October 28, 2025 • 36 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Jon Wilner about UW’s win over Illinois, Wisconsin ahead, and Oregon, then discuss Jedd Fisch’s future either with the Huskies or elsewhere, then Sounders Head Coach Brian Schmetzer joins the show.
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the wind to Lorian back on the right path. Overall though,
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the show. John Wilner from the San Jose Mercury News, Johnny,
how are you man?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
How you guys good?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
We were talking last segment to Greg Lewis and Mario
Bailey about Jedfish, and here's a guy who obviously there's
a lot of jobs open around college football, the Florida job,
Penn State.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
LSU, UCLA.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Why don't we just, first of all, before we talk
about extensions and things like that. Do you think that
around the country Jedfish is doing enough at you dub
right now to be more attractive on a national scale,
less attractive on a national scale, or the same as
maybe what he was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I think he is probably the same.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Okay, the fact that they didn't the two highest profile
games of their sea Ohio state of Michigan, they got
beat badly, and I think that that has kept him
from kind of jumping to the top tier of candidates.
He is not on the top tier, right, we could
go through that list. He's like for both well, certainly
for Florida. You know, he's second tier. I don't know
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what's going on with UCLA, but you know, I don't
think he's nearly as hot as he would be if
they had won one of those games.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Put it that way, Why would Jed want to go
to UCLA if they were interested in him?
Speaker 7 (02:32):
I have personal reasons, you know, I think his family
really likes it down there. If you're looking at football perspective,
there is no reason.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
There's none, you know.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Now, the UCLA is committing, They are committing resources. They
are you know, they have gotten permission from the University
of California regents to offer a big time salary eight
ten twelve million a year.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
Right.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
They are frustrated with how things are going, and they
are committed, and they've got.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
A chancellor who seems committed.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
If Washington's still a better job, right, Uh, it just
it just is. And you know, Jet, whether Jed views
you know, the personal things as a real pull or not,
I don't know. And I'm not even convinced he really
wants to go. I think that he and his agent
are being smart. They're trying to get as much leverage
as they can because he he can use that leverage
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if they're nine and three or ten and two to
get an extension from Washington.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, he and they want his name out there. They
want his name out there as much as humanly possible.
I mean, you tell me, John. There was a story
a couple of weeks ago that I don't know who
it was, somebody from some network that said that Jedfish
is Jedfish was a name of note I guess is
what the story was for the UCLA job. So why
would his Why would Doug Hendrickson, who's Jed's agent, also
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represents Marshawn Lynch and other people like that, Gary Payton's
agent back in the day. So local guy, why would
Doug Hendrickson want Jed fish name associated with UCLA? And
where does that start? You think at UCLA?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Well, you know who Hendrickson works for, right, Washington works
for Wasserman, Right, the Wasserman.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Group, and the CEO of the Washerman Group.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Casey Washerman is UCLA's biggest donor and is in leading
the search for UCLA's next coach, So it behooves Wasserman
the company for to they want to make a market
for fish and for UCLA. So hendrickson leaking Jed's name
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for and I don't know if he did it, but
I'm assuming he did for the UCLA job. That just
helps all three parties. It helps Jed, it helps Washerman,
it helps the bruins.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well do you think, Joel?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Let me ask you this because there are some folks
out there on social media that have totally shot down
the Jedfish to UCLA thing? Would you do the same?
Is the Jedfish to UCLA thing for you? Is it
even a story? Is it even something that you would
remotely think could happen.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I would never say never, but I have never thought
that it was more likely than not. What I think
is happening and thought all along is they're going to
use whatever they can use to put Fish in the
best position, either for other jobs or to.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Get a nice fat extension from the husky.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
That made me think, John, can you think of a
time when a coach that was not being fired, a
coach that was in demand, like Jed Fish, actually left
a better situation to go to a worse football situation like,
I just can't think.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Of any I would have to give that some thought.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
You know, there are there is a certain segment that
thinks UCLA can be a fantastic job, right, incredible campus,
access to talent. They do have a rich history, but
there's some huge shortcomings to that job as well. I've
always viewed it like this, for seventy percent of the
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potential candidates, UCIL is a bad job.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
For thirty percent, it's a great job, right if.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
You want to live at southern California, if you want
everything UCLA's got to offer.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Jed likes sell in California. His wife does.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I still don't think that he is going to end
up at UCLA at all.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, but you'll never say never.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Okay, Well, let me let me get one more on
on on that, because there's a we We had a
conversation last segment with Greg and Mario on The Husky
Show John about extending him, and Greg's take is that, Look,
I mean there's a lot of jobs open. He keeps winning,
his name's going to get bigger and bigger. He goes
nine and two and then beats Oregon. He's ten and two,
and you damn well, be sure that his name is
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going to be more appealing then in a month from
now than it is now. And Greg was just asking,
is it time for you DUB to extend him now?
I will tell you that November of twenty two, before
the Apple Cup, eleven games into Kaelin de Bor's tenure
at U DUB, Jen Cohen gave Calen a new contract.
I wish they would have given him another new contract
the next year, but that never happened, obviously because he
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went to Alabama. So there's precedent for doing this even
earlier in a guy's career.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
At U DUB.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
They did it to Debor after eleven games. Should they
do it with Jedfish after a year and a.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Half right now?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I think that they should start having some conversations. And
I would not be surprised if pat Schun's already had
some of those conversations with Hendrickson, you know, and the
university obviously, because he'd have to get the president's sign
off on that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
It's an ongoing process.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
And Chun knows the landscape and he understands the leverage
games and all that Washington will be proactive.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
I would think I would be.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I would not be surprised at all if there are
already conversations happening. Whether there's an actual hard and fast
offer on his desk before the Oregon game, that I
don't know, But there also could very well be conversations
like we're gonna do this at the end of the season.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yeah, well, we're coming off arguably his best performance as
a head coach at the University of Washington. Tell me
what you thought when you watched that game against Illinois.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, I thought they looked good. I did.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I don't want to read too much into it. Illinois
did lose at the fifty three points. I thought it
was Washington's it was. I thought it was Washington's most
complete game given the competition. I like, you know, it
was on offense, it was the Huskies, right, Boston had
he had to have at least ten receptions, right, Yes.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
And Coleman.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
I don't know total yardage, but he was getting five
six yards of carry and Williams looked comfortable in and
out of the pocket. That was Washington at its best offensively,
and they did well defensively too, so, but the thing is,
can they do that against an Oregon They couldn't do
it against Michigan State or Michigan or Ohio State. Can
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they do it against the Ducks. That's where it all
comes down to the whole season is the Oregon game.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yeah, they should be nine to two for sure, perdue, UCLA, Wisconsin,
all the all three game. I mean, any one of
them would be a huge disappointment to lose for you,
dub no question, yeah bet.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And then they so they're playing maybe for a playoff.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Spot against the Ducks.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Well, let's talk about why they're not ranked, man. I
mean we've talked about this before. I'm not as worked
up about it as other people are. I think all
that takes care of itself at the end of the year.
You dubbed, by the way, twenty twenty two was six
and two, and they were unranked, and they finished eighth
in the country. So you can move up quickly in
the poll. But you know my issue with the EIGHTP pole.
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We've had this conversation before on the air, But why
isn't you dub at six and two a ranked football
team right now?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
I don't know. I mean I've got them in my ballot.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
I think I have them twentieth or twenty first something
right there. You can if you look at Washington and
it's not a great resume, right, They've lost the two
highest profile games, they played decisively. They didn't really get
a quality non conference win, uh, and they played a
lot of low level Big ten teams. But if you
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compare Washington at six and two to teams that are
in the ACC Big East on a big big twelve
and SEC that are six and two, they stack up
pretty favorably. And that's how I came to the conclusion
that they should be on my ballot.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I don't know why they are not ranked.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And now noted Husky hater John, you people remember that well.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And Notre Dame as well.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
I mean, Notre Dame's resume looks almost exactly like Washington
in their twelfth I mean, and it's only it's only
because they started fifth in America.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
So John Wilner joining us.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
John, when the CFP rankings come out this year, how
close have they mirrored the AP in the past, and
do you think they'll mirror the AP less this year?
Because I don't think there's ever been a year where
the AP pole has been ripped as bad by the
media as it has been this year.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, I don't know if it's been as ripped as much,
but I don't think that the AP pole is much
different in its construction than it is usually. And last
year the CFP first the first rankings were very similar.
I don't have all the data in front of me,
but I did go through it a few weeks ago,
and a lot of teams were within one or two
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spots of their AP ranking in the in the CFP
Top twenty five. It just it has an influence on
that room, at least in the first iteration of their rankings. Right,
they evolved week to week in a different manner than
the AP poll does, but the first rankings are going
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to look pretty similar.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah, John, The Huskies have a bye before they take
on Wisconsin, and I guess, you know, for us in
our ILK, you know, we're still kind of pre programmed
to think of Wisconsin as a pretty decent football program, right,
you know, not elite, but pretty decent.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Their offense is dog crap.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
They have not scored more than fourteen point since their
second game of the year, when they played Middle Tennessee
and hung forty two. They've only scored more than fourteen
points twice and the second time was against Miami of Ohio.
This is a putrid offense that U DUB is gonna
see in a week and a half in Madison. Are
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you surprised that Luke Fickel is still there?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Number one? And number two?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Is there any reason to think that you dub will
not go to Madison and win that game decisively?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I mean they could get it, you know, kind of
bogged down. I don't know what the weather will be,
but they it could get bogged down. I mean Oregon
struggled with them, right, I mean that was twenty one seven,
you know, and I had thought Oregon would roll, but
Wisconsin's defense played very well. You know, if you're going there,
you never know. You cannot assume the Huskies are gonna
mash them. I am a little surprised Fickle still there.
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But they're different from say PennState LSU. And one of
the ways they're different is the nil game there has
been substandard and their athletic director, you know, after they
got they got shut out back to back weeks, right,
and their athletic director issued a statement of supporting Fickle
and basically saying we need more support. So I think
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that it's easier for them to to, you know, justify
keeping him through the season because of that element. Whereas
at Penn State or LSU or Florida, you know, they've
got all the resources, the coaches just aren't coaching the
talent well enough.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
They've scored seven games.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah, it's not but I'll tell you what. Their defense
was good in Eugene. It was really good.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Well, let's talk about the Ducks. I mean, how how
should Duck fans feel about that game? No big deal
to look ahead game. We had our guy Hugh Millen
come on and say, hey, Dante More just doesn't look
like the same Dante More he saw a month and
a half ago.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
No, he doesn't. They they are in a lull.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
And you know that's not necessarily the worst thing in
the world. You don't want to be peaking in the
middle of October. I think that kind of happened to
Oregon last year, right so the.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Indiana you know, I was at the Indiana game.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
They got punched in the face and they did not
look very sharp on offense against Wisconsin either. If I'm
an Oregon fan, I'm a little concerned. You know, I'm
not in panic mode. They've got a pretty manageable schedule.
They do, they got to play sc and then they
get the Huskies. I'm not panicking. I certainly think you
got a great chance at the playoff.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
But I'm a little I'm a little bit concerned. For sure,
there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Well, you mentioned it right there about the playoff. I mean,
let's let's say you dubgainst the nine and two and
all of a sudden, that Oregon game is significant, right,
I mean, U Dub's got a shot if they do
that and they win that game, and they went out
and they finished ten and two, what kind of odds
do you give you Dub on making the college football playoff?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Is Notre Dame at ten and two? Because if Notre Dame,
it's everything changes. If Notre Dame is a huge piece
to all of this. If they've went out and they're
ten and two, they're gonna get in.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yes, then all of a sudden they were all.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Of a sudden, it is six spots at large spots
instead of seven.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
If Notre Dame wins out, if Washington wins out and
Notre Dame wins out, I would give the Huskies like
a twenty five thirty chance to get in.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Okay, they will have one ranked win Oregon. No, you know,
the non.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Conference schedule will hurt them, but they'll be in the
mix against number four from the SEC, possibly number two
from the Big twelve. But really, Washington fans should be
rooting for Notre Dame to lose.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
All right, let's get to it. Last week, you've veered
off the path.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But it's okay.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yes, you know what it's like to have to pick
yourself up by the bootstraps and dust yourself off and
get back in the wind column. The windelarean walk the
wrong path a week ago. Let's see if we can
get the winde Laian back on the proper route to winning. Hammered, hammered.
Taking Ucla and the points hammered by.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
The trend was not my friend.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
No, Ucla trained exploded and just flew off a cliff
against the Hoosiers last week.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So five and four on the air so far. Who
do you like this week?
Speaker 10 (16:17):
John?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I'll take the corn Huskers.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
They I think they're getting six seven from USC somewhere
around there.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They're given they are getting six and a half.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
There we go, I'll take the corn Huskers at home.
I don't trust USC on the road. I don't trust
Lincoln Riley with fourth coreter leads, and I think Nebraska's
pretty good.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I'll take those.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
But that, by the way, that's an important game for
Washington because both USC and Nebraska have two losses. They're
in that pool of two loss teams in the Big
Ten with Washington fighting for a playoff.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Bit.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
I think us, I think Washington fans want USC to
win that game actually, because Nebraska's got an easier path
to ten and two right than USC does.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah, USC still Oregon, they got they got Yeah, no,
no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
All right, Man, Washington wants Washington wants all the two
lost Big Ten teams to be losing.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Yeah, love it all right, John, great stuff, you're the man.
Good luck, and we're talking a week Bud. Thanks guys,
all right, John Wilner with us on the radio show.
Brian Schmetzer will join us Larry Stone. Larry Stone actually
saw Babe Ruth play so he can settle the Otani
versus Babe Ruth debate at six pm tonight. I think
we got to spend more time on this jetfish question,
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because the more games he wins, and it's not just
the fact that he's winning games. He's six and two
still looking for, you know, some bigger wins obviously, but
there's a lot of job openings in college football.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
It's not just him, it's the amount of opportunities that
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Speaker 3 (18:32):
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Speaker 5 (18:35):
Mike Benton, who's a big Dodger fan by the way,
He will join us on the air a few minutes
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Speaker 3 (18:46):
Is he from there? By the way, is he from California?
What's the deal?
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Don't we know?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Just a bandwagon Johnny cum Lately jumper like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Okay, Well, I kind of tend.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
To just live in a world where he's a Johnny
cume Lately, So we'll just go with that until he
explains himself out about six forty five. But Shoeo Tani,
by the way, in the first inning of this game
against the Blue Jays today, drew a walk.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I just went back and looked at it.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So the last thirteen at bats at Dodger Stadium in
the playoffs, Game four of the NLDS was in Philadelphia,
excuse me, in LA against the Phillies. Shoeo Tani struck
out in the bottom of the tenth in Game four
of a game the Dodgers eventually won, so they won
the series three games to one. Since then, in his
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next thirteen at bats at Dodger Stadium, which is Game
three against Milwaukee, Game three of the World Series, and
then Game four to nine, thirteen at bats, seven walks,
five home runs, and two doubles from Shoho Tani, he
is thirteen for thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I mean, he's just he's transcended.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
I mean, if we can, I'm totally fine arguing Babe
Ruth Shoeo Tani.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I can't argue anybody else.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I just can't because nobody else is doing what he's
doing right now and putting up zeros in the World
Series on the mound two.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Right, fourteen at bats, I was wrong. It's the last
fourteen seven walks, five home runs and two doubles.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Man, he is fourteen for his last fourteen.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Every time he has gone to the plate in his
last fourteen at bats at home in.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The playoffs, he has gotten on base.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
That is just stupid. Man, what's going on with this guy?
And now he's in the mound obviously pitching for the Dolls.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
What's the thing we've seen?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Game four is twenty four years ago with Barry Bonds, right,
because Barry Bonds got walked all summer long, right, like
all summer. You just watch Barry Bonds get four wide
ones all summer long. That's the only time other time
I've ever seen something like this.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, he Barry Bonds had a year what year was
it where he drew like two hundred walks one season
at two one hundred and ninety eight and two thousand
and two he got walked one hundred and ninety eight. No,
I'm sorry. Two thousand and four he walked two hundred
and thirty two times. I mean that's like half your AB's, dude,
that is ridiculous. Two hundred and thirty four times the
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guy walked in one year. The most walked so Tani's
had in one season was this year with one hundred
and nine.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Barry Bonds walked two and thirty freaking times. How is
that even possible that you can walk that many times
in one year, two hund and thirty two. In two
thousand and four, the guy had an on base percentage
of six oh nine.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
That's I think there's a very simple reason behind that shoe.
Heey Otani has had Mookie Betts and Freddy Freeman behind him.
Barry Bonds had maybe sometimes Jeff Kent, and I don't
even know if he had Jeff Kent. That year he
had nobody behind him, So they're like put them on,
nobody's gonna drive you in.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Yeah, and Jeff Kent's guy, what was this last year
in Pittsburgh? That's going way back man Jeff Kent last
year San Francisco was two thousand and two.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yes, yes, he wasn't even behind Barry Bonds and four that.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Was after Jeff Kent. All right, So the conversation about Jetfish.
So look, clearly you're talking about a guy who was
what eleven and nine? Is that correct? As the Husky
head coach so far? Six six and seven and six
and two? Yep, uh, he's twelve and nine. Sorry is
the coach at you dub and he's seven and seven
and fourteen games in the Big Ten. Overall, the resume,
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if you just look at numbers, doesn't look that impressive,
but we have to put it into the context of
what he inherited, correct course, which was a starbage dump.
So the progress he's made with the offensive line, the
progress he's made with this football team has been pretty
damn amazing, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And there's a lot of jobs open.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I mean, you know the list, Penn State, UCLA, Florida, LSU,
Oklahoma State. There's a ton of jobs open in college football.
So the more jobs that are open, you kind of
do the whole you know, the two lists, right, you
got one side is what Jed's accomplishing, and then you
compare that to how many jobs are open. The more
jobs are open, the more people are gonna be going
after more coaches, and Jed Fish's names certainly will be
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on that list for somebody. So I think there's two
things here. Are we concerned about him leaving after this year?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Number one? Are we concerned about him taking demand with
him if he leaves? Number two?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
And number three, would you consider giving him a contract
extension right now to make it harder for him to
take off?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Am I concerned that he leaves?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
I mean it really, I've got no idea what the
conversations with his wife are like, because I mean, that's
nobody does huge.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
That's huge, right.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
If she doesn't want him to be here, then it's
going to be he is going to try to run
for any opportunity, but you got to run for any
opportunity that she's gonna want as well. And she gonna
want to live in Arkansas, she gonna want to live
in Oklahoma state.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
She gonna want to live I mean in Happy Valley.
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
I mean, Washington's a pretty damn Seattle's a pretty damn
good place to live.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
So I mean, I wouldn't otherwise think that he would
leave at the end of the season.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
But those personal relationship things, we've got no idea how
to predict.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
Let me give very very simple answers to all three questions, softie, Yes, yes,
and yes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (23:59):
I'm concerned he's going to leave because he's having a
great year, and I think that other schools see that
be Demon Williams I think followed him, and he I
think will follow him if the money is there, and
a lot of schools have a lot of money, right,
and then see if all if both of those are true, yes,
keep him here by any means necessary.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I think it's a great point Jackson about Demon. For
as bad as your Otani point was, this was the
exact opposite. This is a great point that he's already
followed him once. Yep, yeah, left Arizona once. You know,
what's to say that he won't follow him again? And look,
I mean, guys, look, do I sit around all day thinking,
oh my god, we're gonna No, of course not. You know,
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I have really come to a point now with college
football where I'm just taking this year by year. Man,
I am accepting of the fact that this could change
dramatically every single year. Even if Jedfish stays. There's guys
that could come, there's guys that could go, bring in
some new faces, lose some old faces.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It's the changing landscape of college football. Go drive yourself
nuts worrying about it, because its reality. That's number one.
Number two. The problem partly with Jed Fish's situation at
Washington as the contract that Troy Dannen gave him.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Number one, the buyout's way too low.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It's only ten million dollars Dan Lanning's buyouts twenty million
at Oregon. Number two. As Millan has pointed out many times,
he's exactly right. The date of the buyout is way
too early. Caitlyn de Moore took off and went to
Alabama on January the fourteenth, which was six days after
his buyout was over. It reset and dropped a couple
of million bucks. Jed's November is January the eighth. That
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should be the end of January. Now, maybe he would
never have agreed to that. I certainly would think that's
potentially true that Doug Hendrickson, his agent, and Jed's camp
would never say yes to anything like that. We're not
going to sit there and wait around until all the
jobs are filled for this buyout to drop. But I
think Troy Danon did not do udub any services with
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the contract details of his buyout, both financials and on
the calendar. So do I think there's a possibility that
Jed Fish is going to coach four more games at
Washington and walk out of here?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Absolutely?
Speaker 10 (26:08):
I do.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Do I think there's a chance he comes back. Of
course there's a chance he comes back.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Well, the more years he stays, the more years that
people he could prove a lot of people wrong.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Because there's a lot of staying here.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Yes, because there's just a ton of Husky fans that
are just assuming at the first opportunity he is gonna jump.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Well, and I don't think that Husky fans are wrong
to believe that.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Look they are right.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I'm a resident.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
But he's got enough surprise, he's got an opportunity. He's
starting to.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Build something really really good here and it could be
great next year.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Could be Potentially he could also walk and blow it
up and we're right back to square one. I mean,
I I just think all those things have to be
on the table, right all of them have to be
on the table. We're gonna break Brian Schmitzer. Oh boy,
they're in it now. They gotta win Monday big time.
Next on ninety three three KJRFM.
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Speaker 5 (27:12):
Sorry due, Oh god, no, no, I got good news
for Brian Schmetzer.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Your your Duke's gift card is on the way.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
To the house, by the way, So you got something
to all right, But it's on the way on the way.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Oh boy. Well yeah, let's just jump right in.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The hell happened last night?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Well? Well, I can tell you what happened? Is we lost?
How about that? There's a there's a nuts and bolts
of it.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
But how we lost and why we lost? That's the interview, right.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Yeah, Well, are you more upset today? And maybe you're
not as upset as you were last night? Maybe you
were never upset. Maybe you're a positive guy, and we'll
turn it around.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We'll be fine. But more, I guess.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Kind of bothered by the mischances of the ninety minutes
or what happened in the penalty kicks.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
So more bothered, I would say that's a good word
about the mischances, because you know, we had we had
a lot of good not just the ones at the
end of the game that you know, Masowski came on
and actually.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Did really well.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
We pushed Jordan up front and kind of a right
wing double center forward type of role and he was good.
But in the first half they cleared a you know,
we had a set piece and Christian got his head
on it and the guy clears.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
It off the line.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
Yamar on a on an Albert free kick, the combination
play in the middle of the field, rock rocks.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
All he has to do is hit the target.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
I mean, he was under pressure by a couple of guys,
but he hits the target.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
You know it's probably gonna go in.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
I mean, we had two point four expected goals and
you know we didn't.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
We didn't get any, so you know that's on us. Uh,
And then I.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Was surprised, sofy I was really surprised, and look when
Alex didn't make his I kind of knew we were
in trouble, But to miss three in.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
A PK shootout, that's not us.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Last year against Houston we were dialed in.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
I mean, we didn't miss We didn't miss any.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
Last year, So I was I was really cut of
shock at our penalties.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
How would you respond, coach to the folks that wanted
you to put Andrew Thomas in for Steph Fry on
the shootout?
Speaker 9 (29:29):
Well, the same thing.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
I mean last year in the second game in Houston,
Steph actually made two saves. And you know it's there's
there's no there's no goalkeeper controversy if your shooters aren't
making them, aren't making them, so you know, it's just
it's just it's plain and simple.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
It's not a controversy. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Well, Brian Schmetzer again with US Saunders Minnesota, Leg two
of this series on Monday at LUMAN seven fifty five off?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Is that right? Not eight o'clock seven point fifty.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Five And they're on time in this league pre match
show at seven thirty on the iHeart app. So let's
let's let's stay on the penalty kick front. Can you
just explain to us like we're morons, which we are,
so it's easy. How do you decide who takes these kicks?
What's that process like? And does it happen the same
before every game?
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Yeah, it's similar to each game. Eat games a little
bit different.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
But we were we were practicing for the last two weeks,
even before New York City.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
FC our last game, we were already.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Practicing penalty kicks, and so I got a pretty good
idea of who's good and who's.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Maybe not so good. And then it's kind of the same.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
You're going through the game and you're you know, you
have your list.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
In your head, and you go out there and you
talk to guys.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
Individually and sometimes as a collective. You say, hey, you good,
you want one who wants one raise your hand, and
you kind of get a feel for who's feeling confident
in that moment. And I had, like I had like
seven guys in the huddle softy saying they wanted to
take kicks. And so, you know, Christian has been really good,
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Albert obviously there, Jackson, Alex the penalty kick in the
league's Cup final. Danny Lavas, you know, usually one hundred
percent and then I still had.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Jordan and Georgie, and you know, I mean I had
zero problems with our lineup. We just didn't We.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Just didn't make the shots mentioned Danny Lava there. How
about the other Danny, Danny Muzovski's got sixteen goals for
you guys this year, and he had a chance at
the end, didn't get it. Buddy got himself into some
dangerous spots. Does that make him more or less likely
to earn himself a starting spot on Monday?
Speaker 10 (31:56):
Yeah, Dick, that's the question we got to go through.
I mean, look, we ateed a bunch of chances, even
just playing with Jordan's number nine, But when Masaske came on,
it kind of changed the game. So, you know, the
coaches and I have been working on the film already
a little bit. Today we'll make final determinations. And you know, look,
if we stick to a similar lineup the way we
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started and it's not going good or we're not creating chances,
Danny's in for sure, but you know he might start
as well.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Well, Brian Schmetzer game with US three two shootout lost
him Minnesota last night. Game two coming up on Monday, obviously,
and this is a Minnesota team that runs a let's
face it, gnarly disgusting, wretchet defensive system, right, and you've
seen it. You've seen it three times this year, and
it seems like you kind of keep getting better and
(32:47):
better and better against it. I mean, what did you
kind of see last night that maybe makes you feel
like you can take an even bigger step coming up
on Monday.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Well, the frustrating part about the way they play Softie,
they didn't.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
They didn't they say it in the press.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
I mean they want to deliberately slow the tempo down.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
They want to take.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
The sting out of the game, even at home. I
mean the goalkeeper was taking thirty forty seconds every goalkick.
You know, they every free kick, they just push guys
up the field and take it long and they're long throwings.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Look, that's who they are. We know who they are.
So so the frustrate us.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
Yes, it make it difficult for the players, yes, but
the silver lining was again, you know, we created enough
chances to get at least one, and I think softly,
if we get one at home, even if we get
one on the road, that might be enough. Because they
really didn't have too much.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
I mean, they had the breakaway when when you know,
Yaimar made a you know, maybe.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
A silly decision at midfield and the guy broke in.
Speaker 9 (33:52):
That was their only chance.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
How about Ryan Kent, coach available on Monday. I think.
Speaker 10 (33:58):
Yeah, for sure, that was a that was the late
minute scratch. I'd talked to him on Sunday's training actually
the last training day before we left, and he just
felt a little week in his injured hamstring, and I figured,
you know, we've got a three game series and if not,
do or die, So I was going to leave him
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home and he got a good training session in. He'll
have one more full week of training with the team,
but he's definitely definitely going to be involved because it's
a do or die game for us.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Well.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
And this is just to wrap it up, Brian, I
mean obviously you know this, but this is where soccer
in the MLS is so much different than other sports
that have a three to five seven game series. That
typically in a three or five seven game series, you'd
play a game and play the very next night, or
maybe a day off and play two days later. You
get to sit here now and think about this for
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a week before in a potential elimination game on Monday night.
I mean, what is that like for you as a
head coach. They're not going right back out there. You
got to think about this for seven days.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, everybody wants to get back up on the horse
after a tough loss. And it was you know, it
was a dut punch, you know, because I think we
really outplayed them, and you know, we.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
Deserved more of the game.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
But you know, again, like I said, they got us
in the penalty kicks. So what we're going to do
is we're going to work a little bit more on
our penalty kick taking. We're going to review all the
tactics of what worked in Minnesota, and then we're going
to use the home crowd.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
I think we're really good at home. You know. The
only loss actually at home was.
Speaker 10 (35:35):
These guys back right before the Club World Cup.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
But we've got a really strong home record all year.
We've only lost once.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And we'll get them.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
We'll get them all Monday.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Love it all right, Go get them, man, Appreciate this
and hopefully the next time we talk you'll be tied up.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Go get them.
Speaker 9 (35:50):
Thanks coach, all right, take care guys.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
All right, you bet Brian Schmetzer with us on the
radio show, got a big six pm hour. Larry Stone's
going to hop on and settle this Tony Babe Ruth
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how are you man?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Thanks?
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How you guys good?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
We were talking last segment to Greg Lewis and Mario
Bailey about Jedfish, and here's a guy who obviously there's
a lot of jobs open around college football, the Florida job,
Penn State.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
LSU, UCLA.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Why don't we just, first of all, before we talk
about extensions and things like that. Do you think that
around the country Jedfish is doing enough at you dub
right now to be more attractive on a national scale,
less attractive on a national scale, or the same as
maybe what he was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I think he is probably the same.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Okay, the fact that they didn't the two highest profile
games of their sea Ohio state of Michigan, they got
beat badly, and I think that that has kept him
from kind of jumping to the top tier of candidates.
He is not on the top tier, right, we could
go through that list. He's like for both well, certainly
for Florida. You know, he's second tier. I don't know
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what's going on with UCLA, but you know, I don't
think he's nearly as hot as he would be if
they had won one of those games.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Put it that way, Why would Jed want to go
to UCLA if they were interested in him?
Speaker 7 (02:32):
I have personal reasons, you know, I think his family
really likes it down there. If you're looking at football perspective,
there is no reason.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
There's none, you know.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Now, the UCLA is committing, They are committing resources. They
are you know, they have gotten permission from the University
of California regents to offer a big time salary eight
ten twelve million a year.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
Right.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
They are frustrated with how things are going, and they
are committed, and they've got.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
A chancellor who seems committed.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
If Washington's still a better job, right, Uh, it just
it just is. And you know, Jet, whether Jed views
you know, the personal things as a real pull or not,
I don't know. And I'm not even convinced he really
wants to go. I think that he and his agent
are being smart. They're trying to get as much leverage
as they can because he he can use that leverage
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if they're nine and three or ten and two to
get an extension from Washington.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, he and they want his name out there. They
want his name out there as much as humanly possible.
I mean, you tell me, John. There was a story
a couple of weeks ago that I don't know who
it was, somebody from some network that said that Jedfish
is Jedfish was a name of note I guess is
what the story was for the UCLA job. So why
would his Why would Doug Hendrickson, who's Jed's agent, also
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represents Marshawn Lynch and other people like that, Gary Payton's
agent back in the day. So local guy, why would
Doug Hendrickson want Jed fish name associated with UCLA? And
where does that start? You think at UCLA?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Well, you know who Hendrickson works for, right, Washington works
for Wasserman, Right, the Wasserman.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Group, and the CEO of the Washerman Group.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Casey Washerman is UCLA's biggest donor and is in leading
the search for UCLA's next coach, So it behooves Wasserman
the company for to they want to make a market
for fish and for UCLA. So hendrickson leaking Jed's name
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for and I don't know if he did it, but
I'm assuming he did for the UCLA job. That just
helps all three parties. It helps Jed, it helps Washerman,
it helps the bruins.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well do you think, Joel?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Let me ask you this because there are some folks
out there on social media that have totally shot down
the Jedfish to UCLA thing? Would you do the same?
Is the Jedfish to UCLA thing for you? Is it
even a story? Is it even something that you would
remotely think could happen.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I would never say never, but I have never thought
that it was more likely than not. What I think
is happening and thought all along is they're going to
use whatever they can use to put Fish in the
best position, either for other jobs or to.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Get a nice fat extension from the husky.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
That made me think, John, can you think of a
time when a coach that was not being fired, a
coach that was in demand, like Jed Fish, actually left
a better situation to go to a worse football situation like,
I just can't think.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Of any I would have to give that some thought.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
You know, there are there is a certain segment that
thinks UCLA can be a fantastic job, right, incredible campus,
access to talent. They do have a rich history, but
there's some huge shortcomings to that job as well. I've
always viewed it like this, for seventy percent of the
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potential candidates, UCIL is a bad job.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
For thirty percent, it's a great job, right if.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
You want to live at southern California, if you want
everything UCLA's got to offer.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Jed likes sell in California. His wife does.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I still don't think that he is going to end
up at UCLA at all.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, but you'll never say never.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Okay, Well, let me let me get one more on
on on that, because there's a we We had a
conversation last segment with Greg and Mario on The Husky
Show John about extending him, and Greg's take is that, Look,
I mean there's a lot of jobs open. He keeps winning,
his name's going to get bigger and bigger. He goes
nine and two and then beats Oregon. He's ten and two,
and you damn well, be sure that his name is
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going to be more appealing then in a month from
now than it is now. And Greg was just asking,
is it time for you DUB to extend him now?
I will tell you that November of twenty two, before
the Apple Cup, eleven games into Kaelin de Bor's tenure
at U DUB, Jen Cohen gave Calen a new contract.
I wish they would have given him another new contract
the next year, but that never happened, obviously because he
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went to Alabama. So there's precedent for doing this even
earlier in a guy's career.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
At U DUB.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
They did it to Debor after eleven games. Should they
do it with Jedfish after a year and a.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Half right now?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I think that they should start having some conversations. And
I would not be surprised if pat Schun's already had
some of those conversations with Hendrickson, you know, and the
university obviously, because he'd have to get the president's sign
off on that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
It's an ongoing process.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
And Chun knows the landscape and he understands the leverage
games and all that Washington will be proactive.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
I would think I would be.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I would not be surprised at all if there are
already conversations happening. Whether there's an actual hard and fast
offer on his desk before the Oregon game, that I
don't know, But there also could very well be conversations
like we're gonna do this at the end of the season.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yeah, well, we're coming off arguably his best performance as
a head coach at the University of Washington. Tell me
what you thought when you watched that game against Illinois.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, I thought they looked good. I did.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I don't want to read too much into it. Illinois
did lose at the fifty three points. I thought it
was Washington's it was. I thought it was Washington's most
complete game given the competition. I like, you know, it
was on offense, it was the Huskies, right, Boston had
he had to have at least ten receptions, right, Yes.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
And Coleman.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
I don't know total yardage, but he was getting five
six yards of carry and Williams looked comfortable in and
out of the pocket. That was Washington at its best offensively,
and they did well defensively too, so, but the thing is,
can they do that against an Oregon They couldn't do
it against Michigan State or Michigan or Ohio State. Can
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they do it against the Ducks. That's where it all
comes down to the whole season is the Oregon game.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yeah, they should be nine to two for sure, perdue, UCLA, Wisconsin,
all the all three game. I mean, any one of
them would be a huge disappointment to lose for you,
dub no question, yeah bet.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And then they so they're playing maybe for a playoff.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Spot against the Ducks.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Well, let's talk about why they're not ranked, man. I
mean we've talked about this before. I'm not as worked
up about it as other people are. I think all
that takes care of itself at the end of the year.
You dubbed, by the way, twenty twenty two was six
and two, and they were unranked, and they finished eighth
in the country. So you can move up quickly in
the poll. But you know my issue with the EIGHTP pole.
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We've had this conversation before on the air, But why
isn't you dub at six and two a ranked football
team right now?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
I don't know. I mean I've got them in my ballot.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
I think I have them twentieth or twenty first something
right there. You can if you look at Washington and
it's not a great resume, right, They've lost the two
highest profile games, they played decisively. They didn't really get
a quality non conference win, uh, and they played a
lot of low level Big ten teams. But if you
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compare Washington at six and two to teams that are
in the ACC Big East on a big big twelve
and SEC that are six and two, they stack up
pretty favorably. And that's how I came to the conclusion
that they should be on my ballot.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I don't know why they are not ranked.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And now noted Husky hater John, you people remember that well.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And Notre Dame as well.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
I mean, Notre Dame's resume looks almost exactly like Washington
in their twelfth I mean, and it's only it's only
because they started fifth in America.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
So John Wilner joining us.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
John, when the CFP rankings come out this year, how
close have they mirrored the AP in the past, and
do you think they'll mirror the AP less this year?
Because I don't think there's ever been a year where
the AP pole has been ripped as bad by the
media as it has been this year.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, I don't know if it's been as ripped as much,
but I don't think that the AP pole is much
different in its construction than it is usually. And last
year the CFP first the first rankings were very similar.
I don't have all the data in front of me,
but I did go through it a few weeks ago,
and a lot of teams were within one or two
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spots of their AP ranking in the in the CFP
Top twenty five. It just it has an influence on
that room, at least in the first iteration of their rankings. Right,
they evolved week to week in a different manner than
the AP poll does, but the first rankings are going
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to look pretty similar.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah, John, The Huskies have a bye before they take
on Wisconsin, and I guess, you know, for us in
our ILK, you know, we're still kind of pre programmed
to think of Wisconsin as a pretty decent football program, right,
you know, not elite, but pretty decent.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Their offense is dog crap.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
They have not scored more than fourteen point since their
second game of the year, when they played Middle Tennessee
and hung forty two. They've only scored more than fourteen
points twice and the second time was against Miami of Ohio.
This is a putrid offense that U DUB is gonna
see in a week and a half in Madison. Are
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you surprised that Luke Fickel is still there?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Number one? And number two?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Is there any reason to think that you dub will
not go to Madison and win that game decisively?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
I mean they could get it, you know, kind of
bogged down. I don't know what the weather will be,
but they it could get bogged down. I mean Oregon
struggled with them, right, I mean that was twenty one seven,
you know, and I had thought Oregon would roll, but
Wisconsin's defense played very well. You know, if you're going there,
you never know. You cannot assume the Huskies are gonna
mash them. I am a little surprised Fickle still there.
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But they're different from say PennState LSU. And one of
the ways they're different is the nil game there has
been substandard and their athletic director, you know, after they
got they got shut out back to back weeks, right,
and their athletic director issued a statement of supporting Fickle
and basically saying we need more support. So I think
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that it's easier for them to to, you know, justify
keeping him through the season because of that element. Whereas
at Penn State or LSU or Florida, you know, they've
got all the resources, the coaches just aren't coaching the
talent well enough.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
They've scored seven games.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah, it's not but I'll tell you what. Their defense
was good in Eugene. It was really good.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Well, let's talk about the Ducks. I mean, how how
should Duck fans feel about that game? No big deal
to look ahead game. We had our guy Hugh Millen
come on and say, hey, Dante More just doesn't look
like the same Dante More he saw a month and
a half ago.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
No, he doesn't. They they are in a lull.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
And you know that's not necessarily the worst thing in
the world. You don't want to be peaking in the
middle of October. I think that kind of happened to
Oregon last year, right so the.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Indiana you know, I was at the Indiana game.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
They got punched in the face and they did not
look very sharp on offense against Wisconsin either. If I'm
an Oregon fan, I'm a little concerned. You know, I'm
not in panic mode. They've got a pretty manageable schedule.
They do, they got to play sc and then they
get the Huskies. I'm not panicking. I certainly think you
got a great chance at the playoff.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
But I'm a little I'm a little bit concerned. For sure,
there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Well, you mentioned it right there about the playoff. I mean,
let's let's say you dubgainst the nine and two and
all of a sudden, that Oregon game is significant, right,
I mean, U Dub's got a shot if they do
that and they win that game, and they went out
and they finished ten and two, what kind of odds
do you give you Dub on making the college football playoff?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Is Notre Dame at ten and two? Because if Notre Dame,
it's everything changes. If Notre Dame is a huge piece
to all of this. If they've went out and they're
ten and two, they're gonna get in.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yes, then all of a sudden they were all.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Of a sudden, it is six spots at large spots
instead of seven.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
If Notre Dame wins out, if Washington wins out and
Notre Dame wins out, I would give the Huskies like
a twenty five thirty chance to get in.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Okay, they will have one ranked win Oregon. No, you know,
the non.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Conference schedule will hurt them, but they'll be in the
mix against number four from the SEC, possibly number two
from the Big twelve. But really, Washington fans should be
rooting for Notre Dame to lose.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
All right, let's get to it. Last week, you've veered
off the path.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But it's okay.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yes, you know what it's like to have to pick
yourself up by the bootstraps and dust yourself off and
get back in the wind column. The windelarean walk the
wrong path a week ago. Let's see if we can
get the winde Laian back on the proper route to winning. Hammered, hammered.
Taking Ucla and the points hammered by.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
The trend was not my friend.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
No, Ucla trained exploded and just flew off a cliff
against the Hoosiers last week.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So five and four on the air so far. Who
do you like this week?
Speaker 10 (16:17):
John?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I'll take the corn Huskers.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
They I think they're getting six seven from USC somewhere
around there.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They're given they are getting six and a half.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
There we go, I'll take the corn Huskers at home.
I don't trust USC on the road. I don't trust
Lincoln Riley with fourth coreter leads, and I think Nebraska's
pretty good.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I'll take those.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
But that, by the way, that's an important game for
Washington because both USC and Nebraska have two losses. They're
in that pool of two loss teams in the Big
Ten with Washington fighting for a playoff.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Bit.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
I think us, I think Washington fans want USC to
win that game actually, because Nebraska's got an easier path
to ten and two right than USC does.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah, USC still Oregon, they got they got Yeah, no,
no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
All right, Man, Washington wants Washington wants all the two
lost Big Ten teams to be losing.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Yeah, love it all right, John, great stuff, you're the man.
Good luck, and we're talking a week Bud. Thanks guys,
all right, John Wilner with us on the radio show.
Brian Schmetzer will join us Larry Stone. Larry Stone actually
saw Babe Ruth play so he can settle the Otani
versus Babe Ruth debate at six pm tonight. I think
we got to spend more time on this jetfish question,
(17:36):
because the more games he wins, and it's not just
the fact that he's winning games. He's six and two
still looking for, you know, some bigger wins obviously, but
there's a lot of job openings in college football.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
It's not just him, it's the amount of opportunities that
are out there. Next ninety three three KJRFM, Lord.
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Speaker 5 (18:27):
You heard the sounder there in tenth Collar Wins tickets
for the November fifth game against Saran Jose.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
We got Montreal all on the Kraken.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Mike Benton, who's a big Dodger fan by the way,
He will join us on the air a few minutes
before before tip off at seven o'clock with a pregame
show and explain his love for the LA Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Is he from there? By the way, is he from California?
What's the deal?
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Don't we know?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Just a bandwagon Johnny cum Lately jumper like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Okay, Well, I kind of tend.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
To just live in a world where he's a Johnny
cume Lately, So we'll just go with that until he
explains himself out about six forty five. But Shoeo Tani,
by the way, in the first inning of this game
against the Blue Jays today, drew a walk.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I just went back and looked at it.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So the last thirteen at bats at Dodger Stadium in
the playoffs, Game four of the NLDS was in Philadelphia,
excuse me, in LA against the Phillies. Shoeo Tani struck
out in the bottom of the tenth in Game four
of a game the Dodgers eventually won, so they won
the series three games to one. Since then, in his
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next thirteen at bats at Dodger Stadium, which is Game
three against Milwaukee, Game three of the World Series, and
then Game four to nine, thirteen at bats, seven walks,
five home runs, and two doubles from Shoho Tani, he
is thirteen for thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I mean, he's just he's transcended.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
I mean, if we can, I'm totally fine arguing Babe
Ruth Shoeo Tani.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I can't argue anybody else.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I just can't because nobody else is doing what he's
doing right now and putting up zeros in the World
Series on the mound two.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Right, fourteen at bats, I was wrong. It's the last
fourteen seven walks, five home runs and two doubles.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Man, he is fourteen for his last fourteen.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Every time he has gone to the plate in his
last fourteen at bats at home in.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The playoffs, he has gotten on base.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
That is just stupid. Man, what's going on with this guy?
And now he's in the mound obviously pitching for the Dolls.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
What's the thing we've seen?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Game four is twenty four years ago with Barry Bonds, right,
because Barry Bonds got walked all summer long, right, like
all summer. You just watch Barry Bonds get four wide
ones all summer long. That's the only time other time
I've ever seen something like this.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, he Barry Bonds had a year what year was
it where he drew like two hundred walks one season
at two one hundred and ninety eight and two thousand
and two he got walked one hundred and ninety eight. No,
I'm sorry. Two thousand and four he walked two hundred
and thirty two times. I mean that's like half your AB's, dude,
that is ridiculous. Two hundred and thirty four times the
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guy walked in one year. The most walked so Tani's
had in one season was this year with one hundred
and nine.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Barry Bonds walked two and thirty freaking times. How is
that even possible that you can walk that many times
in one year, two hund and thirty two. In two
thousand and four, the guy had an on base percentage
of six oh nine.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
That's I think there's a very simple reason behind that shoe.
Heey Otani has had Mookie Betts and Freddy Freeman behind him.
Barry Bonds had maybe sometimes Jeff Kent, and I don't
even know if he had Jeff Kent. That year he
had nobody behind him, So they're like put them on,
nobody's gonna drive you in.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Yeah, and Jeff Kent's guy, what was this last year
in Pittsburgh? That's going way back man Jeff Kent last
year San Francisco was two thousand and two.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yes, yes, he wasn't even behind Barry Bonds and four that.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Was after Jeff Kent. All right, So the conversation about Jetfish.
So look, clearly you're talking about a guy who was
what eleven and nine? Is that correct? As the Husky
head coach so far? Six six and seven and six
and two? Yep, uh, he's twelve and nine. Sorry is
the coach at you dub and he's seven and seven
and fourteen games in the Big Ten. Overall, the resume,
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if you just look at numbers, doesn't look that impressive,
but we have to put it into the context of
what he inherited, correct course, which was a starbage dump.
So the progress he's made with the offensive line, the
progress he's made with this football team has been pretty
damn amazing, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And there's a lot of jobs open.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I mean, you know the list, Penn State, UCLA, Florida, LSU,
Oklahoma State. There's a ton of jobs open in college football.
So the more jobs that are open, you kind of
do the whole you know, the two lists, right, you
got one side is what Jed's accomplishing, and then you
compare that to how many jobs are open. The more
jobs are open, the more people are gonna be going
after more coaches, and Jed Fish's names certainly will be
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on that list for somebody. So I think there's two
things here. Are we concerned about him leaving after this year?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Number one? Are we concerned about him taking demand with
him if he leaves? Number two?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
And number three, would you consider giving him a contract
extension right now to make it harder for him to
take off?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Am I concerned that he leaves?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
I mean it really, I've got no idea what the
conversations with his wife are like, because I mean, that's
nobody does huge.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
That's huge, right.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
If she doesn't want him to be here, then it's
going to be he is going to try to run
for any opportunity, but you got to run for any
opportunity that she's gonna want as well. And she gonna
want to live in Arkansas, she gonna want to live
in Oklahoma state.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
She gonna want to live I mean in Happy Valley.
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
I mean, Washington's a pretty damn Seattle's a pretty damn
good place to live.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
So I mean, I wouldn't otherwise think that he would
leave at the end of the season.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
But those personal relationship things, we've got no idea how
to predict.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
Let me give very very simple answers to all three questions, softie, Yes, yes,
and yes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yes.
Speaker 12 (23:59):
I'm concerned he's going to leave because he's having a
great year, and I think that other schools see that
be Demon Williams I think followed him, and he I
think will follow him if the money is there, and
a lot of schools have a lot of money, right,
and then see if all if both of those are true, yes,
keep him here by any means necessary.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I think it's a great point Jackson about Demon. For
as bad as your Otani point was, this was the
exact opposite. This is a great point that he's already
followed him once. Yep, yeah, left Arizona once. You know,
what's to say that he won't follow him again? And look,
I mean, guys, look, do I sit around all day thinking,
oh my god, we're gonna No, of course not. You know,
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I have really come to a point now with college
football where I'm just taking this year by year. Man,
I am accepting of the fact that this could change
dramatically every single year. Even if Jedfish stays. There's guys
that could come, there's guys that could go, bring in
some new faces, lose some old faces.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It's the changing landscape of college football. Go drive yourself
nuts worrying about it, because its reality. That's number one.
Number two. The problem partly with Jed Fish's situation at
Washington as the contract that Troy Dannen gave him.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Number one, the buyout's way too low.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It's only ten million dollars Dan Lanning's buyouts twenty million
at Oregon. Number two. As Millan has pointed out many times,
he's exactly right. The date of the buyout is way
too early. Caitlyn de Moore took off and went to
Alabama on January the fourteenth, which was six days after
his buyout was over. It reset and dropped a couple
of million bucks. Jed's November is January the eighth. That
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should be the end of January. Now, maybe he would
never have agreed to that. I certainly would think that's
potentially true that Doug Hendrickson, his agent, and Jed's camp
would never say yes to anything like that. We're not
going to sit there and wait around until all the
jobs are filled for this buyout to drop. But I
think Troy Danon did not do udub any services with
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the contract details of his buyout, both financials and on
the calendar. So do I think there's a possibility that
Jed Fish is going to coach four more games at
Washington and walk out of here?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Absolutely?
Speaker 10 (26:08):
I do.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Do I think there's a chance he comes back. Of
course there's a chance he comes back.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Well, the more years he stays, the more years that
people he could prove a lot of people wrong.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Because there's a lot of staying here.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Yes, because there's just a ton of Husky fans that
are just assuming at the first opportunity he is gonna jump.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Well, and I don't think that Husky fans are wrong
to believe that.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Look they are right.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I'm a resident.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
But he's got enough surprise, he's got an opportunity. He's
starting to.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Build something really really good here and it could be
great next year.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Could be Potentially he could also walk and blow it
up and we're right back to square one. I mean,
I I just think all those things have to be
on the table, right all of them have to be
on the table. We're gonna break Brian Schmitzer. Oh boy,
they're in it now. They gotta win Monday big time.
Next on ninety three three KJRFM.
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Speaker 5 (27:12):
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for Brian Schmetzer.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Your your Duke's gift card is on the way.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
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to all right, But it's on the way on the way.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Oh boy. Well yeah, let's just jump right in.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The hell happened last night?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Well? Well, I can tell you what happened? Is we lost?
How about that? There's a there's a nuts and bolts
of it.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
But how we lost and why we lost? That's the interview, right.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Yeah, Well, are you more upset today? And maybe you're
not as upset as you were last night? Maybe you
were never upset. Maybe you're a positive guy, and we'll
turn it around.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We'll be fine. But more, I guess.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Kind of bothered by the mischances of the ninety minutes
or what happened in the penalty kicks.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
So more bothered, I would say that's a good word
about the mischances, because you know, we had we had
a lot of good not just the ones at the
end of the game that you know, Masowski came on
and actually.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Did really well.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
We pushed Jordan up front and kind of a right
wing double center forward type of role and he was good.
But in the first half they cleared a you know,
we had a set piece and Christian got his head
on it and the guy clears.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
It off the line.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
Yamar on a on an Albert free kick, the combination
play in the middle of the field, rock rocks.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
All he has to do is hit the target.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
I mean, he was under pressure by a couple of guys,
but he hits the target.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
You know it's probably gonna go in.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
I mean, we had two point four expected goals and
you know we didn't.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
We didn't get any, so you know that's on us. Uh,
And then I.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Was surprised, sofy I was really surprised, and look when
Alex didn't make his I kind of knew we were
in trouble, But to miss three in.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
A PK shootout, that's not us.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Last year against Houston we were dialed in.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
I mean, we didn't miss We didn't miss any.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
Last year, So I was I was really cut of
shock at our penalties.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
How would you respond, coach to the folks that wanted
you to put Andrew Thomas in for Steph Fry on
the shootout?
Speaker 9 (29:29):
Well, the same thing.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
I mean last year in the second game in Houston,
Steph actually made two saves. And you know it's there's
there's no there's no goalkeeper controversy if your shooters aren't
making them, aren't making them, so you know, it's just
it's just it's plain and simple.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
It's not a controversy. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Well, Brian Schmetzer again with US Saunders Minnesota, Leg two
of this series on Monday at LUMAN seven fifty five off?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Is that right? Not eight o'clock seven point fifty.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Five And they're on time in this league pre match
show at seven thirty on the iHeart app. So let's
let's let's stay on the penalty kick front. Can you
just explain to us like we're morons, which we are,
so it's easy. How do you decide who takes these kicks?
What's that process like? And does it happen the same
before every game?
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Yeah, it's similar to each game. Eat games a little
bit different.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
But we were we were practicing for the last two weeks,
even before New York City.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
FC our last game, we were already.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Practicing penalty kicks, and so I got a pretty good
idea of who's good and who's.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Maybe not so good. And then it's kind of the same.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
You're going through the game and you're you know, you
have your list.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
In your head, and you go out there and you
talk to guys.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
Individually and sometimes as a collective. You say, hey, you good,
you want one who wants one raise your hand, and
you kind of get a feel for who's feeling confident
in that moment. And I had, like I had like
seven guys in the huddle softy saying they wanted to
take kicks. And so, you know, Christian has been really good,
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Albert obviously there, Jackson, Alex the penalty kick in the
league's Cup final. Danny Lavas, you know, usually one hundred
percent and then I still had.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Jordan and Georgie, and you know, I mean I had
zero problems with our lineup. We just didn't We.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Just didn't make the shots mentioned Danny Lava there. How
about the other Danny, Danny Muzovski's got sixteen goals for
you guys this year, and he had a chance at
the end, didn't get it. Buddy got himself into some
dangerous spots. Does that make him more or less likely
to earn himself a starting spot on Monday?
Speaker 10 (31:56):
Yeah, Dick, that's the question we got to go through.
I mean, look, we ateed a bunch of chances, even
just playing with Jordan's number nine, But when Masaske came on,
it kind of changed the game. So, you know, the
coaches and I have been working on the film already
a little bit. Today we'll make final determinations. And you know, look,
if we stick to a similar lineup the way we
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started and it's not going good or we're not creating chances,
Danny's in for sure, but you know he might start
as well.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Well, Brian Schmetzer game with US three two shootout lost
him Minnesota last night. Game two coming up on Monday, obviously,
and this is a Minnesota team that runs a let's
face it, gnarly disgusting, wretchet defensive system, right, and you've
seen it. You've seen it three times this year, and
it seems like you kind of keep getting better and
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better and better against it. I mean, what did you
kind of see last night that maybe makes you feel
like you can take an even bigger step coming up
on Monday.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Well, the frustrating part about the way they play Softie,
they didn't.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
They didn't they say it in the press.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
I mean they want to deliberately slow the tempo down.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
They want to take.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
The sting out of the game, even at home. I
mean the goalkeeper was taking thirty forty seconds every goalkick.
You know, they every free kick, they just push guys
up the field and take it long and they're long throwings.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Look, that's who they are. We know who they are.
So so the frustrate us.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
Yes, it make it difficult for the players, yes, but
the silver lining was again, you know, we created enough
chances to get at least one, and I think softly,
if we get one at home, even if we get
one on the road, that might be enough. Because they
really didn't have too much.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
I mean, they had the breakaway when when you know,
Yaimar made a you know, maybe.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
A silly decision at midfield and the guy broke in.
Speaker 9 (33:52):
That was their only chance.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
How about Ryan Kent, coach available on Monday. I think.
Speaker 10 (33:58):
Yeah, for sure, that was a that was the late
minute scratch. I'd talked to him on Sunday's training actually
the last training day before we left, and he just
felt a little week in his injured hamstring, and I figured,
you know, we've got a three game series and if not,
do or die, So I was going to leave him
(34:19):
home and he got a good training session in. He'll
have one more full week of training with the team,
but he's definitely definitely going to be involved because it's
a do or die game for us.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Well.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
And this is just to wrap it up, Brian, I
mean obviously you know this, but this is where soccer
in the MLS is so much different than other sports
that have a three to five seven game series. That
typically in a three or five seven game series, you'd
play a game and play the very next night, or
maybe a day off and play two days later. You
get to sit here now and think about this for
(34:51):
a week before in a potential elimination game on Monday night.
I mean, what is that like for you as a
head coach. They're not going right back out there. You
got to think about this for seven days.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, everybody wants to get back up on the horse
after a tough loss. And it was you know, it
was a dut punch, you know, because I think we
really outplayed them, and you know, we.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
Deserved more of the game.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
But you know, again, like I said, they got us
in the penalty kicks. So what we're going to do
is we're going to work a little bit more on
our penalty kick taking. We're going to review all the
tactics of what worked in Minnesota, and then we're going
to use the home crowd.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
I think we're really good at home. You know. The
only loss actually at home was.
Speaker 10 (35:35):
These guys back right before the Club World Cup.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
But we've got a really strong home record all year.
We've only lost once.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
And we'll get them.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
We'll get them all Monday.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Love it all right, Go get them, man, Appreciate this
and hopefully the next time we talk you'll be tied up.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Go get them.
Speaker 9 (35:50):
Thanks coach, all right, take care guys.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
All right, you bet Brian Schmetzer with us on the
radio show, got a big six pm hour. Larry Stone's
going to hop on and settle this Tony Babe Ruth
debate that we were having today on the program Next
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