May 1, 2026 • 48 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler is at the UW Spring Game at Husky Stadium and visits with Offensive Line Coach Michael Switzer as well as Defensive Coordinator Ryan Walters, who talk about how both units can compete with their Big Ten competition plus the young and new players starting for their groups, then reacts to Fun with Audio clips.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Coach Switzer with us on the radio show and Jackson,
what do we always say about this first segment?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
What's our line?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Well, if you're gonna be a guest in the first segment,
you better be a big guess.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, you better be a big damn name, because you
got to remember, Coach, I've been sitting here preparing for
the last maybe four or five minutes for this radio
program with an incredible monologue that everybody comes to expect
out of me at three o'clock every day.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So if you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Jump on with us and interrupt the first segment of
this radio show, you better bring it, baby.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You go right, let's go, Mike Switzer.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Offensive line coach at UDB is with us on the program.
And actually the first time that you and I have
had a chance to talk. And I think it's actually
kind of funny that this is the first chance that
you and I have to talk, because the offensive line
looks to be in about as good as shape as
it's been in three years. And now you finally decide
now to come on the year and talk with us.
So you've been now here with Coach Fish for a while.
(00:51):
Tell me about the transition. Tell me about the transition
going back to when Kaylin took off and the job
that you guys had to do and everybody leave to
the offensive line. You're talking to as a party earlier
for a conversation we're going to run today and he's
talking about in the Weber State game, playing multiple positions
on the same drive in that game. So give us
(01:15):
a take man on just where this group has come
from twenty twenty four to where they are right now.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, leaving Arizona the last spot. It was a lot
of action and it was late in the process. So
as you get here and you know, start preparing yourself
in terms of what the team's going to look like.
After the amazing year that they had with coach Debor,
which was fantastic for the program, and there was a
lot of turnover. There was a lot of guys who
had left the roster and very unique to navigate that
(01:45):
in the spring ball I want to say there was
points in spring ball in twenty twenty four where we
had seven offensive linemen of practicing right, so very challenging
in terms of, you know, how do you have real practices?
How do you get better? In terms of truly playing
football team periods all that stuff. Uh, it was. It
was quite a deal. Uh. But the guys that were
(02:07):
here were awesome, and we appreciated all the work that
they put in. And then you got into who are
we taking in the portal? Who are we adding to
this roster? And it was uh, it was coming from
a lot of different places, uh FCS level guys who
hadn't had a lot of experience junior college level. Uh,
So we were all over with it. And uh and
I'll say this that, you know, the guys with uh
(02:30):
kind of what we had, Uh, you know, they did
a solid job. You know, it was it was there
were some tough points in that season, but uh but
those guys worked and you know, played some good football
throughout the throughout the year, a couple of big wins,
you know, some some cool experiences here in Husky Stadium.
But uh, but that was quite a time. And then
obviously as you transitioned from first year to second year, Uh,
(02:53):
you've got these guys, uh coming in at midyear, who
who who made a big impact on the program. A
guy like John Mills, You've got a guy like Carver
Willis who comes in at midyear as a transfer and
cemented himself as a really goot, really solid player for
US UH and great leader as well. And then you
have all of season and all that goes, and you know,
(03:16):
I liked what the offensive line did last year, especially
with the amount of injuries we had. Right, you know,
you lose three starters at three different positions at different
point points in the season. Really it's four I'm sorry.
At one point it was Carver, at one point, it
was John at one point. For the rest of the
season it was Landing and then Drew missed two games.
So you're really moving a lot of guys around, and
(03:37):
it's a credit to those guys being able to step
up and the depth of the room, the guys being
able to step in and still have some success up front.
So it's been a it's been a wild ride, but
one that I've absolutely loved and UH and and I
love working here. I love working for coach Fish, I
love coaching UH, the guys in the room.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You really do.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, Michael Switzer with US offensive line coach, with us
on the radio show from you dub We got the
spring game broadcast with Tony and Campbell start around six
and I mean, there's just so much there to unpack,
man because of where you guys are at right now.
And I want to start with a guy at left tackle,
because we've seen freshman play here. We've seen freshmen start here.
(04:16):
Nick Harris was a starting center as a freshman against
Alabama in twenty sixteen, but that's not left tackle. Roger
Rosengarten was out there, is a red shirt freshman at
right tackle, but he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
A pure freshman.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Parker Brilsford was out there at center, but that's not
left tackle. I don't ever remember an eighteen year old
kid projected to start at left tackle from the jump.
And I wonder how much of this is driven by
nil and how much of this is driven by Hey,
this kid is really the best left tackle we've got
on the roster.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, I'd say it's that we've still got some competition
with guys coming back, like a young man named Colt Dietrich.
But Cody, Cody's very unique. He is He's driven in
a way that you don't traditionally see in a young
man who's eighteen years old. You know, he puts something
out on spring break before springball started. He's going to
(05:12):
Cleveland to train with the Charles Bentley instead of going
on vacation. This guy is wired in a very unique way.
I'd say kind of similarly to how John Mills it
was kind of wired last year. They're very serious about
what they're doing. They're very serious about becoming a great
football player. They're very serious about how they put them
(05:33):
in themselves in position to be able to do this,
because you don't just walk in and you're the starting
left tackle. Cody worked really, really hard the first day
he was in on campus, meeting with myself and Coach
Brewster and learning the offense and having an understanding of
how we communicate, how we talk football, what's the defensive
identification before we even talk about a play. He took
(05:54):
that very seriously in his mindset. Has put him in
a position to play left to Obviously he's the athletic
aspect of it, the physical aspect of it is quite
impressive for a guy who should still be in high
school right now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
He should be in high school graduating this spring. That's right, right, Ye,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So what he's been able to do this spring at
left tackle, Yeah, it's very impressive, and I think that
he's going to continue to build off that all of
summer in a great fall camp, and we'll see what
that looks like.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, Mike, you mentioned again, Mike Switzer, ub offensive line
coach with us on the air. You mentioned the smarts
right about the playbook and the lingo and all that,
and then you mentioned the physicality. What are his best
traits physically at the age of eighteen years old. What
kind of jumps off the page to you?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
His natural athleticism and ability to run the offense that
we run here a lot of wide zone truly running
off the ball. This is not you know, pick it up,
put it down like we're trying to run off the ball,
run through your face. What he's able to do on
the backside, a backside cut up, offer a backside climb
to a backside linebacker. I still tell the story. We're
doing OTA's player run practices and winter conditioning, and uh,
(07:09):
it was his first time even doing it, my first
time ever taking him through a backside cutoff. He does it,
and some of the older guys are on the field
and look around like, did you guys just see that?
So he's he's got some of those natural uh, just
athletic ability, but his ability to run and uh, you know,
his feet are are really really impressive. He's got really
(07:31):
elite redirection with his feet, and especially at the left
tackle position when you're setting you know, wide nines, whatever
it might be. His ability to redirect versus an inside move,
ability to anchor, he's got some some really unique tools
well across.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, coach, you mentioned John Mills and just again another
freshman starting at left guard. It's it's amazing how many
freshmen now all of a sudden we're seeing start in
this game right and there's reasons obviously for that, but
this kid again deserved it, earned it was.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Phenomenal last year.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm almost dreading for other opposing defensive fronts how he's
going to be better in twenty twenty six versus the
guy that we saw.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
A year ago.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Because if you came to Ahscy football game and said, hey,
that guy starting at left guard, what class you think
he's in?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
He's a junior. No, he's a freshman.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
How is he even better now?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The jump that he's made is all the details within
his game. He was, like we talked about with Cody,
the mental aspect of it. He attacked at an amazing level,
very smart football player for such a young guy. His
best attributes are probably his physicality, his size, his natural strength,
his aggressiveness and all those things. So that was nice
(08:41):
to be able to put a guy like that inside,
have guys around him like Carver Landing and the rest
of the guys and just let him go to work.
Where he stepped up is the very fine tuning of
details within his technique and within his fundamentals. You know,
how am I carrying my hands? How are we working
on you know, my sets? And uh, not just playing
(09:01):
and playing get big and and and stopping guys. There's
a real technique, uh to everything that we do. And
he's taken the next step with that. Uh and the
spring ball is separate himself in that way as well
as his leadership.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He was a natural leader last year as a true
freshman just by the energy that he brought. Yeah, but
I think he's stepped up in an awesome way for
this whole team to be a true voice even as
a true sophomore. You know it, Class doesn't determine if
you can be a leader or not. If you are,
you are and John Mills is.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That Yeah, Well, Michael Sweitzer again, you doub offensive line
coach with us on the air, and the Hatchet Brothers
are not going to be participating tonight, still nursing a
little injuries that they'll be good to go right by
by fall camp.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Tell me about the the idea of coaching two guys,
two brothers, one guys in year seven already in college football,
the guys in year four and in Lando.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Uh, what's it been like for you to to coach
the Hatchet Men?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's been Awesomebviously knowing Landon first he was here, Garant
had left to go to Oklahoma and he had his
experience there. After the season, you know, there was talk
of hey, you know, my brother might be interested in
coming back, and and we were looking for quality, quality players,
and we we talked and welcomed with open arms and
(10:21):
the experience that he's had in college football. Uh, we're
for sure, I would say needed in that room at
the time. So he was a great ad uh to
the room. Uh, with just leadership and also his experiences
as a player. He played the most snaps on the
offensive line last year for US right guard. With all
those injuries that we talked about, so he came in
(10:42):
and proved his worth. There's no doubt about it. Tough
deal for him, obviously, injury early on in spring ball.
But you want to talk about a guy with a
mindset and mentality that is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
He comes in every day. Uh, he's coached G. He'll
have his shirt tucked in tonight. He's coach G. The
guys in the room. I like to give him, give
him crud, but he takes it very seriously. He's out
there coaching the guys. He's out there, he's in the
meetings giving coaching points. He'll stand back with me during
teen periods and we'll talk about things. So while he
(11:16):
might not be practicing, he's getting all that he needs
in terms of the mental reps and all that. But
you want to talk about another great leader, We've got
a lot in our room. Garn has been fantastic throughout
this whole process. So it's pretty cool to see how
he's still attacked this spring while getting it cut short
due to injury.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, I know that you and other coaches kind of
bristle at the idea this time of the year that
anything is set right. I mean, there's still competition I
get it. I mean, I don't know, man, Sometimes it
kind of feels like a cliche on our perspective about
this always compete stuff. And I can guarantee you there
were times with like the Seahawks back in twenty thirteen,
twenty twelve, where we kind of knew who the secondary
(11:58):
was going to be sure from here to here, right
when you have guys like that, and I kind of
coach and Michael Switzer with us you do offensive line coach.
I just feel like it's great that we feel like
we have five guys and then there's depth obviously, but
with Cody and John and Landon and Gearon and Drew,
that's your five guys and that is the that is
(12:19):
the DNA of what should be the best offensive line
since that Joe Moore Award winning one in twenty three.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
If I said that to you, what would your response be?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
To me?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I'd probably agree. And I think that there's guys
in that room that are also going to provide, like
you said, more depth. The five guys you mentioned on
top of Champ and what he's done all spring and
what he did towards the end of.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Last season, tell fans about him by the way Champ.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I mean, he's he played in four games last year
and that was before five for five and all these
things coming out. You know, do you waste a red shirt?
Some guys have been through it where they they can't
play end of the year because they burn their red
shirt on field goal unit or something like that. So ridiculous. Yeah,
I didn't want to do that to Champ. But he
played towards the end of the season and did some
(13:02):
really good things. And I've always thought very highly of
Champ and his development was just a tad slower in
terms of being able to play last year for US,
and that's totally okay. What he's done since the season
was over is really attack his weight his weight room,
all those things, and then on the football field, he's
(13:23):
been very consistent. He's been one of the most consistent
guys throughout spring for US up front. So he really
excites me in the ability that he brings, the power
that he brings. He's a big dude now, but he's
had a really, really, really good spring and he's used
this opportunity with Garon out to get all those reps
and like you talk about competition Israel in this program,
(13:44):
it is, and it'll start back up in fall camp
and Garan and Champ and we talk about Cody, we
talk about Cold, we talk about Swane. But uh, it
was good to see a solid group work pretty consistently
with the ones and get some guys mixed in here
and there. Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, like you said, when you first showed up or
you had seven guys that's right. How many guys do
you have now?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Seventeen? Yeah, so we plused up ten.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I mean, it's just you'll never go through that as
long as your coach. I'm order a ridiculous situation. I
think you said it was unique. It's absurd, is what
it was.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't know that that's ever been a number for
any offensive line coach that I've ever come into contact with. Yeah,
you have never heard that love of number.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yes, But then as well, before you go, you and
I were talking off the year Michael Switzer again, you
offensive line coach with us in the first segment of
the program. I might add before tonight's spring game, starting
around six o'clock, we'll killy the game for you with
Camp Tony. At least obviously here on KJR, you mentioned
off the year that you grew up in Indiana, right,
so you know Big ten Midwest football, and there was
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a transition that this program had to go through to
get the right guys to survive run the ball in
that league. What kind of player are you looking for
in this conference versus the kind of player that you
were looking for maybe at Arizon.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, it's the it's the size difference. And Coach Fish
really hit home with that. Like last year in our
recruiting class, the kind of guys that we brought in,
whether it be John Mills Champ or Jack Schaeffer Cody
this year, Dom Harris, you're looking for size, you're looking
for physicality. Uh, but you still got to have guys
who can run. I talked about it earlier in the
(15:22):
segment in terms of what we do up front. We
run off the ball. It's wide zone and we got
to be able to be some big athletes as well.
But the physicality aspect is very real in this conference,
growing up, watching it now coaching in it, it's it's clear,
uh and and across all football. I believe this. You
went up front, you know Coach Fish talks about that
as well. Totally. What are you able to do up front.
(15:44):
The team goes as we go and we talk about
that a lot in the old line room, which is awesome.
That's a lot of pressure. But you want that pressure,
you should embrace that. Hell yeah, and I believe that
our guys are but but yeah, we're looking for big, big,
big guys, strong guys. H We'll still have guys that
are able to come in and run the system. Maybe
a little bit shorter, but these guys can really run,
(16:05):
get to the second level, play with great hip, mobility,
all these things. But yeah, looking for good football players.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Well, I love that. The pressure thing. I'll tell you
right now, We'll just throw it out there. If you
guys win, we're gonna give you credit. If you lose,
it will be your fault.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
How's that That's what.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
To do for the on line coach.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I mean, dude, it's like it's not sexy.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But twenty twenty three best offensive line in college football.
Seahawks won their first championship in twenty thirteen. They had
the league's highest paid offensive line. I mean, it's just
this isn't a coincidence. Teams win when they dominate the
line of scrimmage. But hey, Mike before you go, just
real quick, Carver Willis went to the Niners and they're
talking about him playing inside.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah down there. Yeah, that surprised me.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A little bit. I'm not as surprised. He's unique in
terms of his ability. He played early in his career
inside a little bit. He's been able to snap the ball.
He's been training snapping the ball at the NFL level Traditionally,
those tackles truly do have more length. Yeah, overall and
with arm length, he could do it. There's no doubt
(17:04):
in my mind. But I think that he's going to
find a real nice fit inside a garter even center,
and he's really been working hard at that. And there's
so much carryover of you know, what coach Firster in
San Francisco do up front the offensive line. You know,
I've really I've learned a lot from Coach Firster over
the years through his relationship with Coach Fish. So pretty
cool to see one of my guys get drafted by
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one of Coach Fish's great friends.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And that's a pretty cool experience. Well, we're not really
Niner fans, I've heard though, that's right, that's right. So yeah,
hopefully when he comes into play. We'll be up by
thirty five points in the fourth quarter and the game
will be over. But whatever, Hey, this was fun. Let's
do it again, right, sir, Appreciate it Man. Michael Switzer
U DUB offensive line coach joining us on the radio show.
We are live at U DUB for the annual spring
game coming up tonight. We'll get a break a lot
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more to come from you Dub. Randy Johnson getting fifty
one retired on Saturday. We're gonna hear about seven or
eight minutes with Randy in the four o'clock hour. Humellon
joins and recaps the whole draft class. At five, the
Hatchet Brothers Garret Landon will join us, Drew has a
Party will join us, Cody Green will join us. Derek
Coleman Brusa, who Ryan Walter is referred to as a monster,
(18:08):
will join us. On the radio show. We're Talking Dogs Man.
A big part of our show today will be all
about tonight's game with U DUB in the spring game
coming up at six Right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
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Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, boys and girls, back here at dub on
a Friday afternoon. Right here on ninety three three KJRFM,
Dogs after Dark. Spring game coming up tonight. Pregame with
Tony and Cam starts. I'd say around six kickoff around
six thirty. But with these spring games, you never know
what they're doing. I mean it could be plus or
minus a half an hour, right, mean, here we go.
This guy's a former head coach. He knows what I'm
(18:49):
talking about. Ryan Walter's defensive coordinator at U dub is
with us on the air. We just said coach Switzer
on the show, by the way, talking about the offensive line.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
He was on the year for twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Minutes and he is exactly what I envision an offensive
line coach.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Switch is the best man, He's the best.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Tell me about seeing the progression from that side of
the ball. Now, you weren't here in twenty four, right,
but you know what they were going through, and then
you know what you had a year ago and what
you're seeing now in practice. Tell me about the development
of that group from your perspective.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing that you see is
just the depth that's been added. You know, I think
you know, when I was here a year ago, there's
a big difference between that first and second group, And
now like when the twos or even the threes are
out there, they look like a big ten offensive line.
Switch has done a great job of just getting everybody
in the same page. You know, rarely do you see
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guys have communication, bus or or protection issues because of
IDA and the wrong things. And so just a testament
to him and yeah, and really the personnel department, I'm
putting together a quality, quality unit.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well, we had a chance to meet DCB and Cody
Green earlier today, and I'm wondering how many battles we'll
see tonight between those two guys. I asked Derek if
he had pancake Cody yet Cody if he'd pancake Derek,
and neither one just conveniently forgot if that's ever happened.
But tell me about those two guys specifically as eighteen
(20:16):
year old freshmen.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They don't sound like freshmen.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Don't look like fresh Yeah, and they don't act like freshmen.
I think that's the biggest you know, obviously from a
physique standpoint, they stick out just you know, obviously Cody
is Cody and DCB. You know, he's like six five
to ninety five, just turned eighteen this week, right, And
but I think it's the way they carry themselves is
(20:42):
very mature, you know. It's they act like professionals. They
always get extra work.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You know.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I was talking to Jay rich Our, our Corners Card
Dv's coach today, and you know he he coaches Cody's brother, Kayden,
was also on our team, and he was like, man, know,
Cody goes to bed at nine pm every night. And
I'm like, well, he's a he's a pro. He gets it,
you know what I mean. And I think that's the
the what's the separator between you know, guys like Cody
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and guys like DCB, just with the rest of the
eighteen year olds out there, is just the way they
approach their day to day.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, what is it with all the brothers on this team?
The Coleman Bruce has Shit's the Greens? Is there a
fourth set of brothers that I'm not aware of.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
On this this team?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Well, you know, we've got a couple of brothers committed
for next year's class. I'll talk about him obviously. Yeah, sure, sure,
but yeah, it is kind of a trend, you know.
I think it's a testament to the city of Seattle
and the community out here. People want to be a
part of it, and it is a family atmosphere up here,
and it just attracts family.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, Ryan Walter's defensive coordinator with us on the radio show,
and let's get into d c B for a second,
because you mentioned the height and weight six five. I
was actually shocked at what he looked like when he
stood next to him. He doesn't look like two ninety five.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
No, he cares it well. I think he's are the
lowest body fat of the defensive line, right.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But he did say to me that he's going to
be playing a lot inside. Yeah, And I brought that
up to you off the ear and you said, what
to me about it?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, he got too big.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
He got too big. You can't play edge rusher at
two ninety five.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I mean there will be times, I think, especially as
we start. You know in spring you're trying to get
better at technique of fundamentals and some of your bass calls,
and really the point of emphasis for us this spring
was like your early down pressure package, you know, the
different coverage variations. But as we get in the season,
we start game planning for third downs and some situational stuff,
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there might be times where we put him out there.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well, let me ask you, this, is this what you
envisioned for him? Honestly when you were recruiting him, did
you envision an edge rusher in college or did you
see a guy getting too big to play that position
and having yees.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
So when I first got here, you know, you're looking
at his his junior tape, and you know, I think
he was playing around fifty to sixty and and he
he jumps off the screen. You know, just the way
he his motor off the edge, just get off. You know,
saw him in camp that summer and you know, same thing,
just to get off was was unreal. And then as
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you kind of go through the I remember our first
end home visit and great family by the way, like
his family is awesome, and you know, we sit down
for this big meal and and DCB He's got like
the biggest plate I've ever seen, and I'm like, you know, okay,
he said he's gonna get big. Well, he finishes that
plate and then gets another plate with the same the
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same size, and So I remember calling Fish on the
way on the way back from the in home just
to give him a kind of recap, and I'm like this,
this kid's going to be three hundred pounds before.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
You know it.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
You wouldn't believe the amount of food he just consumed
at dinner. So wasn't wasn't shocked just because of the
way he is, the frame he has. But I think
he'll be special inside with with his he already has
that twitch, the skill set, and right now he's got
the size to back that up.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The voice of God by the way above us.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So just just disregard that Ryan Walters, you defensive coordinator
with us here on the radio show. And you know,
I mean, look, he's obviously a guy that people are
fired up to watch play, right, Yeah, what what should
the expectations be for DCB and year number one? He
is a starter caliber player, But he's also an eighteen
year already just turned eighteen. Sometimes fans, even people like me,
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put stupid expectations the kids, what are yours?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Mine? Mine?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Are just for him to improve every day, And that's
you know, I don't I don't want to, like you said,
put any added pressure, added weight on his shoulders, and
every individual is different, so I don't want to I
don't want to put a cap on his growth, and
I don't want to put a ceiling on on what
his expectations are as well. I just think you let
him develop the way he's going to develop, and and
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the type of guy he is, he'll maximize the time.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
So sky's the limit.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, well, Ryan Walters, you have defensive coordinator with us
on the show. And I think another question that people
have is who's going to replace Ta Carion Ephesians right
to you guys that are now in the NFL. We
talked about that a little bit at the start of
spring ball. Tell me what you've seen now throughout spring
ball that gives you an idea of how that's gonna look.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Yeah, I'm really excited about our our secondary room. You know,
specifically at corner you look at a guy like Dylan Robinson,
who who had starts last season. You know, he lined
up his first starts against jarreymih Smith playing as ohiose
state that's right, So I kind of tell you what
type of mind frame he has and and the kind
of competitive nature that he's built with. And then we
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brought in Emmanuel Carny from Virginia who had prior relationships
with this staff from his Arizona days, and he has
as advertised, you know, it's a guy that has played
on a ACC team that had eleven wins and he
started all those games, and and he's got a ton
of experience in that experienced shows he understands splits and
route trees and is sticky and coverage. And then you
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know the young guy that stood out as Jaron Jones.
You know, he's been able to play inside, play outside,
and and he does another one that does not look
like an eighteen year old and he can cover plays
man coverage very well.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Uh So we got a good group. Man.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
I'm I'm excited about those guys and I think I
think we'll be primed to have a good secondary.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
When we talked earlier as well in spring ball about
the linebackers, when we talked about Jet Fish and I
asked him, I said, what's the what's the best part
of this football team? And he said the linebackers with
Buddha and Menu and those guys. So the progress they've
made in the last month, that entire group, and for
the fans that expect that group to be amongst the
best in the Big ten.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
What do you say to them?
Speaker 8 (26:39):
I would say that's my expectation as well. You know,
we got really like four guys that could start pretty
much anywhere. You know Manu, you know he played in
the Four Games a year ago, but that was also
coming off of an acl and and anybody will tell
you like, when you're cleared, you're clear, but it's still
it takes about a year to get back to feeling
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like you did prior to the injury. And you know,
seeing him this spring, you just see the explosiveness, the
speed that maybe he didn't showcase last year. And then
you know, uh Zadrius, another young guy who got some starts,
much more comfortable in this in the system. Now his
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voice in the locker room is more prominent. And then
x Ray, you know, he's if you say, what do
you want your linebackers to look like? You know, he's
he's he's the model. Just then again another guy that's
another year in the system, comfortable and his personality is
this is showing throughout the locker room as well. And
Ye Buddha has been attacking rehab. He's paying attention to
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his nutrition and he you know, he looks good. He's
right on track, and so I'm excited about that group.
We'll have a lot of depth. We'll have to get
creative with how to keep guys on the shield. You know,
you can only play with a couple of them at
a time, but I think that healthy rotation will have
guys fresh. And if you look at last year, we
needed everybody. So I'm glad we got those guys.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I love that. By the way, if that voice sounds familiar,
it's yours.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
This is us.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, I could tell.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, there's two places in this stadium you can hear
my show, and it's here in.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
The bathroom by the way. Okay, so we're gonna we're
gonna work on getting that Jackson. Is that annoying? By
the way, not too much? Now, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
There's your voice, by the way. On the thing, Well,
what do you want this defense to do better? Because
I think I think all of us were pretty pleased.
I know you're never totally content, yeah, but we were
pretty pleased with what happened to you or ago defensively,
so great job out of you.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
But you're not going to stop working, no, absolutely, How
was it better, you know. You know, I was talking
to the defense at the start of spring and I
was like, you know, we were pretty good last year
on defense, but I felt like we were always in
sort of protective mode. You know, we were trying to
protect the end zone, you know, whole teams to field goals,
you know, not give up explosive plays. But but this year,
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like if we want to take the next step, we
got to be on the hunt.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
We got to be the predators.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
We can't can't play, you know, can't go key, we
gotta we gotta be on the attack. And that sets Yeah, did,
And so that's that's I think the next step for
us is to be on the attack, especially early in series.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Well, we started off by asking you for your thoughts
on the offensive line and what you see from your
perspective on defense.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
What do you see?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And now number one used to be number two, now
number one in the mind man.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
You know, you look at last year was his first
year as a full time starter in college, right, and
and he played played his tail off, but you see,
you see the jump that you would normally see from
a guy that was a sophomore starter going into his
junior season. Just the command of the offense, you know,
being able to get them in and out of plays.
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His accuracy jumped off the charts, you know, he always
finds his answers when we try to give him different
coverage variations or pressure packages. And believe it or not,
man like, he's more explosive than he was a year ago.
He's fashion than he was a year ago. So I'm
you know, in the spring, we can't touch him, and
so a lot of times that whistle gets gets blown early.
(30:05):
But there's a lot of times where I'm like, I
don't know if would have got him, you know what
I mean. And so I'm glad we don't have to
play them on game days because he's he is lights
out in in seven on seven. He's lights out and
team and I think his best attribute is is when
it's when it's time to go play football, he plays football.
And so I'm looking forward to that seeing him do
that in the fall. I love it all right, love
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the old school logo. By the way, Yeah, good stuff, man,
thanks for coming over.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Absolutely, that's fun. Tonight.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
What's on the doctor for tonight? What's tonight?
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It'll be pretty It'll be pretty Vanilla from a defensive play.
You know, all right, everything's on TV, so no new wrinkles.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
These guys are so paranoid, man, I mean, honestly, she's
get a.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Little too paranoid about a little bit. But I mean
I'm watching other people spring games. You know, absolute whose
spring game? Are you watching?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Everybody that we play?
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Yeah, well we will have that video and and we'll
splice it up and see if there's some things that
they can show.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
So you ever go sitting stick, No, no, no, no,
spygate nose spy gates overre here.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
But but yeah, this, you know, obviously the most important
thing is to protect each other and stay healthy. Sure
of the spring game, this will be a new for
me because I'm not calling either side, Like we're letting
the other coaches sort of call the defense.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And so who's calling the defense tonight?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Then you know it's a combination of coach Rich Van Horn,
Austin Carr, and Brian Otum.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Okay, so yeah, well, uh those guys will get there.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
There their time to get frustrated when when something they
call it doesn't go right.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yeah, so if the defense looks terrible, don't blame you.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
That's not don't blame me, not tonight, not tonight, but
I will be I'll be rooting for both sides defensively.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
So yep, I love it all right. Hey, great stuff, Man,
keep it going and we'll talk. We'll talk soon, man.
Thanks anytime. Man go dogs, you.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Bet go dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Ryan Walters with us on the radio show, you have
defensive coordinator. We got the PA cut off. How about that?
I mean, hearing my voice once is annoying enough. People
don't need to hear it again for God's sake. So
thanks to you, Dub for getting that taken care of.
We'll get a break, we'll do a little fun with audio,
and then Randy Johnson getting fifty one retired. We found
an interview right Jackson from what's seven.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Years ago January twenty second of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Eighteen, eight years ago when we asked him when he
expects to get fifty one retired, and you might be
surprised at what he said eight years ago. We hear
that coming up at four, we're gonna hear from Derek Coleman,
Brus Cody Green, Drew as a Party, Landon Hatchet, Garren Hatchett,
and more. As we get ready for the Dogs after
dark spring game at six tonight. Right here on ninety
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three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
It's now time for Sufday in Dick's one with audio.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Jimmy g Paunch Dog, Jimmy mister garoppolo.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right, boys and girls, we are back on a
It was this Friday afternoon, right my brain is mush
Man Friday afternoon, right here on ninety three to three
kJ ARFM. Jackson's back in the studio. Dick is Dick's
out today. Dick had the old pooper scooper AKAA klenoscophy
this morning, so he's not here.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
He's he's taken the day off, and that's fine. I
think he needed a day off.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Did you did you get a chance, Softie to talk
to Dick today?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yes, he sounded like he had just experimented with every
drug in high school for the senior year, and it
was not a good idea for him to get into
a car and drive up to Washington or beyond the
radio show, because I don't think he could be responsible
for what came out of his pilot this afternoon. So
I don't know if they give guys nitress now or
laughing gas when they get I had mine about a
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year ago, and I don't remember any of that stuff.
But I don't know, man, Jackson. Everybody's got a dark side.
I may have one that we're not aware of.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I'm just imagining him sitting down with Switzerland with Walters
in those interviews and him like trying to execute those
interviews in a professional manner while hyped up on all
the drug new.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Nope, not have worked, and we would have made fun
of him and he would have gotten mad.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yeah, So all right, have a lot fun with audio slash.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Hey did you hear that? Hey Jackson? Did you happen
to hear that?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
We start in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Williams joined Get Up this
week and sound it off on the NCAA expanding both
basketball tournaments to seventy six teams.
Speaker 10 (34:18):
You know, anybody that wakes up today and thinks that
more Cinderellas are going to get a larger invitation. And
this is about the royal family having more seats at
the table, and the royal family are the power of
the power conferences here. They're going to generate more revenue
more at large bids.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
But what I hate about this the most everybody doesn't
get a damn trophy like we talk about it when
it comes to youth sports all the time. I hear
parents literally articulated all time, no, no, no, you didn't
come in third, second or first place.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
You came in ninth place. You don't get a trophy.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
And what we're doing now is because it's about ad revenue.
Is because of that, we're generating as much a revenue
as possible. We're saying everybody gets in. What the hell
is the point of having a tournament if more teams
continue to get it in. Because it's about this, we're
not teaching the valuable lessons.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I think he's being a little dramatic, to be honest
with you. We're not teaching the valuable lesson. Sure that
kicks me to learn. So some sophomore point guard on
a seven and thirteen Big ten team makes the NCAA
tournament and thinks, huh, this is easy.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Life's going to be like this.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I mean, come on, like Jake, relax, number one, number two.
You know, look, I mean, we're not giving out trophies
when you make the tournament. You just make the tournament,
probably gonna get your ass kicked in the first round.
Maybe a couple of teams will make a run, because
there is some parody in college basketball. But I think,
you know, we've kind of gone for certain teams from
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a standpoint of, Hey, making the tournament is no longer
just that big a deal. It's now about what you
do when you get there. And I'm totally fine with
that attitude.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, I'll take the other side here because I do
look at a team that is let's say five hundred
even below five hund in their conference, and you know,
they happen to have enough quad games in certain areas
where okay, you are suddenly going to make the dance
as the second eight, not whatever the whatever seed. You know,
(36:13):
there's certain elements where I get it for the long
form of a person's life and to be able to say, yeah,
how is a twenty year old going to react in
fifteen years when they played the NCAA tournament and they
shouldn't have in the previous system. And on one side,
I hear what you're saying, and I think, yet you
(36:34):
have a fair point of like, come on, it's not
gonna actually that, But on the other side of it,
it's no.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
If you guys.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Weren't good enough to be even five hundred or above
five hundred in your conference against competition, right, then do
you shouldn't just be given a spot in the honestly
in the best postseason tournament of any sport, of any league,
because there is nothing better than the NC of a tournament.
And that doesn't even address the stupidity of the incable
(37:03):
expanding this thing, because that's a whole different ballgame of
just how dumb it is to ruin the most perfect
product in all of sports.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Wow, the problem is with the whole most perfect product
in all sports. They said that when it was forty
eight teams, they said it when it was thirty six,
they said it when it was twenty four, and they'll
say it when it's sixty four. They'll say it when
it's sixty eight, and we'll say it when they expand
it from seventy six.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
To ninety four.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, it was the most perfect thing in the world.
So they pre the next generation will get used to this.
And you know, look, here's my thing too, about like
the first the first round whatever Willner called it, the
what was the terminology jacks what they're going to.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Call the first round. Now, just don't watch it.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I mean, honestly, like you know, look, so what, it's
just there. It's the first round of the NBA playoffs.
You're not watching much. I'm not watching much. We'll jump
on the wagon and the semis or the conference finals.
And I think I think people are going to start
to treat the NCAA tournament like that, that these first
second round games are going to be more worthless maybe
than they are now. And it just may not be
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something people really pay attention to. But the whole idea
that kids are learning the wrong life lessons because teams
are making the tournament when they're nine and eleven, that's
just to me, that's a little bit dramatic from Jay's perspective.
Number one and then number two, I do think that
in this day and age of nil, where money is
top dog, and programs in colleges need as much cash
as they can to pay these guys and keep them
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in school, this is generating revenue, it really is. I mean,
you want to pay the players, you want to give
players the money that you think they deserve, then well,
if you want to also pay coaches you better damn
well generate more revenue or the fans are gonna just
have to fork it over.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I would just say this, I hope, however they structure
this thing, we already know how they're gonna structure it.
I would hope that you can still take one piece
of paper to do your bracket, because if they make
you do two pieces of paper, and if they think
it's too complicated, then the whole thing's gonna fall back.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I want one piece of paper to fill my bracket.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
We'll see, man. I mean that's the most important thing
for me. As long as you can only have one
piece of paper, two pieces of paper, no, we're just
as un called for. I can't do it all, right, Jackson?
Did you happen for God's sake? No, never mind, I
thought I got locked out?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Jackson?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Let's go too too.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
During ESPN's post draft coverage this week, Michael Wilbond sounded
off on the NFL's lies when it comes to caring
about player safety.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
And here's what angers me about the league.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Okay, angers me.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
No league lies publicly like the NFL. No entity in
this country lies as thoroughly, as convincingly and as successfully
as the NFL to try to sell we.
Speaker 9 (39:42):
Care about health and player safety.
Speaker 12 (39:45):
They do not as they try to add an eighteenth
game after adding the seventeenth game.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
It's a lie, it's a fraud.
Speaker 12 (39:54):
It's the NFL, and people aren't gonna call them out
on it. Usually people just want their football, and whatever
the NFL is selling, we as a culture will buy it.
If I hear one person, don't ever.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Stay in my face.
Speaker 12 (40:08):
If you're an NFL executive or a club executive, all
we care about health in player safety, you do not
as you try to add a game.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Well, there's a lot of that that's true. I'll agree
with that.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
I think the eighteenth game is going to replace the
third preseason game, and may replace two of them by
the way, so that's two games down the players won't
have to take part in. But you know, we've been
saying for years about player safety that you see these
offensive linemen wearing these ridiculous great Gazoo hats over their
helmets to protect their brains from concussions. But you don't
see defensive linemen wearing those, right, you don't see running
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backs wearing those when they stick their head down and
try to blow through a defensive tackle. You don't see
linebackers wearing those. You don't see anybody wearing those. And
there's collisions all over the place in the National Football League.
So I think it is a little bit ridiculous from
that perspective, But I also think the idea of the
eighteenth game is fair to have it happen because the
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NFL is a business that needs to grow. Every business
needs to grow, right, They're always going to be looking
at growth from quarter to quarter or year to year,
And the NFL is no different than that. You know,
when stock reports come out, when earnings updates come out
from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, whatever. I mean, they're
always looking to see what their earnings look like, their
revenue looks like, their growth looks like from year to year,
(41:25):
from quarter to quarter.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
So the NFL is no different. So I mean, I'm
I'm not surprised by the eighteenth game. I do wonder
where it stops, Jackson, and we're gonna see twenty twenty
four to thirty games in our lifetime. Probably not. It's
like the two hour marathon thing we talked about the
year day. At some point, you know, the progress just
kind of comes to a little bit of a screeching
hault because it just becomes unrealistic to keep playing football games.
(41:47):
But they there is no doubt that there are certain
elements of what Wilbon said that is absolutely accurate.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Percent in my opinion, and I think probably that number
is twenty. I think it'd be really hard to go
north to twenty eventually, but who knows.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
Anything could happen.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
And it's interesting because that clip was was about a
minute long, and it was originally about two minutes long,
and I kind of cut it down because the other
part that I cut out, which I fully agree with
Wilbon on, is Okay, if you're gonna lie about it,
lie about it, can you just be honest. Can you
just not have this element of saying we care so much,
(42:20):
we care so much, we care so much. Just be
honest and say, yeah, we are a business, we need
to grow, we want more games, and you know if
it means but said that, but just don't come out
and say we care about player safety. We care about
They keep saying it in various forms and fashions.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Stop saying that now, yeah, hey, well look, I mean
if I know you're saying that, so I just think
that you're right that the idea that's all about player
safety is laughable because of a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
We just talked about.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Making teams play on a Thursday after playing on a
Sunday the weekend before obviously is completely ridiculous, and Richard
Sherman is one guy that's been bitching about stuff like
that for years. So yeah, you're you're you're right. But
they do talk about how the growth of the game
is important. I mean, they do talk about it, you know,
more overseas than locally, but they they do talk about it.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I found my drop by the way.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah, So I mean, again, I think there's certain aspects
of what Will Bond said that are absolutely correct, but
it's never gonna go away because most businesses are not
totally upfront and honest with their employees or their client base,
and the NFL is no different. Hey, Jackson almost called you, Dick, Jackson.
Did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Let's go to three.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Former running back leve On Bell joined Justin le Boy's
Respectfully podcast last week and ripped Adam Gase including accusing
the former Jets head coach of snorting coke before practice
one time.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
Adam Gase. Bro, Bro, he might have been the dumbest
coach ever. If it's second to nine and Adam Gasee
is the coach, I promise you, I bet you by
I'm doll one. He's calling a half back dive. He's
calling a half back dive the second and nine every time. Bro,
There's not been not one play like one time while
I was in the huddle and it was second and
nine or second and ten and the play coming in
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and he did not.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
Call the dog.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Bro, he's ti.
Speaker 9 (44:13):
I look at that yard marker at the sideline and
I see the play getting ran in.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
Bro, I don't even listen to the play I.
Speaker 9 (44:19):
Line up, Bro, worst coach in the NFL, worst coach ever.
He should not ever, but he should coach little league.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Bro.
Speaker 9 (44:26):
He was terrible that he did a lot in office
that coaches ain't supposed to be doing. But that's why
he hain't no coach. But he should have even been
hold on what he was doing in the office.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Bro. Y'all know that. Bro.
Speaker 9 (44:35):
You know y'all know that white that white girl.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
Just walking see my coach. Everybody go to practice.
Speaker 11 (44:43):
Bro.
Speaker 9 (44:45):
We got practice in twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
We got walked through.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Bro, this is what you're doing in here?
Speaker 9 (44:49):
Yeah, you ain't see him, Sliff coch Bro my own two,
my own two.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Wow, who was on?
Speaker 2 (45:00):
He's literally saying that Adam Gase he saw him do
coke in the It's.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Been twenty eight minutes before we walk through.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
What do you do if your gaze?
Speaker 3 (45:09):
I mean, if it's not true, you gotta sue him, right, coach?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
I mean, obviously his mannerisms and the way that he
looks would make it appear that maybe Leveon would be correct.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
I mean, he's got that look to.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Him, his eyeballs, he has him blinked for twenty minutes.
That's going on there, man, Leveon Bell says he was
doing coke.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
It's also interesting because because if.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
I'm gonna ask Petrouss about that next week.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
I had to I had to very selectively choose because
every other word was a swear word, and that was
very But one of the things that they went on
to show and say in that in that interview was
how if you look at Adam Gase on the sideline
and games. He's always smelling something off of his hand,
and they show like about three different clips of Gase
(45:54):
bringing his hand to his face and like and like smelling,
and it's sort of is like, what the hell is
he doing all those times, Adam Gaze just bringing his
finger to his nose. I mean, it could be smelling
salts or whatever.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
But twenty eight minutes before.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Walkthrough starting, And why would you need to snort something,
Adam Gase?
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Yeah, well because he was on coke. Got the proof.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
I mean, look at a picture of man those look
at those eyeballs. Man, Holy moly.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
A press conference that explains all of it.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Yeah, well, I'm curious to see where that goes, by
the way, and how much comes out of this with
with coach Gase and his response, we do one more?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Yeah, Jackson Japan? Here tho?
Speaker 1 (46:30):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (46:31):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (46:31):
All right? Last one?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
After his round yesterday at the PGA Tour's Miami Championship,
Scottie Scheffler had zero interest in talking about live golfers
returning to the PGA Tour.
Speaker 6 (46:42):
The news coming fast and furious this week about live
golfers and live in general, and this we've seen Brooks
have seen Patrick weeds on his way back. What are
your feelings on these pathways back? Some some believe just
let them in, Some believe that needs to be some
kind of penalty. Wit do you stand.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Scottfling Off?
Speaker 5 (47:01):
Course, I don't know what you want from me?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
All right, sweets guys.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I mean, I don't know. I guess I get it,
you know. But he's also Scotty Scheffler. He's kind of
an E. F. Hutton of golf. People want to know
his opinion. His opinion carries a lot of weight, right,
What he thinks, Rory thinks, what all these guys think about.
There's probably only nine or ten people that you would
look at and say, I'm really curious what that guy
(47:29):
believes about a major issue involving a certain sport, and
Scottie Scheffler is one of him. I didn't see a
scorecard from yesterday. I have no idea how he played
in Round one in Miami. Maybe he was terrible, although
I do I was yesterday the day that he threw
his driver off the T box. Oh, I think that
happened yesterday, by the way, so he was probably in
(47:50):
a bad mood. But I do think that you know,
there's media people like me and like that guy whoever
that is that just want to get people's opinions on
stuff because their word carries a lot of way.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
Honestly, I think they him just saying, come on, I
just came off the golf course, like, what do you
the words?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
What do you want from me?
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Well, dude, we would like your answer because this is
a press conference and it's a reasonable that's not an
unreasonable question. Like that response I think was chicken crap
from Scotti Scheffelin.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Well again, I mean, the more this drags on, the
more guys like that are gonna be asked about it.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
By the way, there's no question.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
So all right, we're gonna break Randy Johnson getting his
number retired on Saturday. We're gonna hear from the Big
Unit a little bit next on ninety three three kJ
RFM
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Coach Switzer with us on the radio show and Jackson,
what do we always say about this first segment?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
What's our line?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Well, if you're gonna be a guest in the first segment,
you better be a big guess.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, you better be a big damn name, because you
got to remember, Coach, I've been sitting here preparing for
the last maybe four or five minutes for this radio
program with an incredible monologue that everybody comes to expect
out of me at three o'clock every day.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So if you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Jump on with us and interrupt the first segment of
this radio show, you better bring it, baby.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You go right, let's go, Mike Switzer.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Offensive line coach at UDB is with us on the program.
And actually the first time that you and I have
had a chance to talk. And I think it's actually
kind of funny that this is the first chance that
you and I have to talk, because the offensive line
looks to be in about as good as shape as
it's been in three years. And now you finally decide
now to come on the year and talk with us.
So you've been now here with Coach Fish for a while.
(00:51):
Tell me about the transition. Tell me about the transition
going back to when Kaylin took off and the job
that you guys had to do and everybody leave to
the offensive line. You're talking to as a party earlier
for a conversation we're going to run today and he's
talking about in the Weber State game, playing multiple positions
on the same drive in that game. So give us
(01:15):
a take man on just where this group has come
from twenty twenty four to where they are right now.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, leaving Arizona the last spot. It was a lot
of action and it was late in the process. So
as you get here and you know, start preparing yourself
in terms of what the team's going to look like.
After the amazing year that they had with coach Debor,
which was fantastic for the program, and there was a
lot of turnover. There was a lot of guys who
had left the roster and very unique to navigate that
(01:45):
in the spring ball I want to say there was
points in spring ball in twenty twenty four where we
had seven offensive linemen of practicing right, so very challenging
in terms of, you know, how do you have real practices?
How do you get better? In terms of truly playing
football team periods all that stuff. Uh, it was. It
was quite a deal. Uh. But the guys that were
(02:07):
here were awesome, and we appreciated all the work that
they put in. And then you got into who are
we taking in the portal? Who are we adding to
this roster? And it was uh, it was coming from
a lot of different places, uh FCS level guys who
hadn't had a lot of experience junior college level. Uh,
So we were all over with it. And uh and
I'll say this that, you know, the guys with uh
(02:30):
kind of what we had, Uh, you know, they did
a solid job. You know, it was it was there
were some tough points in that season, but uh but
those guys worked and you know, played some good football
throughout the throughout the year, a couple of big wins,
you know, some some cool experiences here in Husky Stadium.
But uh, but that was quite a time. And then
obviously as you transitioned from first year to second year, Uh,
(02:53):
you've got these guys, uh coming in at midyear, who
who who made a big impact on the program. A
guy like John Mills, You've got a guy like Carver
Willis who comes in at midyear as a transfer and
cemented himself as a really goot, really solid player for
US UH and great leader as well. And then you
have all of season and all that goes, and you know,
(03:16):
I liked what the offensive line did last year, especially
with the amount of injuries we had. Right, you know,
you lose three starters at three different positions at different
point points in the season. Really it's four I'm sorry.
At one point it was Carver, at one point, it
was John at one point. For the rest of the
season it was Landing and then Drew missed two games.
So you're really moving a lot of guys around, and
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it's a credit to those guys being able to step
up and the depth of the room, the guys being
able to step in and still have some success up front.
So it's been a it's been a wild ride, but
one that I've absolutely loved and UH and and I
love working here. I love working for coach Fish, I
love coaching UH, the guys in the room.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You really do.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, Michael Switzer with US offensive line coach, with us
on the radio show from you dub We got the
spring game broadcast with Tony and Campbell start around six
and I mean, there's just so much there to unpack,
man because of where you guys are at right now.
And I want to start with a guy at left tackle,
because we've seen freshman play here. We've seen freshmen start here.
(04:16):
Nick Harris was a starting center as a freshman against
Alabama in twenty sixteen, but that's not left tackle. Roger
Rosengarten was out there, is a red shirt freshman at
right tackle, but he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
A pure freshman.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Parker Brilsford was out there at center, but that's not
left tackle. I don't ever remember an eighteen year old
kid projected to start at left tackle from the jump.
And I wonder how much of this is driven by
nil and how much of this is driven by Hey,
this kid is really the best left tackle we've got
on the roster.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, I'd say it's that we've still got some competition
with guys coming back, like a young man named Colt Dietrich.
But Cody, Cody's very unique. He is He's driven in
a way that you don't traditionally see in a young
man who's eighteen years old. You know, he puts something
out on spring break before springball started. He's going to
(05:12):
Cleveland to train with the Charles Bentley instead of going
on vacation. This guy is wired in a very unique way.
I'd say kind of similarly to how John Mills it
was kind of wired last year. They're very serious about
what they're doing. They're very serious about becoming a great
football player. They're very serious about how they put them
(05:33):
in themselves in position to be able to do this,
because you don't just walk in and you're the starting
left tackle. Cody worked really, really hard the first day
he was in on campus, meeting with myself and Coach
Brewster and learning the offense and having an understanding of
how we communicate, how we talk football, what's the defensive
identification before we even talk about a play. He took
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that very seriously in his mindset. Has put him in
a position to play left to Obviously he's the athletic
aspect of it, the physical aspect of it is quite
impressive for a guy who should still be in high
school right now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
He should be in high school graduating this spring. That's right, right, Ye,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So what he's been able to do this spring at
left tackle, Yeah, it's very impressive, and I think that
he's going to continue to build off that all of
summer in a great fall camp, and we'll see what
that looks like.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, Mike, you mentioned again, Mike Switzer, ub offensive line
coach with us on the air. You mentioned the smarts
right about the playbook and the lingo and all that,
and then you mentioned the physicality. What are his best
traits physically at the age of eighteen years old. What
kind of jumps off the page to you?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
His natural athleticism and ability to run the offense that
we run here a lot of wide zone truly running
off the ball. This is not you know, pick it up,
put it down like we're trying to run off the ball,
run through your face. What he's able to do on
the backside, a backside cut up, offer a backside climb
to a backside linebacker. I still tell the story. We're
doing OTA's player run practices and winter conditioning, and uh,
(07:09):
it was his first time even doing it, my first
time ever taking him through a backside cutoff. He does it,
and some of the older guys are on the field
and look around like, did you guys just see that?
So he's he's got some of those natural uh, just
athletic ability, but his ability to run and uh, you know,
his feet are are really really impressive. He's got really
(07:31):
elite redirection with his feet, and especially at the left
tackle position when you're setting you know, wide nines, whatever
it might be. His ability to redirect versus an inside move,
ability to anchor, he's got some some really unique tools
well across.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, coach, you mentioned John Mills and just again another
freshman starting at left guard. It's it's amazing how many
freshmen now all of a sudden we're seeing start in
this game right and there's reasons obviously for that, but
this kid again deserved it, earned it was.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Phenomenal last year.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm almost dreading for other opposing defensive fronts how he's
going to be better in twenty twenty six versus the
guy that we saw.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
A year ago.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Because if you came to Ahscy football game and said, hey,
that guy starting at left guard, what class you think
he's in?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
He's a junior. No, he's a freshman.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
How is he even better now?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
The jump that he's made is all the details within
his game. He was, like we talked about with Cody,
the mental aspect of it. He attacked at an amazing level,
very smart football player for such a young guy. His
best attributes are probably his physicality, his size, his natural strength,
his aggressiveness and all those things. So that was nice
(08:41):
to be able to put a guy like that inside,
have guys around him like Carver Landing and the rest
of the guys and just let him go to work.
Where he stepped up is the very fine tuning of
details within his technique and within his fundamentals. You know,
how am I carrying my hands? How are we working
on you know, my sets? And uh, not just playing
(09:01):
and playing get big and and and stopping guys. There's
a real technique, uh to everything that we do. And
he's taken the next step with that. Uh and the
spring ball is separate himself in that way as well
as his leadership.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He was a natural leader last year as a true
freshman just by the energy that he brought. Yeah, but
I think he's stepped up in an awesome way for
this whole team to be a true voice even as
a true sophomore. You know it, Class doesn't determine if
you can be a leader or not. If you are,
you are and John Mills is.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That Yeah, Well, Michael Sweitzer again, you doub offensive line
coach with us on the air, and the Hatchet Brothers
are not going to be participating tonight, still nursing a
little injuries that they'll be good to go right by
by fall camp.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Tell me about the the idea of coaching two guys,
two brothers, one guys in year seven already in college football,
the guys in year four and in Lando.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Uh, what's it been like for you to to coach
the Hatchet Men?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's been Awesomebviously knowing Landon first he was here, Garant
had left to go to Oklahoma and he had his
experience there. After the season, you know, there was talk
of hey, you know, my brother might be interested in
coming back, and and we were looking for quality, quality players,
and we we talked and welcomed with open arms and
(10:21):
the experience that he's had in college football. Uh, we're
for sure, I would say needed in that room at
the time. So he was a great ad uh to
the room. Uh, with just leadership and also his experiences
as a player. He played the most snaps on the
offensive line last year for US right guard. With all
those injuries that we talked about, so he came in
(10:42):
and proved his worth. There's no doubt about it. Tough
deal for him, obviously, injury early on in spring ball.
But you want to talk about a guy with a
mindset and mentality that is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
He comes in every day. Uh, he's coached G. He'll
have his shirt tucked in tonight. He's coach G. The
guys in the room. I like to give him, give
him crud, but he takes it very seriously. He's out
there coaching the guys. He's out there, he's in the
meetings giving coaching points. He'll stand back with me during
teen periods and we'll talk about things. So while he
(11:16):
might not be practicing, he's getting all that he needs
in terms of the mental reps and all that. But
you want to talk about another great leader, We've got
a lot in our room. Garn has been fantastic throughout
this whole process. So it's pretty cool to see how
he's still attacked this spring while getting it cut short
due to injury.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, I know that you and other coaches kind of
bristle at the idea this time of the year that
anything is set right. I mean, there's still competition I
get it. I mean, I don't know, man, Sometimes it
kind of feels like a cliche on our perspective about
this always compete stuff. And I can guarantee you there
were times with like the Seahawks back in twenty thirteen,
twenty twelve, where we kind of knew who the secondary
(11:58):
was going to be sure from here to here, right
when you have guys like that, and I kind of
coach and Michael Switzer with us you do offensive line coach.
I just feel like it's great that we feel like
we have five guys and then there's depth obviously, but
with Cody and John and Landon and Gearon and Drew,
that's your five guys and that is the that is
(12:19):
the DNA of what should be the best offensive line
since that Joe Moore Award winning one in twenty three.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
If I said that to you, what would your response be?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
To me?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I'd probably agree. And I think that there's guys
in that room that are also going to provide, like
you said, more depth. The five guys you mentioned on
top of Champ and what he's done all spring and
what he did towards the end of.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Last season, tell fans about him by the way Champ.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I mean, he's he played in four games last year
and that was before five for five and all these
things coming out. You know, do you waste a red shirt?
Some guys have been through it where they they can't
play end of the year because they burn their red
shirt on field goal unit or something like that. So ridiculous. Yeah,
I didn't want to do that to Champ. But he
played towards the end of the season and did some
(13:02):
really good things. And I've always thought very highly of
Champ and his development was just a tad slower in
terms of being able to play last year for US,
and that's totally okay. What he's done since the season
was over is really attack his weight his weight room,
all those things, and then on the football field, he's
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been very consistent. He's been one of the most consistent
guys throughout spring for US up front. So he really
excites me in the ability that he brings, the power
that he brings. He's a big dude now, but he's
had a really, really, really good spring and he's used
this opportunity with Garon out to get all those reps
and like you talk about competition Israel in this program,
(13:44):
it is, and it'll start back up in fall camp
and Garan and Champ and we talk about Cody, we
talk about Cold, we talk about Swane. But uh, it
was good to see a solid group work pretty consistently
with the ones and get some guys mixed in here
and there. Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, like you said, when you first showed up or
you had seven guys that's right. How many guys do
you have now?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Seventeen? Yeah, so we plused up ten.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I mean, it's just you'll never go through that as
long as your coach. I'm order a ridiculous situation. I
think you said it was unique. It's absurd, is what
it was.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't know that that's ever been a number for
any offensive line coach that I've ever come into contact with. Yeah,
you have never heard that love of number.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yes, But then as well, before you go, you and
I were talking off the year Michael Switzer again, you
offensive line coach with us in the first segment of
the program. I might add before tonight's spring game, starting
around six o'clock, we'll killy the game for you with
Camp Tony. At least obviously here on KJR, you mentioned
off the year that you grew up in Indiana, right,
so you know Big ten Midwest football, and there was
(14:47):
a transition that this program had to go through to
get the right guys to survive run the ball in
that league. What kind of player are you looking for
in this conference versus the kind of player that you
were looking for maybe at Arizon.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, it's the it's the size difference. And Coach Fish
really hit home with that. Like last year in our
recruiting class, the kind of guys that we brought in,
whether it be John Mills Champ or Jack Schaeffer Cody
this year, Dom Harris, you're looking for size, you're looking
for physicality. Uh, but you still got to have guys
who can run. I talked about it earlier in the
(15:22):
segment in terms of what we do up front. We
run off the ball. It's wide zone and we got
to be able to be some big athletes as well.
But the physicality aspect is very real in this conference,
growing up, watching it now coaching in it, it's it's clear,
uh and and across all football. I believe this. You
went up front, you know Coach Fish talks about that
as well. Totally. What are you able to do up front.
(15:44):
The team goes as we go and we talk about
that a lot in the old line room, which is awesome.
That's a lot of pressure. But you want that pressure,
you should embrace that. Hell yeah, and I believe that
our guys are but but yeah, we're looking for big, big,
big guys, strong guys. H We'll still have guys that
are able to come in and run the system. Maybe
a little bit shorter, but these guys can really run,
(16:05):
get to the second level, play with great hip, mobility,
all these things. But yeah, looking for good football players.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Well, I love that. The pressure thing. I'll tell you
right now, We'll just throw it out there. If you
guys win, we're gonna give you credit. If you lose,
it will be your fault.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
How's that That's what.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
To do for the on line coach.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I mean, dude, it's like it's not sexy.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But twenty twenty three best offensive line in college football.
Seahawks won their first championship in twenty thirteen. They had
the league's highest paid offensive line. I mean, it's just
this isn't a coincidence. Teams win when they dominate the
line of scrimmage. But hey, Mike before you go, just
real quick, Carver Willis went to the Niners and they're
talking about him playing inside.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah down there. Yeah, that surprised me.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A little bit. I'm not as surprised. He's unique in
terms of his ability. He played early in his career
inside a little bit. He's been able to snap the ball.
He's been training snapping the ball at the NFL level Traditionally,
those tackles truly do have more length. Yeah, overall and
with arm length, he could do it. There's no doubt
(17:04):
in my mind. But I think that he's going to
find a real nice fit inside a garter even center,
and he's really been working hard at that. And there's
so much carryover of you know, what coach Firster in
San Francisco do up front the offensive line. You know,
I've really I've learned a lot from Coach Firster over
the years through his relationship with Coach Fish. So pretty
cool to see one of my guys get drafted by
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one of Coach Fish's great friends.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And that's a pretty cool experience. Well, we're not really
Niner fans, I've heard though, that's right, that's right. So yeah,
hopefully when he comes into play. We'll be up by
thirty five points in the fourth quarter and the game
will be over. But whatever, Hey, this was fun. Let's
do it again, right, sir, Appreciate it Man. Michael Switzer
U DUB offensive line coach joining us on the radio show.
We are live at U DUB for the annual spring
game coming up tonight. We'll get a break a lot
(17:47):
more to come from you Dub. Randy Johnson getting fifty
one retired on Saturday. We're gonna hear about seven or
eight minutes with Randy in the four o'clock hour. Humellon
joins and recaps the whole draft class. At five, the
Hatchet Brothers Garret Landon will join us, Drew has a
Party will join us, Cody Green will join us. Derek
Coleman Brusa, who Ryan Walter is referred to as a monster,
(18:08):
will join us. On the radio show. We're Talking Dogs Man.
A big part of our show today will be all
about tonight's game with U DUB in the spring game
coming up at six Right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
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Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, boys and girls, back here at dub on
a Friday afternoon. Right here on ninety three three KJRFM,
Dogs after Dark. Spring game coming up tonight. Pregame with
Tony and Cam starts. I'd say around six kickoff around
six thirty. But with these spring games, you never know
what they're doing. I mean it could be plus or
minus a half an hour, right, mean, here we go.
This guy's a former head coach. He knows what I'm
(18:49):
talking about. Ryan Walter's defensive coordinator at U dub is
with us on the air. We just said coach Switzer
on the show, by the way, talking about the offensive line.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
He was on the year for twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Minutes and he is exactly what I envision an offensive
line coach.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Switch is the best man, He's the best.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Tell me about seeing the progression from that side of
the ball. Now, you weren't here in twenty four, right,
but you know what they were going through, and then
you know what you had a year ago and what
you're seeing now in practice. Tell me about the development
of that group from your perspective.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing that you see is
just the depth that's been added. You know, I think
you know, when I was here a year ago, there's
a big difference between that first and second group, And
now like when the twos or even the threes are
out there, they look like a big ten offensive line.
Switch has done a great job of just getting everybody
in the same page. You know, rarely do you see
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guys have communication, bus or or protection issues because of
IDA and the wrong things. And so just a testament
to him and yeah, and really the personnel department, I'm
putting together a quality, quality unit.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well, we had a chance to meet DCB and Cody
Green earlier today, and I'm wondering how many battles we'll
see tonight between those two guys. I asked Derek if
he had pancake Cody yet Cody if he'd pancake Derek,
and neither one just conveniently forgot if that's ever happened.
But tell me about those two guys specifically as eighteen
(20:16):
year old freshmen.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They don't sound like freshmen.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Don't look like fresh Yeah, and they don't act like freshmen.
I think that's the biggest you know, obviously from a
physique standpoint, they stick out just you know, obviously Cody
is Cody and DCB. You know, he's like six five
to ninety five, just turned eighteen this week, right, And
but I think it's the way they carry themselves is
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very mature, you know. It's they act like professionals. They
always get extra work.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You know.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I was talking to Jay rich Our, our Corners Card
Dv's coach today, and you know he he coaches Cody's brother, Kayden,
was also on our team, and he was like, man, know,
Cody goes to bed at nine pm every night. And
I'm like, well, he's a he's a pro. He gets it,
you know what I mean. And I think that's the
the what's the separator between you know, guys like Cody
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and guys like DCB, just with the rest of the
eighteen year olds out there, is just the way they
approach their day to day.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, what is it with all the brothers on this team?
The Coleman Bruce has Shit's the Greens? Is there a
fourth set of brothers that I'm not aware of.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
On this this team?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Well, you know, we've got a couple of brothers committed
for next year's class. I'll talk about him obviously. Yeah, sure, sure,
but yeah, it is kind of a trend, you know.
I think it's a testament to the city of Seattle
and the community out here. People want to be a
part of it, and it is a family atmosphere up here,
and it just attracts family.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, Ryan Walter's defensive coordinator with us on the radio show,
and let's get into d c B for a second,
because you mentioned the height and weight six five. I
was actually shocked at what he looked like when he
stood next to him. He doesn't look like two ninety five.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
No, he cares it well. I think he's are the
lowest body fat of the defensive line, right.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But he did say to me that he's going to
be playing a lot inside. Yeah, And I brought that
up to you off the ear and you said, what
to me about it?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, he got too big.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
He got too big. You can't play edge rusher at
two ninety five.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I mean there will be times, I think, especially as
we start. You know in spring you're trying to get
better at technique of fundamentals and some of your bass calls,
and really the point of emphasis for us this spring
was like your early down pressure package, you know, the
different coverage variations. But as we get in the season,
we start game planning for third downs and some situational stuff,
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there might be times where we put him out there.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well, let me ask you, this, is this what you
envisioned for him? Honestly when you were recruiting him, did
you envision an edge rusher in college or did you
see a guy getting too big to play that position
and having yees.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
So when I first got here, you know, you're looking
at his his junior tape, and you know, I think
he was playing around fifty to sixty and and he
he jumps off the screen. You know, just the way
he his motor off the edge, just get off. You know,
saw him in camp that summer and you know, same thing,
just to get off was was unreal. And then as
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you kind of go through the I remember our first
end home visit and great family by the way, like
his family is awesome, and you know, we sit down
for this big meal and and DCB He's got like
the biggest plate I've ever seen, and I'm like, you know, okay,
he said he's gonna get big. Well, he finishes that
plate and then gets another plate with the same the
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same size, and So I remember calling Fish on the
way on the way back from the in home just
to give him a kind of recap, and I'm like this,
this kid's going to be three hundred pounds before.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
You know it.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
You wouldn't believe the amount of food he just consumed
at dinner. So wasn't wasn't shocked just because of the
way he is, the frame he has. But I think
he'll be special inside with with his he already has
that twitch, the skill set, and right now he's got
the size to back that up.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
The voice of God by the way above us.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So just just disregard that Ryan Walters, you defensive coordinator
with us here on the radio show. And you know,
I mean, look, he's obviously a guy that people are
fired up to watch play, right, Yeah, what what should
the expectations be for DCB and year number one? He
is a starter caliber player, But he's also an eighteen
year already just turned eighteen. Sometimes fans, even people like me,
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put stupid expectations the kids, what are yours?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Mine? Mine?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Are just for him to improve every day, And that's
you know, I don't I don't want to, like you said,
put any added pressure, added weight on his shoulders, and
every individual is different, so I don't want to I
don't want to put a cap on his growth, and
I don't want to put a ceiling on on what
his expectations are as well. I just think you let
him develop the way he's going to develop, and and
(24:52):
the type of guy he is, he'll maximize the time.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
So sky's the limit.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, well, Ryan Walters, you have defensive coordinator with us
on the show. And I think another question that people
have is who's going to replace Ta Carion Ephesians right
to you guys that are now in the NFL. We
talked about that a little bit at the start of
spring ball. Tell me what you've seen now throughout spring
ball that gives you an idea of how that's gonna look.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Yeah, I'm really excited about our our secondary room. You know,
specifically at corner you look at a guy like Dylan Robinson,
who who had starts last season. You know, he lined
up his first starts against jarreymih Smith playing as ohiose
state that's right, So I kind of tell you what
type of mind frame he has and and the kind
of competitive nature that he's built with. And then we
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brought in Emmanuel Carny from Virginia who had prior relationships
with this staff from his Arizona days, and he has
as advertised, you know, it's a guy that has played
on a ACC team that had eleven wins and he
started all those games, and and he's got a ton
of experience in that experienced shows he understands splits and
route trees and is sticky and coverage. And then you
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know the young guy that stood out as Jaron Jones.
You know, he's been able to play inside, play outside,
and and he does another one that does not look
like an eighteen year old and he can cover plays
man coverage very well.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Uh So we got a good group. Man.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
I'm I'm excited about those guys and I think I
think we'll be primed to have a good secondary.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
When we talked earlier as well in spring ball about
the linebackers, when we talked about Jet Fish and I
asked him, I said, what's the what's the best part
of this football team? And he said the linebackers with
Buddha and Menu and those guys. So the progress they've
made in the last month, that entire group, and for
the fans that expect that group to be amongst the
best in the Big ten.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
What do you say to them?
Speaker 8 (26:39):
I would say that's my expectation as well. You know,
we got really like four guys that could start pretty
much anywhere. You know Manu, you know he played in
the Four Games a year ago, but that was also
coming off of an acl and and anybody will tell
you like, when you're cleared, you're clear, but it's still
it takes about a year to get back to feeling
(27:00):
like you did prior to the injury. And you know,
seeing him this spring, you just see the explosiveness, the
speed that maybe he didn't showcase last year. And then
you know, uh Zadrius, another young guy who got some starts,
much more comfortable in this in the system. Now his
(27:20):
voice in the locker room is more prominent. And then
x Ray, you know, he's if you say, what do
you want your linebackers to look like? You know, he's
he's he's the model. Just then again another guy that's
another year in the system, comfortable and his personality is
this is showing throughout the locker room as well. And
Ye Buddha has been attacking rehab. He's paying attention to
(27:43):
his nutrition and he you know, he looks good. He's
right on track, and so I'm excited about that group.
We'll have a lot of depth. We'll have to get
creative with how to keep guys on the shield. You know,
you can only play with a couple of them at
a time, but I think that healthy rotation will have
guys fresh. And if you look at last year, we
needed everybody. So I'm glad we got those guys.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I love that. By the way, if that voice sounds familiar,
it's yours.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
This is us.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, I could tell.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, there's two places in this stadium you can hear
my show, and it's here in.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
The bathroom by the way. Okay, so we're gonna we're
gonna work on getting that Jackson. Is that annoying? By
the way, not too much? Now, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
There's your voice, by the way. On the thing, Well,
what do you want this defense to do better? Because
I think I think all of us were pretty pleased.
I know you're never totally content, yeah, but we were
pretty pleased with what happened to you or ago defensively,
so great job out of you.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
But you're not going to stop working, no, absolutely, How
was it better, you know. You know, I was talking
to the defense at the start of spring and I
was like, you know, we were pretty good last year
on defense, but I felt like we were always in
sort of protective mode. You know, we were trying to
protect the end zone, you know, whole teams to field goals,
you know, not give up explosive plays. But but this year,
(28:53):
like if we want to take the next step, we
got to be on the hunt.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
We got to be the predators.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
We can't can't play, you know, can't go key, we
gotta we gotta be on the attack. And that sets Yeah, did,
And so that's that's I think the next step for
us is to be on the attack, especially early in series.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Well, we started off by asking you for your thoughts
on the offensive line and what you see from your
perspective on defense.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
What do you see?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And now number one used to be number two, now
number one in the mind man.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
You know, you look at last year was his first
year as a full time starter in college, right, and
and he played played his tail off, but you see,
you see the jump that you would normally see from
a guy that was a sophomore starter going into his
junior season. Just the command of the offense, you know,
being able to get them in and out of plays.
(29:43):
His accuracy jumped off the charts, you know, he always
finds his answers when we try to give him different
coverage variations or pressure packages. And believe it or not,
man like, he's more explosive than he was a year ago.
He's fashion than he was a year ago. So I'm
you know, in the spring, we can't touch him, and
so a lot of times that whistle gets gets blown early.
(30:05):
But there's a lot of times where I'm like, I
don't know if would have got him, you know what
I mean. And so I'm glad we don't have to
play them on game days because he's he is lights
out in in seven on seven. He's lights out and
team and I think his best attribute is is when
it's when it's time to go play football, he plays football.
And so I'm looking forward to that seeing him do
that in the fall. I love it all right, love
(30:26):
the old school logo. By the way, Yeah, good stuff, man,
thanks for coming over.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Absolutely, that's fun. Tonight.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
What's on the doctor for tonight? What's tonight?
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It'll be pretty It'll be pretty Vanilla from a defensive play.
You know, all right, everything's on TV, so no new wrinkles.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
These guys are so paranoid, man, I mean, honestly, she's
get a.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Little too paranoid about a little bit. But I mean
I'm watching other people spring games. You know, absolute whose
spring game? Are you watching?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Everybody that we play?
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Yeah, well we will have that video and and we'll
splice it up and see if there's some things that
they can show.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
So you ever go sitting stick, No, no, no, no,
spygate nose spy gates overre here.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
But but yeah, this, you know, obviously the most important
thing is to protect each other and stay healthy. Sure
of the spring game, this will be a new for
me because I'm not calling either side, Like we're letting
the other coaches sort of call the defense.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And so who's calling the defense tonight?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Then you know it's a combination of coach Rich Van Horn,
Austin Carr, and Brian Otum.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Okay, so yeah, well, uh those guys will get there.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
There their time to get frustrated when when something they
call it doesn't go right.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yeah, so if the defense looks terrible, don't blame you.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
That's not don't blame me, not tonight, not tonight, but
I will be I'll be rooting for both sides defensively.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
So yep, I love it all right. Hey, great stuff, Man,
keep it going and we'll talk. We'll talk soon, man.
Thanks anytime. Man go dogs, you.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Bet go dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Ryan Walters with us on the radio show, you have
defensive coordinator. We got the PA cut off. How about that?
I mean, hearing my voice once is annoying enough. People
don't need to hear it again for God's sake. So
thanks to you, Dub for getting that taken care of.
We'll get a break, we'll do a little fun with audio,
and then Randy Johnson getting fifty one retired. We found
an interview right Jackson from what's seven.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Years ago January twenty second of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Eighteen, eight years ago when we asked him when he
expects to get fifty one retired, and you might be
surprised at what he said eight years ago. We hear
that coming up at four, we're gonna hear from Derek Coleman,
Brus Cody Green, Drew as a Party, Landon Hatchet, Garren Hatchett,
and more. As we get ready for the Dogs after
dark spring game at six tonight. Right here on ninety
(32:41):
three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
It's now time for Sufday in Dick's one with audio.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Jimmy g Paunch Dog, Jimmy mister garoppolo.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right, boys and girls, we are back on a
It was this Friday afternoon, right my brain is mush
Man Friday afternoon, right here on ninety three to three
kJ ARFM. Jackson's back in the studio. Dick is Dick's
out today. Dick had the old pooper scooper AKAA klenoscophy
this morning, so he's not here.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
He's he's taken the day off, and that's fine. I
think he needed a day off.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Did you did you get a chance, Softie to talk
to Dick today?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yes, he sounded like he had just experimented with every
drug in high school for the senior year, and it
was not a good idea for him to get into
a car and drive up to Washington or beyond the
radio show, because I don't think he could be responsible
for what came out of his pilot this afternoon. So
I don't know if they give guys nitress now or
laughing gas when they get I had mine about a
(33:40):
year ago, and I don't remember any of that stuff.
But I don't know, man, Jackson. Everybody's got a dark side.
I may have one that we're not aware of.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I'm just imagining him sitting down with Switzerland with Walters
in those interviews and him like trying to execute those
interviews in a professional manner while hyped up on all
the drug new.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Nope, not have worked, and we would have made fun
of him and he would have gotten mad.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yeah, So all right, have a lot fun with audio slash.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Hey did you hear that? Hey Jackson? Did you happen
to hear that?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
We start in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Williams joined Get Up this
week and sound it off on the NCAA expanding both
basketball tournaments to seventy six teams.
Speaker 10 (34:18):
You know, anybody that wakes up today and thinks that
more Cinderellas are going to get a larger invitation. And
this is about the royal family having more seats at
the table, and the royal family are the power of
the power conferences here. They're going to generate more revenue
more at large bids.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
But what I hate about this the most everybody doesn't
get a damn trophy like we talk about it when
it comes to youth sports all the time. I hear
parents literally articulated all time, no, no, no, you didn't
come in third, second or first place.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
You came in ninth place. You don't get a trophy.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
And what we're doing now is because it's about ad revenue.
Is because of that, we're generating as much a revenue
as possible. We're saying everybody gets in. What the hell
is the point of having a tournament if more teams
continue to get it in. Because it's about this, we're
not teaching the valuable lessons.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I think he's being a little dramatic, to be honest
with you. We're not teaching the valuable lesson. Sure that
kicks me to learn. So some sophomore point guard on
a seven and thirteen Big ten team makes the NCAA
tournament and thinks, huh, this is easy.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Life's going to be like this.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
I mean, come on, like Jake, relax, number one, number two.
You know, look, I mean, we're not giving out trophies
when you make the tournament. You just make the tournament,
probably gonna get your ass kicked in the first round.
Maybe a couple of teams will make a run, because
there is some parody in college basketball. But I think,
you know, we've kind of gone for certain teams from
(35:44):
a standpoint of, Hey, making the tournament is no longer
just that big a deal. It's now about what you
do when you get there. And I'm totally fine with
that attitude.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, I'll take the other side here because I do
look at a team that is let's say five hundred
even below five hund in their conference, and you know,
they happen to have enough quad games in certain areas
where okay, you are suddenly going to make the dance
as the second eight, not whatever the whatever seed. You know,
(36:13):
there's certain elements where I get it for the long
form of a person's life and to be able to say, yeah,
how is a twenty year old going to react in
fifteen years when they played the NCAA tournament and they
shouldn't have in the previous system. And on one side,
I hear what you're saying, and I think, yet you
(36:34):
have a fair point of like, come on, it's not
gonna actually that, But on the other side of it,
it's no.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
If you guys.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Weren't good enough to be even five hundred or above
five hundred in your conference against competition, right, then do
you shouldn't just be given a spot in the honestly
in the best postseason tournament of any sport, of any league,
because there is nothing better than the NC of a tournament.
And that doesn't even address the stupidity of the incable
(37:03):
expanding this thing, because that's a whole different ballgame of
just how dumb it is to ruin the most perfect
product in all of sports.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Wow, the problem is with the whole most perfect product
in all sports. They said that when it was forty
eight teams, they said it when it was thirty six,
they said it when it was twenty four, and they'll
say it when it's sixty four. They'll say it when
it's sixty eight, and we'll say it when they expand
it from seventy six.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
To ninety four.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, it was the most perfect thing in the world.
So they pre the next generation will get used to this.
And you know, look, here's my thing too, about like
the first the first round whatever Willner called it, the
what was the terminology jacks what they're going to.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Call the first round. Now, just don't watch it.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I mean, honestly, like you know, look, so what, it's
just there. It's the first round of the NBA playoffs.
You're not watching much. I'm not watching much. We'll jump
on the wagon and the semis or the conference finals.
And I think I think people are going to start
to treat the NCAA tournament like that, that these first
second round games are going to be more worthless maybe
than they are now. And it just may not be
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something people really pay attention to. But the whole idea
that kids are learning the wrong life lessons because teams
are making the tournament when they're nine and eleven, that's
just to me, that's a little bit dramatic from Jay's perspective.
Number one and then number two, I do think that
in this day and age of nil, where money is
top dog, and programs in colleges need as much cash
as they can to pay these guys and keep them
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in school, this is generating revenue, it really is. I mean,
you want to pay the players, you want to give
players the money that you think they deserve, then well,
if you want to also pay coaches you better damn
well generate more revenue or the fans are gonna just
have to fork it over.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I would just say this, I hope, however they structure
this thing, we already know how they're gonna structure it.
I would hope that you can still take one piece
of paper to do your bracket, because if they make
you do two pieces of paper, and if they think
it's too complicated, then the whole thing's gonna fall back.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I want one piece of paper to fill my bracket.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
We'll see, man. I mean that's the most important thing
for me. As long as you can only have one
piece of paper, two pieces of paper, no, we're just
as un called for. I can't do it all, right, Jackson?
Did you happen for God's sake? No, never mind, I
thought I got locked out?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Jackson?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Let's go too too.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
During ESPN's post draft coverage this week, Michael Wilbond sounded
off on the NFL's lies when it comes to caring
about player safety.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
And here's what angers me about the league.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Okay, angers me.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
No league lies publicly like the NFL. No entity in
this country lies as thoroughly, as convincingly and as successfully
as the NFL to try to sell we.
Speaker 9 (39:42):
Care about health and player safety.
Speaker 12 (39:45):
They do not as they try to add an eighteenth
game after adding the seventeenth game.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
It's a lie, it's a fraud.
Speaker 12 (39:54):
It's the NFL, and people aren't gonna call them out
on it. Usually people just want their football, and whatever
the NFL is selling, we as a culture will buy it.
If I hear one person, don't ever.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Stay in my face.
Speaker 12 (40:08):
If you're an NFL executive or a club executive, all
we care about health in player safety, you do not
as you try to add a game.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Well, there's a lot of that that's true. I'll agree
with that.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
I think the eighteenth game is going to replace the
third preseason game, and may replace two of them by
the way, so that's two games down the players won't
have to take part in. But you know, we've been
saying for years about player safety that you see these
offensive linemen wearing these ridiculous great Gazoo hats over their
helmets to protect their brains from concussions. But you don't
see defensive linemen wearing those, right, you don't see running
(40:42):
backs wearing those when they stick their head down and
try to blow through a defensive tackle. You don't see
linebackers wearing those. You don't see anybody wearing those. And
there's collisions all over the place in the National Football League.
So I think it is a little bit ridiculous from
that perspective, But I also think the idea of the
eighteenth game is fair to have it happen because the
(41:02):
NFL is a business that needs to grow. Every business
needs to grow, right, They're always going to be looking
at growth from quarter to quarter or year to year,
And the NFL is no different than that. You know,
when stock reports come out, when earnings updates come out
from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, whatever. I mean, they're
always looking to see what their earnings look like, their
revenue looks like, their growth looks like from year to year,
(41:25):
from quarter to quarter.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
So the NFL is no different. So I mean, I'm
I'm not surprised by the eighteenth game. I do wonder
where it stops, Jackson, and we're gonna see twenty twenty
four to thirty games in our lifetime. Probably not. It's
like the two hour marathon thing we talked about the
year day. At some point, you know, the progress just
kind of comes to a little bit of a screeching
hault because it just becomes unrealistic to keep playing football games.
(41:47):
But they there is no doubt that there are certain
elements of what Wilbon said that is absolutely accurate.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Percent in my opinion, and I think probably that number
is twenty. I think it'd be really hard to go
north to twenty eventually, but who knows.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
Anything could happen.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
And it's interesting because that clip was was about a
minute long, and it was originally about two minutes long,
and I kind of cut it down because the other
part that I cut out, which I fully agree with
Wilbon on, is Okay, if you're gonna lie about it,
lie about it, can you just be honest. Can you
just not have this element of saying we care so much,
(42:20):
we care so much, we care so much. Just be
honest and say, yeah, we are a business, we need
to grow, we want more games, and you know if
it means but said that, but just don't come out
and say we care about player safety. We care about
They keep saying it in various forms and fashions.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Stop saying that now, yeah, hey, well look, I mean
if I know you're saying that, so I just think
that you're right that the idea that's all about player
safety is laughable because of a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
We just talked about.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Making teams play on a Thursday after playing on a
Sunday the weekend before obviously is completely ridiculous, and Richard
Sherman is one guy that's been bitching about stuff like
that for years. So yeah, you're you're you're right. But
they do talk about how the growth of the game
is important. I mean, they do talk about it, you know,
more overseas than locally, but they they do talk about it.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I found my drop by the way.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah, So I mean, again, I think there's certain aspects
of what Will Bond said that are absolutely correct, but
it's never gonna go away because most businesses are not
totally upfront and honest with their employees or their client base,
and the NFL is no different. Hey, Jackson almost called you, Dick, Jackson.
Did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Let's go to three.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Former running back leve On Bell joined Justin le Boy's
Respectfully podcast last week and ripped Adam Gase including accusing
the former Jets head coach of snorting coke before practice
one time.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
Adam Gase. Bro, Bro, he might have been the dumbest
coach ever. If it's second to nine and Adam Gasee
is the coach, I promise you, I bet you by
I'm doll one. He's calling a half back dive. He's
calling a half back dive the second and nine every time. Bro,
There's not been not one play like one time while
I was in the huddle and it was second and
nine or second and ten and the play coming in
(44:11):
and he did not.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
Call the dog.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Bro, he's ti.
Speaker 9 (44:13):
I look at that yard marker at the sideline and
I see the play getting ran in.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
Bro, I don't even listen to the play I.
Speaker 9 (44:19):
Line up, Bro, worst coach in the NFL, worst coach ever.
He should not ever, but he should coach little league.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Bro.
Speaker 9 (44:26):
He was terrible that he did a lot in office
that coaches ain't supposed to be doing. But that's why
he hain't no coach. But he should have even been
hold on what he was doing in the office.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Bro. Y'all know that. Bro.
Speaker 9 (44:35):
You know y'all know that white that white girl.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
Just walking see my coach. Everybody go to practice.
Speaker 11 (44:43):
Bro.
Speaker 9 (44:45):
We got practice in twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
We got walked through.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Bro, this is what you're doing in here?
Speaker 9 (44:49):
Yeah, you ain't see him, Sliff coch Bro my own two,
my own two.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Wow, who was on?
Speaker 2 (45:00):
He's literally saying that Adam Gase he saw him do
coke in the It's.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Been twenty eight minutes before we walk through.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
What do you do if your gaze?
Speaker 3 (45:09):
I mean, if it's not true, you gotta sue him, right, coach?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
I mean, obviously his mannerisms and the way that he
looks would make it appear that maybe Leveon would be correct.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
I mean, he's got that look to.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Him, his eyeballs, he has him blinked for twenty minutes.
That's going on there, man, Leveon Bell says he was
doing coke.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
It's also interesting because because if.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
I'm gonna ask Petrouss about that next week.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
I had to I had to very selectively choose because
every other word was a swear word, and that was
very But one of the things that they went on
to show and say in that in that interview was
how if you look at Adam Gase on the sideline
and games. He's always smelling something off of his hand,
and they show like about three different clips of Gase
(45:54):
bringing his hand to his face and like and like smelling,
and it's sort of is like, what the hell is
he doing all those times, Adam Gaze just bringing his
finger to his nose. I mean, it could be smelling
salts or whatever.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
But twenty eight minutes before.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Walkthrough starting, And why would you need to snort something,
Adam Gase?
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Yeah, well because he was on coke. Got the proof.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
I mean, look at a picture of man those look
at those eyeballs. Man, Holy moly.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
A press conference that explains all of it.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Yeah, well, I'm curious to see where that goes, by
the way, and how much comes out of this with
with coach Gase and his response, we do one more?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Yeah, Jackson Japan? Here tho?
Speaker 1 (46:30):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (46:31):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (46:31):
All right? Last one?
Speaker 2 (46:33):
After his round yesterday at the PGA Tour's Miami Championship,
Scottie Scheffler had zero interest in talking about live golfers
returning to the PGA Tour.
Speaker 6 (46:42):
The news coming fast and furious this week about live
golfers and live in general, and this we've seen Brooks
have seen Patrick weeds on his way back. What are
your feelings on these pathways back? Some some believe just
let them in, Some believe that needs to be some
kind of penalty. Wit do you stand.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Scottfling Off?
Speaker 5 (47:01):
Course, I don't know what you want from me?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
All right, sweets guys.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I mean, I don't know. I guess I get it,
you know. But he's also Scotty Scheffler. He's kind of
an E. F. Hutton of golf. People want to know
his opinion. His opinion carries a lot of weight, right,
What he thinks, Rory thinks, what all these guys think about.
There's probably only nine or ten people that you would
look at and say, I'm really curious what that guy
(47:29):
believes about a major issue involving a certain sport, and
Scottie Scheffler is one of him. I didn't see a
scorecard from yesterday. I have no idea how he played
in Round one in Miami. Maybe he was terrible, although
I do I was yesterday the day that he threw
his driver off the T box. Oh, I think that
happened yesterday, by the way, so he was probably in
(47:50):
a bad mood. But I do think that you know,
there's media people like me and like that guy whoever
that is that just want to get people's opinions on
stuff because their word carries a lot of way.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
Honestly, I think they him just saying, come on, I
just came off the golf course, like, what do you
the words?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
What do you want from me?
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Well, dude, we would like your answer because this is
a press conference and it's a reasonable that's not an
unreasonable question. Like that response I think was chicken crap
from Scotti Scheffelin.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Well again, I mean, the more this drags on, the
more guys like that are gonna be asked about it.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
By the way, there's no question.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
So all right, we're gonna break Randy Johnson getting his
number retired on Saturday. We're gonna hear from the Big
Unit a little bit next on ninety three three kJ
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