October 7, 2025 • 33 mins
Husky Honks! Mario Bailey and Greg Lewis join to give a breakdown of the comeback win over Maryland and what we can expect as they take on Rutgers this weekend. The guys continue on to discuss the state of the Huskies and where they are in their season. We wrap things up with the Honks.
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Well, we are hanging out until four o'clock today and
talking about a comeback win for the Ages boys and
girls against the Maryland Terrapins. Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey. I
don't know what the hell happened there at halftime. I
don't know if Jed Fish went in there and just
offered incentives for everybody or free cars. But this was
a football team that was going nowhere at halftime. And
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then Greg Lewis will start with you just found something
and turned on the freaking gas, blew with these guys
out in the fourth quarter and got a gigantic come
from behind win over a big ten team on Saturday
in College Park. What did you see in that second
half that was something historical?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Baby, Well, I would just start with this.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
It didn't.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
There was nothing obviously that was said positive at halftime,
because they came out in the third quarter looked just
as bad, and they gave up.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
A long drive to Maryland for a touchdown.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
The offense was still sputtering, really wasn't until the fourth quarter,
and you know, you never know what'll turn on the lights.
But I'm gonna be honest with you, I had kind
of given up because not only were they down twenty
to nothing, they're playing terrible. The defense was giving up
long drives, they couldn't get off the field on third down.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
The offense couldn't run the ball.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Demond Williams was having his worst game in my opinion,
in a purple and gold uniform. He was missing receivers,
he was taking sacks, he was holding on to the
ball too long. And then I don't know what it was.
With about five minutes to go in the third quarter,
this team woke up. The defense started pressuring a little more.
I think what they did with demand is is they
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start giving him one red pass plays three steps, one read,
throw the ball, three steps, one read, throw the ball,
and they got him some confidence. It got him in
the flow a little bit. Walter start calling the defense
a little more aggressively. We had some tackles for losses.
He started to get in the groove play calling. And
finally we saw the Husky team that thought we we
were going to see at kickoff, and at that point
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they just overwhelmed a really good Maryland team who was
undefeated at the time.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, Mario, I think a lot of Husky fans were
not feeling this at all at halftime. I mean, heck,
you're down thirteen to nothing and you give up a
big drive for a touchdown to start the second half
and its twenty zip. So I mean, were you ever
a part of something like this, and did you have, honestly,
man come on any faith at all at halftime?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
These guys would pull that off.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
No halftime.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I had a little faith, but in the third quarter
I lost the faith and it just their fourth quarter
kind of reminded me of Washington State. The defense got
a little more aggressive. Demon Williams, though, I thought was
the key, like he turned on the light. Whether it
was what Greg said that the coach gave him just
a one read, but he seemed like he turned on
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something that you look for in a quarterback like Tom Brady,
like he was ready to go. But I do feel
like Maryland made a few mistakes. They kept passing the
ball and the defense was going three and our and
that just fueled our fire. But it reminded me of
the Washington State game where the defense turned it up
and our offense turned it up.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Our receivers. I think it's Desmond.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
We finally established a second receiver because he was out
there making plays. Demon was actually running. This is the
game that I've been looking for demand to have. It
just came in the fourth quarter where he could pass
the ball and run the ball. It seemed like all
of our weapons, all of our offense turned it up,
and the defense started getting threes and outs and actually remarkable.
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I have been a part of it. Me and Greg
out in Ucla my sophomore year, we had a quick
turnaround in the fourth quarter where we came back against Ucla.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I think we might have been down twenty one to
nothing something like that.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Yeah, in the first quarter, as a matter of fact,
so we had a little bit more time to come back.
These guys did it all at one quarter.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, let's talk about Demon Williams.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Guys first half could not have played worse, right, ten
for nineteen seventy yards had the pick going to Denzel Boston.
I think Denzel at halftime, Greg one for five, and
I remember remarking to you at halftime that I would
have put all four misses on the quarterback. I mean
he had an NFL passer rating of thirty nine point three,
and then in the second half he jumps to one
thirty five point eight. So what did you see Jed
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Fish and Jimmy Doherty doing to kind of get him
some confidence, get him going there in the second half?
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Man, Like I said, I think they simplify things a
little bit. In the first half, he was really hanging
on the ball way too long. He was trying to
push the ball down the field. Sometimes as a quarterback,
when your first reads not there and you come off
of it, now you got to process really quickly and
figure out as my second read, third read there, and
he was throwing the ball late. When you throw the
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ball late, it ends up being behind receivers. That puts
the ball in jeopardy. Good defensive backs, good defensive teams
are going to make plays on the ball. It also
gives the pass rush time to get to you. When
they're guys in your face and you're trying to throw
the ball, they're certainly room for air there. I fought
in the second half as I was saying, it was
more Okay, we're going to run shorter routes.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
We need you to take what's there first.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Read.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
If it's not there, then you.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Really make a quick decision second read and you get
up the field and you run the football and don't
put things in jeopardy. So I think it was just
really a simplification. We're gonna slimplify things. We're not going
to try to force it down the field. We're gonna
take what the defense gives us.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Right, And Mario, you mentioned Desmond Roebuck, the freshman receiver,
four catches, sixty one yards, including the touchdown that brought
them to within three late in the game, four for seven. Again,
has he officially arrived as the number two receiving target
on this football team, because, as Greg's been saying the
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last couple of weeks, Jonah Coleman is still your leading
receiver or your second leading receiver. He had eight targets
and eight catches for forty seven yards. So I mean,
from just delivery perspective, Demon Williams is going to Jonah
Coleman as much as he's going to anybody Else's a.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Yes, we do have a second receiver. He might not
be the second option to throw the ball, but we
have a second receiver. And when Greg just talked about
it's like we were going deep. We haven't shown that
we could actually go too far deep, so we just
seeing demand do is a lot of short passes, and
you're going to keep throwing short passes, then a lot
of them we are going to go to the running back.
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But Desmond Robot is definitely our second receiver. But I
think for the rest of the season, until we can
establish that we can throw downfield, Jonah is always going
to be the second option because that's an easy outlet.
What I did, like Demon started doing, is being decisive.
Well with Greg said, if we can't see the first receiver,
then tuck it down and let's get some yards and
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let's go on to the next down.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well and then Greg, you know, look, man, The biggest
injury news from the game on Saturday, obviously as John
Mills getting banged up was on crutches late in the game,
and who knows if he'll be ready for Rutgers.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But if they got to continue now without Willis without John.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Mills, I mean, dude, they put up twenty one points
in the fourth quarter and they did it with Max
McCree and Pockey Finale at left guard and left tackle,
So how big of a blow is that. How concerned
are you about those two spots moving forward?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Man, I'm very concerned.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
And the reason I say that is is we made
a lot of brew haha about whether this offensive line
has improved over last year or not, and I felt
like it has been, especially with the two starters John
Mills and Carver Willis in there. They were upgrades over
last year. So now you're going to your number two guys,
and let's be honest. Max McCree struggled in the first
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half yesterday. I mean, I'm sorry on Saturday, he had
a tough time out there, and that was part of,
you know why Maryland was able to have a lot
of success and getting pressure on our quarterback. So now
we have to go into the rest of Big Ten
play and it's not going to get a whole lot easier.
You know, this Rutgers game we may be able to manage,
but you know, we got some tough games coming up.
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Wisconsin defense, we got Oregon defense, So it's going to
be you know, sort of tough sledding with those backup
guys in there. And that's the one thing we talked
about this team couldn't afford to do is have to
play its depth a whole lot.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So those guys fee.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Now seem like he's played pretty well, but we definitely
have to make sure that our offensive line has a
good week of practice and is ready to go and
can provide the protection for DeMont.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, no doubt.
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talk about the offense and DeMont Williams and this thing
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just totally turning around in the second half. But man,
the defense wasn't doing much else in the first half either.
I mean they had a touchdown drive Maryland did where
they were five for five on third down, including third
and nine and third and ten for their very first
touchdown drive. And then after that first drive to start
the second half, the defense just totally looked different. I
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Mean I was telling Greg and I put it on
Twitter that man, I thought Pep Hamilton was just whipping
Ryan Walters in that first half. So what happened to
the defense from the first half for the second half.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Man, it's just like the same story. Man, We're not
getting any pressure. Their quarterback is back there doing whatever
he wants to do. It's very similar to the Washington
State game. It's almost identical. It's like fourth quarter, he
drew up some pressures. Maryland's biggest mistake was that they
kept trying to pass the ball. They could have ran
out some clock. I think their first drive in the
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fourth quarter was three and out, but they passed it
the first three times like they should.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Have ran the ball.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
I don't know what type of pressures he was dialing up,
but we were getting some pressure. We got no pressure
for the first three quarters. And that's the difference. Same
as the Washington State game.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Yeah, I would agree with most of that, but I
will say this, you guys. If it wasn't for our
defense's ability to stall two of those Maryland drives where
they got I think with the down about the ten
yard line and holding the field goals instead of touchdowns,
we wouldn't have had a chance in the second half.
So as bad as the defense played, their ability to
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keep Maryland out of the end zone and tough enough
down near the goal line and holding the field goals
is what gave them the chance of being the game
the second half.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, no doubt. I just thought it was just much
more crisp. Jacob Monu.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You mentioned him after the game, Greg, I think he
was your player of the game. I mean, gotta be
great to have him and Buddha back there together, you know,
playing linebacker.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But Buddha is obviously out for the year. It is
clear as day.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I think right now that Jacob Monu, just after playing
a couple of games, is your best linebacker and he
might even be your best front seven player on this defense,
don't you like?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, he had a really good game. He showed up
all over the field, and you know, we were fortunate
to get too linebackers would transfer into, you know, through
the transfer portal. After all the losses that we had.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Mynu looks like he's rounding into that all conference type
of form that he was when he was at Arizona.
It's unfortunate that the Washington State players hurt their former teammate,
probably on purpose because he was mad that he left
them there. No, I'm just saying that, you know, we
are fortunate that we had Jacob Manu coming and getting
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healthy right at the exact time that we lost Buddha.
Had we had this not transpired, our defense would probably
be in trouble. He's looking like like I said that
all conference player that he was at Arizona.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well this was this is a game that we talked about.
Was kind of one of those you know, fifty to
fifty games, right, the Michigan game, the Oregon game, the
Illinois game, the Maryland game. I'm talking about games the
rest of the way, where with Purdue and UCLA and
Wisconsin and Rutgers. Mario, I don't know, man, I just
think if this team is legit, those are probably four
games they should win. The Ucla game looks a little
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bit different, obviously, Ruckers, we can talk about them in
a second. But to me, that that Maryland game is
the difference between maybe winning six or seven games and
giving yourself to win maybe eight or nine. But I
just I wonder, Mario, what that win and that comeback
will do for that locker room, right, I mean, the
intangibles of actually fighting your ass off from three thousand
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miles away, falling behind twenty to ZIP, having to score
twenty one points in the fourth quarter, and then rallying
to win. What does that do for camaraderie and what
does it honestly mean for that locker room moving forward?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
It means a whole hell of a lot.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Like, you know, we finally got the monkey off or
back and got our first ten big ten row victory.
That's one, but also it shows that we can come
back from anything, and we banned it together.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
And won that game.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
So when you're going into games and you're losing confidence
and you're going through the hurdles and you're figuring it out,
now you can lean back on this situation to understand
that you can dig deep and get it. I was
concerned because I felt like, honestly, if we had lost
that game, that was going to be the end of
the season, Like not technically the end of the season,
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but we could lose any time.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
But now that we've proven that we can go on
the road, change.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
A couple of time zones and get the victory, it
does a lot for everybody, including the coaches, that we
can do this.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, Greg, how about you, same question, man.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Yeah, certainly it builds your confidence. It gets all those
monkeys off your back. You know, the road wind, the
conference road wind, the two time zones, and when you
do things and you prove to yourself you can do it,
it gives you that much more confidence. I think my
biggest concern moving through the rest of this year is
just how our depth is going to hold up.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
We continue to get injuries and critical positions.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
You know, to Caryl Davis is still you know, banged up,
who we were hoping was going to help us solidify
our past coverage on the back end. Our linebacker Buddha
has been heard, our offensive linemen, two of our starters
have gone down. It's just, you know, you start to
wonder how many more received Williams the receiver, how many
more injuries can we sustain and continue to play at
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a high level. I hope that we can get some
of those guys back during the meat of our Big
Ten schedule. Again, this is the hardest, most physical conference
in football. Say what you want about the Southeastern Conference,
the Big Ten has won the last two national championships.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
We have the number one team in the country. We
have some other great teams.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Our depth is going to be tested and I think
how we bounce back from those injuries and who we
can get back and how healthy we can stay is
really going to determine whether or not we can end
with those eight nine ten wins.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now, no doubt. Well let's do this.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
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Speaker 2 (19:46):
And you know what happened a year ago out there?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The Washington Huskies went to Rutgers and thoroughly outplayed the
Scarlet Knights, but lost twenty one to eighteen. They outgained
them five hundred and twenty one to two hundred and
ninety nine, but penalties, turnovers, all kinds of wacky stuff.
They had a block field goal taking off the board.
So how much, guys, Greg will start with you would
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last year's Rutgers game be in your brain before this
game on Friday?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Man, I think a little bit.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
And the reason being that was kind of where I
felt like this Husky season went off the rails completely.
You know, you had the Washington State loss, which was
bitter because it was your in state rival. You geared
back up to go play a Rutgers team that was
playing well and you literally outrushed them. You had you
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were able to move the ball. You just had two
or three critical errors that cost you. And you know
that was one of those games that got away. You know,
we said last year with six wins, really this team should.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Have won eight. And that was one of the ones
you should have gotten.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
So now you got them back at home on your field,
and an opportunity to kind of redeem that and now
put yourself on the trajectory of those eight or nine
games this year. So I think from a standpoint of
it being the next game on the schedule, it's the
most important. But there's a little bit in the back
of your mind about let's get some get back.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And we've seen that this coach, you.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Know, might take some little, you know things to the
extra out there in that Washington State game. So I
don't think that Jed Fish would pass on an opportunity
maybe to score a few extra points against Rutgers after
what happened last year, you know, with the bad punt
thing and you know, guys run on the field and
some of the penalties that were called in that game.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, I mean, Mario, I don't know if he looks
at this with the same emotion that he does the
loss in the Apple Cup of year ago. That's not
what Greg is saying, obviously, But I mean I think
that those things, he's proven that those things kind of
lived with him, that he's reminded of those things every
single day, and I mean, this is a really good
Rutgers football team. I mean they're three and two, but
there are two losses to Minnesota and Iowa. They were
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actually leading twenty eight to twenty four. It was six
minutes to go in both of them, and they lost
both of them. That's they're like a combined ten minutes
away from being five and oh. So I don't know,
I mean, does does this feel like a cupcake on Friday?
Because it doesn't feel like that to me, man.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
It doesn't feel like a cupcake, and it doesn't feel
like last year, only in the regards that we played
differently at home.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
But my biggest concern.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Is they look like on paper similar to what Maryland
looked like last week. They have a quarterback who's doing
pretty well with I think like nine touchdowns, a couple interceptions,
and they also have three receivers and a running back.
So when a team has an offense like that. The
two their two losses came into Big Ten. They have
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similar to us. They beat up on their first three
opponents and now they're looking for a Big Ten victory.
But what concerns me is their offense, Like we're gonna
have to come out flying and hopefully our home field
advantage does something for us, But it doesn't affect me
as much because I think we just played differently at home.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah no, and I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
It was gonna say we play a lot differently at home.
I think you know, Rutgers has made their their living
on the run pass option type of team. They are
RPO to the core. That's what they do, that's what
they did last year, and the key to making that
ineffective is really on first and second down, limiting their
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running backs ability to get into the plus yardist territory.
That we can't give up four and five, six seven
yards on first and second down and being third and
shorts because when you're third and short, the RPO will
kill you. They have two ways they could go. If
the safety's down, they're going to throw the ball. The
safety's back, they're going to run the ball, so your
linebackers can't give away their reads early. So I think
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if we can take away first and second down in
their run game, we have an opportunity to be extremely successful.
It's gonna be noisy, they're coming two time zones and
it's a short week of Friday, so I think what
all those things combine. As long as the Huskies can
put together a pretty good offensive line out there, we
you know, get Joan Coleman going. I think the Huskies
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have an opportunity to have a big win against Rods.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, I mean, look, and then getting to Carrio Davis back,
We'll see if that's gonna happen. I don't know what
more they can do, Mario, besides just let that guy
rest with his ribs.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
You ever had a rib injury before?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I have, I know Greg has as well, and there's
just there's nothing you can do besides rested. So to
Carrio Davis made the trip to Maryland but did not go.
They decided at game time he was not able to
pull it off. Does that make you feel that he
may be just that much closer because he actually did
make the trip to Maryland last week?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Definitely.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
And you know, everybody's ribs are different, and everybody's pain
tolerance as different. I'm not gonna talk about to Cario,
but you look at Michael Pennix and Rome a couple
of years ago. I think they both had ribs and
they both never missed a game.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
But everybody's situation is different. But I feel like.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Once coach allowed him to actually make the trip, then
he's probably right there just day by day.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, well, Greg, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
This is one of those games again where you're kind
of nervous about the crowd. It's a six pm kickoff.
There's a chance the Mariners might be playing at the
exact same time that we go on Friday night. Traffic's
going to be murder getting to the football game. I
don't know if the crowd is going to be that
great on Friday night. I hope it is. I hope
I'm wrong. But is this one of those games where
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you tell the boys, hey, you may have to kind
of create a little bit of your own energy because
this thing may not look anything like the Ohio State
game did a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Yeah, it might not look exactly the same, you know,
the number one team versus a three and two squad.
But I think that Husky Nation and Husky Stadium provides
an environment regardless. You know, it's the best setting in
college football. I think our crowd does a fantastic job.
I think the way the stadium is built is conducive
(25:57):
the crowd no way, So I think it will give
them enough of sort of that platform and that energy
to be riled up and play well. But I think
they have enough and send him just because you know
they're four and one and everything is still in front
of them. Again, I'm not saying this team is ready
to compete for championships yet, but when you're on that
coaching staff and you're on that team, you know, our
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only loss so far to the National champions and we
play in the Big Ten, you keep winning, you keep winning,
and things will stay in front of you as far
as accomplishing all of your goals. So I think they'll
have plenty of motivation, they'll be plenty fired up, and
they'll be ready to go.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
All right, let's get a break.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
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Speaker 6 (26:57):
First and goal at the one snap hand off Coleman
straight ahead into the head zone, touchdown, Washington. Jonah Coleman's
nation leading tenth thrusting touchdown pushes the Huskies across the
goal line in the twenty point deficit is dead Washington
twenty three, Maryland twenty as. The Dogs have taken the
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lead for the first time today with three twenty one
to go in College Park.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
How about that man, Jonah Coleman. Ten rushing touchdowns, guys,
matches his total from last year in just the first
five games of this season. He's got minimum seven games
left to go in the regular season, maybe eight if
they play in a bowl game, to just totally smashed
that record. And look, I mean to me, I know
(27:45):
a lot of people, Greg and Mario and Greg, we'll
start with you. We'll talk about the quarterback, talk about
the head coach. I feel like number one is the
heart and soul of this football team. He's the DNA
man Greg, in my opinion of this football team right now.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Yeah, I think Jonah Coleman is the person who can
make the games easy for the Huskies. And what I
mean when I say that is is when we're running
the football and we're running downhill, it puts the defense
kind of at a disadvantage. Now, they got to bring
guys into the box, They got to pay attention to
the run and then that unleashes the weapon that is
de Mond Williams. That gives him the opportunity to get
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to the outside. It gives Denzel Boston the Desmond Roebuck
and finds bright those guys opportunities to get down the
field and get open against you know, fewer guys in
the back end because they're scrooching up to start to top
the run.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
And this team really feels an energy from Joonah Coleman.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
I mean, when he's running, he's making guys miss and
he's getting those long bursts. It just fires his team
up and gets them excited, and it keeps the chains
moving on offense, keeps their defense on the other side line.
So there's just so much about how successful this team
is when Jonah's going well. And again the offensive line,
especially on the left side, now with two backups, you know,
(28:58):
how well are they going to be able to get
a push against this Rutgers defense.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And as we move into the rest of the Big
Ten play.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
So I think, you know, so goes that offensive line
and the rebuild of that with these replacements will determine
to some degree how well Jonah plays. And it was
easier this year when he was running well, so we
got to get back.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
To that, right, Mario, do you worry about, honestly, a
letdown this Friday, after all the energy that you had
to spend coming back to win that game in Maryland?
Do you worry about a little bit of a let
down with these guys on on Friday.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I don't worry about that at all.
Speaker 9 (29:34):
I look at it almost like the opposite, Like they're recharged.
Like I said, I thought, if we had lost that
game and especially went out how we went the first
three quarters, then our season was lost and anything could happen.
But now that you won that game, like Greg said earlier,
everything is really in front of the table for you
to get Like we lost to the national champs and
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that's it. Other than that, we should be charged up.
We don't need to crowd out there. These guys should
be playing for like going for the victory.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Yeah, I think that. You know, when we started this season,
we looked at games where you know, we can win
this one, this one, this one's going to be tough,
but you start to create a picture of what it's
going to take to reach all of your goals, and
so those things are all still right there. For you,
you know, I think you got to take it one
game at a time. This team isn't at a place yet,
(30:26):
Softie where they can overlook anybody, right that they found
themselves down twenty to nothing last week, and so that
that right there tells them we got to prepare, and
we got to start early.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
We got to get going from jump. And this team
beat us last year.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Again, as much as you know, we want to discredit
or not talk about that as a competitor, as someone
who you know, played the game when someone had something
over me because we played them last year, there was
definitely an amount of I want to get these guys back.
And now we got them coming into our stadium and
on a Friday night, you know, when you might be
(31:00):
one of the only games on television. You know people
are watching. I think these guys are gonna be fired
up rated play.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
There is one thing that I think needs to be
addressed by these guys. This is now the second straight
game in Big Ten play where they've come out and
they haven't scored in the first half. Mario, right, I
mean this is you know, four quarters of football, first
half football where they've been shut out. So these these
slow starts, and obviously Ohio State, maybe you could chuck
(31:28):
it up to hey, if you're playing maybe the best
defense in the country. But is there any concern at
all about the way this team has been starting the
last couple of games, Mario.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
I'm concerned. I'm concerned with the offense as a whole.
Like you just talked about Jonah being the one that
makes the engine run, I don't believe that. I believe
it's demon Williams. I believe Jonah. Like those first three
games were cupcake games, Like, we're not seeing the same
Jonah in the last few games. Yes, they're keying on them,
(31:58):
but we talked about them that they'll be keying on them.
So we have to come out in the first half
and some some different game plans, some different strategies to
get maybe the young freshman wide receivers in the game,
to do something different, make demand run the ball. We
have to come out with something different than Jonah. Although
running has been great for us, it's not been great
(32:19):
for us in these past two Big Ten games.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
We have to figure out something different.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Yeah, I think they kind of got to restart so
offt the MS second half or the fourth quarter of
that game where they kind of realized, you know, this
is what we've done to be successful. Let's get back
to this and those last three drives where we had
to have a touchdown all three of them, we scored
a touchdown all three of them. So I think, you know,
we've kind of gotten back on track a little bit
after you know, stalling out a little bit. So you know,
(32:46):
the coaches will mix it up. I think they'll be okay.
I think Rutgers is a get right game for these dogs.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, well, let's let's do this before we go.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
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(33:15):
that we're talking about after this game on the postgame show.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
It's gonna have to be either McLoughlin or mkil Lstein
because of that run pass option. Your safeties are extremely
important in the football game, and then hopefully one of
our pass rushers can put a little pressure on him.
But I'm gonna go with McLoughlin in the stea.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I love it all right, Mario two o'clock, Greg two
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By the way, in that game.
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Well, we are hanging out until four o'clock today and
talking about a comeback win for the Ages boys and
girls against the Maryland Terrapins. Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey. I
don't know what the hell happened there at halftime. I
don't know if Jed Fish went in there and just
offered incentives for everybody or free cars. But this was
a football team that was going nowhere at halftime. And
(03:27):
then Greg Lewis will start with you just found something
and turned on the freaking gas, blew with these guys
out in the fourth quarter and got a gigantic come
from behind win over a big ten team on Saturday
in College Park. What did you see in that second
half that was something historical?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Baby, Well, I would just start with this.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
It didn't.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
There was nothing obviously that was said positive at halftime,
because they came out in the third quarter looked just
as bad, and they gave up.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
A long drive to Maryland for a touchdown.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
The offense was still sputtering, really wasn't until the fourth quarter,
and you know, you never know what'll turn on the lights.
But I'm gonna be honest with you, I had kind
of given up because not only were they down twenty
to nothing, they're playing terrible. The defense was giving up
long drives, they couldn't get off the field on third down.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
The offense couldn't run the ball.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Demond Williams was having his worst game in my opinion,
in a purple and gold uniform. He was missing receivers,
he was taking sacks, he was holding on to the
ball too long. And then I don't know what it was.
With about five minutes to go in the third quarter,
this team woke up. The defense started pressuring a little more.
I think what they did with demand is is they
(04:40):
start giving him one red pass plays three steps, one read,
throw the ball, three steps, one read, throw the ball,
and they got him some confidence. It got him in
the flow a little bit. Walter start calling the defense
a little more aggressively. We had some tackles for losses.
He started to get in the groove play calling. And
finally we saw the Husky team that thought we we
were going to see at kickoff, and at that point
(05:03):
they just overwhelmed a really good Maryland team who was
undefeated at the time.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, Mario, I think a lot of Husky fans were
not feeling this at all at halftime. I mean, heck,
you're down thirteen to nothing and you give up a
big drive for a touchdown to start the second half
and its twenty zip. So I mean, were you ever
a part of something like this, and did you have, honestly,
man come on any faith at all at halftime?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
These guys would pull that off.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
No halftime.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I had a little faith, but in the third quarter
I lost the faith and it just their fourth quarter
kind of reminded me of Washington State. The defense got
a little more aggressive. Demon Williams, though, I thought was
the key, like he turned on the light. Whether it
was what Greg said that the coach gave him just
a one read, but he seemed like he turned on
(05:49):
something that you look for in a quarterback like Tom Brady,
like he was ready to go. But I do feel
like Maryland made a few mistakes. They kept passing the
ball and the defense was going three and our and
that just fueled our fire. But it reminded me of
the Washington State game where the defense turned it up
and our offense turned it up.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Our receivers. I think it's Desmond.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
We finally established a second receiver because he was out
there making plays. Demon was actually running. This is the
game that I've been looking for demand to have. It
just came in the fourth quarter where he could pass
the ball and run the ball. It seemed like all
of our weapons, all of our offense turned it up,
and the defense started getting threes and outs and actually remarkable.
(06:32):
I have been a part of it. Me and Greg
out in Ucla my sophomore year, we had a quick
turnaround in the fourth quarter where we came back against Ucla.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I think we might have been down twenty one to
nothing something like that.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Yeah, in the first quarter, as a matter of fact,
so we had a little bit more time to come back.
These guys did it all at one quarter.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, let's talk about Demon Williams.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Guys first half could not have played worse, right, ten
for nineteen seventy yards had the pick going to Denzel Boston.
I think Denzel at halftime, Greg one for five, and
I remember remarking to you at halftime that I would
have put all four misses on the quarterback. I mean
he had an NFL passer rating of thirty nine point three,
and then in the second half he jumps to one
thirty five point eight. So what did you see Jed
(07:13):
Fish and Jimmy Doherty doing to kind of get him
some confidence, get him going there in the second half?
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Man, Like I said, I think they simplify things a
little bit. In the first half, he was really hanging
on the ball way too long. He was trying to
push the ball down the field. Sometimes as a quarterback,
when your first reads not there and you come off
of it, now you got to process really quickly and
figure out as my second read, third read there, and
he was throwing the ball late. When you throw the
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ball late, it ends up being behind receivers. That puts
the ball in jeopardy. Good defensive backs, good defensive teams
are going to make plays on the ball. It also
gives the pass rush time to get to you. When
they're guys in your face and you're trying to throw
the ball, they're certainly room for air there. I fought
in the second half as I was saying, it was
more Okay, we're going to run shorter routes.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
We need you to take what's there first.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Read.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
If it's not there, then you.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Really make a quick decision second read and you get
up the field and you run the football and don't
put things in jeopardy. So I think it was just
really a simplification. We're gonna slimplify things. We're not going
to try to force it down the field. We're gonna
take what the defense gives us.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Right, And Mario, you mentioned Desmond Roebuck, the freshman receiver,
four catches, sixty one yards, including the touchdown that brought
them to within three late in the game, four for seven. Again,
has he officially arrived as the number two receiving target
on this football team, because, as Greg's been saying the
(08:41):
last couple of weeks, Jonah Coleman is still your leading
receiver or your second leading receiver. He had eight targets
and eight catches for forty seven yards. So I mean,
from just delivery perspective, Demon Williams is going to Jonah
Coleman as much as he's going to anybody Else's a.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Yes, we do have a second receiver. He might not
be the second option to throw the ball, but we
have a second receiver. And when Greg just talked about
it's like we were going deep. We haven't shown that
we could actually go too far deep, so we just
seeing demand do is a lot of short passes, and
you're going to keep throwing short passes, then a lot
of them we are going to go to the running back.
(09:23):
But Desmond Robot is definitely our second receiver. But I
think for the rest of the season, until we can
establish that we can throw downfield, Jonah is always going
to be the second option because that's an easy outlet.
What I did, like Demon started doing, is being decisive.
Well with Greg said, if we can't see the first receiver,
then tuck it down and let's get some yards and
(09:45):
let's go on to the next down.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well and then Greg, you know, look, man, The biggest
injury news from the game on Saturday, obviously as John
Mills getting banged up was on crutches late in the game,
and who knows if he'll be ready for Rutgers.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But if they got to continue now without Willis without John.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Mills, I mean, dude, they put up twenty one points
in the fourth quarter and they did it with Max
McCree and Pockey Finale at left guard and left tackle,
So how big of a blow is that. How concerned
are you about those two spots moving forward?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Man, I'm very concerned.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
And the reason I say that is is we made
a lot of brew haha about whether this offensive line
has improved over last year or not, and I felt
like it has been, especially with the two starters John
Mills and Carver Willis in there. They were upgrades over
last year. So now you're going to your number two guys,
and let's be honest. Max McCree struggled in the first
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half yesterday. I mean, I'm sorry on Saturday, he had
a tough time out there, and that was part of,
you know why Maryland was able to have a lot
of success and getting pressure on our quarterback. So now
we have to go into the rest of Big Ten
play and it's not going to get a whole lot easier.
You know, this Rutgers game we may be able to manage,
but you know, we got some tough games coming up.
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Wisconsin defense, we got Oregon defense, So it's going to
be you know, sort of tough sledding with those backup
guys in there. And that's the one thing we talked
about this team couldn't afford to do is have to
play its depth a whole lot.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So those guys fee.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Now seem like he's played pretty well, but we definitely
have to make sure that our offensive line has a
good week of practice and is ready to go and
can provide the protection for DeMont.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, no doubt.
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talk about the offense and DeMont Williams and this thing
(11:48):
just totally turning around in the second half. But man,
the defense wasn't doing much else in the first half either.
I mean they had a touchdown drive Maryland did where
they were five for five on third down, including third
and nine and third and ten for their very first
touchdown drive. And then after that first drive to start
the second half, the defense just totally looked different. I
(12:09):
Mean I was telling Greg and I put it on
Twitter that man, I thought Pep Hamilton was just whipping
Ryan Walters in that first half. So what happened to
the defense from the first half for the second half.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Man, it's just like the same story. Man, We're not
getting any pressure. Their quarterback is back there doing whatever
he wants to do. It's very similar to the Washington
State game. It's almost identical. It's like fourth quarter, he
drew up some pressures. Maryland's biggest mistake was that they
kept trying to pass the ball. They could have ran
out some clock. I think their first drive in the
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fourth quarter was three and out, but they passed it
the first three times like they should.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Have ran the ball.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
I don't know what type of pressures he was dialing up,
but we were getting some pressure. We got no pressure
for the first three quarters. And that's the difference. Same
as the Washington State game.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Yeah, I would agree with most of that, but I
will say this, you guys. If it wasn't for our
defense's ability to stall two of those Maryland drives where
they got I think with the down about the ten
yard line and holding the field goals instead of touchdowns,
we wouldn't have had a chance in the second half.
So as bad as the defense played, their ability to
(13:19):
keep Maryland out of the end zone and tough enough
down near the goal line and holding the field goals
is what gave them the chance of being the game
the second half.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, no doubt. I just thought it was just much
more crisp. Jacob Monu.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You mentioned him after the game, Greg, I think he
was your player of the game. I mean, gotta be
great to have him and Buddha back there together, you know,
playing linebacker.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But Buddha is obviously out for the year. It is
clear as day.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I think right now that Jacob Monu, just after playing
a couple of games, is your best linebacker and he
might even be your best front seven player on this defense,
don't you like?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, he had a really good game. He showed up
all over the field, and you know, we were fortunate
to get too linebackers would transfer into, you know, through
the transfer portal. After all the losses that we had.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Mynu looks like he's rounding into that all conference type
of form that he was when he was at Arizona.
It's unfortunate that the Washington State players hurt their former teammate,
probably on purpose because he was mad that he left
them there. No, I'm just saying that, you know, we
are fortunate that we had Jacob Manu coming and getting
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healthy right at the exact time that we lost Buddha.
Had we had this not transpired, our defense would probably
be in trouble. He's looking like like I said that
all conference player that he was at Arizona.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well this was this is a game that we talked about.
Was kind of one of those you know, fifty to
fifty games, right, the Michigan game, the Oregon game, the
Illinois game, the Maryland game. I'm talking about games the
rest of the way, where with Purdue and UCLA and
Wisconsin and Rutgers. Mario, I don't know, man, I just
think if this team is legit, those are probably four
games they should win. The Ucla game looks a little
(15:02):
bit different, obviously, Ruckers, we can talk about them in
a second. But to me, that that Maryland game is
the difference between maybe winning six or seven games and
giving yourself to win maybe eight or nine. But I
just I wonder, Mario, what that win and that comeback
will do for that locker room, right, I mean, the
intangibles of actually fighting your ass off from three thousand
(15:24):
miles away, falling behind twenty to ZIP, having to score
twenty one points in the fourth quarter, and then rallying
to win. What does that do for camaraderie and what
does it honestly mean for that locker room moving forward?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
It means a whole hell of a lot.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Like, you know, we finally got the monkey off or
back and got our first ten big ten row victory.
That's one, but also it shows that we can come
back from anything, and we banned it together.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
And won that game.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
So when you're going into games and you're losing confidence
and you're going through the hurdles and you're figuring it out,
now you can lean back on this situation to understand
that you can dig deep and get it. I was
concerned because I felt like, honestly, if we had lost
that game, that was going to be the end of
the season, Like not technically the end of the season,
(16:12):
but we could lose any time.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
But now that we've proven that we can go on
the road, change.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
A couple of time zones and get the victory, it
does a lot for everybody, including the coaches, that we
can do this.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, Greg, how about you, same question, man.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Yeah, certainly it builds your confidence. It gets all those
monkeys off your back. You know, the road wind, the
conference road wind, the two time zones, and when you
do things and you prove to yourself you can do it,
it gives you that much more confidence. I think my
biggest concern moving through the rest of this year is
just how our depth is going to hold up.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
We continue to get injuries and critical positions.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
You know, to Caryl Davis is still you know, banged up,
who we were hoping was going to help us solidify
our past coverage on the back end. Our linebacker Buddha
has been heard, our offensive linemen, two of our starters
have gone down. It's just, you know, you start to
wonder how many more received Williams the receiver, how many
more injuries can we sustain and continue to play at
(17:13):
a high level. I hope that we can get some
of those guys back during the meat of our Big
Ten schedule. Again, this is the hardest, most physical conference
in football. Say what you want about the Southeastern Conference,
the Big Ten has won the last two national championships.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
We have the number one team in the country. We
have some other great teams.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Our depth is going to be tested and I think
how we bounce back from those injuries and who we
can get back and how healthy we can stay is
really going to determine whether or not we can end
with those eight nine ten wins.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now, no doubt. Well let's do this.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
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Speaker 7 (18:33):
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Speaker 6 (18:47):
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Speaker 2 (19:46):
And you know what happened a year ago out there?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The Washington Huskies went to Rutgers and thoroughly outplayed the
Scarlet Knights, but lost twenty one to eighteen. They outgained
them five hundred and twenty one to two hundred and
ninety nine, but penalties, turnovers, all kinds of wacky stuff.
They had a block field goal taking off the board.
So how much, guys, Greg will start with you would
(20:09):
last year's Rutgers game be in your brain before this
game on Friday?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Man, I think a little bit.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
And the reason being that was kind of where I
felt like this Husky season went off the rails completely.
You know, you had the Washington State loss, which was
bitter because it was your in state rival. You geared
back up to go play a Rutgers team that was
playing well and you literally outrushed them. You had you
(20:36):
were able to move the ball. You just had two
or three critical errors that cost you. And you know
that was one of those games that got away. You know,
we said last year with six wins, really this team should.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Have won eight. And that was one of the ones
you should have gotten.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
So now you got them back at home on your field,
and an opportunity to kind of redeem that and now
put yourself on the trajectory of those eight or nine
games this year. So I think from a standpoint of
it being the next game on the schedule, it's the
most important. But there's a little bit in the back
of your mind about let's get some get back.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And we've seen that this coach, you.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Know, might take some little, you know things to the
extra out there in that Washington State game. So I
don't think that Jed Fish would pass on an opportunity
maybe to score a few extra points against Rutgers after
what happened last year, you know, with the bad punt
thing and you know, guys run on the field and
some of the penalties that were called in that game.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, I mean, Mario, I don't know if he looks
at this with the same emotion that he does the
loss in the Apple Cup of year ago. That's not
what Greg is saying, obviously, But I mean I think
that those things, he's proven that those things kind of
lived with him, that he's reminded of those things every
single day, and I mean, this is a really good
Rutgers football team. I mean they're three and two, but
there are two losses to Minnesota and Iowa. They were
(21:56):
actually leading twenty eight to twenty four. It was six
minutes to go in both of them, and they lost
both of them. That's they're like a combined ten minutes
away from being five and oh. So I don't know,
I mean, does does this feel like a cupcake on Friday?
Because it doesn't feel like that to me, man.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
It doesn't feel like a cupcake, and it doesn't feel
like last year, only in the regards that we played
differently at home.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
But my biggest concern.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Is they look like on paper similar to what Maryland
looked like last week. They have a quarterback who's doing
pretty well with I think like nine touchdowns, a couple interceptions,
and they also have three receivers and a running back.
So when a team has an offense like that. The
two their two losses came into Big Ten. They have
(22:42):
similar to us. They beat up on their first three
opponents and now they're looking for a Big Ten victory.
But what concerns me is their offense, Like we're gonna
have to come out flying and hopefully our home field
advantage does something for us, But it doesn't affect me
as much because I think we just played differently at home.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah no, and I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
It was gonna say we play a lot differently at home.
I think you know, Rutgers has made their their living
on the run pass option type of team. They are
RPO to the core. That's what they do, that's what
they did last year, and the key to making that
ineffective is really on first and second down, limiting their
(23:24):
running backs ability to get into the plus yardist territory.
That we can't give up four and five, six seven
yards on first and second down and being third and
shorts because when you're third and short, the RPO will
kill you. They have two ways they could go. If
the safety's down, they're going to throw the ball. The
safety's back, they're going to run the ball, so your
linebackers can't give away their reads early. So I think
(23:46):
if we can take away first and second down in
their run game, we have an opportunity to be extremely successful.
It's gonna be noisy, they're coming two time zones and
it's a short week of Friday, so I think what
all those things combine. As long as the Huskies can
put together a pretty good offensive line out there, we
you know, get Joan Coleman going. I think the Huskies
(24:06):
have an opportunity to have a big win against Rods.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, I mean, look, and then getting to Carrio Davis back,
We'll see if that's gonna happen. I don't know what
more they can do, Mario, besides just let that guy
rest with his ribs.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
You ever had a rib injury before?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I have, I know Greg has as well, and there's
just there's nothing you can do besides rested. So to
Carrio Davis made the trip to Maryland but did not go.
They decided at game time he was not able to
pull it off. Does that make you feel that he
may be just that much closer because he actually did
make the trip to Maryland last week?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Definitely.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
And you know, everybody's ribs are different, and everybody's pain
tolerance as different. I'm not gonna talk about to Cario,
but you look at Michael Pennix and Rome a couple
of years ago. I think they both had ribs and
they both never missed a game.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
But everybody's situation is different. But I feel like.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Once coach allowed him to actually make the trip, then
he's probably right there just day by day.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, well, Greg, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
This is one of those games again where you're kind
of nervous about the crowd. It's a six pm kickoff.
There's a chance the Mariners might be playing at the
exact same time that we go on Friday night. Traffic's
going to be murder getting to the football game. I
don't know if the crowd is going to be that
great on Friday night. I hope it is. I hope
I'm wrong. But is this one of those games where
(25:26):
you tell the boys, hey, you may have to kind
of create a little bit of your own energy because
this thing may not look anything like the Ohio State
game did a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Yeah, it might not look exactly the same, you know,
the number one team versus a three and two squad.
But I think that Husky Nation and Husky Stadium provides
an environment regardless. You know, it's the best setting in
college football. I think our crowd does a fantastic job.
I think the way the stadium is built is conducive
(25:57):
the crowd no way, So I think it will give
them enough of sort of that platform and that energy
to be riled up and play well. But I think
they have enough and send him just because you know
they're four and one and everything is still in front
of them. Again, I'm not saying this team is ready
to compete for championships yet, but when you're on that
coaching staff and you're on that team, you know, our
(26:20):
only loss so far to the National champions and we
play in the Big Ten, you keep winning, you keep winning,
and things will stay in front of you as far
as accomplishing all of your goals. So I think they'll
have plenty of motivation, they'll be plenty fired up, and
they'll be ready to go.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
All right, let's get a break.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
We'll come back and wrap up the Husky Hawks right
here on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
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Speaker 6 (26:57):
First and goal at the one snap hand off Coleman
straight ahead into the head zone, touchdown, Washington. Jonah Coleman's
nation leading tenth thrusting touchdown pushes the Huskies across the
goal line in the twenty point deficit is dead Washington
twenty three, Maryland twenty as. The Dogs have taken the
(27:20):
lead for the first time today with three twenty one
to go in College Park.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
How about that man, Jonah Coleman. Ten rushing touchdowns, guys,
matches his total from last year in just the first
five games of this season. He's got minimum seven games
left to go in the regular season, maybe eight if
they play in a bowl game, to just totally smashed
that record. And look, I mean to me, I know
(27:45):
a lot of people, Greg and Mario and Greg, we'll
start with you. We'll talk about the quarterback, talk about
the head coach. I feel like number one is the
heart and soul of this football team. He's the DNA
man Greg, in my opinion of this football team right now.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Yeah, I think Jonah Coleman is the person who can
make the games easy for the Huskies. And what I
mean when I say that is is when we're running
the football and we're running downhill, it puts the defense
kind of at a disadvantage. Now, they got to bring
guys into the box, They got to pay attention to
the run and then that unleashes the weapon that is
de Mond Williams. That gives him the opportunity to get
(28:19):
to the outside. It gives Denzel Boston the Desmond Roebuck
and finds bright those guys opportunities to get down the
field and get open against you know, fewer guys in
the back end because they're scrooching up to start to top
the run.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
And this team really feels an energy from Joonah Coleman.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
I mean, when he's running, he's making guys miss and
he's getting those long bursts. It just fires his team
up and gets them excited, and it keeps the chains
moving on offense, keeps their defense on the other side line.
So there's just so much about how successful this team
is when Jonah's going well. And again the offensive line,
especially on the left side, now with two backups, you know,
(28:58):
how well are they going to be able to get
a push against this Rutgers defense.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And as we move into the rest of the Big
Ten play.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
So I think, you know, so goes that offensive line
and the rebuild of that with these replacements will determine
to some degree how well Jonah plays. And it was
easier this year when he was running well, so we
got to get back.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
To that, right, Mario, do you worry about, honestly, a
letdown this Friday, after all the energy that you had
to spend coming back to win that game in Maryland?
Do you worry about a little bit of a let
down with these guys on on Friday.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I don't worry about that at all.
Speaker 9 (29:34):
I look at it almost like the opposite, Like they're recharged.
Like I said, I thought, if we had lost that
game and especially went out how we went the first
three quarters, then our season was lost and anything could happen.
But now that you won that game, like Greg said earlier,
everything is really in front of the table for you
to get Like we lost to the national champs and
(29:56):
that's it. Other than that, we should be charged up.
We don't need to crowd out there. These guys should
be playing for like going for the victory.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Yeah, I think that. You know, when we started this season,
we looked at games where you know, we can win
this one, this one, this one's going to be tough,
but you start to create a picture of what it's
going to take to reach all of your goals, and
so those things are all still right there. For you,
you know, I think you got to take it one
game at a time. This team isn't at a place yet,
(30:26):
Softie where they can overlook anybody, right that they found
themselves down twenty to nothing last week, and so that
that right there tells them we got to prepare, and
we got to start early.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
We got to get going from jump. And this team
beat us last year.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Again, as much as you know, we want to discredit
or not talk about that as a competitor, as someone
who you know, played the game when someone had something
over me because we played them last year, there was
definitely an amount of I want to get these guys back.
And now we got them coming into our stadium and
on a Friday night, you know, when you might be
(31:00):
one of the only games on television. You know people
are watching. I think these guys are gonna be fired
up rated play.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
There is one thing that I think needs to be
addressed by these guys. This is now the second straight
game in Big Ten play where they've come out and
they haven't scored in the first half. Mario, right, I
mean this is you know, four quarters of football, first
half football where they've been shut out. So these these
slow starts, and obviously Ohio State, maybe you could chuck
(31:28):
it up to hey, if you're playing maybe the best
defense in the country. But is there any concern at
all about the way this team has been starting the
last couple of games, Mario.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
I'm concerned. I'm concerned with the offense as a whole.
Like you just talked about Jonah being the one that
makes the engine run, I don't believe that. I believe
it's demon Williams. I believe Jonah. Like those first three
games were cupcake games, Like, we're not seeing the same
Jonah in the last few games. Yes, they're keying on them,
(31:58):
but we talked about them that they'll be keying on them.
So we have to come out in the first half
and some some different game plans, some different strategies to
get maybe the young freshman wide receivers in the game,
to do something different, make demand run the ball. We
have to come out with something different than Jonah. Although
running has been great for us, it's not been great
(32:19):
for us in these past two Big Ten games.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
We have to figure out something different.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Yeah, I think they kind of got to restart so
offt the MS second half or the fourth quarter of
that game where they kind of realized, you know, this
is what we've done to be successful. Let's get back
to this and those last three drives where we had
to have a touchdown all three of them, we scored
a touchdown all three of them. So I think, you know,
we've kind of gotten back on track a little bit
after you know, stalling out a little bit. So you know,
(32:46):
the coaches will mix it up. I think they'll be okay.
I think Rutgers is a get right game for these dogs.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, well, let's let's do this before we go.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
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But who's that guy gonna be Friday? I want to
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(33:15):
that we're talking about after this game on the postgame show.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
It's gonna have to be either McLoughlin or mkil Lstein
because of that run pass option. Your safeties are extremely
important in the football game, and then hopefully one of
our pass rushers can put a little pressure on him.
But I'm gonna go with McLoughlin in the stea.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I love it all right, Mario two o'clock, Greg two
o'clock pregame show from his own kickoff at six pm
UWN Rutgers. Great stuff, and we'll talk to to you guys.
Then we're gonna break a lot more to get to
on a busy, busy Tuesday, baby, right here on ninety
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