April 22, 2025 • 16 mins
Washington Huskies wide receiver Denzel Boston sits down with Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about his career at UW so far and his numbers, his route tree and skills at receiver, Demond Williams being in at quarterback, the team’s travel, and WR room.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before we get going. Look who just sat down with us?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Here at you dubb Snah' Rodgers looking to throw in
the pocket, fires over the middle, caught, Denzel Boston.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Makes them and miss it, gets into the second ear
the thirty, the left sideline twenty He's going in.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Denzel Boston houses any.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Scores from fifty one yards, the sixth touchdown catch of
the year to lead the big ten for Denzel Boston
in a career long fifty one yard or turns the tables.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm sorry, I should have told you we're gonna play that.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
By the way, we can't have Denzel Boston on without
playing a Denzel Boston a highlight and here he is,
number twelve in the score book, number one on his
mom and dad's hearts.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Denzel Boston joining us from U dub How are you marriage?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
How you doing God? It's good to see us.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
So you're two with Jedfish. You obviously had Kaitlin for
a couple of years. You had Ryan Grubb, you had
Brendan Carroll, you had Jedfish. Now you got a brand
new offensive coordinator. There's a lot of change going on
man around this program. How have you handled all these
different changes this year and a year round, month by month,
it seems like there's change that you guys have to
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get ready for.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, you know, there's always change, and especially with this
new college football world. And you know, with coach Fish,
he's made it easy, you know, just with the things
he's instilled in our program with be a pro and
all that. So you know, it's been easy. And all
of our changes, I say, have been good changes. And
you know, to see our coaches move and level up
in different areas and then have new coaches come in
with just as good expertise and be able to push
our team to where we want to be, you know,
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that's just great to have on to be able to
have on our side.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, I gotta imagine the level of change right now
is a lot less than it was last year at
this time, There's no question about that. So what is
your understanding of the offense now compared to how it
was a year ago at this time?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
You know, a year ago this time, I say I'd
be like a two point zero understanding of the offense,
and now I say I'm about a five point zero
understanding of the offense. You know, I know what the
running backs doing to what the line has to do
on certain plays on the run play and stuff like that.
And you know, I feel like my understanding of the
offense has increased immensely over the offseason.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
As what's that scale though, at five out of ten,
five out of five, five out of seven.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'll say five out of seven, Yeah, okay, good, Yeah,
we'll take that.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Let's go for a six by September. That'd be nice.
But Denzel Boston's with us, and I'm looking at your numbers,
man from last year, and I think if people would
have told me before the season began that Denzel Boston
would be tied for sixth in receiving touchdowns in the
Big Ten and tied for where were you yardage wise?
I think you were top ten? Yeah, number ten yards
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in the Big Ten. I think a lot of us
were said, that's pretty damn good, right for a guy's
first year in the Big Ten. The majority, though, of
those numbers came before Week seven of the college football season,
so you were tracking. I remember Mario Bailey, you know
the name Mario Bailey, by the way, So Mario Bailey
works for US, Okay, and he's getting pissed off and
pissed off every single week.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
This guy is gonna break my record?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Man is He could not handle the idea of somebody
else breaking his record.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So we were talking about that.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I don't know if you heard that conversation or not,
or that chatter out there, but tell me about the
year that you had, because the numbers overall look pretty
damn good.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But I know that there was more meat on that
bone to end the year.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Oh yeah, No, there was for sure, a lot of
meat on the bone for sure. You know, I think
you know that's hard, that's a hard thing. But you know,
I'm always chasing, for sure for Mario Bailey. You know,
I know that was a big conversation last year, you
know what I mean, And you know I'm definitely chasing them.
But you know, yeah, coming to this year, I'm definitely
you know, I've been watching the film over the years.
I've seen what I need to improve on, what i
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need to grow on, and you know, I'm ready for
a bigger season. You know, I left a lot of
meat on that bone and I'm ready to go take
what I left on the bone.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What is that stuff that you got to work on?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, I mean, like you you obviously have identified certain
things that you have to improve on. What are those
things that we can keep an eye on, then we
can tell you if you got better at it.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You know, just you know, making sure my game speed
is always at my top speed. Not only that, you know,
just making sure I get out of my routes clean
every time. You know, there's some routes where I feel
I'm golden out of them. Some routes I feel like
I need to work on a little bit. Not only
that in the second level, I feel like if I
throw a little bit more meat on my top upper
half of my body, I'll be able to work with
that second level a lot more and not get thrown
off my route to be able to attack the ball
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a lot better.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, other teams scout, they see your numbers in the
first six or seven games of the year. So did
you see more rolled coverages in the last four or
five games than you did in the first two months
of the year.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
For sure. We've seen a lot of teams kind of
playing a bracket coverage, especially towards in the red zone area.
But we got we got things for that this year.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us on the radio show, and
you mentioned just a second ago that there's some golden
routes that you got. What are those golden routes? When
that when that play is called, when that route is called,
you got to just light up like a freaking Christmas tree.
So what are those routes that we can keep an
eye on that we can call the golden routes?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I said, the golden round is definitely blink route. I
love the blink route just because I feel like the
way you get to play the dB.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What does that mean? What's a blink route?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
A blink route you kind of just widen your you
widen your leverage off the initials point and you kind
of just break it down to eighteen twenty. You only
just widen about two yards. It's kind of like a
curl just deep Inkay, got it? I say, I love
the cute route, just the way you get to come
off the angle and it's always a nice sideline catch,
you know, and stuff like that. And then skinny slant.
I say, those are my golden routes right now, and
the ones that I need to work on are still
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in the mix.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Got it? We mention changing your body?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Where was your weight last year, Where is it now
and where do you want it to be in September?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah? My playing weight last year was about like a
two o two playing weight. Right now I'm about two
o five and I want to be playing at two
ten this year?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
How do you do that without sacrificing forty time and
agility and looking like me?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You know, that's is putting trust into our strength coaches
in our system that we have implemented here with our
nutrition staff. We got coach t O and they're always
crafting up special things for each player to make sure
that if it's our individual needs. What is the forty
time right now? My forty time? I have been ran
to forty in a while right now, so I wouldn't
even I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Interesting, what do you think my forty time would be
right now?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Right now? I'll give you a five. I'll give you five.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do I blow a groin after twenty yards?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Denzel Boston's with us on the air, and Denzel, I'm
looking at last year and there was a lot made
about the transition of the Big ten, not just for
you guys, but for all of the West Coast teams
going east and even the East Coast teams that had
to go west, and John Wilner, who does a show
with us every week, is on the show this afternoon.
As a matter of fact, it was tracking this how
teams do when they have to go multiple time zones,
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and it wasn't pretty not just for you guys, but
for all the teams in the Big Ten, like Penn
State game, Indiana game, the Iowa game.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The Rutgers game.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Did you ever feel like, man, this travel this is
a lot like we're not used to this doing that
here at UDB, and we've got to find a way to.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Get used to it.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, you know, it was definitely a lot different, and
you know, going from traveling two hours on the way
game max. To six hours possibly, it was definitely a
big difference. And I think, you know, just coming prepared,
you know, with moving schedules up and stuff like that,
with what the coaches do, really helps us get adjusted
to that new time zone stuff like that. So you know,
there's things to prepare for that, you know, And I
(06:44):
feel like the one thing that was different is the
different atmosphere and those different stadiums that we're not used to,
we haven't seen before. And I think that was a
big difference, a big playmaker.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Another thing that changed for you beginning the season the
end of season last year was the quarterback. And you
seem to have a really good rapport with Will Rogers
in the first couple months of the season. So talk
to me about your rapport with Demand and do your
routes have to change a little bit, because now you've
got a quarterback that will extend to play six, seven,
eight seconds, whereas before you had a guy that took
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his five step drop and.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Just let go. Yeah, you know what, Demon, It adds
a lot of versatility, a lot of more big play opportunities.
I'd say, even with him being able to scramble and
be able to see downfield and lost the ball downfield.
Now you know what, Will was running with the ones
all year last year, you know, So that's where our
main chemistry line was. And when Damon came in the
game at the end of the day, he was coming
in and making plays and throwing the ball where he
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needed to put the ball for that looked the best
for him in this position, you know. So you know,
Demon came in and made a lot of plays last year,
and you know we're ready. Me and him, we're looking
for a big season this year.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us here. I'm getting ready for
practice today. Spring game is next Friday, by the way,
so swing on by you Dubb for that bad boy.
But you mentioned Demon. We had Demon was on the air.
I was thing a couple weeks ago. We actually had
a little bit of a trivia contest. The question was
who caught Demon willams first college football pass?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I did?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You did the game?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Game?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Boom see. Demon didn't even know that. Really, He's like,
I don't know. Let me think about that first.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I mean, you would be like, you know, even money
obviously to be the guy.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That would catch that. But what have you seen?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Take us behind the curtain a little bit, because all
of us are real fired up for this kid, obviously, right,
it's hard not to get excited after watching that sun ball.
What are you seeing from Demon Williams that that fans
and people like us don't see. That would get us
maybe even more fired up about him than we are
right now.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You know, which all don't see is his drive and
how he's taking over the team right now, The way
that he's instilling confidence and motivation into us at practice
when we're not feeling our best, and when the way
that he's leading the team at such a young age
and the way the maturity that the maturity role he's
taking on in that leadership role has been immense and
it's been amazing to see. Yeah, and you know, not
only that, you know the explosiveness that the explosiveness you've
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seen in practice these last couple of weeks. Wasn't there
last year? In this freshman season, I'm saying, not saying
it wasn't there, I'm saying it's times.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
To what he had last Wow, he's faster.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
He's faster, he's stronger, he's smarter, more detailed. You know.
So everything Demon's doing is a step the right direction.
He's looking to have a huge season this season. Yeah,
and you know, you know, I wouldn't expect anything short
of greatness from Demon.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is he vocal?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Because the guy that I saw here ago was only
eighteen years old. It's hard to be outspoken. I mean,
you remember first showing up here, You're gonna keep your
mouth shut and do your job for crying out loud?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Right? Is he vocal? Now?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
With the guys, He's extremely vocal. Now, you know, he's
he's now in that role where he can step in
and be that leader and be that guy we can
lean on. And he's definitely stepped into that role and
he's expanded his vocal leadership a lot this season.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What type off season work do you get done with Demon?
I mean, does he call you up and say, let's
go out and throw? How has that been working the
last few months? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, all the time, man, you know, not doing with me.
We know, we got group chats with the other receivers
too that we make sure we're throwing, you know, going
to his house to watch some film. He got a
little projector over there, watching film over there, and we'll
bring some of the other receivers over there too and
watch some film. You know, just on the field, having
good conversations about you know, cause we got the replay board,
so after a play, you know, look at it scanning
how do we feel where do we want to hit this?
(10:08):
You know, so you know, all those little things that
we do, even from practice and off the field, that's
all gonna combine. Right.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
How much do you still Denzel Boston with us? I
remember you and I talked. I think it was at
the start of last year, and you talked about what
you learned from Rome and the two Jalens. Obviously a
year later. Now those guys all spend a year in
the NFL. How much do you guys all communicate? How
much do you personally still hear from those three guys?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, I listen. I mean I learned from all of
them still just from watching their game, you know. But
Jalen McMillan, I was just on the phone with him yesterday,
you know, just just some mentor stuff, just talking to
him about life, how it's been and you know, how
it's been at the next level, and you know what
notes I can take, especially with him running the same
style offense that we run over here. You know. For
JP and Rome, I haven't heard much from them, but
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everyone every time to time, you know, we'll swipe up
on each other's Instagram stories or something like that and
say what's up. But it's definitely cool to see those
guys doing their things up there.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Tell us about this wide receiver room because I'm I'm
maybe a little bit unhealthy excited about this people, you know,
you guys like him are like kind of calm me
down a little bit. I think This wide receiver room
could be really, really good. It's just there's a lot
of names that haven't yet done it on the field
for Washington, but they've done it elsewhere or they've they've had,
you know, four stars out of high school that they're
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ready to go.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So tell us about this receiver room. And do I
have a right to be as excited as I am
about this?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh? Yeah, our receiver rooms looking real explosive this season,
you know, with Amar coming in and then also Rashid
stepping up big this past offseason, especially in spring. You know,
it's going to add a big dimension to the offense,
especially with the chemistry that we all had together. Not
only that, you got KG sitting there too. That's just
a speedster, you know, straight quickness. And we got our
freshman Chris Rayden, Marcus Odrick, you know that guys that
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are really here to learn, Guys that are here that
want to play and understand that. Look that we can
learn now and we're going to benefit later and we're
going to really be some stars out here. But yeah,
that's an exciting class to be ready for for us.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah, I would just say prove it right. I mean,
you got to like you want to be a great corps,
you got to earn that label exactly. And that's what
this year is going to be all about. I mean,
outside of really you and Omari, nobody's really played a
lot at this level. I mean, you got a lot
of great high school players, and Rashid we know what
he's all about. Kevin Green came from Arizona, obviously. But
do you kind of have that little chip on your
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shoulder that we're replacing maybe the greatest position group ever
at the history of Washington, I mean, the ninety one
offensive line, you know, groups like that.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know, the defense, the secondary on that team, whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
But do you kind of have that little chip on
your shoulder that we want to be mentioned in that
same breath?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah, and we have that chip for sure. And we've
all raised our standards when it comes to you know,
the wide receiver room standards, our team standards, and not
only that, you know, we've raised the bar as of
what we want to be as a receiving corps and
as a room.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Right, let me ask you one more before you go. Denzel.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We talked about you catching Demon's first pass. Do you
have that football anywhere?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I do not have because when he makes.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
The Hall of Fame and when you go into the
Hall of Fame together, that ball could be worth like
a jillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You just got rid of it.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean it could be in a bag somewhere. For
God's sake, you gotta find out where that ball is.
By the way, all right, Denzel, great stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Appreciate this. Best of luckman, and we'll talk very soon.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Man.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You bet Denzel Boston with us on the radio show.
And look obviously turning into a leader, no question for
this football team. You can tell with the way he talks,
the way he projects himself. I mean, he's an absolute stud.
And can't wait to see this guy healthy again. He's
been kind of in and out of practices, kind of
you know, nursing some injuries. But that that that's one
of the cool things that I would just say this
and I appreciate what Jed is doing, is that we've
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had a couple of guys on this show, Price Sock
and now him that have been hurt for spring ball.
Like he's not doing everything right and in previous years,
those guys are off the radar. There's no way we're
even talking to those guys. But Jedfish knows how important
these guys are to help sell what he's doing here,
so he puts him on.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The air smart market, total marketing, and Jedfish has always
gotten that ever since he came here. And also, you
know what really impressed me about these guys, and Denzel
is a perfect example.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
He's a thinking man's wide receipts.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I mean, you're like, we go and we break down
film on our own, Like I can't even imagine. You know,
kids fifteen twenty years ago would would go and sit
down and break down film together.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
When they're you know, twenty years twenty years of age.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They wait, they'll practice, they do what their coaches tell
him to do, and then they go out on the field.
And these guys did you know, take it upon themselves
to do it on their own.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, we got to play for Huey when he eventually
comes on and we have time, uh, getting him to
talk about the routes he likes to run, the blink route,
the skinny route.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Did he call it a cute route? Is that what
he said that He's say a cute or cute? I
think he said cute.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I think cute cute we said cut cut route, Yeah,
a cuge like it was a cute or.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
A cute I mean a cute know. Yeah, Well that's
my only point. What did he say? I said to
tell you you got a route called cute? Is that
what you're talking to me about?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
So great stuff from Denzel Boston or here's what we
got going on. We're at U dub obviously for spring
football practice, the final week of springball before they kind
of start shut things down for the media.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The spring game is next Friday. We'll be out here
as well.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
We're gonna be in the same room and that we're
in now for the spring game. There's gonna be a
buttload of X Huskies walking around. Michael Pennock's gonna be
here as well for that day, So a lot of
guys coming by here fired up for that next Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The mock draft is tomorrow from queen An Beer Hall.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And by the way, Jackson and Dick I did stop
by the beer hold today to talk to our buddy
Juice about tomorrow and they're saying that all general managers
are gonna be given smash burgers, pretzels frisen beer tomorrow at.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The Bears, So let's go. You might want to get
a little bit early for that and part take.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
They're gonna have an NFL special menu just for us
tomorrow that goes back to what they offer during the
NFL season. Six dollars, smash burgers, fight our hot dog,
six dollars beers, the whole thing at the Queen Ann
Beer Hall. That's tomorrow. So lanzer Line's gonna join us
at four twenty eight today for one final visit before
the draft. We're gonna get to the Patriots, We're gonna
get to the Jaguars. Mike Florio will join us. Next segment.
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John Wilner coming up, Brian Schweitzer coming up. What Moreno
want for crying out loud? All next from you dub
right here on ninety three three kJ RFM.
Before we get going. Look who just sat down with us?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Here at you dubb Snah' Rodgers looking to throw in
the pocket, fires over the middle, caught, Denzel Boston.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Makes them and miss it, gets into the second ear
the thirty, the left sideline twenty He's going in.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Denzel Boston houses any.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Scores from fifty one yards, the sixth touchdown catch of
the year to lead the big ten for Denzel Boston
in a career long fifty one yard or turns the tables.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm sorry, I should have told you we're gonna play that.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
By the way, we can't have Denzel Boston on without
playing a Denzel Boston a highlight and here he is,
number twelve in the score book, number one on his
mom and dad's hearts.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Denzel Boston joining us from U dub How are you marriage?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
How you doing God? It's good to see us.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
So you're two with Jedfish. You obviously had Kaitlin for
a couple of years. You had Ryan Grubb, you had
Brendan Carroll, you had Jedfish. Now you got a brand
new offensive coordinator. There's a lot of change going on
man around this program. How have you handled all these
different changes this year and a year round, month by month,
it seems like there's change that you guys have to
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get ready for.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, you know, there's always change, and especially with this
new college football world. And you know, with coach Fish,
he's made it easy, you know, just with the things
he's instilled in our program with be a pro and
all that. So you know, it's been easy. And all
of our changes, I say, have been good changes. And
you know, to see our coaches move and level up
in different areas and then have new coaches come in
with just as good expertise and be able to push
our team to where we want to be, you know,
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that's just great to have on to be able to
have on our side.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, I gotta imagine the level of change right now
is a lot less than it was last year at
this time, There's no question about that. So what is
your understanding of the offense now compared to how it
was a year ago at this time?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
You know, a year ago this time, I say I'd
be like a two point zero understanding of the offense,
and now I say I'm about a five point zero
understanding of the offense. You know, I know what the
running backs doing to what the line has to do
on certain plays on the run play and stuff like that.
And you know, I feel like my understanding of the
offense has increased immensely over the offseason.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
As what's that scale though, at five out of ten,
five out of five, five out of seven.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'll say five out of seven, Yeah, okay, good, Yeah,
we'll take that.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Let's go for a six by September. That'd be nice.
But Denzel Boston's with us, and I'm looking at your numbers,
man from last year, and I think if people would
have told me before the season began that Denzel Boston
would be tied for sixth in receiving touchdowns in the
Big Ten and tied for where were you yardage wise?
I think you were top ten? Yeah, number ten yards
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in the Big Ten. I think a lot of us
were said, that's pretty damn good, right for a guy's
first year in the Big Ten. The majority, though, of
those numbers came before Week seven of the college football season,
so you were tracking. I remember Mario Bailey, you know
the name Mario Bailey, by the way, So Mario Bailey
works for US, Okay, and he's getting pissed off and
pissed off every single week.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
This guy is gonna break my record?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Man is He could not handle the idea of somebody
else breaking his record.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So we were talking about that.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I don't know if you heard that conversation or not,
or that chatter out there, but tell me about the
year that you had, because the numbers overall look pretty
damn good.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But I know that there was more meat on that
bone to end the year.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Oh yeah, No, there was for sure, a lot of
meat on the bone for sure. You know, I think
you know that's hard, that's a hard thing. But you know,
I'm always chasing, for sure for Mario Bailey. You know,
I know that was a big conversation last year, you
know what I mean, And you know I'm definitely chasing them.
But you know, yeah, coming to this year, I'm definitely
you know, I've been watching the film over the years.
I've seen what I need to improve on, what i
(03:22):
need to grow on, and you know, I'm ready for
a bigger season. You know, I left a lot of
meat on that bone and I'm ready to go take
what I left on the bone.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What is that stuff that you got to work on?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, I mean, like you you obviously have identified certain
things that you have to improve on. What are those
things that we can keep an eye on, then we
can tell you if you got better at it.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You know, just you know, making sure my game speed
is always at my top speed. Not only that, you know,
just making sure I get out of my routes clean
every time. You know, there's some routes where I feel
I'm golden out of them. Some routes I feel like
I need to work on a little bit. Not only
that in the second level, I feel like if I
throw a little bit more meat on my top upper
half of my body, I'll be able to work with
that second level a lot more and not get thrown
off my route to be able to attack the ball
(03:58):
a lot better.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, other teams scout, they see your numbers in the
first six or seven games of the year. So did
you see more rolled coverages in the last four or
five games than you did in the first two months
of the year.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
For sure. We've seen a lot of teams kind of
playing a bracket coverage, especially towards in the red zone area.
But we got we got things for that this year.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us on the radio show, and
you mentioned just a second ago that there's some golden
routes that you got. What are those golden routes? When
that when that play is called, when that route is called,
you got to just light up like a freaking Christmas tree.
So what are those routes that we can keep an
eye on that we can call the golden routes?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I said, the golden round is definitely blink route. I
love the blink route just because I feel like the
way you get to play the dB.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What does that mean? What's a blink route?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
A blink route you kind of just widen your you
widen your leverage off the initials point and you kind
of just break it down to eighteen twenty. You only
just widen about two yards. It's kind of like a
curl just deep Inkay, got it? I say, I love
the cute route, just the way you get to come
off the angle and it's always a nice sideline catch,
you know, and stuff like that. And then skinny slant.
I say, those are my golden routes right now, and
the ones that I need to work on are still
(04:58):
in the mix.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Got it? We mention changing your body?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Where was your weight last year, Where is it now
and where do you want it to be in September?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah? My playing weight last year was about like a
two o two playing weight. Right now I'm about two
o five and I want to be playing at two
ten this year?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
How do you do that without sacrificing forty time and
agility and looking like me?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You know, that's is putting trust into our strength coaches
in our system that we have implemented here with our
nutrition staff. We got coach t O and they're always
crafting up special things for each player to make sure
that if it's our individual needs. What is the forty
time right now? My forty time? I have been ran
to forty in a while right now, so I wouldn't
even I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Interesting, what do you think my forty time would be
right now?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Right now? I'll give you a five. I'll give you five.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do I blow a groin after twenty yards?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Denzel Boston's with us on the air, and Denzel, I'm
looking at last year and there was a lot made
about the transition of the Big ten, not just for
you guys, but for all of the West Coast teams
going east and even the East Coast teams that had
to go west, and John Wilner, who does a show
with us every week, is on the show this afternoon.
As a matter of fact, it was tracking this how
teams do when they have to go multiple time zones,
(06:07):
and it wasn't pretty not just for you guys, but
for all the teams in the Big Ten, like Penn
State game, Indiana game, the Iowa game.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The Rutgers game.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Did you ever feel like, man, this travel this is
a lot like we're not used to this doing that
here at UDB, and we've got to find a way to.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Get used to it.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, you know, it was definitely a lot different, and
you know, going from traveling two hours on the way
game max. To six hours possibly, it was definitely a
big difference. And I think, you know, just coming prepared,
you know, with moving schedules up and stuff like that,
with what the coaches do, really helps us get adjusted
to that new time zone stuff like that. So you know,
there's things to prepare for that, you know, And I
(06:44):
feel like the one thing that was different is the
different atmosphere and those different stadiums that we're not used to,
we haven't seen before. And I think that was a
big difference, a big playmaker.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Another thing that changed for you beginning the season the
end of season last year was the quarterback. And you
seem to have a really good rapport with Will Rogers
in the first couple months of the season. So talk
to me about your rapport with Demand and do your
routes have to change a little bit, because now you've
got a quarterback that will extend to play six, seven,
eight seconds, whereas before you had a guy that took
(07:13):
his five step drop and.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Just let go. Yeah, you know what, Demon, It adds
a lot of versatility, a lot of more big play opportunities.
I'd say, even with him being able to scramble and
be able to see downfield and lost the ball downfield.
Now you know what, Will was running with the ones
all year last year, you know, So that's where our
main chemistry line was. And when Damon came in the
game at the end of the day, he was coming
in and making plays and throwing the ball where he
(07:35):
needed to put the ball for that looked the best
for him in this position, you know. So you know,
Demon came in and made a lot of plays last year,
and you know we're ready. Me and him, we're looking
for a big season this year.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us here. I'm getting ready for
practice today. Spring game is next Friday, by the way,
so swing on by you Dubb for that bad boy.
But you mentioned Demon. We had Demon was on the air.
I was thing a couple weeks ago. We actually had
a little bit of a trivia contest. The question was
who caught Demon willams first college football pass?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I did?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You did the game?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Game?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Boom see. Demon didn't even know that. Really, He's like,
I don't know. Let me think about that first.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I mean, you would be like, you know, even money
obviously to be the guy.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That would catch that. But what have you seen?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Take us behind the curtain a little bit, because all
of us are real fired up for this kid, obviously, right,
it's hard not to get excited after watching that sun ball.
What are you seeing from Demon Williams that that fans
and people like us don't see. That would get us
maybe even more fired up about him than we are
right now.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You know, which all don't see is his drive and
how he's taking over the team right now, The way
that he's instilling confidence and motivation into us at practice
when we're not feeling our best, and when the way
that he's leading the team at such a young age
and the way the maturity that the maturity role he's
taking on in that leadership role has been immense and
it's been amazing to see. Yeah, and you know, not
only that, you know the explosiveness that the explosiveness you've
(08:54):
seen in practice these last couple of weeks. Wasn't there
last year? In this freshman season, I'm saying, not saying
it wasn't there, I'm saying it's times.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
To what he had last Wow, he's faster.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
He's faster, he's stronger, he's smarter, more detailed. You know.
So everything Demon's doing is a step the right direction.
He's looking to have a huge season this season. Yeah,
and you know, you know, I wouldn't expect anything short
of greatness from Demon.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is he vocal?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Because the guy that I saw here ago was only
eighteen years old. It's hard to be outspoken. I mean,
you remember first showing up here, You're gonna keep your
mouth shut and do your job for crying out loud?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Right? Is he vocal? Now?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
With the guys, He's extremely vocal. Now, you know, he's
he's now in that role where he can step in
and be that leader and be that guy we can
lean on. And he's definitely stepped into that role and
he's expanded his vocal leadership a lot this season.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What type off season work do you get done with Demon?
I mean, does he call you up and say, let's
go out and throw? How has that been working the
last few months? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, all the time, man, you know, not doing with me.
We know, we got group chats with the other receivers
too that we make sure we're throwing, you know, going
to his house to watch some film. He got a
little projector over there, watching film over there, and we'll
bring some of the other receivers over there too and
watch some film. You know, just on the field, having
good conversations about you know, cause we got the replay board,
so after a play, you know, look at it scanning
how do we feel where do we want to hit this?
(10:08):
You know, so you know, all those little things that
we do, even from practice and off the field, that's
all gonna combine. Right.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
How much do you still Denzel Boston with us? I
remember you and I talked. I think it was at
the start of last year, and you talked about what
you learned from Rome and the two Jalens. Obviously a
year later. Now those guys all spend a year in
the NFL. How much do you guys all communicate? How
much do you personally still hear from those three guys?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, I listen. I mean I learned from all of
them still just from watching their game, you know. But
Jalen McMillan, I was just on the phone with him yesterday,
you know, just just some mentor stuff, just talking to
him about life, how it's been and you know, how
it's been at the next level, and you know what
notes I can take, especially with him running the same
style offense that we run over here. You know. For
JP and Rome, I haven't heard much from them, but
(10:53):
everyone every time to time, you know, we'll swipe up
on each other's Instagram stories or something like that and
say what's up. But it's definitely cool to see those
guys doing their things up there.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Tell us about this wide receiver room because I'm I'm
maybe a little bit unhealthy excited about this people, you know,
you guys like him are like kind of calm me
down a little bit. I think This wide receiver room
could be really, really good. It's just there's a lot
of names that haven't yet done it on the field
for Washington, but they've done it elsewhere or they've they've had,
you know, four stars out of high school that they're
(11:21):
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So tell us about this receiver room. And do I
have a right to be as excited as I am
about this?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh? Yeah, our receiver rooms looking real explosive this season,
you know, with Amar coming in and then also Rashid
stepping up big this past offseason, especially in spring. You know,
it's going to add a big dimension to the offense,
especially with the chemistry that we all had together. Not
only that, you got KG sitting there too. That's just
a speedster, you know, straight quickness. And we got our
freshman Chris Rayden, Marcus Odrick, you know that guys that
(11:50):
are really here to learn, Guys that are here that
want to play and understand that. Look that we can
learn now and we're going to benefit later and we're
going to really be some stars out here. But yeah,
that's an exciting class to be ready for for us.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah, I would just say prove it right. I mean,
you got to like you want to be a great corps,
you got to earn that label exactly. And that's what
this year is going to be all about. I mean,
outside of really you and Omari, nobody's really played a
lot at this level. I mean, you got a lot
of great high school players, and Rashid we know what
he's all about. Kevin Green came from Arizona, obviously. But
do you kind of have that little chip on your
(12:23):
shoulder that we're replacing maybe the greatest position group ever
at the history of Washington, I mean, the ninety one
offensive line, you know, groups like that.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know, the defense, the secondary on that team, whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
But do you kind of have that little chip on
your shoulder that we want to be mentioned in that
same breath?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah, and we have that chip for sure. And we've
all raised our standards when it comes to you know,
the wide receiver room standards, our team standards, and not
only that, you know, we've raised the bar as of
what we want to be as a receiving corps and
as a room.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Right, let me ask you one more before you go. Denzel.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We talked about you catching Demon's first pass. Do you
have that football anywhere?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I do not have because when he makes.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
The Hall of Fame and when you go into the
Hall of Fame together, that ball could be worth like
a jillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You just got rid of it.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean it could be in a bag somewhere. For
God's sake, you gotta find out where that ball is.
By the way, all right, Denzel, great stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Appreciate this. Best of luckman, and we'll talk very soon.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Man.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You bet Denzel Boston with us on the radio show.
And look obviously turning into a leader, no question for
this football team. You can tell with the way he talks,
the way he projects himself. I mean, he's an absolute stud.
And can't wait to see this guy healthy again. He's
been kind of in and out of practices, kind of
you know, nursing some injuries. But that that that's one
of the cool things that I would just say this
and I appreciate what Jed is doing, is that we've
(13:36):
had a couple of guys on this show, Price Sock
and now him that have been hurt for spring ball.
Like he's not doing everything right and in previous years,
those guys are off the radar. There's no way we're
even talking to those guys. But Jedfish knows how important
these guys are to help sell what he's doing here,
so he puts him on.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The air smart market, total marketing, and Jedfish has always
gotten that ever since he came here. And also, you
know what really impressed me about these guys, and Denzel
is a perfect example.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
He's a thinking man's wide receipts.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I mean, you're like, we go and we break down
film on our own, Like I can't even imagine. You know,
kids fifteen twenty years ago would would go and sit
down and break down film together.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
When they're you know, twenty years twenty years of age.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They wait, they'll practice, they do what their coaches tell
him to do, and then they go out on the field.
And these guys did you know, take it upon themselves
to do it on their own.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, we got to play for Huey when he eventually
comes on and we have time, uh, getting him to
talk about the routes he likes to run, the blink route,
the skinny route.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Did he call it a cute route? Is that what
he said that He's say a cute or cute? I
think he said cute.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I think cute cute we said cut cut route, Yeah,
a cuge like it was a cute or.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
A cute I mean a cute know. Yeah, Well that's
my only point. What did he say? I said to
tell you you got a route called cute? Is that
what you're talking to me about?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
So great stuff from Denzel Boston or here's what we
got going on. We're at U dub obviously for spring
football practice, the final week of springball before they kind
of start shut things down for the media.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The spring game is next Friday. We'll be out here
as well.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
We're gonna be in the same room and that we're
in now for the spring game. There's gonna be a
buttload of X Huskies walking around. Michael Pennock's gonna be
here as well for that day, So a lot of
guys coming by here fired up for that next Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The mock draft is tomorrow from queen An Beer Hall.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And by the way, Jackson and Dick I did stop
by the beer hold today to talk to our buddy
Juice about tomorrow and they're saying that all general managers
are gonna be given smash burgers, pretzels frisen beer tomorrow at.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The Bears, So let's go. You might want to get
a little bit early for that and part take.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
They're gonna have an NFL special menu just for us
tomorrow that goes back to what they offer during the
NFL season. Six dollars, smash burgers, fight our hot dog,
six dollars beers, the whole thing at the Queen Ann
Beer Hall. That's tomorrow. So lanzer Line's gonna join us
at four twenty eight today for one final visit before
the draft. We're gonna get to the Patriots, We're gonna
get to the Jaguars. Mike Florio will join us. Next segment.
(15:56):
John Wilner coming up, Brian Schweitzer coming up. What Moreno
want for crying out loud? All next from you dub
right here on ninety three three kJ RFM.
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