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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are waiting for Steven susa to jump on the
air with us.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And he's given up on the season he got that
he was supposed to come on.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Knowing him, I don't think so, Okay, yeah, just a guess.
I think he's probably given some lesson in some cage somewhere.
I have no idea what he's doing. But Steven Susan
will join us in a matter of minutes. I think
Will Rogers will join us in a half an hour.
How about Jed Fish. I think a lot of people
are curious to know what Jed Fish said today about
that fourth and goal play right in the Apple Cup.
After the game on Saturday, he said he regretted it,
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And there's a couple of reasons why he may say.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I regret it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Number One, I regret it because it was the wrong
call and I should have called something else. Or b
I regret it because my players couldn't execute it, and
clearly I should have called something else that they could
have executed. So I guess we can kind of, you know,
define what regret means.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
But I explained that because I heard his press covers
today I didn't hear yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So Saturday, so this is with Tony cast Cone. We
replayed it on the show Saturday. I thought he said
all the right things. I actually praised him. I think
there was a lot of negative energy aroud on that
play after the game Saturday, and I thought was a
good call by the head coach to come out and
take responsibility for it and just squash it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Then today I asked him.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Forty eight hours later, after the fourth and goal play,
any more kind of new thoughts you want to share
on that play?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Here's here's Jed fish this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We had a chance. We didn't execute the play. I
told the team last year it was fourth and one
with a minute fifteen left on the minus twenty nine
and the eleven and zero Washington team against the five
and six Washington State team, and they converted a reverse.
A year later, it's fourth and one with a minute
twelve with a twenty four to nineteen game, and we
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don't convert on an option play. It had happens if
the reverse doesn't convert, Washington State wins last year twenty
four to twenty one. So in our case, the option
play didn't convert and we didn't execute the play, and
if we executed the play, it would have converted what had.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
To be done use of wife that it wasn't done.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
We needed to leave a guy to run option off
of them. We didn't. We blocked. We didn't block it
the way we would have liked to block it and
the way we would have expected to block it. But
you know, that's just the way. That's game of football.
If we called the pass and through it in complete,
then we should have ran it. So if you're running
it you don't get it, you should have thrown it.
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It's it's unfortunate we've had the situation happen. I lived
through it at USC a year ago in triple overtime
and we didn't get in a triple overtime play, and
they did on a quarterback scramble where Caleb dove into
the end zone. I lived through it on the other
end of plays, you know, against Kansas State in twenty eleven.
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So it just happens. And it's always crazy when a
play goes down to a fourth and one. I'm the
one with in the fourth quarter with a minute left,
But I could point to a lot of plays that
the game wouldn't have ever had to get to that,
And that's the unfortunate part of the game. I'm sure
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Denzel would have wished he got into the end zone
on the third down and ten. I'm sure the defensive
league we wished we tackled him on third and twenty
at the end of the half, and we didn't, and
he got into the end zone from the thirty one
yard line. If we tackle him, he kicks, they kick
a field go there, and then we kick a field
goal at the end of the game to win.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So I'll just say this, it's very rare. And I
don't even know if I remember one example, guys. And
by the way, Steven SUSA has got a family thing
going on, so we'll have him pop on tomorrow. That's fine.
We should be spending the day talking football anyway, So
hope see everything's okay with Steve and we'll like yack
it up with him on tomorrow's show. It's very rare,
And if you have an example of it, please share it.
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Where a fan base is fired up about a certain
ending to a game and the head coach takes the
podium on Monday and the fans say, oh, no, I
get it, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, I'm good now, right?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That just impossible so there's nothing that Jedfish can really
do or say that I think would maybe make people
feel better about the way things went down against the Cougars.
But I've got the play right in front of me.
I know this is hard on radio to kind of
recreate all this, but Dick and I are watching the
play right now, and if you watch DeAngelo Titi Ali
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the center and Enoch right there just get completely blown
off the ball clopperd And it's it's easy to do
this in you know, hindsight, but you're watching the play,
and really what maybe could have happened, as Will Rogers
could have kept the ball optioned off that linebacker and
just taken off and maybe he would have had a shot.
I think he gets blown up by that linebacker right there. Dick,
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I p at the line of scrimmage. I think the
play was dead from the start. I'm just trying to
give you like the one half of one percent that
it works. The problem with comparing it to the Ryan
Grubb reverse to Roman Dons the field's fifty three yards wide.
He had least I'm trying to remember what hash mark
that was on. I think it was the hashmark from
the husky sideline.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
He's got like.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Thirty yards to work with to turn the corner with
an All American wide receiver by the way, handling the football.
So I don't buy that that is of any comparison
to that play right there. I mean this play, if
you watch, the play was completely doomed from the minute
the ball was snapped. And like I told you, you know,
just a few hours ago and on the postgame show Saturday,
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and I tweeted this before the play. I cannot stand.
It is going to kill me for the rest of
my life. Why coaches get into shotgun and ask a
running back to go six yards when they need one
and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I don't get it. I'm sorry, don't get it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You're preaching the choir when it comes to me on that.
I think he's comparing it to last year, simply because
he's saying, Hey, it's knife seedge, right. These games come
down to knife edge. Last year eleven to zero team
knife s edge, right. This one didn't work. That one
did work. Now, I think that's what he was trying
to explain, not saying that this was a you know,
that was a better call or worse call than this one.
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I mean just got two questions. I'll have two questions
for Will Rogers. One short side?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Why? Right? Why? Short side? And two?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Why didn't you have a check if you saw if
you saw the that it was all loaded and it
wasn't gonna work. Obviously Jed knew wasn't gonna work before
the ball was snapped right. Why didn't you check out
of it? Why wasn't there an opportunity to check out
of it? Why wasn't there another play that you could
have run after seeing the alignment the Cougars were in.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, it's weird because I think if you ask any coach,
and I mean again, I'm not gonna sit here and
say that I know more about this than.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Coaches do, because that's ludicrous.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I mean, come on, man, these guys know more in
their pinky than I will ever know. But and I
want to talk to Mike Holmgren about this on Thursday,
by the way, which uh, we're gonna be back back
on the five twenty on Thursday five twenty, bar and
grow in Bellevue, Sill swing on by.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Is it unique?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
How unique is it to run a play like that
and not have a play for a quarterback to check
into if he's not getting the look he wants. And
I don't really think it's a good idea to do that.
I think it's very unique to not have a play
to check into. I'd love to get Millon's take on that,
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but I just was kind of surprised when I heard
that that we're gonna go out there on fourth and one.
We're gonna run this play against whatever front Wazoo shows
at shows us and that's it, and there's no option
for Will Rogers to check into anything. That to me
is just it's kind of odd. I'm not saying it's
right or wrong, but I've never really heard of that.
And unless I'm missing something, that sounds a little odd
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to me that they would not have anything to check into.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, I noticed something watching the first time, and then
when you just played it in there, I noticed again.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You know who did block well?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The two ride receivers on the white side, they blocked
really well. They had man and man blocking responsibilities. They
both held their block. Now the ball didn't go their way,
which kept me thinking, And you mentioned this earlier, it'd
be nice to see Demon Williams and Will Rogers in
at the same time. Right the play that I have
continually going through my head and maybe this is too
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high Schooly Youth Football League gimmicky. I keep thinking, you
run the same play, but you have Demon Williams coming
on a reverse the other way, and you've got Demon
Williams with the ball in his hands after getting it
from Will Rogers, with a wide open side of the field,
two blockers in front of him, and an opportunity to
dump it off to a third wide receiver coming over
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the middle. Yeah, well that's what That's the play that
just continues to run through my head. If you were
going to run that play, I think that would have
been something that would have been tough to stop.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I think it's easy hindsight to look at the setup
that Wazoo had and say we should have done this.
But if you're gonna want to try to suck the
defense over to one side of the field, then you're
right that opportunity maybe potentially was there for you, dub.
I mean, the other play that's killing me is Denzel
Boston on third down, And I gotta be honest with you.
I sent a text to Jamarca Shepherd, who's now coaching
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wide receivers at Alabama, and I sent this off to
him and I said, I know that you did not
coach your receivers to do this, because Denzel Washington, Denzel
Boston is turning the corner and instead of diving for
the pylon. And I'll be truthful that Greg Lewis pointed
this out right away in the press box when he's like,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Die for the pilon.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I don't think he gets in, but he may have
been at the one half inch of me, and that
may have totally changed the way you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Call that fourth down play.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
He literally stands up and just walks out of bounce.
So that extra effort there, and it's a learning moment
for him. He's just getting going in his career. I
don't want to hammer the guy too much for God's sakes,
but it's weird to me because that kind of feels
like a bit of a no brainer than a wide
receiver in that situation would die for the end zone.
I guess maybe it just shows you how infrequently he's
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been in that position.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
He's still a young guy and has not been there.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But if he dives for the pylon, either A he's
got a shot of touching the tip of the ball
and the pylon or b he's got a shot to
get them maybe a yard and a half, maybe closer,
maybe a yard closer. And then if that's the case,
do they just say, you know what the hell will it?
Let's just sneak this thing right up De Angelo's butt
and let's get that touchdown and get out of here.
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So those two plays back to back, the second down
throw to Denzel, I gotta be honest with you. I
just give Stephen Hall credit for stabbing that ball away.
That was a great play by the defender. That PBu
The throw was fine. I mean, maybe you know, Denzel
a little bit stronger later on down the road catches
that ball. But the third and fourth down play are
bugging the hell out of me because they could have
executed both of those plays better. From a player and
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a coach's perspective.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I felt the same as Greg Lewis watching it live.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I was sitting in that end zone as a matter, right,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
My seats were, Yeah, I was pretty close to the play.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
A lot of action down there. There was a lot
of action down there at the end of the game.
There were good seats.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I felt that way live when I watched it again today,
he had two guys just bearing down on him, and
I'm thinking, God, I'm trying to ask myself, if he dives,
how much more yards does he actually gain because there's
two guys right on him shoving him out of bounds,
and I don't know if it's much at all. But
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I don't know. I mean, I would have loved to
see at least the extra effort of it. We'll put
it that way, whether it would have gained him more
yards or not. I'm almost I'm ninety nine percent sure
watching it again today that he does not score yeh diving.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
For the pieline.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, I don't know, man, I would ask you to
watch it again. I'm not saying it's one hundred percent.
I'm not even saying it's seventy five or fifty percent,
but I think there's a chance he gets in there.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
My thought is I actually, when I saw it, I thought, okay,
fourth and one, I'm confident in this play.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I was a little bit.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Happy he didn't dive, because how many times have we
seen a guy dive and then lose the football and
it's out of the back of the end zone. So
I would rather not risk that and take a fourth
and one than dive and risk it.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
There's nobody there, Dick, Yeah, nobody there behind him.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Three yards to his left. He's got nothing to do
with the play whatsoever. Number five, number five for Washington State.
I mean, we're just watching it right now. There he goes,
he's at the he's trying to yard line right there,
definitely trying to protect them. He dives, He dives to
the pylon right there there. Dude, come on, I mean,
we're both watching this thing. I mean, I think Denzel
would love to have that back.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I think he would.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I think I think I think Brendan Carroll think Jed
Fish would love to have him die for the pylon.
And Jackson, you're correct, there's there's always a chance that
the guy could drop the football and fumble the ball.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I don't want a guy playing like that, scared about that.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
He was very concerned at Jackson's point, watching it again,
he was very concerned about ball security. He caught it
and immediately he went into like running back mode, both
hands with both arms on the ball, and that slowed
him down. Now, if he gets that ball just in
his on the sideline arm.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
He wasn't tackled.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
He was pushed out of, pushed out of and that
guy never wrapped him up, whoever that defender is, for one,
never ever wrapped him up whatsoever. So yeah, I just
think watching it now, can we agree that he had
a shot to get there.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
He had a shot.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
If it was a fifty to fifty shot, fine, But
they had time outs, the guy could have gotten the
ball of the one yard line, and again you never
know what the what the play call would have been
on fourth down. But these are the plays that people
will talk about forever until they don't give them a reason,
give us a reason to stop talking about this. Because
the one thing that jeded Fish said today that I
thought was actually pretty you know, prudent, is that, Hey,
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the difference between this and another Apple Cup, like three
years ago when Delord did the flag thing. We're gonna
sit there and think about that for a year or
nine months. They got a game Saturday. They got plenty
of time to put this behind him. Plenty of opportunities.
Can they win them, I don't know, but they got
plenty of opportunities against some pretty damn good teams to
make people forget about this. And if they're five and
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one with a win against Michigan. They're probably a top
twenty five football team at that point. To be honest
with you, I think I.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Think what's frustrating, though, is that when you're looking at
a play like this. Now, I'm not gonna say that
Denzel Washington didn't put an effort, but he didn't put
the extra effort in. I don't think there's any question
about that. So when we're talking about losing a game
because we didn't put the extra effort in slash, we
weren't disciplined enough not to have sixteen penalties for what
was one hundred and fifty six years or one hundred
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and thirty five yards. I mean those I would have
much rather walked off the field and said, you know what,
better team won beat us by fourteen. Tip of the cap,
but God, the penalties and situations like this and the
play calling at the end. I mean, Cougar, I've talked
to a bunch of cooger. Oh, the Hooskies aren't giving
us any credit for winning. I was like, well, yeah,
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I mean, tip of the cap, good job you won
the Apple Cup.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You deserve to win the Apple Cup.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But we're talking about all these little stupid things that
if any one of them go the other way, you.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Don't win the Apple Cup. Yeah, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I just I wonder, if, like Jordan shawd doesn't get
that penalty and the Cougars don't score, how does Ben
Arbuckle call the play later in the game, because they
went into kind of weirdo mode. I thought the Cougars did.
They're up twenty four to sixteen after the Jordan Shaw
touchdown or Jordan shaw holding penalty, and that's the last
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time they scored. And that was in five point fifty
four to go third quarter. So the Husky defense without
Carson Bruner for a majority of that by the way,
he was hurt with ten minutes to go in the game.
The Husky defense in the final one, two, three, four
drives of the game didn't allow a score. I mean,
they actually played pretty freaking good in the final quarter
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and a half of that game. But if they don't
get that touchdown, do they call the plays differently?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Probably? I mean, it's a different, totally different situation.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And I just thought it was weird that they kept
throwing the ball and giving you a chance to get
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Speaker 1 (16:11):
Line snapper Rodgers back to pass Rogers from the forty
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Speaker 2 (16:14):
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Speaker 3 (16:20):
Beauty of the ball from Will Rogers and a deep
one thirty one yards to Giles Jackson for his first
touchdown catch of the season.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
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is Will Rogers joining us right now on the radio show.
Will how you doing man? No, well, we're good man.
I appreciate this. I know sometimes it's not fun to
do this stuff after losses, Bob, but I appreciate you
hanging in there and chatting with us because a lot
of fans want to hear your voice, no question about it.
And you know, sometimes I think fans have a harder
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time getting over these games than players do. We get
to sit here and just think about it and talk
about it for a week, and you guys get to
get back in the film room and focus on Northwestern
and so tell us about that. You've been doing this
a long time, right, You've been a part of some
big wins and some tough losses. Tell me about how
you bounce back and how you get over games like
that on Saturday, Man, I.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Mean, you just kind of have to forget about it.
You know, you just have to kind of listen to
the twenty four hour rule. You know, you hear people
say that, you know, win or loss, you know, it's
a twenty four hour rule. And then you've got to
get ready for the next game. So, you know, we've
put it behind us, We've learned from it, learned from
the mistakes, and we've got a big game coming up
Saturday at four o'clock. So looking forward to it, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Will Cougar fans and US fans don't agree on much,
but leading up to this game, I think both fan
bases thought that there was going to be a significant
emotional advantage for Washington State going into this game. Talk
about what you saw on the field as far as
the emotions. Did that play out in your mind?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I mean I really didn't think too much into that.
I think the one thing that we could have done
better was just be be more discipline. I mean, all
the penalties you saw and things like that really came
back to bide us. So I'm not sure about the
whole emotions of a rivalry game and things like that.
You know, it obviously means a lot. I'm not saying
it doesn't, but you know, I think you have to
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keep your cooling rivalry games, and we really didn't do
that with the sixteenth penalties.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, do you have any thoughts on why that is?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I mean, for the first couple of games, I mean,
there weren't really any communication problems, there wasn't any real
discipline problems. Things kind of felt I think, pretty clean
right in the first eight quarters of the year.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Why do you think that was on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
I mean, I'm not one hundred percent sure. I wish
I could give you a definite answer on that. I mean,
I know the fans and how loud it got there
kind of in the fourth quarter on some third downs,
and definitely on the last drive it was pretty loud.
But you know that's not an excuse. We have to
be prepared for that, and you know we'll be better
going forward.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Well, Jonah was your horse the first couple of games
of the season. I was a little surprised that he
only had to have fourteen carries in that game despite
the way that you played. You played very well throwing
the football.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But would you have if I'd have told.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You Jonah was only gonna get fourteen carries going into
that game, would you had have been surprised.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I don't know, maybe yes, maybe no. It's kind of
just you know, how the defense is playing us that week.
You know, I thought they had a pretty good, pretty
good answer for some of our run games stuff and
things like that, so we kind of just had to,
you know, adapt on the fly and make some adjustments.
And that's just how it ended up being.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, Well we'll Rogers again.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Is with us every Monday, courtesy of Mount Lake Futures,
and we'll look. I mean, obviously, the last play on
fourth down is what a lot of people are talking about,
what a lot of people want to know about. And
I mean all of us have watched NFL football and
you watch Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers, and they're you know,
slapping their helmet, kill kill kill because they want us.
They want to check out at whatever play they're in
because they see the wrong defense out there. Did you
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have that option to check out of that option play
and into something else on fourth down?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I did not have that option, Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah? Does that?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Does that surprise you a little bit? Then in that
moment there would not be something to check into.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I mean, I don't know whether to say yes or
no on that. I just you know, I trust coach Fish.
I want to say that, you know, I trust him.
And I mean, obviously Hanksight's twenty twenty for the whole situation,
like if you you know, if we ran the bond
didn't get it, we should have thrown the ball. If
we'd thrown the bond didn't get it, we should have
handed it off. You know, so it's it's all about execution,
and we just aultimately didn't execute on that play and
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we were yard short.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
What were you hoping to see when you walked to
the line of scrimmage knowing what play was called? And
then what did you see?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I mean a play that It's a play that we
have worked later in the week and we felt good
about it, and I mean I felt good about the look.
I just don't think we executed it properly. And there's
a lot of exes and those that go into that,
and that's a that's a long conversation to have, but ultimately,
we just did not execute that play properly.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, I think a lot of dog fans don't mind
the option at all. I think that where the surprise
came was short side. Were you practicing it to the
short side?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And why? Why was it?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Do you think it was run to the short side
where you have less room?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
I don't know, I mean, I'm not I don't know
if I need to answer that question or not. That's
probably that's probably a better better question for coach, So
I'll leave that one for him.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Hey, the last thing we want to do is get
you in trouble. All right, so will Rogers with us
on the radio show. But Will one of the other
questions I had from the game, you had that long
run kind of towards the end of the first half
when you took off and scrambled for I think seventeen
yards and then a couple of plays later or I
think the next play demand is in at quarterback.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Tell me about that. Does that kind of is that
hard to do?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Because you know, somebody actually asked Jet about that if
it kind of messes with the quarterbacks kind of rhythm
when you're making changes like that at the quarterback spot
when I thought the offense was kind of humming a
little bit there. So what would you say to somebody
who said that was kind of an odd time to
be switching quarterbacks there.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
I mean, I just, you know, I just do what
I'm told to do, you know. I mean, I trust
coach Fish, I trust the staff and you know the
plan that they have. And I was obviously feeling pretty
good at that time. You know, I felt like we
were getting into a little rhythm, and the coaches ultimately
decided to, you know, do something different on offense for
a couple of plays, and you know, That's that's all
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I can do is just say yes, sir, have a
great attitude and be a supporter, you know when I'm
not out there. So that's why I try to do.
And ultimately, the most important thing for me is just
winning games. That's all I really care about. And you know,
I just trust the coaches so well.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You ignited that last drive even though he's good. Though
you guys didn't score, you ignited that last drive with
that big play to Giles. It wasn't the first time
that you connected with Giles for a big play. Just
talk about that, that rapport and and why was it,
why was it working so well to Giles on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I think Giles is just done a great job of
just working hard. You know, he's probably one of our
better practice players throughout the week. You know, he practiced
his full speed. Uh, you know, can't say enough about him.
And then obviously, you know, with his speed and being
able to get over the top of defenses and then
run after catch, you know, he's great. So he's gonna
continue to get better. We're gonna continue to get better
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as an offense. And yeah, I hope we can just
get better week in and week out and make a
run at this day.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, Will Rogers is with us, and we saw you
huddling everybody up after the third quarter on the sideline. Man,
I love seeing that from you as a leader, and
you're gonna have to be a leader again, right So
talk to me about the message inside that locker room
right now, behind the scenes, to make sure you don't
get beat by the same team twice and you can
just shelve this and move on to Northwestern. What's the
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message right now? What do you guys have to do
to put this behind you?
Speaker 7 (24:31):
I mean, we just have to learn from it, you know,
learn from it. But then at the same time, you know,
we have to have a great week of practice. You know,
I'm expecting us to, you know, come out swinging Tuesday
at practice, really come out with a lot of energy,
a lot of effort, and then just training. You know,
that's one thing Coach Dish that talked about. I guess
that last night at the team meeting, just straining and
everything we do. You know, we're a yard short, so
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we have to make up. We have to make up
for that yard during practice this week and really practice
hard and ultimately just move on to the next game.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
So well in the next game being Northwestern, and Softy
asked about the message to your team. What would be
your message to the fans that are kind of come
out and obviously it I'm gonna be a little down
after the Apple Cup loss, But what would be your
message to the fans that are showing up on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I mean, we need the fans to be there. We
needed fans to be there, be loud, you know, create
a home fit advantage for us. You know, it's our
big ten opener. I know everybody in the locker room's
really excited about that. So we need the fans to
be there, be loud, and just be supportive of us.
You know, it's it's obviously a long season. You take
it one week at a time, and you know, I
think our best ball is in front of us.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So I love it. Yeah, I love it. Well, look,
I know you're frustrated. I can hear it in your voice.
Go take it out of Northwestern on Saturday at four
o'clock at Husky Stadium, first Big ten Cafferin's game ever
in the history of the program, and you're starting the
game at quarterback, will so go get them Saturday. I
appreciate you doing this. Man, We're talking a week buddy.
Thank you, pal.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Go dogs Will Rogers with us on the siren.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, I mean he started frustrated, right, not want him
to sound frustrating. Yeah, I mean, look, I just you know,
I gotta go out and do what I'm told. I'm
not gonna go out the air and start ripping people
and criticizing the head coach.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
But I mean, what quarterback would.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Want to be taken off the field ever, right unless
the guy just really says, man, I stink, get me
the hell out of here, like a George Kirby line
from a year regular.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But I I just thought the timing.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I am totally okay, And I love the idea of
playing Demon Williams. I was drooling watching this guy play
in the first couple of games of the year. But
you gotta pick your spots, and I think on Saturday
Jed did not do as good a job picking the
spots as he could.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I'd agree with that. I still, I mean, I don't
understand the timeouts. The two timeouts that were taking one
after an incomplete pass when the clock was already stopped.
Another time out taken after the Jonah Coleman run. When
you had that, you had the juice in that building,
Unlike any moment in the game. You were pushing them around.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
All right, four forty one.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The Cracking have made some adjustments to their broadcast crew.
We know most of the people that were added. One
of them even works here. Another one I like to
call her the Godmother of Seattle sports radio. She's back
in town where she belongs. Lynda kne gonna hop on
with us next.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
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Speaker 1 (27:34):
All right, boys and girls, back here at the Emberald
Queen Casino. The Cracking today making some adjustments to their
on air television broadcast team. First of all, they added
Ian Fernes. Oh yeah, I don't know why in the world.
I don't know what he would bring to their broadcast.
I mean, that's just like kind of seems unnecessary. But hey,
good luck with that guy. And then I think the
the Godmother of Seattle sports, the Queen of Seattle Sports media,
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really a woman that started all of it. There is
nobody of our ilk that did not grow up watching
Linda Cohne on Como News ESPN way back in the day.
And she's back where she belongs in Seattle. Linda, how
are you?
Speaker 8 (28:15):
I'm great. Well, so you probably weren't born yet, but
I actually worked for Cairo TV. Though, let's get that.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You know what's funny about that, by the way, I
made that. I made that same stupid mistake the last
time you were on with us, and for some reason,
I mean, Linda, I'm like fifty one years old now
and things don't process like they used to. So I apologize.
I should know that you work for Cairo But really,
I mean again, you know, watching you on Sports Center
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all those here, we say, hey, that's our girl, we
know her, that's our she belongs to us. So how
cool is this to come back and get to be
on the crack and broadcast.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Well, first of all, guys, thanks for having me on
and continued success with your incredible radio show. It's just
you just crushed each and every day. So thanks for
having me on, and hopefully that's going to be the
last time. Okay, but it's great, you know, listen. I'll
still be doing the late night Sports Center from LA
but this was really important to me to get as
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many games as I could with my schedule around ESPN
at least of this season. Hopefully next year will be
different and get more. But to you know, whatever I
can do to be a part of an already talented
broadcast team. And I know they're bringing Ian on and
that's going to be exciting as well. But it's just anytime.
Whatever time I could be in Seattle, spend time in
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Seattle is a great time, you know, I said in
the article and some of the posts that have been
up there. I mean it's personal for me as you know,
not only my you know three years at almost three
years at Cairo TV. That's where ESPN spotted me, and
it took ESPN to drag me out. I mean I
had the whole thing going. I lived in Queen Anne,
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I had a white picket fan. I mean, my daughter
was born in Seattle. Things were great, and it was
it had to take you know, the worldwide lea to
to make and get me to leave. So to be
back in any capacity is wonderful. Well.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I just remember racing home from my high school football
games to see if Linda Cohne would cover our high
school game on the Chirol Locker Room Show.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That that was.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
We were all school. Yeah, high school.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Mount right in your high school, Mount right in your
high school long time ago. You know you've done a
few cracking games for ESPNIC Climate Pledge. Yes, your view
on how this city has embraced hockey in this franchise.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Okay, I'm not surprised. I mean I remember the great
fan base, the Seattle sports fan period, and they're still amazing,
still supportive, still loyal. I mean you look around the
you know, the country. I mean I've been doing hosting
sports and for thirty two years, yes, thirty two years
on the es hand, so you see things on a
nasal scope, right, and I see the different fan bases,
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and you know, you know me, I'm a New York girl.
You know, I grew up in New York, born in
New York City, raised on Long Island. And yes, I
still have the accent at times, and be ready, Seattle,
it's still there and I'm gonna let it out. But
that just shows I'm passionate about the sport of hockey.
So anyway, the Seattle sports fan is just so amazing
(31:23):
and climate Pledgerina is amazing and I sound like I'm
Matty Veniers or something, because it's a great place to play.
It's a great place to be at. From top to bottom,
the ownership, the organization, what these players come to. What
do you think? How do you think they signed like
Ronnie Francis does such an incredible job. How do you
think they got like a Chandler Stevenson and Amani Brandon
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montur Off winning a Stanley Cup in Florida. It's because
of what this organization brings and can brag about. And
let me tell you, I expect a big bounce back
from last year with a new coaching staff, very exciting
and a lot of new pieces that are already going
to make those are already on the roster so much better.
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To have that experience in leadership, that's what they're missing
and now they got it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Linda Cohen with us on the radio show, and Linda,
I gotta ask you, did you play hockey growing up
back in the day.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Yeah, I did, and I'm really proud of that. I
actually played with the guys on a fun story growing
up on Long Island. My mother who's no longer with us,
but if it wasn't for her, she found a hockey
league on Long Island that let girls play with boys.
But here was the catch. I love playing goalie by
the way. I played at street hockey with the boys,
and I never knew how to skate. I learned to
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skate with goalie equipment on. And so my mother found
this league. The thing is I was fourteen at the time.
Some on my age, a girl my age, I had
to play with boys that were like six years younger.
I started playing on ice with eight year old boys.
I should be babysitting them, not being there teammates, But
you got to start somewhere. And I always say this, guys,
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it really helped me become the broadcaster and to have
that longevity as well. And why say that the tali
in of being a goalie playing with you know, boys,
hearing the whispers, hearing the mom say what's she doing here? Seriously,
I'd be hearing that way back when, you know, and
I'm like, I'm just trying to play hockey, and this
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is the way I can play. And so eventually the
first time I played with girls was when I went
to college at a small school in Oswego State, New York,
which is near Syracuse. So I made my boys high
school hockey team in my senior year. So yes, you
know how goalies are. We're a little sickle. We just
keep pushing and you know, but honestly, hearing that noise
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and blocking out the noise of people really right, fine,
tune me for this profession. I don't have to tell
you guys about that. Now. With social media for the
last fifteen years or whatever, it's been mentioned in.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
The name Chandler Stevenson and the Kraken had the same
issue that the Mariners have had this summer, and that's
just scoring. Yes, So what does Chandler Stevenson do to
that issue?
Speaker 8 (34:10):
Well, you know what, He's not going to come in
and score forty goals. He's not that player. He's not.
He's a two way type player. He's going to add
depth and he's going to get the big goal when
you need it. I can't tell you how many big
goals he's scored. I mean, he's a two time Stanley
Cup winner, one with the Caps, one with Vegas. But
I covered a bunch of those Vegas games and whenever
you needed a big goal, Chandler Stevenson would score it.
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He's just one of those grinders, right, the puff always
finds his stick, and I just love the way he
played and he goes into the corners. So you know,
that's the type of player. You can't have enough upcome
the postseason. I don't judge it on the regular season
in any sport, guys, right, I mean, I don't want
to hear about how many league MVPs you have, like
I've been hearing about, like just talking big picture, A
(34:53):
lot of people were talking about in the hockey world, thought,
Drack Eye goals. You know, the star has never done anything.
You know, he doesn't have a one hundred point s
And I go, uh, I remember Jack Igel up leading
the Vegas Lunits Stanley Cup, you know, having a cons
life worthy of postseason, you know. So it's just so silly.
I look at what you can do in the postseason,
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which brings me, of course to Brandon Monteur already being
added to an amazing uh decour which the Craken have
you know, led by Vince Dunnes of the world in
Adam Larson, and kudos to Ron Francis to extend these
guys to get Larson, mister Ironman doesn't miss a game.
Knock on Wood. And you know Matty Veneers, of course,
(35:33):
you know the you know, your your your gem, your
your centerpiece of this franchise.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, Linda's great to hear
your voice. Let's do it again very soon. As a
matter of fact, when you get to time, we'd love
to have you come by the radio station and just
meet and talk in person again. And I promise the
next time you come on that I'll remember that you
work for King five when you're at cel Okay, No,
I'm sorry, I mean Casey. I'll get it right the
next time. And it's not by the way, it's not off.
You get a chance to talk to a member of
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the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, which I'm very
very honored to have you on the show. Congrats on
all your success, just incredible career, but you're nowhere near done.
Welcome back to the two oh six where you belong,
and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
Thanks for this warm welcome, guys, and you better believe
I'll come visit you and thanks again.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Love it all right you Linda Cohne with us on
the radio show going to be part of the Crack
and TV Crew this year with Ian Ferness, who is
finally landing a spot with the Crack and TV Crew
where he belongs. We're Gonna Break Eagles, Falcons Monday Night
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