November 3, 2025 • 51 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Jacson Bevens about the huge year and game last night for Sam Darnold, then we talk more Seahawks including audio from Mike Macdonald today before Jason Hamilton joins to talk Dawgs basketball.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, there was a movement, man, There was a bit
of a war going on here in this city.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It was like the parking lot of Anchorman. Dude.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You got the Geno Whites on one side, the Darnett's
on the other, Sam Darnold versus Genosmith. A lot of
folks thought getting rid of Gino Smith was a bad idea.
Corbyn Smith me to Cimes and our next guest. And
I'm wondering if Jackson Bevins from Cigar Thoughts on YouTube,
Cigar THOUGHTSNFL dot com, our old friend, if he's ready
to admit the air of his ways, if he's willing
(00:48):
to admit he blew it, He's willing to admit that
just maybe trading Gino was the right move and signing
Sam was the right thing to do for this football team.
Let's find out how stubborn he really is. Joins us
right now on the radio show our friend Jackson Bevans.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
How are you, man, I'm good, I'm good. I appreciate
you guys having me on and yeah, all all in
good fun. But yeah, you know, I'm gonna say it's
not been a great two months for the brand when
it came back.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
That's a great line.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. So look,
I've been wrong about stuff before. Dick's been wrong about
stuff before me. Dude, I'll tell you man. I wanted
Tyrone Willingham brought back after the two thousand and seven season,
and they lost every game in two thousand and eight.
I wanted lou Panella fired after the ninety nine season.
The next year they make the playoffs, and two years
later they won one hundred and sixteen games.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Wanted Matt Hasselbek traded.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yes, everybody makes mistakes, but are you ready? And I
was thinking about you and all your kind, all your
little troops out there from your flock. Sam Darnold sixteen
for sixteen the half, two eighty four touchdowns, perfect passer rating,
and I'm just thinking about our friend Jackson Bevans, and
(02:07):
if he is willing to come on the show, go
on the air and say, you know what, it's over.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's over. I was right or excuse me, you were right.
I was wrong. They did the right thing, good thing.
They didn't listen to me. And this battle, this war
is now lost.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Are you ready yet to say that in pry uncle
and wave the white flag?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I mean, so there's two ways we can do this, right,
I mean, if that's what we want, sure, if this
is going to be completely binary, absolutely, there's no case
to be made right now that this hasn't been the
right move so far. If we want context, then I
you know, I think the conversation gets a lot more interesting.
And it's still absolutely looking like the right moves, no question.
(02:56):
What Saint Darnold did last night was as pure of
quarterbacking as you will ever see in that first half.
I mean, there was nothing fluky about it. There was
nothing that was like, well, okay at work that time,
but good luck against a good defense now it was.
It was pure. It was a virtuoso performance. And you know, look,
(03:19):
my replies are overrun every Sunday because at the stance
I took on Seattle's quarterback situation before the season, and
you know, I was very honest about saying I really
wanted to be wrong about Like I hope that I'm wrong.
I am not upset that I'm wrong. This is the
best case outcome. I love that the Seahawks are looking
(03:40):
like a juggernaut. I love that they're running arguably the
most efficient offense in the NFL right now. But I
do want to ask you, guys and anyone else out
there who is victory laughing, did any of you anticipate
Sam Darnold being the most efficient quarterback in the NFL? Like,
none of us saw this coming, right, No.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It was all it was all a Donald versus Geno thing.
It wasn't a Donald versus the best quarterback in the
NFL thing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I saw it, and he's like one of the best,
you know, Yeah, I mean, I don't think anybody saw this.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But that's what I think.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
But just go back.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Nobody can really victory lap the performance that he's putting on.
And and we also have to be honest about this
being far in a way, infinitely more healthy environment for
quarterback play than anything Geno Smith had with Shing Walden
and Ryan Grubb. And that's that's not to say that,
you know it, it doesn't make this the right move,
(04:43):
but again, context matters, right.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, look, if we're just talking about you know, taking
credit and things like that, you know, yeah, I mean
I didn't see this comra. I didn't see Sam Darnold
on November three being eighteen to one the to win
the MVP.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, we're talking about maybe ripping up the final
couple of years of his deal and extending him right
now to a longer term deal that he's already signed to,
So we can talk about the merits of that, but
that conversation has already started.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I guess. I guess for me, I just always felt.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Like, hey, you're getting younger, you're getting the draft pick,
you're saving a little bit of money, and it's a
contract that you can get out of if things don't
go well. I didn't really see the downside, and I
felt like, you know, Gino's good, he's okay, but if
you want to be a champion, you got to have
a lot more than what Gino Smith cut off for you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And they rolled the dice and they may have found it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
With Sam Darnold, He's got a lot stilled to prove, man,
There's no doubt about that. But right now this is
looking like a grand fricking slam home run for John Schneider.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Is it hot?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh? Absolutely absolutely? And you know I have a very
hot and cold relationship with my opinions of John Schnyder overall,
but one thing he is one thousand percent earned the
benefit of the doubt on is quarterbacks and the timing
on when to move on to a quote, you know,
a new quarterback from from you know, putting giving Te
(06:05):
Carroll the leeway to make Russell Wilson the starter over
the big free agent signing Matt Flynn to selling at
the absolute peak with Russ and and look, I mean
you know, became a bit of a punching bag at
the end. But I mean the guy was getting MVP
talk his first year, yet also in a terrible situation
from a play calling and blocking situation. You know. So yeah,
(06:28):
absolutely looking like a grand plan right now. But like
what I said when you and I were texting last night,
is I think it's a little silly to close the
book on anything after eight weeks, because otherwise gives Daniel
Jones a quarter billion dollars, right, Like, I mean, it
is it is so early. This is what Sam Darnold
looked like at this point last year. My biggest concern
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with him has always been that he is very good
when he's in a good situation and very very bad
when the situation isn't good. So far, the situation is good.
I hope it stays that way, but he absolutely crumbled
in the biggest moment last year, and until he comes
through in one of those moments, I do think the
(07:12):
jury is still out on whether he is really ascended. Now.
I believe that he can do it, he just hasn't yet.
So I'm not closing the book on anything.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
But the.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Other side of the preseason quarterback Deby is got like
a you know, twenty eight point lead at the half.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Yeah, kind of like last night. I mean, that's the
debate looks a lot like last night. There's no question
about Jackson.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Bevis It totally does Jackson.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Bevin's joining us from cigar thoughts?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
So, so, why do you think there is this metamorphosis
of Sam Donald? I mean you think that Okay, there's
a possibility he could just slide back into Jets Panthers
Sam Donald. But isn't there a more than reasonable chance
that Jets Panthers Sam Donald was largely because Jets Panthers
Sam Darnold was like twenty one to twenty five years
(08:05):
of age and he's learned how to play the position.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, And we see this all the time. We
saw it with Gino Smith, we saw we're seeing it
with Baker Mayfield. You know, there have been a lot
of quarterbacks that bloom late. Maybe we're seeing that with
Daniel Jones right now. We saw it with San Donold
last year, Like this does happen. And this is why
at the top I was saying environment matters. I mean,
(08:30):
there are really really bad organizations that are going to
sail their quarterbacks, and the Jets and the Panthers are
have been those organizations for sure. And you know, if
it was just a matter of, oh, the Viking's lost
that game to the Lions for the number one seed
and then they lost in the playoffs, like okay, that's
(08:53):
that's different than truly two of the worst quarterback performances
that any contender saw all last year, like that is
going to stay in the back of my head. And
it was the lasting image of a quarterback that, you know,
bringing in to replace Ginald Smith, when Gino was dealing
with the second fastest pressure of any quarterback in the
(09:16):
NFL last year, was dealing with low separation from his
receivers because he was having to get the ball out
so early an unimaginative offense. I didn't know that Clint
Kubiak was going to come out here looking like the
next Sean McVay, you know. And so I'm prejecting that
the Seahawks pass blocking and play calling has been bad
for a decade, what does Sam Darnold, who has one
(09:39):
of the worst pressure to sack ratios in modern NFL history,
gonna do in that situation. It's turned out the situation
has been so much better. Great example is transforming that
offensive line. Quint Kubiak is playing chess out there like
a master, I mean, and we're seeing Jack and Smith
and Jigba punch through the clouds into an absolut loot
(10:00):
new stratosphere.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
The the analytics heads really love the yards per route
run stat in terms of, you know, being predictive for
how good a wide receiver has been and how good
he's going to be. And if you get to three
yards per route run, it's literally just your receiving yards
divided by the number of routes you run in the season.
(10:23):
If you get to three, you're talking like Tyreek Hill,
Cooper Cup, Triple Crown, Jamar Chase type numbers. That's a
three yards per route run. The number two player in
the NFL in yards for out run right now is
cooking the three point two Jackson Smith and Jiggo is
at four point six. No one's ever even done four
for a season. I mean, we are seeing this offense
(10:43):
blossom in a way that nobody predicted.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, Jackson Bevans is with us again from cigar thoughts.
I'm Jewish, he's Genish, leader of the Geno Ice, but
he's but he's waving the white flag a little bit here,
boys and girls. He's not totally ready to it all
the way because he wants to see what Sam Darnald
does in the clutch. But look, I mean, that's that's
that's the mark of a great quarterback, when you start
(11:08):
raising the bar and raising the bar and raising the bar. Well,
he's been great, But let's see what he does when
the NFC we're.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Still waiting for Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, let's see what happens when the NFC West is
on the line. Let's see what happens in weeks, you know,
eighteen against San Francisco. So I do think we're gonna
keep some of us, will keep kicking the can down
the road. And you know what, Jackson, Look, eventually, the
guy's gonna have another turn of a game. That guarantee
you that's gonna happen between now and the end of
the year. That Donald's got a bad game. The difference
(11:36):
is and and you just mentioned it, And I cannot
believe that I'm actually saying this in regards to the Seahawks.
It feels like it should be the inverse of what
I'm about to say. Last year, through eight games in Minnesota,
do you know how many times Sam Darnald was sacked
in the first eight games of the year last year
in Minnesota?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
You know, not off and top of my head.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Twenty five. Been sacked nine times so far this year
in Seattle. I'm forty total nine this year. He's actually
playing behind a good offensive line, which we have.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
How about that succeeded behind a bad one.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Left unbelievable Jackson, What are we doing with a good
offensive line and a good quarterback?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We can't do that?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It feels like uncarded territory. The last time we had
anything close to this is twenty and thirteen. You know,
the high paid offensive line, so you know, and this
defense is not too far from how that defense is
playing too. I mean, it's it is really all falling
into play so far. And I don't want anyone listening
(12:40):
to hear what I'm not saying. I am not trying
to wiggle off the hook here. I'm here to take
my medicine for sure, on my position before the season.
But you know, I am a big believer in allowing
opinions to change with new information and the new intention
we've gotten through the past two months. I mean, it
would be dishonest of me to sit here and pretend
(13:01):
like I don't feel differently now than I did the
last time you guys had me on and and it's awesome.
I've never been happier to be wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I love it, love it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
How important is it for this team to make a
deal at the deadline?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
And where would you go at the deadline.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
You know, my answer is different today than it was
twenty four hours ago. I would have said right guard
number one, an off ball linebacker number two, and now
I with the Ernest Jones injury, I mean that that's
one of those ones that could have a huge ripple
effect on the defense. And so, you know, NFL trades
(13:42):
are so difficult. It's just you don't typically see a
lot of them mid season, and it's because teams all
speak different languages. It's it's not like putting, you know,
a basketball player baseball player on a new team where
you're still basically doing the same things. You are entering
a new universe and it's difficult get up to speed.
But I think that if the team's going to be
(14:04):
serious about beating the Lions and the Packers and the
Eagles on the way and the Niners in the Rams
on the way to a super Bowl, they cannot be
getting whipped at right guard the way that they have
been all season, and they are going to need more
depth at off ball linebacker or else. You're just counting
on this defensive line to dominate every single game, and
(14:24):
that's going to be really tough to do against the
top six eight teams in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, I'm really curious by tomorrow they can even do
anything remotely positive to fix that offensive line. I think
it's going to be really hard. And the Ernest Jones
injury is kind of hanging over everybody. I know McDonald says,
you know, not a season ending thing, but who knows.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I mean, they're.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Setbacks and all that and blah blah blah that go
into it, and I mean, let's face it, guys, the
other cool part of this, I think Jackson your thoughts.
But you know, Dick and I kept talking all year
long about the Mariners, and one of the reasons why
we were so bullish on them is because the American
League was wide fricking open. This NFC he kind of
looks like the American League of Football in twenty twenty five.
(15:04):
There's probably six or seventy teams duties that think they
can get.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
There, Oh, no question. I mean, it's like the Packers
lost to the Panthers and the Lions lost to the
Biking yesterday. No one is invincible ever in the NFL,
but I mean the invincibility of the NFC is more
than I can remember in a lot of years like
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the pass is there. I will say I do think
last night changed things for Seattle heading into the trade
deadline tomorrow in a couple of ways. One obviously you've
got the Ernest Jong situation, but the commander's season is
now essentially over, and they're talk of a couple of
their blind men, Andrew Wiley and Nick Ali Gretti, who
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are very seasoned, veteran great, above average interior offensive blindman
who may be available now where they wouldn't have been
if the commanders had one last night. So those are
a couple of names keep an eye on as well.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I love it all right, Cigar thoughts on YouTube, Cigar
thoughts NFL on the web. Great stuff out of Jackson.
We appreciate you coming on the air and admitting your
past failures. We are all human, nobody is perfect. I've
already heard from Mina Kimes as well, who was waving
the white flag herself awaiting the smoke signal from Corbyn
(16:26):
Smith and that has not come yet.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So as soon as I get that.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
He's still recovering from that, he's still recovering from that.
Blue Jays lost many.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's right, he's a Blue man. Well, you know what,
he can suck it too with the rest of those. Yeah, yeah,
he's talking.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You tell him that's coming from me.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Jackson. Great stuff and we'll talk soon, buddy. Appreciate it, man,
all right, appreciate you boys.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, Jackson Bevans with us on the radio station.
I mean, god, it's just uh it tore us apart
as the Twelfth Man is sea awknition, this Geno versus
Sam thing, and now I feel like the healing process
Dick has become. We could all meet in the middle,
all come together and root for Sam Donald to go
out and bring us back to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
And I would have hated to be on that side
as well, because, like, as you watch the quarterback of
the team that you love just be a Pro Bowl quarterback,
you're kind of like, it's it doesn't fire you up
as much because you're kind of in a way rooting
for him to be good but not great, right, and
you're kind of waiting, you know, waiting for another team's
quarterback in Gino Smith to be good and not crappy.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'll tell you what, man, I feel for Viking fans,
I really do, because they're watching Sam Donald last night.
Just rip up the Commanders and know they won over
the weekend. But they didn't win because JJ McCarthy lit
up the box score. The guy didn't even average six
yards of throw for crying.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
He had one good quarter like he always does. Has
JJ looks like a Hall of Famer for one quarter
in every single game.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They've got Daniel Jones in Indianapolis, they got Sam Donald
here in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
They've got to be just on Suicide Watch? Are you
kidding me? After watching that?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I mean, it's unbelievable, and they're great fans, So you
feel bad for Paul Allen our friends out there k
fan watching this man, But hey, you're lost suckers, and
give John Schneider credit.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He's done it again.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Jumped off to Wilson wagon at the exact right time,
jumped off the Gino wagon at the exact right time,
save money, got draft picks in the process, rebuilt the
football team, and like we said earlier, man, I don't
see any good reason, none why Seahawk fan should not
be thinking about winning the NFC right now.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
None.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Now, there's four or five other teams, if not maybe
more that could say the same thing. But if there's
a group of teams that should be considered amongst that
group that can have that conversation.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We're one of them, no question, no question, We're one
of them.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We're gonna break a lot more to get to, including
Jason Hamilton Husky basketball tips off tonight. How about that
against UAB over at heck ed at eight o'clock here
that game on nine point fifty am. J Hammill join
us around six to talk about it. Right here on
ninety three to three Kjarff.
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Speaker 2 (19:12):
Ah so good, so good, All right, big thanks for
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Seafood Night at Duke Seafood dot com. I was looking
at ESPN FPI projected wins as udbitt nine. That means
they lose the Oregon game. They win the next three, right,
they go nine and three, they win their Bowl Game,
they go ten and three and Jetfish takes off for Florida.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
What I don't think, Why does it always have to
end with that?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Because I know it bothers you. I'm just pushing your buttons.
It's so easy.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I think this. I think that Jetfish could end all
this talk by coming out and pulling a Dan Lanning,
which you won't do. He hasn't done that, right. He
was asked today, have you had conversations with you, Dub?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
He says no.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I asked him for a conversation that will play Lester
in a week. If they did come to you, would
you have those conversations? He said yes, So I don't know.
I mean, I'm not again like I've told you, Dick
a million times, and I'm more just kind of being
a jackass here that I'm just taking this year by
year with the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Year by year.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He leaves, he leaves, he comes back great. I'd love
to see him stay. I think he's doing some really
good things that you, Dub. I think his recruiting has
been top notch. I think the way he's built this
thing overnight from nothing to something that has been very impressive,
especially on the offensive line. And I would love to
see what Demon Williams can do in a year or
(20:37):
two years from now.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Jedfish saying that he is committed to saying I don't
think would move me more than one hair of my
head towards me believing, yeah, you wouldn't care to stay,
It wouldn't matter.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
And so I mean, I think as we get.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
To a point now where we're just it's just a transactional,
transient nature of college football, Like what a coach says,
it doesn't matter to anymore.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
So that's why I don't really.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Care that he's not saying it right right, and then
he's just saying nothing as like he's le he understands,
he gets the gig, he gets what college football is
all about. He says it doesn't he knows it doesn't
matter what he says. Everybody thinks he's going to leave
eventually anyway, So why say something that might not be
true in the end.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, because coaches lie all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's why tremendously they lie in they're professional liars and
they should be in Athletic directors are professional liars.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Everybody in sports lies.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
But do they need to lie anymore?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Or now can they just be honest because everybody knows
they're going to leave eventually.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Anything So you want so you want Jed Fish to say,
and maybe this is the right way to go. Jed,
what do you say to people that think that you're
going to take off after this year?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, you know, I probably will, you know. I mean,
you see my resume.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I've been at thirteen stops in twenty years, and honestly,
if something better comes up, I'm probably out of here.
I that would be unbelievable, that would be almost for.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yeah, I don't know if it needs to be that honest,
but I don't think he needs to go the other
way either. He can stay ambiguous, he can stay nebulo
with me, because that's just the way it is in college.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
His history is going to preclude a lot of people
from believing him, There's no doubt about it. His buyout
will preclude will preclude a lot of people from believing him.
Dan Lanning comes out and says, I'm not going anywhere,
And part of it is I got a twenty million
dollar buyout, which is double Jedfish's buyout for crying out loud.
So yeah, I mean, it's all in the eye of
(22:31):
the beholder. But I think you're right. There's not much
he can say to get people to think otherwise. All right,
how about this, Uh, we're gonna hear from Mike McDonald
just a second update on the injury situations over at
the vMac.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I think this is kind of relevant because it was
against us last night, right. Dan Quinn was asked today
about his culpability in Jayden Daniels dislocating his elbow, which
was gnarly. We all saw it, nasty, the disgusting, blah
blah blah, and they hit by Drake Thomas.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
No criticism of Drake Thomas. It was a clean play.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Just happened to be him, you know, holding himself up
with his hand and his elbow went the wrong way.
So dan Quinn talked today about the mistake of leaving
him in the game there in the fourth corter in
a blowout.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Check this out.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I know many of you have been asking about the
thought process of Jaden being in the game in that situation.
I get that I've been thinking about honestly NonStop too.
And you know, for me, the answers man, I missed it,
but I would you know, I'll fill you out my
thought process at the start of the fourth core, I
guess it was probably like twelve and a half minutes
(23:39):
left in the game, and that was gonna be the
last drive for a couple of guys, Jayden and Zach
and Debo and LT and so we're gonna have any
red run plays and meaning no carries, you know, for
the quarterback on a run. And honestly, man, that's where
I missed it. Of course he could scramble. It's Jayden,
it's what he's special at. And that is one hundred
percent that's on me.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So I'll just say this. I think I like dan
Quinn a lot. I really do. I think dan Querenn's
a good coach.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I think he just did what good coaches are supposed
to do, and he takes responsibility. Pete Carroll did the
same thing when he was in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
He was a master. It's my fault, I'm the coach.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Blame me, right, Like, how often did you hear Pete
Carroll throw his guys out of the bus?
Speaker 6 (24:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Never, Never, he would fall on the sword all that's never.
Even if it wasn't his fault, he would still do it.
So that's the mark of a great coach.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Number one. I think dan Quinn's a really good coach.
Number two.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I know you said that you were yelling at the
TV get him out of there. I wonder in my
response to Dick last night, I think Jackson, you were
on the text as well. If Sam Darnold got hurt
because he was in the game too right when it
was thirty eight to whatever.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yes, but he only held he just handed off correct.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But let's say he gets stepped on by somebody, or
he turns around and somebody falls on his ankle and
he breaks his ankle. I mean, you can still get
hurt handing the ball off right, There's no question about that.
Maybe a limit the potential, but you can still get hurt.
Some freak injury happens, which that was kind of a
freak injury.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That wasn't a big, gigantic violent hit by.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
But he's still running with the fright.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But he just braced himself and he busted his elbow,
something he would do a million times. If Sam Donald
gets hurt last night, are we ripping McDonald for leaving.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Him in there?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yes, of course I think we are doing that, and
we should, But nobody was thinking that nobody was thinking
get Sam Donald out of the game.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
At least I wasn't. I mean, I kind of agree
with Hugh's take on this. Man.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I know it's easy to rip coaches for leaving guys in.
I just think it's just an absolute, unfortunate, horrific thing
for that.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I can just tell you what I felt.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
And I, you know, obviously the first half, I was
locked in every single play, halftime, I eat dinner. I'm
helping to clean up oh wit spaghetti.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
It was very good mom and Dad's. And so the
TV is still on.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I'm still watching, but I'm kind of, you know, doing
the dishes, cleaning stuff up, and I literally walked back
to the couch. I looked up and Jayden Daniels is
taking the snap and I look at my mom. Swear
to god, this happened five seconds before he got hurt.
I looked at my mom and I go, why is
he still in?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Right?
Speaker 6 (26:11):
That's it?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
And she goes, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
And literally five seconds later, he got hurt, and my
mom said, whoop, guess he shouldn't have been in.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Well, but here's the thing, And again, I think Hugh's
reaction was logical in that he's struggling. They want to
end on a good note. They want to get some
positive vibes going for him. He has been out, he
had not been playing a lot lately. He needs I mean,
I understand it, I really do. And we could make
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that call about any quarterback that was in the game
in the middle of a blowout, right And you heard
Dick's or Hugh's numbers on all these great quarterbacks that
have played during games when they're down by thirty one,
and none of them got hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
This is just football, And I think it sucks for him,
It sucks for d Q.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I probably would have yanked him out too, just like you,
to be totally honest with you.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But I get in a lot of ways why he
was still out there.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And maybe DQ's telling the truth that he was going
to come out the next drive and that was it,
and they want to have one more drive out of him,
see if they can get a spark. But I know
I know this that whether I like it, you like it,
they're killing him in DC whether getting barbecued.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Also, see, he's even though the injury wasn't the same
injury that he has, he's still coming off an injury right,
I think you would be even more protective of him.
You would even more want to get him out of
the football game if you're getting blasted, if he's coming
off an injury like he was.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I just I mean, I get that side of it.
I'm not saying you're crazy. I just this is to
me six one half dozen. I can see both sides
of this, Jackson, how about you? How much crap does
DQ deserve for.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
That one hundred thousand percent on Dick's side of this,
and then I think I would also be on the
side for criticizing McDonald. It's a four touchdown game and
no quarterbacks, starting starting quarterback should be in I would
also say that if a quarterback has.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
To end on a good note and all, we want
him to.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Feel good because we want to make sure he goes
into Tuesday feeling.
Speaker 11 (28:06):
Good about himself.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Man, Jayden, Damon, that's a real thing, sure thing.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
No, I am gonna mock that, because at the end
of the day, the dudes is a tough starting quarterback
in the NFL. He should have a tougher skin to
be able to go into the next game and know that, Yeah,
I had a terrible terrible day. We all had a
terrible day against the Seahawks. No, I mean, listen, okay, fine.
My take is is that the quarterback should have tough
enough skin to be able to go into the next
week and say, let's go get it.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
We were all bad and if you have to have
him in there.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
To have a salvaging moment, then I don't think the
Courton has tough enough skin.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
I think if you're to Jackson's point, I think if
you're a rookie, you're JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's different Jackson Dart, he's a second that's different for
the first. Second's second guy.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
But he's still a young quarterback.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
But he's been to the he's been to the NFC
Championship Game.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
He was the NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I mean like he's I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
I mean, I should have the confidence regardless of whether
he had a good game.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I just I think there's a lot of stuff that
you guys are missing, and I'll i'll just say that,
I just think you're missing the human element of all
of this, and I think just dismissing that is I
don't agree with.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
That you think he's gonna he would have more confidence
going to next week if he had one good touchdown
drive at the end of a blowout.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I think that knowing dan Quinn, there was a reason
why he was in the game because he thought Jaden
Daniels needed that. Maybe some quarterbacks don't. Maybe he does.
And I don't think I mean Jackson. I just if
I'm taking this the wrong way, please tell me. I
think you're painting the picture of just some soft ass
mental basket that needs to stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I don't think that's the case at all.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that he is.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
I'm saying if dan Quid had the mentality of thinking,
I gotta make sure that he he gets that for
his then I don't know if Dan's right in thinking
that or not clear.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
He was wrong.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
Yes, So I'm not saying I'm not saying Jaden Daniels
is that player. It's more of an indictment of dan
Quinn perhaps thinking he's that player.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Would you feel differently, Dave, if it was Brian Dable,
if it was the Giants, and Brian Deeble's kind of
a dirt you know, and and and we don't know him.
Would you feel differently if it was a different coach
because it's Dan Klin.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Maybe if I didn't even think about taking him out.
I just think he's the starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He's playing.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I mean, like Hugh said, we've seen a zillion quarterbacks
stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And again, I didn't think about it with Darnold either.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, like like you said, what if he goes
to hand off and he steps on a guy's ankle
or he twists a knee, you'd be pissed right now,
of course really, And you know what, I didn't even
think about that. Didn't even think about that, that they
should get him out of the game. I think he's
our starting quarterback and he's playing the game. Never even
thought about it for either one of them. All right,
let's hear from Mike McDonald little bit from him up
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there and earn a Jones and Moore next on ninety
three to three KJR.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
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Speaker 3 (31:19):
All right, thanks Duke.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
We are back at Jimmy's on First across the street
from Loomenfield.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Man, these Minnesota fans they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
They have infiltrated Seattle like no fan base has done before.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I'm kidding, by the way, I haven't seen one Jackson.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Are we gonna win tonight?
Speaker 10 (31:37):
I said, I think it's about as close to a
coin club as you can.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
I'm gonna take Minnesota close, though.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So I talked to one owner of an establishment in
Seattle who said the Mariner is missing the World Series
cost him a million dollars in sales? Is what this
guy says? How much this I owns multiple establishments around town.
Probably can figure out what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Did he make though? By them making the ales?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You see you're always looking at the positive, Well, why
wouldn't we? Because it's a million dollars he lost, he
would have made a million more dollars. Maybe the guy's
like Terry Rozier and he's massively in debt. He's to
pay off a lead to the irs.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
I could see that, Like if you're like if you're
the you know, if you're the bar owner around like
Dodger Stadium or something, Yes, and like you literally budget
in October as a huge month of sales because they're
always there.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
And do I think we do that here?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Well, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
If Dixon comes home with a b uh and he
missed out on the last fifteen questions that were easy
for an a, would you say, well.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
You got to be You're fine. You'd be pissed at him.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Well, the same questions were easy, Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Sure, but all they had to do was make the
World Series. They were eight outs away. I'm just saying,
I know it's not easy to make the World Series.
I'm just saying that there's a guy I know who
says you lost a million dollars and you know what,
after you brought up that point about the positives, I
totally lost.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
My train of thought. Well it's okay, I got enough.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
We were talking about this, we were talking about Minnesota,
and now there was no Minnesota fan.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I don't even know what.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
Let's see it from the head coach.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Oh wait a minute, I remember, No, I forgot again.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Mike McDonald, with the media today, was asked about Ernest
Jones and his situation.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Any update on Ernest Jones at all?
Speaker 11 (33:14):
No update.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
They're doing the medical right now, probably stick to the
same story as last night. Is not season ending, but
we're gonna be were we be working through is knee.
We'll have an update probably on Wednesday on what the
technicality is behind it.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
How did you feel like it worked out with with
Drake then it looked like he kind of spik over
those roles, and then when then with Tyree, I.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Thought Drake's communication was fantastic. We didn't skip a beat. Uh,
that's a tribute to him, you know, and staying prepared.
Now he has a green dot in practice as well,
so he has a lot of reps at it. But
he did a phenomenal job managing their tempo and the communication.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
And then you know him and him and.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
Tyree played both positions throughout the night and interchanged seamlessly, seamlessly.
I thought I was really pleased with those with those
guys with really teenite coming in and executing the defense,
and I thought Drake played a tremendous game.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
And in the back end obviously again Josh went out,
Reek stepped in. How did you feel like he did
there and then kind of the mix of with Devin
and Nick and kind of what you ended up doing
with those two guys as well.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
We've had some scenarios throughout the season.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
Where we've had a dB go down early in games,
and I felt like last night was the best job
that we did as a as a as a team,
as a defense, and as a coaching staff of making
the adjustments in real time and detouring, you know, from
where we originally things we wanted to do and got
the solutions quicker where the guys can execute, and the
guys did a great job. I mean, we moved some
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guys around. You know, there's some guys in some spots
that hadn't really practiced a lot of those plays and
gotten those looks throughout the week. So I thought, considering
that the execution was was really really good.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
So I think you can almost tell a little bit,
and you know, look, they may try and do something
and not be able to pull it off because it
takes two to party.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Here the deadline is one o'clock tomorrow right in the NFL.
If they trade for a linebacker, then that might be
a sign that something is actually wrong with Ernest Jones
between now and tomorrow if they don't and again doesn't
mean they didn't try, and they may not be able
to pull it off, but I think that is something
to keep an eye on the right guard situation. They
may feel like, hey, maybe we found some with Bradford
last night against Washington that now we feel comfortable moving forward.
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They've had a couple of linemen big o'lo last year.
Dick was one of them that kind of got better
as the year went on. So they may feel that
way about Anthony Bradford at right guard. But you know,
trade deadlines are really hard to pull off in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
They really are.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I mean, Baseball, you know, is a lot different because
you can trade prospects in baseball, right we're not talking
about it. We're talking about draft picks and we're talking
about current players on NFL rosters.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
What if you could do that in football?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Right for the LSU starting strong safety right now.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
He already got his rights, just be able to move
the guy right. But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I mean, I think, look, if Ernest Jones is gonna
get hurt, it may as well be.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Now I do get a little.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Bit concerned when the head coach comes out and says,
we'll wait and see.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
We don't think it's season ending, but we're gonna wait
and see. That is that scares me a little bit?
Speaker 7 (36:13):
It does, And hopefully it's a situation kind of like
what it is with Julian Love, where they've said, you
know what, let's just put him on ice for a
little bit because we want to make sure he is
totally healthy with the stretcherrun.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Maybe that's something they do with Ernest Jones. Maybe it's
something like.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Okay, it's a it's a month ish injury, but you
know what, we're gonna We're gonna play the long game
because we want to We think we can make the
super Bowl, and we want to make sure he's there
in December and January.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
No question he is.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
He is way more important in December and January than
he is right now. They can't go where they want
to go without that guy, right without Ernest Jones. I mean,
you could argue that the Seahawks defense took a turn
for the better because of him and his arrival. Going
back to last year and the Julian Love thing, to me,
is is kind of weird because he's been out for
a while, and he could have hit the ir or
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two or three weeks ago. Instead he did Now he
was gonna miss a month, if not more. All right,
we're gonna break. Jason Hamilton's getting ready for the debut
of Husky Basketball. We'll chat with him and Everett fits you,
two of the great play by play and color commentators
in our city. We'll be packed together in one segment
next on ninety three three KJR. All right, let's get
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to it over on nine to fifty am tonight. There's
a Husky fan right there. He's got a shirt at
the whole spiel. What are you doing here? The basketball
game's up there. You're in the wrong spot. Maybe you
thought they're playing basketball.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Taking the rail up?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Is that what he's doing? You're taking the light rail.
You're going up there tonight? All right? Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Jason Hamilton from the Husky broadcast crew is joining us
right now on the radio program. No better way to
celebrate the inaugural game of Danny Sprinkle's second year than
talking to the color man of the week from the
Big Ten. Our friend, Jason Hamilton, how are you man?
Speaker 6 (37:54):
I'm excellent? Did you just make that up, because if
you did, I'm.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Buying absolutely, Yes.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Yes, thank you, Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, I mean i'd vote for you. If there was
a vote for you, I definitely vote for you. I
don't know if Tony would vote for you, but I would.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Hey, let's talk about this team because there's a lot
of new faces, and I guess, look, there's excitement, no doubt,
you know. I saw Andy Katz put out like his
top twenty impact players, and Desmond Claude was on there,
one of the new incoming guys.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And the only.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Concern I've got, I guess, is that, man, you got
to get these guys to come together rather quickly.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
So what have you heard?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
What have you seen about the offseason that leads you
to believe that these guys have a chance of coming
together here pretty fast and being a good team.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
That's a great question. I mean, thirty new faces, some
guys that come with a pedigree, have played a lot
of college basketball for the most part on this roster,
and so you know, for me, Safia, I'm I'm as
excited probably coming into this season as I was in
Mike Hopkins' second year. I just feel like from a
talent standpoint, this is probably the best and deepest roster
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that we've seen in a couple of years, and so
it gives me some nice hope. And as you said,
you know, there's some national buzz around this team a
little bit, even though they've been selecting sort of middle
of the pack in the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
But it is very.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Difficult to kind of hit the ground running when you've
got thirteen faces. Hopefully you expect experience to kind of
lead the way. Guys sort of having a good feel
for college basketball, so hopefully that gets them to a
better place quicker. But yeah, with a lot of guys
trying to fill out their roles, it's gonna be an
interesting first month of the season.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
I'm fascinated to see how coach Sprinkle manages minutes and
egos because you've got an entire team that's made up
not only of starters from other teams, but stars from.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Other teams, players of the year.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Right, we're accustomed to getting a ton of shots, So
I mean, guess what, everybody's not gonna be able to
take seventeen shots a game.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah, no, that you're you're you're absolutely right. I mean,
you know that's the thing about the first game is
everybody's happy until minutes start getting dispersed. And you got
guys like Kimari Peterson who was the so Camp Player
of the year, had the ball in his hands an
awful lot, Desmond Quad who had the ball in his
hands an awful lot. And then you bring in some
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new guys like Hanna Steinbeck, a six' Eleven german kid
who had an unbelievable exhibition game AGAINST, unlv who's got
to play a bunch of. Minutes and you throw in
the fact that you GOT Jj. Maniquett really they're they're
only true true point guard in my mind who's got
to be on the floor and played a great game
in that exhibition as. Well so a young player that
needs to be on the, Floor so minutes are going
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to be really. INTERESTING i, think you, know coach is
sort of like, this having a deep roster because you
can play with, lineups you can you, know sort of
hold it over a player's.
Speaker 12 (40:58):
Head.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
Takee you're not playing, hard you're not playing. Well we've
got another guy that can come in behind. You but
that also can create some. Discord so keeping everybody energizing
and fresh and hopefully getting enough touches is going to be.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Critical, well whose team is?
Speaker 4 (41:10):
This?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
RIGHT i mean like back in the day day which
man back in the day is like twenty years.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Ago now you.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Knew who whose team it? Was Is Brandon roy's? Team
it Was Isaiah thomas's? Team whatever is? This Desmond claude's
team is At Zoom diallo's team is At Wesley yates'.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Team whose team is?
Speaker 6 (41:25):
This? YEAH i think from an experience, standpoint you probably
look to A Desmond, claude, okay just because of the
fact that you know he's played a ton of, games
you know has that. Experience but really there is no
true defined leader this is their team from day one
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that that's gonna. Come BUT i would say the default
is probably you, Know Desmond. Claude but for, me for
me and you guys know this about, ME i believe
that the point guard is the. QUARTERBACK i believe the
point guard leads the. Team and So i'm not sure
That Desmond clonde is a true Point he's a big
guard that has played in a. COMBO i foresee this
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team actually BECOMING Jj maniquett. Team but that's a far
cry from where we are on day. One so let
me just say. That BUT i think over, TIME i
think he will be the guy with the ball in his,
hands Helping Danny springkle get players in the right, spot
getting the guys the right shots in the right. TOUCHES
i think, EVENTUALLY i know it's. Crazy as a, FRESHMAN
(42:31):
i see it Going JJ's.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Way got it, Well, Jason we've had conversations over the
years about the point guard. Position that's exactly WHAT i
want from my point, guard and that hasn't been the
case really At.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
Washington there's been a lot.
Speaker 7 (42:43):
Of ball, dominant shot dominant point guards For. Washington when
is the last time you dub actually had a pass
first court general at the top of the.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
Key, Boy you're gonna make me age. Myself i'm gonna
go back a long.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Time it Might.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Hamilton we, know we know you're old. Already there's no
no point in finding it all.
Speaker 6 (43:07):
RIGHT i, KNOW i know you're older than me, Though
but here's the. Thing the thing about that, is you,
know that's just the evolution of the way that that
basketball is now is you know you have a more
combo scoring type. Guard and So i'm Not i'm not
upset about. THAT i JUST i THINK Jj manicut's the
type of player that can do a little bit of.
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Both he can find his own, shot not down the open.
Jumper but he's just more of a guy that's looking
to get everybody. Involved because a guy like you, Know
June diallo or a guy like Uh Desmond quad or
or any name anybody else on the roster that is
more of a ball Dominant Wesley yank a ball dominant.
Guard you just cannot have that and not have the
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motion and the movement in the, offense because that's that
stagnates the. Offense you have to have the ball, flow
especially with guys on this team that you know different
guys can score. It so that's WHY i go back
to J. J. I i just think he's a critical
part of the.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Team, well a lot of teams have a point, guard
a good point, GUARD a lot of teams have a
really good big. Man not a lot of teams have.
Both and IF Jj manniquid is what we think he,
is If Frank kepnong can stay healthy the entire, year
wow what a combination that would. Be AND i, Remember,
dick you were there doing the show from The purdue
(44:27):
game and we Had danny on the Air.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Jason and he kind of Ripped Frank kepnong a little.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Bit he came on the air and, said he's got
to start sucking it up and decide if he wants
to play this. Game he's got to get his ass
back on the. Court And i'm, wondering what have you
seen from? Him what have you heard About Frank kepnong's
desire that makes you think that he's ready to give
this team twenty five thirty games this.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Year, YEAH i Think frank's deal and Maybe danny just
hasn't said it this. EXPLICITLY i think it's more mental than,
physical you. KNOW i think he's been hurt so often
that sometimes it's in the back of his mind about being,
hurt which is crazy because you watch the way he.
Plays he actually plays. Recklessly he dives into the, stands
he's flying. Around SO i know for the people that
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are hearing me say, that they, say, well, gosh if
he was a little, nervous you'd think he'd have a
little bit of a mute, button and he. DOESN'T i
just think that he's gotten in his head a little
bit about getting injured so he can release. That that's
a tough thing from a sports psychologist type of. Standpoint
but if he can release that and just play freely
(45:33):
and expect to play a full, season he's going to
help this team. Tremendously he's one of the few true
rim protector shot, blockers you, know not necessarily a high
volume score or anything like, that but a guy that
is an emotional. Leader we talk about leaders of the.
Team he's an emotional leader of this team and always
hasn't been since he's been on my.
Speaker 7 (45:52):
Leg, well we thought there was going to be depth
of the big but there really isn't now with A
nasovic And treori.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
OUT i, mean how big a concern is the front line?
Speaker 6 (46:02):
Depth, YEAH i mean that's Where Hannas steinbach comes in.
HUGE i, mean as you don't want to put too
much pressure on him as a freshman to be the
guy on the block and really leading the Way christian
needs to From Florida state is back in healthy or,
healthier but you, know obviously a more wiry guy Where
(46:23):
steinback is six, eleven two. Fifty so, yeah definitely it
was thought of it's going to be a position of
strength at least at the front, court and now with
a couple of, injuries it's going to be, Different Laysan.
Somerville another guy THAT i didn't. Mention the transfer From
rutgers gives you a little bit of depth, There. Dick
but the one guy that you, Mentioned Jacob, adosovic to,
(46:44):
me he's a very pivotal player on this roster that
we won't seek for a couple of. Months the transfer
From lipscombe also another player of the year in The Atlantic,
sun partly because he's six' eight and can play inside
out and so he's tough on, the block but also
one of the better. POINT shooters i think three point
shooting for this team is gonna. BE critical, i mean
that's just the way of. College basketball they Don't have
(47:05):
if there's one criticism of, the roster they don't have
A TRADE. SIMMONS. C J will cox, just knockdown knockdown three.
Point shooter they've got guys that have shot it well
on a. Percentage basis you're hoping they can they can keep,
that up but they're not. True shooters they're they're guys
that can shoot as long as the streak is going,
(47:26):
for him but they're not. Knockdown shooters jacob is a
GUY that i think when, he's healthy becomes one of
the better three point shooters on, this roster can play inside.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Out Well jason hamilton's with us about to kick Off
the husky basketball season nine TO fifty am at eight
o'clock pregame at seven Thirty The Jetfish's Coach jetfish coaches
show by the way happening now as well OVER. On
Am so tony's gonna have to get in the car
at seven o'clock and find this butt to heck ed by.
Seven thirty So if jason goes on the air at
(47:56):
seven Thirty and tony's, not there you know Why because
tony got stuck. In traffic so something to keep an.
Eye On, but jason but just one more from me before.
You go i'm looking on the non. Conference schedule you
know some, decent matchups, You, Know, baylor Nevada, obviously utah
you know down, the road but certainly a manageable non.
CONFERENCE schedule i think, for You, dub and because they're
(48:18):
so new and they have so many, new guys how
much of a break should they be getting if things
aren't clicking right Away in November?
Speaker 3 (48:25):
And december in, YOUR mind.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
I don't know about. A break, i mean you want
you want to see players play the, right way play,
with passion, you know. PLAY hard i think if fans
are seeing that and maybe they come up against the
team that has their number on, that night you know
that that. CAN happen i think what what can't happen
is just laying down. A stinker that's not what you want.
(48:52):
To see even with guys that haven't played with each other,
a lot you still want to see. THE effort i
do think the schedule is. Fairly favorable as, you mentioned
the Game at baylor will be will. Be interesting they
do Play At washington state early. As well but, you
know you want to be ready when you get Into
This big ten season because, you know as history showed,
last year it's it's a battle weekend and. Week out
(49:15):
it's physical In The. Big Ten so washington's gonna need
to use that non conference schedule to, get prepared, get
experienced get guys gelling and, understanding roles and then really
rolling into, you Know Late December january february with a
great mindset to go out there. And, compete, well.
Speaker 7 (49:32):
Finally, For, me jam what, ABOUT tonight, i mean what
do we know About This arkansas pine, bluff team because
a lot of times there's teams that come into here
to heck ed and four months from now they end
up going TO the ncaa tournament because they win one
of these. Small conferences is that this type of team
or should this be fodder For the?
Speaker 5 (49:47):
Huskies?
Speaker 6 (49:47):
Tonight, well yeah, on paper it should. BE fought, i mean,
you know they're In The Southwestern, athletic conference finish near,
dead last dead last in that league, last year had
a lot of turnover on, their roster like. Everyone does ten,
you guys they were six and twenty five. Last year
they really struggled shooting. The ball they were the worst
free throw shooting team in the country last year at
(50:09):
uh just under sixty percent from the free. Throw line but,
you know with new guys on, the roster you just,
Never know dick and you just never know what their
transfer situation, looks like how well those guys are going to.
Play together, you know early they've got a couple of
guys with, you Know Good division one experience like. Most
TEAMS but i, would say, on paper this shouldn't be
(50:31):
a Game that washington should or could lose if they're
playing the, right way just based on, you know the
Turnover At Arkansas. Pine bluff so it's a good startup
game For the huskies to begin the year and hopefully
they go out there and prove it for.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
Forty minute well you you do things the right way, every.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Game babe it's just a beacon of hope for all
young broadcasters.
Speaker 4 (50:53):
Out There.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
And big ten commentator of, the week.
Speaker 6 (50:58):
That's right the newly appointed And Anointed big king come
there of the week that. Doesn't exist but thanks.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
You guys you're the winner in.
Speaker 8 (51:06):
My.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Book baby, all, right hey have fun this year and
let's let's. Talk, sooner right.
Speaker 6 (51:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, there was a movement, man, There was a bit
of a war going on here in this city.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It was like the parking lot of Anchorman. Dude.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You got the Geno Whites on one side, the Darnett's
on the other, Sam Darnold versus Genosmith. A lot of
folks thought getting rid of Gino Smith was a bad idea.
Corbyn Smith me to Cimes and our next guest. And
I'm wondering if Jackson Bevins from Cigar Thoughts on YouTube,
Cigar THOUGHTSNFL dot com, our old friend, if he's ready
to admit the air of his ways, if he's willing
(00:48):
to admit he blew it, He's willing to admit that
just maybe trading Gino was the right move and signing
Sam was the right thing to do for this football team.
Let's find out how stubborn he really is. Joins us
right now on the radio show our friend Jackson Bevans.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
How are you, man, I'm good, I'm good. I appreciate
you guys having me on and yeah, all all in
good fun. But yeah, you know, I'm gonna say it's
not been a great two months for the brand when
it came back.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
That's a great line.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, but here's the thing. Here's the thing. So look,
I've been wrong about stuff before. Dick's been wrong about
stuff before me. Dude, I'll tell you man. I wanted
Tyrone Willingham brought back after the two thousand and seven season,
and they lost every game in two thousand and eight.
I wanted lou Panella fired after the ninety nine season.
The next year they make the playoffs, and two years
later they won one hundred and sixteen games.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Wanted Matt Hasselbek traded.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yes, everybody makes mistakes, but are you ready? And I
was thinking about you and all your kind, all your
little troops out there from your flock. Sam Darnold sixteen
for sixteen the half, two eighty four touchdowns, perfect passer rating,
and I'm just thinking about our friend Jackson Bevans, and
(02:07):
if he is willing to come on the show, go
on the air and say, you know what, it's over.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's over. I was right or excuse me, you were right.
I was wrong. They did the right thing, good thing.
They didn't listen to me. And this battle, this war
is now lost.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Are you ready yet to say that in pry uncle
and wave the white flag?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I mean, so there's two ways we can do this, right,
I mean, if that's what we want, sure, if this
is going to be completely binary, absolutely, there's no case
to be made right now that this hasn't been the
right move so far. If we want context, then I
you know, I think the conversation gets a lot more interesting.
And it's still absolutely looking like the right moves, no question.
(02:56):
What Saint Darnold did last night was as pure of
quarterbacking as you will ever see in that first half.
I mean, there was nothing fluky about it. There was
nothing that was like, well, okay at work that time,
but good luck against a good defense now it was.
It was pure. It was a virtuoso performance. And you know, look,
(03:19):
my replies are overrun every Sunday because at the stance
I took on Seattle's quarterback situation before the season, and
you know, I was very honest about saying I really
wanted to be wrong about Like I hope that I'm wrong.
I am not upset that I'm wrong. This is the
best case outcome. I love that the Seahawks are looking
(03:40):
like a juggernaut. I love that they're running arguably the
most efficient offense in the NFL right now. But I
do want to ask you, guys and anyone else out
there who is victory laughing, did any of you anticipate
Sam Darnold being the most efficient quarterback in the NFL? Like,
none of us saw this coming, right, No.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It was all it was all a Donald versus Geno thing.
It wasn't a Donald versus the best quarterback in the
NFL thing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I saw it, and he's like one of the best,
you know, Yeah, I mean, I don't think anybody saw this.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
But that's what I think.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
But just go back.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Nobody can really victory lap the performance that he's putting on.
And and we also have to be honest about this
being far in a way, infinitely more healthy environment for
quarterback play than anything Geno Smith had with Shing Walden
and Ryan Grubb. And that's that's not to say that,
you know it, it doesn't make this the right move,
(04:43):
but again, context matters, right.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, look, if we're just talking about you know, taking
credit and things like that, you know, yeah, I mean
I didn't see this comra. I didn't see Sam Darnold
on November three being eighteen to one the to win
the MVP.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, we're talking about maybe ripping up the final
couple of years of his deal and extending him right
now to a longer term deal that he's already signed to,
So we can talk about the merits of that, but
that conversation has already started.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I guess. I guess for me, I just always felt.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Like, hey, you're getting younger, you're getting the draft pick,
you're saving a little bit of money, and it's a
contract that you can get out of if things don't
go well. I didn't really see the downside, and I
felt like, you know, Gino's good, he's okay, but if
you want to be a champion, you got to have
a lot more than what Gino Smith cut off for you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And they rolled the dice and they may have found it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
With Sam Darnold, He's got a lot stilled to prove, man,
There's no doubt about that. But right now this is
looking like a grand fricking slam home run for John Schneider.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Is it hot?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh? Absolutely absolutely? And you know I have a very
hot and cold relationship with my opinions of John Schnyder overall,
but one thing he is one thousand percent earned the
benefit of the doubt on is quarterbacks and the timing
on when to move on to a quote, you know,
a new quarterback from from you know, putting giving Te
(06:05):
Carroll the leeway to make Russell Wilson the starter over
the big free agent signing Matt Flynn to selling at
the absolute peak with Russ and and look, I mean
you know, became a bit of a punching bag at
the end. But I mean the guy was getting MVP
talk his first year, yet also in a terrible situation
from a play calling and blocking situation. You know. So yeah,
(06:28):
absolutely looking like a grand plan right now. But like
what I said when you and I were texting last night,
is I think it's a little silly to close the
book on anything after eight weeks, because otherwise gives Daniel
Jones a quarter billion dollars, right, Like, I mean, it
is it is so early. This is what Sam Darnold
looked like at this point last year. My biggest concern
(06:52):
with him has always been that he is very good
when he's in a good situation and very very bad
when the situation isn't good. So far, the situation is good.
I hope it stays that way, but he absolutely crumbled
in the biggest moment last year, and until he comes
through in one of those moments, I do think the
(07:12):
jury is still out on whether he is really ascended. Now.
I believe that he can do it, he just hasn't yet.
So I'm not closing the book on anything.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
But the.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Other side of the preseason quarterback Deby is got like
a you know, twenty eight point lead at the half.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Yeah, kind of like last night. I mean, that's the
debate looks a lot like last night. There's no question
about Jackson.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Bevis It totally does Jackson.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Bevin's joining us from cigar thoughts?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
So, so, why do you think there is this metamorphosis
of Sam Donald? I mean you think that Okay, there's
a possibility he could just slide back into Jets Panthers
Sam Donald. But isn't there a more than reasonable chance
that Jets Panthers Sam Donald was largely because Jets Panthers
Sam Darnold was like twenty one to twenty five years
(08:05):
of age and he's learned how to play the position.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, And we see this all the time. We
saw it with Gino Smith, we saw we're seeing it
with Baker Mayfield. You know, there have been a lot
of quarterbacks that bloom late. Maybe we're seeing that with
Daniel Jones right now. We saw it with San Donold
last year, Like this does happen. And this is why
at the top I was saying environment matters. I mean,
(08:30):
there are really really bad organizations that are going to
sail their quarterbacks, and the Jets and the Panthers are
have been those organizations for sure. And you know, if
it was just a matter of, oh, the Viking's lost
that game to the Lions for the number one seed
and then they lost in the playoffs, like okay, that's
(08:53):
that's different than truly two of the worst quarterback performances
that any contender saw all last year, like that is
going to stay in the back of my head. And
it was the lasting image of a quarterback that, you know,
bringing in to replace Ginald Smith, when Gino was dealing
with the second fastest pressure of any quarterback in the
(09:16):
NFL last year, was dealing with low separation from his
receivers because he was having to get the ball out
so early an unimaginative offense. I didn't know that Clint
Kubiak was going to come out here looking like the
next Sean McVay, you know. And so I'm prejecting that
the Seahawks pass blocking and play calling has been bad
for a decade, what does Sam Darnold, who has one
(09:39):
of the worst pressure to sack ratios in modern NFL history,
gonna do in that situation. It's turned out the situation
has been so much better. Great example is transforming that
offensive line. Quint Kubiak is playing chess out there like
a master, I mean, and we're seeing Jack and Smith
and Jigba punch through the clouds into an absolut loot
(10:00):
new stratosphere.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
The the analytics heads really love the yards per route
run stat in terms of, you know, being predictive for
how good a wide receiver has been and how good
he's going to be. And if you get to three
yards per route run, it's literally just your receiving yards
divided by the number of routes you run in the season.
(10:23):
If you get to three, you're talking like Tyreek Hill,
Cooper Cup, Triple Crown, Jamar Chase type numbers. That's a
three yards per route run. The number two player in
the NFL in yards for out run right now is
cooking the three point two Jackson Smith and Jiggo is
at four point six. No one's ever even done four
for a season. I mean, we are seeing this offense
(10:43):
blossom in a way that nobody predicted.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, Jackson Bevans is with us again from cigar thoughts.
I'm Jewish, he's Genish, leader of the Geno Ice, but
he's but he's waving the white flag a little bit here,
boys and girls. He's not totally ready to it all
the way because he wants to see what Sam Darnald
does in the clutch. But look, I mean, that's that's
that's the mark of a great quarterback, when you start
(11:08):
raising the bar and raising the bar and raising the bar. Well,
he's been great, But let's see what he does when
the NFC we're.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Still waiting for Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, let's see what happens when the NFC West is
on the line. Let's see what happens in weeks, you know,
eighteen against San Francisco. So I do think we're gonna
keep some of us, will keep kicking the can down
the road. And you know what, Jackson, Look, eventually, the
guy's gonna have another turn of a game. That guarantee
you that's gonna happen between now and the end of
the year. That Donald's got a bad game. The difference
(11:36):
is and and you just mentioned it, And I cannot
believe that I'm actually saying this in regards to the Seahawks.
It feels like it should be the inverse of what
I'm about to say. Last year, through eight games in Minnesota,
do you know how many times Sam Darnald was sacked
in the first eight games of the year last year
in Minnesota?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
You know, not off and top of my head.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Twenty five. Been sacked nine times so far this year
in Seattle. I'm forty total nine this year. He's actually
playing behind a good offensive line, which we have.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
How about that succeeded behind a bad one.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Left unbelievable Jackson, What are we doing with a good
offensive line and a good quarterback?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We can't do that?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It feels like uncarded territory. The last time we had
anything close to this is twenty and thirteen. You know,
the high paid offensive line, so you know, and this
defense is not too far from how that defense is
playing too. I mean, it's it is really all falling
into play so far. And I don't want anyone listening
(12:40):
to hear what I'm not saying. I am not trying
to wiggle off the hook here. I'm here to take
my medicine for sure, on my position before the season.
But you know, I am a big believer in allowing
opinions to change with new information and the new intention
we've gotten through the past two months. I mean, it
would be dishonest of me to sit here and pretend
(13:01):
like I don't feel differently now than I did the
last time you guys had me on and and it's awesome.
I've never been happier to be wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I love it, love it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
How important is it for this team to make a
deal at the deadline?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
And where would you go at the deadline.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
You know, my answer is different today than it was
twenty four hours ago. I would have said right guard
number one, an off ball linebacker number two, and now
I with the Ernest Jones injury, I mean that that's
one of those ones that could have a huge ripple
effect on the defense. And so, you know, NFL trades
(13:42):
are so difficult. It's just you don't typically see a
lot of them mid season, and it's because teams all
speak different languages. It's it's not like putting, you know,
a basketball player baseball player on a new team where
you're still basically doing the same things. You are entering
a new universe and it's difficult get up to speed.
But I think that if the team's going to be
(14:04):
serious about beating the Lions and the Packers and the
Eagles on the way and the Niners in the Rams
on the way to a super Bowl, they cannot be
getting whipped at right guard the way that they have
been all season, and they are going to need more
depth at off ball linebacker or else. You're just counting
on this defensive line to dominate every single game, and
(14:24):
that's going to be really tough to do against the
top six eight teams in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, I'm really curious by tomorrow they can even do
anything remotely positive to fix that offensive line. I think
it's going to be really hard. And the Ernest Jones
injury is kind of hanging over everybody. I know McDonald says,
you know, not a season ending thing, but who knows.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I mean, they're.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Setbacks and all that and blah blah blah that go
into it, and I mean, let's face it, guys, the
other cool part of this, I think Jackson your thoughts.
But you know, Dick and I kept talking all year
long about the Mariners, and one of the reasons why
we were so bullish on them is because the American
League was wide fricking open. This NFC he kind of
looks like the American League of Football in twenty twenty five.
(15:04):
There's probably six or seventy teams duties that think they
can get.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
There, Oh, no question. I mean, it's like the Packers
lost to the Panthers and the Lions lost to the
Biking yesterday. No one is invincible ever in the NFL,
but I mean the invincibility of the NFC is more
than I can remember in a lot of years like
(15:28):
the pass is there. I will say I do think
last night changed things for Seattle heading into the trade
deadline tomorrow in a couple of ways. One obviously you've
got the Ernest Jong situation, but the commander's season is
now essentially over, and they're talk of a couple of
their blind men, Andrew Wiley and Nick Ali Gretti, who
(15:49):
are very seasoned, veteran great, above average interior offensive blindman
who may be available now where they wouldn't have been
if the commanders had one last night. So those are
a couple of names keep an eye on as well.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I love it all right, Cigar thoughts on YouTube, Cigar
thoughts NFL on the web. Great stuff out of Jackson.
We appreciate you coming on the air and admitting your
past failures. We are all human, nobody is perfect. I've
already heard from Mina Kimes as well, who was waving
the white flag herself awaiting the smoke signal from Corbyn
(16:26):
Smith and that has not come yet.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So as soon as I get that.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
He's still recovering from that, he's still recovering from that.
Blue Jays lost many.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's right, he's a Blue man. Well, you know what,
he can suck it too with the rest of those. Yeah, yeah,
he's talking.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You tell him that's coming from me.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Jackson. Great stuff and we'll talk soon, buddy. Appreciate it, man,
all right, appreciate you boys.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, Jackson Bevans with us on the radio station.
I mean, god, it's just uh it tore us apart
as the Twelfth Man is sea awknition, this Geno versus
Sam thing, and now I feel like the healing process
Dick has become. We could all meet in the middle,
all come together and root for Sam Donald to go
out and bring us back to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
And I would have hated to be on that side
as well, because, like, as you watch the quarterback of
the team that you love just be a Pro Bowl quarterback,
you're kind of like, it's it doesn't fire you up
as much because you're kind of in a way rooting
for him to be good but not great, right, and
you're kind of waiting, you know, waiting for another team's
quarterback in Gino Smith to be good and not crappy.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'll tell you what, man, I feel for Viking fans,
I really do, because they're watching Sam Donald last night.
Just rip up the Commanders and know they won over
the weekend. But they didn't win because JJ McCarthy lit
up the box score. The guy didn't even average six
yards of throw for crying.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
He had one good quarter like he always does. Has
JJ looks like a Hall of Famer for one quarter
in every single game.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They've got Daniel Jones in Indianapolis, they got Sam Donald
here in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
They've got to be just on Suicide Watch? Are you
kidding me? After watching that?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I mean, it's unbelievable, and they're great fans, So you
feel bad for Paul Allen our friends out there k
fan watching this man, But hey, you're lost suckers, and
give John Schneider credit.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He's done it again.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Jumped off to Wilson wagon at the exact right time,
jumped off the Gino wagon at the exact right time,
save money, got draft picks in the process, rebuilt the
football team, and like we said earlier, man, I don't
see any good reason, none why Seahawk fan should not
be thinking about winning the NFC right now.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
None.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Now, there's four or five other teams, if not maybe
more that could say the same thing. But if there's
a group of teams that should be considered amongst that
group that can have that conversation.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We're one of them, no question, no question, We're one
of them.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We're gonna break a lot more to get to, including
Jason Hamilton Husky basketball tips off tonight. How about that
against UAB over at heck ed at eight o'clock here
that game on nine point fifty am. J Hammill join
us around six to talk about it. Right here on
ninety three to three Kjarff.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
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Speaker 2 (19:12):
Ah so good, so good, All right, big thanks for
our friends at Duke Seafood Restaurants. Make tonight at Duke
Seafood Night at Duke Seafood dot com. I was looking
at ESPN FPI projected wins as udbitt nine. That means
they lose the Oregon game. They win the next three, right,
they go nine and three, they win their Bowl Game,
they go ten and three and Jetfish takes off for Florida.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
What I don't think, Why does it always have to
end with that?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Because I know it bothers you. I'm just pushing your buttons.
It's so easy.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I think this. I think that Jetfish could end all
this talk by coming out and pulling a Dan Lanning,
which you won't do. He hasn't done that, right. He
was asked today, have you had conversations with you, Dub?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
He says no.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I asked him for a conversation that will play Lester
in a week. If they did come to you, would
you have those conversations? He said yes, So I don't know.
I mean, I'm not again like I've told you, Dick
a million times, and I'm more just kind of being
a jackass here that I'm just taking this year by
year with the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Year by year.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He leaves, he leaves, he comes back great. I'd love
to see him stay. I think he's doing some really
good things that you, Dub. I think his recruiting has
been top notch. I think the way he's built this
thing overnight from nothing to something that has been very impressive,
especially on the offensive line. And I would love to
see what Demon Williams can do in a year or
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two years from now.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Jedfish saying that he is committed to saying I don't
think would move me more than one hair of my
head towards me believing, yeah, you wouldn't care to stay,
It wouldn't matter.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
And so I mean, I think as we get.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
To a point now where we're just it's just a transactional,
transient nature of college football, Like what a coach says,
it doesn't matter to anymore.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
So that's why I don't really.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Care that he's not saying it right right, and then
he's just saying nothing as like he's le he understands,
he gets the gig, he gets what college football is
all about. He says it doesn't he knows it doesn't
matter what he says. Everybody thinks he's going to leave
eventually anyway, So why say something that might not be
true in the end.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, because coaches lie all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's why tremendously they lie in they're professional liars and
they should be in Athletic directors are professional liars.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Everybody in sports lies.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
But do they need to lie anymore?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Or now can they just be honest because everybody knows
they're going to leave eventually.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Anything So you want so you want Jed Fish to say,
and maybe this is the right way to go. Jed,
what do you say to people that think that you're
going to take off after this year?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, you know, I probably will, you know. I mean,
you see my resume.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I've been at thirteen stops in twenty years, and honestly,
if something better comes up, I'm probably out of here.
I that would be unbelievable, that would be almost for.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yeah, I don't know if it needs to be that honest,
but I don't think he needs to go the other
way either. He can stay ambiguous, he can stay nebulo
with me, because that's just the way it is in college.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
His history is going to preclude a lot of people
from believing him, There's no doubt about it. His buyout
will preclude will preclude a lot of people from believing him.
Dan Lanning comes out and says, I'm not going anywhere,
And part of it is I got a twenty million
dollar buyout, which is double Jedfish's buyout for crying out loud.
So yeah, I mean, it's all in the eye of
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the beholder. But I think you're right. There's not much
he can say to get people to think otherwise. All right,
how about this, Uh, we're gonna hear from Mike McDonald
just a second update on the injury situations over at
the vMac.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I think this is kind of relevant because it was
against us last night, right. Dan Quinn was asked today
about his culpability in Jayden Daniels dislocating his elbow, which
was gnarly. We all saw it, nasty, the disgusting, blah
blah blah, and they hit by Drake Thomas.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
No criticism of Drake Thomas. It was a clean play.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Just happened to be him, you know, holding himself up
with his hand and his elbow went the wrong way.
So dan Quinn talked today about the mistake of leaving
him in the game there in the fourth corter in
a blowout.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Check this out.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I know many of you have been asking about the
thought process of Jaden being in the game in that situation.
I get that I've been thinking about honestly NonStop too.
And you know, for me, the answers man, I missed it,
but I would you know, I'll fill you out my
thought process at the start of the fourth core, I
guess it was probably like twelve and a half minutes
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left in the game, and that was gonna be the
last drive for a couple of guys, Jayden and Zach
and Debo and LT and so we're gonna have any
red run plays and meaning no carries, you know, for
the quarterback on a run. And honestly, man, that's where
I missed it. Of course he could scramble. It's Jayden,
it's what he's special at. And that is one hundred
percent that's on me.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So I'll just say this. I think I like dan
Quinn a lot. I really do. I think dan Querenn's
a good coach.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I think he just did what good coaches are supposed
to do, and he takes responsibility. Pete Carroll did the
same thing when he was in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
He was a master. It's my fault, I'm the coach.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Blame me, right, Like, how often did you hear Pete
Carroll throw his guys out of the bus?
Speaker 6 (24:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Never, Never, he would fall on the sword all that's never.
Even if it wasn't his fault, he would still do it.
So that's the mark of a great coach.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Number one. I think dan Quinn's a really good coach.
Number two.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I know you said that you were yelling at the
TV get him out of there. I wonder in my
response to Dick last night, I think Jackson, you were
on the text as well. If Sam Darnold got hurt
because he was in the game too right when it
was thirty eight to whatever.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yes, but he only held he just handed off correct.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But let's say he gets stepped on by somebody, or
he turns around and somebody falls on his ankle and
he breaks his ankle. I mean, you can still get
hurt handing the ball off right, There's no question about that.
Maybe a limit the potential, but you can still get hurt.
Some freak injury happens, which that was kind of a
freak injury.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That wasn't a big, gigantic violent hit by.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
But he's still running with the fright.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But he just braced himself and he busted his elbow,
something he would do a million times. If Sam Donald
gets hurt last night, are we ripping McDonald for leaving.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Him in there?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yes, of course I think we are doing that, and
we should, But nobody was thinking that nobody was thinking
get Sam Donald out of the game.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
At least I wasn't. I mean, I kind of agree
with Hugh's take on this. Man.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I know it's easy to rip coaches for leaving guys in.
I just think it's just an absolute, unfortunate, horrific thing
for that.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I can just tell you what I felt.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
And I, you know, obviously the first half, I was
locked in every single play, halftime, I eat dinner. I'm
helping to clean up oh wit spaghetti.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
It was very good mom and Dad's. And so the
TV is still on.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I'm still watching, but I'm kind of, you know, doing
the dishes, cleaning stuff up, and I literally walked back
to the couch. I looked up and Jayden Daniels is
taking the snap and I look at my mom. Swear
to god, this happened five seconds before he got hurt.
I looked at my mom and I go, why is
he still in?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Right?
Speaker 6 (26:11):
That's it?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
And she goes, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
And literally five seconds later, he got hurt, and my
mom said, whoop, guess he shouldn't have been in.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Well, but here's the thing, And again, I think Hugh's
reaction was logical in that he's struggling. They want to
end on a good note. They want to get some
positive vibes going for him. He has been out, he
had not been playing a lot lately. He needs I mean,
I understand it, I really do. And we could make
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that call about any quarterback that was in the game
in the middle of a blowout, right And you heard
Dick's or Hugh's numbers on all these great quarterbacks that
have played during games when they're down by thirty one,
and none of them got hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
This is just football, And I think it sucks for him,
It sucks for d Q.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I probably would have yanked him out too, just like you,
to be totally honest with you.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But I get in a lot of ways why he
was still out there.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And maybe DQ's telling the truth that he was going
to come out the next drive and that was it,
and they want to have one more drive out of him,
see if they can get a spark. But I know
I know this that whether I like it, you like it,
they're killing him in DC whether getting barbecued.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Also, see, he's even though the injury wasn't the same
injury that he has, he's still coming off an injury right,
I think you would be even more protective of him.
You would even more want to get him out of
the football game if you're getting blasted, if he's coming
off an injury like he was.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I just I mean, I get that side of it.
I'm not saying you're crazy. I just this is to
me six one half dozen. I can see both sides
of this, Jackson, how about you? How much crap does
DQ deserve for.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
That one hundred thousand percent on Dick's side of this,
and then I think I would also be on the
side for criticizing McDonald. It's a four touchdown game and
no quarterbacks, starting starting quarterback should be in I would
also say that if a quarterback has.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
To end on a good note and all, we want
him to.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Feel good because we want to make sure he goes
into Tuesday feeling.
Speaker 11 (28:06):
Good about himself.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Man, Jayden, Damon, that's a real thing, sure thing.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
No, I am gonna mock that, because at the end
of the day, the dudes is a tough starting quarterback
in the NFL. He should have a tougher skin to
be able to go into the next game and know that, Yeah,
I had a terrible terrible day. We all had a
terrible day against the Seahawks. No, I mean, listen, okay, fine.
My take is is that the quarterback should have tough
enough skin to be able to go into the next
week and say, let's go get it.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
We were all bad and if you have to have
him in there.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
To have a salvaging moment, then I don't think the
Courton has tough enough skin.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
I think if you're to Jackson's point, I think if
you're a rookie, you're JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's different Jackson Dart, he's a second that's different for
the first. Second's second guy.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
But he's still a young quarterback.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
But he's been to the he's been to the NFC
Championship Game.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
He was the NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I mean like he's I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:01):
I mean, I should have the confidence regardless of whether
he had a good game.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I just I think there's a lot of stuff that
you guys are missing, and I'll i'll just say that,
I just think you're missing the human element of all
of this, and I think just dismissing that is I
don't agree with.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
That you think he's gonna he would have more confidence
going to next week if he had one good touchdown
drive at the end of a blowout.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I think that knowing dan Quinn, there was a reason
why he was in the game because he thought Jaden
Daniels needed that. Maybe some quarterbacks don't. Maybe he does.
And I don't think I mean Jackson. I just if
I'm taking this the wrong way, please tell me. I
think you're painting the picture of just some soft ass
mental basket that needs to stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I don't think that's the case at all.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that he is.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
I'm saying if dan Quid had the mentality of thinking,
I gotta make sure that he he gets that for
his then I don't know if Dan's right in thinking
that or not clear.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
He was wrong.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
Yes, So I'm not saying I'm not saying Jaden Daniels
is that player. It's more of an indictment of dan
Quinn perhaps thinking he's that player.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Would you feel differently, Dave, if it was Brian Dable,
if it was the Giants, and Brian Deeble's kind of
a dirt you know, and and and we don't know him.
Would you feel differently if it was a different coach
because it's Dan Klin.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Maybe if I didn't even think about taking him out.
I just think he's the starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He's playing.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I mean, like Hugh said, we've seen a zillion quarterbacks
stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And again, I didn't think about it with Darnold either.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, like like you said, what if he goes
to hand off and he steps on a guy's ankle
or he twists a knee, you'd be pissed right now,
of course really, And you know what, I didn't even
think about that. Didn't even think about that, that they
should get him out of the game. I think he's
our starting quarterback and he's playing the game. Never even
thought about it for either one of them. All right,
let's hear from Mike McDonald little bit from him up
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there and earn a Jones and Moore next on ninety
three to three KJR.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
This is Duke of Duke Seafood and this hour is
brought to you by Duke Seafood. Why don't you make
it at Duke's Night tonight. Reserve your table today at
dukeseafood dot com Now back to Softy and Dick on
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
All right, thanks Duke.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
We are back at Jimmy's on First across the street
from Loomenfield.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Man, these Minnesota fans they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
They have infiltrated Seattle like no fan base has done before.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I'm kidding, by the way, I haven't seen one Jackson.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Are we gonna win tonight?
Speaker 10 (31:37):
I said, I think it's about as close to a
coin club as you can.
Speaker 11 (31:41):
I'm gonna take Minnesota close, though.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So I talked to one owner of an establishment in
Seattle who said the Mariner is missing the World Series
cost him a million dollars in sales? Is what this
guy says? How much this I owns multiple establishments around town.
Probably can figure out what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Did he make though? By them making the ales?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You see you're always looking at the positive, Well, why
wouldn't we? Because it's a million dollars he lost, he
would have made a million more dollars. Maybe the guy's
like Terry Rozier and he's massively in debt. He's to
pay off a lead to the irs.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
I could see that, Like if you're like if you're
the you know, if you're the bar owner around like
Dodger Stadium or something, Yes, and like you literally budget
in October as a huge month of sales because they're
always there.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
And do I think we do that here?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Well, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
If Dixon comes home with a b uh and he
missed out on the last fifteen questions that were easy
for an a, would you say, well.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
You got to be You're fine. You'd be pissed at him.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Well, the same questions were easy, Yes.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Sure, but all they had to do was make the
World Series. They were eight outs away. I'm just saying,
I know it's not easy to make the World Series.
I'm just saying that there's a guy I know who
says you lost a million dollars and you know what,
after you brought up that point about the positives, I
totally lost.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
My train of thought. Well it's okay, I got enough.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
We were talking about this, we were talking about Minnesota,
and now there was no Minnesota fan.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I don't even know what.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
Let's see it from the head coach.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Oh wait a minute, I remember, No, I forgot again.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Mike McDonald, with the media today, was asked about Ernest
Jones and his situation.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Any update on Ernest Jones at all?
Speaker 11 (33:14):
No update.
Speaker 8 (33:15):
They're doing the medical right now, probably stick to the
same story as last night. Is not season ending, but
we're gonna be were we be working through is knee.
We'll have an update probably on Wednesday on what the
technicality is behind it.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
How did you feel like it worked out with with
Drake then it looked like he kind of spik over
those roles, and then when then with Tyree, I.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Thought Drake's communication was fantastic. We didn't skip a beat. Uh,
that's a tribute to him, you know, and staying prepared.
Now he has a green dot in practice as well,
so he has a lot of reps at it. But
he did a phenomenal job managing their tempo and the communication.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
And then you know him and him and.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
Tyree played both positions throughout the night and interchanged seamlessly, seamlessly.
I thought I was really pleased with those with those
guys with really teenite coming in and executing the defense,
and I thought Drake played a tremendous game.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
And in the back end obviously again Josh went out,
Reek stepped in. How did you feel like he did
there and then kind of the mix of with Devin
and Nick and kind of what you ended up doing
with those two guys as well.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
We've had some scenarios throughout the season.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
Where we've had a dB go down early in games,
and I felt like last night was the best job
that we did as a as a as a team,
as a defense, and as a coaching staff of making
the adjustments in real time and detouring, you know, from
where we originally things we wanted to do and got
the solutions quicker where the guys can execute, and the
guys did a great job. I mean, we moved some
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guys around. You know, there's some guys in some spots
that hadn't really practiced a lot of those plays and
gotten those looks throughout the week. So I thought, considering
that the execution was was really really good.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
So I think you can almost tell a little bit,
and you know, look, they may try and do something
and not be able to pull it off because it
takes two to party.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Here the deadline is one o'clock tomorrow right in the NFL.
If they trade for a linebacker, then that might be
a sign that something is actually wrong with Ernest Jones
between now and tomorrow if they don't and again doesn't
mean they didn't try, and they may not be able
to pull it off, but I think that is something
to keep an eye on the right guard situation. They
may feel like, hey, maybe we found some with Bradford
last night against Washington that now we feel comfortable moving forward.
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They've had a couple of linemen big o'lo last year.
Dick was one of them that kind of got better
as the year went on. So they may feel that
way about Anthony Bradford at right guard. But you know,
trade deadlines are really hard to pull off in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
They really are.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I mean, Baseball, you know, is a lot different because
you can trade prospects in baseball, right we're not talking
about it. We're talking about draft picks and we're talking
about current players on NFL rosters.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
What if you could do that in football?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Right for the LSU starting strong safety right now.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
He already got his rights, just be able to move
the guy right. But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I mean, I think, look, if Ernest Jones is gonna
get hurt, it may as well be.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Now I do get a little.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Bit concerned when the head coach comes out and says,
we'll wait and see.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
We don't think it's season ending, but we're gonna wait
and see. That is that scares me a little bit?
Speaker 7 (36:13):
It does, And hopefully it's a situation kind of like
what it is with Julian Love, where they've said, you
know what, let's just put him on ice for a
little bit because we want to make sure he is
totally healthy with the stretcherrun.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Maybe that's something they do with Ernest Jones. Maybe it's
something like.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Okay, it's a it's a month ish injury, but you
know what, we're gonna We're gonna play the long game
because we want to We think we can make the
super Bowl, and we want to make sure he's there
in December and January.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
No question he is.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
He is way more important in December and January than
he is right now. They can't go where they want
to go without that guy, right without Ernest Jones. I mean,
you could argue that the Seahawks defense took a turn
for the better because of him and his arrival. Going
back to last year and the Julian Love thing, to me,
is is kind of weird because he's been out for
a while, and he could have hit the ir or
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two or three weeks ago. Instead he did Now he
was gonna miss a month, if not more. All right,
we're gonna break. Jason Hamilton's getting ready for the debut
of Husky Basketball. We'll chat with him and Everett fits you,
two of the great play by play and color commentators
in our city. We'll be packed together in one segment
next on ninety three three KJR. All right, let's get
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to it over on nine to fifty am tonight. There's
a Husky fan right there. He's got a shirt at
the whole spiel. What are you doing here? The basketball
game's up there. You're in the wrong spot. Maybe you
thought they're playing basketball.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Taking the rail up?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Is that what he's doing? You're taking the light rail.
You're going up there tonight? All right? Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Jason Hamilton from the Husky broadcast crew is joining us
right now on the radio program. No better way to
celebrate the inaugural game of Danny Sprinkle's second year than
talking to the color man of the week from the
Big Ten. Our friend, Jason Hamilton, how are you man?
Speaker 6 (37:54):
I'm excellent? Did you just make that up, because if
you did, I'm.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Buying absolutely, Yes.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Yes, thank you, Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, I mean i'd vote for you. If there was
a vote for you, I definitely vote for you. I
don't know if Tony would vote for you, but I would.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Hey, let's talk about this team because there's a lot
of new faces, and I guess, look, there's excitement, no doubt,
you know. I saw Andy Katz put out like his
top twenty impact players, and Desmond Claude was on there,
one of the new incoming guys.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And the only.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Concern I've got, I guess, is that, man, you got
to get these guys to come together rather quickly.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
So what have you heard?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
What have you seen about the offseason that leads you
to believe that these guys have a chance of coming
together here pretty fast and being a good team.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
That's a great question. I mean, thirty new faces, some
guys that come with a pedigree, have played a lot
of college basketball for the most part on this roster,
and so you know, for me, Safia, I'm I'm as
excited probably coming into this season as I was in
Mike Hopkins' second year. I just feel like from a
talent standpoint, this is probably the best and deepest roster
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that we've seen in a couple of years, and so
it gives me some nice hope. And as you said,
you know, there's some national buzz around this team a
little bit, even though they've been selecting sort of middle
of the pack in the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
But it is very.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Difficult to kind of hit the ground running when you've
got thirteen faces. Hopefully you expect experience to kind of
lead the way. Guys sort of having a good feel
for college basketball, so hopefully that gets them to a
better place quicker. But yeah, with a lot of guys
trying to fill out their roles, it's gonna be an
interesting first month of the season.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
I'm fascinated to see how coach Sprinkle manages minutes and
egos because you've got an entire team that's made up
not only of starters from other teams, but stars from.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Other teams, players of the year.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Right, we're accustomed to getting a ton of shots, So
I mean, guess what, everybody's not gonna be able to
take seventeen shots a game.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah, no, that you're you're you're absolutely right. I mean,
you know that's the thing about the first game is
everybody's happy until minutes start getting dispersed. And you got
guys like Kimari Peterson who was the so Camp Player
of the year, had the ball in his hands an
awful lot, Desmond Quad who had the ball in his
hands an awful lot. And then you bring in some
(40:26):
new guys like Hanna Steinbeck, a six' Eleven german kid
who had an unbelievable exhibition game AGAINST, unlv who's got
to play a bunch of. Minutes and you throw in
the fact that you GOT Jj. Maniquett really they're they're
only true true point guard in my mind who's got
to be on the floor and played a great game
in that exhibition as. Well so a young player that
needs to be on the, Floor so minutes are going
(40:48):
to be really. INTERESTING i, think you, know coach is
sort of like, this having a deep roster because you
can play with, lineups you can you, know sort of
hold it over a player's.
Speaker 12 (40:58):
Head.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
Takee you're not playing, hard you're not playing. Well we've
got another guy that can come in behind. You but
that also can create some. Discord so keeping everybody energizing
and fresh and hopefully getting enough touches is going to be.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Critical, well whose team is?
Speaker 4 (41:10):
This?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
RIGHT i mean like back in the day day which
man back in the day is like twenty years.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Ago now you.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Knew who whose team it? Was Is Brandon roy's? Team
it Was Isaiah thomas's? Team whatever is? This Desmond claude's
team is At Zoom diallo's team is At Wesley yates'.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Team whose team is?
Speaker 6 (41:25):
This? YEAH i think from an experience, standpoint you probably
look to A Desmond, claude, okay just because of the
fact that you know he's played a ton of, games
you know has that. Experience but really there is no
true defined leader this is their team from day one
(41:49):
that that's gonna. Come BUT i would say the default
is probably you, Know Desmond. Claude but for, me for
me and you guys know this about, ME i believe
that the point guard is the. QUARTERBACK i believe the
point guard leads the. Team and So i'm not sure
That Desmond clonde is a true Point he's a big
guard that has played in a. COMBO i foresee this
(42:11):
team actually BECOMING Jj maniquett. Team but that's a far
cry from where we are on day. One so let
me just say. That BUT i think over, TIME i
think he will be the guy with the ball in his,
hands Helping Danny springkle get players in the right, spot
getting the guys the right shots in the right. TOUCHES
i think, EVENTUALLY i know it's. Crazy as a, FRESHMAN
(42:31):
i see it Going JJ's.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Way got it, Well, Jason we've had conversations over the
years about the point guard. Position that's exactly WHAT i
want from my point, guard and that hasn't been the
case really At.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
Washington there's been a lot.
Speaker 7 (42:43):
Of ball, dominant shot dominant point guards For. Washington when
is the last time you dub actually had a pass
first court general at the top of the.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
Key, Boy you're gonna make me age. Myself i'm gonna
go back a long.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Time it Might.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Hamilton we, know we know you're old. Already there's no
no point in finding it all.
Speaker 6 (43:07):
RIGHT i, KNOW i know you're older than me, Though
but here's the. Thing the thing about that, is you,
know that's just the evolution of the way that that
basketball is now is you know you have a more
combo scoring type. Guard and So i'm Not i'm not
upset about. THAT i JUST i THINK Jj manicut's the
type of player that can do a little bit of.
(43:28):
Both he can find his own, shot not down the open.
Jumper but he's just more of a guy that's looking
to get everybody. Involved because a guy like you, Know
June diallo or a guy like Uh Desmond quad or
or any name anybody else on the roster that is
more of a ball Dominant Wesley yank a ball dominant.
Guard you just cannot have that and not have the
(43:51):
motion and the movement in the, offense because that's that
stagnates the. Offense you have to have the ball, flow
especially with guys on this team that you know different
guys can score. It so that's WHY i go back
to J. J. I i just think he's a critical
part of the.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Team, well a lot of teams have a point, guard
a good point, GUARD a lot of teams have a
really good big. Man not a lot of teams have.
Both and IF Jj manniquid is what we think he,
is If Frank kepnong can stay healthy the entire, year
wow what a combination that would. Be AND i, Remember,
dick you were there doing the show from The purdue
(44:27):
game and we Had danny on the Air.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Jason and he kind of Ripped Frank kepnong a little.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Bit he came on the air and, said he's got
to start sucking it up and decide if he wants
to play this. Game he's got to get his ass
back on the. Court And i'm, wondering what have you
seen from? Him what have you heard About Frank kepnong's
desire that makes you think that he's ready to give
this team twenty five thirty games this.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Year, YEAH i Think frank's deal and Maybe danny just
hasn't said it this. EXPLICITLY i think it's more mental than,
physical you. KNOW i think he's been hurt so often
that sometimes it's in the back of his mind about being,
hurt which is crazy because you watch the way he.
Plays he actually plays. Recklessly he dives into the, stands
he's flying. Around SO i know for the people that
(45:13):
are hearing me say, that they, say, well, gosh if
he was a little, nervous you'd think he'd have a
little bit of a mute, button and he. DOESN'T i
just think that he's gotten in his head a little
bit about getting injured so he can release. That that's
a tough thing from a sports psychologist type of. Standpoint
but if he can release that and just play freely
(45:33):
and expect to play a full, season he's going to
help this team. Tremendously he's one of the few true
rim protector shot, blockers you, know not necessarily a high
volume score or anything like, that but a guy that
is an emotional. Leader we talk about leaders of the.
Team he's an emotional leader of this team and always
hasn't been since he's been on my.
Speaker 7 (45:52):
Leg, well we thought there was going to be depth
of the big but there really isn't now with A
nasovic And treori.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
OUT i, mean how big a concern is the front line?
Speaker 6 (46:02):
Depth, YEAH i mean that's Where Hannas steinbach comes in.
HUGE i, mean as you don't want to put too
much pressure on him as a freshman to be the
guy on the block and really leading the Way christian
needs to From Florida state is back in healthy or,
healthier but you, know obviously a more wiry guy Where
(46:23):
steinback is six, eleven two. Fifty so, yeah definitely it
was thought of it's going to be a position of
strength at least at the front, court and now with
a couple of, injuries it's going to be, Different Laysan.
Somerville another guy THAT i didn't. Mention the transfer From
rutgers gives you a little bit of depth, There. Dick
but the one guy that you, Mentioned Jacob, adosovic to,
(46:44):
me he's a very pivotal player on this roster that
we won't seek for a couple of. Months the transfer
From lipscombe also another player of the year in The Atlantic,
sun partly because he's six' eight and can play inside
out and so he's tough on, the block but also
one of the better. POINT shooters i think three point
shooting for this team is gonna. BE critical, i mean
that's just the way of. College basketball they Don't have
(47:05):
if there's one criticism of, the roster they don't have
A TRADE. SIMMONS. C J will cox, just knockdown knockdown three.
Point shooter they've got guys that have shot it well
on a. Percentage basis you're hoping they can they can keep,
that up but they're not. True shooters they're they're guys
that can shoot as long as the streak is going,
(47:26):
for him but they're not. Knockdown shooters jacob is a
GUY that i think when, he's healthy becomes one of
the better three point shooters on, this roster can play inside.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Out Well jason hamilton's with us about to kick Off
the husky basketball season nine TO fifty am at eight
o'clock pregame at seven Thirty The Jetfish's Coach jetfish coaches
show by the way happening now as well OVER. On
Am so tony's gonna have to get in the car
at seven o'clock and find this butt to heck ed by.
Seven thirty So if jason goes on the air at
(47:56):
seven Thirty and tony's, not there you know Why because
tony got stuck. In traffic so something to keep an.
Eye On, but jason but just one more from me before.
You go i'm looking on the non. Conference schedule you
know some, decent matchups, You, Know, baylor Nevada, obviously utah
you know down, the road but certainly a manageable non.
CONFERENCE schedule i think, for You, dub and because they're
(48:18):
so new and they have so many, new guys how
much of a break should they be getting if things
aren't clicking right Away in November?
Speaker 3 (48:25):
And december in, YOUR mind.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
I don't know about. A break, i mean you want
you want to see players play the, right way play,
with passion, you know. PLAY hard i think if fans
are seeing that and maybe they come up against the
team that has their number on, that night you know
that that. CAN happen i think what what can't happen
is just laying down. A stinker that's not what you want.
(48:52):
To see even with guys that haven't played with each other,
a lot you still want to see. THE effort i
do think the schedule is. Fairly favorable as, you mentioned
the Game at baylor will be will. Be interesting they
do Play At washington state early. As well but, you
know you want to be ready when you get Into
This big ten season because, you know as history showed,
last year it's it's a battle weekend and. Week out
(49:15):
it's physical In The. Big Ten so washington's gonna need
to use that non conference schedule to, get prepared, get
experienced get guys gelling and, understanding roles and then really
rolling into, you Know Late December january february with a
great mindset to go out there. And, compete, well.
Speaker 7 (49:32):
Finally, For, me jam what, ABOUT tonight, i mean what
do we know About This arkansas pine, bluff team because
a lot of times there's teams that come into here
to heck ed and four months from now they end
up going TO the ncaa tournament because they win one
of these. Small conferences is that this type of team
or should this be fodder For the?
Speaker 5 (49:47):
Huskies?
Speaker 6 (49:47):
Tonight, well yeah, on paper it should. BE fought, i mean,
you know they're In The Southwestern, athletic conference finish near,
dead last dead last in that league, last year had
a lot of turnover on, their roster like. Everyone does ten,
you guys they were six and twenty five. Last year
they really struggled shooting. The ball they were the worst
free throw shooting team in the country last year at
(50:09):
uh just under sixty percent from the free. Throw line but,
you know with new guys on, the roster you just,
Never know dick and you just never know what their
transfer situation, looks like how well those guys are going to.
Play together, you know early they've got a couple of
guys with, you Know Good division one experience like. Most
TEAMS but i, would say, on paper this shouldn't be
(50:31):
a Game that washington should or could lose if they're
playing the, right way just based on, you know the
Turnover At Arkansas. Pine bluff so it's a good startup
game For the huskies to begin the year and hopefully
they go out there and prove it for.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
Forty minute well you you do things the right way, every.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Game babe it's just a beacon of hope for all
young broadcasters.
Speaker 4 (50:53):
Out There.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
And big ten commentator of, the week.
Speaker 6 (50:58):
That's right the newly appointed And Anointed big king come
there of the week that. Doesn't exist but thanks.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
You guys you're the winner in.
Speaker 8 (51:06):
My.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Book baby, all, right hey have fun this year and
let's let's. Talk, sooner right.
Speaker 6 (51:11):
Sounds good, appreciate. It guys thanks
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