August 29, 2024 • 33 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain discuss yesterday’s reaction to the Geno Smith NFL hierarchy debate, then chat with Rick Neuheisel about scheduling, Jedd Fisch taking over the Huskies, and UW in the Big Ten before some Fun w/ Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The effort I put into these little jokes on the
ear and to get nothing from you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Let's try it again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The NFL network has hired four new people, including men Tito,
but we're not sure if it's a real job or not.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
They be here all night, Oh God, begging for a
laughs se would you rather have the real.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Little chuckle or the fake big laugh? I think the
fake big laugh is pretty damn funny. When you know
it's fake, it's pretty damn funny. We got a lot
to get to man Rick new Helo, who has confirmed,
by the way, twice twice that he is good to
go for three twenty All right, would you say.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
See, that's funny, That is funny.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Would you say that Rick new heisl Of all of
our guests, I'm a regularly guess.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We have fifteen, maybe over the course of a year
during the Oh yeah, I said ten. See fifteen out
of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
As far as reliability, yes, I hope he's not listening.
It's good that he confirmed twice because we love Rick. Well,
here's the thing. So I texted him at eight thirty
this morning, three twenty today. He wrote back, all set,
I said, I'll text as we get closer. He wrote back,
here we go again, like football season starting whatever. I
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texted him at two forty five, calling it three twenty.
He wrote back at two fifty six. I'm ready, I
wrote back at two fifty eight boom. So I haven't
talked to him in seven minutes. Here's there's a lot
that sage.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
But here's the here's my theory that it has nothing
to do with Rick being an unreliable person. Here's what
it has to do with fourteen of our other fifteen
guests have their phone with them most of the day.
Rick's phone is in his golf bag most of the afternoons,
so therefore he doesn't get the text mess well.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And not just in your golf bag, but when you're
nine under par, yeah, coming for the course record whatever,
course sixty two on the eighteenth, fairly.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
God, you should have seen clear.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
By the way, did I tell you this story about
cam at Gamble Sands like a month ago? First of all,
you probably ripped up the great time at Gamble Sands,
went out there. Everybody was awesome. The whole place is tremendous.
They're bulting that second eighteen out there which is going
to be you can see low scam. You can you can't.
Doesn't mean I did, but you can't. You can't shave.
So we're coming down eighteen and if you know eighteen
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at Gamble Sand, just the par five, there's some rough
there on the right, you know, next to the clubhouse,
and I think Cam sent his drive into the weeds.
And normally he would spend maybe a minute whatever looking
for his ball. He's he's looking at like a sixty
eight or a sixty seven. It's hot as balls out there,
by the way, It's one hundred and five degrees. I'm
sweating my ass off at this point. The gold bond
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does nothing, nothing, all right, completely totally ineffective, and we're
all waiting to get off the course.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm like, dude, I'm melting.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm like the German guy from Raiders on the Lost
Dark and he's taking his sweet ass time. He was
in the weeds for ten minutes looking for his ball
because he's about to shoot a sixty eight or a
sixty seven. I look back in the that's playing with us.
They're laying on the fairway resting. That's how long it
was he.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Was looking for his all. No, he never did.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I sayd to take a penalty, and it did. He
never did so. Rick new Heisler coming up at three
twenty courtesy at Taco time. My Congrin's here at four,
Brett Boone at five, Isaiah stand back, as we said
now with the NFL Network, will join us about five thirty.
I do want to bring up the Florio thing from
yesterday and just get Mike's take on this as well.
I gotta be honest with you, I was surprised at
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how much this whole thing blew up on social media
last night. I mean, it was amazing, like this turned
into a firestorm, and most of it was as you
said yesterday, Florio guy's an idiot, right, he didn't know
what the hell he's talking about. One guy wrote me
back and said Florio didn't know Diddley Pooh like Jim
Morris Senior back.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
In the day Pooh.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And I guess I just I'll just say the same
thing I said yesterday at five o'clock. I don't think
what Florio said was that offensive or even that controversial.
He said, Look, there's three kinds of teams in the NFL.
There's the team that's got the elite quarterback, the team
that doesn't have the elite quarterback, and then the.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Teams that don't know. That's not the line that pissed
people off. Which line pissed people? He's a bottom third
quarterback in the NFL. That is the line that pissed
people off. Not that there's three types of quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But even if he did say that, which he did,
why would that bother you?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Because he well, first of all, twofold, I don't know
why you can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I mean, I mean were the.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Same page when he As soon as he said it,
I was like, what Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So like it's twofold one.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
When a national talk show person comes on and says
something negative about your player that you like, you're going
to have a reaction.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's one. Two.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
When it's inaccurate as well, then it's going to double
how pissed you get at him?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Can you jump in here for a se Okay, So
let's say this is you know me, logic and science, right, yes,
let's all thirty two quarterbacks starting quarterbacks in the NFL.
Let's all quickly say the number of where we think
Gino Smith is thirty two two?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah? Okay, I'll go first, yeah, twenty twenty, Yeah, Dick.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Seventeen, I'll go fifteen, right, Okay, let's average that out
to seventeen point five.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
A right, seventeen point five. That's significantly different than Bond.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Sure if no, that's my point, it's not because bottom
third has him at twenty one and twenty two in
below right, yes, right, So right now we're five four
and a half spots off of what Florio is essentially saying.
That's not crazy, right, Like we're talking about splitting hairs
in four or five quarterback positions in these overall thirty
two rankings. This is ridiculous that we're arguing about four
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or five spots.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I also should think that they're not happy with how
he ranked the Seahawks because he has him lower than
almost any other pundit that I have seen nationally.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
This so this comes down to the age old deal.
If you say something mean about my football team.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're a mora.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, what if Mike Florio said, you know what, I
want to come on the show. Let me go on
the air at six o'clock tonight. I want to revisit
my rankings. I want to put Geno in the middle
third and the Hawks finish second behind the Niners.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Then all of a sudden, Florio is a genius and
we all love the guy.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, there's a third thing that we haven't referenced yet,
which is on there's a lot of people that don't
like Mike Floria, of course.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So I mean, it's like when.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You put a, when you add A plus B plus C.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
He's playing from behind the apart.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yeah, I don't know why you're surprised that people are
basically I get that part.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I guess I just thought all of us were in
for the most part agreement that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This a big year for Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Correct, right, I mean, and like you said, maybe it's
in the phrasing, I mean bottom third.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't think that's insulting.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He's again the difference between number fifteen and number twenty,
It probably is not that big.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I think calling anybody bottom third in anything that they
do is insulting.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I think it's insulting.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You're you're you're basically you're grouping them with the worst
at their position in anything.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'm in the bottom third of producers here at the station.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I don't mind Sando's people that he talked to in
the NFL had him at number twenty, right, So is
that insulting? Do you look at NFL gms and executives
and go, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That's insult The bottom third is like, bottom third is
a large group of.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
What somebody's gotta be bottom third the phraseology of calling
somebody bottom that's insulting. God, that's you know, the way
you and I look at things like that is so weird.
You and I just have a totally different approach to
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, anybody you don't mind calling guys garbage and you
your bottom third, you're insulting Gino?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Hell's the difference?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Can we all agree that Gino is not garbage? Of
course he's not garbage. But you could be top tier
of the bottom third. You could be twenty one, twenty two,
and maybe your bottom third right now just because you
haven't coached, been coached by a competent o C. Maybe
you haven't been behind a good offensive line. I mean, look,
everything that Gino Smith has done for the first two
years as the starter right in Seattle, not all of
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it is because of him. The struggles is because of
a lot of other issues. And I can prove that
because they fired the head coach and got rid of
the offensive coordinator from last year. So I don't know.
I guess I just don't look at it like that.
But whatever, that's fine. We will talk more about this
with Mike Homer to four. Rick new Heisel. Here we
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Speaker 6 (08:30):
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
This really is, I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
A brutal segment to do when you're starving and the
first thing you hear is Taco Time.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
We should Chris be Farrito natural chicken stuff. It brought
us a big box of stuff. I could have. I
could have, but I did not. I dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Maybe next week, all right, Here we go for the
first time this year. Put your hands together. I believe
everybody for the premiere college football analystis country has to offer.
It's our friend courtesy at tackle time from CBS. Former
Husky head coach and still the last man to win
a Rose Ball at Washington, Rick new Heisel joining us
right now.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I am wonderful and thank you for that nice introduction.
It's always good to get off to another college football season,
and this one has all sorts of changes. So just
if you're a little confused as you're watching, and we
can help you here today.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, I'm very confused about a lot of things that
you cannot help me with. It all, by the way,
so we'll skip all those things. But I do want
to ask you, it's funny, Coach that you brought that up.
Because networks are changing, affiliations are changed. The SEC has
moved away from CBS for the first time, and I
have no idea. How long tell us about your role
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and tell us about what you guys are carrying this
year on CBS.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
We are a big ten entity. We've got the three
thirty window, big noon in Fox, we'll have the noon window.
We'll come in at two thirty with a pregame show
and then three thirty we'll bring the action. This week
it's Akron at Ohio State, and then after we're going
to always have a postgame show, and then we're going
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to get to some doubleheaders. So this this particular week,
we go to Hawaii and give you UCLA and Hawaii
as a doubleheader. So it's going to be fun. It's
not the SEC. That arrangement that didn't continue, So we
look forward now to being a part of the ever
expanding Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Well, we are getting a few more good Week one games,
but Rick, we had basically a great game in Georgia
Tech floor State, but it didn't match up two top
twenty five teams. Do you think the new playoff format
is actually going to encourage good interconference games in Week zero,
in Week one and two over the next few years.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
It will as long as we push back against the
SEC and the Big Ten in the new playoff contract
demanding four spots each, which doesn't preclude him from having
a fifth. But if they demand four spots each just
by virtue of their strength, then I don't think there'll
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be a necessity to schedule up. And as you saw
the SEC. When they decided to go to sixteen teams,
adding Oklahoma and Texas, they kept their conference schedule. It's
still at an eight game deal. Now, that was a
lot of Nick Saban, who knew that Nick Saban was
going to step away, but he didn't want to have Auburn,
Tennessee and LSU part of a nine game deal. He
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thought that was too strong. It wasn't the equal of
everybody else. So they bought it, and they're going to
stick with eight. And that to me tells us we're
going to get some clunkers in the regular season.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, and for now, you DUBB does not have a
lot scheduled in the next five or six years. They've
got a series at Tennessee and that's not for four
or five years from now.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I think Ohio State's got a couple of big ones,
Michigan's got you know, Texas obviously, but there's not really
a lot there at least for you Dub. And I
just wonder how long you think it'll take you Dub
to kind of find their footing in this Big ten conference.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Some folks think it's going to be a while.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Others think no, they can step in with that with
these athletes and start taking over right away. How long
until we kind of feel comfortable in this conference and
winning games.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
It won't be the conference that will keep that. You know,
one of the things that's an advantage with Jed Fish
as the new head coach is all his experience in
the NFL and cross country travel. You know, there's a
number of games where Washington's going to go further than
the norm in seasons past, but Jed has been a
part of those kind of teams that have traveled from
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one coast to the other and knows exactly how to
organize that. When we get into the other sports, that
will be a little bit of a problem, but not
so much in the sport of football. The problem for
Washington is you've lost somewhere over four hundred receptions, You've
lost somewhere over four hundred tackles, you've got your quarterbacks
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are gone. So when you start thinking about all that
needs to be replaced, it's a mountain to climb. But
the good news is your quarterback let's see here thirteen
hundred and one completions at Mississippi State, he threw eighteen
one hundred and seventy six passes. He's nearly a seventy
percent passer for over twelve thousand yards. Do you know
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me pictures he's seen in his own personal computer of
what defenses do. So that's a head start, that's a
head start going forward.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Question Eric, what should we look for tomorrow? I'm excited
or excuse me for on Saturday? I'm excited for Saturday's game.
I don't think a lot of people are judging by
the ticket sales and how cheap you can get tickets.
But what should we look for on Saturday that will
give us any indication on how good this football team
is this year? Or can we get that indication in
one game against Weaver State?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Well, I mean you're looking for a well oiled machine,
is what you're looking for. You know, things that are
organized that you know it'll be evidence that the practices
have gone as Jed wanted them to. You want to
see organized substitutions. You want to see the depth play
itself out, so you know, kids that are new to
the programer getting their first chance to play, look like
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they're ready for prime time. That's I mean, obviously you
want to win the game and that will be the focus,
but getting as many people quality playing time should the
game go is. I know Husky fans hope it will
is going to be key as well. The season to
me is set up really well. You get Weaver State,
you get Eastern Michigan, then you get Washington State, who's
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been beat up because of the transfer portal and the
news that they got that they were not going to
be in a power for conference. And then you get
Northwestern and I know, Northwestern one eight games last year,
but you're not going to be overwhelmed by their talent.
And then you go to Rutgers, who will be a
microcosm of Michigan and Iowa who follow You'll be used
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to playing those kind of you know, slobber knocker games,
trench warfare type games when you get there. So I
like how it sets up. And I still believe the
Dogs are going to be in a bowl game, and
hopefully a really good one.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I kind of feel like that Rutgers game in week
five is the pivotal week. If they can get to
four and oh and knock off Rutgers, who lost one
of their best defensive players already, and go five and oh.
I mean, all of a sudden, it's like Wow, you
start to gain some confidence whatever, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But Jeed Fish today. We talked to him at the
media thing.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Rick new Heiseel with us courtesy, had talk with time
and I asked him, does he go into this game
wanting to get Demon Williams, the freshman quarterbacks some playing time.
And he said, no, he's not thinking about that because
we almost lost to like North Dakota State at Arizona
two years ago. I mean, does that just coach speak
or does he think to himself behind closed doors, talk
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to his coaches and say, guys, it's weaver. If we
can get will out of there in the mid third quarter,
let's get the kid a couple of series.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
There's no question that he would like, just as I said,
like to get everybody on the field because he knows
how precious playing time is. But he also knows that
he can say nothing that diminishes the focus on the opponent.
And he's lived through that. He went one in eleven
his first year at Arizona. He's building this the same
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way he built that, with a bunch of new players,
understanding that he has to walk before you run, and
that's why he won't give any indication because players read
what he said and doesn't want anybody to think that
he's looking past Weaver State.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Rick John Willner wrote a cautionary tale about Washington and
their financial woes over the next five six years. How
worried should Huskie fans be that due to that financial
situation and the half share from the Big Ten, which
he says, they're as bad as shape as anybody other
than UCLA of the new teams that went into the
Big Ten, that they'll become lost in the league like
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Maryland has over the next five or ten years.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
You know, I don't think any of us really know
what the financial ramifications are of all that's going on
right now. We know that there's a big settlement on
the table. I saw a player's union advocate talk about
he's advising his players that are part of that group
to say no to the settlement. We see private equity
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entering the NFL. That will be a roadmap for private
equity to enter college athletic departments when we see all
that happen. I don't know what the money is. I
do know the sport is wildly popular, and I do
know having lived in Seattle and having known how many
people are friendly with the program that when called upon,
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they will deliver what's necessary for the dogs to be successful.
I think that SMU story's won for the ages. You know,
forty years in the wilderness, and they want to get
in the ACC and the ACC offers them nothing, and
yet they come up with one hundred and twenty five
million dollars amongst their alumni base to say we'll supplement it.
I have a feeling, and I'm not saying that who
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it would be, but I have a feeling that if
this looks dire for Washington, there's enough money in that
Seattle area that love Washington and all that Washington stands for,
that they'll make it up. And we're not going to
We as a university are not going to sit back
and allow ourselves to be at a tremendous disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, we'll get your official Talko time take of the
week in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Oh man, am I yeah, I'm going to be so
hot this year.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
We got we got people texting in, man, we got
degenerates all over the city that are texting in waiting
for you your picture of the week. But usc usc
LSU on Sunday from Vegas. Right, let's just paint a
picture where LSU handles USC rather easily. Lincoln Riley's on
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the hot seat already. How hot is that seat? If
they get hammered by LSU on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Well, if they get hammered because their defense just gives up,
you know, tons of yards and Garrett nes Meyer looks
like a Heisman Trophy winner, then there's going to be
some concern because that means he'll have not addressed the
obvious problem and the elephant in the room. But if
it's one of those close games, and you know, both
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those coaches have been at their respective places of employment
now for two years, both have coached the Heisman Trophy quarterback.
The quarterback's gone, the defensive coordinators are gone. They got
both got rid of them. So this is going to
be a very interesting game as to who's fixed it.
The odds are right now with Brian Kelly because he's
done this before. One thing we haven't seen is Lincoln
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Riley fixed the defense before. But if you go back
and look at twenty nineteen when Jalen Hurts was his quarterback,
that was his best defense, and that was because Jalen
Hurts helped with the defense because he was a run
threat as well. They ran the ball. Hurts had a
lot of rushing yards nearly a thousand, and because of that,
they were able to have a time of possession that
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took a little pressure off their defense. Their backup quarterback
right now is a kid named Jade Mayava who came
from UNLB. I would not be surprised. I don't think
it happens in game one, but I would not be
surprised by late September early October that Mayava is their
quarterback and that will help their defense.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Rick, some of the highest rated TV games last year
involved your old team, the Colorado Buffalo, and they play
in ninety minutes to start their sea hang on, hang on,
what do you make?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What do you make of that.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Guy's spat with the media? And how long will buff
fans be patient with Dion?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
What is the old saying, don't get in a fight
with a guy with a barrel of ink, just don't
do it. Uh? And and now that he's banned Sean Keeler,
who I know from the Denver Post, Uh, they're going
to be a bunch of other media folks to saying
you can't do that to us. I mean, that's ridiculous.
All he's doing is the spousing an opinion, and you
know it's his opinion. You don't have to listen to it.
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So I'm not sure it's the right tack. But Dion
has taken the pressure off his team, and the pressure
is now on Dion shoulders, So maybe that's the ploy.
Just take some heat off the team. The team can
go out and play. One thing they're going to have
to do is protect Sator Sanders. He got sacked over
fifty times last year. They're going to have to, uh,
you know, find a running game to go along with him.
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I think that will be the goal. And you know,
they got a bunch of new luggage in Boulder, you know,
and it's Louis at least that's what they tell us.
So we'll find out. But I would not want to
start the season against anybody that's got a Dakota on
their jersey. That's just not good, good business, right, But
we'll see how it goes tonight in Boulder. The Buffs
and the Bison and Boulder, how about that for alliteration?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Did Sean Keeler Ever, refer to you as the Bruce
Lee of BS when you coached at Colorado.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
He never did.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Never did. I'm kind of disappointed in it myself.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That's a hell of a line, to be honest with you.
I might ripped that off myself. But Rick new Heisl's
with us. Before I get your Taco Time pick of
the week, give us more thoughts on this big ten
Michigan with Sharon Moore, hardballs with the Chargers. They got
this cloud hanging over the program. We'll see what happens.
I mean, nobody expects the NCAA to whack him during
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the year, you know, because of the the Connor Stallions
thing or whatever. But tell me about Michigan and if
you believe that they should be again the favorite to
win this conference and maybe play for another national championship,
They're not.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
That's the favorite. That will be either Oregon or Ohio State.
Ohio State spent a lot of money on their team
and got a lot of really good looking players. Taylor
Downs will help that defense immntally. Dylan Gabriel at Oregon
is going to be a heck of a player if
he starts every game, will be the most experienced player
to ever played a position in college football. He'll have
over sixty starts at quarterback. All of those guys are great.
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Michigan's going to be in the conversation because they're physical
along the line of scrimmage. Sharon Moore is an offensive
line coach. The DNA of the team will not change much.
There's ninety days before they have to file their answer
to the notice of allegations, so none of this is
going to happen during the season, so it'll be a footnote.
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But it is interesting that Connor Stallions, as bright as
he is and as brilliant a student, doesn't recall whether
or not he was on the Western the Central Michigan sideline.
He doesn't recall it a year ago. I don't know
what short term memory that gets impaired in such a way,
but there you have it. Listen, Michigan's going to be good.
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They've got a tough schedule. They've got Texas coming in
week two. CBS is going to be there to do
the sc at Michigan game. Oregon comes to Michigan, they
got Penn State and then they've got Ohio State, so well,
maybe they don't have Penn State this year. It's Ohio
State at the end of the year, but they're going
to be They're going to be a targeted team. Given
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the season of a year ago, I look for a
nine to three, eight and four type of year.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Give us your taking. The two great early games on Saturday.
Will either Georgia against Clemson or West Virginia Penn State
be games in the mid stages of the fourth quarter?
Speaker 7 (24:43):
You know, I think they'll both be games. I would
take the underdogs in both of them. And because I'm
not sure with the brock Bauer's gun and Lad mcconkee gun,
who Carson Fech's going to go to when it's a
money down, I just don't know who that is. And
then with West Virginia, I just liked the way that
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Neil Brown's built that program. I mean they were the
hottest of hot seats, so a year ago in won
nine games. And this Garrett Green kid is tough and
drew Aller to me, doesn't have a deep threat wide receiver.
Julian Fleming transferred there from Ohio State, but he's more
of a ten yards of cats type of guy. I
don't see a deep threat. And if West Virginia can
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get that crowd going early. I think both of those
underdogs will farewell this weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
All right, before you go, Rick, Rick new heisl your
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Speaker 1 (25:55):
Who do you like?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Well, I'm gonna give you two, just because it's opening
night and I want I want somebody to run to
the day. Run to the window now because there's a
game starting in Jacksonville, Alabama. Coastal Carolina is traveling to
Jacksonville State to take on rich Rod's bunch, the game Cocks.
Game Cocks got into a bowl their first year of
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FBS consideration. They weren't even eligible, but because there weren't
enough teams available to go to bowl games, they were invited.
They get the Chanta Clears at home tim Beck's got
a good team, but I'm hearing that they lost a
couple guys and that that money that had been coming out,
you know, being available, and the collective is a little
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bit more sparse. I'm taking the game Cocks at home tonight.
I think they're laying three points. And then this weekend,
I told you I like the underdogs. Give me Clemson
and the thirteen and a half, and let's let's see
how those Tigers there.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
All right, we got Clemson and Jacksonville date first st up?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Which one's the official pick of the week?
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Though the official pick of the week is tonight's game,
all right, gotcha love it?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's it's it's it's which everyone wins is the official
Clemson's getting thirteen and a half against Georgia.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Back soft he's my age.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
All right, man, great stuff, And I'll send you another
five hundred text between now and next Thursday, and we'll
talk next week at three twenty, coach.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Nothing like getting a softy text. I appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
All right, man.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Rick new isil with us on the air courtesy ATTACKO
time every Thursday at three twenty. Typically we'd have Factor
Fiction at three thirty five. It will start that on Monday.
He likes Clemson plus the points, and he likes Jacksonville
State tonight minus the three and a half. Get rich kids,
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Speaker 1 (27:52):
Now time for Softy and Digg's one with audio. Jimmy
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Speaker 2 (28:01):
All right, boys and girls, here we go on a
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KJIRI FM. Mean it's time, you know, every now and then,
I'll still drop in the am every now and then,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Been thirty years. Will you?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Will you go do something else? For God's sakes? And
the boss is looking on every now and now. It's
just habit right, It's tell you you're a hard to break.
All right, Here we go to tack a little fun
with audio. Slash shadd you hear that? He addictedy happen here?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
What's that day? What's that dick? We started?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
The NFL Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin explaining in a
press conference yesterday why Russell Wilson was named the starting
quarterback in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
It was a difficult decision, but not difficult in a
negative way, to be quite honest with you, It was
difficult in a positive way. The decision was difficult because
of what they're capable of doing. Decision was difficult because
of how they conducted themselves as opposed to the things
that they fall shorty in in terms of capabilities or negative. Obviously,
(29:01):
Russ's injury created some challenges in terms of that process.
In terms of exposure.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know that Mike Tomlin has not won a playoff
game since twenty sixteen in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well, it's very Pete Carroll esque.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
He's always has good teams, right, he always motivates his team.
I mean, Pittsburgh was the Seattle of the AFC for
the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Basically, the difference is well, and really, I mean Mike
Domin Toddle we have a time got and he also
got back to a championship and lost it to Green Bay,
just like Pete Carroll lost it to New England. The
difference between Mike Tomlin and Pete Carroll is simple. When
guy's ninety five years old, the other guy's fifty two right, right,
But people wanted Pete Carroll out.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Mike Tomlin has done nothing more than Pete Carroll in
the last ten years.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And I just wonder if Pittsburgh fans are getting kind
of antsy too, and they should be antsy. It's been
eight years since the guy wanted to sink a playoff game.
All right, hey, dick did you happen here?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
What's that? Dick on?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Get up? Is this today, by the way, or yesterday?
It doesn't matter. ESPN analyst dan Orlowski snapping back at
Mike Tomlin saying that there was never actually a quarterback
competition in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I would have started Justin Fields, but this was never
a quarterback competition. We were bamboozled a little bit, and
I have endless amount of respect for Mike Tomlin. There
was no way that this is a quarterback competition. Russell
missed practice and only played in essentially one game. Green
I remember when both of the moves were made, being
on the show, and we said, if if this was
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really going to be an open quarterback competition, I expected
Justin Fields to win. That this was never a quarterback competition.
If it was Russell would have played much more. Russell
played in preseason Week two. He threw the ball twice.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, I totally agree with him.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
This was as much of a competition as Drew Locke
versus Gino Smooth was. It was said to be a
competition and then it just wasn't.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
But don't you if you're Mike Tomlin, have you set
this thing up by waiting until the week and a
half before the game to make it look like it
was a competition. And hey, if Russell Wilson struggles, then
we can just pull him. That's right, and we can
go to justin fields like this was close, guys.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
It wasn't really close.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It was close like over here he's telling you one thing,
and over here is this. So I from his perspective,
I think he actually played it pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I'm not saying he did anything wrong, but I agree
with Orlovsky was all a.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Rue, a ruse rude.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That bamboozled is an underrated word. It is, and it's
right up there with dipstick by the way or ding back.
But they should absolutely pull Russell if they're two and
three and they're losing games. Seventeen to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, get him out, he dick. Did you happen to
hear that? What's that all right?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Last night's Ranger Whitesaw game, Texas left fielder Travis Jenkowski
robbing what would have been a walkoff three went home
run by Chicago's Andrew vaugh Here was the call by
Ranger play by play voice Dave Raymond on Valley Sports
at Southwest.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I'm the one to bat in the field.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
That's trouble Jankowski back, dudness, what a grab.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
He brings the game back.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Uh, let's stick with that because this is the other
side of that call. Here's what that game saving home
run robbery sounded like on NBC Sports Chicago with Steve
Stone and John Schiffrin.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Walty strikes.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Oh he made can't shut miss Chankowski just insulted for
defensive purposes. Just loves von a home run that would
have been ball game.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You have got to be kidding me.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
This is about as good a robbery as we've seen.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It's game over if he doesn't make this play.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That game was in Chicago, correct, I do not know.
Did you hear the crowd?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah? The boy?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
No, no, no, there's people there they're pumping in crowd noise.
There's no way, Dick, look at this picture. Come here,
this is a picture of the game. Look at that
right there. That is the Ranger game. They're playing a game.
That's who's in the stands. There's no way there were
that many people in the crowd. The audio made it
say there was ten thousand people there. They announced eleven thousand.
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But that This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
That's always tickets distributed. I want to know how many
asses are in seats like those games, there's probably like
four hundred and fifty two. And they don't tell you
that it should be illegal, honestly, like the government should
step in and say you cannot allow any team to
announce any number besides how many butcher in seats. All right,
we're gonna break Mike Homenggrin's back. He'll join us next
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on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Where we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The effort I put into these little jokes on the
ear and to get nothing from you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Let's try it again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The NFL network has hired four new people, including men Tito,
but we're not sure if it's a real job or not.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
They be here all night, Oh God, begging for a
laughs se would you rather have the real.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Little chuckle or the fake big laugh? I think the
fake big laugh is pretty damn funny. When you know
it's fake, it's pretty damn funny. We got a lot
to get to man Rick new Helo, who has confirmed,
by the way, twice twice that he is good to
go for three twenty All right, would you say.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
See, that's funny, That is funny.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Would you say that Rick new heisl Of all of
our guests, I'm a regularly guess.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We have fifteen, maybe over the course of a year
during the Oh yeah, I said ten. See fifteen out
of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
As far as reliability, yes, I hope he's not listening.
It's good that he confirmed twice because we love Rick. Well,
here's the thing. So I texted him at eight thirty
this morning, three twenty today. He wrote back, all set,
I said, I'll text as we get closer. He wrote back,
here we go again, like football season starting whatever. I
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texted him at two forty five, calling it three twenty.
He wrote back at two fifty six. I'm ready, I
wrote back at two fifty eight boom. So I haven't
talked to him in seven minutes. Here's there's a lot
that sage.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
But here's the here's my theory that it has nothing
to do with Rick being an unreliable person. Here's what
it has to do with fourteen of our other fifteen
guests have their phone with them most of the day.
Rick's phone is in his golf bag most of the afternoons,
so therefore he doesn't get the text mess well.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And not just in your golf bag, but when you're
nine under par, yeah, coming for the course record whatever,
course sixty two on the eighteenth, fairly.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
God, you should have seen clear.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
By the way, did I tell you this story about
cam at Gamble Sands like a month ago? First of all,
you probably ripped up the great time at Gamble Sands,
went out there. Everybody was awesome. The whole place is tremendous.
They're bulting that second eighteen out there which is going
to be you can see low scam. You can you can't.
Doesn't mean I did, but you can't. You can't shave.
So we're coming down eighteen and if you know eighteen
(02:20):
at Gamble Sand, just the par five, there's some rough
there on the right, you know, next to the clubhouse,
and I think Cam sent his drive into the weeds.
And normally he would spend maybe a minute whatever looking
for his ball. He's he's looking at like a sixty
eight or a sixty seven. It's hot as balls out there,
by the way, It's one hundred and five degrees. I'm
sweating my ass off at this point. The gold bond
(02:41):
does nothing, nothing, all right, completely totally ineffective, and we're
all waiting to get off the course.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm like, dude, I'm melting.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm like the German guy from Raiders on the Lost
Dark and he's taking his sweet ass time. He was
in the weeds for ten minutes looking for his ball
because he's about to shoot a sixty eight or a
sixty seven. I look back in the that's playing with us.
They're laying on the fairway resting. That's how long it
was he.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Was looking for his all. No, he never did.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I sayd to take a penalty, and it did. He
never did so. Rick new Heisler coming up at three
twenty courtesy at Taco time. My Congrin's here at four,
Brett Boone at five, Isaiah stand back, as we said
now with the NFL Network, will join us about five thirty.
I do want to bring up the Florio thing from
yesterday and just get Mike's take on this as well.
I gotta be honest with you, I was surprised at
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how much this whole thing blew up on social media
last night. I mean, it was amazing, like this turned
into a firestorm, and most of it was as you
said yesterday, Florio guy's an idiot, right, he didn't know
what the hell he's talking about. One guy wrote me
back and said Florio didn't know Diddley Pooh like Jim
Morris Senior back.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
In the day Pooh.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And I guess I just I'll just say the same
thing I said yesterday at five o'clock. I don't think
what Florio said was that offensive or even that controversial.
He said, Look, there's three kinds of teams in the NFL.
There's the team that's got the elite quarterback, the team
that doesn't have the elite quarterback, and then the.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Teams that don't know. That's not the line that pissed
people off. Which line pissed people? He's a bottom third
quarterback in the NFL. That is the line that pissed
people off. Not that there's three types of quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But even if he did say that, which he did,
why would that bother you?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Because he well, first of all, twofold, I don't know
why you can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I mean, I mean were the.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Same page when he As soon as he said it,
I was like, what Wow?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So like it's twofold one.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
When a national talk show person comes on and says
something negative about your player that you like, you're going
to have a reaction.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's one. Two.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
When it's inaccurate as well, then it's going to double
how pissed you get at him?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Can you jump in here for a se Okay, So
let's say this is you know me, logic and science, right, yes,
let's all thirty two quarterbacks starting quarterbacks in the NFL.
Let's all quickly say the number of where we think
Gino Smith is thirty two two?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah? Okay, I'll go first, yeah, twenty twenty, Yeah, Dick.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Seventeen, I'll go fifteen, right, Okay, let's average that out
to seventeen point five.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
A right, seventeen point five. That's significantly different than Bond.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Sure if no, that's my point, it's not because bottom
third has him at twenty one and twenty two in
below right, yes, right, So right now we're five four
and a half spots off of what Florio is essentially saying.
That's not crazy, right, Like we're talking about splitting hairs
in four or five quarterback positions in these overall thirty
two rankings. This is ridiculous that we're arguing about four
(05:42):
or five spots.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I also should think that they're not happy with how
he ranked the Seahawks because he has him lower than
almost any other pundit that I have seen nationally.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
This so this comes down to the age old deal.
If you say something mean about my football team.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're a mora.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, what if Mike Florio said, you know what, I
want to come on the show. Let me go on
the air at six o'clock tonight. I want to revisit
my rankings. I want to put Geno in the middle
third and the Hawks finish second behind the Niners.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Then all of a sudden, Florio is a genius and
we all love the guy.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, there's a third thing that we haven't referenced yet,
which is on there's a lot of people that don't
like Mike Floria, of course.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So I mean, it's like when.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You put a, when you add A plus B plus C.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
He's playing from behind the apart.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yeah, I don't know why you're surprised that people are
basically I get that part.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I guess I just thought all of us were in
for the most part agreement that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
This a big year for Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Correct, right, I mean, and like you said, maybe it's
in the phrasing, I mean bottom third.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't think that's insulting.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
He's again the difference between number fifteen and number twenty,
It probably is not that big.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I think calling anybody bottom third in anything that they
do is insulting.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I think it's insulting.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You're you're you're basically you're grouping them with the worst
at their position in anything.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'm in the bottom third of producers here at the station.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I don't mind Sando's people that he talked to in
the NFL had him at number twenty, right, So is
that insulting? Do you look at NFL gms and executives
and go, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Man?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That's insult The bottom third is like, bottom third is
a large group of.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
What somebody's gotta be bottom third the phraseology of calling
somebody bottom that's insulting. God, that's you know, the way
you and I look at things like that is so weird.
You and I just have a totally different approach to
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, anybody you don't mind calling guys garbage and you
your bottom third, you're insulting Gino?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Hell's the difference?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Can we all agree that Gino is not garbage? Of
course he's not garbage. But you could be top tier
of the bottom third. You could be twenty one, twenty two,
and maybe your bottom third right now just because you
haven't coached, been coached by a competent o C. Maybe
you haven't been behind a good offensive line. I mean, look,
everything that Gino Smith has done for the first two
years as the starter right in Seattle, not all of
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it is because of him. The struggles is because of
a lot of other issues. And I can prove that
because they fired the head coach and got rid of
the offensive coordinator from last year. So I don't know.
I guess I just don't look at it like that.
But whatever, that's fine. We will talk more about this
with Mike Homer to four. Rick new Heisel. Here we
go next, courtesy of Taco Time on ninety three to
(08:24):
three KJRFF, your.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Home for college football Saturdays is live with CBS Sports
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
This really is, I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
A brutal segment to do when you're starving and the
first thing you hear is Taco Time.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
We should Chris be Farrito natural chicken stuff. It brought
us a big box of stuff. I could have. I
could have, but I did not. I dropped the ball.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Maybe next week, all right, Here we go for the
first time this year. Put your hands together. I believe
everybody for the premiere college football analystis country has to offer.
It's our friend courtesy at tackle time from CBS. Former
Husky head coach and still the last man to win
a Rose Ball at Washington, Rick new Heisel joining us
right now.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I am wonderful and thank you for that nice introduction.
It's always good to get off to another college football season,
and this one has all sorts of changes. So just
if you're a little confused as you're watching, and we
can help you here today.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, I'm very confused about a lot of things that
you cannot help me with. It all, by the way,
so we'll skip all those things. But I do want
to ask you, it's funny, Coach that you brought that up.
Because networks are changing, affiliations are changed. The SEC has
moved away from CBS for the first time, and I
have no idea. How long tell us about your role
(10:08):
and tell us about what you guys are carrying this
year on CBS.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
We are a big ten entity. We've got the three
thirty window, big noon in Fox, we'll have the noon window.
We'll come in at two thirty with a pregame show
and then three thirty we'll bring the action. This week
it's Akron at Ohio State, and then after we're going
to always have a postgame show, and then we're going
(10:35):
to get to some doubleheaders. So this this particular week,
we go to Hawaii and give you UCLA and Hawaii
as a doubleheader. So it's going to be fun. It's
not the SEC. That arrangement that didn't continue, So we
look forward now to being a part of the ever
expanding Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Well, we are getting a few more good Week one games,
but Rick, we had basically a great game in Georgia
Tech floor State, but it didn't match up two top
twenty five teams. Do you think the new playoff format
is actually going to encourage good interconference games in Week zero,
in Week one and two over the next few years.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
It will as long as we push back against the
SEC and the Big Ten in the new playoff contract
demanding four spots each, which doesn't preclude him from having
a fifth. But if they demand four spots each just
by virtue of their strength, then I don't think there'll
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be a necessity to schedule up. And as you saw
the SEC. When they decided to go to sixteen teams,
adding Oklahoma and Texas, they kept their conference schedule. It's
still at an eight game deal. Now, that was a
lot of Nick Saban, who knew that Nick Saban was
going to step away, but he didn't want to have Auburn,
Tennessee and LSU part of a nine game deal. He
(12:01):
thought that was too strong. It wasn't the equal of
everybody else. So they bought it, and they're going to
stick with eight. And that to me tells us we're
going to get some clunkers in the regular season.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, and for now, you DUBB does not have a
lot scheduled in the next five or six years. They've
got a series at Tennessee and that's not for four
or five years from now.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I think Ohio State's got a couple of big ones,
Michigan's got you know, Texas obviously, but there's not really
a lot there at least for you Dub. And I
just wonder how long you think it'll take you Dub
to kind of find their footing in this Big ten conference.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Some folks think it's going to be a while.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Others think no, they can step in with that with
these athletes and start taking over right away. How long
until we kind of feel comfortable in this conference and
winning games.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
It won't be the conference that will keep that. You know,
one of the things that's an advantage with Jed Fish
as the new head coach is all his experience in
the NFL and cross country travel. You know, there's a
number of games where Washington's going to go further than
the norm in seasons past, but Jed has been a
part of those kind of teams that have traveled from
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one coast to the other and knows exactly how to
organize that. When we get into the other sports, that
will be a little bit of a problem, but not
so much in the sport of football. The problem for
Washington is you've lost somewhere over four hundred receptions, You've
lost somewhere over four hundred tackles, you've got your quarterbacks
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are gone. So when you start thinking about all that
needs to be replaced, it's a mountain to climb. But
the good news is your quarterback let's see here thirteen
hundred and one completions at Mississippi State, he threw eighteen
one hundred and seventy six passes. He's nearly a seventy
percent passer for over twelve thousand yards. Do you know
(13:51):
me pictures he's seen in his own personal computer of
what defenses do. So that's a head start, that's a
head start going forward.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Question Eric, what should we look for tomorrow? I'm excited
or excuse me for on Saturday? I'm excited for Saturday's game.
I don't think a lot of people are judging by
the ticket sales and how cheap you can get tickets.
But what should we look for on Saturday that will
give us any indication on how good this football team
is this year? Or can we get that indication in
one game against Weaver State?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Well, I mean you're looking for a well oiled machine,
is what you're looking for. You know, things that are
organized that you know it'll be evidence that the practices
have gone as Jed wanted them to. You want to
see organized substitutions. You want to see the depth play
itself out, so you know, kids that are new to
the programer getting their first chance to play, look like
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they're ready for prime time. That's I mean, obviously you
want to win the game and that will be the focus,
but getting as many people quality playing time should the
game go is. I know Husky fans hope it will
is going to be key as well. The season to
me is set up really well. You get Weaver State,
you get Eastern Michigan, then you get Washington State, who's
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been beat up because of the transfer portal and the
news that they got that they were not going to
be in a power for conference. And then you get
Northwestern and I know, Northwestern one eight games last year,
but you're not going to be overwhelmed by their talent.
And then you go to Rutgers, who will be a
microcosm of Michigan and Iowa who follow You'll be used
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to playing those kind of you know, slobber knocker games,
trench warfare type games when you get there. So I
like how it sets up. And I still believe the
Dogs are going to be in a bowl game, and
hopefully a really good one.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I kind of feel like that Rutgers game in week
five is the pivotal week. If they can get to
four and oh and knock off Rutgers, who lost one
of their best defensive players already, and go five and oh.
I mean, all of a sudden, it's like Wow, you
start to gain some confidence whatever, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But Jeed Fish today. We talked to him at the
media thing.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Rick new Heiseel with us courtesy, had talk with time
and I asked him, does he go into this game
wanting to get Demon Williams, the freshman quarterbacks some playing time.
And he said, no, he's not thinking about that because
we almost lost to like North Dakota State at Arizona
two years ago. I mean, does that just coach speak
or does he think to himself behind closed doors, talk
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to his coaches and say, guys, it's weaver. If we
can get will out of there in the mid third quarter,
let's get the kid a couple of series.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
There's no question that he would like, just as I said,
like to get everybody on the field because he knows
how precious playing time is. But he also knows that
he can say nothing that diminishes the focus on the opponent.
And he's lived through that. He went one in eleven
his first year at Arizona. He's building this the same
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way he built that, with a bunch of new players,
understanding that he has to walk before you run, and
that's why he won't give any indication because players read
what he said and doesn't want anybody to think that
he's looking past Weaver State.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Rick John Willner wrote a cautionary tale about Washington and
their financial woes over the next five six years. How
worried should Huskie fans be that due to that financial
situation and the half share from the Big Ten, which
he says, they're as bad as shape as anybody other
than UCLA of the new teams that went into the
Big Ten, that they'll become lost in the league like
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Maryland has over the next five or ten years.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
You know, I don't think any of us really know
what the financial ramifications are of all that's going on
right now. We know that there's a big settlement on
the table. I saw a player's union advocate talk about
he's advising his players that are part of that group
to say no to the settlement. We see private equity
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entering the NFL. That will be a roadmap for private
equity to enter college athletic departments when we see all
that happen. I don't know what the money is. I
do know the sport is wildly popular, and I do
know having lived in Seattle and having known how many
people are friendly with the program that when called upon,
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they will deliver what's necessary for the dogs to be successful.
I think that SMU story's won for the ages. You know,
forty years in the wilderness, and they want to get
in the ACC and the ACC offers them nothing, and
yet they come up with one hundred and twenty five
million dollars amongst their alumni base to say we'll supplement it.
I have a feeling, and I'm not saying that who
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it would be, but I have a feeling that if
this looks dire for Washington, there's enough money in that
Seattle area that love Washington and all that Washington stands for,
that they'll make it up. And we're not going to
We as a university are not going to sit back
and allow ourselves to be at a tremendous disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, we'll get your official Talko time take of the
week in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Oh man, am I yeah, I'm going to be so
hot this year.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
We got we got people texting in, man, we got
degenerates all over the city that are texting in waiting
for you your picture of the week. But usc usc
LSU on Sunday from Vegas. Right, let's just paint a
picture where LSU handles USC rather easily. Lincoln Riley's on
(19:22):
the hot seat already. How hot is that seat? If
they get hammered by LSU on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Well, if they get hammered because their defense just gives up,
you know, tons of yards and Garrett nes Meyer looks
like a Heisman Trophy winner, then there's going to be
some concern because that means he'll have not addressed the
obvious problem and the elephant in the room. But if
it's one of those close games, and you know, both
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those coaches have been at their respective places of employment
now for two years, both have coached the Heisman Trophy quarterback.
The quarterback's gone, the defensive coordinators are gone. They got
both got rid of them. So this is going to
be a very interesting game as to who's fixed it.
The odds are right now with Brian Kelly because he's
done this before. One thing we haven't seen is Lincoln
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Riley fixed the defense before. But if you go back
and look at twenty nineteen when Jalen Hurts was his quarterback,
that was his best defense, and that was because Jalen
Hurts helped with the defense because he was a run
threat as well. They ran the ball. Hurts had a
lot of rushing yards nearly a thousand, and because of that,
they were able to have a time of possession that
(20:34):
took a little pressure off their defense. Their backup quarterback
right now is a kid named Jade Mayava who came
from UNLB. I would not be surprised. I don't think
it happens in game one, but I would not be
surprised by late September early October that Mayava is their
quarterback and that will help their defense.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Rick, some of the highest rated TV games last year
involved your old team, the Colorado Buffalo, and they play
in ninety minutes to start their sea hang on, hang on,
what do you make?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What do you make of that.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Guy's spat with the media? And how long will buff
fans be patient with Dion?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
What is the old saying, don't get in a fight
with a guy with a barrel of ink, just don't
do it. Uh? And and now that he's banned Sean Keeler,
who I know from the Denver Post, Uh, they're going
to be a bunch of other media folks to saying
you can't do that to us. I mean, that's ridiculous.
All he's doing is the spousing an opinion, and you
know it's his opinion. You don't have to listen to it.
(21:32):
So I'm not sure it's the right tack. But Dion
has taken the pressure off his team, and the pressure
is now on Dion shoulders, So maybe that's the ploy.
Just take some heat off the team. The team can
go out and play. One thing they're going to have
to do is protect Sator Sanders. He got sacked over
fifty times last year. They're going to have to, uh,
you know, find a running game to go along with him.
(21:53):
I think that will be the goal. And you know,
they got a bunch of new luggage in Boulder, you know,
and it's Louis at least that's what they tell us.
So we'll find out. But I would not want to
start the season against anybody that's got a Dakota on
their jersey. That's just not good, good business, right, But
we'll see how it goes tonight in Boulder. The Buffs
and the Bison and Boulder, how about that for alliteration?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Did Sean Keeler Ever, refer to you as the Bruce
Lee of BS when you coached at Colorado.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
He never did.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Never did. I'm kind of disappointed in it myself.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That's a hell of a line, to be honest with you.
I might ripped that off myself. But Rick new Heisl's
with us. Before I get your Taco Time pick of
the week, give us more thoughts on this big ten
Michigan with Sharon Moore, hardballs with the Chargers. They got
this cloud hanging over the program. We'll see what happens.
I mean, nobody expects the NCAA to whack him during
(22:45):
the year, you know, because of the the Connor Stallions
thing or whatever. But tell me about Michigan and if
you believe that they should be again the favorite to
win this conference and maybe play for another national championship,
They're not.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
That's the favorite. That will be either Oregon or Ohio State.
Ohio State spent a lot of money on their team
and got a lot of really good looking players. Taylor
Downs will help that defense immntally. Dylan Gabriel at Oregon
is going to be a heck of a player if
he starts every game, will be the most experienced player
to ever played a position in college football. He'll have
over sixty starts at quarterback. All of those guys are great.
(23:25):
Michigan's going to be in the conversation because they're physical
along the line of scrimmage. Sharon Moore is an offensive
line coach. The DNA of the team will not change much.
There's ninety days before they have to file their answer
to the notice of allegations, so none of this is
going to happen during the season, so it'll be a footnote.
(23:45):
But it is interesting that Connor Stallions, as bright as
he is and as brilliant a student, doesn't recall whether
or not he was on the Western the Central Michigan sideline.
He doesn't recall it a year ago. I don't know
what short term memory that gets impaired in such a way,
but there you have it. Listen, Michigan's going to be good.
(24:05):
They've got a tough schedule. They've got Texas coming in
week two. CBS is going to be there to do
the sc at Michigan game. Oregon comes to Michigan, they
got Penn State and then they've got Ohio State, so well,
maybe they don't have Penn State this year. It's Ohio
State at the end of the year, but they're going
to be They're going to be a targeted team. Given
(24:27):
the season of a year ago, I look for a
nine to three, eight and four type of year.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Give us your taking. The two great early games on Saturday.
Will either Georgia against Clemson or West Virginia Penn State
be games in the mid stages of the fourth quarter?
Speaker 7 (24:43):
You know, I think they'll both be games. I would
take the underdogs in both of them. And because I'm
not sure with the brock Bauer's gun and Lad mcconkee gun,
who Carson Fech's going to go to when it's a
money down, I just don't know who that is. And
then with West Virginia, I just liked the way that
(25:04):
Neil Brown's built that program. I mean they were the
hottest of hot seats, so a year ago in won
nine games. And this Garrett Green kid is tough and
drew Aller to me, doesn't have a deep threat wide receiver.
Julian Fleming transferred there from Ohio State, but he's more
of a ten yards of cats type of guy. I
don't see a deep threat. And if West Virginia can
(25:26):
get that crowd going early. I think both of those
underdogs will farewell this weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
All right, before you go, Rick, Rick new heisl your
Taco Time Pick of the Week, brought to you by
Taco Time. Last year, you got off to a hot
start and the plane was going down in flames, and
you pulled it back up and save the day. So
we'll see if we can stay consistent all year. I'm
gonna go with the Chicken Caesar Soft Taco combo, available
for a limited time at every single Taco Time restaurant.
But you're a naugural Pick of the week, Taco Time
(25:54):
Pick of the Week.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Who do you like?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Well, I'm gonna give you two, just because it's opening
night and I want I want somebody to run to
the day. Run to the window now because there's a
game starting in Jacksonville, Alabama. Coastal Carolina is traveling to
Jacksonville State to take on rich Rod's bunch, the game Cocks.
Game Cocks got into a bowl their first year of
(26:20):
FBS consideration. They weren't even eligible, but because there weren't
enough teams available to go to bowl games, they were invited.
They get the Chanta Clears at home tim Beck's got
a good team, but I'm hearing that they lost a
couple guys and that that money that had been coming out,
you know, being available, and the collective is a little
(26:41):
bit more sparse. I'm taking the game Cocks at home tonight.
I think they're laying three points. And then this weekend,
I told you I like the underdogs. Give me Clemson
and the thirteen and a half, and let's let's see
how those Tigers there.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
All right, we got Clemson and Jacksonville date first st up?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Which one's the official pick of the week?
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Though the official pick of the week is tonight's game,
all right, gotcha love it?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's it's it's it's which everyone wins is the official
Clemson's getting thirteen and a half against Georgia.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Back soft he's my age.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
All right, man, great stuff, And I'll send you another
five hundred text between now and next Thursday, and we'll
talk next week at three twenty, coach.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Nothing like getting a softy text. I appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
All right, man.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Rick new isil with us on the air courtesy ATTACKO
time every Thursday at three twenty. Typically we'd have Factor
Fiction at three thirty five. It will start that on Monday.
He likes Clemson plus the points, and he likes Jacksonville
State tonight minus the three and a half. Get rich kids,
big thanks to our friends at Taco time. A little
fun with audio Next on ninety three three kJ RFM, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Now time for Softy and Digg's one with audio. Jimmy
g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now have some fun
with audio.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
All right, boys and girls, here we go on a
beauty fall Thursday afternoon right here on ninety three three
KJIRI FM. Mean it's time, you know, every now and then,
I'll still drop in the am every now and then,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Been thirty years. Will you?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Will you go do something else? For God's sakes? And
the boss is looking on every now and now. It's
just habit right, It's tell you you're a hard to break.
All right, Here we go to tack a little fun
with audio. Slash shadd you hear that? He addictedy happen here?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
What's that day? What's that dick? We started?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
The NFL Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin explaining in a
press conference yesterday why Russell Wilson was named the starting
quarterback in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
It was a difficult decision, but not difficult in a
negative way, to be quite honest with you, It was
difficult in a positive way. The decision was difficult because
of what they're capable of doing. Decision was difficult because
of how they conducted themselves as opposed to the things
that they fall shorty in in terms of capabilities or negative. Obviously,
(29:01):
Russ's injury created some challenges in terms of that process.
In terms of exposure.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know that Mike Tomlin has not won a playoff
game since twenty sixteen in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well, it's very Pete Carroll esque.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
He's always has good teams, right, he always motivates his team.
I mean, Pittsburgh was the Seattle of the AFC for
the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Basically, the difference is well, and really, I mean Mike
Domin Toddle we have a time got and he also
got back to a championship and lost it to Green Bay,
just like Pete Carroll lost it to New England. The
difference between Mike Tomlin and Pete Carroll is simple. When
guy's ninety five years old, the other guy's fifty two right, right,
But people wanted Pete Carroll out.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Mike Tomlin has done nothing more than Pete Carroll in
the last ten years.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And I just wonder if Pittsburgh fans are getting kind
of antsy too, and they should be antsy. It's been
eight years since the guy wanted to sink a playoff game.
All right, hey, dick did you happen here?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
What's that? Dick on?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Get up? Is this today, by the way, or yesterday?
It doesn't matter. ESPN analyst dan Orlowski snapping back at
Mike Tomlin saying that there was never actually a quarterback
competition in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I would have started Justin Fields, but this was never
a quarterback competition. We were bamboozled a little bit, and
I have endless amount of respect for Mike Tomlin. There
was no way that this is a quarterback competition. Russell
missed practice and only played in essentially one game. Green
I remember when both of the moves were made, being
on the show, and we said, if if this was
(30:31):
really going to be an open quarterback competition, I expected
Justin Fields to win. That this was never a quarterback competition.
If it was Russell would have played much more. Russell
played in preseason Week two. He threw the ball twice.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, I totally agree with him.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
This was as much of a competition as Drew Locke
versus Gino Smooth was. It was said to be a
competition and then it just wasn't.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
But don't you if you're Mike Tomlin, have you set
this thing up by waiting until the week and a
half before the game to make it look like it
was a competition. And hey, if Russell Wilson struggles, then
we can just pull him. That's right, and we can
go to justin fields like this was close, guys.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
It wasn't really close.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It was close like over here he's telling you one thing,
and over here is this. So I from his perspective,
I think he actually played it pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I'm not saying he did anything wrong, but I agree
with Orlovsky was all a.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Rue, a ruse rude.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That bamboozled is an underrated word. It is, and it's
right up there with dipstick by the way or ding back.
But they should absolutely pull Russell if they're two and
three and they're losing games. Seventeen to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, get him out, he dick. Did you happen to
hear that? What's that all right?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Last night's Ranger Whitesaw game, Texas left fielder Travis Jenkowski
robbing what would have been a walkoff three went home
run by Chicago's Andrew vaugh Here was the call by
Ranger play by play voice Dave Raymond on Valley Sports
at Southwest.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I'm the one to bat in the field.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
That's trouble Jankowski back, dudness, what a grab.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
He brings the game back.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Uh, let's stick with that because this is the other
side of that call. Here's what that game saving home
run robbery sounded like on NBC Sports Chicago with Steve
Stone and John Schiffrin.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Walty strikes.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Oh he made can't shut miss Chankowski just insulted for
defensive purposes. Just loves von a home run that would
have been ball game.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You have got to be kidding me.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
This is about as good a robbery as we've seen.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It's game over if he doesn't make this play.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That game was in Chicago, correct, I do not know.
Did you hear the crowd?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah? The boy?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
No, no, no, there's people there they're pumping in crowd noise.
There's no way, Dick, look at this picture. Come here,
this is a picture of the game. Look at that
right there. That is the Ranger game. They're playing a game.
That's who's in the stands. There's no way there were
that many people in the crowd. The audio made it
say there was ten thousand people there. They announced eleven thousand.
(33:27):
But that This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
That's always tickets distributed. I want to know how many
asses are in seats like those games, there's probably like
four hundred and fifty two. And they don't tell you
that it should be illegal, honestly, like the government should
step in and say you cannot allow any team to
announce any number besides how many butcher in seats. All right,
we're gonna break Mike Homenggrin's back. He'll join us next
(33:48):
on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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