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October 25, 2024 35 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain debate the Huskies and Seahawks relative to their opposition in 2024, then get Fact or Fiction before Lee Sterling’s picks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
It's What's for Dinner?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Football Friday is on with Sunday and Dick on Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Jack.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Soon, we got to make an amendment to our clock
in the first segment of the radio show here, Okay,
usually we go to three twenty. Yeah, we're gonna break
it three twelve.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Oh, do we have any guesses three twenty that I
don't better?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
They just dropped off a pizza here at the Dutches,
so we don't want to wait till three. We can't
stare at it for twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Okay, we're trying to hammer a piece in between stories.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
On the Oh, I swallowed mine whole.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
I'm good God, and the former fat guy in me
is still very much alive and kicking every now and then.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Done so good.

Speaker 6 (00:56):
Okay, that's that's the reason.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yes, absolutely, I guess I think of a better reason
than that. Who gives a damn about guests. We got
a freaking pizza pie sitting here. We can't wait until
we gotta wait fifteen minutes to eat this thing sausage.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
We're at the.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
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Dick Baird got busy here multiple times when they were
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(01:30):
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I will do when we take a break in six
minutes from the Maybe we'll be enjoying the pizza pie.

(01:51):
But we're here all day long with San Juan. Gonna
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Just remind me going to do that, by the way. Okay,
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and then out. I might have a couple of San
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(02:12):
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win right now. So we got the Huskies tomorrow, we
got gas Man joining us from Indiana at four o'clock.
We got Lee Sterling with his take on the game
at three forty five.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
We're gonna hear.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
From Hugh at five o'clock tonight, and then we're gonna
find out how Deep Dixon Fane's voice has changed in
the last four or five years. Coming up on the
show as well, we'll play a couple of depis or
maybe give you a sample of his voice, like six
years ago and then years ago, and then we'll find
out what it sounds like today.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Has it changed a lot in the last three years?
That big time.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
It changed more from age eleven to fourteen than it
did from age eight to eight eleven, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
He breaking out to what else is going on with
Dixon Fane over there?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
That going on?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I make sure that I do not even know. Geez,
how do you not know? You gotta know what's going on.

Speaker 7 (03:09):
I know what's going on in his life. I don't
know what's going on in his personal.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I don't expect his face, nor do I really care. No,
he doesn't have it. He doesn't have that. He's good,
he's pretty, he's alright, it's hygienic. He doesn't have any acting.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah, well I I touched my face a lot
because I'm kind of fidgety, so I guess you are.
I'm really awarbout that stuff. How much longer in this
break do we can eat that pizza? We got five okay,
so we've got to fill four more minutes until we
can take a break. About the question I have early,
it's not kidding, I'm kidding. Uh, Yes, Dick. Dick asked
a very very important question off the air. He's never

(03:41):
asked this question Jackson ever, ever, ever, ever, It's very
que unique Friday football question. The first time I've ever
heard this. Sore you ready, you're ready for the question?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Which game is bigger? Huskies or Seahawks?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
But no, no, no, no, no, they only have one.
You can only have one, which is big Jackson? You
want to start?

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah, I want Seahawks.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
I want the Seahawks in this one because I think
this is a massive one against Buffalo. Really, you can
get a stranglehold I think of the division, especially if
the Niners end up losing. So I really want this
Buffalo one. And the reality is is that for the Huskies,
like I think you're I still think you can make
a bowl game even losing this one.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
So I'm walking in saying, just for what it would
do for the Seahawks to be able to get this
win against a great football team.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
You started to convince me.

Speaker 7 (04:32):
I think this is one of the weeks where there
is no right or wrong answer. I think there's other
weeks where it's like, come on, I mean, there's an
obvious answer.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
This is not one of those.

Speaker 7 (04:40):
I just think I think the Huskies are a better
college football team than the Seahawks are.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
An NFL football team.

Speaker 7 (04:49):
I just even though they have the same record, I
think the Huskies are better. I think the Huskies can
put a national TV College Game Day statement and knock
Indiana off their post. I still think this team can
be a top twenty five team. Yeah, it's not a
playoff team, but I still think it could be a
top twenty five team.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
We're looking back on this year and saying, you know what.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
This was a really good year for Jedfish and I
think we'll win it on the road against Indiana would.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Do that the Seahawks.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
We got the win we needed last week to stay
playoff relevant and to stay in first place the NFL.
We I think this is kind of a gravy game
for the for the Hawks. To be honest with you,
I think it's like, yeah, it'd be great to win it.
You'll be talked about as one of the two or
three best teams in the NFC.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
But are you really even if you win the game,
are you really one of the two or three best
teams in the NFC. I'm not. I'm not sure they are.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
All right. First of all, that was great.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
What you guys just that a whole piece of pizza guys,
that was like ninety seconds time out for me to
swallow a whole piece of pizza here at the Dutchess.
And by the way, these pizzas are awesome. Holy cow,
are they good?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Man?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Come on down here to the Duchess and grabbing pie.
First of all, are you drunk already?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Who you did?

Speaker 4 (06:01):
I just hear you say the Huskies are a better
college football team than the Seahawks are an NFL team?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Is that what you just said? For a team that's
leading their division?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yes, in the Seahawks.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
We literally just talked to Mike Florio yesterday about the
Seahawks taking control of the NFC West in a league
in the NFC where there's more parody now than maybe
ever before. We're talking about the Seahawks being a dark
horse to make a playoff run, and you're telling me
they're a better The Hoskies are a better college team
than the Seahawks are an NFL teams?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Are crazy? Seahawks are above average NFL team.

Speaker 7 (06:31):
I think the Huskies are a better than an above
average college football.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
They are four three?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
What are you talking about? Are we gonna go back
to the record thing? Oh my god? What else?

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Do we go back to Are we gonna go back
to the scoreboard to decide a winner?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is that really right?

Speaker 7 (06:46):
So the forty nine ers are terrible, right because they're
three and four. They're a bad team. They're a below
average NFL. Come on, the forty nine ers have history.
They were in the Super Bowl last year. I mean, Jackson,
help me out here, crazy.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
I don't even I don't even know what to say, Saftie.
I just like, listen, if I was there, I would
like stuff a piece of pizza in his face, I think,
and say, Dick, what like, just eat the pizza. It's okay.
We can go to break in a minute so you
can enjoy more, but like, just have the pizza.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
No, we're staying on the air now until what what
are you what? They're number eight in the NFL and
scoring the Seahawks are I was on like twenty five
points a game and they've been totally banged.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Up and they're getting everybody back. Look, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Saying the Hawks are the premier team in the NFL.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they're even the
team to beat in the NFC. And they may not
even win the division but the Huskies are basically cooked,
I mean without winning out that they're.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
A second five.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
You're comparing a twelve team playoff of one hundred and
some teams versus a fourteen team playoff of thirty two teams,
and that's how you are.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Do the Seahawks have a chance to go ten and
seven and you're a piece? Okay?

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Do the Seahawks have a chance to go nine or
the Huskies have a chance to go nine and three?

Speaker 7 (07:56):
In your mind, nine and three, No, nine and three
is actually hell of a lot better than ten and seven.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's why they're not going nine to three.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
They're not going nine to three.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
The Huskies are probably a seven to five football team.
Right when it's all said, well, you just brought up
stats with the Hawks. You just talk about their you
just talked about their offense.

Speaker 7 (08:11):
The Huskies are one of seven teams, yeah, that are
in the top twenty in both yards per play offense
and yards per play defense, and the other six teams
are all in the top nineteen in America.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
But they're not winning games.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
I mean again, I mean, I'm not saying the Hawks are,
you know, five and two or six and one, but
at least the Seahawks can go back and say, hey,
we've had massive amount of injuries on the defensive line,
We've had injuries on the offensive line. We're getting everybody back.
I mean, I think a lot of us. I mean,
I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong on this. Think the
Seahawks are going to get better as the year goes
by when they get the reinforcements in. Unless the Huskies

(08:46):
go on the road and win a game tomorrow or
beat at Penn State or beat an Oregon. I think
that's crazy to say that the Huskies are a better
cobbetence team than the Seahawks are and NFL team. I
think the Huskies kind of are what they are. They're
probably a seven five football team.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
That which is that's a nine and eight, that's a
nine and eight NFL team.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Okay, yeah, but deck a nine and eight NFL team
can make a run to the conference championship game a
seven and five college team's going that's not fair.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
You're talking about different rules.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
I mean, the NFL has has a much easier entrance
into the playoffs than college football has into the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
I understand that, but even if they allow thirty two
teams in.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
The College Football Playoff, A seven and five team would
have a hard time winning, right They just there's just
there's a clear gap in college football between the elite
and the really good and the very good and the media.
The difference difference between the elite and the NFC and
the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
To me is not very big, not very big.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, but that's because the elite in the NFC is
not very good.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
But I think again, you're talking about judging everything your peers.

Speaker 7 (09:50):
The elite in college football right now, I think is
truly elite. There's like four or five teams that are
truly elite in college football. I don't see any elite
team other than the Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Chief the NFL on Twitter, Jackson, what's the question we
got to ask you?

Speaker 5 (10:03):
I don't know the question phrase the question in the moment,
I was just gonna say, you're saying that. Let me
quickly to confirm what you just said. The elite in
the NFC is not great, correct. The Detroit Lions are
not a great team.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
They're not a great team. They're a very good team.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
They're a very good team.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
They're the best team, and they're the best team in
the NFC.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
I just I just think that's I think that's what
I think.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
They're very team.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
We have seen great teams over the last few years.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
I mean the Niners of two or three years in
a row, a great team, the Kansas City Chiefs for
four or five years. Other than last year, I didn't
think the Chiefs were a great team. Last year, they
were a good team that peaked at the right time
and became a great team in the playoffs. There has
been great NFL teams. The Buffalo Bills in past years
were greater than they are this year. I just think

(10:50):
it's right now. I just don't see a big then
upper echelon of the NFL right now. Where I do
in college foot well, I see four or five.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Really really good teams.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
And so if you are equating the Seahawks to the
Huskies college NFL course, would you equate Iowa to Detroit?

Speaker 6 (11:07):
Question work?

Speaker 7 (11:11):
Yeah, Okay, this is nuts because if you quit Huskies
played terrible in the second half that game, there's a
seventeenth there's a seventeen to ten game. They played awful
and second half they went for it twice inside their
own thirty five yard line and handed Iowa two touchdowns.
I mean, Washington I think has a better chance of
beating Indiana as a six and a half point dog tomorrow,

(11:32):
then the Seahawks have a beating Buffalo as a three
point dog on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
I mean you may be right about that.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
That's one week, yes, right, I mean you may be
correct about that. And I don't know if I agree
or not, but I can see your reasoning. I mean,
there's a lot of hype around Indiana. The state Huskies
are pissed in Indiana, is you know, having the whole
world tell them how great they are. Buffalo's flying three
thousand miles. I totally get that for this week. But
if you're telling me that compared to their peers, which
is all we're talking about, all we can do is

(11:57):
compare it to the rest of the league, saying the
Huskies comparatively to the rest of college football are a
better college football team than the Seahawks are compared to
the rest of the end.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I don't see that whatsoever at all.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
My eye test has told me that the Huskies have
looked better. The Seahawks, to me, have not consistently looked.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
At I think part of that's the injuries.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
I think not having guys healthy and ready to go,
and Huskies, to be honest with you, have been relatively
healthy this year. Yeah, they've had some issues with a
little bit of guys dinged up on the offensive line,
like for Solo and Max McCree. Yeah, but but the
guys that they're missing though, Parker's big and so durfy.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, but really, really.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Honestly, okay, I mean, let's face it, the Seahawks lost
Byron frickin' Murphy. We're not going to compare that to
Zach Durfy getting banged up. I think the Zach Durfy thing,
I think the Zach Durfy conversation has got to come
down a couple of notches. I mean, we're acting like
this guy is Joey Botsa when he's not playing, he
hasn't done anything.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yet even when he's out there.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Look, it's great to have him, and I wish we
had him and Javon Parker healthy for every single game,
and maybe the more they played they would have been better.
But my god, the Seahawks were down, boy Mafe, they
were down Leonard Williams, right, they were down Byron Murphy.
They were down Reek Woolan. Who else were they down
in the secondary?

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Were there?

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Were there more guys hurt on the defil Julian Love
was banged up, Their starting first and second string right
tackle was hurt.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Kenny Walker was hurt.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
The Huskies haven't it anywhere near those guys that have
been out.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I mean, if I mean class.

Speaker 7 (13:27):
And used the Iowa comparison, I mean, yeah, you pick
out the Husky's worst performance. Would I would you like
to go back and rewind what Sunday against the Giants
looked like at home?

Speaker 4 (13:37):
I mean bad that day, But again again that's that's
that's one game, and they were The Huskies have only.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Played one bad game. Really they had.

Speaker 7 (13:45):
They had red zone and kicking troubles against Rutgers, But
I don't think they played a bad game.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
They had like five hundred and twenty yards of offense.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Thick in the end kind of all your judge by
is what you do when it's all said and done.
And the Seahawks are a first place division right in
our team in the end West that I think should
be right now the favorite to win it. It may
not be a big favorite, but they're the favorite to
win it. You know they may have to get some
guys healthy again, and they will. This news about George
Fant and a Lucas coming back in a couple of

(14:11):
weeks from now is gigantic. But if they make the playoffs,
which I think they're going to. By the way, if
the Seahawks make the playoffs, they're going to be compared
to their peers, a much better team than the Huskies
will be because in this league, in this conference, they'll
have a chance to go far. I I Jackson actually
agree with what Dick just said about the lack of
a real elite team in the NFC. I think the
Lions are the best team, but I don't think there's

(14:34):
a gigantic gap between them and the rest of the NFC.
I think there's a big gap between Kansas City and
the rest of the AFC.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
It may be closing a little bit.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Baltimore's closing.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
I think it's.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Closing for sure, but there's a there's a much smaller
gap in the NFC.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
I could make a argument that there's like three ANFC
teams better than the best NFL.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
So if the Hawks make the playoffs, they're gonna have
a chance.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Huskies aren't gonna have any chance.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
That's actually funny because I disagree with that. The she's
maybe to know, But I don't think the Chiefs have
looked really good being six, and I think they're very
very closer to being five and two right around the Bills.
I think the gap and the AFC between the Chiefs
and the Ravens and the Bills and frankly the Texans too,
is way way smaller than the gap between the Lines
and the rest of the IFC.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
So what's the question, Because we got to put this
on Twitter, and Dick has agreed that whatever the voters say,
he'll that's not right.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
So what's the question? Who is better compared to their peers?
The Huskies are the Seahawks?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Is that fair? I mean, is there a different question? Yes,
phrase that.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Maybe instead of peers, the rest of their league or
the rest.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Of their is better compared to the rest of their conference.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
Well, I just conference NFC as it relates to the
big rest of their sport.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
I just for me, My point was just the eye test.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
To me, the Huskies have looked better more consistently this
year than the Seahawks have.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
They both had good games, they both have bad games.

Speaker 7 (15:57):
But more, the Huskies have consistently looked better than the
Seahawks had, Because really, when I look back at the Seahawks,
I see a great game against Atlanta, a ballsy.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Game against Detroit.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
I won't say a great game, but a ballsy under
man team against Detroit.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
And then I've seen three or four games like Miami.

Speaker 7 (16:17):
Was awful, Giants was awful, Denver was okay.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
You almost lost in New England on a field goal
that you had to block.

Speaker 7 (16:26):
I just think the Seahawks have not consistently looked as
good as the Huskies.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Here's the good point.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
I forget all that boom, It's pizza time.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
We made the break every twenty I just put a
pull out on Twitter, so vote on that.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
I just made it simple.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Who was better compared to the rest of their sports
Seahawks to the rest of the NFL, or Huskies to
the rest of the NCL.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
At least Sterling will join us.

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up at four o'clock today, So would you like it
up into the poll that we just tossed out Regarding
your claim about the Seahawks and Huskies, No surprise, you're
getting crush. Who was better compared to the rest of
their sports Seahawks to the rest of the NFL, Huskies

(18:05):
to the rest of the NCAA seventy nine percent, Seahawks
to the rest of the NFL twenty one percent.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
You do, I think timing has a lot to do
with it.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
If we had to put that poll out right after
the Seahawks or the Huskies beat Michigan and the Seahawks
loss of the Giants, what do you think the pole
would look like.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
I think it'd be a little less one sided, for sure.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I think I think a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
But what does that have to do with the prisoners.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
Of the moment and prisoners of the last thing they saw?
And the last thing that you saw the Huskies do
was have a terrible second half against Iowa and get
their butts kicked. And the last thing you saw with
the Seahawks was a double digit win on the road
against Atlanta. And I'm I'm just not gonna do that.
I'm never gonna do that. I Am never gonna be
a prisoner to the moment, and the last thing I

(18:48):
see is what I think the team is.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I just I'm gonna at what point.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Is it okay to start forming an opinion?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Dick slowly, slowly form an opinion.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Like it's like the stock market, right, the stock market,
if you take a look at the stock market over
the last thirty years, it goes like this, right, it
goes up the mountain.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Right. Overall, it's a straight line. As it goes up
the mountain.

Speaker 7 (19:09):
There are spikes and valleys, and spikes and valleys and
spikes and valleys. That's the course of the season that
I use. I kind of look at a season as
almost like one game. Are we gonna judge a game
by what happens in this four minutes of the game,
because that's one game of a season.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's like four minutes of a football game. No, I'm not.

Speaker 7 (19:27):
I'm gonna take a look and over the course of
the game, as the game gets closer to the fourth quarter,
I'm gonna have more in an opinion of how they
played in that game.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
And we have another game, we have more data we
do and we're we're seven games through. I mean and
the eye test till he was a great guy too.
Instead he started killing people and the like, I mean
everything that like things changed, Dick and the I Seahawks
have a chance to win their division, make the playoffs,
and maybe make a run towards the conference title game.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
In this league full of parody, how many see.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
The Huskies have no chance to win the Big Ten,
have no chance to win a title.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
Let me ask you this, I that is absolutely not
at all what I'm talking about as far as my
point of who has a chance to win a championship
or not. I'm talking about how many games of the
Huskies played that you think they played well, that your
eyes told them that they played? Forget the final score.

(20:22):
How many games do you think they played well in?

Speaker 4 (20:24):
I think they played well, But I mean, I don't
understand the question.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
How many games of the Huskies played that you feel
like they played well? Then how many games have the
Seahawks played you feel like they I would say I
would say the Seahawks have played well in four of
their seven games overall, and I would say the Huskies
have played well.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
In five of their seven games.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
I'd say four Because here's the problem. Here's what you're doing.
You're not associating any criticism towards bad red zone offense, penalties,
big plays on defense, and coaching and all those things
killed Washington.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's right, Okay, that's right.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
So like I can sit here and I can say
that they because I know what you're trying to do.
They outgained the three teams they lost to the hot
game every time they've outgained them all but the three
games they lost. If we're just focusing on that, they
outgained all of them. But they gave all of that
good will back because they were terrible in the red zone.
They made mistakes with the penalties, they gave up big
plays on defense, and they had bad coaching decision Would

(21:23):
you agree with all those things are part of this equation.
They may not show up in the box score in
a traditional box score, but they're damn important and they
were terrible in those category.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
If the Huskies were a stock, would they for you
right now? They'd be a buy, a seller, a.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Hold for like the next what years of the season.
I'd probably say a hold. I think I think that
they might have a chance to get better. I don't
know if it'll show itself. Because of their schedule. I'
about to see buyseller hold bye for sure, absolute bye,
totally by complete bye, because they're getting everybody back and
they're getting everybody healthy. I thought, going to Atlanta winning
a road game by twenty points, he's really impressive. I

(21:58):
thought Gino had his best game quarterbacking this football team
on Sunday, that Ryan Grubb had his best game as
a play caller on Sunday. And now that these Seahawks
are potentially getting George Fan and Abe Lucas back in
a couple of weeks, I think then they'll really start
to start to hum with the running game and be
a lot more balanced on offense.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
I buy, I buy for the Hawks.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
I think that's fair.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
I think the Hawks lose this Sunday, so I mean,
I think I think we're gonna take a step back
before we take a step forward. But I think long term,
I think you're right. I think the Hawks could be
a really good team by December. I just have not
seen a really good team in September and October.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Jackson, you want to jump in real quick.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
I was gonna say, going back to the stock market thing, Dick,
I think you know the stock market obviously, it's it's
always over the long course of a long time, which
we're you know, comparing to his season, it's gonna go
up and up and up and up and up long
long time. It does have that peaks and valleys, but
the element is it just keeps going up. So I
think the difference in thought is I don't see the

(22:55):
Huskies as going up and up and up and up.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
I think the Seahawks are going up and up.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
I think the Huskies are just kind of a straight
line with the peaks and valleys, so that that's the
difference here. I see one like the stock market with
the peaks and valleys, Seahawks, giants and then falcons. I
see the Huskies as the peaks and valleys, but it's
really never the constant stock market trend of going up
by a little bit.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, and again we can cherry pick one week, and
I agree the Huskies aren't as bad as the Iowa
game looked and the Seahawks aren't as good as the
Atlanta game looked.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Right.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
I think we can make that case for any game.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
Because I would have made this case before the Iowa
and if I would have made this case before the
Iowa game. There's a lot more people that would be
voted for the Huskies if I made.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
This cass last week.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
But now we know last we know more information.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
We know one sixteenth, one seventeenth more information.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, right, No, we know one twelfth in college football, right, okay,
and we know how they perform against one of the
elite teams in the big Time.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
And I thought they played well the first half and
then they just.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Threw it all away exactly, which is a problem. That's
a problem why you lose games.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
But if if we were sitting here last week and
I made this call, would you think it's idiotic or
would you think it's close?

Speaker 4 (24:03):
No, I would still think the Seahawks have a chance
because they're soaping up, they're so hurt, dude. The Huskies
have not really had that issue, but I'm talking about
now they fighting injuries.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
That's and maybe that's the reason, but I'm talking about
how they look.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
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Speaker 4 (24:43):
All right, are we doing this with the Chiefs and Raiders?
We settle on this kind of like that. I kind
of like that Notre Dame Navy game.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Too as well. By the way, maybe that's your pick.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
You can go back, we can go the Raiders. Raiders
are getting one again against Kansas City?

Speaker 3 (24:56):
How much is it? Six and a half? Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (24:58):
More than that, it wasn't that. It was not what's still.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Spread For some reason, Vegas Insider has been blocked here
at the Dutch.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Is that right? It's like eight and a half or nine?

Speaker 6 (25:08):
It's currently Oh, it's only nine nine.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Let's take the Raiders and let's take the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Man.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
I just think that Kansas City is really, really, really good.
I just think nine points is a lot. I think
nine points is a lot. The Raiders have been caught
out by everybody, including their players, their coach, the whole thing.
You're going on the road right playing in Vegas. What
was the stat about Mahomes against.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
The Mahomes is about forty percent cover if it's a
touchdown or more favor All right, so.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Let's just make it easy and take the Raiders and
the points against Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
You agree, it's fact, you hate it, it's fiction.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
To four nine, four to five one, all brought to
you by the Emerald Queen Casino. The Chiefs split with
the Raiders a year ago and they've only won one
game by nine points or more. I mean, they're awesome
at finishing games, they really are. They are incredible in
the clutch. They they just have that clutch gene. And
it may not matter, by the way, because they they
may win a lot of games this year like the

(25:59):
Husky did last season, just finding ways to get it
done in the fourth. They are amazing, right, but they
they they are clutched for sure. So I think Kansas
City wins the game. But I can see six seven
point victory for Kansas City Raiders again.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Nine.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
We're taking the Raiders with a Gardner Snake is back.
Gardner Minshew's back starting again right for the Raiders in Vegas.
Vegas plus the nine is the play.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
I like it.

Speaker 7 (26:23):
I mean, I think the double digit Dogs have done
very very well this season. God, they were like fourteen
and two in the first sixteen straight against the spread,
and they were winning straight up. They were like ten
and eight in their first eighteen double digit dogs this year.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yeah, one, straight up.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
I wouldn't be shocked at all if we saw a
repeat at Christmas Day and what up?

Speaker 3 (26:41):
On Christmas Day they lost.

Speaker 7 (26:43):
Raiders beat the Chief straight up as a double digit
dog and no one gave him any chance to do it.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
I think we may see a repeat.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
All right, we'll get a break. We got the Raiders
and the points. You agree it's fact, you hated, it's
fiction to four nine, four to five one. I'll brought
to you by the AM real quick, Causeino lest Sterling
is going to join us.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
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Speaker 2 (27:07):
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Speaker 4 (27:16):
Know, I'm a big fan of sports bars that allow dogs,
and the Duchess allows dogs. I mean, you know what,
I gotta be totally honest with you, unless you have
like some weird allergy like Petros does and he turns
into Will Smith from Hitch for that movie. Unless you
have that going on and you don't like dogs, I
don't trust you at all. I don't trust two kinds
of people, those that don't swear and those that don't

(27:37):
like dogs.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
I want nothing to do with you.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
And a guy that loves dogs and has a very
dirty mouth is with us right now.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
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Speaker 8 (27:46):
I got a clean mouth? Come on you? You are
as when I lose.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Very profan and you got a dog?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
All right? What's what's the name of your dog again?

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Brodydy Brody the Labbordoodle. I love it.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Well, Rody's got to be proud of his dad because
his dad's twenty two to seventeen and one on the
year so far, coming from behind after a slow start
three and two. Another winning week last week, and let's
get to at Oregon going home in front of the faithful.
Is the number one team in college football and they're
facing a really good Illinois team in the Aliini are

(28:19):
getting twenty two. How about that? What do you think
happens at autsin stadium tomorrow?

Speaker 8 (28:24):
When did they become really good? Dave?

Speaker 3 (28:27):
This year?

Speaker 7 (28:28):
I guess I don't know, because record is everything. I
found out last year. I found out last segment. The
record is everything with Dave, so well, what else would.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
It be, Dick Jesus Christ. Unbelievable. They're twelve and four,
but they're not very good.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
I go ahead, all.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
Right, So they beat Michigan. They're high on themselves. They
had this great uniforms. They're traveling cross country, gonna face
a Ducks team that's hot right now. Got the rest
couple of their players in the second half the game
last week. Dylan Gabriel, Jordan James. I mean they're explosive,
number fifteen in the country in explosive plays, Illinois number

(29:06):
fifty eight. Here. I'm taking the Ducks here, quack black Ducks,
thirty eight ten.

Speaker 7 (29:12):
Got it all right, Indiana, they're undefeated. They actually do
really look really really good. Five and a half point favorites.
Now the numbers come down from seven against the Dogs.

Speaker 8 (29:23):
I think the bye week was huge for Washington. I
think they're going to be able to slow down this
Indian offense some. I think this quarterback Jackson just came
into the game. And sometimes everything goes right, and sometimes
you have practice for a whole week and everything goes
wrong here. I mean the Dogs. I mean they could

(29:44):
have beaten Iowa. I mean in the red zone. They
were horrible. Special teams were atrocious. Here ye, wrong team favorites,
right up, Dogs thirty one, thirty thirty. I think they
hit on some big plays their receivers. I think they're
running back goes for a buck forty.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Okay, got you. I had him a buck thirty nine,
So we're right there.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Dolphins Arizona at Miami two is back in.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
The Fish are given four.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
And a half.

Speaker 8 (30:12):
I still think that the Cardinals are flawed, mediocre offensive
and defensive lines. Traveling on the short week, It's going
to be hot dang hot here, and I'll be there.
Dolphins get the job done finally, thirty one to twenty one.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
He likes both of our Factor fiction picks this week.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
About that, I'm sure if that's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
By the way, hey, he's nineteen and eleven in his
last thirty games on the show. That's pretty damn good.

Speaker 7 (30:35):
San Francisco, they are not the San Francisco they used
to be. Four and a half point favorites against the
Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 8 (30:42):
I would agree with that, I mean without Brandon Ayuk,
maybe even Deebo Samuel their Swiss Army Knight, who, even
if he plays coming back from pneumonia, he can't be
close to one hundred percent. George Kittle playing hurt. I
love the Cowboys, another team coming off of a bye.
They lost to the Niners twice in the last eighteen months,
including getting knocked off in the playoffs, And we're gonna

(31:05):
track this factor. How about a quarterback who gets engaged
the week of a game. Yeah, I think they're gonna
get the job done here. If the other wrong team
favored here, going against the number twenty third rated pass
defense of the forty nine Ers, dack with three point fifty,
Cowboys outright thirty.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
To twenty, thirty to twenty. Dallas wins by ten. Wow, gotcha.
Buffalo and the Seahawks Bills are coming here. They're given
three against the Hawks on Sunday at lumin Field.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
What do you see happening Bill Seattle?

Speaker 8 (31:36):
Well, DK Metcalf play.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
We don't know yet.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
I'd say no. My guess is no, but he's officially
doubtful for the game.

Speaker 8 (31:44):
Yeah, if he doesn't play, I think it's gonna be tough.
This Buffalo team is going to come after the quarterback
love Seattle last week, great setup playing a team lost
won three straight games and the division. And now they're
going to face a team that blitz his early and often,
and even if you cover their receivers. Josh Allen will

(32:05):
tear your heart out running the football Buffalo thirty one
twenty three.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
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You got something up your sleeve, don't you.

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Speaker 3 (32:51):
I love it all right, you're the man, great stuff, buddy.
We're talking a week.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
Sam man, all right, thanks, I see it all right.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Lee Sterling likes Oregon to cover against Illinois. He likes
the Huskies to win outright against Indiana, he likes Miami
to cover against Arizona.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
He likes Dallas to upset the Niners and win outright.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
And he likes Buffalo to cover and win the Seahawks
game thirty one to twenty three.

Speaker 7 (33:12):
He kind of, you know, seems to me that he
likes the Huskies and thinks they're a pretty good team.
I mean, they beat Indiana and the Seahawks lose the
Buffalo all of a sudden, our conversation is a little
different on Monday.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
I still don't think it is.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
You're talking about a four and four team in college
or a five and three team in college football, versus
a foreign four team in the NFL that, if Lee's right,
will still be leading the NFC West. I'm just gonna
disagree with you, Okay. That's by the way, this Bills
team gets after the quarterback. The Falcons did not get
after the quarterback. This Bills team has nineteen sacks so far.
You know, he's got one more sack than the Buffalo

(33:43):
Bills do sell Seahawks. They got twenty overall, and they've
been doing that, by the way, without a lot of
their guys on defense. That's why I'm bullish on the Seahawks,
because they're putting up numbers like that, number eight in
the NFL and scoring offense. They got twenty sacks, which
is more than Buffalo, and they don't have their offensive line,
they don't have their front seven, they don't have their secondary.
What is this football team gonna look like when everybody's healthy,

(34:06):
Dick and Seattle, it should.

Speaker 7 (34:08):
Look a lot better than it has. And that's why
I'm basing my opinion on what I have seen thus far.
And what I've seen thus far is a Husky team
that's been more consistent than the Seahawks team. I'm not
saying that the Seahawks are I'm not gonna say. I'm
not saying at the end of the year, the Huskies
will have had a better season than the Seahawks have had.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm talking about at the midway point.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Let's do this.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
We're going to get Mike Gastonowan from Indiana coming up
next segment. He'll join us and give us a preview
of the Hoosiers and the Huskies, because really, we tried
to get three or four guys on and nobody would
return our call. And we knew Gas was out there,
so we just said the hell with it. Let's get
Mike on the ear so he'll join us next segment.
By the way, we're gonna have Jet Fish on the show.

(34:51):
We're gonna have Ryan Grubb on the show. We're gonna
have Hugh Millan on the show. We're at the Duchess
Saw courtesy of San Juan cut so you can vote
in the poll. By the way, are the Seahawks a
better NFL team or are the Huskies a better college team?
Dick says the Huskies are a better college team right
now than the Seahawks are an NFL team.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Bo Jackson and I say he's nuts.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
And coincidentally, the radio station has just announced mandatory drug
testing for all the employees here at KJR. We're gonna
break headlines coming next on nine. Come on Laugh ninety
three to three KJRFM

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