September 9, 2024 • 37 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to the Seahawks week one win against the Broncos yesterday, the Apple Cup (shockingly) coming up this weekend at Lumen Field, then get to their Fact or Fiction pick before reacting to Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
All right, well where do we start? Husky's two and
l Seahawks get to win over Denver yesterday? You know, somewhere,
someway someplace. Guys, there's some poor bastard that just watched
the first half of the Seahawk game and then just
said I'm done. I got stuff to do, and never
saw the second half and has no idea what happened
at half number two. Because I tell you what, man,
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a lot of things get kicked around of this business,
a lot of cliches. By the way, tailor two halves
is one of them, and that was totally a tail
of two halves for the Seahawks yesterday. Offensive line couldn't
even function. I mean Geno Smith the first play of
the game, obviously getting sacked to you know, throw the pick.
Obviously where he was going with that ball. I have
no idea, and then it's like they went into the
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locker room and said, oh, by the way, we forgot
to give you the playbooks. Here they are, let's go
ahead and kick some ass in the second half and
look pretty damn good in the second half against the
Denver Broncos. So we're gonna get a bunch of reaction
today to yesterday's game. Get some of your texta as
well at four nine, four to five one for textimonial
Stephen Susan will hop on, talk some baseball, at for
Will Rogers, Curtisy Amuntlake Futures will jump on and socks
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to talk some dogs at four twenty eight. Today our
weekly visit with the Husky quarterback before we get to
the Jets and Niners on Monday Night Football with Kevin
Harlan from Santa Clara at five point fifteen. So why
don't we just go round the room. What do we think?
Seahawks are one to oh boys after winner for the
Denver Broncos. At times wasn't pretty, but they got it
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done and I thought just played a totally different brand
of football offensively in the second half. Their defense was
awesome the entire game. You look at the numbers that
Bonnicks put up yesterday, and I honestly don't even know
I remember a quarterback looking this inep through the air
as bow Knicks did yesterday. One hundred and thirty eight
yards on forty two passes. Are you freaking kidding me?
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Barely over three yards per attempt? The interception that Julian
Love had there in the first half, Leonard Williams right
in his face, forcing him to throw off his back foot,
and bow and three is now bow and four and
the Seahawks are one to no. How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I think we felt the same on Sunday after a
half as we did on Saturday after a quarter, right,
and I felt not only did I feel the same
as far as frustration with the offense, I also felt
good about where my team was going forward in that
game because neither Eastern Michigan nor the Broncos could do
anything offensively to capitalize on how bad the Huskies and
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Seahawks offense were early in that game.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So I felt great.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I was like, we're gonna get this done in both
of these games because neither one of these teams is
doing anything against the defenses. And you know, you took
a look at what both levels of that defense did.
Take a look at the tweet I sent out Byron
Murphy snapped by snap in the pass rush, he was
being single covered most of his first four or five
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pass rushes, and he was flushing bonicks, he was collapsing
the pocket. So what happened in the last five or
six pass rushes he was getting double team.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And if you have to double team.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
A rookie all season long, the rest of that defensive
line is going to get home. And then how about
the corners, Spoon and Woolen, here's their PFF grade yesterday
combined ninety point one. They allowed thirty four receiving yards
total in the game for a passer rating of fourteen
point six.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You have, as far as.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
The tandem goes, how many tandems of cornerbacks are as
good as the Seahawks. Now, there are individual corners like
we saw yesterday, Patrick, certain that served certain rather that's
better than Spoon and Woolan right now. But as far
as a tandem of corners, yeah, you're talking top three
in the NFL. And those safeties ain't bad either.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, what I noticed yesterday, the first thing that jumped
off the page to me is at every time a
Bronco pass catcher was close to either making a play
or the second after they made a play, there was
a Seahawk defender right there, and not just one, but
multiple guys making the tackle gang tackling. I mean, the
amount of mistackles that we saw last year was disgusting.
It was a complete one to eighty yesterday for that
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Seahawk defense. And again, I mean, I don't know what
bo Nicks will be when it's all said and done.
I think he's got a chance to be Okay. I
don't see him eventually down the road being one of
the elite quarterbacks in the NFL. But can he have
a nice ten, twelve, thirteen year career as a starting quarterback. Maybe?
But the Seahawk defense made him look awful in that
game yesterday. And look, you got a first year head
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coach who's making his debut in the regular season and
he's basically whipping a Super Bowl champion and Sean Payton
because how many of those points were curtisy of the offense?
At least seven. You had three points after the pick,
four points on safeties. I mean, Dick, that's a twenty
six to thirteen game. Denver had like one drive the
entire game yesterday, and you know, look, I'm texting with
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Grubb and Huff after the game and he's like, I
was kind of slobby. He's like, dude, don't ever apologize
for wins in this league ever. When you go out
and you do what you did, and you make the
second half adjustments that you made, and you get Katie
Walker to the football and you're basically, let's face it,
not basically they are playing with their third string right
tackle because George Fant goes down in the first quarter.
It was supposed to be Abe Lucas, and then it
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was George fan and then it was McLendon Curtis. I
mean McLendon Curtis. It sounds like a guy that should
be working at a hardware store selling paint, not playing
right tackle for an NFL football team. And he's in there.
And you got a guy and Connor Williams that probably
shouldn't even be out there yet coming off to knee injury.
Right Christian Haynes was supposed to be your starter from
day one. Anthony Bradford ends up getting all the snaps
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on the offensive line. So I thought those guys taking
all those players and oh, by the way, Lake and
Tomlinson not playing very well in the first half, but
play better in the second half. And if you listen
to Millon today with Thean and listen to Hugh today
with Chuck and Buck, I don't know if there were
a lot of second half adjustments by Ryan Grubb and
that coaching staff. I think that offensive line just simply
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played better in the second half. And whatever Ryan Grubb
did to get those guys to play better in the
second half or well, we.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Did see the adjustment of Mike McDonald talked about it
after the game. He said at halftime quote, we have
to get the ball to ken Walker, right, and they
did get there, and that that's why I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Giving the ball to a player. I'm not talking about
like scheme all that stuff. That that drive was beautiful
that ken Walker triggered in the third quarter. And if
I've said it once, I've said it a million times.
He's a top five running back in the league.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And as far as talent, just straight out talent, I
think he's a top three running back in the league.
You have to feed that guy twenty times a game, period.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
End of story.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And if you do, you're gonna win a lot of
games because it's gonna open up things for Gino Smith.
It's gonna make much it's gonna make the pass rush
calm down against Gino a lot more. I think this
team needs to be run oriented first, and then Ryan
Grubb can take shots. I thought there were too many
shots trying to be taken at the beginning of the game.
There wasn't enough time for Gino Smith because there wasn't
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the protection for those deep drops. Once they got into
the ground and pound action, everything opened.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Up for this football. I think that they are seven
and zero. By the way, when Kenny Walker has twenty
carries or more, I'm going back to his rookie year
twenty nine against the Rams, twenty three against the Jets.
They won both those games, sorry, twenty six and a
loss to Kansas City, twenty six in a win against Arizona,
twenty three in a win against the Chargers, twenty one
in a win against Arizona, and then one time last
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year and yesterday. So they're now seven to one. And
again I mean some of that as obviously, are they
are they running the ball because they're winning? Are they
winning because they're running the ball. I think you're right.
It's year three for this guy. It's time to get
the guy the football. And what do we talk about Jackson?
When that DK Metcalf quote came out a couple days,
go get Kenny Walker on your fantasy team. This role right,
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and you've got I got it exactly right, because Kenny
Walker and Fantasy totally killed it. But I mean, if
you listen to you and go back to some of
the some of the runs that they had, I mean,
if people are running around saying it was all outside
run plays, it really wasn't. In the second half, third quarter,
they ran the all twelve times, six inside, six outside,
and they did very very well on all of those runs,
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mostly because of Kenny Walker, by the way. So I
think for Ryan Grubb it was a really good debut.
I think you saw early in that game, and I'm
kind of kicking myself for not saying this last week.
You saw what you probably should have seen, which is
an offensive line that's never played together with a brand
new offensive coordinator and a brand new scheme, and a
bunch of guys that played for Shane Wallderder and a
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bunch of guys that played for Brian Schottenheimer, learning their
third offense in four years. Very let's face at Jackson,
it was a freaking mess at first, and you know what,
it probably should have been exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I mean, really, the reality of the situation is we
gift than ten points and this very much should have
been a twenty six to ten game. But I would
I would also go back to the conversation the three
of us had on Friday, which is, what do we
expect from you know, Ryan Grubb points per game? You
know what, what is that number? Didn't we all kind
of agree on twenty five?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Didn't we twenty four?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So I mean twenty six, So that's we're out on
track here. I would also say, on the other side
of the ball, the tackling guys, my god, this feels
like a tackling machine team. They put on a freaking
clinic yesterday. I don't know if that's McDonald or just
the players skills, whatever it is, like, I think, I
think what two or I don't know, he will have
the numbers, but it feels like we didn't miss more
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than a few tackles yesterday. They were a Dodson was great.
A lot of the team were just locked in tackling
wise on defense.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Julian leveloy a pro bowler to me, Yeah, and he
had what twelve total tackles, Ten of them were solo.
I'm texting with you back and forth. And he made
the point is even though when Bobby Wagner had ten
solo tackles, how often that happened for him in the game.
I'm sure it did happen at you know, some point
in time. You played ten years in the But Julian
Love was the guy that they signed before anybody, right
before he even took a snap, I think in a
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preseason game. Remember we had him on the air from
the vMac before they took a snap in a preseason game.
They gave Julian Love a three year deal. And now
you're seeing.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Why well, and I think it's your point, Jackson on
the on the tackle tackling. If anybody's out there saying, well,
it was just the Denver Broncos and you just played
a rookie quarterback. Okay, I get that part, and maybe
the interceptions were caused by the quarterback more so than
our defense, but the tackling translates. Man, Yeah, if you're
a great tackling team that translates from week to week
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to week. And you know, yeah, you're gonna be facing
better quarterbacks, but name the elite quarterback that you're facing.
You've got Jacoby Brissett. Next week, you got Tua, you
got Jared Goff, you got Danny Dimes, who was fabulous yesterday.
You got brock Perty, you got Kirk Cousins, who was
fabulous yesterday. Until you faced Josh Allen on October twenty seven,
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ste that is not murderer's role, no for quarterbacks until
you face Josh Allen, and that's late October.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, it's definitely an overreaction Monday, both positively and negatively,
because negatively people were going crazy after the first quarter,
and positively and now we think they're gonna win the
Super Bowl for crying out loud after what happened over
den Bur I mean, we're going to win. Look, I
just think this. I think you got to be pleased
with what you saw in Week one. I mean, that's it.
You know, it could have been an absolute disaster with
the offensive line, and it was looking like it was
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going to be a disaster in the first quarter. I mean,
they couldn't even function offensively right, like everybody's on xite Ryan, Well,
I mean what what that was the guy supposed to do?
When is when his offensive linemen are just getting whipped
by everybody. I mean, they could not get to their
playbook because the offensive line was so bad in the
first quarter of that game. I mean, look, you go
back to just, you know, the first few plays of
that game yesterday, and they just they absolutely sack of
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the first play pick on the second play fall start
and third play right. I mean, guys, did anybody get
everything starts with that group? And I've been pounding this
for years and it's boring as hell, but this is
where it's gotta start if these guys want to get
to where they want to go.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Help me out on something, guys, Because I was getting
tweets and texts in the first quarter about how awful
Geno Smith is. I mean, maybe I was watching a
different game. I didn't see an awful Gino Smith. I
saw a Geno Smith.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
First quarter. Yeah, I saw a Geno Smith that had
no chance to do anything. And well the interception, I
don't know what the hell that was all about. I
know he got hit, I know that, but still that
that ball didn't sail because Gino got hit. I thought
there may have been a miscommunication with a wide receiver.
I assume that's what it was, because that ball was
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so far off targeted.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I totally thought the hit caused the inacturscy. Absolutely, I
didn't think that at all. Okay, yeah, I mean, I'm
not curious what Hugh thinks. Maybe he brought it up
with Ian.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But look, I mean, obviously I could see where a
ball flutters and a guy gets hit and his arm
kind of you know, gets caught up halfway through his downturn.
But I mean whatever, I mean, the guy made a mistake, right. Look,
I'm not I'm not as I'm not ready to crown
Gino Smith an elite quarterback like some people are in
this town. I'm also not ready to bury the guy.
But I thought he bounced back. I mean, whether he
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got through the ball the interception because he got hit,
or he threw the ball because there was miscommunication. Obviously
that wasn't supposed to happen, right, whatever the hell that
was on that play. So I thought it was more
in miscommunication with a wide receiver than him getting hit.
I don't think it was a big enough hit to
have the ball miss that badly, But I think he
was fine. And if you look at the numbers from yesterday,
you guys probably did. Look at this. Passing was way
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down in yesterday's or a week one. Look at Palizolo
in the amount of passing touchdowns that you had in
the last four or five years every year in week
number one versus what we saw yesterday, passing offenses were
way behind. All over the NFL.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, there was one hundred and eighty seven weekend on
average passing yard yesterday in the league. That was the
lowest Week one this century. We have never had a
Week one with lower passing titles than this.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Twenty nineteen six total touchdowns in week one, twenty twenty
fifty two, twenty twenty one, sixty one, twenty twenty two
to fifty one so far this weekend, there's been thirty
three before the game's played tonight, So it's like not
even close to being the same point it used to be.
You know why there's no quarterbacks playing in August? Right, Yeah,
all the scrubs are playing in August.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
So the first look that these quarterbacks have as a
real defense is in week one of the season.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, well, you could be right totally. I mean, that's
that's absolute part of it, which.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Is linembers totally correspond with the starters not playing anymore
in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Teams that have good running games and good offensive linemen
need to go out and just pound the ball down
people's throats. And they they were not in a position
I thought yesterday to sit back and pass protect for
Gino Smith for four quarters, not with their third string
right tackling there, not with Anthony Bradford playing right guard,
not with Connor Williams probably coming back maybe a little
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bit too early off the injury. There's gonna be a
time and place for that, and that time and place
was not yesterday. And you know, look, what I want
these guys to do is just go with the obvious.
If there's a day like that where you can't protect
the quarterback and you can't drop him back fifty times,
they just run the ball. And there's been times this
where Pete Carroll or Shane Waldron or anybody has been
trying to shove a square peg into a round hole,
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and they just didn't do that in the second half
of yesterday's game. So I don't know, I know some
folks that are discouraged by what they saw yesterday, And
I get that. I mean, that offensive line certainly is
gonna have to settle down if they're gonna make any
kind of an elite run this year. But I was
pretty encouraged by what I saw from those guys defensively
for four quarters.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Were people discouraged by the end of the game. I mean,
I know they were discouraged midway through the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think there's some folks that would say, without Lockett
making that crazy catch and Denver gets the ball back,
you never know what would have happened. I wouldn't have
been as concerned about that because bo Nicks hadn't proven
sols the entire game. I heard Farness on the Year
today say it was scary as hell to think about
Denver getting the ball back. I don't believe that. I
don't buy it. But I mean, if you're just talking
about a guy needs one drive to win a game,
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then I guess crazy things canna happen, a guy can
fall down whatever, blah blah blah. But I found myself
i mid fourth, early fourth not concerned about it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I thought the game was over Susan.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We went up two touchdowns, so like, this game's done,
whereas I have zero faith in Denver's offense to do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Now they got the one touchdown, but it was it
was a set. It was bored.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I'm not gonna call it garbage time, but it was
borderline garbage. Yeah. Yeah, that was a good debut when
you're looking at so many new faces and so many
new people and brand new scheme and all that communication.
I mean, obviously they got the benefit of preseason to
get their communication taken care of. But you know, it's
the same thing with jetfishing you'ed up. I mean, you'd
expect the brand new staff with fifty whatever new players
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would have some communication issues, you know, timeouts at of timeouts,
delays out of timeouts, fall starts, things like that, and
neither team with brand new staffs have really had those
problems so far through the first three games of the year.
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sues at four, and it's also Apple Cup week? What
the hell kind of bizarro planet are we living on
with the Apple Cup on Saturday. I hope it rains,
by the way on Saturday because I want to see
Apple Cup whether at the game this podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You also hope it's forty two degrees too.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It's really bug That's fine. I'll be sitting in the
press box. I couldn't care lest year and freeze your
balls off. That's your problem. I don't know. It just
kind of bugs me.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I've said before that I don't know how i'd feel
until we got to this point, and I gotta be
honest with you. It's Monday, and I have no idea
how I'll really fill until, like walking into the stadium
on Saturday and see the crowd and see how the
game goes all that stuff. Blah blah blah. There's just
something wrong about all this, man, There's something wrong about
this game getting played on Saturday in September. There's something
wrong about the game being played at Lumenfield, and right
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now I don't like it. How's that sound?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I mean, I don't care as much I'm gonna go
to the game about the game. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I think I'm more It sounds like I'm more fired
up about the game than you are.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I'll put it that way.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And I don't the game.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I don't care about the change as much as you do, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I think that Wait a minute, you're more fired up
for the game, but you don't care as much about
the change. I'm fired up for the game, but I
do care about all right.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I think we've got that, we've got. I think this
is going to be a good tradition. You know, you
have new traditions all the time. I think I think
eventually this is going to be a new tradition that
maybe it'll end up being on Labor Day weekend, which
I think would be cool.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That was my original idea.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I would love to see it on a Labor Day
weekend where Koog fans can travel over Husky fans can
travel over to Pullman when it's over in Pullman. I
think that would be a great tradition, similar to what
you know Colorado and Colorado State have done in the past,
and they've been in different conferences forever. So I think
it's gonna be fine. I think I don't know. I
don't know if it will be as the crowd will
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be as fired up because it's a true neutral site game.
I think it'll feel different just being in that stadium.
I would be more fired up for this game if
it were in Pullman or if we're at Husky Stadium.
So I think the neutral site part of it drops
it down a little bit for me. And I think
also the fact is we don't know what either of
these teams are yet. I mean, when you're eleven game,
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the one thing about it being good in November, you
know exactly what the Huskies are, you know exactly what
the Cougars are at that point, and you know how
much the Huskies should be favored over the Cougars in
that certain situation. You really don't know right now how
much the Husky should be favored.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I think what they're favored by six, which is you
know whatever, that's probably about what they should be favored by. Yeah,
I don't know if it'll feel like a neutral site
game on Saturday, because there's gonna be a lot more
Husky fans in there than Cougar fans, and the Huskies
are given four and a half by the way as
of right now. But here's the thing for me, man,
I just look at this game and I just wonder,
I honestly wonder if Cougar fans want this thing to
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even continue win or lose on Saturday, because Washington State
is gonna have one hand tie behind their back from
here on out compared to you do. And they've always
had one hand tie behind their back, but now they
may have an arm and a half or even two
arms tied behind their back. And I just put a
poll on Twitter this morning, and I gave you a
weasel option. I know you hate the weasel option, but
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I gave you a weasel option. What's your excitement level
for the Apple Cup stoked couldn't care less or nothing
special about it, meaning it's just another game. And we
had eighty one per excuse me, sixty one percent said
couldn't care less or there's nothing special about it. Only
thirty nine percent said they're excited for the Apple Cup
on Saturday. I'm certain that a lot of that's Cougar
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fans right yet, are just saying that now. And if
they win the game, then they'll act like they won
the damn Super Bowls, which I don't blame them for
that whatsoever. I do the exact same damn thing. I'm
hoping that this becomes very bitter, and even more bitter
than it was before. I think it's got the potential
to be that, because if if Washington State wins, all
that's gonna do is fire them up for next year.
The game I think is in Pullman next year, and
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then in Seattle, I believe in twenty twenty six. If
they win this game this year and they get fired
up for next year and Wazoo finds a conference home
Big twelve or whatever down the road, I think the
game will be just fine. But I do wonder if
Wazoo fans want this thing to even continue.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Well, I would have had if you were gonna go
with three or more options. Right, there's a missing option
that I would have voted. Okay, Now, I voted for
stoked because it was the only positive option on the board.
You kind of had two negative options and a positive option. Right,
So you're probably gonna get two thirds because you gave
two thirds opportunity for negative. If you'd have given four
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two positive to negative, I would have voted for whatever
was less than stoked, but still fairly excited, fairly excited,
looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It's I got I got a crawd I got a
group of six going.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
I got three huskies. I got three cougars. It's gonna
be fun. I'm paying way too much for the tickets.
I think they're insanely expensive. I mean, I got the
cheapest seats I could find, and they cost me ninety
seven dollars a piece, with all the stupid fees and
stuff that were thrown on and thrown onto it because
I didn't want to wait till game day, because my
wife told me not to wait till game You wait,
(23:31):
I know, but you know when your wife tells you
to get the damn tickets. You get the damn tickets, right?
Or do you not do what your wife tells you?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
No? I do. Yeah, they're right. That's smart, that's smart.
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on the Eagles, and you lost on Carolina? Did I?
Did I lose? They they never even got off the bus.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Did I lose on Carolina?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Or did I just get obliterated?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Ah, there's a loss and then there's that.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I don't think the Panthers even knew they had a
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Speaker 5 (24:52):
You can only go up from here, though, So well.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, my first Factor Fiction pick, I would imagine will
be the worst point spread non cover of the entire year.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I think I didn't cover by like thirty points.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, I don't know if
there's been I mean, how do we judge the worst
Factor fiction picks of all time? Just by the way
the game went? Right, that's all you do. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2 (25:15):
What was the final scor is like thirty seven to
ten or so.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I put up forty on them, they put them over. Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (25:23):
Ryce Young's an awesome number one overall pick.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Isdn'ty. We were sitting there at Jimmy's before the game
on Sunday. We're watching that game and I'll be honest
with you, all I could do was just laugh. Forty
seven to ten was the final score, so I got
four and a half. So I didn't cover by thirty
two and a half. Correct, That's fair, which is Jackson said,
you can go up from here. All right, here's what
I got. I got a Kansas State football team playing
at home this weekend that has beaten you, T Martin
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and Tulane, and they struggled against Tulane. They won by seven.
I'm watching an Arizona football team that hasn't really beaten
anybody yet, but I think Arizona's got better talent than
Kansas State does. I'm also watching an Arizona football team
that put up big numbers against New Mexico Teed McMillan
wet Nuts, and that was basically a wall over the weekend.
I think Arizona bounces back. I don't think the Big
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twelve knows what they're getting into inviting the Arizona Wildcats
into their conference. I'm not saying Arizona's gonna win, but
they're going on the road. They're getting seven points in
Manhattan against the Kansas State football team that lost their
starting quarterback to Ohio State and has proven nothing after
two games. I'm taking the Cats on the road in
Manhattan against Kansas State. Give me Arizona plus the seven
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Speaker 2 (26:39):
Said, Jackson, So I was letting Jacks.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Sorry my fall. I got a little tick over here, Jackson.
Go ahead, we have us your expert opinion.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I don't have much of expert opinion other than the
guys that I wish came to Washington and watching what
they're doing, and watching what they're doing with the Wildcats.
I mean, that's an offense that leading by McMillan, and
I don't need Yeah, I look at that that game
and say seven points against an offense that's soaring right now,
I think it's a great pick for the Wildcats.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I jumped out of me. I mean it was probably
my favorite of all the college games. So I think
that I think Arizona's good. I think they're close to
a ten win team, and I think they keep this
one close. They may not win, but I think they
keep this one close and certainly you got a top
five quarterback in the in college football and a top
five wide receiver in college football, and you have any
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semblance of a rest of a team, which Colorado. Colorado
has those things I just mentioned, but they don't have
a semblance of anything else on their football team.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Arizona does. And so yeah, I like the Wildcats by point.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Sat McMillan had two catches last week. I'm certain that
he got double team the entire game, right, But that's
that's gonna change at some point. Man. So, Kansas State's
got a quarterback. His name is Avery Johnson. He's thrown
for three hundred and thirty yards in two games. By
the way, did Avery Johnson was not the former Sonica's
right now? He's playing quarterbacks in Kansas stat and he's
got to be like sixty years old. Arizona plus the
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Right, Stephen Susan will join us. Tug Alotle baseball coming
up next segment, Seahawks win, Huskies win. We got Monday
night football Niners Jets coming up at five o'clock tonight.
But we start this segment every day three forty five
on the radio show unless we have something better plan, which,
let's face it doesn't happen very often. With a little
fun with audio slash, Hey did you hear that? Hey, Dick,
(28:45):
did you happen to hear that? What's that? Dick? We
get to our buddy Mike McDonald, after winning his debut
yesterday as the Seahawk head coach, Big Mac, speaking to
Seahawk players in the locker room and gave out game
balls to Geno Smith and Tyler Lockett. That is, nobody
blinked the freaking eye.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
We stayed poised, We had each other's backs, We stayed together,
all right.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You just keep.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Pounding away for sixty minute battle.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Man, it wasn't pretty, but it was us okay freaking
one and oh man, that's all it takes.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
One and oh all the.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Work that it took to get that win. Right there,
you just stack them. Okay, now we go two and oh,
stacked it all right, all the mentality, all the prep
all right, everybody, just want to appreciate everybody in the organization. Man,
everybody we're going in the same direction.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Holy am I proud of everybody in this room.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
This is awesome, man.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Congratulations, this fringing guy stayed poised. Battle, the battle is
off played efficient our quarterback.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, closer ball, the closer of the game.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
All right, four minute third down.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We said we're gonna be aggressive.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Four minute green Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
You know it's funny. If the Seahawks have the year,
we think they're gonna have the playoff team, right yeah,
be in the mix for a playoff Maybe not a
division champ, but playoff team. I wonder if anyone's gonna
look back and say, you know what, Carrol, the cupboard
was fairly full for Mike mcconffy. He left him with
Kenny Walker, he left them with Gino Smith. He left
him with DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, jackson'spent the jigba a
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starting left tackle, two good corners, if not great Corners
and Spoon and Tarik Woollen, Leonard Williams. By the way,
Draymond Jones, I mean, I'm not saying that Pete Carroll
did that on purpose. By the way, they get retired
and said I'm gonna wait to retire. Guy got fired
for God's sakes. But this is more on McDonald and
Grub and that you can be picky and choosy if
you're as in demand as Grub and McDonald were for
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their services and say, you know what, I'm gonna pass
on that job. I'll pass on that job. Oh that one. Yeah,
Pete Carroll just got fired and they've got a lot
of good pieces. I'll take that one. That's a good job.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Pete and John never built a bad roster, right right,
I mean it's never built a bad roster.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Not one time. Have they built a battery, built bad
offensive lines. They have built, but they never built a
bad roster. And let's remind, just let's remind everybody they
went nine and eight last year, and they.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Were they were, you know, a packer loss away from
making the playoffs last year. So coaches don't usually get
fired after nine and eight seasons. So this is a
much better roster than most first year coaches get.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think it's just a it's a great first year
jobh a first year landing spot for both those dudes.
It really is. I mean, you're exactly right that a
lot of first year coaches and coordinators walk in and
they just have it. They have slap, they have nothing.
They have teams that were two and fifteen that are
starting over from scratch with everybody. Not the case here. Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? Wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (31:28):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yesterday on NFL Game Day on the NFL Network, while
talking about Russell Wilson being out injured for the Pittsburgh
and Steelers opening week winning Atlanta Wow, former receiver Steve
Smith talked about where Wilson is at at this point
in his career.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
The Russell Wilson that we are holding on hope to
he went to the store, got cigarettes and has not
come back.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
The bottom line, he has not come back.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
And if you are gonna believe that Russell Wilson is
that guy, he's not.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
God, I just don't. I mean, it's just so funny
to me, how all these things that we said about
him all these observations that we had. The entire country
is saying the same stuff. And I don't know, man,
maybe he just had to get out of Seattle, you know,
get out of South Alaska for people to notice this stuff.
But did you guys see what he did yesterday? He
was inactive and he was in full uniform on the
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sideline everything. I mean, the earpiece is fine. I have
no problem with that. But you see guys in sweats
with ear pieces. I mean how often do you see that?
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Or a guy is inactive and he's in full freaking pads.
I mean, that is just it's just the definition of
a gooper, Like what are you doing? And if you
don't think his teammates see this and go, dude, what
are you doing, You're out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
They totally see that stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Do you think the teammates think it's bad that he
was in a uniform though?
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I think that people look at him and think he's
a huge goober. Yes, And I think it's hard for
him to lead when he acts like that and does
stuff like that. I mean, how many I don't ever remember,
we should ask you this when he comes on the
year Friday. How many NFL quarterbacks. How many NFL players
period are inactive and then show up in full uniform
for game day.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yeah, no, it probably doesn't happen very often. It's a
very Russell Wilson move. And we you know, we had
him nailed because we knew him right. We knew exactly
what his strengths were, We knew exactly what his foibles,
his idiosyncrasies were. And you know, everybody criticized for us
for having those type of opinions, but we knew best.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
But you know who else knew best?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
The Jets fans knew best on Jamal Adams. Oh boy,
the Jets fans knew they did. The Jets fans knew
when we traded for them. They were all saying, seriously.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, uh, let's get two more here, Jackson, because I
want to fit in that special one we talked about,
let's go to number four. All right, Hey, Dick, did
you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Northern Illinois upsetting number five Notre Dame on Say Go
with a sixteen to fourteen win in South Bend thanks
to a block field goal on the final play by
Andy Garcia, not the lead singer for the Grateful Dead.
But Andy Garcia, who has been working with Westwood One
for a long time. We've gotten to know Andy over
the years. He has been calling NIU Husky football and
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basketball for a long time. Here's what his call sounded
like on Saturday.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
He's lining it up five seconds left, then I you
up sixteen fourteen sixty two yarder snaphole.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Jeter's kicking this fuck.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's fucked. He's fucked. Big up by ya you big
up by the.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Huskies has done it the Busties, but the biggest upset
and AU history.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
They come to South in Indiana and they knock off
the number five team in the country and I you sixteen,
Notre Dame fourteen.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The football gods, we're shining down on the AU. Ah.
Good for him, man, he's a great dude too. I
don't know if you know his story, but his wife
passed away a couple of years ago. He's got two
little kids, all that stuff, so he's had a hell
of a time and getting to enjoy that more moment.
You saw the coach Thomas Hammock. We're not going to
play it here, maybe tomorrow, but the coach cries that
was the best postgame interview I've seen with the coach
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in years, so we should hold onto that for no doubt.
All Right, we'll get one more here. Hey, Dick, did
you happen to hear what da? What's that?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Speaking of sad news? James Earl Jones, maybe the voice
of the greatest character in Hollywood movie history, Darth Vader,
has passed away at the age of ninety three. For
those out there who don't know James Earl Jones is,
here's a small reminder.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
The rebels that are alerted to our prisons. Admiral ossold
came out of light speed too.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Close to the steam.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
He felt surprised, but wisers as clumsy as he is stupid.
Don't fail me again.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
The fleet has moved out to flight speed, and we're preparing.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
To failed me for the last time. I find your
lack of faith disturbing. The one constant through all the
years Ray has been baseball America is ruled by like
an army of steam rulers? Is can he race like
a blackboard rebuilt and erased again?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (36:06):
People will come, Ray, people will most definitely come.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Well, you also voice Mufasa and Lion King. You know,
he was in a ton of movies. Man, I mean,
just one of the all time great voices in movie history.
And I mean I could, I could present an argument
that Darth Vader is the greatest movie character of all time.
I mean a lot of people would disagree, and that's
totally fine. Some would say in the Indiana Jones whatever.
But imagine Darth Vader without James Earl Jones's voice, And
then you tell me how important that guy? You just
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very sad for Star Wars geeks like me.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I think he's the most familiar face or the most
familiar voice in maybe in Hollywood history. And I'm wondering,
is there an American today that I'm not a baby,
but is there American today that has never heard James
Earld Jones voice?
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Like?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
How could you have possibly gone through life without ever
hearing his voice one time? Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's
hard hard. I mean his his There may not be
an actor whose face and his voice voice, excuse me,
are more synonymous with Hollywood superstarting than him. Because you
think about great actors and you think about them like
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ers in the face, the acting ability. You don't think
about the voice very often, But to lend your voice
to so many projects, and then also to lend your
face to so many projects, and your body and your
mind and your acting ability. And he was a good
actor too, Like he could have been in way more
movies as an actor because he was great and field
of dreams. James Earl Jones dead at the age of
ninety three. We've got to break Stephen sus They're gonna
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
All right, well where do we start? Husky's two and
l Seahawks get to win over Denver yesterday? You know, somewhere,
someway someplace. Guys, there's some poor bastard that just watched
the first half of the Seahawk game and then just
said I'm done. I got stuff to do, and never
saw the second half and has no idea what happened
at half number two. Because I tell you what, man,
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a lot of things get kicked around of this business,
a lot of cliches. By the way, tailor two halves
is one of them, and that was totally a tail
of two halves for the Seahawks yesterday. Offensive line couldn't
even function. I mean Geno Smith the first play of
the game, obviously getting sacked to you know, throw the pick.
Obviously where he was going with that ball. I have
no idea, and then it's like they went into the
(01:05):
locker room and said, oh, by the way, we forgot
to give you the playbooks. Here they are, let's go
ahead and kick some ass in the second half and
look pretty damn good in the second half against the
Denver Broncos. So we're gonna get a bunch of reaction
today to yesterday's game. Get some of your texta as
well at four nine, four to five one for textimonial
Stephen Susan will hop on, talk some baseball, at for
Will Rogers, Curtisy Amuntlake Futures will jump on and socks
(01:27):
to talk some dogs at four twenty eight. Today our
weekly visit with the Husky quarterback before we get to
the Jets and Niners on Monday Night Football with Kevin
Harlan from Santa Clara at five point fifteen. So why
don't we just go round the room. What do we think?
Seahawks are one to oh boys after winner for the
Denver Broncos. At times wasn't pretty, but they got it
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done and I thought just played a totally different brand
of football offensively in the second half. Their defense was
awesome the entire game. You look at the numbers that
Bonnicks put up yesterday, and I honestly don't even know
I remember a quarterback looking this inep through the air
as bow Knicks did yesterday. One hundred and thirty eight
yards on forty two passes. Are you freaking kidding me?
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Barely over three yards per attempt? The interception that Julian
Love had there in the first half, Leonard Williams right
in his face, forcing him to throw off his back foot,
and bow and three is now bow and four and
the Seahawks are one to no. How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I think we felt the same on Sunday after a
half as we did on Saturday after a quarter, right,
and I felt not only did I feel the same
as far as frustration with the offense, I also felt
good about where my team was going forward in that
game because neither Eastern Michigan nor the Broncos could do
anything offensively to capitalize on how bad the Huskies and
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Seahawks offense were early in that game.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So I felt great.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I was like, we're gonna get this done in both
of these games because neither one of these teams is
doing anything against the defenses. And you know, you took
a look at what both levels of that defense did.
Take a look at the tweet I sent out Byron
Murphy snapped by snap in the pass rush, he was
being single covered most of his first four or five
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pass rushes, and he was flushing bonicks, he was collapsing
the pocket. So what happened in the last five or
six pass rushes he was getting double team.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And if you have to double team.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
A rookie all season long, the rest of that defensive
line is going to get home. And then how about
the corners, Spoon and Woolen, here's their PFF grade yesterday
combined ninety point one. They allowed thirty four receiving yards
total in the game for a passer rating of fourteen
point six.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You have, as far as.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
The tandem goes, how many tandems of cornerbacks are as
good as the Seahawks. Now, there are individual corners like
we saw yesterday, Patrick, certain that served certain rather that's
better than Spoon and Woolan right now. But as far
as a tandem of corners, yeah, you're talking top three
in the NFL. And those safeties ain't bad either.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, what I noticed yesterday, the first thing that jumped
off the page to me is at every time a
Bronco pass catcher was close to either making a play
or the second after they made a play, there was
a Seahawk defender right there, and not just one, but
multiple guys making the tackle gang tackling. I mean, the
amount of mistackles that we saw last year was disgusting.
It was a complete one to eighty yesterday for that
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Seahawk defense. And again, I mean, I don't know what
bo Nicks will be when it's all said and done.
I think he's got a chance to be Okay. I
don't see him eventually down the road being one of
the elite quarterbacks in the NFL. But can he have
a nice ten, twelve, thirteen year career as a starting quarterback. Maybe?
But the Seahawk defense made him look awful in that
game yesterday. And look, you got a first year head
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coach who's making his debut in the regular season and
he's basically whipping a Super Bowl champion and Sean Payton
because how many of those points were curtisy of the offense?
At least seven. You had three points after the pick,
four points on safeties. I mean, Dick, that's a twenty
six to thirteen game. Denver had like one drive the
entire game yesterday, and you know, look, I'm texting with
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Grubb and Huff after the game and he's like, I
was kind of slobby. He's like, dude, don't ever apologize
for wins in this league ever. When you go out
and you do what you did, and you make the
second half adjustments that you made, and you get Katie
Walker to the football and you're basically, let's face it,
not basically they are playing with their third string right
tackle because George Fant goes down in the first quarter.
It was supposed to be Abe Lucas, and then it
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was George fan and then it was McLendon Curtis. I
mean McLendon Curtis. It sounds like a guy that should
be working at a hardware store selling paint, not playing
right tackle for an NFL football team. And he's in there.
And you got a guy and Connor Williams that probably
shouldn't even be out there yet coming off to knee injury.
Right Christian Haynes was supposed to be your starter from
day one. Anthony Bradford ends up getting all the snaps
(05:57):
on the offensive line. So I thought those guys taking
all those players and oh, by the way, Lake and
Tomlinson not playing very well in the first half, but
play better in the second half. And if you listen
to Millon today with Thean and listen to Hugh today
with Chuck and Buck, I don't know if there were
a lot of second half adjustments by Ryan Grubb and
that coaching staff. I think that offensive line just simply
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played better in the second half. And whatever Ryan Grubb
did to get those guys to play better in the
second half or well, we.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Did see the adjustment of Mike McDonald talked about it
after the game. He said at halftime quote, we have
to get the ball to ken Walker, right, and they
did get there, and that that's why I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Giving the ball to a player. I'm not talking about
like scheme all that stuff. That that drive was beautiful
that ken Walker triggered in the third quarter. And if
I've said it once, I've said it a million times.
He's a top five running back in the league.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And as far as talent, just straight out talent, I
think he's a top three running back in the league.
You have to feed that guy twenty times a game, period.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
End of story.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And if you do, you're gonna win a lot of
games because it's gonna open up things for Gino Smith.
It's gonna make much it's gonna make the pass rush
calm down against Gino a lot more. I think this
team needs to be run oriented first, and then Ryan
Grubb can take shots. I thought there were too many
shots trying to be taken at the beginning of the game.
There wasn't enough time for Gino Smith because there wasn't
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the protection for those deep drops. Once they got into
the ground and pound action, everything opened.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Up for this football. I think that they are seven
and zero. By the way, when Kenny Walker has twenty
carries or more, I'm going back to his rookie year
twenty nine against the Rams, twenty three against the Jets.
They won both those games, sorry, twenty six and a
loss to Kansas City, twenty six in a win against Arizona,
twenty three in a win against the Chargers, twenty one
in a win against Arizona, and then one time last
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year and yesterday. So they're now seven to one. And
again I mean some of that as obviously, are they
are they running the ball because they're winning? Are they
winning because they're running the ball. I think you're right.
It's year three for this guy. It's time to get
the guy the football. And what do we talk about Jackson?
When that DK Metcalf quote came out a couple days,
go get Kenny Walker on your fantasy team. This role right,
(08:04):
and you've got I got it exactly right, because Kenny
Walker and Fantasy totally killed it. But I mean, if
you listen to you and go back to some of
the some of the runs that they had, I mean,
if people are running around saying it was all outside
run plays, it really wasn't. In the second half, third quarter,
they ran the all twelve times, six inside, six outside,
and they did very very well on all of those runs,
(08:26):
mostly because of Kenny Walker, by the way. So I
think for Ryan Grubb it was a really good debut.
I think you saw early in that game, and I'm
kind of kicking myself for not saying this last week.
You saw what you probably should have seen, which is
an offensive line that's never played together with a brand
new offensive coordinator and a brand new scheme, and a
bunch of guys that played for Shane Wallderder and a
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bunch of guys that played for Brian Schottenheimer, learning their
third offense in four years. Very let's face at Jackson,
it was a freaking mess at first, and you know what,
it probably should have been exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I mean, really, the reality of the situation is we
gift than ten points and this very much should have
been a twenty six to ten game. But I would
I would also go back to the conversation the three
of us had on Friday, which is, what do we
expect from you know, Ryan Grubb points per game? You
know what, what is that number? Didn't we all kind
of agree on twenty five?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Didn't we twenty four?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So I mean twenty six, So that's we're out on
track here. I would also say, on the other side
of the ball, the tackling guys, my god, this feels
like a tackling machine team. They put on a freaking
clinic yesterday. I don't know if that's McDonald or just
the players skills, whatever it is, like, I think, I
think what two or I don't know, he will have
the numbers, but it feels like we didn't miss more
(09:37):
than a few tackles yesterday. They were a Dodson was great.
A lot of the team were just locked in tackling
wise on defense.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Julian leveloy a pro bowler to me, Yeah, and he
had what twelve total tackles, Ten of them were solo.
I'm texting with you back and forth. And he made
the point is even though when Bobby Wagner had ten
solo tackles, how often that happened for him in the game.
I'm sure it did happen at you know, some point
in time. You played ten years in the But Julian
Love was the guy that they signed before anybody, right
before he even took a snap, I think in a
(10:07):
preseason game. Remember we had him on the air from
the vMac before they took a snap in a preseason game.
They gave Julian Love a three year deal. And now
you're seeing.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Why well, and I think it's your point, Jackson on
the on the tackle tackling. If anybody's out there saying, well,
it was just the Denver Broncos and you just played
a rookie quarterback. Okay, I get that part, and maybe
the interceptions were caused by the quarterback more so than
our defense, but the tackling translates. Man, Yeah, if you're
a great tackling team that translates from week to week
(10:36):
to week. And you know, yeah, you're gonna be facing
better quarterbacks, but name the elite quarterback that you're facing.
You've got Jacoby Brissett. Next week, you got Tua, you
got Jared Goff, you got Danny Dimes, who was fabulous yesterday.
You got brock Perty, you got Kirk Cousins, who was
fabulous yesterday. Until you faced Josh Allen on October twenty seven,
(10:57):
ste that is not murderer's role, no for quarterbacks until
you face Josh Allen, and that's late October.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, it's definitely an overreaction Monday, both positively and negatively,
because negatively people were going crazy after the first quarter,
and positively and now we think they're gonna win the
Super Bowl for crying out loud after what happened over
den Bur I mean, we're going to win. Look, I
just think this. I think you got to be pleased
with what you saw in Week one. I mean, that's it.
You know, it could have been an absolute disaster with
the offensive line, and it was looking like it was
(11:24):
going to be a disaster in the first quarter. I mean,
they couldn't even function offensively right, like everybody's on xite Ryan, Well,
I mean what what that was the guy supposed to do?
When is when his offensive linemen are just getting whipped
by everybody. I mean, they could not get to their
playbook because the offensive line was so bad in the
first quarter of that game. I mean, look, you go
back to just, you know, the first few plays of
that game yesterday, and they just they absolutely sack of
(11:47):
the first play pick on the second play fall start
and third play right. I mean, guys, did anybody get
everything starts with that group? And I've been pounding this
for years and it's boring as hell, but this is
where it's gotta start if these guys want to get
to where they want to go.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Help me out on something, guys, Because I was getting
tweets and texts in the first quarter about how awful
Geno Smith is. I mean, maybe I was watching a
different game. I didn't see an awful Gino Smith. I
saw a Geno Smith.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
First quarter. Yeah, I saw a Geno Smith that had
no chance to do anything. And well the interception, I
don't know what the hell that was all about. I
know he got hit, I know that, but still that
that ball didn't sail because Gino got hit. I thought
there may have been a miscommunication with a wide receiver.
I assume that's what it was, because that ball was
(12:38):
so far off targeted.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I totally thought the hit caused the inacturscy. Absolutely, I
didn't think that at all. Okay, yeah, I mean, I'm
not curious what Hugh thinks. Maybe he brought it up
with Ian.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But look, I mean, obviously I could see where a
ball flutters and a guy gets hit and his arm
kind of you know, gets caught up halfway through his downturn.
But I mean whatever, I mean, the guy made a mistake, right. Look,
I'm not I'm not as I'm not ready to crown
Gino Smith an elite quarterback like some people are in
this town. I'm also not ready to bury the guy.
But I thought he bounced back. I mean, whether he
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got through the ball the interception because he got hit,
or he threw the ball because there was miscommunication. Obviously
that wasn't supposed to happen, right, whatever the hell that
was on that play. So I thought it was more
in miscommunication with a wide receiver than him getting hit.
I don't think it was a big enough hit to
have the ball miss that badly, But I think he
was fine. And if you look at the numbers from yesterday,
you guys probably did. Look at this. Passing was way
(13:30):
down in yesterday's or a week one. Look at Palizolo
in the amount of passing touchdowns that you had in
the last four or five years every year in week
number one versus what we saw yesterday, passing offenses were
way behind. All over the NFL.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, there was one hundred and eighty seven weekend on
average passing yard yesterday in the league. That was the
lowest Week one this century. We have never had a
Week one with lower passing titles than this.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Twenty nineteen six total touchdowns in week one, twenty twenty
fifty two, twenty twenty one, sixty one, twenty twenty two
to fifty one so far this weekend, there's been thirty
three before the game's played tonight, So it's like not
even close to being the same point it used to be.
You know why there's no quarterbacks playing in August? Right, Yeah,
all the scrubs are playing in August.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
So the first look that these quarterbacks have as a
real defense is in week one of the season.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, well, you could be right totally. I mean, that's
that's absolute part of it, which.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Is linembers totally correspond with the starters not playing anymore
in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Teams that have good running games and good offensive linemen
need to go out and just pound the ball down
people's throats. And they they were not in a position
I thought yesterday to sit back and pass protect for
Gino Smith for four quarters, not with their third string
right tackling there, not with Anthony Bradford playing right guard,
not with Connor Williams probably coming back maybe a little
(14:52):
bit too early off the injury. There's gonna be a
time and place for that, and that time and place
was not yesterday. And you know, look, what I want
these guys to do is just go with the obvious.
If there's a day like that where you can't protect
the quarterback and you can't drop him back fifty times,
they just run the ball. And there's been times this
where Pete Carroll or Shane Waldron or anybody has been
trying to shove a square peg into a round hole,
(15:14):
and they just didn't do that in the second half
of yesterday's game. So I don't know, I know some
folks that are discouraged by what they saw yesterday, And
I get that. I mean, that offensive line certainly is
gonna have to settle down if they're gonna make any
kind of an elite run this year. But I was
pretty encouraged by what I saw from those guys defensively
for four quarters.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Were people discouraged by the end of the game. I mean,
I know they were discouraged midway through the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think there's some folks that would say, without Lockett
making that crazy catch and Denver gets the ball back,
you never know what would have happened. I wouldn't have
been as concerned about that because bo Nicks hadn't proven
sols the entire game. I heard Farness on the Year
today say it was scary as hell to think about
Denver getting the ball back. I don't believe that. I
don't buy it. But I mean, if you're just talking
about a guy needs one drive to win a game,
(15:57):
then I guess crazy things canna happen, a guy can
fall down whatever, blah blah blah. But I found myself
i mid fourth, early fourth not concerned about it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I thought the game was over Susan.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We went up two touchdowns, so like, this game's done,
whereas I have zero faith in Denver's offense to do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Now they got the one touchdown, but it was it
was a set. It was bored.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I'm not gonna call it garbage time, but it was
borderline garbage. Yeah. Yeah, that was a good debut when
you're looking at so many new faces and so many
new people and brand new scheme and all that communication.
I mean, obviously they got the benefit of preseason to
get their communication taken care of. But you know, it's
the same thing with jetfishing you'ed up. I mean, you'd
expect the brand new staff with fifty whatever new players
(16:37):
would have some communication issues, you know, timeouts at of timeouts,
delays out of timeouts, fall starts, things like that, and
neither team with brand new staffs have really had those
problems so far through the first three games of the year.
All Right, I'll tell you what. We got factor fiction
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four twenty eight. Seahawks wins Sunday, Huskies win Saturday. Steven
(18:30):
sues at four, and it's also Apple Cup week? What
the hell kind of bizarro planet are we living on
with the Apple Cup on Saturday. I hope it rains,
by the way on Saturday because I want to see
Apple Cup whether at the game this podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You also hope it's forty two degrees too.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It's really bug That's fine. I'll be sitting in the
press box. I couldn't care lest year and freeze your
balls off. That's your problem. I don't know. It just
kind of bugs me.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I've said before that I don't know how i'd feel
until we got to this point, and I gotta be
honest with you. It's Monday, and I have no idea
how I'll really fill until, like walking into the stadium
on Saturday and see the crowd and see how the
game goes all that stuff. Blah blah blah. There's just
something wrong about all this, man, There's something wrong about
this game getting played on Saturday in September. There's something
wrong about the game being played at Lumenfield, and right
(19:15):
now I don't like it. How's that sound?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I mean, I don't care as much I'm gonna go
to the game about the game. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I think I'm more It sounds like I'm more fired
up about the game than you are.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I'll put it that way.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And I don't the game.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I don't care about the change as much as you do, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I think that Wait a minute, you're more fired up
for the game, but you don't care as much about
the change. I'm fired up for the game, but I
do care about all right.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I think we've got that, we've got. I think this
is going to be a good tradition. You know, you
have new traditions all the time. I think I think
eventually this is going to be a new tradition that
maybe it'll end up being on Labor Day weekend, which
I think would be cool.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That was my original idea.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I would love to see it on a Labor Day
weekend where Koog fans can travel over Husky fans can
travel over to Pullman when it's over in Pullman. I
think that would be a great tradition, similar to what
you know Colorado and Colorado State have done in the past,
and they've been in different conferences forever. So I think
it's gonna be fine. I think I don't know. I
don't know if it will be as the crowd will
(20:21):
be as fired up because it's a true neutral site game.
I think it'll feel different just being in that stadium.
I would be more fired up for this game if
it were in Pullman or if we're at Husky Stadium.
So I think the neutral site part of it drops
it down a little bit for me. And I think
also the fact is we don't know what either of
these teams are yet. I mean, when you're eleven game,
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the one thing about it being good in November, you
know exactly what the Huskies are, you know exactly what
the Cougars are at that point, and you know how
much the Huskies should be favored over the Cougars in
that certain situation. You really don't know right now how
much the Husky should be favored.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I think what they're favored by six, which is you
know whatever, that's probably about what they should be favored by. Yeah,
I don't know if it'll feel like a neutral site
game on Saturday, because there's gonna be a lot more
Husky fans in there than Cougar fans, and the Huskies
are given four and a half by the way as
of right now. But here's the thing for me, man,
I just look at this game and I just wonder,
I honestly wonder if Cougar fans want this thing to
(21:17):
even continue win or lose on Saturday, because Washington State
is gonna have one hand tie behind their back from
here on out compared to you do. And they've always
had one hand tie behind their back, but now they
may have an arm and a half or even two
arms tied behind their back. And I just put a
poll on Twitter this morning, and I gave you a
weasel option. I know you hate the weasel option, but
(21:38):
I gave you a weasel option. What's your excitement level
for the Apple Cup stoked couldn't care less or nothing
special about it, meaning it's just another game. And we
had eighty one per excuse me, sixty one percent said
couldn't care less or there's nothing special about it. Only
thirty nine percent said they're excited for the Apple Cup
on Saturday. I'm certain that a lot of that's Cougar
(21:59):
fans right yet, are just saying that now. And if
they win the game, then they'll act like they won
the damn Super Bowls, which I don't blame them for
that whatsoever. I do the exact same damn thing. I'm
hoping that this becomes very bitter, and even more bitter
than it was before. I think it's got the potential
to be that, because if if Washington State wins, all
that's gonna do is fire them up for next year.
The game I think is in Pullman next year, and
(22:20):
then in Seattle, I believe in twenty twenty six. If
they win this game this year and they get fired
up for next year and Wazoo finds a conference home
Big twelve or whatever down the road, I think the
game will be just fine. But I do wonder if
Wazoo fans want this thing to even continue.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Well, I would have had if you were gonna go
with three or more options. Right, there's a missing option
that I would have voted. Okay, Now, I voted for
stoked because it was the only positive option on the board.
You kind of had two negative options and a positive option. Right,
So you're probably gonna get two thirds because you gave
two thirds opportunity for negative. If you'd have given four
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two positive to negative, I would have voted for whatever
was less than stoked, but still fairly excited, fairly excited,
looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It's I got I got a crawd I got a
group of six going.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
I got three huskies. I got three cougars. It's gonna
be fun. I'm paying way too much for the tickets.
I think they're insanely expensive. I mean, I got the
cheapest seats I could find, and they cost me ninety
seven dollars a piece, with all the stupid fees and
stuff that were thrown on and thrown onto it because
I didn't want to wait till game day, because my
wife told me not to wait till game You wait,
(23:31):
I know, but you know when your wife tells you
to get the damn tickets. You get the damn tickets, right?
Or do you not do what your wife tells you?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
No? I do. Yeah, they're right. That's smart, that's smart.
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Did I lose? They they never even got off the bus.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
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Speaker 3 (24:43):
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Ah, there's a loss and then there's that.
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Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, my first Factor Fiction pick, I would imagine will
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Speaker 2 (25:02):
I think I didn't cover by like thirty points.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
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What was the final scor is like thirty seven to
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I put up forty on them, they put them over. Yeah,
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Ryce Young's an awesome number one overall pick.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Isdn'ty. We were sitting there at Jimmy's before the game
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four and a half. So I didn't cover by thirty
two and a half. Correct, That's fair, which is Jackson said,
you can go up from here. All right, here's what
I got. I got a Kansas State football team playing
at home this weekend that has beaten you, T Martin
(25:48):
and Tulane, and they struggled against Tulane. They won by seven.
I'm watching an Arizona football team that hasn't really beaten
anybody yet, but I think Arizona's got better talent than
Kansas State does. I'm also watching an Arizona football team
that put up big numbers against New Mexico Teed McMillan
wet Nuts, and that was basically a wall over the weekend.
I think Arizona bounces back. I don't think the Big
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twelve knows what they're getting into inviting the Arizona Wildcats
into their conference. I'm not saying Arizona's gonna win, but
they're going on the road. They're getting seven points in
Manhattan against the Kansas State football team that lost their
starting quarterback to Ohio State and has proven nothing after
two games. I'm taking the Cats on the road in
Manhattan against Kansas State. Give me Arizona plus the seven
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Jackson this weekend. Fact, if you agree fiction, if you
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Speaker 2 (26:39):
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Speaker 3 (26:42):
Sorry my fall. I got a little tick over here, Jackson.
Go ahead, we have us your expert opinion.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I don't have much of expert opinion other than the
guys that I wish came to Washington and watching what
they're doing, and watching what they're doing with the Wildcats.
I mean, that's an offense that leading by McMillan, and
I don't need Yeah, I look at that that game
and say seven points against an offense that's soaring right now,
I think it's a great pick for the Wildcats.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I jumped out of me. I mean it was probably
my favorite of all the college games. So I think
that I think Arizona's good. I think they're close to
a ten win team, and I think they keep this
one close. They may not win, but I think they
keep this one close and certainly you got a top
five quarterback in the in college football and a top
five wide receiver in college football, and you have any
(27:26):
semblance of a rest of a team, which Colorado. Colorado
has those things I just mentioned, but they don't have
a semblance of anything else on their football team.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Arizona does. And so yeah, I like the Wildcats by point.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Sat McMillan had two catches last week. I'm certain that
he got double team the entire game, right, But that's
that's gonna change at some point. Man. So, Kansas State's
got a quarterback. His name is Avery Johnson. He's thrown
for three hundred and thirty yards in two games. By
the way, did Avery Johnson was not the former Sonica's
right now? He's playing quarterbacks in Kansas stat and he's
got to be like sixty years old. Arizona plus the
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But we start this segment every day three forty five
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get to our buddy Mike McDonald, after winning his debut
yesterday as the Seahawk head coach, Big Mac, speaking to
Seahawk players in the locker room and gave out game
balls to Geno Smith and Tyler Lockett. That is, nobody
blinked the freaking eye.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
We stayed poised, We had each other's backs, We stayed together,
all right.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You just keep.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Pounding away for sixty minute battle.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Man, it wasn't pretty, but it was us okay freaking
one and oh man, that's all it takes.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
One and oh all the.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Work that it took to get that win. Right there,
you just stack them. Okay, now we go two and oh,
stacked it all right, all the mentality, all the prep
all right, everybody, just want to appreciate everybody in the organization. Man,
everybody we're going in the same direction.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Holy am I proud of everybody in this room.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
This is awesome, man.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Congratulations, this fringing guy stayed poised. Battle, the battle is
off played efficient our quarterback.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, closer ball, the closer of the game.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
All right, four minute third down.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We said we're gonna be aggressive.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Four minute green Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
You know it's funny. If the Seahawks have the year,
we think they're gonna have the playoff team, right yeah,
be in the mix for a playoff Maybe not a
division champ, but playoff team. I wonder if anyone's gonna
look back and say, you know what, Carrol, the cupboard
was fairly full for Mike mcconffy. He left him with
Kenny Walker, he left them with Gino Smith. He left
him with DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, jackson'spent the jigba a
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starting left tackle, two good corners, if not great Corners
and Spoon and Tarik Woollen, Leonard Williams. By the way,
Draymond Jones, I mean, I'm not saying that Pete Carroll
did that on purpose. By the way, they get retired
and said I'm gonna wait to retire. Guy got fired
for God's sakes. But this is more on McDonald and
Grub and that you can be picky and choosy if
you're as in demand as Grub and McDonald were for
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their services and say, you know what, I'm gonna pass
on that job. I'll pass on that job. Oh that one. Yeah,
Pete Carroll just got fired and they've got a lot
of good pieces. I'll take that one. That's a good job.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Pete and John never built a bad roster, right right,
I mean it's never built a bad roster.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Not one time. Have they built a battery, built bad
offensive lines. They have built, but they never built a
bad roster. And let's remind, just let's remind everybody they
went nine and eight last year, and they.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Were they were, you know, a packer loss away from
making the playoffs last year. So coaches don't usually get
fired after nine and eight seasons. So this is a
much better roster than most first year coaches get.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think it's just a it's a great first year
jobh a first year landing spot for both those dudes.
It really is. I mean, you're exactly right that a
lot of first year coaches and coordinators walk in and
they just have it. They have slap, they have nothing.
They have teams that were two and fifteen that are
starting over from scratch with everybody. Not the case here. Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? Wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (31:28):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yesterday on NFL Game Day on the NFL Network, while
talking about Russell Wilson being out injured for the Pittsburgh
and Steelers opening week winning Atlanta Wow, former receiver Steve
Smith talked about where Wilson is at at this point
in his career.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
The Russell Wilson that we are holding on hope to
he went to the store, got cigarettes and has not
come back.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
The bottom line, he has not come back.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
And if you are gonna believe that Russell Wilson is
that guy, he's not.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
God, I just don't. I mean, it's just so funny
to me, how all these things that we said about
him all these observations that we had. The entire country
is saying the same stuff. And I don't know, man,
maybe he just had to get out of Seattle, you know,
get out of South Alaska for people to notice this stuff.
But did you guys see what he did yesterday? He
was inactive and he was in full uniform on the
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sideline everything. I mean, the earpiece is fine. I have
no problem with that. But you see guys in sweats
with ear pieces. I mean how often do you see that?
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Or a guy is inactive and he's in full freaking pads.
I mean, that is just it's just the definition of
a gooper, Like what are you doing? And if you
don't think his teammates see this and go, dude, what
are you doing, You're out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
They totally see that stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Do you think the teammates think it's bad that he
was in a uniform though?
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I think that people look at him and think he's
a huge goober. Yes, And I think it's hard for
him to lead when he acts like that and does
stuff like that. I mean, how many I don't ever remember,
we should ask you this when he comes on the
year Friday. How many NFL quarterbacks. How many NFL players
period are inactive and then show up in full uniform
for game day.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yeah, no, it probably doesn't happen very often. It's a
very Russell Wilson move. And we you know, we had
him nailed because we knew him right. We knew exactly
what his strengths were, We knew exactly what his foibles,
his idiosyncrasies were. And you know, everybody criticized for us
for having those type of opinions, but we knew best.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
But you know who else knew best?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
The Jets fans knew best on Jamal Adams. Oh boy,
the Jets fans knew they did. The Jets fans knew
when we traded for them. They were all saying, seriously.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, uh, let's get two more here, Jackson, because I
want to fit in that special one we talked about,
let's go to number four. All right, Hey, Dick, did
you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Northern Illinois upsetting number five Notre Dame on Say Go
with a sixteen to fourteen win in South Bend thanks
to a block field goal on the final play by
Andy Garcia, not the lead singer for the Grateful Dead.
But Andy Garcia, who has been working with Westwood One
for a long time. We've gotten to know Andy over
the years. He has been calling NIU Husky football and
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basketball for a long time. Here's what his call sounded
like on Saturday.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
He's lining it up five seconds left, then I you
up sixteen fourteen sixty two yarder snaphole.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Jeter's kicking this fuck.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's fucked. He's fucked. Big up by ya you big
up by the.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Huskies has done it the Busties, but the biggest upset
and AU history.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
They come to South in Indiana and they knock off
the number five team in the country and I you sixteen,
Notre Dame fourteen.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The football gods, we're shining down on the AU. Ah.
Good for him, man, he's a great dude too. I
don't know if you know his story, but his wife
passed away a couple of years ago. He's got two
little kids, all that stuff, so he's had a hell
of a time and getting to enjoy that more moment.
You saw the coach Thomas Hammock. We're not going to
play it here, maybe tomorrow, but the coach cries that
was the best postgame interview I've seen with the coach
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in years, so we should hold onto that for no doubt.
All Right, we'll get one more here. Hey, Dick, did
you happen to hear what da? What's that?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Speaking of sad news? James Earl Jones, maybe the voice
of the greatest character in Hollywood movie history, Darth Vader,
has passed away at the age of ninety three. For
those out there who don't know James Earl Jones is,
here's a small reminder.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
The rebels that are alerted to our prisons. Admiral ossold
came out of light speed too.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Close to the steam.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
He felt surprised, but wisers as clumsy as he is stupid.
Don't fail me again.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
The fleet has moved out to flight speed, and we're preparing.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
To failed me for the last time. I find your
lack of faith disturbing. The one constant through all the
years Ray has been baseball America is ruled by like
an army of steam rulers? Is can he race like
a blackboard rebuilt and erased again?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (36:06):
People will come, Ray, people will most definitely come.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Well, you also voice Mufasa and Lion King. You know,
he was in a ton of movies. Man, I mean,
just one of the all time great voices in movie history.
And I mean I could, I could present an argument
that Darth Vader is the greatest movie character of all time.
I mean a lot of people would disagree, and that's
totally fine. Some would say in the Indiana Jones whatever.
But imagine Darth Vader without James Earl Jones's voice, And
then you tell me how important that guy? You just
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very sad for Star Wars geeks like me.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I think he's the most familiar face or the most
familiar voice in maybe in Hollywood history. And I'm wondering,
is there an American today that I'm not a baby,
but is there American today that has never heard James
Earld Jones voice?
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Like?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
How could you have possibly gone through life without ever
hearing his voice one time? Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's
hard hard. I mean his his There may not be
an actor whose face and his voice voice, excuse me,
are more synonymous with Hollywood superstarting than him. Because you
think about great actors and you think about them like
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ers in the face, the acting ability. You don't think
about the voice very often, But to lend your voice
to so many projects, and then also to lend your
face to so many projects, and your body and your
mind and your acting ability. And he was a good
actor too, Like he could have been in way more
movies as an actor because he was great and field
of dreams. James Earl Jones dead at the age of
ninety three. We've got to break Stephen sus They're gonna
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join us, Will Rodgers at four twenty eight, Talking Dogs,
Baby Courtesee, I Moutley futures right here on ninety three
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