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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go. This man has no dick.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We back tomorrow. We're gonna head of the Rainy Ears tomorrow.
By the way, at three o'clock before their game was Sacramento.
When those two teams get together, throw out the record
books baby tomorrow at Cheney Stadiums. Looking forward to that. Jackson,
you're on vacation starting next week?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is that right? All right? You better get your takes
in now. Your hot takes.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
All the jackson Ettes out there, the Jacksonites all want
to know what Jackson Felts thinks about the owner of
the storm.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm kidding. By the way, Oh boy, don't have kid,
you have the failure. I don't want to get you.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't want to give you a heart attack right
out of the gate here pallor right. So I'm sorry
for doing that to you. We should have discussed this
off the air. For crying out loud. But anyway, we
got a lot to get to. Mariners have a fairly
big game tonight. This is exactly the way this goes.
You lose three out of four, and now you got
a shot to win the series against the La Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Look, man, there's obviously a lot to.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Talk about with this baseball team right now, Okay, one
of them tonight is that if this team is gonna
go anywhere, they can't have Brian Wu show up one
of every two starts, meaning they need Brian Wo to
start pitching like Brian Wu on the road and not
like a dumpster.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Fire when he leaves T Mobile Park. Have you seen
his numbers? Failure? Failure, failure?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Have you delved into like I'm saying, actually delved into
how bad Brian Wu is on the road over him yesterday? Okay,
So you have the ops against, you have the batting
average against?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Do you have all that stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Did he because it's because if he didn't do it,
I'll tell you. I mean, look, the guy is at home,
he's got a batting average allowed of one sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
On the road, he's at three oh four.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay, he's got an ops against at home of four
to sixty three. On the road, he's at eight twenty three. Okay,
he's six and ohero with a two point two oh
e RA at home. He's one and seven with a
six point five to e RA on the road. But
it gets even worse than that. His last six starts
for Brian Wo away from t Mobile Park seven point
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seven to one ERA. He is just getting beat to
death on the road and that ends tonight. Really, yes,
that ends. I'm feeling it. I'm playing the odds, Jackson.
I'm playing the odds. And it's been six consecutive games
of slop out of Brian Wu and against the best
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team in baseball in maybe the best park in baseball,
in front of the best fans the game has to offer,
in Tinseltown, Los Angeles, California, thousand miles south of where
Brian Wu grew up in Oakland, California. That is gonna
end tonight. I don't care what the odds say. I
don't care what the money line says. Get rich bet
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the ms. That crap ends tonight. Brian Wu wins against
the Dodgers tonight, Boocket, quick question, bucket.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And you can play this one of the air tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
If it doesn't happen, what are you on and where
it can I get some I'm telling.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You, man, I just again, I'm playing the odds.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
If I would have told you earlier in the year
that Brian Wu was going to have a seven game
stretch of horrific starts, on the road.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
There's no way you would have bought that. And again
we do the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Let's take out the hairball deal and just look at God,
it you or whatever. He's really been awful in every
single game. This is not about one awful start that's
inflating his zer. Four and two thirds. You stop me
when you hear a good start for Brian Will know.
This is his last six road starts six and a third,
five runs, five innings, seven runs, four innings, five runs,
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five innings, four runs, five innings, five runs, and four
and two thirds and four.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
They've all been terrible, every single one.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Again, this is not like Bryce Miller last year or
two years ago, when he'd have five good starts but
one putrid start that would kill his era. He has
been terrible, absolute dog meet in six consecutive starts on
the road. It is unbelievable how bad this guy's been
so Jackson, I'm telling you, I got a good feeling.
I like it tonight. I like them. I like Brian Wu.
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I will say this, at a minimum, at a minimum,
Brian Wu will pitch well. Okay, they maybe one one
where he leaves the game at the sixth inning, Brian
wu take it to the bank. Bet the house will
pitch well tonight, and he will give the Mariners his
best road start in two months.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I guess the obvious question is, couldn't you have said
this before the last road starts?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
No, no, no, or the previous.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
One, because when you go six, it's sort of the
question of like, okay, if you go three, then yeah,
the trend's gonna end eventually. Then four, then five, then six.
So I mean the we're at the point now where
there's no level there. I have zero confidence that it's
gonna stop at seven or eight or nine. It'll stop eventually,
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but it's like it's like flipping a coin. It's it's
weren't the word the point now where it's it's fruitless
to say I have confidence it's going.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
To Listen, Jackson, this is what you're missing. This is
why you don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
All right, anybody who knows anything about gambling knows about
the rule six. When something out of the ordinary has
happened six games in a row, it is very unlikely
it's going to happen for a seventh game in a row. Okay,
all right, No, that is a proven scientific fact. But
I get your point because at some point you'd say, hey,
enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's like the Travis Henry kids conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Travis Henry, do you know about Travis Heno and but
you know what, Travis Henry is the running back. Travis
Henry has eleven kids with ten different women.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, Travis Henry.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, yes, there's also another guy in Seattle who did
something like that, but we're not going to pick on
him because we love him.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, Shawn has one wife.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Okay, So Travis Henry had ten kids, eleven kids with
ten different women. So the point is, you know, when
you have three with three different gals, do you stop? Okay,
now you're at four. Right now, you're at five. It's
a challenge.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now you're getting to six with six d Now you're
at seven. At what point do you cut it off?
You can go.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
When I mean cut it off, I mean like literally
cut it off.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Just be done with it, man, move on. So what
the hell? So I I get what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
All right, And look, obviously we're having a little bit
of fun with this.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I want you to save this. Are you here tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay, save this for tomorrow's show, because if I'm wrong,
Dick will be to you think he'll be begging to
get this out of the air tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yesterday, before we went off the air, Dick predicted a
four to two loss to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm well aware of it, and you don't want it.
Well aware of it because he told me yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Then he in the evening text it's like, look, look
for to two.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It was four to two. I'm like, Dick, they lost
the game. Oh my god, this is not something to
be happy about. It unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I gotta I got a late night text from Dick
famous day, don't stoopid, reminding.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Me that he was right.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Whatever. I just I'm telling him out. I got it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Sometimes baseball and we talked about this before managers is
a lot of decisions are based on gut feel hunches, right,
Like people that hate analytics, they want the human element
brought back.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You'll go with your gut, all right, what's your gut?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Say?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What kind of you know, facial expression? What kind of
affect did he show in the pregame?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Right? Was he out late with his girlfriend? Did he
get into a fight with his wife?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Is he not feeling well, he's his elbow sore, you know,
is he done with the dumps?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You know whatever? Is he in a good mood?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That stuff matters more in baseball than any other sport
because you play every damn day, right, And I think
Brian Woo was so overdue, dude for this number one
and number two Jackson. The starting pitching has been, by
their standards, kind of crack definitely in the last six games.
I mean, they are either med or they are below med.
They got to what's their eer? What I say seven
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point eight In the last six starts, nobody's had a
good one. Nobody's had a real dominant Mariner esque elite rotation.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Start in a long time.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
These guys are all getting beat up, man, So I
believe in Wu. I think Wu gets it done. Will
the Mariners have us back and score enough to make
it matter? We'll see. But when Brian wo shoves it tonight,
I promise you, though, I will not be texting you
saying your I told you I won't be doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm gona, I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'm making a proclamation. And whether I'm right or wrong,
you can you can hammer it. You can bust my
balls tomorrow all you want. Okay, WU gets it done.
This is the night. This crap ends tonight. Uh Big
ten Football Media Day, Jetfish Gonna hop on next on
ninety three three KJRFM.
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this morning. See we could sit here and fib about
this Jackson and say, joining us live from Chicago, but
that would be a lie. I think people can maybe
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even tell by the tone of my voice. I did
this about eight thirty this morning, still in my Yoda
and Showbacca Pj's by the way, he hadn't even gotten
out of bed yet, and Jedfish called It's.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Like, hey, can we go now?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I was like, yeah, cool man, So jumped into my office,
had a conversation with Jedfish about the upcoming Husky football
season from Big ten Media Day in Chicago, and started
off by talking about just give us a progress reports.
Where this whole thing is in your mind versus where
it was when you first showed up here.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah. I think the biggest indication of the change is,
and I mentioned this today, is that we had seven
offensive linemen when I showed up here, and two of
those seven were coming off of ACL injuries. And now
we're sitting here with seventeen offensive linemen, and I would
argue that seven of them can start in a Big
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ten at about almost every team we have out here.
So it's a huge difference there. I think that's where
it starts. And then I would say our defensive line
and our linebacking corps, you could see just such a
huge difference. So it's been fun, you know, get to
nine wins in our second year, you know, only been
done I think nine times in the last thirty years
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at U dub and obviously first time doing it in
the Big Ten. So pretty cool about where we're at
and excited about where we're going.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, what's funny you mentioned nine wins in year number two, which,
as you said, doesn't happen very often for head coaches
at Washington. But I know that your standards are higher
than that, right, I mean you're talking about making the
CFP competing for a national championship. So what is it
about this team besides the obvious? Right, we talked about
the line of scrimmage, We'll talk about the quarterback in
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a second, if you were doing my show and my job,
which hopefully you'll never have to experience that, what would
your standards be for this football team this year?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Jed Yeah. I think the biggest thing for us is
to be able to finish. And you know, as we
look through where we are as a program going to
year three, there's you know, we squandered some opportunities and
my hope is that this year we have an opportunity
to just finish. You know, we're a seven six half
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time game again, Stillhio States seven seven against Michigan, right
ten three against Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You know, so you're sitting there.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
In these games and you're right there in it. But
depth is a factor, and I'm excited to see where
our guys can be. I think the fact that we
have such great continuity we'll add to it. But every
game is a battle. We're in a different world. So
I don't look at this year. I got to look
at it differently than the last year. I got to say,
every year is its own year now here in the
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Big ten, because if there's so many you know, changes
constantly with roster management, and you know, the dollars that
are invested in certain programs. So I'm just looking forward
to going out there and competing and seeing how many
we can win.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, are you? Are you where you need to be
anio wise?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I mean you've been pretty upfront about that, you know,
and honest, I think with everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But how much progress have you made? Okay?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, no, we're not.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We're not even now.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
We're not close to where we need to be if
we on to have consistent success on the national stage
in the top twenty to twenty five programs. I don't
think anybody wants to be, you know, in the thirties
and forties when it comes to nil and we need more.
And that's not me, beggan, That's just me saying that.
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That's what it is. And there's a lot of false
rumors out there about what what's spent and what's not spent. Right,
I can tell you right now, we need to rally
the troops, we need to rally the businesses, and we
need to generate revenue to be able to participate in
the big boy game that's going on out here.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Well, Jed, I mean, let's just clear it up now, right,
I mean, you mentioned false rumors.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean what are you hearing that's incorrect? And what
is correct?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, I'm hearing that we're spending more than we're spending.
And you know, I think or that we have more
than we have. So what for us? What we need
to do is we need to be additive. We need
to find ways to create you know, generate business. We
need to find ways to create dollars. We need to
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find a company that wants to put a Jersey patch
on our on our uniform and name our stadium, and uh,
you know, there's a lot of things out there that
could bring revenue into our program. Let alone, you know,
individual donors, Let alone, you know, find a way to
get some more third party dollars into the program. But
that's what we're the world we're living in right now.
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And when you see in Ohio State sign a deal
for sixteen million dollars a year in a Jersey patch
and that's just add sixteen million to their bucket, right
And when we go out there and play Ohio State,
I think everybody wants to you know, they're still saying,
let's try to beat them.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, yeah, I heard it was seventeen, but who's counting?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
What the heck?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
You know, what's dounting? What's the difference? See right, jedfish
with us. So, Jed, you made the move with Jimmy Doherty.
Remember you talking about that over the offseason that you
wanted to be more involved in the quarterback room, more
involved with with guys like Demond. What does that look
like behind the scenes so far? What are your hoping
it looks like on game day?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It's been a blast, love love where our staff is.
JP Losman has done a phenomenal job, taken on more
of a significant role in the quarterback room. I think
it's great to not have additional layers, the ability to
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be able to have a direct line with the at
all times, to be able to with JP. I coached
JP in Seattle with the Seahawks. I feel like we've
gone full circle. So that's been awesome. And having Matt
Cavanaugh in the building as a sounding board has been
a really huge advantage in my opinion, someone that's, you know,
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forty five year veteran around the game. But for for us,
for me, I've had more fun spring ball, summer ball,
just being around and you know, being being closer with
the players. I think being in your three it allows
you to be a lot more vulnerable to your guys
and to ask for more feedback from them. You no
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longer trying to prove it. You're trying to build it together.
And that's that's really what I'm most excited about.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, and look, you mentioned obviously finishing and that depth
is a factor, and we're hoping that depth can be
the difference between finishing the game against Wisconsin, finishing the
game against the Oregon, et cetera. But I mean, you
look at Demon's numbers, man, I mean, this is going
to be his sixteenth start in his twenty seventh game
already against the Koubs in the Apple Cup, and the
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numbers last year don't look terrible at all. I mean,
one hundred and ten NFL passer rating, six hundred rushing yards.
But I know he wants more. I know you want more.
What what does more look like from Deman william Y.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, more looks like you know, go from good to
great and then reset and then go from good to
great again. I think that for DeMont. You know, I
said to somebody today, you know, he's no longer a teenager.
But you know, we you know, if we're fortunate, we
could have demand for three more years a monthly and
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you know, imagine each year the growth we can have.
But the idea that we're going into what the sixteenth
seventeenth game of you know, of him as a starter,
is just it's so different. We went into year game
three of him as a starter last year. Right, So
now he's got great demands and I would just expect better.
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I just would expect him to be a better football
player than he was last year. And and I think
that'll be fun for all of the Washington community.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Right Well, A lot of people like to say a
lot of cliches like quarterbacks best friend as a running game.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I always thought that was nonsense.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I think a quarterback's best friend is an awesome offensive line.
And I think you've got the best offensive line you've
been or you've had since you've been here. But the
running back position, you know, I forgetting used to see
at number one running around you back there in Adam Mohammad,
a lot of new names. Right if the Apple Cup
were tonight, who's your starting running.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Back that's going to be? It would be I don't
even know.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I don't know who would get the bro I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I was going to say it's gonna be running back
by committee. But yeah, your question was who's the starting
running back? So then I don't even know the answer.
I think, you know, we've got Jayden Lamoar, We've got
Trey Cooley, We've got Quaid car Really, the three of
them have done a fantastic job competing this summer. We've
got hell, you know, no one. Really. We didn't see Jayden,
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we didn't see Trey all spring. So now that we
have an opportunity to see what they look like on
top of the growth of Quaid, I'm excited. But it
is different. You know. For four years I looked out
there and had number one and had Jonah, and now
Sean Payton gets Jonah. So now I'm looking forward to
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seeing what it looks like for us. Obviously not having Adam,
he was kind of this past year a good person
to rely upon for some carries and in the past
with Mike Wiley and DJ Williams, so this is a
new group for me. But we got a hell of
a running back at quarterback as well, and we got
a heck of running backs around him. And then with
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Demand's ability to throw the football and run the football,
I think will be okay, especially with the offensive line
we have in front of him.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, jedfish with us from Big ten media day in Chicago,
just a cup more. I know you've got to get
go into some more important stuff and talking to us
here in Seattle, But let me let me ask you
about the two eighteen year olds, because I don't know
if there's ever been an opener where there's going to
be more eyes on a defensive tackle and an offensive lineman,
then there will be in the Apple Cup with Cody
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and DCB starting out there as eighteen year olds. And
I don't want to say concerned is the word, but
I Jed, I'd be lying if I wasn't massively curious
to see how eighteen year old kids did in the
trenches starting in the opening against Wazoo.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
How about you.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, I'm excited about it, but I also know that
I get to watch him every day go against you know,
I get to see DCB go against John Mills. I
see him go against Flannon Hatchett and Garon Hatchett and Champ.
So there's a good feel in terms of he's going
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against some really good players. The same way when you
look at Cody, you know, Cody's blocking Logan George and
Jacob Blaine, Isaiah Ward and Duce Davis. So there's some
challenges there on an everyday basis. I don't get wrapped
up in it, you know, I know it's always going
to be you know, it's a rookie starter right in
the NFL. You're always a little bit nervous. You know.
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You take a first round pick left tackle and then
you go out there and you throw him out there.
You know, we lived with Russell o'con in twenty ten,
Tryan Clady in two thousand and eight. So yeah, there's
some concerns, but I also know that those guys are
mature and we're gonna let it rip. Man, We're gonna
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have a great time doing it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Well, let me just do this and we'll catch you
up before the season starts. We'll see you obviously on
Tuesday at Media Day, but we kind of started off
by getting your thoughts on the progress report, you know.
I mean, one thing we do in this business is
we all have a take on the head coach. I
think most of us think that Jedfish has done a
pretty damn good job considering what he took over after
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Kaitlin took off for Alabama. I don't think there's anybody
who probably reflects more on Jeedfish than Jedfish. So what
do you think? What do you think about the job
you've done in the two plus years you've been here
so far?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You know, I think we've had a good We've had
a good start, but we're not nearly where we want
to be. And we want to be able to walk
out there and you know, raise a trophy for our
fan base, and we want to be able to celebrate
and commit to a long run together and see how
good we can all become. So I'm excited for where
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we start, where we are. You know, I think we're
in a good place and I recognize where we started
and where we are right now. But we are not done,
and I can't wait to get back out on the field.
But I think the best reflection of our coaching staff
is our players. And the more you get this be
around our players, and the more you see the way
our players look and act and compete, I think that
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that's really how I'd like you to judge our program
in our center.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Ah, there you go, Jet Fish again. Like I don't
want to you know, pull a woll over your eyes.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
But this morning, you know, fresh out of bed whatever,
had a quick conversation with Jet I hadn't even had
my oatmeal and morning coffee yet action before that conversation
with Jed Fish, So good stuff out of him. I mean,
he's obviously very direct with the nil stuff. I mean,
before I can even get the words out of my mouth,
he's cutting me off.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Say nope, nope, nope, not there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He's he's talking that they're you know, in the thirties
and forties in nil, right. I mean, you've got thirty
two teams combined in the big ten in the SEC.
That insinuates that they're near dead last from his perspective,
in the big ten in the SEC in nil dollars,
you know, I mean, he's dead dead right about. Ohio
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State announces that seventeen million dollar a year Jersey patch
deal with Chase. Notre Dame follows up later that day
with a twenty million dollar deal I think it was
with so far on their patch. So look, I know
U Dub's working on it. They're working on a new
stadium sponsor for the turf at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
They're working on.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
A jersey patch for either a the football team or
be the entire department as a whole.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
But nothing's imminent in that regard.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So look, there there are plenty of opportunities to make money,
plenty of platforms and plenty of tools that you have
at your disposal that you can use to make money.
Things that used to be totally off limits, like jersey
patches in college football, are no longer taboo. And if
you doub wants to be a part of this arms race,
they've got to start taking advantage of that. So I
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think they need to be creative. They need salespeople, they
need people to get on board from a fan base perspective. Eventually,
maybe there's going to be a salary cap and this
stuff will settle itself down. But until that day, this
is all about money. So I thought it was pretty
interesting Jackson, how quickly he jumped in to cut me
off and say, we are nowhere, We're nowhere near where
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we need to be. Yeah, that's for me.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
That and the no we don't have a starting running
back comment is certainly what stands out. I mean for
maybe it's like, maybe it's the soccer fan in me,
but I have no problem with jersey sponsors like sponsor everything.
I don't really care. At the end of the day,
You're right, it comes back to dollars. Like this whole thing,
we all want you dub to win. We all want
them to go to the CFP and to go far.
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And the reality is in the modern game, that equates
to money, money, money, money, money, and spending on players
and spending, spending, spending.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And the only.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Way you get to do that is if you invent
new ways to have new revenue streams and sponsor at all.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
If you need to put multiple sponsors across the jersey.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yes, some people are gonna wind that it looks like
a Nascar I don't care because it means money here.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, here's the thing, man, The question is what comes first,
the winning or the sponsorship? Right, Because the two schools
that we just talked about, Ohio State and Notre Dame
are coming off pretty successful damn years right. Ohio State
won the national title two years ago. Notre Dame, I think,
won ten games and skip the Bowl game. But that's
Notre Dame. That might be the most valuable brand in sports.
(25:55):
For crying out loud, Okay, you could certainly argue that.
So I think it's I mean, he's gonna have to
do some things to get people motivated, right, He's gonna
have to do some things to get businesses motivated. Like
you know, there's years in this town, whether we're the
Seahawks or the Mariners back in two thousand and one,
or coming off the ninety five season, the Sonics back
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in the day, in the mid nineties, the Huskies and
the nineties and the two thousands, where people didn't even
give a damn what they were getting in return.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They just wanted to be a part of it. We
just want to be a part of it. Right.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Here's money, do whatever you want with it, right, And
so what is that that's gonna get Husky fans and
businesses fired up? Is it winning ten in a row
and being in the CFP conversation before Indiana comes to
town and getting that win and waking up on Sunday
morning being ranked number two in the country. Is it
Demon Williams going after a Heisman Trophy campaign? Is it
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throwing up sixty points a game? Is it shutting people
out every single week? So he's look, I think Jed
Fish has done a fine job And the reason why
I say fine is because I know there's a lot
of Husky football fans out there, and I just put
a poll on Twitter, by the way, asking you to
grave Jed Fish's performance so far as the head coach
of the Dogs and just put ABC or D. I mean,
(27:12):
I think if you think it's a failure, you're an idiot, right.
I mean, you can't win nine games in year two
and be the second coach, by the way, maybe ever
because I went back to Don to win nine games
in year number two on the job and be a failure. Now,
I understand there's some people out there that will say, well,
he had thirteen games. I get that, okay, But the
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best up until Kaitlin who won fourteen in year two,
Chris Peterson won seven, Sark won seven, Jimmy one four,
Tyrone one five, Lambright won seven, Don won seven, Go'll
be won one. So even if you throw in the
extra games, which I get it, okay. I mean, Kaylen
coached in fifteen, for God's sakes, but it's because he
won nine wins in year two. Doesn't happen very often
(27:58):
for Husky football coaches. So I would give MA solid
B because I think that the one thing they're still
missing is that consistency to be taken as a major
threat offensively against the best teams.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
They play like.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I want them to be a problem no matter what
defense they're playing, and I get that defense usually wins out.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
We've talked about this before, going back to the twenty
thirteen NFC Championship game, the game with Michigan.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I told you on the air, I love our offense.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I love Michael Pennix, but I'm concerned that this is
going to go the way that Lob game went, that
the defense will eventually win out. So I will always
take the great defense against the great offense. I'm not
asking for thirty points a game. Jed's always busting my balls.
You want us to look. What I'm asking for is
for the offense to not melt down and get held
to six points against Ohio State or fourteen against the Ducks,
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or six against Penn State or seventeen against Indiana. You know,
give me a chance, right, And I think they're as
well positioned now to do that because.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Of their line since he's been here. But I give
him a bee. I just think what he inherited.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
People don't understand what an absolute pile that was what
he took over and to be nine and four in
year number two.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I think it's going in the right direction. Now it's
time to push it through.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
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Did you hear that? Hey, Jackson, did you happen to
hear that?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
At a press conference this morning, Buccaneer quarterback Baker Mayfield
made this statement regarding his ongoing contract dispute with Tampa Bay.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Wanted the deal done and set the deadline and told
them it was going to be all ball after that,
and I did mean that. And I don't know if
they thought I was just gonna take some of the
offers that they gave, But I'm at the point of
my career and understanding what I've brought to this franchise.
One I'm very, very thankful for the chance they gave me,
do not get me wrong on that. But I've also know,
(30:49):
I really know what I've brought to this franchise. Disappointing
in that regard to to not have, you know, to
feel disrespect a little bit, and that's really the disappointing part,
to feel undervalued after you know, thinking you've earned it,
and I think I'm a franchise quarterback. I've been told
I'm a franchise quarterback, and so to not have a
deal done is very disappointing. But it's all ball from here,
(31:11):
you know, after today, Like I'll answer a few more
questions about the contract, but after today, I'm not answering
anymore because I'm not negotiating anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah. First, I don't buy that at all.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Number One, if they if they make an offer, if
he lights it up and they make an offer of
sixty million dollars and making the second highest paid quarterback
in the NFL, he's taken it, all right, because if
he does it, he's a moron, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Number two, there are one, two, three, four, five, six, nine,
twelve quarterbacks in the NFL that are making fifty.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Million dollars a year or more. And you know how
this works.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It's not the best guy that's the highest paid, it's
just the next guy, right, So does he deserve more
than Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert Brock, Perdy, Jared Goff,
Matt Stafford, Trevor Lawrence, Jordan Love, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow,
Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes. Well, some of those guys he
deserves more, and some of them he does not deserve more.
(32:01):
So I guess the question is what was he offered?
And if the Buccaneers are not going to pay Baker Mayfield.
Are they just going to franchise him, which they certainly
can do next year.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
He's stuck there, man.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah, it is funny that he's just like, it's all
ball now and absolutely, you know we're not we're not negotiating.
There's a reason why you have agents is because you're agents,
Baker in case, maybe he doesn't, maybe he's not aware,
maybe he doesn't know. I know he's partied a bit
in his career. But like Baker, your agents are going
to continuously negotiate your new deal, whether you want them
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to or not.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Right, well, I think it's gonna be fun to keep
an eye on the way he plays and how he does,
because you remember he came here a year ago against
the Seahawks and lit us up and he was the
leader for the MVP and then he kind of fell
apart in the second half of the year.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Man, all right, hey, Jackson, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
What's that? What's that? Dick o? God? You really want
to play this one? You are you want to jump around?
I think it's funny. I think it's funny.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I mean, I'm just shocked, surprised, how it's funny Eagles
DC vic Fangio starting his press conference of training camp,
his first press conference of training camp, with this joke today,
what's the plan at safety?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Is that marcuss chubbleoost.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
I'm gonna be like Fauci and just take the Fifth
Amendment on out questions?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Ye should guys see that?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
What was the question? All right?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well, I think we know where he stands on Fauci,
there's no there's no secret there. Somebody ask him what
his thoughts are on COVID and vaccinations when when he's
up next?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
My god, so you know what, why not just let
it all hang out? Jackson? I'm you know what, good
for him?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You know what, he's got to be probably pushing seventy
years old. He doesn't give a damn good for vic Fangio,
even if.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
You're not of a certain political SPERI making the joke
of I'm gonna plete the Fifth because we've currently seen
you complete it. So I'm not going to answer anything
to you guys. I'm not going to give opposition any information.
I plead the fifth unbelievable. Not good for him?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Again, he's not He's not hiding anything. All right, Hey Jackson,
did you happen.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
To hear that what's that? Dick?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yesterday in the McAfee show. He has been a reporter.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Laura Rutledge, you explain why the SEC has not won
a national championship since Georgia in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
I think one of the reasons why the SEC maybe
has not advanced as far in the playoff as some
SEC fans would like to see is because the competition
within the league is so difficult that nine games of
craziness week in and week out a little different than
other parts other conferences. I'm not I'm not dissing.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
On the big.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Right, Yeah, but they get to the end, there's not
many left. For one, they eliminate each other. But furthermore,
they're gassed, they're injured, they have issues. I'm not making excuses,
I'm just pointing out facts. But the other thing I
would like to point out is look at the NFL
Draft and how many players come out of the SEC.
And that's how individual players.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Oh right, So I'm looking at Alabama's schedule, by the way,
this year, East Carolina, Kentucky, Florida State, who might be terrible,
South Carolina, Mississippi State, then Georgia, Tennessee A and m LSU,
but then Vanderbilt, Chattanooga and with Auburn. It's difficult, but
(35:18):
it's not like it's crazy difficult compared to what happens
in the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
And I'm glad you brought up Alabama because I would
ask Laura, Hey, Laura, was it the long schedule and
was it the arduous tasks week after week that made
Alabama lose to Florida State.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
In week one?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
That was week one, Laura, Right, that wasn't after a
long schedule.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Well, and this is going to change eventually, but they've
always had the you know, week thirteen week off. This year,
they played Chattanooga on November twenty first. Last year, they
played Eastern Illinois on November twenty second. Two years ago
they played Mercer on the sixteenth of November. Four years ago,
(36:01):
they played Chattanooga on the eighteenth of November, and five
years ago they played Austin p on me on November nineteenth.
So they may have a tougher schedule, but they also
get a week off when everybody else in the Big Ten,
the Big twelve, the ACC is killing themselves with an
injured roster to fight tooth and nail for a win.
(36:21):
They get to take a week off and they get
to rehab and it means nothing for them, at least
not the last three years. I think the real reason
why is because the SEC and the Southern States don't
have the money that the states in the Big Ten
and the West Coast have. It's one hundred percent if
we're gonna talk about this from last segment, it's a
finance game. The SEC, most of their states are broke
(36:47):
compared to the Big Ten and the West Coast. So
let's just be honest about this man. They're playing from
a different perspective financially, and it's gonna catch up and
hurt them. We're gonna break. Brett Boone joins next one
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