December 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Hugh Millen joins to talk about the Phillip Rivers story, the Seahawks win and more. Do you think Jedd Fisch will be the coach at UW next year? How big is the game against the Rams on Thursday?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh from the Star Reintles Sports to Jordan ninety three
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
All right, here we go headlines on SOFTI and Dick
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Honey, naughty cow, naughty cow a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Right, where do we start? How about some news in
the NFL. Patrick Mahomes out for the year with the
torn ACL, but good for the Chiefs. Their playoff hopes
are done anyway and they only have three games left
to go. Micah Parson's cowboy, excuse me cowboy? Former Cowboy,
current packer Edge Rusher also with the torn ACL and
the Commanders announcing they're shutting down Jayden Daniels at quarterback
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for the rest of the year.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Crack and lose again three one to Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
They now dropped eight of their last nine game Tomorrow
at seven o'clock against Colorado at Clement Play.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Kalen de Moore announcing over the weekend he will stay
at Alabama and not accept the Michigan job. I'm not
sure if it was offered to him or not, but
he's not going anywhere. The Bull season resumes tomorrow. I
know your favorite game, Dick, the Salute to Vets Bowl
between and Jacksonville State, and then your second favorite bawl,
the Cure Bowl between Old Dominion and South Florida on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You'd have soccer team looking for their first ever national championship.
They start right now against NC State on ESPNU.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Monday Night Football tonight from snowy Pittsburgh, fifteen degrees Miami
and the Steelers here. That game kickoff five point fifteen
right here on ninety three to three. Kjrff's our friend,
Huey Millan. How are you, man?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
What is happening? How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We're good, We're good. We got a lot of stuff
to talk about, man.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The Colt Seahawks yesterday Pete Carroll and the Raiders got
held the seventy five yards and their loss yesterday to Philadelphia,
Your maybe second favorite quarterback Josh Allen roaring back to
get a big win against the Patriots over the weekend.
The Dogs get the win and the LA Bowl over
Boise on Saturday. So the floor is yours, man, Why
don't we start with the Hawks as usual and get
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your thoughts on the Jason Myers game, six for six,
including the game winning fifty six yarder to knock off
old Man Rivers and the Colts eighteen sixteen.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What do you think, Well, you love having a clutch kicker.
I didn't think he had a perfect game because he
had two kicks into the end zone kickoffs that there
were touchbacks out to the thirty five. But we'll overlook
that because what he did was obviously, I assume he's
going to be the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
They needed that. But I think that you know, Seattle,
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obviously they are kind of out of tune offensively, their
defenses is humming along. They're not playing great quarterbacks. But
we just don't know what's happening until we play a
really quality team. I assume that there was a little
bit of an overlook factor, you know, with playing at
home being two touchdown favorites looking ahead to Thursday. But
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in the National Football League, you sell them scoff at
wins in my opinion and an opinion of many and
I I just look at a one hundred sixty three
point margin, which is the positive margin, is the number
one in the NFL. There's only three teams in the
league that are over one hundred, and you know, they've
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got six games where they won by double digits. So
this is a team that's been able to put on
teams away. They haven't played with their food every week.
This is just a week that you know, it didn't
work great from a setic standpoint, but you get the
w and and now Thursday night is one of the
biggest games that we've seen in you know, probably a
handful of years.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
How purposely conservative was the play calling, Hugh and how
much did that contribute to their There's lack of scoring
a touchdown. I mean ten of Sam's thirty six attempts
were in the last eight minutes of the game, so
it was you know, and they had terrible field position
the whole game as well.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, the field position. You know, a note on that
there were ten drives by each team if you do
not count the Seahawks had a one play drive to
take a knee after the interception with a couple of
seconds to go in the game. So if we exclude that,
it's ten drives each. The Colts worst field position, by
the way, the Seahawks had five that they started after
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a Colt kickoff and five drives started after a Colt hunt.
For the Colts, it was after six, six kickoffs and
four punts. Anyways, the worst starting position that the Colts
had was their own twenty four yard line. Seven of
the ten drives by the Seahawks were worst were worse
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than the Colts worst, And so you average it out.
The Colts averaged starting at their own thirty five yard line,
the Seahawks averaged at their own twenty technically twenty point two.
So you had a fifteen point difference in the average start,
but you multiply that by ten. Think of this, there
was what an nine yard difference in total offense? Well
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those hidden yards in the kicking game, that was one
hundred and fifty yards, absolutely the equivalent of one hundred
and fifty yards of offense. So you know things like
that in a tight game. Can you know, over the
period of several drives can have an effect.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You allow yourself as an evaluator of quarterbacks, which you are,
by the way, nobody evaluates quarterbacks better and with more
detail than you do.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And if they're out there, I don't know who the
hell they are.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Do you allow yourself as a evaluator of quarterbacks to
factor in and maybe even tremendously factor it in the
fact that Philip Rivers was forty four years old and
hasn't taken a snap in five years.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, first of all, when I evaluate quarterbacks, I just
take all the things that I used to do, and
the more I see it in the quarterback, the more
I downgrade it. So it's pretty easy for me. But
to answer your question, yes, of course. Let me make
this clear. We are human beings. As such, we can
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have two thoughts in our head at the same time.
So why can't it be a truth that you can say,
what did Philip Rivers do as an NFL starting quarterback?
The answer is not much. He had one hundred and
twenty yards. He had an average of one point four
yards per completion air yards. He was two for nine
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on throws beyond five yards. Now we can say that
by NFL starting standards, that is extremely subpar, But we
can also maintain that thought in our brain that it
was extraordinary for a guy to be forty four years
old to be out for five years. Yes, he's inspiring
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these players. I think they're out of the playoffs, so
I think somebody was eluding that was selfish. I think
that's nonsense. I think it's an incredible story. I love
the human human side of it. So I don't know.
I think for me to be represented that I'm only
evaluating Philip Rivers as I would every other quarterback, That's
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just not what I've represented.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's not what I'm think.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And if I've somehow misconveyed that, then same on me
for communicating properly. But I thought I made it very
clear that that you can you can you know, commend
him for what he did, but also say no, he
wasn't the reason why Seahawks struggle.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
See, this is exactly why, guys, we do a little
more at four for exactly this reason. Right, if we
didn't want more, then we would have gotten more and
all of us would have been running around thinking, you
think Philip Rivers is a giant turd?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're on my ass and I'm like, hey, wait a minute,
come on, now, what are we are we like? Are
we sub human?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Are we Neanderthals?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Are we are just early hominated that we can't I
bet they even could grasp two things in their brain
at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, I'm trying to figure out why the national narrative
is like lionizing Philip Rivers today. I mean, he threw
for one hundred and twenty yards in an interception. I mean,
did we really expect them to throw for forty yards?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Did we expect them to have five it or so?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I just like, I think one hundred and twenty yards
and an interception was probably whatever the over under.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Was in Vegas for Philip Rivers to go into this game.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I don't understand why there's so many people out there
nationally just heaping all this praise on Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, I think it's for what Dave said. It's just
in the context and the fact that the Seahawks Logox
did Max brodswell. I think people were expecting seven sacks
and you know, three or four interceptions. Yeah, and you
know he moved the ball and he was within you know,
a few seconds of winning that game. So so I
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do think I understand that. But but Philip River wasn't
the reason why Seattle almost lost that game, right, you know,
I mean you multiply a one hundred and twenty times seventeen,
you're at two thousand and forty yards. Well, think if
you did that for you know, the average of quarterbacks,
fourteen quarterbacks last year had seventeen starts. They averaged over
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you know, like four thousand and about sixty yards, you know,
so you'd be approximately half of that. You know, you'd
be decidedly the worst quarterback in the NFL if you
duplicated what Philip Rivers did for seventeen games. And yet
we can still, as they said, give a nod to
the old guy. It's a great human interest story. And
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I love the inspiration where he said, hey, if this
can inspire people to just say, hey, you know, when
you get opportunities, you only live once, you know, instead
of just passing because you're scared. You know, the old
man never did regretted what he did in his life.
He only regretted what he didn't do. I've thought that
for years. I've heard it. Ever since I heard it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And Philip Rivers he didn't just say it, he lived it.
So good on him.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, well, but it was in the you.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Know, I'm also in the business of having to give
evaluation for the Seattle Seahawks, and I'm giving you my evaluation.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, I say, speak for yourself. I got plenty of
things I regret by the way that I've done. Man,
So I don't know about you, guys, been plenty of
things for me. And I guess, I mean, I guess
just wrapping that conversation up just for just a just
a quick segment to you, because you can kind of
gravitate towards the way he played and the production versus
the fact that he played at all at the age
of forty four after not having a snap for five years.
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So I guess the question is how many years would
he have had to have taken off and how old
would he have to be before you would gravitate to
that side? Right, Like he hasn't played for twenty years
and he's seventy. I mean, how many years would he
have to take off before you would just say that's
the most impressive thing.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And that's what I'm focusing on. That's it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I think I'm focusing on both.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I think I made much clear. I got you. I'm
focused it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They're both big loud horns and sirens on both rings,
and I think they can be separated. Well, let's say
I don't think I can make it more clear than
what I said.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
If there's a siren for the Seahawks, it might be
the red zone. Lack of touchdowns. And we've been talking
about this for a long time now, right like a
month or so. I mean, Dick, you got the numbers,
and overall they're still pretty good, but they've been kind
of bogging down.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
A little bit lately, right and we don't we.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Don't like recent trends that are negative heading into the playoffs.
And they had two drives inside the twenty, the third
field goal, first and ten from the seventeen or the
fourth one, the fifth one, fifth first and ten from
the fifteen. Had two drives where they were right up
against the edge of the black zone from the thirty
five and thirty one, and they kind of bogged down.
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So I'm assuming that in film study and in practice
that this is still something that Clint Kubiak is trying
to tackle.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, and I think that one of the things there's
a tendency for them to run on first down. They
had six plays inside the red zone. We'll get to
the red zone friends here in a second. Six plays
inside the red zone, as is their custom, by about
a one almost two to One's about one and a
half to one ratio on first down, when they get
in the red zone, they run the ball and yet
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for the season they only average two point two yards
per rush, so they are constantly, you know, on average,
facing a second and eight, so they're behind the chains
and then I think that a factor, you know, two
big throws would be an example where uh, lou monrel Dick,
maybe you can help me. The defense seemed to mispronounced
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his name, but but he was just a little better
than Clint Kubialk. I'll give you an example. One of
the the plays on I believe second down, they tried
to do a hitch and go with h with with
js N, but there was a zone with a deep
layer in behind and it was just a bad defense
for that call. There was another one where do you
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remember when Jays excuse me, when Donald threw the corner
route to his left to Cooper Cup kind of high
in the end zone on third down, you remember he kind
of missed him wide. Well, the Colts were playing a
Tampa to a two split defense and had had Cooper
Cup nodded to the outside and broke into the post.
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The safety was leaning way outside and there would have
been a great chance for a touchdown in the back
of the end zone, but he played wide side leverage
on an outbreaking route and so Donald didn't have much.
That was just something that had Kubiak called the post
route to Cup, you're probably kicking a pat on the
next play. And then there's signs of maybe not enough
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reps because when I see Cooper Cup, do you remember
the play where Cup goes from the slot in the
innermost guy on trips, He goes up five yards and
breaks in and Donald throws behind him. In fact, I'm
reading a column in the Seattle Times where where they're
saying Donald missed and I'm like, huh, no, that was
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a miscommunication. And I would say one hundred out of
one hundred offensive coordinators would look at that and say,
the receiver's got to stop.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
In that zone.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Donald's trying to help him, And so very very uncharacteristic
for a Cup to h to a hall ass and look,
I reserve the right to bring in new information, but
you just go by.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You know, fifty years.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Of watching football, Cup has got a he's got to
idle down and he's the he's the best at at awareness.
But the fact that they weren't on the same page.
Is a little bit of a telltale. I'll just this
is an educated guests, hopefully educated. I don't think they
rep that play enough, you know, And that happens sometimes
sometimes you call play in the game and and and
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it doesn't really work, and then you come back on
Monday and go, you know, we only had like three
reps on that play in the last four weeks, you know,
and in practice, and so at an't even I think
the red zone is a problem now. Red zone fringe.
That's red zones from the twenty yard line. In red
zone fringe is the forty yard line. In listen to this,
over the last weeks ten through fifteen, that the Seahawks
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in terms of the percent that they get touched down
twenty seven percent, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Thirty first in the league.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The percent that they get field goals sixty nine points seven.
Let's round it to seventy percent. That not only is
that number one in the NFL, seventy percent field goals.
When you get into the fringe red zone, the gap
between one and two is greater than the gap between
second and twenty fourth. So the Seahawks are kicking field
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goals at an astonishing rate, which is fine. It beats
you know, turnovers like we were getting in the red
zone with Geno last year. But obviously, you know, it's
not something that the coaches aren't concerned about. They got
they got to crank those number, turn those numbers around.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, and that in the run game and looked. I mean,
it's dude, it's ten days before Christmas. This kind of
might just be who they are. They got three games
left in the regular season to figure this out before
the playoffs starts. So let's do this, Huie. We'll get
a break, all right, we'll come back. We'll get more
on the Hawks, maybe a little preview with a game
on Thursday, if we can fit it in the big
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game against the Rams. Obviously, we'll have you on between
now and then two on Thursday before kickoff the Dogs,
the LA Ball, all that a little more at four
continues with Hugh next on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Here before you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Get maybe a thought of the preview of the Ram
game coming up Thursday, let's talk some dogs for a second.
I mean, I guess there's a couple of ways you
can go with this. So whatever is at top of
mind to win over the Boise State Broncos in the
LA Bowl. The future of the program with all these
great players locked in for next year Jedfish's future. People
jacked up about recruiting highest rated class in school history.
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You're a next Dog, You're an next captain at ub
what's the top of your mind as a Dog fan
right now?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Well, the top of my mind is is that good
is the enemy of great, because good sometimes prevents you
from really attacking to be great. And I feel like
the Huskies have had a good year. Certainly, they've They've
kept par Is the way I would put it, I
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think Dick said, you know, they did. They met expectations
and and and you know, as for the Bowl game, Boise,
like Boise is tall hat fuel cattle. They've got a brand.
There have been fourteen seasons in this century where they've
had two or one loss excuse me, one or zero
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losses and and might be two it's two excuse me.
But this year they lost four games. You know, they
got smoked by Fresno, they got smoked by San Diego State.
So you know, it's it's a good brand win. But
I don't want it to lull people to sleep because
the defensive phenomenal really like when you think about what
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you lost, the coordinator knew, like that's great. But offensively,
I'm gonna skip the evidence because I've already said it
on this station. I'm gonna skip the evidence. I'm gonna
go straight to the conclusion. The conclusion is this wash.
The Washington Huskies, out of sixty seven teams in power for,
have the biggest drop between good teams and bad teams
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in their performance. And Demon Williams, as a quarterback of
sixty seven starters, has the biggest drop against between how
he performs against the the I should say drop from
bad teams to the good teams. Anyways, that discrepancy is
number one, and that has to be addressed. So I'm
not gonna I'm not going to, you know, just like
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say oh wow, this is automatically just going to keep ascending.
It's not automatically going to keep as sending because there's
things that have to be addressed about that offense. And
we've talked about Demon Williams being too deep, you know,
ten and a half too often he's at ten and
a half yards deep, and that's a strain on offensive tackles.
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In the angles and takes longer for the ball to
get there. And when you play against better defenses, with
better athletes, they rally to the ball, they get there,
You got no run after the catch. They get their
hands on balls. It dissuades you from making easy completions
because you know intuitively, oh, that defender is going to
get on the ball. Well, if you're a yard and
a half shorter or closer to the line of scrimmage,
maybe you'd take that check down and not be dissuaded
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off of it. So there's a lot of stuff they
need that, in my mind, they need to address in
order to stop being the team that falls the most
between in their performance between the bad teams and the
good team.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I was just shocked at the massive talent differential between
the Huskies and Boise State. Do you think that was
a one off Boise State team or do you think
this is a growing chasm not only between Power too
and Power four, but between Power four and Group of five.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, it's a great question. I mean the whole what's
gonna be the Pac twelve, the new emerging PAC twelve.
I don't really know. I agree with you there, there
is certainly on display. It seemed like there was a
talent gap. I mean, first of all, you just say,
that's one of the worst quarterbacks I've ever seen at
at Boise State. I mean that, you know, you say
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the Huskies made him look awful. But yeah, I don't know, Dick.
I'd have to I haven't really studied Boise State much,
you know, study. I was studying Colorado State, and now
that Jimmy Moore is a coach, I'll be looking, you know,
closely at that. But I would just say that that
was a four loss Boise State team, that that's not
one of these Chris Peterson you know, undefeated or one
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loss teams. You know, you know, Boise's going down and
beat Georgia in Athens like like they've got They've got
a lot of signal her wins on their resume. This
is this is a team that just wasn't capable of
doing well.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
There's a lot of folks still wondering about Jed and
the Michigan thing, And you know, I'm not overly concerned
about it every night, But the longer it goes that
Michigan doesn't hire somebody, the more it's possible that Jed
fish ends up being that guy. You know, people have
asked about an extension for him. He's got five years
left on his on his current contract, to kind of
fend off any wolves that might be out there.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
What do you think, Well, if I was making decision, no,
he's on a seven year contract, he still has five
years left. As we said, it's par I think if
if there was some you know, keep the golf analogy,
if he had hit an eagle or even a birdie. Maybe,
but you know, there's a telltale sign guys, you know
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programs that have offered extensions too soon and then lived
to regret it. Jimbo Fisher, Mel Tucker even before the scandal,
just what was on the field, James Franklin, Dave rand
at Baylor, Ark Stoops at Kentucky, you know, and then that,
you know, first contract, Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley, Hugh Frees Like,
there's a lot of schools that have regretted being really
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financially locked up with a coach. I think, you know,
let's let's have this conversation in a year. It would
be a risk that I'm worth taking. I think that
that if uh, I don't think Michigan has offered him
the job. I think that if they were to offer
him the job, I think he'd take it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But you know, if so be it.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I agree with you what you just said, I mean,
are we being fair to Jed? I mean when I
say we, I mean Husky Nation, I mean Husky Nation
is skeptical sally about this guy and how long he's
going to be at the UB. Should we be Should
we just look at his resume and say, because he
did this the last ten years, he's definitely going to leave.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Washington for the next best job. Or is that being
unfair to him? Well, we don't know. I would say.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That I've been just gobsmacked at some of the what
I would call shoddy journalism that I've seen, not just
locally but nationally, where you you take and you parse
everything that Jed has said. And by the way I
think he has said every time he's addressed this, he
said what I would think is sufficient. He's handled it right,
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because it's a fine line you have to walk walk.
But there are people in journalism that are taking his
words and they're saying, you know, things like, well Jedfish explained,
you know, affirms his commitment to Washington No, he didn't. No,
he did not, and now Kalin de Borg just did
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yesterday and Dan Landing has him. By the way, good
for them. They they had more definitive statements, but they're
not binding. Those words aren't binding at all. Nick Saban,
you know, he he made firm comments. Those weren't binding.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He left, Yeah, he left LSU, he left the Dolphins,
and you know, etcetera. So nothing doesn't mean, of.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Course, I mean I come out and say I'm going nowhere,
I want to live here for the rest of my life,
and you know it means Jack Squatt.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So he said, he says, I expect to be for example,
that was one of the I expect to be the coach.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You know, well I asked him.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I asked him two weeks ago if he's going to
be coaching Washington next year, and he said, yes, I
will be coaching Washington in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You know what else he said, He goes, I would
like before it's all done that there would be a
place where I could be there.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
For a long time.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
He didn't say Washington, right, Yeah, you know, maybe he's
trying to say I want to, you know, shake this reputation.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, I will just I'll say this, My commentary on
this is quick. Because of Jedfish's history and the perception
of him when he showed up at DUB I don't
think there's anything Jed could say that would make the
masses feel differently about their perception of him.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
To be totally honest with you, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
But let's let's just we don't need to be Flee
Bailey to parse words about what people are saying and
not saying. Let's stop writing headlines expressed.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yes, you're talking about the media's reaction versus what's actually
coming out of his mouth.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Don't get done exactly. I guess he should. I gets
which is which is nothing? Burger here, we got it.
We got to get this in real quick.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They did have the twelfth best recruiting class in the
country and the best in school history. I mean, that
should get Husky fans fired up.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well, let me let me just first say this the
recruiting class that that is a tip of the hat,
A bravo. Great job, Jedfish. Hard stop. Okay, but a
couple of things here. First of all, if you take
the following five teams, the relevance of which will be
very evident. Oregon, USC, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio State. Take
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those five teams and then you look at all the
transfer starters. On average on those five teams, it's forty
eight percent. So whatever we you know, you know, ten fifteen,
twenty years, we're old enough to remember what recruiting rankings,
and yes there's a correlation to performance, but it's some
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factor less than it used to be because of transfer.
That's one point. Another point, be careful if you want
to just hinge all of the importance on recruiting, because
that will lead you logically into the following. The Huskies
had the number five class in the Big Ten, which
means if you want to just make a mathematical equation
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wherever you were before signing date and you're going against
your top competitors in the Big ten, technically you could
say that you've lost ground to them if you're going
to uh to promote the primacy of recruiting, and then
you know, look what Jetfish did is exactly what he
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should have done. He rolled up his sleeves and he
went to work, and he had the advantage which Kaylen
de Board did not have. He had the advantage Jetfish
of saying, hey, we just played in the national championship game.
In two of the last seven years we've been in
the final four. That is something that kaylend Boor didn't
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have and and so he was smart. In fact, he's
even said he's talking internally. I've been working on this class,
the class of twenty six for two years. That's that's
right on the calendar of when when the Huskies played
in the National Championship. That's exactly what any coach at
Washington should have done.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
So yes, tip of the hat got what he wanted.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
But you're still you know, you got the people that
you're looking up at the conference that technically they had
a better recruiting class.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
So there's gonna have to be more than just the recruiting.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I think we have to pull an audible here and
do one more segment, a little more on top of
more for and get a little thought from you on
this big game Thursday night. I don't think I don't
think we can talk enough guys about this game coming
up right here on Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, rock and roll against the Rams, biggest stick around.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
We'll wrap it up with here before Monday night Football
coming up on ninety three to three KJRFM. Hey here
we got about three minutest deer, take the take the
floor Seahawks Rams Thursday, one of the biggest regular season
games the Hawks have played in maybe a last eleven
twelve years.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh my gosh, I'm so giddy. I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, look at the defense since the Tampa Bay game.
Remember now they had four starters missing. Now, over these
weeks they haven't been entirely healthy. Julian Love, Jaron Reed,
Devin Witherspoon have alternating miss games. But since Tampa Bay,
the Seahawks are number one defensively in the following statistics
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points per game, points per drive, yards per game, yards
per play, passing yards per game, net yards per attempt,
and expected points after defensive EPA per play and defensive
EPA per game.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I can't wait to watch what these guys can do
under playoff type pressure in that game.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
How much has Clint Kubiak been saving in his tool
chest these last three weeks when he really hasn't had
to pull a lot out?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
How much easiest preparing and saving for the Rams game. Yeah,
it's a great question.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I don't know until they pop it, but it can
only take a couple. You know, if if you've got
a red zone gym and you know you pull it
out at the right time, you get a touchdown and
you know, it could only be a couple and it
can be meaningful. So you know, but here's a thought
on Sam Darnald. Guys, this week marked an interesting statistical coincidence.
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In Tom Brady's entire career, he won seventy five point
four percent of his games, and Holmes, as of yesterday,
also has won seventy five point four percent of his games.
That's both of those in their entire career. Sam Donald
over the last thirty eight games, now, that's that's going
back to November twenty seven, twenty twenty two. That's three
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seasons ago. That's four different teams, four different coaches. Sam
Darnold has won seventy six point three percent, a little
more than each of those. I know it's not a
full career, but that's what he's done. And then and
then for both Brady, Brady would give you a triple digit,
a one hundred or more passer rating on forty seven
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percent of his start starts. Rather you have mahomes at
forty nine percent in the last thirty eight games over
three years. Donald gives you a triple digit passer rating
sixty six percent of his games Like this, dude has
been playing some damn good football. It's not just with
the Vikings. Last year he found something. He's only twenty
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eight years old. He's under a hell of a lot
of pusser. Yeah, and we'll see how he handles it
on Thursday, all.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Right, ten seconds or last.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
So if you're wrong, your wife leaves you for Angel
at the burrito drive through that you go to all
the time. Who wins on Thursday night?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I think there's a reason why the Rams are favored, Hm,
the not anymore though?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Are you sure? A point and a half? Seahawks are
one and a half? Espnodcast one a half point favorites now, yep.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I'm looking at ESPN right now, and the Seahawks are.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
The Rams are still favored by a point and a
half according to them, but we'll find out. We got
four days for the action to move man, all right, listen,
great stuff, and we'll come down Thursday before the game,
all right, pal, you bet all right here, mail, and
we got Dolphins we got steelers coming next.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
We'll see you tomorrow. Bye.
Oh from the Star Reintles Sports to Jordan ninety three
point three kJ RFM sports headlines.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
All right, here we go headlines on SOFTI and Dick
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Honey, naughty cow, naughty cow a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Right, where do we start? How about some news in
the NFL. Patrick Mahomes out for the year with the
torn ACL, but good for the Chiefs. Their playoff hopes
are done anyway and they only have three games left
to go. Micah Parson's cowboy, excuse me cowboy? Former Cowboy,
current packer Edge Rusher also with the torn ACL and
the Commanders announcing they're shutting down Jayden Daniels at quarterback
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for the rest of the year.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Crack and lose again three one to Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
They now dropped eight of their last nine game Tomorrow
at seven o'clock against Colorado at Clement Play.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Kalen de Moore announcing over the weekend he will stay
at Alabama and not accept the Michigan job. I'm not
sure if it was offered to him or not, but
he's not going anywhere. The Bull season resumes tomorrow. I
know your favorite game, Dick, the Salute to Vets Bowl
between and Jacksonville State, and then your second favorite bawl,
the Cure Bowl between Old Dominion and South Florida on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You'd have soccer team looking for their first ever national championship.
They start right now against NC State on ESPNU.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Monday Night Football tonight from snowy Pittsburgh, fifteen degrees Miami
and the Steelers here. That game kickoff five point fifteen
right here on ninety three to three. Kjrff's our friend,
Huey Millan. How are you, man?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
What is happening? How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We're good, We're good. We got a lot of stuff
to talk about, man.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The Colt Seahawks yesterday Pete Carroll and the Raiders got
held the seventy five yards and their loss yesterday to Philadelphia,
Your maybe second favorite quarterback Josh Allen roaring back to
get a big win against the Patriots over the weekend.
The Dogs get the win and the LA Bowl over
Boise on Saturday. So the floor is yours, man, Why
don't we start with the Hawks as usual and get
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your thoughts on the Jason Myers game, six for six,
including the game winning fifty six yarder to knock off
old Man Rivers and the Colts eighteen sixteen.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What do you think, Well, you love having a clutch kicker.
I didn't think he had a perfect game because he
had two kicks into the end zone kickoffs that there
were touchbacks out to the thirty five. But we'll overlook
that because what he did was obviously, I assume he's
going to be the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
They needed that. But I think that you know, Seattle,
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obviously they are kind of out of tune offensively, their
defenses is humming along. They're not playing great quarterbacks. But
we just don't know what's happening until we play a
really quality team. I assume that there was a little
bit of an overlook factor, you know, with playing at
home being two touchdown favorites looking ahead to Thursday. But
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in the National Football League, you sell them scoff at
wins in my opinion and an opinion of many and
I I just look at a one hundred sixty three
point margin, which is the positive margin, is the number
one in the NFL. There's only three teams in the
league that are over one hundred, and you know, they've
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got six games where they won by double digits. So
this is a team that's been able to put on
teams away. They haven't played with their food every week.
This is just a week that you know, it didn't
work great from a setic standpoint, but you get the
w and and now Thursday night is one of the
biggest games that we've seen in you know, probably a
handful of years.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
How purposely conservative was the play calling, Hugh and how
much did that contribute to their There's lack of scoring
a touchdown. I mean ten of Sam's thirty six attempts
were in the last eight minutes of the game, so
it was you know, and they had terrible field position
the whole game as well.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, the field position. You know, a note on that
there were ten drives by each team if you do
not count the Seahawks had a one play drive to
take a knee after the interception with a couple of
seconds to go in the game. So if we exclude that,
it's ten drives each. The Colts worst field position, by
the way, the Seahawks had five that they started after
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a Colt kickoff and five drives started after a Colt hunt.
For the Colts, it was after six, six kickoffs and
four punts. Anyways, the worst starting position that the Colts
had was their own twenty four yard line. Seven of
the ten drives by the Seahawks were worst were worse
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than the Colts worst, And so you average it out.
The Colts averaged starting at their own thirty five yard line,
the Seahawks averaged at their own twenty technically twenty point two.
So you had a fifteen point difference in the average start,
but you multiply that by ten. Think of this, there
was what an nine yard difference in total offense? Well
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those hidden yards in the kicking game, that was one
hundred and fifty yards, absolutely the equivalent of one hundred
and fifty yards of offense. So you know things like
that in a tight game. Can you know, over the
period of several drives can have an effect.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You allow yourself as an evaluator of quarterbacks, which you are,
by the way, nobody evaluates quarterbacks better and with more
detail than you do.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And if they're out there, I don't know who the
hell they are.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Do you allow yourself as a evaluator of quarterbacks to
factor in and maybe even tremendously factor it in the
fact that Philip Rivers was forty four years old and
hasn't taken a snap in five years.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, first of all, when I evaluate quarterbacks, I just
take all the things that I used to do, and
the more I see it in the quarterback, the more
I downgrade it. So it's pretty easy for me. But
to answer your question, yes, of course. Let me make
this clear. We are human beings. As such, we can
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have two thoughts in our head at the same time.
So why can't it be a truth that you can say,
what did Philip Rivers do as an NFL starting quarterback?
The answer is not much. He had one hundred and
twenty yards. He had an average of one point four
yards per completion air yards. He was two for nine
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on throws beyond five yards. Now we can say that
by NFL starting standards, that is extremely subpar, But we
can also maintain that thought in our brain that it
was extraordinary for a guy to be forty four years
old to be out for five years. Yes, he's inspiring
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these players. I think they're out of the playoffs, so
I think somebody was eluding that was selfish. I think
that's nonsense. I think it's an incredible story. I love
the human human side of it. So I don't know.
I think for me to be represented that I'm only
evaluating Philip Rivers as I would every other quarterback, That's
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just not what I've represented.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's not what I'm think.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And if I've somehow misconveyed that, then same on me
for communicating properly. But I thought I made it very
clear that that you can you can you know, commend
him for what he did, but also say no, he
wasn't the reason why Seahawks struggle.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
See, this is exactly why, guys, we do a little
more at four for exactly this reason. Right, if we
didn't want more, then we would have gotten more and
all of us would have been running around thinking, you
think Philip Rivers is a giant turd?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're on my ass and I'm like, hey, wait a minute,
come on, now, what are we are we like? Are
we sub human?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Are we Neanderthals?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Are we are just early hominated that we can't I
bet they even could grasp two things in their brain
at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, I'm trying to figure out why the national narrative
is like lionizing Philip Rivers today. I mean, he threw
for one hundred and twenty yards in an interception. I mean,
did we really expect them to throw for forty yards?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Did we expect them to have five it or so?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I just like, I think one hundred and twenty yards
and an interception was probably whatever the over under.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Was in Vegas for Philip Rivers to go into this game.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I don't understand why there's so many people out there
nationally just heaping all this praise on Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, I think it's for what Dave said. It's just
in the context and the fact that the Seahawks Logox
did Max brodswell. I think people were expecting seven sacks
and you know, three or four interceptions. Yeah, and you
know he moved the ball and he was within you know,
a few seconds of winning that game. So so I
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do think I understand that. But but Philip River wasn't
the reason why Seattle almost lost that game, right, you know,
I mean you multiply a one hundred and twenty times seventeen,
you're at two thousand and forty yards. Well, think if
you did that for you know, the average of quarterbacks,
fourteen quarterbacks last year had seventeen starts. They averaged over
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you know, like four thousand and about sixty yards, you know,
so you'd be approximately half of that. You know, you'd
be decidedly the worst quarterback in the NFL if you
duplicated what Philip Rivers did for seventeen games. And yet
we can still, as they said, give a nod to
the old guy. It's a great human interest story. And
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I love the inspiration where he said, hey, if this
can inspire people to just say, hey, you know, when
you get opportunities, you only live once, you know, instead
of just passing because you're scared. You know, the old
man never did regretted what he did in his life.
He only regretted what he didn't do. I've thought that
for years. I've heard it. Ever since I heard it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And Philip Rivers he didn't just say it, he lived it.
So good on him.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, well, but it was in the you.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Know, I'm also in the business of having to give
evaluation for the Seattle Seahawks, and I'm giving you my evaluation.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, I say, speak for yourself. I got plenty of
things I regret by the way that I've done. Man,
So I don't know about you, guys, been plenty of
things for me. And I guess, I mean, I guess
just wrapping that conversation up just for just a just
a quick segment to you, because you can kind of
gravitate towards the way he played and the production versus
the fact that he played at all at the age
of forty four after not having a snap for five years.
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So I guess the question is how many years would
he have had to have taken off and how old
would he have to be before you would gravitate to
that side? Right, Like he hasn't played for twenty years
and he's seventy. I mean, how many years would he
have to take off before you would just say that's
the most impressive thing.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And that's what I'm focusing on. That's it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I think I'm focusing on both.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I think I made much clear. I got you. I'm
focused it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They're both big loud horns and sirens on both rings,
and I think they can be separated. Well, let's say
I don't think I can make it more clear than
what I said.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
If there's a siren for the Seahawks, it might be
the red zone. Lack of touchdowns. And we've been talking
about this for a long time now, right like a
month or so. I mean, Dick, you got the numbers,
and overall they're still pretty good, but they've been kind
of bogging down.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
A little bit lately, right and we don't we.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Don't like recent trends that are negative heading into the playoffs.
And they had two drives inside the twenty, the third
field goal, first and ten from the seventeen or the
fourth one, the fifth one, fifth first and ten from
the fifteen. Had two drives where they were right up
against the edge of the black zone from the thirty
five and thirty one, and they kind of bogged down.
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So I'm assuming that in film study and in practice
that this is still something that Clint Kubiak is trying
to tackle.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, and I think that one of the things there's
a tendency for them to run on first down. They
had six plays inside the red zone. We'll get to
the red zone friends here in a second. Six plays
inside the red zone, as is their custom, by about
a one almost two to One's about one and a
half to one ratio on first down, when they get
in the red zone, they run the ball and yet
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for the season they only average two point two yards
per rush, so they are constantly, you know, on average,
facing a second and eight, so they're behind the chains
and then I think that a factor, you know, two
big throws would be an example where uh, lou monrel Dick,
maybe you can help me. The defense seemed to mispronounced
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his name, but but he was just a little better
than Clint Kubialk. I'll give you an example. One of
the the plays on I believe second down, they tried
to do a hitch and go with h with with
js N, but there was a zone with a deep
layer in behind and it was just a bad defense
for that call. There was another one where do you
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remember when Jays excuse me, when Donald threw the corner
route to his left to Cooper Cup kind of high
in the end zone on third down, you remember he kind
of missed him wide. Well, the Colts were playing a
Tampa to a two split defense and had had Cooper
Cup nodded to the outside and broke into the post.
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The safety was leaning way outside and there would have
been a great chance for a touchdown in the back
of the end zone, but he played wide side leverage
on an outbreaking route and so Donald didn't have much.
That was just something that had Kubiak called the post
route to Cup, you're probably kicking a pat on the
next play. And then there's signs of maybe not enough
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reps because when I see Cooper Cup, do you remember
the play where Cup goes from the slot in the
innermost guy on trips, He goes up five yards and
breaks in and Donald throws behind him. In fact, I'm
reading a column in the Seattle Times where where they're
saying Donald missed and I'm like, huh, no, that was
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a miscommunication. And I would say one hundred out of
one hundred offensive coordinators would look at that and say,
the receiver's got to stop.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
In that zone.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Donald's trying to help him, And so very very uncharacteristic
for a Cup to h to a hall ass and look,
I reserve the right to bring in new information, but
you just go by.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You know, fifty years.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Of watching football, Cup has got a he's got to
idle down and he's the he's the best at at awareness.
But the fact that they weren't on the same page.
Is a little bit of a telltale. I'll just this
is an educated guests, hopefully educated. I don't think they
rep that play enough, you know, And that happens sometimes
sometimes you call play in the game and and and
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it doesn't really work, and then you come back on
Monday and go, you know, we only had like three
reps on that play in the last four weeks, you know,
and in practice, and so at an't even I think
the red zone is a problem now. Red zone fringe.
That's red zones from the twenty yard line. In red
zone fringe is the forty yard line. In listen to this,
over the last weeks ten through fifteen, that the Seahawks
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in terms of the percent that they get touched down
twenty seven percent, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Thirty first in the league.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The percent that they get field goals sixty nine points seven.
Let's round it to seventy percent. That not only is
that number one in the NFL, seventy percent field goals.
When you get into the fringe red zone, the gap
between one and two is greater than the gap between
second and twenty fourth. So the Seahawks are kicking field
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goals at an astonishing rate, which is fine. It beats
you know, turnovers like we were getting in the red
zone with Geno last year. But obviously, you know, it's
not something that the coaches aren't concerned about. They got
they got to crank those number, turn those numbers around.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, and that in the run game and looked. I mean,
it's dude, it's ten days before Christmas. This kind of
might just be who they are. They got three games
left in the regular season to figure this out before
the playoffs starts. So let's do this, Huie. We'll get
a break, all right, we'll come back. We'll get more
on the Hawks, maybe a little preview with a game
on Thursday, if we can fit it in the big
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game against the Rams. Obviously, we'll have you on between
now and then two on Thursday before kickoff the Dogs,
the LA Ball, all that a little more at four
continues with Hugh next on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Here before you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Get maybe a thought of the preview of the Ram
game coming up Thursday, let's talk some dogs for a second.
I mean, I guess there's a couple of ways you
can go with this. So whatever is at top of
mind to win over the Boise State Broncos in the
LA Bowl. The future of the program with all these
great players locked in for next year Jedfish's future. People
jacked up about recruiting highest rated class in school history.
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You're a next Dog, You're an next captain at ub
what's the top of your mind as a Dog fan
right now?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Well, the top of my mind is is that good
is the enemy of great, because good sometimes prevents you
from really attacking to be great. And I feel like
the Huskies have had a good year. Certainly, they've They've
kept par Is the way I would put it, I
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think Dick said, you know, they did. They met expectations
and and and you know, as for the Bowl game, Boise,
like Boise is tall hat fuel cattle. They've got a brand.
There have been fourteen seasons in this century where they've
had two or one loss excuse me, one or zero
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losses and and might be two it's two excuse me.
But this year they lost four games. You know, they
got smoked by Fresno, they got smoked by San Diego State.
So you know, it's it's a good brand win. But
I don't want it to lull people to sleep because
the defensive phenomenal really like when you think about what
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you lost, the coordinator knew, like that's great. But offensively,
I'm gonna skip the evidence because I've already said it
on this station. I'm gonna skip the evidence. I'm gonna
go straight to the conclusion. The conclusion is this wash.
The Washington Huskies, out of sixty seven teams in power for,
have the biggest drop between good teams and bad teams
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in their performance. And Demon Williams, as a quarterback of
sixty seven starters, has the biggest drop against between how
he performs against the the I should say drop from
bad teams to the good teams. Anyways, that discrepancy is
number one, and that has to be addressed. So I'm
not gonna I'm not going to, you know, just like
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say oh wow, this is automatically just going to keep ascending.
It's not automatically going to keep as sending because there's
things that have to be addressed about that offense. And
we've talked about Demon Williams being too deep, you know,
ten and a half too often he's at ten and
a half yards deep, and that's a strain on offensive tackles.
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In the angles and takes longer for the ball to
get there. And when you play against better defenses, with
better athletes, they rally to the ball, they get there,
You got no run after the catch. They get their
hands on balls. It dissuades you from making easy completions
because you know intuitively, oh, that defender is going to
get on the ball. Well, if you're a yard and
a half shorter or closer to the line of scrimmage,
maybe you'd take that check down and not be dissuaded
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off of it. So there's a lot of stuff they
need that, in my mind, they need to address in
order to stop being the team that falls the most
between in their performance between the bad teams and the
good team.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I was just shocked at the massive talent differential between
the Huskies and Boise State. Do you think that was
a one off Boise State team or do you think
this is a growing chasm not only between Power too
and Power four, but between Power four and Group of five.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, it's a great question. I mean the whole what's
gonna be the Pac twelve, the new emerging PAC twelve.
I don't really know. I agree with you there, there
is certainly on display. It seemed like there was a
talent gap. I mean, first of all, you just say,
that's one of the worst quarterbacks I've ever seen at
at Boise State. I mean that, you know, you say
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the Huskies made him look awful. But yeah, I don't know, Dick.
I'd have to I haven't really studied Boise State much,
you know, study. I was studying Colorado State, and now
that Jimmy Moore is a coach, I'll be looking, you know,
closely at that. But I would just say that that
was a four loss Boise State team, that that's not
one of these Chris Peterson you know, undefeated or one
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loss teams. You know, you know, Boise's going down and
beat Georgia in Athens like like they've got They've got
a lot of signal her wins on their resume. This
is this is a team that just wasn't capable of
doing well.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
There's a lot of folks still wondering about Jed and
the Michigan thing, And you know, I'm not overly concerned
about it every night, But the longer it goes that
Michigan doesn't hire somebody, the more it's possible that Jed
fish ends up being that guy. You know, people have
asked about an extension for him. He's got five years
left on his on his current contract, to kind of
fend off any wolves that might be out there.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
What do you think, Well, if I was making decision, no,
he's on a seven year contract, he still has five
years left. As we said, it's par I think if
if there was some you know, keep the golf analogy,
if he had hit an eagle or even a birdie. Maybe,
but you know, there's a telltale sign guys, you know
(21:47):
programs that have offered extensions too soon and then lived
to regret it. Jimbo Fisher, Mel Tucker even before the scandal,
just what was on the field, James Franklin, Dave rand
at Baylor, Ark Stoops at Kentucky, you know, and then that,
you know, first contract, Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley, Hugh Frees Like,
there's a lot of schools that have regretted being really
(22:09):
financially locked up with a coach. I think, you know,
let's let's have this conversation in a year. It would
be a risk that I'm worth taking. I think that
that if uh, I don't think Michigan has offered him
the job. I think that if they were to offer
him the job, I think he'd take it.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But you know, if so be it.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I agree with you what you just said, I mean,
are we being fair to Jed? I mean when I
say we, I mean Husky Nation, I mean Husky Nation
is skeptical sally about this guy and how long he's
going to be at the UB. Should we be Should
we just look at his resume and say, because he
did this the last ten years, he's definitely going to leave.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Washington for the next best job. Or is that being
unfair to him? Well, we don't know. I would say.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That I've been just gobsmacked at some of the what
I would call shoddy journalism that I've seen, not just
locally but nationally, where you you take and you parse
everything that Jed has said. And by the way I
think he has said every time he's addressed this, he
said what I would think is sufficient. He's handled it right,
(23:23):
because it's a fine line you have to walk walk.
But there are people in journalism that are taking his
words and they're saying, you know, things like, well Jedfish explained,
you know, affirms his commitment to Washington No, he didn't. No,
he did not, and now Kalin de Borg just did
(23:44):
yesterday and Dan Landing has him. By the way, good
for them. They they had more definitive statements, but they're
not binding. Those words aren't binding at all. Nick Saban,
you know, he he made firm comments. Those weren't binding.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He left, Yeah, he left LSU, he left the Dolphins,
and you know, etcetera. So nothing doesn't mean, of.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Course, I mean I come out and say I'm going nowhere,
I want to live here for the rest of my life,
and you know it means Jack Squatt.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So he said, he says, I expect to be for example,
that was one of the I expect to be the coach.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You know, well I asked him.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I asked him two weeks ago if he's going to
be coaching Washington next year, and he said, yes, I
will be coaching Washington in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You know what else he said, He goes, I would
like before it's all done that there would be a
place where I could be there.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
For a long time.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
He didn't say Washington, right, Yeah, you know, maybe he's
trying to say I want to, you know, shake this reputation.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, I will just I'll say this, My commentary on
this is quick. Because of Jedfish's history and the perception
of him when he showed up at DUB I don't
think there's anything Jed could say that would make the
masses feel differently about their perception of him.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
To be totally honest with you, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
But let's let's just we don't need to be Flee
Bailey to parse words about what people are saying and
not saying. Let's stop writing headlines expressed.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yes, you're talking about the media's reaction versus what's actually
coming out of his mouth.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Don't get done exactly. I guess he should. I gets
which is which is nothing? Burger here, we got it.
We got to get this in real quick.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They did have the twelfth best recruiting class in the
country and the best in school history. I mean, that
should get Husky fans fired up.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well, let me let me just first say this the
recruiting class that that is a tip of the hat,
A bravo. Great job, Jedfish. Hard stop. Okay, but a
couple of things here. First of all, if you take
the following five teams, the relevance of which will be
very evident. Oregon, USC, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio State. Take
(25:50):
those five teams and then you look at all the
transfer starters. On average on those five teams, it's forty
eight percent. So whatever we you know, you know, ten fifteen,
twenty years, we're old enough to remember what recruiting rankings,
and yes there's a correlation to performance, but it's some
(26:11):
factor less than it used to be because of transfer.
That's one point. Another point, be careful if you want
to just hinge all of the importance on recruiting, because
that will lead you logically into the following. The Huskies
had the number five class in the Big Ten, which
means if you want to just make a mathematical equation
(26:34):
wherever you were before signing date and you're going against
your top competitors in the Big ten, technically you could
say that you've lost ground to them if you're going
to uh to promote the primacy of recruiting, and then
you know, look what Jetfish did is exactly what he
(26:54):
should have done. He rolled up his sleeves and he
went to work, and he had the advantage which Kaylen
de Board did not have. He had the advantage Jetfish
of saying, hey, we just played in the national championship game.
In two of the last seven years we've been in
the final four. That is something that kaylend Boor didn't
(27:15):
have and and so he was smart. In fact, he's
even said he's talking internally. I've been working on this class,
the class of twenty six for two years. That's that's
right on the calendar of when when the Huskies played
in the National Championship. That's exactly what any coach at
Washington should have done.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
So yes, tip of the hat got what he wanted.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
But you're still you know, you got the people that
you're looking up at the conference that technically they had
a better recruiting class.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
So there's gonna have to be more than just the recruiting.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I think we have to pull an audible here and
do one more segment, a little more on top of
more for and get a little thought from you on
this big game Thursday night. I don't think I don't
think we can talk enough guys about this game coming
up right here on Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, rock and roll against the Rams, biggest stick around.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
We'll wrap it up with here before Monday night Football
coming up on ninety three to three KJRFM. Hey here
we got about three minutest deer, take the take the
floor Seahawks Rams Thursday, one of the biggest regular season
games the Hawks have played in maybe a last eleven
twelve years.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh my gosh, I'm so giddy. I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, look at the defense since the Tampa Bay game.
Remember now they had four starters missing. Now, over these
weeks they haven't been entirely healthy. Julian Love, Jaron Reed,
Devin Witherspoon have alternating miss games. But since Tampa Bay,
the Seahawks are number one defensively in the following statistics
(28:41):
points per game, points per drive, yards per game, yards
per play, passing yards per game, net yards per attempt,
and expected points after defensive EPA per play and defensive
EPA per game.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I can't wait to watch what these guys can do
under playoff type pressure in that game.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
How much has Clint Kubiak been saving in his tool
chest these last three weeks when he really hasn't had
to pull a lot out?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
How much easiest preparing and saving for the Rams game. Yeah,
it's a great question.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I don't know until they pop it, but it can
only take a couple. You know, if if you've got
a red zone gym and you know you pull it
out at the right time, you get a touchdown and
you know, it could only be a couple and it
can be meaningful. So you know, but here's a thought
on Sam Darnald. Guys, this week marked an interesting statistical coincidence.
(29:41):
In Tom Brady's entire career, he won seventy five point
four percent of his games, and Holmes, as of yesterday,
also has won seventy five point four percent of his games.
That's both of those in their entire career. Sam Donald
over the last thirty eight games, now, that's that's going
back to November twenty seven, twenty twenty two. That's three
(30:03):
seasons ago. That's four different teams, four different coaches. Sam
Darnold has won seventy six point three percent, a little
more than each of those. I know it's not a
full career, but that's what he's done. And then and
then for both Brady, Brady would give you a triple digit,
a one hundred or more passer rating on forty seven
(30:25):
percent of his start starts. Rather you have mahomes at
forty nine percent in the last thirty eight games over
three years. Donald gives you a triple digit passer rating
sixty six percent of his games Like this, dude has
been playing some damn good football. It's not just with
the Vikings. Last year he found something. He's only twenty
(30:47):
eight years old. He's under a hell of a lot
of pusser. Yeah, and we'll see how he handles it
on Thursday, all.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Right, ten seconds or last.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
So if you're wrong, your wife leaves you for Angel
at the burrito drive through that you go to all
the time. Who wins on Thursday night?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I think there's a reason why the Rams are favored, Hm,
the not anymore though?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Are you sure? A point and a half? Seahawks are
one and a half? Espnodcast one a half point favorites now, yep.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I'm looking at ESPN right now, and the Seahawks are.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
The Rams are still favored by a point and a
half according to them, but we'll find out. We got
four days for the action to move man, all right, listen,
great stuff, and we'll come down Thursday before the game,
all right, pal, you bet all right here, mail, and
we got Dolphins we got steelers coming next.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
We'll see you tomorrow. Bye.
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