September 3, 2026 • 37 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler, Dick Fain, and Jackson Felts debate how they want to feel as sports fans - excited or comfortable - when it comes to the Mariners, then Rick Neuhseisel joins the show to talk about the Apple Cup, CFP, a lawsuit involving LSU, a small crowd for USC last week, and his weekly pick, then they get some Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
New Heisel will join us in about 15 minutes from now.
Jerry Brewer, right, one more day with Jerry before we
switch to football officially next week. So he's on the
radio program. Brett Boone joins us as well today. We'll
talk some baseball with Booney. And I was looking this up.
I was actually thinking about this on the way over
here as I was driving from the Dez to Jimmy's
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in Soto. about the last time that we really could
sit here as Mariner fans on a day like today
with about a month or so left in the regular
season and know that we're going to be a playoff team, right?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And just think, you know, this is all just gravy
right now. We're good.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We've got a great team. We're thinking about the playoffs.
And outside of 2001, I just looked it up, and Jackson,
I don't know, how old were you 25 years ago,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Jackson, 2001? That would have been nine, yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You would have been nine. All right, so do you
have any memories of the 2001 team at all? Yeah,
I do. You do?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Okay. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, on this date, September 3rd, 25 years ago, the
Mariners were 60 games over.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
500.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
60 games over. They were 99-39.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
They were about to win their 100th game before the
NFL season even started, man. I mean, look, obviously that
was a ridiculous once-in-a-lifetime type season.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And they still found a way not to make the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well, yeah, well, okay. You want to be an ass
about it, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But I think that you would take that team right
now over the slop you got today.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Of course. 99-39, 18 games up on first place.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And it just got me thinking about, like, this is
one thing that this franchise has really kind of robbed
us of, right?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Like, baseball... When.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You've got a good team, when you have a good
NFL team, when you have a good college team, when
you have a good NBA basketball team or a hockey team,
and you know that you're better than everybody, you know
you spend the entire season just wiping the field, wiping
the court with people, and you're dreaming about a championship
and getting ready for the postseason like the Dodgers have
done the last couple years, right?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We haven't had any of that except for that one year.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Like I was looking it up, 2025, this date in 2025,
the M's were four games back of first place, and
they were four and a half games clear of a
wild card spot. Not ten and a half games clear,
four and a half games clear. 2022, this day, the
first time that they made the playoffs under Jerry DiPoto.
They were ten games back of the division on September
the 3rd, and they had the second wild card by
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this much, by the way, over Baltimore State.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So even then they had to kind of scratch and
claw their way to make the postseason. So it's such
a downer to think how many fun summers, how many
fun Augusts, how many fun Septembers we've been robbed of
as baseball fans in this town where you know that
you're going to be a playoff team, you know you're
better than everybody else, and you can't wait until the
playoffs start and you're dreaming about the World Series.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yeah, I mean obviously when you know you're better than
everyone else, then you have.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
delusions of World Series, right?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
But I think we have had a lot of fun
Septembers because we didn't know if we were going to
make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That, to me, is fun when you are a game
up for the.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Last wild card and you watch at 7 o'clock every
night knowing we've got to win this game.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
This is massively important. I am more interested.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I am more interested in watching a game if I
don't know whether my team's going to the playoffs or
not versus if I already know where my team is going.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
To the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
In 2001, when we were up by 20 games in
the division, I still watched the games, but there was
no angst to those games.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There was no real interest to those games.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You like anxiety?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
It was just like get the games over with until
the game starts meaning something again in October.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know, every now and then I bring up a topic, Jackson,
on the air.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Every now and then I bring up a topic on
the air that I think all of us are just
going to agree on. And we're going to just talk
about it. We're going to share our thoughts. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Here's this. Here's that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
What are you talking about? I'll tell you what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What are you talking about? Dick, I'm talking about the
bravado that comes along with being a Mariner fan on
September the 3rd with your chest sticking out. Forty five
thousand people go into a game because you're in love
with the players. You want to be at the ballpark.
You don't want to miss a game. You know, you're
better than everybody. And, you know, every night you got
a great chance of kicking somebody's winning team. That's what
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I'm talking about. A winning team that is really, really good.
Like the Seahawks from a year ago.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Like with a month ago, we all knew they're going
to be a playoff team. We just didn't know that
they would win the championship, but we knew they'd be
a playoff team. We knew they were really good, and
we knew they were going to the postseason. Now they
had to scratch and claw their way to win the West,
no question about it. But that's my point is that,
and again, you do you, okay? I'm just telling you
from my perspective, I love it when you can sit around.
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Like what year was it? Was it 94 when the
Sonics were 64 and whatever the hell they were? That season,
and I'm sure you'll jump in and say, well, they
lost to Denver.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But when you have a team that's that good, that
dominates the court every single night, the Huskies in 1991,
the Huskies in 1992, before the whole Billy Joe thing
came down. I'm just saying that to be robbed of
those types of seasons, Dick, where everybody is dreaming together
about the reality and the real possibility of a title
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that We don't have many of those at all with
this baseball team.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, I understand.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
And what I'm talking about is, yes, would I rather
have a team right now that's eight games up in
the division or five and a half down in the division,
scratching a lot of floors? I'd rather have a team
that's eight games up in the division. What I'm saying is,
if you just want to talk about day-to-day football, playoff
level excitement in September, it's better to have a team
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that's tied in the wildcard race than it is to
have a team that's 10 games up in the division.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Guarantee you when they were in the wildcard race in
2025 and 2022, they were getting nowhere near the attendance
numbers they were getting in 2001 at this exact time.
Guarantee it. Not even close. They were getting 45,000 a night.
Every game was sold out.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Every single game. Look at the attendance numbers. Every single game.
You've got to come watch the show. You've got to
get yourself to Safeco Field and watch the show because
these guys are unbelievable. They've got all these incredible players.
They've got Ichiro. They've got Jamie Moyer.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
They've got Edgar.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They've got Jay.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
They got Booney.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
They got this incredible offense, incredible staff, lock-ass, kick-ass bullpen
with Nelly Rhodes and Sasaki. That year, they were outdrawing
the 22 Mariners down the stretch and the 25 Mariners
down the stretch in.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Spades that year. So, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean, look, again, you've got to write to your opinion, whatever.
I'm just saying, guys, that I miss those days, Jackson.
We can wake up and know that we have a
dominant team that is beating everybody's ass every single night,
and we're going to the playoffs for sure. Only question
is now, can we kick the barn door down and
win a title?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I think I'm still in the process of trying to
fully understand, Dick, what you're saying. So, let me just
try to understand it in the form of what I
know best, which is soccer. Right now, the Sounders are
fighting for a playoff spot. You go into every game,
you're like, I don't know if they're going to win.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Use your words.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I don't know if they're going to win. I don't
know if they're going to lose. I just know it's
going to be an exciting game. We're fighting for the
playoffs right now. So you are saying that position is
more attractive to you as a fan than if, say,
my soccer team was in first place, was second, 22-3,
utterly dominant, winning almost every single game, and in a
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top position to be the number one team in the
entire league.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Not more attractive, because like I said to Dave, I
would rather have a team eight up in the playoffs versus.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Scratching for a wild card spot right at this point.
So what's the word, then?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Exciting. Day-to-day, the games, if the Sounders were seven points
clear in the number one seed, dominating everybody, It wouldn't
be exciting. It would be fun to watch a great
team play, but there would be no downside to a loss.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I totally disagree, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That part I agree with. There's no downside to a
loss when you're 18 games up, but I think what
I would say is that it's a party every night.
Everybody's going to the ballpark and they're having fun. There's
no stress.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
There's no angst.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's an absolute gigantic party every single evening. And that's
what 2001 was all about.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I mean, like, I remember the parade, as you guys do,
in 2013.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That was the funnest part of that entire thing because
there was no stress at all. We woke up and said, hey, man,
everybody's got a smile on their face. We're going to
have a great time. We're going to go out there
and party our brains out. And I felt like every
game in September of 2001 was just like that.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
But we were saying in the Big Ten Championship game,
what are they playing this for? These two teams are
both going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It doesn't matter if they win or they lose.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
That's kind of my take on a team that's up
by ten games with seven games to play in a division.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What are we even playing this game for? We're already
going to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't see that at all. I don't see the
Big Ten champions.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's one game versus every single night.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Also, we're on the outside looking at that, saying they're
both in the playoff. I think if you're either a
fan of those teams, you're wildly excited.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, I just, I don't know, man. Like I said,
I think every now and then I'm going to bring
up a topic and it's going to be, yeah, that's right.
And then it turns out.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
To be something else.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Whatever, man, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But everyone can, this is the great thing about this
country is that we have a right to our own expression.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I don't think we disagree on anything.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I'm just presiding a different spin on it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I 100% disagree with you. I think the games are
way more fun when you're 18 games up and you're.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
60 games over 500.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I said exciting. Way more exciting. Way more fun. Way
more exciting. I mean, I'm just in a much better mood, right?
I mean, there's no anxiety. You're making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You're great.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You're slaughtering people. I mean, I just, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The text line for 445 is interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We'll get to that at 445. How much of that
can we get? play on the air, by the way?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, some of it, yeah, for sure. Okay, well, we're
going to break. Rick Neuheisel will join us coming up
next on 93.3 KJRFM.
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Speaker 1 (10:40):
Here's Teagle, throws to the flat ball, is knocked out!
It is intercepted! Intercepted by Kielis! And this game, if
the interception stands, is over.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Ruling on the field.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
This was a backward pass. Washington recovered that backward pass.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
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Speaker 1 (10:59):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It is a done deal. How about that?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
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Speaker 3 (11:06):
You know what's really funny about that call there, Dick?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Finally got him to admit after all these years it
was Bob Rondo banging on the wall. I thought it
was Chuck Nelson, then I thought maybe it was an
assistant coach next door.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It was Bob, huh?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It was actually Bob Rondo. And the fact that we're
playing that in.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
September when we should be playing it in November is crazy.
First time ever we've played that this early in the year.
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Speaker 6 (11:38):
Well that brought a smile to my face and then
some the great bob rondo that is uh and we
were down 20 to 10 with like five six minutes
left and came back it was uh quite an evening
erin pullman.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, what do you think of the idea of this
game being played on Labor Day Sunday in September in
the opener versus late November in Pullman or Seattle? Maybe
in the snow, maybe in the rain. What's your take
on this new look Apple Cup schedule?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Well, obviously I'd love it to be as it always was,
that late November game where so much usually was on
the line. But that aside, better to have it in
September than not have it at all. And given the
situation in college football and the movement of everybody for
different greener pastures, if you will, then you have to
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understand that at least the two sides think the game's
important enough to be played. And I'm glad that they're
going to find a time to play it here in
Seattle this particular weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Rick, if the Cougs end up not playing this game
in the future, will they just be lost to complete
national irrelevance, or do you think they would be able
to find a replacement power to school to play every year?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Well, it would certainly hurt their brand from the standpoint
of the recognition of a game and a rivalry that,
you know, goes across the border. Obviously, the Apple Cup
is famous around the country, not just in the state
of Washington. They'd miss that game, regardless of who they
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would replace it with. The hope, at least my hope,
is that college football czars will come to their senses
and realize that all this cross-country footballing makes a tournament
at season's end that everybody can look forward to.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Should we put him on hold real quick? Okay, why
don't you put him on hold? His phone's breaking up
just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't know. He's got to pay his phone bill, man.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
It's 2026.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You know how much this drives me crazy, right, that
we can't get a cell phone that works.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We should all sign up with Elon, by the way,
with his satellites.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh, yeah, Starlink or whatever it is. Yeah, everybody should
do that. But we'll get Rick back on the air.
And I don't know, man, Dick. I'm starting to really
feel like after some conversations this week with people that
if the Cougars keep getting their butts kicked in this series,
I'm not sure if they can stomach extending this past 28th.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, and I'm wondering what the, you know, we keep
hearing about the Huskies schedule, and we'll get some more
clarification from Pat Chun when we have him on tomorrow. But,
you know, how much will the Huskies actually be able
to control their schedule in the near future?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
How much will be under the control of the Big Ten?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, let's get Rick back.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And Rick, just talking about that right there, you know,
we're just wondering if you were on the Cougar side
of things and you were getting slaughtered every single year,
and we'll see what happens on Sunday tomorrow, This deal
only goes through 28. Would you have the stomach to
continue this series and extend it? Or if you're a Coug,
would you want to say maybe, hey, look, man, let's
just put this on pause for a while while we
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get our act together?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
I don't think they can ever say they want to
put it on pause because there'd be no guarantee they'd
get it back. I think they're going to fight tooth
and nail to always have this game because it's a
platform to prove that they have the wherewithal to play
with the big boy. even though that it's challenging right
now with the resources that are being provided by the Pac-12,
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as resourceful as they want to be, they're not playing
in the same stratosphere as the Power Four conferences are playing,
especially the Power Two, the SEC, and the Big Ten.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Rick, I'm being torn in two directions when it comes
to the college football playoff. I would prefer a 12-team playoff.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
I think it's the more elite teams that get into
a college football playoff, but I also recognize if we
have a 12-team playoff, then Washington's playing Eastern Washington and
all sorts of nobodies in September every single year, where
if we have a 2014 playoff, we might be playing
Florida or Georgia every other year because nobody's worried about
the loss. So what's better for college football, a 2014
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where you're playing Big Ten against SEC all the time
or the 12 teams?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Well, that's a great question. I think what we need
to do is find, listen, 16 would be great, but
then we need automatic qualifiers, which means that the Big
Ten would get four teams in every year. And that
way we can create some crossover games that would be
mandated by the schedule makers, much like the NFL has
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a crossover program. You know, game with the NFC West
right now, the Seahawks are going to play, I believe,
the AFC West right this year. And in so doing,
I in so doing, I think that makes a lot
of sense. You could imagine a home game against the
Big 12 team in one year and an away game
against an ACC team in another year. and you're going
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to keep moving the needle so that the college football
playoff committee can see who the at-large teams should be,
but the conference should determine, and they can figure out
ways to put play in games, which is another way
to replace the conference championship games, make for really entertaining
football in November.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, all right, let's talk about the game on Sunday, right?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I mean, Caden Pinnock, who's the transfer quarterback from UC Davis,
he was here a year ago, Rick, and got beat
by 60. He's now the starting quarterback for Wazoo. Kirby
Moore making his debut as the head coach at Washington State.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
The Cougs are 23.5-point underdogs.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Do you see anything else likely happening on Sunday besides
a runaway win for the Dogs on Sunday?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I don't see anything other than that. I don't think
23.5 is enough. I'm not going to make it my
taco time pick of the week because I have a
soft spot for the Cougars, but the bottom line is
they're in and up against it. The problem for all
the group of six teams, and Washington State finds themselves
in this situation, is they can't keep offense and defensive linemen.
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The big boys, the power four, they all want offense
and defensive linemen with experience. So they don't go to
high school to get their players. They go to the
group of six to get their players to play those
positions because they don't want to be wasting dead money
on guys that are developing. So they all sit there
and say, okay, I'm going to take that tackle and
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that guard. And to hang on to anybody, if you're
not in the power four in the trenches, is damn
near impossible.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
How would you call this game if you were Jed Fish?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I mean, you've got a massive size difference in your
offensive line against their defensive line. Is it just as
simple as getting the run game going and– use and
play action after that? Or would you just come out
fun and gun and say, you know, let's play Lincoln-Riley
football and put up 45 points as fast as we can?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Well, it's interesting you say that because Lincoln-Riley's already played
a game. I mean, Lincoln-Riley, you know, had Jaden Maiava
go out there and go 25 or 29 against San
Jose State. They were up 35 to 3, and then
he pulled everybody because you need everybody to be healthy.
And then all of a sudden San Jose State came
back and scored, I think, 23 points in the fourth quarter.
to make it, you know, whatever the final score. I
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think San Jose State ended up with 26. The bottom
line here is Jed's got to make sure that everybody
gets a chance to play. Everybody gets well-oiled so that
they move along in their development. But he's got to
keep people healthy. But I do believe 23-and-a-half is very vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, we'll get your Taco Time Pig of the Week
in a minute. You're 1-0, by the way, after taking
the Bison in their debut at FBS last week.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
How about the Bison?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Hell of a start. The Bison, yes.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hell of a start for you so far. We'll get
to your taco time pick in a minute. But let's
talk about what's happening in the SEC. The conference is
suing LSU and Lane Kiffin for violating the league's First
Amendment right of expressive association.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You're the lawyer. You can tell me what the hell
that means.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
By LSU continuing to have a desire to sign and
play former NFL play. And they look like they're on
an island, not just in the SEC, but in college football.
What do you think of Lane and his continued quest
to bring pros to college football?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Well, they've made this a personal thing with Lane. To me,
the issue was the NCAA's ruling on five for five,
which was an eligibility mandate saying that kids were going
to get to play five years in college. They were
going to get five years to do it. So we
didn't have to worry with red shirts and whether or
not a guy got an extra year because of an
injury and all that stuff. It was just five for
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five straight across the board. In so doing, though, they
left out the class of 22. They said those guys
were only promised four, so we're only giving them four.
And everybody they played against because of COVID got five.
Everybody that was on their team when they graduated is
going to get five, but they got four. And so
a bunch of kids went to court and said, wait
a minute, we're being treated unfairly. And this is our
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last year of NIL opportunity, and that's a big chunk
of change. That's your highest earning deal. And they won.
They won in court. So the NFL guys, who didn't
have a choice to choose to stay in college because
there was no opportunity until June after they had to
make that decision, went to a similar court and got
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a favorable ruling. And now the SEC is up in arms,
and we're a voluntary association, and we don't have to–
everybody who joins us is doing so voluntarily, and we
can create rules for ourselves. And the fact that LSU,
especially after their chancellor voted– along with everybody, to say
that pros can't be in, that LSU is going to
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try to break that, then we have to have the
wherewithal to countersue. And that's exactly what they did today.
I'm dying to see what this Louisiana court says about
this issue, because I think the kids have a case.
But the SEC certainly has a case that they don't
have to let LSU be in there. But you talk
about a lawsuit and then some, if they kick LSU out,
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that will be monumental. And we'll see if it comes
to that. I can't believe that it will.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
What do you make of how Lane defended his decision
by saying, well, it was my leadership counsel's all for it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You know, he kind of put it on the kids
and said, oh, they want it, so we're good.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Yeah, that's nonsense. This is all about trying to get
an edge, and he's not the first coach to try
to get an edge. I tried to get an edge.
Everybody tries to get an edge, right? Everybody wants to
find a way to win games and do so under
the rules, sometimes brushing up against them, but you're trying
to find an edge, and any coach worth his salt
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has always tried to do that. Some are better at
it than others, but Lane certainly has a reputation in
that regard.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, well, Rick Neuheisel's with us again, courtesy of Taco Time.
It's Taco Time Pick of the Week coming up in
just a matter of minutes right here on 93.3 KJRFM.
There's been a lot of talk about what the Coliseum
looked like last Saturday against San Jose State. A lot
of people criticizing how even Texas Tech jumped in to
kind of take a shot at USC and the crowd
they got at the Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
What do you make of just all the hubbub coming.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Out of that, man?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Joey McGuire was tired of everybody picking on him for
Brendan Sorsby, so he wanted to take a swing at
somebody else. And empty seats in the Coliseum seemed like
a safe place. Listen, it was 95 in L.A. It's
San Jose State. Oregon's coming to town later in the month.
Washington's going to be there the first Saturday in October.
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Ohio State's going to be there. Trojans are sitting there going,
I'm not going to San Jose State. You guys know
Los Angeles. There's tons of ways to spend your money there.
And it just wasn't a big game. And that's part
of the deal that this, as you pointed out, Dick, earlier,
when you're in a 12-team playoff, you've got to schedule
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some wins. Because if you don't, you're going to knock
yourself out of the deal before you even get started.
And that's a little bit of a predicament, especially when
everybody's looking for money. SC needs those seats filled. And
I think we'll come to some conclusion as to how
to do that in the future.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
How much can you learn about your team? Let's talk
about the quarterback position. You mentioned Mayava. How about DeMond Williams?
I mean, how much can we learn about DeMond's development
as a quarterback when he's playing Wazoo, Utah State, Eastern Washington,
and Minnesota in September?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Well, Minnesota will be all the challenge you want. But
those other three, they should have a safe passage. But
here's what Jed can do with DeMond over the course
of the next three weeks. He can give DeMond a
lot of freedom out there. I know Jed real well,
and obviously Jed loves to have his hands on the
wheel of the offense. He doesn't give up play calling.
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But play calling is kind of an idea. When the
play goes into the game, all of a sudden you
get a defense that presents itself. And DeMond, because of
his experience now, is starting to recognize defenses and seeing
tells that are happening in the back end that obviously
create advantages and opportunities for him. This is an opportunity
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for Jed to give him some leash and let him
go out and expose those vulnerabilities that he's seeing in
a defense. And if you can do that, now you've
taken the next step. That's why Brady and Manning and
Breeze and all the greats have stayed in the league
so long. They get these tells, they understand exactly what's
going on, and they take full advantage of it.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, yeah. All right, well, let's make it 2-0.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Taco time pick of the week.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm going to go with a chicken Caesar salad, fresh
romaine from the Carpenito Brothers Farm in Kent, probably on
the menu through September, and then once the month is over,
you never know.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But who do you like to go 2-0 this week, Coach?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I love those Carpenito Brothers. Please pass along my hello
through them.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I will.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Listen, we're going to go to the state of Nevada.
Nevada is hosting Western Kentucky. I did a little fundraiser
for Nevada earlier in the summer. I saw exactly what
they were doing in terms of bringing in some pretty
high-octane transfers. They're an underdog right now to the Hilltoppers
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at home. Give me the Wolfpack to beat Western Kentucky
and open their season 1-0.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Packer getting one and a half against Western Kentucky on CBS,
by the way, on Saturday at 7.30. So something to
do on Saturday night before we're getting ready for the
Apple Cup. And great stuff. Thanks for sticking with us
in the back of your Uber, by the way. Fly safe,
and we'll talk in a week.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Thanks, Rick. That's the first time I've been in an
Uber that got pulled over by the cops.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Wow. Did the guy want an autograph or something? Did
he know there was a celebrity in the backseat?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I told him I had a major radio interview and
I needed to hurry, and the guy hurried. I felt terrible.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Geez, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
All right, well, there's a first time for everything, I guess.
That makes two of us, two guys that got pulled
over today. We'll get out of here, Rick.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
The officers were college football fans, and they did not
give him a ticket.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, because they saw the Rose
Bowl winner sitting in the back seat.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
We'll talk in a week, man. Great stuff. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Thanks, Rick.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
See you, boys.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, Rick Neuheisel likes Western Kentucky, Nevada.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
He's going to take Nevada and the points against Western
Kentucky on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I mean, I know nothing about either team.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
No, but, I mean, that's a tough play. I mean,
Western Kentucky going to Nevada?
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's going to be a different experience.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
The reason why they're getting points, though, I guess. I
don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Maybe Western Kentucky's got some kick-ass roster I'm not aware of. But, hey,
Rick's off to a great start, so why not let
it roll? All right, we're going to break. A little
fun with audio. Slash, hey, did you hear that? Brett
Boone at four. Jerry Brewer at five. We've got to
come back and revisit this. Would you rather be tied
or 20,000 games up topic, don't we, at some point?
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Speaker 3 (28:34):
Look at that guy's hair, by the way.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Does that not look like the guy from Captain America?
Or not Captain America, but what's the show, Believe It
or Not?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh, yeah, Greatest American Hero. Greatest American Hero.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
That's the dude.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
That's him right there. My God, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Get a picture of that guy.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Straight out of 1986. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that? What's up, Dave?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Let's go to Washington football. At a press conference earlier
this week, Huskies defenders Alinius Davis and X-Ray Alexander were
asked about their feelings on Wazoo before the Apple Cup
on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
For any of you, you can give me your real answer.
You can give me your PC answer.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
How do you feel about Washington State?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I hate them.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
That's all right.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
That's just me, though.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, I feel the same way. I just can't wait
to go kill them.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I love it. I love it. And the fact that
Jet Fish doesn't mind that is even better for me.
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He doesn't give a damn about that stuff. Go out
there and, you know, drum it up a little bit.
You know who else might like that, by the way,
is the Husky marketing team to sell some tickets for
this game. We got three pairs of tickets to give
away for that Apple Cup. which we'll get to at
some point today on the radio show. But I think
the smack talk for games like this, you want to
keep the rivalry going and let players do things like that.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We've been waiting 40 years for comments like that.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Right. And we never get them, and we finally do.
And maybe we'll get them more now that Washington State's
not a legitimate threat to beat you.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, and I tell you what, if you open your mouth,
you've got to take it from the other side. If
you don't win, to the victors go the spoils, right?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So Wazoo ends up winning, and they'll have the right
to run their mouth as much as they want. We'll
see what happens on Sunday, 9 o'clock pregame, 1 o'clock
kickoff here on KJR.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Let's go to, oh, man.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
This morning, The Athletic released their findings of its internal
review of Diana Rossini's relationship with Mike Vrabel. At the
Patriots head coach's press conference earlier today, Rabel was briefly
asked about his reaction to the investigation's conclusion.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Published its findings after its review into Diana Rossini's reporting.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Curious if you have any reaction to that.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
No, I don't have any reaction.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
We're moved on and focused on Seattle and focused on
the Patriots and focused.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
On getting better this week. Fully behind you?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Try to just say that I've moved on and excited
about this new opportunity here as we start this season.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I did not have sex with that woman.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Why didn't he say that? Well, you heard Clinton. You
know who I heard with that?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Who?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That was straight out of Bill Belichick, man. Oh, yeah.
We're on to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Well, he played for him.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Maybe he ripped it off from him. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I hadn't even been thinking about the Diana Vrabel thing
until this story came up today. So, I mean, the
story also came out today that she's going to, She's
going to work again. She's going to make a comeback,
so get a job with somebody. I'm sure at first
it'll be uncomfortable for her having to go to an
NFL locker room or go on the road and be
around other media people that cover the NFL, but just
rip off the Band-Aid and move on, right? There's nothing
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you can do. It's going to be uncomfortable. You're going
to have people saying things behind your back, and then
guess what? They'll move on too.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think it's more talk show for her, right? Yeah,
it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
But if the investigation indeed concluded, and who knows if
it was fully up and up and whatever, but if
they concluded that, yeah, they were together, but her reporting
was not biased, then I'm inclined to believe, I mean,
the Athletics is a pretty reputable place, New York Times,
all that, So, Jerry Brewer, right? I'm inclined to believe
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that if it's on the up-and-up, then she should be
able to be a reporter wherever she wants to hire.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
She should be able to go right back to working.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Well, even if it's not on the up-and-up. If somebody
wants to hire her, then that's their prerogative, right? And, Dick,
I think you're right that she's going to do a
talk show style, but she's still going to be out
and about unless she's going to lock herself in a studio.
You and I do a talk show, and we're in
the NFL locker rooms all the time.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, I just don't know if she's going to be...
I don't think she's going to be covering teams per se.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Like an NFL insider? Yeah, or insider reporter.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I think it'll be more on the periphery, just like
opinions and, you know, that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I mean, at some point I would assume that she's
going to be with other media people, right, in a
setting where she's surrounded by other people that are snickering
and making comments.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Super Bowl radio row.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Exactly. So that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You know, I just tell her, just suck it up,
you know, Move on, be done with it, and then
something else will take its spot. All right, we've got
time for a few more. Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
No.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Hang on just a second. Happened to hear that.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Oh, God, my fingers are so fat now.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Fox Sports sideline reporter Erin Andrews joining Alex Cooper's Call
Her Daddy podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
This week.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And shared her take that Seattle has the most intimidating
fans in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Which team has the most intimidating fans? Well, I know
you're an Eagles fan.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yeah. They are very intimidating.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
They are as advertised. I will say, have you been
to a game in Seattle?
Speaker 8 (33:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Wow. Oh, really?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Wild.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
Loud.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
They bring it.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
They bring it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
It is wild loud. I mean, rightfully so. Their team
is amazing.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
I didn't expect that. She didn't expect that Seattle was loud? Right.
What rock has she been living under for the last
25 years?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That was Alex's reaction.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That's not a sports person right there.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Oh, gotcha. All right. It's like a mayor talking sports,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Jenny Durkin talking about the Seattle Soccer Cup, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I mean, there was a point in time, as you
guys know, just a couple years ago where we were
getting a little bit irritated with the Seahawks crowd.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yes. When there were thousands of opposing fans in the stands.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Very much so.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
So I could see how maybe somebody.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
in their impressionable years would look at Seattle and maybe
catch us at a down time, like the last couple
years before this season, and think, man, all I hear
is those guys bitching about how many opposing fans are there, right?
But I think, you know, anybody who's a sports fan
and has a consistent, you know, obviously interest in the
sport would know that Seattle is known consistently for having
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some of the best fans in the NFL. I guess
I just don't notice it as much because I'm so
used to it now. You know, other NFL stadiums that
I've been to, I've never seen anything as loud as
Lumen Field. And I got to tell you, I don't
know about you, Dick, I've never heard anything as loud
as the Old Kingdom back in the day.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Back in the 80s, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Still, the two loudest games of my life were both
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
And that was Raiders Monday Night Football in 86, I
believe it was.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
When we beat them like 31 to nothing.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
And Huskies Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Huskies-Nebraska was the loudest game I've ever heard of. And
that set the record forever, right?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Does it still have the record? One more Jackson or no? Yeah,
go for it. All right. Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear that?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
All right, as a punishment for circumventing the salary cap,
the NBA has stripped the LA Clippers of five first-round
picks and issued Steve Ballmer a $ 30 million fine, among
other penalties. CBS reporter Sam Quinn reacting to the punishment
on CBS Sports HQ yesterday.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Five first-round picks does feel appropriate for cap circumvention. I
know cap circumvention can be kind of an opaque term.
Something that, you know, sounds complicated. The easier word here
is cheating. If you circumvent the cap, you are cheating.
And I think the NBA made the right decision in
making an example of the Clippers, especially in such a
restrictive cap environment. If other NBA teams had the idea
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that you could get around the cap, get around the aprons,
by just coming up with these side deals with players,
then it would kind of be open season.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
The rules wouldn't even, you know, apply. There'd be no
reason to even have them.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
So.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
I think this is appropriate based on the information that.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Was made public through Pablo Torre finds out.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
You know, it just got me thinking about college football
and college basketball, Dick, and that there's this house settlement
where every school can spend $ 20 million on players.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
But then they can go out and cut side deals
with players and give them even more money in NIL.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I mean, that's exactly what college football is doing right
now with the NBA just got busted for. And until
there's a limit on how much you can spend on
NIL deals and third-party organizations, then the rich will get
richer and the poor will get poorer. So the question is,
does college football, does college basketball want to do what
the NBA just did?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
And do they want to get this under control so
it's fair?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Yes, they do.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
And aren't we going to eventually get back to the
point where we were before, where you've got $ 20 million
you can spend, and then another $ 20 million you can spend.
Let's just say $ 20 million you can spend at NIL,
and then we're going to have Tosh LaPoi with coffee cans,
getting them above that $ 40 million.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Maybe go back to cheating. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I'm just looking at the Clippers, what they did. What
was his first year in L.A.? Was it 2019? I
think it was 2019. was Kawhi Leonard's first year with
the Clippers. They went to the conference finals one time,
missed the playoffs three times, and went to the first
round and lost four times.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
And I believe when they went to the conference finals,
he was injured and did not play for them.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, cost him $ 30 million and five first-rounders, and it
didn't even work. I mean, that's pathetic. When you're cheating
and you can't even win when you're cheating? All right,
we're going to break. Brett Boone's going to join next
on 93.3 KJRFM.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
New Heisel will join us in about 15 minutes from now.
Jerry Brewer, right, one more day with Jerry before we
switch to football officially next week. So he's on the
radio program. Brett Boone joins us as well today. We'll
talk some baseball with Booney. And I was looking this up.
I was actually thinking about this on the way over
here as I was driving from the Dez to Jimmy's
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in Soto. about the last time that we really could
sit here as Mariner fans on a day like today
with about a month or so left in the regular
season and know that we're going to be a playoff team, right?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And just think, you know, this is all just gravy
right now. We're good.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We've got a great team. We're thinking about the playoffs.
And outside of 2001, I just looked it up, and Jackson,
I don't know, how old were you 25 years ago,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Jackson, 2001? That would have been nine, yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You would have been nine. All right, so do you
have any memories of the 2001 team at all? Yeah,
I do. You do?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Okay. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, on this date, September 3rd, 25 years ago, the
Mariners were 60 games over.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
500.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
60 games over. They were 99-39.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
They were about to win their 100th game before the
NFL season even started, man. I mean, look, obviously that
was a ridiculous once-in-a-lifetime type season.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And they still found a way not to make the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well, yeah, well, okay. You want to be an ass
about it, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But I think that you would take that team right
now over the slop you got today.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Of course. 99-39, 18 games up on first place.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And it just got me thinking about, like, this is
one thing that this franchise has really kind of robbed
us of, right?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Like, baseball... When.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You've got a good team, when you have a good
NFL team, when you have a good college team, when
you have a good NBA basketball team or a hockey team,
and you know that you're better than everybody, you know
you spend the entire season just wiping the field, wiping
the court with people, and you're dreaming about a championship
and getting ready for the postseason like the Dodgers have
done the last couple years, right?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We haven't had any of that except for that one year.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Like I was looking it up, 2025, this date in 2025,
the M's were four games back of first place, and
they were four and a half games clear of a
wild card spot. Not ten and a half games clear,
four and a half games clear. 2022, this day, the
first time that they made the playoffs under Jerry DiPoto.
They were ten games back of the division on September
the 3rd, and they had the second wild card by
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this much, by the way, over Baltimore State.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So even then they had to kind of scratch and
claw their way to make the postseason. So it's such
a downer to think how many fun summers, how many
fun Augusts, how many fun Septembers we've been robbed of
as baseball fans in this town where you know that
you're going to be a playoff team, you know you're
better than everybody else, and you can't wait until the
playoffs start and you're dreaming about the World Series.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yeah, I mean obviously when you know you're better than
everyone else, then you have.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
delusions of World Series, right?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
But I think we have had a lot of fun
Septembers because we didn't know if we were going to
make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That, to me, is fun when you are a game
up for the.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Last wild card and you watch at 7 o'clock every
night knowing we've got to win this game.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
This is massively important. I am more interested.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I am more interested in watching a game if I
don't know whether my team's going to the playoffs or
not versus if I already know where my team is going.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
To the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
In 2001, when we were up by 20 games in
the division, I still watched the games, but there was
no angst to those games.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There was no real interest to those games.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You like anxiety?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
It was just like get the games over with until
the game starts meaning something again in October.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know, every now and then I bring up a topic, Jackson,
on the air.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Every now and then I bring up a topic on
the air that I think all of us are just
going to agree on. And we're going to just talk
about it. We're going to share our thoughts. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Here's this. Here's that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
What are you talking about? I'll tell you what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What are you talking about? Dick, I'm talking about the
bravado that comes along with being a Mariner fan on
September the 3rd with your chest sticking out. Forty five
thousand people go into a game because you're in love
with the players. You want to be at the ballpark.
You don't want to miss a game. You know, you're
better than everybody. And, you know, every night you got
a great chance of kicking somebody's winning team. That's what
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I'm talking about. A winning team that is really, really good.
Like the Seahawks from a year ago.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Like with a month ago, we all knew they're going
to be a playoff team. We just didn't know that
they would win the championship, but we knew they'd be
a playoff team. We knew they were really good, and
we knew they were going to the postseason. Now they
had to scratch and claw their way to win the West,
no question about it. But that's my point is that,
and again, you do you, okay? I'm just telling you
from my perspective, I love it when you can sit around.
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Like what year was it? Was it 94 when the
Sonics were 64 and whatever the hell they were? That season,
and I'm sure you'll jump in and say, well, they
lost to Denver.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But when you have a team that's that good, that
dominates the court every single night, the Huskies in 1991,
the Huskies in 1992, before the whole Billy Joe thing
came down. I'm just saying that to be robbed of
those types of seasons, Dick, where everybody is dreaming together
about the reality and the real possibility of a title
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that We don't have many of those at all with
this baseball team.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, I understand.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
And what I'm talking about is, yes, would I rather
have a team right now that's eight games up in
the division or five and a half down in the division,
scratching a lot of floors? I'd rather have a team
that's eight games up in the division. What I'm saying is,
if you just want to talk about day-to-day football, playoff
level excitement in September, it's better to have a team
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that's tied in the wildcard race than it is to
have a team that's 10 games up in the division.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Guarantee you when they were in the wildcard race in
2025 and 2022, they were getting nowhere near the attendance
numbers they were getting in 2001 at this exact time.
Guarantee it. Not even close. They were getting 45,000 a night.
Every game was sold out.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Every single game. Look at the attendance numbers. Every single game.
You've got to come watch the show. You've got to
get yourself to Safeco Field and watch the show because
these guys are unbelievable. They've got all these incredible players.
They've got Ichiro. They've got Jamie Moyer.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
They've got Edgar.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They've got Jay.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
They got Booney.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
They got this incredible offense, incredible staff, lock-ass, kick-ass bullpen
with Nelly Rhodes and Sasaki. That year, they were outdrawing
the 22 Mariners down the stretch and the 25 Mariners
down the stretch in.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Spades that year. So, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean, look, again, you've got to write to your opinion, whatever.
I'm just saying, guys, that I miss those days, Jackson.
We can wake up and know that we have a
dominant team that is beating everybody's ass every single night,
and we're going to the playoffs for sure. Only question
is now, can we kick the barn door down and
win a title?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I think I'm still in the process of trying to
fully understand, Dick, what you're saying. So, let me just
try to understand it in the form of what I
know best, which is soccer. Right now, the Sounders are
fighting for a playoff spot. You go into every game,
you're like, I don't know if they're going to win.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Use your words.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I don't know if they're going to win. I don't
know if they're going to lose. I just know it's
going to be an exciting game. We're fighting for the
playoffs right now. So you are saying that position is
more attractive to you as a fan than if, say,
my soccer team was in first place, was second, 22-3,
utterly dominant, winning almost every single game, and in a
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top position to be the number one team in the
entire league.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Not more attractive, because like I said to Dave, I
would rather have a team eight up in the playoffs versus.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Scratching for a wild card spot right at this point.
So what's the word, then?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Exciting. Day-to-day, the games, if the Sounders were seven points
clear in the number one seed, dominating everybody, It wouldn't
be exciting. It would be fun to watch a great
team play, but there would be no downside to a loss.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I totally disagree, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That part I agree with. There's no downside to a
loss when you're 18 games up, but I think what
I would say is that it's a party every night.
Everybody's going to the ballpark and they're having fun. There's
no stress.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
There's no angst.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's an absolute gigantic party every single evening. And that's
what 2001 was all about.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I mean, like, I remember the parade, as you guys do,
in 2013.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That was the funnest part of that entire thing because
there was no stress at all. We woke up and said, hey, man,
everybody's got a smile on their face. We're going to
have a great time. We're going to go out there
and party our brains out. And I felt like every
game in September of 2001 was just like that.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
But we were saying in the Big Ten Championship game,
what are they playing this for? These two teams are
both going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It doesn't matter if they win or they lose.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
That's kind of my take on a team that's up
by ten games with seven games to play in a division.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What are we even playing this game for? We're already
going to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't see that at all. I don't see the
Big Ten champions.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's one game versus every single night.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Also, we're on the outside looking at that, saying they're
both in the playoff. I think if you're either a
fan of those teams, you're wildly excited.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, I just, I don't know, man. Like I said,
I think every now and then I'm going to bring
up a topic and it's going to be, yeah, that's right.
And then it turns out.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
To be something else.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Whatever, man, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But everyone can, this is the great thing about this
country is that we have a right to our own expression.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I don't think we disagree on anything.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I'm just presiding a different spin on it.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I 100% disagree with you. I think the games are
way more fun when you're 18 games up and you're.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
60 games over 500.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I said exciting. Way more exciting. Way more fun. Way
more exciting. I mean, I'm just in a much better mood, right?
I mean, there's no anxiety. You're making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You're great.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You're slaughtering people. I mean, I just, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The text line for 445 is interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We'll get to that at 445. How much of that
can we get? play on the air, by the way?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, some of it, yeah, for sure. Okay, well, we're
going to break. Rick Neuheisel will join us coming up
next on 93.3 KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
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Speaker 1 (10:40):
Here's Teagle, throws to the flat ball, is knocked out!
It is intercepted! Intercepted by Kielis! And this game, if
the interception stands, is over.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Ruling on the field.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
This was a backward pass. Washington recovered that backward pass.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And the game is over.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It is a done deal. How about that?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Woo!
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You know what's really funny about that call there, Dick?
What's that?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Finally got him to admit after all these years it
was Bob Rondo banging on the wall. I thought it
was Chuck Nelson, then I thought maybe it was an
assistant coach next door.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It was Bob, huh?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It was actually Bob Rondo. And the fact that we're
playing that in.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
September when we should be playing it in November is crazy.
First time ever we've played that this early in the year.
This is the earliest Apple Cup of all time. And
a guy that had a lot of success against Wazoo
in the Apple Cup is with us now, courtesy of
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Speaker 6 (11:38):
Well that brought a smile to my face and then
some the great bob rondo that is uh and we
were down 20 to 10 with like five six minutes
left and came back it was uh quite an evening
erin pullman.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, what do you think of the idea of this
game being played on Labor Day Sunday in September in
the opener versus late November in Pullman or Seattle? Maybe
in the snow, maybe in the rain. What's your take
on this new look Apple Cup schedule?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Well, obviously I'd love it to be as it always was,
that late November game where so much usually was on
the line. But that aside, better to have it in
September than not have it at all. And given the
situation in college football and the movement of everybody for
different greener pastures, if you will, then you have to
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understand that at least the two sides think the game's
important enough to be played. And I'm glad that they're
going to find a time to play it here in
Seattle this particular weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Rick, if the Cougs end up not playing this game
in the future, will they just be lost to complete
national irrelevance, or do you think they would be able
to find a replacement power to school to play every year?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Well, it would certainly hurt their brand from the standpoint
of the recognition of a game and a rivalry that,
you know, goes across the border. Obviously, the Apple Cup
is famous around the country, not just in the state
of Washington. They'd miss that game, regardless of who they
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would replace it with. The hope, at least my hope,
is that college football czars will come to their senses
and realize that all this cross-country footballing makes a tournament
at season's end that everybody can look forward to.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Should we put him on hold real quick? Okay, why
don't you put him on hold? His phone's breaking up
just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't know. He's got to pay his phone bill, man.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
It's 2026.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You know how much this drives me crazy, right, that
we can't get a cell phone that works.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We should all sign up with Elon, by the way,
with his satellites.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh, yeah, Starlink or whatever it is. Yeah, everybody should
do that. But we'll get Rick back on the air.
And I don't know, man, Dick. I'm starting to really
feel like after some conversations this week with people that
if the Cougars keep getting their butts kicked in this series,
I'm not sure if they can stomach extending this past 28th.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, and I'm wondering what the, you know, we keep
hearing about the Huskies schedule, and we'll get some more
clarification from Pat Chun when we have him on tomorrow. But,
you know, how much will the Huskies actually be able
to control their schedule in the near future?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
How much will be under the control of the Big Ten?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, let's get Rick back.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And Rick, just talking about that right there, you know,
we're just wondering if you were on the Cougar side
of things and you were getting slaughtered every single year,
and we'll see what happens on Sunday tomorrow, This deal
only goes through 28. Would you have the stomach to
continue this series and extend it? Or if you're a Coug,
would you want to say maybe, hey, look, man, let's
just put this on pause for a while while we
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get our act together?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
I don't think they can ever say they want to
put it on pause because there'd be no guarantee they'd
get it back. I think they're going to fight tooth
and nail to always have this game because it's a
platform to prove that they have the wherewithal to play
with the big boy. even though that it's challenging right
now with the resources that are being provided by the Pac-12,
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as resourceful as they want to be, they're not playing
in the same stratosphere as the Power Four conferences are playing,
especially the Power Two, the SEC, and the Big Ten.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Rick, I'm being torn in two directions when it comes
to the college football playoff. I would prefer a 12-team playoff.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
I think it's the more elite teams that get into
a college football playoff, but I also recognize if we
have a 12-team playoff, then Washington's playing Eastern Washington and
all sorts of nobodies in September every single year, where
if we have a 2014 playoff, we might be playing
Florida or Georgia every other year because nobody's worried about
the loss. So what's better for college football, a 2014
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where you're playing Big Ten against SEC all the time
or the 12 teams?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Well, that's a great question. I think what we need
to do is find, listen, 16 would be great, but
then we need automatic qualifiers, which means that the Big
Ten would get four teams in every year. And that
way we can create some crossover games that would be
mandated by the schedule makers, much like the NFL has
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a crossover program. You know, game with the NFC West
right now, the Seahawks are going to play, I believe,
the AFC West right this year. And in so doing,
I in so doing, I think that makes a lot
of sense. You could imagine a home game against the
Big 12 team in one year and an away game
against an ACC team in another year. and you're going
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to keep moving the needle so that the college football
playoff committee can see who the at-large teams should be,
but the conference should determine, and they can figure out
ways to put play in games, which is another way
to replace the conference championship games, make for really entertaining
football in November.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, all right, let's talk about the game on Sunday, right?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I mean, Caden Pinnock, who's the transfer quarterback from UC Davis,
he was here a year ago, Rick, and got beat
by 60. He's now the starting quarterback for Wazoo. Kirby
Moore making his debut as the head coach at Washington State.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
The Cougs are 23.5-point underdogs.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Do you see anything else likely happening on Sunday besides
a runaway win for the Dogs on Sunday?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I don't see anything other than that. I don't think
23.5 is enough. I'm not going to make it my
taco time pick of the week because I have a
soft spot for the Cougars, but the bottom line is
they're in and up against it. The problem for all
the group of six teams, and Washington State finds themselves
in this situation, is they can't keep offense and defensive linemen.
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The big boys, the power four, they all want offense
and defensive linemen with experience. So they don't go to
high school to get their players. They go to the
group of six to get their players to play those
positions because they don't want to be wasting dead money
on guys that are developing. So they all sit there
and say, okay, I'm going to take that tackle and
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that guard. And to hang on to anybody, if you're
not in the power four in the trenches, is damn
near impossible.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
How would you call this game if you were Jed Fish?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I mean, you've got a massive size difference in your
offensive line against their defensive line. Is it just as
simple as getting the run game going and– use and
play action after that? Or would you just come out
fun and gun and say, you know, let's play Lincoln-Riley
football and put up 45 points as fast as we can?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Well, it's interesting you say that because Lincoln-Riley's already played
a game. I mean, Lincoln-Riley, you know, had Jaden Maiava
go out there and go 25 or 29 against San
Jose State. They were up 35 to 3, and then
he pulled everybody because you need everybody to be healthy.
And then all of a sudden San Jose State came
back and scored, I think, 23 points in the fourth quarter.
to make it, you know, whatever the final score. I
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think San Jose State ended up with 26. The bottom
line here is Jed's got to make sure that everybody
gets a chance to play. Everybody gets well-oiled so that
they move along in their development. But he's got to
keep people healthy. But I do believe 23-and-a-half is very vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, we'll get your Taco Time Pig of the Week
in a minute. You're 1-0, by the way, after taking
the Bison in their debut at FBS last week.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
How about the Bison?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Hell of a start. The Bison, yes.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hell of a start for you so far. We'll get
to your taco time pick in a minute. But let's
talk about what's happening in the SEC. The conference is
suing LSU and Lane Kiffin for violating the league's First
Amendment right of expressive association.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You're the lawyer. You can tell me what the hell
that means.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
By LSU continuing to have a desire to sign and
play former NFL play. And they look like they're on
an island, not just in the SEC, but in college football.
What do you think of Lane and his continued quest
to bring pros to college football?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Well, they've made this a personal thing with Lane. To me,
the issue was the NCAA's ruling on five for five,
which was an eligibility mandate saying that kids were going
to get to play five years in college. They were
going to get five years to do it. So we
didn't have to worry with red shirts and whether or
not a guy got an extra year because of an
injury and all that stuff. It was just five for
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five straight across the board. In so doing, though, they
left out the class of 22. They said those guys
were only promised four, so we're only giving them four.
And everybody they played against because of COVID got five.
Everybody that was on their team when they graduated is
going to get five, but they got four. And so
a bunch of kids went to court and said, wait
a minute, we're being treated unfairly. And this is our
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last year of NIL opportunity, and that's a big chunk
of change. That's your highest earning deal. And they won.
They won in court. So the NFL guys, who didn't
have a choice to choose to stay in college because
there was no opportunity until June after they had to
make that decision, went to a similar court and got
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a favorable ruling. And now the SEC is up in arms,
and we're a voluntary association, and we don't have to–
everybody who joins us is doing so voluntarily, and we
can create rules for ourselves. And the fact that LSU,
especially after their chancellor voted– along with everybody, to say
that pros can't be in, that LSU is going to
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try to break that, then we have to have the
wherewithal to countersue. And that's exactly what they did today.
I'm dying to see what this Louisiana court says about
this issue, because I think the kids have a case.
But the SEC certainly has a case that they don't
have to let LSU be in there. But you talk
about a lawsuit and then some, if they kick LSU out,
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that will be monumental. And we'll see if it comes
to that. I can't believe that it will.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
What do you make of how Lane defended his decision
by saying, well, it was my leadership counsel's all for it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You know, he kind of put it on the kids
and said, oh, they want it, so we're good.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Yeah, that's nonsense. This is all about trying to get
an edge, and he's not the first coach to try
to get an edge. I tried to get an edge.
Everybody tries to get an edge, right? Everybody wants to
find a way to win games and do so under
the rules, sometimes brushing up against them, but you're trying
to find an edge, and any coach worth his salt
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has always tried to do that. Some are better at
it than others, but Lane certainly has a reputation in
that regard.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, well, Rick Neuheisel's with us again, courtesy of Taco Time.
It's Taco Time Pick of the Week coming up in
just a matter of minutes right here on 93.3 KJRFM.
There's been a lot of talk about what the Coliseum
looked like last Saturday against San Jose State. A lot
of people criticizing how even Texas Tech jumped in to
kind of take a shot at USC and the crowd
they got at the Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
What do you make of just all the hubbub coming.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Out of that, man?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Joey McGuire was tired of everybody picking on him for
Brendan Sorsby, so he wanted to take a swing at
somebody else. And empty seats in the Coliseum seemed like
a safe place. Listen, it was 95 in L.A. It's
San Jose State. Oregon's coming to town later in the month.
Washington's going to be there the first Saturday in October.
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Ohio State's going to be there. Trojans are sitting there going,
I'm not going to San Jose State. You guys know
Los Angeles. There's tons of ways to spend your money there.
And it just wasn't a big game. And that's part
of the deal that this, as you pointed out, Dick, earlier,
when you're in a 12-team playoff, you've got to schedule
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some wins. Because if you don't, you're going to knock
yourself out of the deal before you even get started.
And that's a little bit of a predicament, especially when
everybody's looking for money. SC needs those seats filled. And
I think we'll come to some conclusion as to how
to do that in the future.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
How much can you learn about your team? Let's talk
about the quarterback position. You mentioned Mayava. How about DeMond Williams?
I mean, how much can we learn about DeMond's development
as a quarterback when he's playing Wazoo, Utah State, Eastern Washington,
and Minnesota in September?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Well, Minnesota will be all the challenge you want. But
those other three, they should have a safe passage. But
here's what Jed can do with DeMond over the course
of the next three weeks. He can give DeMond a
lot of freedom out there. I know Jed real well,
and obviously Jed loves to have his hands on the
wheel of the offense. He doesn't give up play calling.
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But play calling is kind of an idea. When the
play goes into the game, all of a sudden you
get a defense that presents itself. And DeMond, because of
his experience now, is starting to recognize defenses and seeing
tells that are happening in the back end that obviously
create advantages and opportunities for him. This is an opportunity
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for Jed to give him some leash and let him
go out and expose those vulnerabilities that he's seeing in
a defense. And if you can do that, now you've
taken the next step. That's why Brady and Manning and
Breeze and all the greats have stayed in the league
so long. They get these tells, they understand exactly what's
going on, and they take full advantage of it.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, yeah. All right, well, let's make it 2-0.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Taco time pick of the week.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm going to go with a chicken Caesar salad, fresh
romaine from the Carpenito Brothers Farm in Kent, probably on
the menu through September, and then once the month is over,
you never know.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But who do you like to go 2-0 this week, Coach?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I love those Carpenito Brothers. Please pass along my hello
through them.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I will.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Listen, we're going to go to the state of Nevada.
Nevada is hosting Western Kentucky. I did a little fundraiser
for Nevada earlier in the summer. I saw exactly what
they were doing in terms of bringing in some pretty
high-octane transfers. They're an underdog right now to the Hilltoppers
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at home. Give me the Wolfpack to beat Western Kentucky
and open their season 1-0.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Packer getting one and a half against Western Kentucky on CBS,
by the way, on Saturday at 7.30. So something to
do on Saturday night before we're getting ready for the
Apple Cup. And great stuff. Thanks for sticking with us
in the back of your Uber, by the way. Fly safe,
and we'll talk in a week.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Thanks, Rick. That's the first time I've been in an
Uber that got pulled over by the cops.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Wow. Did the guy want an autograph or something? Did
he know there was a celebrity in the backseat?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I told him I had a major radio interview and
I needed to hurry, and the guy hurried. I felt terrible.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Geez, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
All right, well, there's a first time for everything, I guess.
That makes two of us, two guys that got pulled
over today. We'll get out of here, Rick.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
The officers were college football fans, and they did not
give him a ticket.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, because they saw the Rose
Bowl winner sitting in the back seat.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
We'll talk in a week, man. Great stuff. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Thanks, Rick.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
See you, boys.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, Rick Neuheisel likes Western Kentucky, Nevada.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
He's going to take Nevada and the points against Western
Kentucky on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I mean, I know nothing about either team.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
No, but, I mean, that's a tough play. I mean,
Western Kentucky going to Nevada?
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's going to be a different experience.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
The reason why they're getting points, though, I guess. I
don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Maybe Western Kentucky's got some kick-ass roster I'm not aware of. But, hey,
Rick's off to a great start, so why not let
it roll? All right, we're going to break. A little
fun with audio. Slash, hey, did you hear that? Brett
Boone at four. Jerry Brewer at five. We've got to
come back and revisit this. Would you rather be tied
or 20,000 games up topic, don't we, at some point?
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Speaker 3 (28:34):
Look at that guy's hair, by the way.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Does that not look like the guy from Captain America?
Or not Captain America, but what's the show, Believe It
or Not?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh, yeah, Greatest American Hero. Greatest American Hero.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
That's the dude.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
That's him right there. My God, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Get a picture of that guy.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Straight out of 1986. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that? What's up, Dave?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Let's go to Washington football. At a press conference earlier
this week, Huskies defenders Alinius Davis and X-Ray Alexander were
asked about their feelings on Wazoo before the Apple Cup
on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
For any of you, you can give me your real answer.
You can give me your PC answer.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
How do you feel about Washington State?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I hate them.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
That's all right.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
That's just me, though.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, I feel the same way. I just can't wait
to go kill them.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I love it. I love it. And the fact that
Jet Fish doesn't mind that is even better for me.
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He doesn't give a damn about that stuff. Go out
there and, you know, drum it up a little bit.
You know who else might like that, by the way,
is the Husky marketing team to sell some tickets for
this game. We got three pairs of tickets to give
away for that Apple Cup. which we'll get to at
some point today on the radio show. But I think
the smack talk for games like this, you want to
keep the rivalry going and let players do things like that.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We've been waiting 40 years for comments like that.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Right. And we never get them, and we finally do.
And maybe we'll get them more now that Washington State's
not a legitimate threat to beat you.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, and I tell you what, if you open your mouth,
you've got to take it from the other side. If
you don't win, to the victors go the spoils, right?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So Wazoo ends up winning, and they'll have the right
to run their mouth as much as they want. We'll
see what happens on Sunday, 9 o'clock pregame, 1 o'clock
kickoff here on KJR.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Let's go to, oh, man.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
This morning, The Athletic released their findings of its internal
review of Diana Rossini's relationship with Mike Vrabel. At the
Patriots head coach's press conference earlier today, Rabel was briefly
asked about his reaction to the investigation's conclusion.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Published its findings after its review into Diana Rossini's reporting.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Curious if you have any reaction to that.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
No, I don't have any reaction.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
We're moved on and focused on Seattle and focused on
the Patriots and focused.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
On getting better this week. Fully behind you?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Try to just say that I've moved on and excited
about this new opportunity here as we start this season.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I did not have sex with that woman.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Why didn't he say that? Well, you heard Clinton. You
know who I heard with that?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Who?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That was straight out of Bill Belichick, man. Oh, yeah.
We're on to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Well, he played for him.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Maybe he ripped it off from him. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I hadn't even been thinking about the Diana Vrabel thing
until this story came up today. So, I mean, the
story also came out today that she's going to, She's
going to work again. She's going to make a comeback,
so get a job with somebody. I'm sure at first
it'll be uncomfortable for her having to go to an
NFL locker room or go on the road and be
around other media people that cover the NFL, but just
rip off the Band-Aid and move on, right? There's nothing
(31:35):
you can do. It's going to be uncomfortable. You're going
to have people saying things behind your back, and then
guess what? They'll move on too.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think it's more talk show for her, right? Yeah,
it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
But if the investigation indeed concluded, and who knows if
it was fully up and up and whatever, but if
they concluded that, yeah, they were together, but her reporting
was not biased, then I'm inclined to believe, I mean,
the Athletics is a pretty reputable place, New York Times,
all that, So, Jerry Brewer, right? I'm inclined to believe
(32:06):
that if it's on the up-and-up, then she should be
able to be a reporter wherever she wants to hire.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
She should be able to go right back to working.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Well, even if it's not on the up-and-up. If somebody
wants to hire her, then that's their prerogative, right? And, Dick,
I think you're right that she's going to do a
talk show style, but she's still going to be out
and about unless she's going to lock herself in a studio.
You and I do a talk show, and we're in
the NFL locker rooms all the time.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, I just don't know if she's going to be...
I don't think she's going to be covering teams per se.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Like an NFL insider? Yeah, or insider reporter.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I think it'll be more on the periphery, just like
opinions and, you know, that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I mean, at some point I would assume that she's
going to be with other media people, right, in a
setting where she's surrounded by other people that are snickering
and making comments.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Super Bowl radio row.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Exactly. So that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You know, I just tell her, just suck it up,
you know, Move on, be done with it, and then
something else will take its spot. All right, we've got
time for a few more. Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
No.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Hang on just a second. Happened to hear that.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Oh, God, my fingers are so fat now.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Fox Sports sideline reporter Erin Andrews joining Alex Cooper's Call
Her Daddy podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
This week.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And shared her take that Seattle has the most intimidating
fans in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Which team has the most intimidating fans? Well, I know
you're an Eagles fan.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yeah. They are very intimidating.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
They are as advertised. I will say, have you been
to a game in Seattle?
Speaker 8 (33:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Wow. Oh, really?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Wild.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
Loud.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
They bring it.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
They bring it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
It is wild loud. I mean, rightfully so. Their team
is amazing.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
I didn't expect that. She didn't expect that Seattle was loud? Right.
What rock has she been living under for the last
25 years?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That was Alex's reaction.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That's not a sports person right there.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Oh, gotcha. All right. It's like a mayor talking sports,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Jenny Durkin talking about the Seattle Soccer Cup, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I mean, there was a point in time, as you
guys know, just a couple years ago where we were
getting a little bit irritated with the Seahawks crowd.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yes. When there were thousands of opposing fans in the stands.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Very much so.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
So I could see how maybe somebody.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
in their impressionable years would look at Seattle and maybe
catch us at a down time, like the last couple
years before this season, and think, man, all I hear
is those guys bitching about how many opposing fans are there, right?
But I think, you know, anybody who's a sports fan
and has a consistent, you know, obviously interest in the
sport would know that Seattle is known consistently for having
(34:47):
some of the best fans in the NFL. I guess
I just don't notice it as much because I'm so
used to it now. You know, other NFL stadiums that
I've been to, I've never seen anything as loud as
Lumen Field. And I got to tell you, I don't
know about you, Dick, I've never heard anything as loud
as the Old Kingdom back in the day.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Back in the 80s, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Still, the two loudest games of my life were both
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
And that was Raiders Monday Night Football in 86, I
believe it was.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
When we beat them like 31 to nothing.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
And Huskies Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Huskies-Nebraska was the loudest game I've ever heard of. And
that set the record forever, right?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Does it still have the record? One more Jackson or no? Yeah,
go for it. All right. Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear that?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
What's that, Dick?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
All right, as a punishment for circumventing the salary cap,
the NBA has stripped the LA Clippers of five first-round
picks and issued Steve Ballmer a $ 30 million fine, among
other penalties. CBS reporter Sam Quinn reacting to the punishment
on CBS Sports HQ yesterday.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Five first-round picks does feel appropriate for cap circumvention. I
know cap circumvention can be kind of an opaque term.
Something that, you know, sounds complicated. The easier word here
is cheating. If you circumvent the cap, you are cheating.
And I think the NBA made the right decision in
making an example of the Clippers, especially in such a
restrictive cap environment. If other NBA teams had the idea
(36:06):
that you could get around the cap, get around the aprons,
by just coming up with these side deals with players,
then it would kind of be open season.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
The rules wouldn't even, you know, apply. There'd be no
reason to even have them.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
So.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
I think this is appropriate based on the information that.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Was made public through Pablo Torre finds out.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
You know, it just got me thinking about college football
and college basketball, Dick, and that there's this house settlement
where every school can spend $ 20 million on players.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
But then they can go out and cut side deals
with players and give them even more money in NIL.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I mean, that's exactly what college football is doing right
now with the NBA just got busted for. And until
there's a limit on how much you can spend on
NIL deals and third-party organizations, then the rich will get
richer and the poor will get poorer. So the question is,
does college football, does college basketball want to do what
the NBA just did?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
And do they want to get this under control so
it's fair?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Yes, they do.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
And aren't we going to eventually get back to the
point where we were before, where you've got $ 20 million
you can spend, and then another $ 20 million you can spend.
Let's just say $ 20 million you can spend at NIL,
and then we're going to have Tosh LaPoi with coffee cans,
getting them above that $ 40 million.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Maybe go back to cheating. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I'm just looking at the Clippers, what they did. What
was his first year in L.A.? Was it 2019? I
think it was 2019. was Kawhi Leonard's first year with
the Clippers. They went to the conference finals one time,
missed the playoffs three times, and went to the first
round and lost four times.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
And I believe when they went to the conference finals,
he was injured and did not play for them.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, cost him $ 30 million and five first-rounders, and it
didn't even work. I mean, that's pathetic. When you're cheating
and you can't even win when you're cheating? All right,
we're going to break. Brett Boone's going to join next
on 93.3 KJRFM.
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