first text we've gotten
that of people that don't quite understand rivalries and how
they come about or how they stick around. And so
I went to our trustee online just to say, does
a rivalry game have to be the biggest game on
a team schedule? And AI says, no, it does not
have to be the biggest game, but sometimes it could be,
(31:40):
especially if championship or playoff implications are also on the line.
Factors that make a rivalry game big. This is a
rivalry game, deep historical animosity and tradition. These two teams
have been playing since nineteen hundred, often scheduled at the
end of the season.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
When did Oregon and Washington play last game? Okay?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
And high emotional investment from both fan bases. Yeah, I'd
say it checks the list of a rivalry. So just
wanted to I just get an again, because it's not
the first person that kind of like. I even looked
at Wikipedia's definition of a rivalry the state of two
people are groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Man,
(32:22):
just because you don't think that this person also is,
by the way, not a fan of either team. So
just because you have no emotional investment in a game
played between two teams that you don't care about doesn't
make it not a rivalry.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. It sounds like a rogue weirdo.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
But again, as I said, it's not, it's not the
first person. Yeah, That's why I was like, I feel
like people are having they think that the level of
competition has something to.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Do with the rivalry.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well, I think it does. Historically, Yes, every year and
this this has certainly been a strange rob from the
standpoint of one team beat the tar out of the
other one for almost the entirety of the rivalry, and
then all of a sudden, for a quarter century, the
(33:09):
script got flipped and we thought that we had even
the playing field with the Klein de Boor era, and
then that got pulled out from underneath us, and Jetfish
trying to get us back to that point here in
the last couple of years and in the successive seasons,
we gotten closer to it. Obviously, it was a much
better showing this year than it was a year ago. So,
(33:29):
I mean, Oregon's got it going on, and yet man,
their fans are really having a hard time with success.
You guys do not have a great reputation out there,
not that Washington doesn't have its fair share of.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
But Bucky was saying that it was Ducks fans that
were driving him crazy at the game.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, well you got a Duck fan saying, man, Duck
fans are annoying. Boy. Yeah. So I don't know, And
I think Dan Lanning being such a turd great coach
turd y has sort of amped it up, amped that up.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
As It's like Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh that was
the other text that San Francisco and the Seahawks is
not a rivalry.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I was like, it is long way of saying it
is a rivalry, and right now, Oregon certainly is getting
the best and they've got a better program right now,
and it doesn't look like it's going to be slowing
down anytime soon. So challenged Jetfish and the Huskies to
get it back where it needs to be so that
those three people can understand that it actually is a rivalry,
(34:28):
because it's really important for me.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
To those And they said, had this been the only one,
I wouldn't have ever brought it up.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
But this is not the only person.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
And I'm like, I just don't get why rivalries are
so complicated to some people, don't make it a bigger
deal than it is.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
It rivalry.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, they have hot they sometimes they're hotter than sometimes
they cool off. But yeah, rivalries are rivalries. They are
what they are. New ones can be made, but old
ones rarely die.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yes, exactly. And that was the other one, is that
you can't make a new rivalry. I'm like, yes you can.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
These people.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's based on like a gate like an
NFC US championship, where all of a sudden you really
hate each other.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I mean, I think this happened then. I think the
Seahawks have had There are different patches since I've been here.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
When I first got here, the Cardinals were the No,
it was the Niners. It was the Niners. But then
the Cardinals seem to have like a little stretch.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
West as they were. Yeah, we couldn't figure out their formula.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
And they were having huge battles. Yeah, and now it
feels like it's the Rams.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Yeah it's okay, but I still have they They're.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
All rivals, they're division rivals. All right. I'll close with
this my one last thing. I guess the Shawn Watson's back. Yeah,
I saw that this twenty one day practice window opened up.
I don't know if they'll play again for the Cleveland Browns,
but I suppose if you've got some time to try
to figure that out. You ought to spend some time
(35:53):
trying to figure that out, because you have created a
big ass mass.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, they'll figure out how to make it messy.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at six o'clock.
Mark James Christopher Kid coming your way next. Sports Radio
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