September 10, 2024 • 31 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler is joined by Greg Lewis and Mario Bailey for the Husky Honks as the guys react to the win over Eastern Michigan last weekend and then preview Saturday’s Apple Cup at Lumen Field, when it’s being played, and match-ups.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey and your host Dave Suffi Muller.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
That is the voice of Emerald Ridge, pure Alett Pride,
Denzel Boston speaking today over at U DUB. First of all,
welcome to the Husky Honks. Creg, Mario, good to see you, guys.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I was just wondering who this guest we have on
the show with us today, Dave this right, Oh yeah
this guest.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
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we just have to give them all loved. We have
to make a decision though, right now and here on
the radio show. How much time are we going to
spend talking about Eastern Michigan Saturday? How much time Greg
are we spending talking about the Apple Cup on Saturday?
Because it's week three and for the first time ever,
both teams are undefeated heading into the Apple Cup.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well two and zero, you know, because it's so early.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I put a post on Facebook today and usually this
time of year, I tell all my Koog friends that
for this week we're no longer friends, We're enemies, and
I'll talk to you next week. This year just doesn't
quite feel the same. I mean, so everything's different this year.
But I can tell you what what happened the last
two games, the first two games for US and Washington's
you could throw that out the window. I don't think
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either team you can tell who they are based on
the competition that they played the first two weeks. So
I think this game will be our first opportunity really
to start making critical assessments of what we think the
Husky's going to be the rest of the year.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
And answer your question, I think we should talk a
lot about Eastern Michigan. I don't think we should talk
that much about We did that at the end of
the game.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, Well I wasn't there, So, yeah, you was talking.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You guys were relying my text that I was telling
you the information that I was sending them to be
present to participate. I see that now. I see that now,
But I want to talk about that. But the Washington
State game is always a good game. It doesn't matter.
You throw the records out, so it doesn't matter if
you're ten and one or two and oh. So I
think this game is very important. I'm looking forward to it.
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I'm glad that we're here in Washington, even though I
wouldn't mind being in Pullman or playing the game in
Husky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But I'm just glad we're here in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, you say it's a good game, I mean, like
the last ten games have been blowouts by somebody. Kooch's
came here and did the whole Delaana flag thing obviously
in twenty twenty one when they won that game by
twenty seven points. But outside of that, Washington obviously gain
has won nine of the last ten against Wazoo. And
I remember a certain game in nineteen ninety seven. Remember
that game in ninety seven. You're probably in the NFL.
(03:20):
Maybe you were no. I was out, I was retired,
you were out. I don't know what you were doing
in some FL. You were in Europe doing the taking
Hamburgers or whatever. You know what you're doing. But Ryan
Leaf and the Cougars came to Seattle and they won
the Apple Cup and they won forty one to thirty
five to clinch a bit at the Rose Bowls. Since then,
they've played twenty five Apple Cups and the Dogs are
nineteen and six and those twenty five Apple Cups. And
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here's the thing, and Dick and I have talked about
this many many times. Here are the win totals of
the last six Husky teams that Washington State has beaten
four seven zero, four, two and one. The last time
Wazoo beat a team with eight or more wins was
that game back in.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So well, usually you can tell by the apple and
if the Huskies are gonna be a nine win team,
an eight win team, a ten win team. You can
usually tell if your phone is about to ring, and
that's where you turn your phone off before the segment starts,
when you go on the radio. But like you said, Greg,
what are we what do we have on our hands here?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I think so far, what we've seen is is that
our guys know how to line up straight, they know
how to substitute in the right you know, personnel, they
know where the end zone is. They've scored thirty plus
points the last couple of games. But there hasn't been
a lot of resistance. The competition so far hasn't kind
of given us that, you know, picture and version of
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who are these Huskies? Are they going to be a
running team, a passing team. They've shown they can do
a little bit of both. They're gonna be balanced. But
I think right now we just don't know. I can't
get anything from Eastern Michigan. I can't get anything from
the first game of the year because there was really
nothing that I saw in our opponent that said, this
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makes them look like a really good power football team,
and technically, Washing the State technically is still a Power
five football team. I mean they're in the Pack two.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
They are. That's a Power five conference.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So this will be the first game against a Power
five team, so we get to now start seeing who
the football team will be.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, I get your technically they don't have AQ status anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's only the four conferences. But if you want to
call the Power four, then you can call them the
Power five. That's fine, all right. But just going back
to Saturday for a second, guy, before we talk about
the Apple Cup and your memories of playing in this game.
I mean you're watching the game at home, obviously, Mar
because you have direct TV and not Comcast.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So you saw the game on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Fourth and one from the thirty yard line and they say,
you know what, it's ridiculous, right, We're here in the
second quarter, we haven't scored. We got to get a
jump start going, and they throw the ball just like
Ryan Grub used to do. We're not gonna play it
safe and run the ball with number one. Greg and
I were talking on the air about that that if
they don't complete that pass. We're sitting there going why
not just give the ball a one, get your yard
and keep going. But no, they throw it and Giles
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Jackson goes for twenty nine and then the next play
was the forty one yard touchdown to deck or the graph.
So what happened on that play because they scored sixteen
They scored twenty one points on sixteen.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Plays after that.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I think it's the confidence in the defense that was
gonna be One of the things I wanted to talk
about is that defense. We haven't haven't scored a touchdown
on us in two games. It's been nothing but field goals.
So I think you make that call if your confidence
that your defense is not going to let them score.
And that's what they did. Our defense has been playing
great football. But also we've been playing clean football. It's
not like last year we had a lot of penalties
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and a lot of mess ups off sides. We've been
playing pretty much penalty free and our defense has been
stopping our dbs are playing great, And I think if
your defense is playing great, you can make a call
like that on offense, pass or run.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Well, I can tell you what I heard. Jed Fish
say in the postgame press conference, he said, on that play,
instead of going to the offensive coach and saying, are
you confident we can at this? You know, are you
you know, ready to take you know, take a chance here,
he said, he went to the defensive coach.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
He said, if we do this, are you okay with it?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And that, like you just said, says that he's confident
in his defense, and the defensive coach said, go for it,
because if we don't, you know, if you don't get it,
we'll stop and we won't allow them to get the
in zone. So I thought that was kind of interesting
that he went to the defensive coach at offense coaches,
You're right, we played pretty clean. But I will say this,
we have had a few penalties, but they have been
big ones. When we get a penalty, it's usually on
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a touchdown run or a big play or something like that.
Not as many, but the overall impact has still been,
you know, something that we got to clean up. And
those things happened in a couple of early games and
hopefully we got those out of our system.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Greg and I talked about this again after the game Saturday.
Mario he weren't there gonna be there this Saturday post game.
Do they need to find five offensive linemen and just
go with five at least to start because Brendan Carroll
today and this might just be you know, gamesmanship.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They might have five guys they like that they'll roll
with for the first five or six drives on Saturday,
or just see if it works.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You said, hey, we got no problem rotating guys.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I think they can continue to rotate guys unless something
would have happened like those first two games. We've been
pretty dominant on the offensive line. Yes, they struggled a
little bit, but you can't tell if you look at
the stat sheets. So I think we just keep rotating
until we figured out we have three or four games.
I know Greg doesn't like that, but we have three
or four games to play with here, even though you
don't feel like you have something to play with. I
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think we won the first two. We're gonna win this week,
and we're gonna win the following week. Go ahead, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I hear what you say, Mario, but I'm gonna have
to disagree. It goes back to my statement. This is
a Power five football team. Whether they are declared that
this year or not, but they've been playing Power five conference,
they've been recruiting as a Power five team, so they
are going to present a and there your rival, and
they hate you right now. You talked about what Alex
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Brink said earlier. They hate the Huskies for leaving the conference.
So they're gonna bring every thing they got. They're gonna
play their best football game. They probably, like us, haven't
shown anything that they're going to run offensively. So I
think this game, Mario, this is the thing you know
when you're prepping for a football game, when you're g
goning prepared, you got to get those reps during the week.
You gotta have seen everything that you're gonna see in
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the game time after time at the time rep after
rep after rep, and if you're in different spots during
practice during that week in preparation, you're not getting to
see it time and time again to where it's automatic.
I see this is what I do, and the guy
next to you knows this is what he does, and
he's working in tandem. I think you got to get
your best five guys on the offensive and defensive lines
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and get them at maximum reps at that spot for
this game. Because it is a power five football game
that you gotta win, and preparation is key.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I just don't know if we know who our best
five guys are you have.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You got to make a call, though, so you can
get in those max reps. That's all I'm saying. They'll
have the best chance to be successful to me if
they get the maximum reps at a spot during this week.
But you and I both know when it comes crunch time.
Like you just said, these first two games might not
have been a power five conference or a power five team.
We might not think the opponent was great. But now
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and the opponent is great. Some guys that showed up
those first two weeks aren't going to show up this game.
So I just say you continue to rotate till you
find who's best.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, but here's the point I think all of us
can agree at some point, Yes, you gotta go with
five guys.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Now's the top when I well, and it might be
different next week.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
If you find something out this week, then you prep
those guys for that next game.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But my question would be, if this isn't the time,
then when is the time?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Northwestern? Next Saturday? Is it Michigan in two and a
half weeks from now, or do you just do this
song and dance where this guy's playing right, he's playing left,
he's playing guard, he's playing tackle, he's playing center, he's
playing guard. I honestly, guys, I feel like the kid
from Portland State. And I haven't looked at all the
PFF grades on DiAngelo Titty Ali, I haven't heard the
guy's name called hardly at all. I mean the shotgun
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exactly jack gunsnap that was driven and I was landing
hatchet at center on Saturday. So I mean, I am
pleasantly surprised with the kid transfers from Portland State FCS program.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think he's played fine. He is my center for now. Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I was just gonna say, you know, sometimes guys don't
get recruited because they didn't play on the right high
school team, or they didn't go to all the camps
or something like that, and they kind of slip under
the radar. In today's football world, that isn't as big
a deal because you can go to a Portland State
for a year or two and look dominant and get
you know, your size and your man body on and
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all of that and then slide into a power five. Yeah,
you know when you come in Mario and I were.
I mean I literally I turned eighteen two days after
camp started. Mario maybe halfway through that rest of the year.
So you know, you come in as a seventeen year
old kid. When I was twenty years old. You know,
my junior year, I had a completely different body, and
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so you know, you have to grow into that. And
so guys can go to Portland States, hit the weight room, eat,
grow into their size, and then slide into a D
one and do just fine.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
They just were under recruited for some other kind of reason.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
The only real question I've got right now about the
offensive line is left tackle. I think I found my center.
I think I found my left guard. I think I
found my right tackle. And as a party, I think
Hatchet's going to be my excuse me, Enoch is going
to be my right guard. The question is, does land
and Stay is that swing guy? Does Enoch play left tackle?
And if he does play left tackle, is Land and
Hatchet going to be my right guard? So there are
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a couple of questions here. I feel like three of
those spots are nailed down. One spot that we know
is nailed down is Jonah Coleman, Right, I said, just
another one hundred.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yard game, Greg and I are sitting there in a
press box.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Hey, somebody tell Fish the guy's got ninety nine yards
and he brings him in.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
For one carry, yeah, and then cracking up out.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Don jameson had never done that happen? Okay, So do
we like that that Jetfish did that?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Love it? I love it.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I love that he's putting him on the map because
those hundred yard games means something, and Coach James would
definitely have not put.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Him in the game. It would have been over. But
I like that.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
You know that Jonah has these two to one hundred
yard games. So when the end of the season comes
and they're talking about stats and they're talking about one
hundred yard games, and that does something for the kid too.
The kid knows that his coach is looking out for him,
even if it's just one carry and got him a
few yards.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
He knows that the coach is looking out for him.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You know, you said Don James never would have done
that though thirty years ago. If Don James is coaching
in this environment of the transfer portal and the NIM
because he may be thick different.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
That's just Don James is not gonna think if you
could morph him into the year twenty seventy five, Don
James is still going to be Don James.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Had Jedfish been the coach, I would have.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
About seven more one hundred yard games, because there's seven
times I had ninety in about the third quarter over
the last two years. And Don one time my coach
asked Don James to Oregon State our junior year, I
had ninety six yards. Coach asked Don James, could he
put me back in? And he got cursed out on
the sideline in front of every But who was the
running back coach.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Matt Simon. There you go. Love you, coach Simon, but
I know I appreciate you going to bat for me.
But he got you that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I got too many stories checked me out of every
record book there were.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Man has enough record I could have had him forever
if not for Don James.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
We love your coach. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
When you get to heaven, Don James gonna kicks, you
know that right.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
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Speaker 2 (14:41):
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Speaker 1 (14:43):
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Speaker 6 (14:57):
This is not in conference, rob that are competing on
the same level playing field that they have for the.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Last however long.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
This is right. This is now a game amongst two
schools that one school has chosen to take a path
and deliberately put the other school at a disadvantage. Right,
and that school, Washington State, is saying no, like, we're
not going to We're not a part of that, We're
not going to play that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That is the voice of Alex Brink, who was on
with the Infernes and m Crysto Bruce on his radio
show this afternoon. Alex was there between two thousand and
four and two thousand and seven, had a great career
at Wazoo thirty eight hundred yards in two thousand and
seven for the Cougars, and he says that you dub
went to negotiations with the Big ten and deliberately screwed
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over Wazoo, to which I say.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Wow, stop it. Yeah, they're not that important. I mean
this state.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
What happens to them is not on the importance meter
above a two, you know, out of one hundred, not
out of ten, out of a one hundred. As far
as us making decison, we had to make a decision
that was in the best interest of the University of
Washington football. If you can't carry your own weight, if
you can't figure out your path and make something beneficial
for you, don't be.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Mad at us.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's not our job to carry Washington State. We've been
doing that for long enough, so I don't want to
hear that from him.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
People will be mad for me saying that, and I've
gotten criticized before. But people don't know the fact that
we have been supplementing their income for years. Because in
the Pac twelve there's a rivalry clause where you have
to split the revenues at the rivalry traditional rival game
fifty to fifty. So every time we played down there
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in Martin Stadium, thirty five thousand seats, we got fifty
percent when we played a Husky Stadium, they got fifty percent.
That would be about a million plus benefit for them
every single year. We asked the PAC twelve to change
that multiple times, they still wouldn't. So I don't want
to hear. We've taken care of you guys enough and
it's a little bit of juice to this game, does
it not?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
On Saturday? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I don't think we ever need juice for this game.
But I normally wouldn't go with Greg because I don't
like these people like tweeting me and getting mad at
me whatever. But they can't say that they wouldn't have
done the same thing, like we're looking out for us.
We're not supposed to look after our little brother or
anything like that. We're supposed to take care of Washington,
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not Washington State too. So yeah, he's wrong about that.
And now I would hate to went to Washington State
because I would be tired of losing and I would
be tired of whining.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, but this is what they're playing up behind the
closed doors, and I don't blame them, right, I mean,
how many players, coaches, teams make stuff up just to
get themselves fired up. And they may have made it
up so much that they actually believe that. Then you
deliberately went to Big ten negotiations and one of the
goals during these conversations was to hoos Wazoo as hard
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as possible, which, as you said, makes zero sense whatsoever.
But if you're Jake dickerd and you're playing behind closed doors,
I don't blame.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Them at all.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, you look for what any type of motivation you
can get, right, If that's what you gotta do, then
that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It's not gonna work. But whatever you do. So what
do we see happening on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Because as you mentioned last segment, we don't know what
the Huskies are. Wazoo has had a bigger opponent. They
played a big twelve team in Texas Tech, and they
well they did play.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
A big go back and watch Texas Tech versus Abilene Christian.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
We had to go into overtime.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Trust me, gave up five six hundred yards Ebiline Christis
is why I thought Wazoo would win easily on Saturday,
because Texas Tech is not very good, but Texas Tech
is a power for a team, and Texas Tech would
be apparently on a bigger maybe rung of importance than
a Weaver State or an Eastern Michigan. You want to
dance with me and just say nobody's really played anybody.
That's fine, But let's talk about Saturday, because Saturday they're
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going to face a quarterback and Johnny McTeer who ran
for one hundred and ninety seven yards on Texas Tech's defense.
So what is the bigger challenge you think this weekend
for you, dub offense or defense?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Well, I think it's tough because when I watched the
first game, Wazoo scores a ton of points, I go,
all right, we're gonna have to really put pressure on it.
We have to cover they But then they played Texas Tech,
who gave up five hundred yards passing to Abilene Christian,
and they threw for one hundred and fifteen yards, so
Texas Tech TX No, I'm saying Washington State only threw
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for one hundred fifteen yards against Texas Tech, who gave
up five hundred to Ablene Christian. So maybe their offensive
pass game isn't that important or as good. They did
rush for three hundred yards and okay, great, maybe that's
why they didn't throw as much. But they still threw
the ball out twenty nine times and only nineteen and
only completed ten. So for me, I think offensively, we
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just have to get going earlier. That to me is
the key. The tougher challenge is can we get our
offense started out the gate instead of waiting til the
last half of the second quarter and into the second half.
So I think defensively we'll do just fine against Washington.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And we we've seen Husky teams before that have struggled
early and and then they've kind of turned things on.
This is nothing new, especially for a team that's got
new scheme, new coaches, new players all over the place.
They got like over fifty new guys on the roster,
So what do we make of the slow starts? And
how concerning is that this weekend versus Wazoo.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
I mean, we're coming from a team that used to
score on the first drive every time, So it's concerning
when you look at it. The first few games we
can't score in the first quarter. But I think it's
all getting continuity with the guys and learning each other
and kind of finding our identity. We know Jonah's great,
but our quarterback has done a great job too. But
I still don't think we have a decisive identity, and
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I think our defense is phenomenal. And I think what
happened with Washington State is their quarterback got stopped because
Texas Tech watched the film before they put seventy on
them and they were keying on him. We're going to
key on him as well, and we're going to stop
their offense if our offense continues to be consistent like
they have been the past few weeks, and we can
run Jonah and do the play action. We did a
lot of play action and we got all three receivers involved.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's going to happen. Yeah, talk about that because we
saw a lot of it on Saturday. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
And they rent it out of Double Tight right, So
they brought two tight ends in and typically when you
run two tight ends you were going to run the football.
You're bringing in your players that can open holes. They're
not necessarily getting out in routes, so you're limiting even
the number of guys that are in the route, but
you slow down their penetration with the play action. And
they won one on one battles outside with their wide receivers,
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and to me, Giles Jackson is a kid who's having
a phenomenal, phenomenals football season. He's beaten guys in one
on one coverage. He's catching the ball in space and
making a guy miss and getting up the field. So
they've done a fantastic job running that. You know, play action,
but play action only works.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Win what Mario? When you run the football.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And you have all three of your running backs getting
plus positive yards? Not only are is the offensive line
opening up some cutback lanes, but these guys are breaking tackles,
they're making guys miss, they're getting yards after contact. When
any game is going like that, play action pass becomes
a great weapon for you.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, okay, so is this a let's give Number one
the ball thirty times on Saturday? I mean Will Rogers
is hitting on since nine percent of his passes. He's
got five touchdowns and does not have a pick yet,
and he's been sacked twice and I think one of
them is because he fell down on a shotgun snap
last Saturday versus Eastern Michigan. I mean, the passing game
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for about a quarter and a half on Saturday looked amazing.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Just depends on how they're scheming this. Are they're going
to scheme just to stop jonah A. They going to
put stack the box and let our receivers go. We
got to wait and see. But Will Rogers has done
a phenomenal job whenever he gets the chance. He's pretty
precise in what he's doing out there. So we just
kind of wait and see.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
All right, well, let's do this because Greg loves this
segment and he loves to remind you when the postgame
show comes around that he was right about it.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He won't say he did when he's wrong.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
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will be the hero of the Apple Cup Mario for
the Huskies on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I'm going with Jeremiah Hunter. I liked what we did
with him last week. We got him the ball, made
an effort to get him the ball, and I think
this game he breaks out.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So Jeremiah Hunter was my dog of the game last week.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
So and when I said what I said going into it,
and it's arguable whether he was because there were several
guys after argument. My point was this, we were going
to be intentional about trying to find him last week
and get him open and get him involved. So he's
gotten some rhythm, he's caught some passes, and he definitely
looks like he could be a weapon for us. I'm
going to change it up this week, and this week
(23:44):
is the week they open up the full offense and
run game, pass, gameplay action, all that, and this is
where we will see real Rogers become that quarterback that
everybody believes in. Everybody sees him being accurate in the
middle of the field, going outside of.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
The numbers, doing the play action, and.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I think he will have a great football game this
week and establish himself as the next really good Husky quarterback.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well I'll tell you what, man, it feels like they're
pretty good to really good in both facets of the offense.
They could be a really good up rushing offense and
they're pretty good passing offense. And we're gonna find out
as the weeks go by how good those two things
really are.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Injury up.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
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Decor McGrath has stepped up though no question about that.
We'll come back and talking about about the matchup with
the Koobs and do we feel like this is right
to play this game in week three at Luminfield or
does it maybe lack some of the buzz that it
usually lacks. Next on ninety three three KJRFM, now.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
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Speaker 7 (25:21):
Michael Pennix will go out of the shotgun, romadonsay the
receiver into the boundary they run Dylan.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Johnson off right tech No, but.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Doonsay sneaks away but the left side line to the
fifty yard line.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I totally bit the fake they.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Handed to a Dunsay on the reverse, Brady Gross from
forty two yards for the Boeing Apple Cup for twelve
and zero for the State of Washington. The kick is
on the way, the kick is up, the.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
End of right tack is right down the middle.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
The clock expirs, and whoa, Washington has done it.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Your first year on campus was when Greg nineteen eighty
seven eighty seven. Mario, first year for you was when
eighty eight eighty eight. Okay, so they won your opener,
they lost your opener. They won three in a row. Wow, Wow, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I've shared that my own personal stories. I would have
(26:23):
I would have elevating them a second ninety two Apple Cup.
You're talking about the eighty eight thirty two thirty one
lost because Greg Lewis had a goal to blow his
knee out.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That I was nineteen ninety yeah, yeah, against Washington State.
The guy I was responsible for blocked the punt down
near the end zone. Washington State scored to go ahead
touchdown last couple of minutes of the game.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
So if not for you, they would have won every
Apple Cup in your career.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I blame the guy who was next to because I
was trying to help him out because he wouldn't get
his guy.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I was trying to help him out. His guy food
me out the way, and my guy blocked the plane.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
All right, Well, memories thoughts playing you just shared one
playing in the game right there. I still remember that
nineteen ninety one ass kicking when Walter Bailey picked off
Drew Bledsoe, and Bledsoe hit Bailey like a fly hitting
a truck, and he just brought him right into the
end zone. Not Mario Bailey, Walter Bailey. What do you
remember about your that games against Wazoo.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Of course that's my favorite one because Coach Price had
said he didn't vote us number one, and Coach James
had that on the billboard in our locker room all
week long.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Wow, this note that.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Coach Price did not vote us number one, So we
were trying to kill him, and Coach James let us dance.
We did every dance and we beat him up. So
that will always be my favorite one.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And that's not typical of don no to things. No, absolutely,
So what's the message if your jetfish Saturday? We know
what the message is. If you're Jake Dickard, it's Hey,
these guys screwed us. We are out of the power
because of them. They left us behind, they left the
man down. Write all that. I'm playing all that up.
I find him. But what's the message if your jetfiesher?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
What's interesting is is this is his first time, so
he hasn't experienced the passion and the rage and all
of that in this. A lot of the guys, well
we have what is it, forty two new guys on
the team, new guys in the team this year, so
they haven't experienced that. Most of the guys who were
still here didn't experience it from an active participation point.
So I don't fully one hundred percent. No, I guess
(28:31):
you really have to ride in. This is for the States.
You know, you're gonna have to see these guys every year.
You're gonna see him out off the field and all
that kind of stuff. Because the other part of this
is a non conference game now, so it's not about
winning the conference or conference championship or anything like that
on the line. So with us in this rivalry, they
always can play the underdog, the little guy, the little brother,
(28:54):
little sister as I call him roll.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ours is just you know, go beat up on the
little key. It's you know that live in your neighborhood
that you don't like anywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
That's a hell of a message.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
By the way, I would just look at Carson Brunner
and Cam Davis and Cameron Fabiculan and guys like that
and say, dude, this is the last one for these
guys like you want those guys to go home with
an el to Wazoo because if they win this game
now more than ever, they will never shut up about
it for the next year because this is their super
Bowl for sure, Okay, And so for like Carson Brunner
(29:27):
mentioned it today Mario that he still remembers two years
ago when Jaden DeLaura pulled the flag thing at the
fifty yard line, and that's the one blight on his
Apple Cup record. Is that game from twenty twenty one?
And I asked him.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Today does it still stick with you? He said, yeah,
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Yeah, most people, most people at University of Washington probably
got one loss. Everybody has that one loss, and Washington
State does a great job of amplifying that one time
that they beat you, so it's going to stick with you.
I think coach Fish has a hard time to I
don't know what our team goals are for the season
or win he has for the team goals for the season.
(30:02):
But right now it's just another game on the map,
because this game is not the same when it's not
the last game of the season and you throw all
the records out and they can stop us from going
to a bowl game, or they can stop us from
going to a national championship. Right now, we're trying to
get our team together. We're a brand new team. We've
had two great games, and when this is just game
three on the record.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Is there j just missing for you?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, there definitely is because of the non conference things.
Like Mario said, we're not even at the part of
the season where we know who we are, where we're
oil wel machine, where we are gonna bring our best sells,
They're gonna bring our best sells.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
You throw out the records and all that.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
This is the part of the year where you're still
trying to figure things out and still trying to get
things right, especially this year because of all the newness.
Now I know they are teams. I believe Oklahoma Texas
play an early season game that's a rivalry sometimes, you know,
there are other people who do that. We just got
to figure out how to make that into a big deal.
How to we really elevate this rivalry now that it's different,
(31:03):
it's not conference, it's not at the end.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Of the year.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I think this is a building year for this and
right now I think the fans are even still trying
to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Mario, how about you quickly same thing.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I just don't know how you can figure it out
that being the third game of the season.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But we'll figure it out.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
But it's even odd that we're at Loomenfield and we're
not in Washington State or at Washington. But for the Huskies,
we're just trying to get this new next game on
a victory.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
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Speaker 2 (31:52):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
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welcome to the Husky Honks. Creg, Mario, good to see you, guys.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I was just wondering who this guest we have on
the show with us today, Dave this right, Oh yeah
this guest.
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we just have to give them all loved. We have
to make a decision though, right now and here on
the radio show. How much time are we going to
spend talking about Eastern Michigan Saturday? How much time Greg
are we spending talking about the Apple Cup on Saturday?
Because it's week three and for the first time ever,
both teams are undefeated heading into the Apple Cup.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well two and zero, you know, because it's so early.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I put a post on Facebook today and usually this
time of year, I tell all my Koog friends that
for this week we're no longer friends, We're enemies, and
I'll talk to you next week. This year just doesn't
quite feel the same. I mean, so everything's different this year.
But I can tell you what what happened the last
two games, the first two games for US and Washington's
you could throw that out the window. I don't think
(02:02):
either team you can tell who they are based on
the competition that they played the first two weeks. So
I think this game will be our first opportunity really
to start making critical assessments of what we think the
Husky's going to be the rest of the year.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
And answer your question, I think we should talk a
lot about Eastern Michigan. I don't think we should talk
that much about We did that at the end of
the game.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, Well I wasn't there, So, yeah, you was talking.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You guys were relying my text that I was telling
you the information that I was sending them to be
present to participate. I see that now. I see that now,
But I want to talk about that. But the Washington
State game is always a good game. It doesn't matter.
You throw the records out, so it doesn't matter if
you're ten and one or two and oh. So I
think this game is very important. I'm looking forward to it.
(02:50):
I'm glad that we're here in Washington, even though I
wouldn't mind being in Pullman or playing the game in
Husky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But I'm just glad we're here in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, you say it's a good game, I mean, like
the last ten games have been blowouts by somebody. Kooch's
came here and did the whole Delaana flag thing obviously
in twenty twenty one when they won that game by
twenty seven points. But outside of that, Washington obviously gain
has won nine of the last ten against Wazoo. And
I remember a certain game in nineteen ninety seven. Remember
that game in ninety seven. You're probably in the NFL.
(03:20):
Maybe you were no. I was out, I was retired,
you were out. I don't know what you were doing
in some FL. You were in Europe doing the taking
Hamburgers or whatever. You know what you're doing. But Ryan
Leaf and the Cougars came to Seattle and they won
the Apple Cup and they won forty one to thirty
five to clinch a bit at the Rose Bowls. Since then,
they've played twenty five Apple Cups and the Dogs are
nineteen and six and those twenty five Apple Cups. And
(03:41):
here's the thing, and Dick and I have talked about
this many many times. Here are the win totals of
the last six Husky teams that Washington State has beaten
four seven zero, four, two and one. The last time
Wazoo beat a team with eight or more wins was
that game back in.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So well, usually you can tell by the apple and
if the Huskies are gonna be a nine win team,
an eight win team, a ten win team. You can
usually tell if your phone is about to ring, and
that's where you turn your phone off before the segment starts,
when you go on the radio. But like you said, Greg,
what are we what do we have on our hands here?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I think so far, what we've seen is is that
our guys know how to line up straight, they know
how to substitute in the right you know, personnel, they
know where the end zone is. They've scored thirty plus
points the last couple of games. But there hasn't been
a lot of resistance. The competition so far hasn't kind
of given us that, you know, picture and version of
(04:40):
who are these Huskies? Are they going to be a
running team, a passing team. They've shown they can do
a little bit of both. They're gonna be balanced. But
I think right now we just don't know. I can't
get anything from Eastern Michigan. I can't get anything from
the first game of the year because there was really
nothing that I saw in our opponent that said, this
(05:00):
makes them look like a really good power football team,
and technically, Washing the State technically is still a Power
five football team. I mean they're in the Pack two.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
They are. That's a Power five conference.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So this will be the first game against a Power
five team, so we get to now start seeing who
the football team will be.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, I get your technically they don't have AQ status anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's only the four conferences. But if you want to
call the Power four, then you can call them the
Power five. That's fine, all right. But just going back
to Saturday for a second, guy, before we talk about
the Apple Cup and your memories of playing in this game.
I mean you're watching the game at home, obviously, Mar
because you have direct TV and not Comcast.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So you saw the game on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Fourth and one from the thirty yard line and they say,
you know what, it's ridiculous, right, We're here in the
second quarter, we haven't scored. We got to get a
jump start going, and they throw the ball just like
Ryan Grub used to do. We're not gonna play it
safe and run the ball with number one. Greg and
I were talking on the air about that that if
they don't complete that pass. We're sitting there going why
not just give the ball a one, get your yard
and keep going. But no, they throw it and Giles
(06:03):
Jackson goes for twenty nine and then the next play
was the forty one yard touchdown to deck or the graph.
So what happened on that play because they scored sixteen
They scored twenty one points on sixteen.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Plays after that.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I think it's the confidence in the defense that was
gonna be One of the things I wanted to talk
about is that defense. We haven't haven't scored a touchdown
on us in two games. It's been nothing but field goals.
So I think you make that call if your confidence
that your defense is not going to let them score.
And that's what they did. Our defense has been playing
great football. But also we've been playing clean football. It's
not like last year we had a lot of penalties
(06:37):
and a lot of mess ups off sides. We've been
playing pretty much penalty free and our defense has been
stopping our dbs are playing great, And I think if
your defense is playing great, you can make a call
like that on offense, pass or run.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Well, I can tell you what I heard. Jed Fish
say in the postgame press conference, he said, on that play,
instead of going to the offensive coach and saying, are
you confident we can at this? You know, are you
you know, ready to take you know, take a chance here,
he said, he went to the defensive coach.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
He said, if we do this, are you okay with it?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And that, like you just said, says that he's confident
in his defense, and the defensive coach said, go for it,
because if we don't, you know, if you don't get it,
we'll stop and we won't allow them to get the
in zone. So I thought that was kind of interesting
that he went to the defensive coach at offense coaches,
You're right, we played pretty clean. But I will say this,
we have had a few penalties, but they have been
big ones. When we get a penalty, it's usually on
(07:29):
a touchdown run or a big play or something like that.
Not as many, but the overall impact has still been,
you know, something that we got to clean up. And
those things happened in a couple of early games and
hopefully we got those out of our system.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Greg and I talked about this again after the game Saturday.
Mario he weren't there gonna be there this Saturday post game.
Do they need to find five offensive linemen and just
go with five at least to start because Brendan Carroll
today and this might just be you know, gamesmanship.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They might have five guys they like that they'll roll
with for the first five or six drives on Saturday,
or just see if it works.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You said, hey, we got no problem rotating guys.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I think they can continue to rotate guys unless something
would have happened like those first two games. We've been
pretty dominant on the offensive line. Yes, they struggled a
little bit, but you can't tell if you look at
the stat sheets. So I think we just keep rotating
until we figured out we have three or four games.
I know Greg doesn't like that, but we have three
or four games to play with here, even though you
don't feel like you have something to play with. I
(08:27):
think we won the first two. We're gonna win this week,
and we're gonna win the following week. Go ahead, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I hear what you say, Mario, but I'm gonna have
to disagree. It goes back to my statement. This is
a Power five football team. Whether they are declared that
this year or not, but they've been playing Power five conference,
they've been recruiting as a Power five team, so they
are going to present a and there your rival, and
they hate you right now. You talked about what Alex
(08:55):
Brink said earlier. They hate the Huskies for leaving the conference.
So they're gonna bring every thing they got. They're gonna
play their best football game. They probably, like us, haven't
shown anything that they're going to run offensively. So I
think this game, Mario, this is the thing you know
when you're prepping for a football game, when you're g
goning prepared, you got to get those reps during the week.
You gotta have seen everything that you're gonna see in
(09:17):
the game time after time at the time rep after
rep after rep, and if you're in different spots during
practice during that week in preparation, you're not getting to
see it time and time again to where it's automatic.
I see this is what I do, and the guy
next to you knows this is what he does, and
he's working in tandem. I think you got to get
your best five guys on the offensive and defensive lines
(09:37):
and get them at maximum reps at that spot for
this game. Because it is a power five football game
that you gotta win, and preparation is key.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I just don't know if we know who our best
five guys are you have.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You got to make a call, though, so you can
get in those max reps. That's all I'm saying. They'll
have the best chance to be successful to me if
they get the maximum reps at a spot during this week.
But you and I both know when it comes crunch time.
Like you just said, these first two games might not
have been a power five conference or a power five team.
We might not think the opponent was great. But now
(10:09):
and the opponent is great. Some guys that showed up
those first two weeks aren't going to show up this game.
So I just say you continue to rotate till you
find who's best.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, but here's the point I think all of us
can agree at some point, Yes, you gotta go with
five guys.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Now's the top when I well, and it might be
different next week.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
If you find something out this week, then you prep
those guys for that next game.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But my question would be, if this isn't the time,
then when is the time?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Northwestern? Next Saturday? Is it Michigan in two and a
half weeks from now, or do you just do this
song and dance where this guy's playing right, he's playing left,
he's playing guard, he's playing tackle, he's playing center, he's
playing guard. I honestly, guys, I feel like the kid
from Portland State. And I haven't looked at all the
PFF grades on DiAngelo Titty Ali, I haven't heard the
guy's name called hardly at all. I mean the shotgun
(10:59):
exactly jack gunsnap that was driven and I was landing
hatchet at center on Saturday. So I mean, I am
pleasantly surprised with the kid transfers from Portland State FCS program.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think he's played fine. He is my center for now. Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I was just gonna say, you know, sometimes guys don't
get recruited because they didn't play on the right high
school team, or they didn't go to all the camps
or something like that, and they kind of slip under
the radar. In today's football world, that isn't as big
a deal because you can go to a Portland State
for a year or two and look dominant and get
you know, your size and your man body on and
(11:37):
all of that and then slide into a power five. Yeah,
you know when you come in Mario and I were.
I mean I literally I turned eighteen two days after
camp started. Mario maybe halfway through that rest of the year.
So you know, you come in as a seventeen year
old kid. When I was twenty years old. You know,
my junior year, I had a completely different body, and
(11:59):
so you know, you have to grow into that. And
so guys can go to Portland States, hit the weight room, eat,
grow into their size, and then slide into a D
one and do just fine.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
They just were under recruited for some other kind of reason.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
The only real question I've got right now about the
offensive line is left tackle. I think I found my center.
I think I found my left guard. I think I
found my right tackle. And as a party, I think
Hatchet's going to be my excuse me, Enoch is going
to be my right guard. The question is, does land
and Stay is that swing guy? Does Enoch play left tackle?
And if he does play left tackle, is Land and
Hatchet going to be my right guard? So there are
(12:34):
a couple of questions here. I feel like three of
those spots are nailed down. One spot that we know
is nailed down is Jonah Coleman, Right, I said, just
another one hundred.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yard game, Greg and I are sitting there in a
press box.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Hey, somebody tell Fish the guy's got ninety nine yards
and he brings him in.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
For one carry, yeah, and then cracking up out.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Don jameson had never done that happen? Okay, So do
we like that that Jetfish did that?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Love it? I love it.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I love that he's putting him on the map because
those hundred yard games means something, and Coach James would
definitely have not put.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Him in the game. It would have been over. But
I like that.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
You know that Jonah has these two to one hundred
yard games. So when the end of the season comes
and they're talking about stats and they're talking about one
hundred yard games, and that does something for the kid too.
The kid knows that his coach is looking out for him,
even if it's just one carry and got him a
few yards.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
He knows that the coach is looking out for him.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You know, you said Don James never would have done
that though thirty years ago. If Don James is coaching
in this environment of the transfer portal and the NIM
because he may be thick different.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
That's just Don James is not gonna think if you
could morph him into the year twenty seventy five, Don
James is still going to be Don James.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Had Jedfish been the coach, I would have.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
About seven more one hundred yard games, because there's seven
times I had ninety in about the third quarter over
the last two years. And Don one time my coach
asked Don James to Oregon State our junior year, I
had ninety six yards. Coach asked Don James, could he
put me back in? And he got cursed out on
the sideline in front of every But who was the
running back coach.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Matt Simon. There you go. Love you, coach Simon, but
I know I appreciate you going to bat for me.
But he got you that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I got too many stories checked me out of every
record book there were.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Man has enough record I could have had him forever
if not for Don James.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
We love your coach. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
When you get to heaven, Don James gonna kicks, you
know that right.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Mario's going to heaven. Thanks rostpury cors life, juice, chill.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
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Speaker 2 (14:41):
All right, that's it, Apple Cup Next on ninety.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
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Speaker 6 (14:57):
This is not in conference, rob that are competing on
the same level playing field that they have for the.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Last however long.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
This is right. This is now a game amongst two
schools that one school has chosen to take a path
and deliberately put the other school at a disadvantage. Right,
and that school, Washington State, is saying no, like, we're
not going to We're not a part of that, We're
not going to play that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That is the voice of Alex Brink, who was on
with the Infernes and m Crysto Bruce on his radio
show this afternoon. Alex was there between two thousand and
four and two thousand and seven, had a great career
at Wazoo thirty eight hundred yards in two thousand and
seven for the Cougars, and he says that you dub
went to negotiations with the Big ten and deliberately screwed
(15:44):
over Wazoo, to which I say.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Wow, stop it. Yeah, they're not that important. I mean
this state.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
What happens to them is not on the importance meter
above a two, you know, out of one hundred, not
out of ten, out of a one hundred. As far
as us making decison, we had to make a decision
that was in the best interest of the University of
Washington football. If you can't carry your own weight, if
you can't figure out your path and make something beneficial
for you, don't be.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Mad at us.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's not our job to carry Washington State. We've been
doing that for long enough, so I don't want to
hear that from him.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
People will be mad for me saying that, and I've
gotten criticized before. But people don't know the fact that
we have been supplementing their income for years. Because in
the Pac twelve there's a rivalry clause where you have
to split the revenues at the rivalry traditional rival game
fifty to fifty. So every time we played down there
(16:42):
in Martin Stadium, thirty five thousand seats, we got fifty
percent when we played a Husky Stadium, they got fifty percent.
That would be about a million plus benefit for them
every single year. We asked the PAC twelve to change
that multiple times, they still wouldn't. So I don't want
to hear. We've taken care of you guys enough and
it's a little bit of juice to this game, does
it not?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
On Saturday? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I don't think we ever need juice for this game.
But I normally wouldn't go with Greg because I don't
like these people like tweeting me and getting mad at
me whatever. But they can't say that they wouldn't have
done the same thing, like we're looking out for us.
We're not supposed to look after our little brother or
anything like that. We're supposed to take care of Washington,
(17:24):
not Washington State too. So yeah, he's wrong about that.
And now I would hate to went to Washington State
because I would be tired of losing and I would
be tired of whining.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, but this is what they're playing up behind the
closed doors, and I don't blame them, right, I mean,
how many players, coaches, teams make stuff up just to
get themselves fired up. And they may have made it
up so much that they actually believe that. Then you
deliberately went to Big ten negotiations and one of the
goals during these conversations was to hoos Wazoo as hard
(17:54):
as possible, which, as you said, makes zero sense whatsoever.
But if you're Jake dickerd and you're playing behind closed doors,
I don't blame.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Them at all.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, you look for what any type of motivation you
can get, right, If that's what you gotta do, then
that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
It's not gonna work. But whatever you do. So what
do we see happening on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Because as you mentioned last segment, we don't know what
the Huskies are. Wazoo has had a bigger opponent. They
played a big twelve team in Texas Tech, and they
well they did play.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
A big go back and watch Texas Tech versus Abilene Christian.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
We had to go into overtime.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Trust me, gave up five six hundred yards Ebiline Christis
is why I thought Wazoo would win easily on Saturday,
because Texas Tech is not very good, but Texas Tech
is a power for a team, and Texas Tech would
be apparently on a bigger maybe rung of importance than
a Weaver State or an Eastern Michigan. You want to
dance with me and just say nobody's really played anybody.
That's fine, But let's talk about Saturday, because Saturday they're
(18:49):
going to face a quarterback and Johnny McTeer who ran
for one hundred and ninety seven yards on Texas Tech's defense.
So what is the bigger challenge you think this weekend
for you, dub offense or defense?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Well, I think it's tough because when I watched the
first game, Wazoo scores a ton of points, I go,
all right, we're gonna have to really put pressure on it.
We have to cover they But then they played Texas Tech,
who gave up five hundred yards passing to Abilene Christian,
and they threw for one hundred and fifteen yards, so
Texas Tech TX No, I'm saying Washington State only threw
(19:20):
for one hundred fifteen yards against Texas Tech, who gave
up five hundred to Ablene Christian. So maybe their offensive
pass game isn't that important or as good. They did
rush for three hundred yards and okay, great, maybe that's
why they didn't throw as much. But they still threw
the ball out twenty nine times and only nineteen and
only completed ten. So for me, I think offensively, we
(19:41):
just have to get going earlier. That to me is
the key. The tougher challenge is can we get our
offense started out the gate instead of waiting til the
last half of the second quarter and into the second half.
So I think defensively we'll do just fine against Washington.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And we we've seen Husky teams before that have struggled
early and and then they've kind of turned things on.
This is nothing new, especially for a team that's got
new scheme, new coaches, new players all over the place.
They got like over fifty new guys on the roster,
So what do we make of the slow starts? And
how concerning is that this weekend versus Wazoo.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
I mean, we're coming from a team that used to
score on the first drive every time, So it's concerning
when you look at it. The first few games we
can't score in the first quarter. But I think it's
all getting continuity with the guys and learning each other
and kind of finding our identity. We know Jonah's great,
but our quarterback has done a great job too. But
I still don't think we have a decisive identity, and
(20:35):
I think our defense is phenomenal. And I think what
happened with Washington State is their quarterback got stopped because
Texas Tech watched the film before they put seventy on
them and they were keying on him. We're going to
key on him as well, and we're going to stop
their offense if our offense continues to be consistent like
they have been the past few weeks, and we can
run Jonah and do the play action. We did a
lot of play action and we got all three receivers involved.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's going to happen. Yeah, talk about that because we
saw a lot of it on Saturday. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
And they rent it out of Double Tight right, So
they brought two tight ends in and typically when you
run two tight ends you were going to run the football.
You're bringing in your players that can open holes. They're
not necessarily getting out in routes, so you're limiting even
the number of guys that are in the route, but
you slow down their penetration with the play action. And
they won one on one battles outside with their wide receivers,
(21:25):
and to me, Giles Jackson is a kid who's having
a phenomenal, phenomenals football season. He's beaten guys in one
on one coverage. He's catching the ball in space and
making a guy miss and getting up the field. So
they've done a fantastic job running that. You know, play action,
but play action only works.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Win what Mario? When you run the football.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And you have all three of your running backs getting
plus positive yards? Not only are is the offensive line
opening up some cutback lanes, but these guys are breaking tackles,
they're making guys miss, they're getting yards after contact. When
any game is going like that, play action pass becomes
a great weapon for you.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, okay, so is this a let's give Number one
the ball thirty times on Saturday? I mean Will Rogers
is hitting on since nine percent of his passes. He's
got five touchdowns and does not have a pick yet,
and he's been sacked twice and I think one of
them is because he fell down on a shotgun snap
last Saturday versus Eastern Michigan. I mean, the passing game
(22:25):
for about a quarter and a half on Saturday looked amazing.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Just depends on how they're scheming this. Are they're going
to scheme just to stop jonah A. They going to
put stack the box and let our receivers go. We
got to wait and see. But Will Rogers has done
a phenomenal job whenever he gets the chance. He's pretty
precise in what he's doing out there. So we just
kind of wait and see.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
All right, well, let's do this because Greg loves this
segment and he loves to remind you when the postgame
show comes around that he was right about it.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He won't say he did when he's wrong.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
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Speaker 5 (23:10):
I'm going with Jeremiah Hunter. I liked what we did
with him last week. We got him the ball, made
an effort to get him the ball, and I think
this game he breaks out.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So Jeremiah Hunter was my dog of the game last week.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
So and when I said what I said going into it,
and it's arguable whether he was because there were several
guys after argument. My point was this, we were going
to be intentional about trying to find him last week
and get him open and get him involved. So he's
gotten some rhythm, he's caught some passes, and he definitely
looks like he could be a weapon for us. I'm
going to change it up this week, and this week
(23:44):
is the week they open up the full offense and
run game, pass, gameplay action, all that, and this is
where we will see real Rogers become that quarterback that
everybody believes in. Everybody sees him being accurate in the
middle of the field, going outside of.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
The numbers, doing the play action, and.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I think he will have a great football game this
week and establish himself as the next really good Husky quarterback.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well I'll tell you what, man, it feels like they're
pretty good to really good in both facets of the offense.
They could be a really good up rushing offense and
they're pretty good passing offense. And we're gonna find out
as the weeks go by how good those two things
really are.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Injury up.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
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(24:49):
Decor McGrath has stepped up though no question about that.
We'll come back and talking about about the matchup with
the Koobs and do we feel like this is right
to play this game in week three at Luminfield or
does it maybe lack some of the buzz that it
usually lacks. Next on ninety three three KJRFM, now.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Back to the Coors Line Husky Hunks. On Tuesdays, Greg Lewis,
Mario Bailey and Dave Sati Muller on your Home for
the Huskies Sports Radio n KJR FM.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Michael Pennix will go out of the shotgun, romadonsay the
receiver into the boundary they run Dylan.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Johnson off right tech No, but.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Doonsay sneaks away but the left side line to the
fifty yard line.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I totally bit the fake they.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Handed to a Dunsay on the reverse, Brady Gross from
forty two yards for the Boeing Apple Cup for twelve
and zero for the State of Washington. The kick is
on the way, the kick is up, the.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
End of right tack is right down the middle.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
The clock expirs, and whoa, Washington has done it.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Your first year on campus was when Greg nineteen eighty
seven eighty seven. Mario, first year for you was when
eighty eight eighty eight. Okay, so they won your opener,
they lost your opener. They won three in a row. Wow, Wow, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I've shared that my own personal stories. I would have
(26:23):
I would have elevating them a second ninety two Apple Cup.
You're talking about the eighty eight thirty two thirty one
lost because Greg Lewis had a goal to blow his
knee out.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That I was nineteen ninety yeah, yeah, against Washington State.
The guy I was responsible for blocked the punt down
near the end zone. Washington State scored to go ahead
touchdown last couple of minutes of the game.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
So if not for you, they would have won every
Apple Cup in your career.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I blame the guy who was next to because I
was trying to help him out because he wouldn't get
his guy.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I was trying to help him out. His guy food
me out the way, and my guy blocked the plane.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
All right, Well, memories thoughts playing you just shared one
playing in the game right there. I still remember that
nineteen ninety one ass kicking when Walter Bailey picked off
Drew Bledsoe, and Bledsoe hit Bailey like a fly hitting
a truck, and he just brought him right into the
end zone. Not Mario Bailey, Walter Bailey. What do you
remember about your that games against Wazoo.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Of course that's my favorite one because Coach Price had
said he didn't vote us number one, and Coach James
had that on the billboard in our locker room all
week long.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Wow, this note that.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Coach Price did not vote us number one, So we
were trying to kill him, and Coach James let us dance.
We did every dance and we beat him up. So
that will always be my favorite one.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And that's not typical of don no to things. No, absolutely,
So what's the message if your jetfish Saturday? We know
what the message is. If you're Jake Dickard, it's Hey,
these guys screwed us. We are out of the power
because of them. They left us behind, they left the
man down. Write all that. I'm playing all that up.
I find him. But what's the message if your jetfiesher?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
What's interesting is is this is his first time, so
he hasn't experienced the passion and the rage and all
of that in this. A lot of the guys, well
we have what is it, forty two new guys on
the team, new guys in the team this year, so
they haven't experienced that. Most of the guys who were
still here didn't experience it from an active participation point.
So I don't fully one hundred percent. No, I guess
(28:31):
you really have to ride in. This is for the States.
You know, you're gonna have to see these guys every year.
You're gonna see him out off the field and all
that kind of stuff. Because the other part of this
is a non conference game now, so it's not about
winning the conference or conference championship or anything like that
on the line. So with us in this rivalry, they
always can play the underdog, the little guy, the little brother,
(28:54):
little sister as I call him roll.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ours is just you know, go beat up on the
little key. It's you know that live in your neighborhood
that you don't like anywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
That's a hell of a message.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
By the way, I would just look at Carson Brunner
and Cam Davis and Cameron Fabiculan and guys like that
and say, dude, this is the last one for these
guys like you want those guys to go home with
an el to Wazoo because if they win this game
now more than ever, they will never shut up about
it for the next year because this is their super
Bowl for sure, Okay, And so for like Carson Brunner
(29:27):
mentioned it today Mario that he still remembers two years
ago when Jaden DeLaura pulled the flag thing at the
fifty yard line, and that's the one blight on his
Apple Cup record. Is that game from twenty twenty one?
And I asked him.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Today does it still stick with you? He said, yeah,
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Yeah, most people, most people at University of Washington probably
got one loss. Everybody has that one loss, and Washington
State does a great job of amplifying that one time
that they beat you, so it's going to stick with you.
I think coach Fish has a hard time to I
don't know what our team goals are for the season
or win he has for the team goals for the season.
(30:02):
But right now it's just another game on the map,
because this game is not the same when it's not
the last game of the season and you throw all
the records out and they can stop us from going
to a bowl game, or they can stop us from
going to a national championship. Right now, we're trying to
get our team together. We're a brand new team. We've
had two great games, and when this is just game
three on the record.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Is there j just missing for you?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, there definitely is because of the non conference things.
Like Mario said, we're not even at the part of
the season where we know who we are, where we're
oil wel machine, where we are gonna bring our best sells,
They're gonna bring our best sells.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
You throw out the records and all that.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
This is the part of the year where you're still
trying to figure things out and still trying to get
things right, especially this year because of all the newness.
Now I know they are teams. I believe Oklahoma Texas
play an early season game that's a rivalry sometimes, you know,
there are other people who do that. We just got
to figure out how to make that into a big deal.
How to we really elevate this rivalry now that it's different,
(31:03):
it's not conference, it's not at the end.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Of the year.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I think this is a building year for this and
right now I think the fans are even still trying
to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Mario, how about you quickly same thing.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I just don't know how you can figure it out
that being the third game of the season.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But we'll figure it out.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
But it's even odd that we're at Loomenfield and we're
not in Washington State or at Washington. But for the Huskies,
we're just trying to get this new next game on
a victory.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
We'll see you Saturday morning from the Gandry that's next
to the Shuttle team shop on Occidental at eight thirty
a m. For the pregame show. We got fifty bucks
to Zeke's. By the way, text into four nine, four
to five to one. Who did Greg Lewis pick is
his Darwin's Dog of the Game for Saturday. Answer that
four nine, four to five to one, and Jackson will
pick one for fifty bucks to Zekes. John Wilder will
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join us next Saturday eight thirty pregame show from the Gandry.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
We'll see you then, Golds
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