December 2, 2025 • 36 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler is joined by Mario Bailey and Greg Lewis for the Husky Honks as the guys discuss UW’s loss to Oregon last weekend, the offense this season with Demond Williams and concerns with it, plus what comes next for the team.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Husky Football.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Football Football, Your Home for the Huskies proudly presents the
Coors Light Husky Hunks on Tuesday and brought to you
by Mitsubishi Electric Heating and Air Conditioning, by Valentine Roofine
EU Way Local thirty two K two visions by Hyder Construction,
rn R Foundation Specialists, by Bowen scar four your Northwest Shemusers,
(00:24):
Delta Airlines, and by King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
County Metro porka card.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now the Husky Hunks, Great Lewis, Mario Bailey and your
host Dave Zucky Mullers in.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I Renown and then we'll start the radio show with
a Husky highlight from the previous week's victory. But we're
not doing that for a couple of reasons. Huskies did
not win, and nobody wants to hear any of that,
I think. On Saturday at Husky Stadium after a twenty
six to fourteen loss to the Oregon Ducks, a game
that saw the Huskies go eight and four on the air,
(00:58):
five and four in the Big Ten, which is one
game better than last year, two more wins overall in
the regular season than last year.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So boys were making progress.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Welcome to progress, Man Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey with us
one final time, bittersweet, one last time for the three
of us to get together before the ball game. Who
knows where and when that will be. Rumors about the
LA Ball, rumors about the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.
But I think we're all still kind of reeling a
little bit after Saturday's loss against the Ducks. So let's
(01:29):
start with you guys. Mario, you go first. We always
allow Greg to go first for whatever reason. Discuss maybe
it's age before beauty. I got no idea that's most likely. Well,
let's let you go first. The view from forty thousand feet,
What you made of what you saw Saturday?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I thought our defense once again kept us in the game.
That kept us in the game, definitely in the first half.
I was impressed with Oregon going after our corners a
little bit, but for the most part, our offense just struggled.
And we talked about a pregame that the offense needs
to start early to get going, but they could not
get it going. The one thing I watched the game
(02:05):
over last night it came on TV, was number twenty
four Adam Muhammad like he was rolling and you're supposed
to go with the hot hand in the first half.
He took us all the way down the field and
we threw an errant pass and it got interception. It
was definitely into double coverage. I was talking to Softie earlier.
It's a predetermined pass. He knew he was going to Boston.
(02:26):
They got the look they wanted. Boston was on the linebacker,
but there was a safety there the entire time, and
that kind of took the wind out. The offense tried
to get it together in the second half, made a
couple of touchdowns. I was impressed with coach Fish calling
the slant down at the goal line to Denzel in
which we never call a slant. It's always a fade.
(02:46):
And then I was also impressed with the over route
they called to Boston. But for the most part, the
offense couldn't do it, and when they did do it
and we had a chance, the defense gave up. The
big play I was watching last night, I thought in
the game time, I thought that they called a blitz.
They did have a blitz formation, but they backed out
of it. But they backed out of it too late.
(03:07):
By that time, that young man caught the ball and
was gone. Down the field. Again, our offense in a
big game struggled the most. Our defense held organ to
enough points that if our offense came to play like
they've played at home, we could have won. But they
couldn't do it. Demand Williams just didn't play well. I
didn't think he did well in the pocket. Again, we
(03:29):
couldn't get him out inside the pocket. It doesn't seem
like he can actually see over the line. He's not
a pocket passer, at least not yet. He's nineteen years old.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, Greg, that was alf a breakdown. By the way,
that was good Stuffy follow that, Greg, Good luck with that. Greg.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well, you know, I'm always up for a challenge, But
today I'm just gonna compliment my brother Mario and play
complimentary to what he said. Let me just first start
off by I'm freaking bummed that we lost to the
Oregon Ducks. It's always tough for me to lose the
Oregon because if there's a team that I always hope
(04:07):
that we can show up and play our best football
against them, and unfortunately, we did not play our best
football game against the Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Two things stood out to me.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
One Right now, they're better than us talent wise, they
are a more talented football team than we are, and
Oregon plays better defense then I've seen them play, you know,
probably in a lot of ways over all the years
that we've come up against them. They're usually, you know,
predicated on explosive offenses, Mario throwing the ball down the field,
(04:39):
having real explosive plays in the run game, and they
didn't necessarily do any of those things. I thought, our defense, again,
I'm gonna play complimentary to what Mario said, played a sound,
fundamental defensive football game where they did not allow Oregon
to have a bunch of big explosive plays. Yes, they
did hit a couple of things on the outside, and
(04:59):
there was a couple of penalties, but I think overall
we did a good job limiting their big explosive plays.
I thought that we did a pretty decent job on
most first and second downs. We limit their running runs
to two and three yards, especially most of the first half.
But at the end of the day, our defense was
out there too much. Our offense couldn't make any plays.
(05:22):
I think that, you know, for me, I've said this
all year long. We get infatuated and enamored with the
pass game and throwing the ball around. And you know,
I did a little data mining myself, Softian. Do you
know we actually went backwards in passing yards per game
this year over last year. We increased our rushing by
(05:45):
almost forty yards. We talked about all the problems in
the run game and Jonah Coleman's statistics and all that,
but we actually rushed for almost forty yards more per
game this year than we did last year. The pass
game actually went backwards. So for me, that's an indicative
of the coach is not really understanding or leaning on
the thing that's being successful for you, and that really
(06:06):
played out in this game. We should have run the
ball more, We should have been more patient, We should
have gone with what was working, and we didn't. We
went away from it in the costas well. I mean,
I just I hear a stat like that.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You're right there, ran for twenty twenty four yards this year,
just under seventeen hundred last year. The difference is obvious,
and that's Will Rogers versus Demon Williams as a runner.
I mean, Will Rodgers was minus seventy nine. Because the
NCAA takes sacks off rushing totals for some stupid reason.
Unlike the NFL demon Williams ran for six hundred yards.
(06:39):
So I mean that's the difference right there. As a
running quarterback. What bums me out? And I'm totally with
you on the Oregon thing. You just kind of never
get over it, no matter how many years it's been.
It's gross. I hate that feeling, and I hope that
they're just as pissed off over there as.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We are in the studio.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But Greg and Mario, I'm looking at Joonah Coleman, and
we've been talking about this for months now. In nine
Big Ten games, Joonah Coleman ran for three hundred and
twenty six yards rushing. That is absurd, absurd that Jonah
Coleman would have that kind of a year in the conference.
And I realized he was hurt late in the year,
but not the entire year. Yeah, three hundred and thirty
(07:13):
yards rushing in nine Big Ten games.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For that guy? Are you out of your mind?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I was watching College Football Final when I got home
from our game, and I don't remember the team or
the back off the top of my head right now
because I'm getting old. But there was a young man
who got a helmet sticker for rushing for two hundred
and seventy yards.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He had thirty eight carries. Wow, Jonah Coleman can't.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
He hasn't had four games together where he's had thirty
eight carries. Right, that's the big problem. That's the difference.
I'm not gonna sit here and act like Jonah Coleman
himself was disappointing this year. Yes, his stats might be disappointing,
but never in any world will Jonah Coleman playing for
the Washington Huskies or any other running back have thirty
(07:56):
seven thirty eight carries, And so they're never going to
have the big.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Rushing stats and the big rushing numbers.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
So I look at that as a microcosm of the
offensive system that we run, the play calls that we
run in a game. And again you mentioned that, yes,
Demond Williams was a big part of our rushing stats
going up, but our passing stats went down. So again,
we're not really throwing the ball that effectively. That well, Mario,
(08:23):
you are true, and you are one hundred percent right.
You dig into the numbers, we're not throwing the ball
that well at all, and so why not lean into
your players that are doing well. You know, Jonah Coleman
came out like gang busses. Yes, those were less than teams,
but he was doing that Mario in seventeen eighteen carries.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So against the good teams you get him twenty two
to twenty three carries.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I think he still has enough and with Adam Muhammad
coming off the off the sideline to spell him enough
for us to win games with the running game being
a bigger part of our offense.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I say that if you were to look at last
year's Big two in rushing for Jonah, I don't think
it's more maybe two hundred more. I don't think he
did great in the Big Big ten last year.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Offensive line stunk last year, yep, So I think it's
a trend.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
But we talked about that all last season, like when
was he getting twenty carries?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Coach just does not do that.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And I think if we look at our rushing yards
those first three games, if you take out the first
three games, it's not great either.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I'll give the coaches a pass on last year because
the offensive line did stick. But I think the offensive
line was much improved this year, especially in the run game,
because what I saw in that Oregon game was an
offensive line that gave Adam Muhammad Lane's the run through
holes where it was him one on one and he
made guys miss. He look better doing that. But what
(09:47):
I also saw was in the pass game. I saw
our offensive line have some free runners, miss some pickups,
miss some checks, miss some blitz assignments. So I think
even this year, although our offense line and it's better,
there's still better run blockers than they are pass blocking
right now.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
My question is if you talk about the line being
bad last year, but why wouldn't you run the ball?
If your line is bad, shouldn't you run it more?
If your line's bad, you shouldn't be passing and get
keep your quarterback in trouble.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Well, I think sometimes, though, Mario, when it comes to
the pass game, you can win with more technique than
just you know, guys' physical ability.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You can do slide protections, you can keep a tight
end in, you can keep it back in to give
the quarterback just enough time to get the pass off
or run block. You either win at the line of
scrimmage or you lose, and there's not a whole lot
of difference to it. So I think they the reason
they were able to have some success ish passing last
year was, you know, you run formation wise, protection wise,
(10:48):
and you know guys aren't. It's not on me to
just win. Every time I can get help. I can
get slide protection or the quarterback and even check out
of things and go to the other direction.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
When you're passing more last year because you get in
a butt.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes, exactly. Part of the numbers. I just looked it up.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
He had one hundred and forty three carries in Big
Ten play a year ago, ninety three this year. Seven
hundred and five yards rushing in the Big Ten last year,
three twenty six this year, So his numbers were cut
more than half yards and fifty less carries. Some of that,
obviously was the fact that he was banged up against Wisconsin,
UCLA and Oregon, but that's not an extra fifty carries
(11:25):
and one hundred.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I would look at the running backs as a team. Yeah, no, totally.
I mean not just Jonah, but yeah, you put them together.
What did those numbers say?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
But the reason why I'm looking at Jonah because I
think if you would have told people at the start
of the year in July, for example, that Demon Williams,
Denzel Boston, Jonah Coleman have the years that they have numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wise, I would have thought that was a disappointment, Like,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I mean, of course this is except for test down right, But.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Jetfish is the guy.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And this is where I just kind of wonder if
maybe he made a little bit of a mistake, and
I guess I realized why he did it right. This
is the nil era. Guys are leaving every year. You're
constantly recruiting high school players and your own players from
taking off.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But when Will Rogers was the starting quarterback for this
team last year, Jed Fish was literally at a press
conference during the year talking about how they're gonna put
demand to New York.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He's going to be the face of the franchise.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He's the next great starting quarterback in Washington before there
was even any competition or before the guy even started
a game. So the pressure and the hype that was
built around Demon Williams was fed gasoline by the head
coach of the football team.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Well, I think certainly Jed you know, pumped him up
and gave him all the accolades. But Jed knew who
his backup quarterback was this year, a guy by the
name of Kay Horton, And so who else are you
going to pump up? You have to give that quarterback
that ultimate, you know, confidence and let him know he's
the leader and understand that because he can look around
(12:53):
a quarterback room too and see that you know, there's
not a whole lot here.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So I'm going to have to be the guy. So
I think you know that was part of that.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
But you know, at the end of the day, demand
Williams has to get better between this year and next year.
If this offense is going to be effective, right, he's
going to have to be able to play well against
top competition. He's going to have to play well on
the road. He's going to have to be accurate in
those situations. And right now, I think as a young kid,
(13:22):
the pressure got to him. You know, maybe he wasn't
ready for all that responsibility that you're mentioning. They're softy,
but this offense really win as he went. The games
where he played well, we won. The games where he
didn't play well, we lost, And so there is a
lot of pressure on him. He's got to get better.
He's got to make better decisions. He's got to be
a better pocket passer, and we have to put him
(13:43):
in positions and situations where he's not going to have
the mistake to make and which means take some of
the pressure off him with a great running gay.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, okay, so all that stuff's great, right, but for
demand Williams to be a better passer. He's not going
to wake up tomorrow girl, And he's six to three.
He's always going to be five foot ten, right, And
so that interception that you're talking about, did he even
see safety jetfish doing a good enough job as a
play caller to move him around the pocket to get
(14:14):
him alleys that he can actually see.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
No, he's not. He's not. He's not using his weapon.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
We should be more throwing, more rollout passing because he's
not a pocket passer. I don't want to say he
can't see over the line. I know how it goes
with shorter quarterbacks and you're saying he can't see overline.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But that's insulting. It's not insulting. It is what it is.
It'd be the flat out truth. But he should be
rolling out more. And the pass that he threw the
interception to. I think that happens because they're saying get
it to Boston, get the ball to Boston. He's gonna
have this mismatch, and that he did have the mismatch,
But the safety was there the entire time, but he
(14:51):
predetermined and threw it to him.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, I'm not going to speculate whether he saw him
or not. But where I've seen the press, I can see.
But I'm sitting, you know, feet up in the air.
I can see them saying he's quarts.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
He was right in there.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
He never once looked the other way, stepped the other way.
He just dench Rent ran over there and got his
hands on the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
If he did see the safety, then why did he
throw the ball?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, again, sometimes you do. Guys do make up their mind.
This is where I'm going. And I've seen that. You know,
we see that, not just with him, We've seen it
with other quarterbacks and stuff. But again, my contention is
this goes back to the guy calling the place. You
have to have some sort of like, hey, if the
safety squatting on this, if he's sitting there and this
(15:39):
is what you do, or this is what you go
to or again, I think there's still with some pressure
on the Mond waves this year where he to some degree,
you know, as a nineteen year old, you know, succumb
to some of the pressure. I mean I saw some
skip passes, some overthrows, some you know, where guys are
wide open where he didn't hit them. And yes, those
things happened. So I'm not, you know, necessarily harping on that.
(16:02):
I just think that shows that where he is right
now in this development, he still has to get better now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Can he? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Like I was saying at the game, I sucked my
sophomore year for the University of washing Damn, That's not.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
What I was saying.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I agreed, I had a I had a rough sophomore
year right for a lot of reasons. It wasn't just
football related. I was still talented and all that, but
I had a rough sophomore year. And my junior year
I had I set the record for most yards in
the season for Husky football. So that can still happen,
and I think, you know, they have to make that
(16:39):
happen if the Husky football team is going to achieve
the success that we're looking because ultimately, right now we're
in that second tier.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Of Big twelve teams.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We want to get to the top tier Big ten,
if we want to get to the top tier. If
we want to get to the top tier, our quarterback
is the one who really has to make the most
improved because I see a lot of things. I got
a list here in what's better from last year to
this year? Right, the O line is definitely one of them.
Of course, the recruiting is definitely one of them. You know,
I think there's a lot of things that we're better.
(17:10):
The total defense, the run defense, the pass defense have
all been better. And I think we have a lot
of pieces in most of those areas. Coming back the
one area where we got to grow to Moses at
the quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, Well, and you might argue the head coach has
to grow a little bit as a party caller, right
to fit that system and fit his pieces he's got.
You know, I asked you guys a couple of weeks ago,
when you hire a guy like Jed Fish, I think
you hire him for one reason because of his unique offense, Right,
because he's bringing things to the table that other offensive
minds can't bring. Right, you're hiring McDonald for defense, You're
(17:43):
hiring Holmgrin for offense. You're hiring Pete Carroll for defense. Right,
this is why you bring these guys in. And if
your offense is going to show up in the biggest
games of the year and lay an egg, Now, what's
the point? What's the point? What is he doing that
is unique? Has he done anything since he's been here
that is unique? We'll come back and chat about that.
(18:04):
Next to Husky Hawks regularis Mario Bailey look ahead to
the offseason. Next on ninety three three KJRFM, Now back.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
To the cours line Husky Hanks On Tuesdays, Ray Lewis,
Mario Bailey and Dave Sattey Mullet on your home for
the Huskies Sports Radio ajr FM. Deatzel Boston motions from
right to left, Jona Coleman in the backfield, snapped at
Devond Williams in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
God even a love it wide open.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Detzel Boston touchdown Washington, his second touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Cats of the day, his tenth touchdown Tens of the season.
In Tedsel Boston on Senior Day, pulls the dots on
it six.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
All right, Well that was fun for about three minutes
of real time fifty nine seconds of clock time. Boys,
and girls, until on third and nine a Husky defense
decides to give up a sixty five yard catch and
run to Malik Benson, and you could just feel the
air come out of the balloon in that stadium. Man,
(19:08):
that was that was a gut punch crack. We actually thought,
we thought for a couple of minutes that maybe you
Dub would have a shot to get the ball back
and win this game.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, and unfortunately that that bubble was burst pretty dang fast.
But you know that goes back to and I hate
to keep beating a dead horse, but let me pull
my belt out and beat it a little more. Is
that your defense has to be perfect when your offense
is not playing extremely well. And the room and the
margin for error was really thin, and the defense had
(19:38):
done a great job up until that point, you know,
turning Organ drives into field goals, which you know, you
gotta kind of respect Organ's coach these days for taking
those field goals and punting the ball on fourth down
instead of going forward, things that he usually doesn't do
and gives us an opportunity, uh to to win those games.
But he took the three points that the defense was
(19:59):
holding him to and on that one particular play, like
Mario said, you know, when you were gonna blitz, or
if you're going to fake like you're going to blitz,
your linebackers and everybody have to drop back to the
right depth and make sure that they're covering those areas
where the receiver's going to end up. And the guy
got an inside release and ran up the scene kind
(20:19):
of a scene crossing, not a full crossing route, but
kind of into the scene, caught the ball and now
you got to tackle him right and when you don't,
you know, missing a tackle against Oregon's athletes is deadly.
And the guy turned it in touch down and the en
me and Mario watching it, all of a sudden, the
guy went into a different gear speed. It was like whoa, whoa,
He turned into a whole different speed on us.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
And yeah, but the defense has to be perfect at
this point against really tough teams. And that's a lot
to ask.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Lots of thing, Mario is that overall you played twelve games,
eleven of the twelve you held your opponent to twenty
five points or less. In this day and age in
college football, the one game you didn't is when you
gave up twenty six to Oregon twenty So if I
would have Guys, if I tell you before the season starts,
your defense is going to hold everybody to under twenty six,
(21:09):
and the one team that scores twenty six is the
Oregon Ducks, I think you would have taken twenty six
against Oregon when the year began.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Every single day you're thinking Oregon is the juggernaut on offense.
They scoring points, you've just seen them the week before,
and sc our defense did a great job the entire game.
Like that's one play they gave up. It's unfortunate that
we thought we were about to come back, but our
defense kept us in the game, so you can't be
mad at them. Like I said, I was impressed with
Oregon attacking our corners. They're the only team I've seen
(21:38):
attack our corners. But give it up for our defense
for the entire year. They played sound football and kept
us in every game.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yeah, even with that, Mario, we didn't have our best
or our most experienced corners all game long. We have
freshmen out there, and that's another bright spot that I
didn't put on my list here, Softy, of all the
bright spots for you know, the program right now. We
played a lot of young guys, a lot of freshmen
as sophomores, and those guys over the course of the
(22:05):
year got a lot better and made plays. Of course,
they had their missteps and mishaps here and there because
they're young, but those guys are going to be really
good football players. I saw some of our good defensive backs,
the Dillard, Ryan Dillards and then the the the I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
What's the young with the Clarks and Salle.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You know, I don't know if it's sale or sale,
you know, but all of those young guys played really well,
and I think that bodes for the future that you know,
this defense is going to continue to get better.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, just going back to the offense for a second,
I mean, just go back to the game Mario and
Greg on Saturday. This is an absolute clinic in hitting
home runs versus hitting singles. In the passing game, Demon
Williams had passes of sixteen, thirteen, eleven, ten, twenty four,
and the twenty four came with one thirty three to
go in the game to Decorad Graft down twenty six
(22:58):
to fourteen. So we had one play of twenty yards
or more, and that came in the fifty eighth minute
of the game, when the game was pretty much over.
Down twelve. Dante Moore had passes of thirty five, twenty two,
thirty one, forty one, and sixty four. The thirty five
yarder came on the first drive of the game for
the Oregon Ducks. So what you were saying a couple
(23:18):
weeks ago is that the downfield passing game is not good.
And people tried to argue, they tried to push you.
They said, hey, but look at this and look at
that one of the.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Guys is sitting right over here.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, all right, but you were proven right because the
lack of an ability Mario to stretch the field on
Saturday was obvious.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah, you look at it.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Our top receiver might have had twenty seven yards in
an entire game, and Denzel twenty five actually twenty five yards,
and that just shows we're not going down the field.
We don't have any true playmakers, anybody stretching the defense
with throwing hitches, slants and quick outs. And you can't
do that the entire game. You can't do that against
(24:02):
a great opponent of Ohio State and Michigan and Oregon.
You're gonna have to stress the field. You're gonna have
to have some playmakers out there, and your quarterback is
gonna have to get it down the field.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
And I'm not gonna let you defame my name, softy,
because I was clear that I was clear, and I
distinguished the difference between mediocre teams at home against opponents
that are, you know, of our caliber and really good
I did mark. I did say against the top teams
and on the road. Offensively, we aren't completing those types
(24:34):
of passes, but we we hit some long passes. We
hit some big plays down the line. But my bigger,
you know, concern isn't necessarily just that. It's I'll ask
you this if you go back, and what was Adam
Muhammett's longest run on the day on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I think it was eighteen yards. I got to bring
it up in double check for you.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Yeah, But my point is is some of his runs
were better than our longest two, which it's better than
some of our longest passes. So we should have just
kept running the damn ball.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Biggest disappointment in the game is Adam Muhammad didn't get
more carries. I watched that game again last night, and
they could not stop that young man.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
And that was the best he's ever run. Even on
the interception.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
He took us all the way down the field and
then we got cute again and through the ball, and
then even in the third quarter we put Jonah back.
In no disrespect to Jonah, but the hot hend is
Adam Muhammad. He should have got the ball at least
twenty times because they never screen five.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah, well then why didn't he Because the coach calls
the place and in his DNA there's this chromosome in
his d DNA that says past past past PPP.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He doesn't have any r T d B in his DNA.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Run the damn ball is not in his blood streamers DNA,
it's PPP.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Wow. And that's that's the bottom. I mean, that's that's
his Philosophy's who he is.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yeah, and you know he's you know, you got all
the you know, crazy people on the internet saying, you know,
we're gonna let's go get an offensive coordinator and hired
all that I think coach fish, you know, and you know,
whether he played football or not, to me, that's not
a big deal. But his enjoyment of the game of
football is calling the plays right, being in there, you know,
(26:16):
and having his hands on it and all of that.
That's what he likes to do. So he's gonna always
be the play caller. And he's not the type of
pay caller Mario that would ever have a Greg Lewis
on his team and hand the ball off to him
twenty five times.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Okay, but why take Adam Muhammad out? He's averaging seven
yards of carry.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I'm trying to ask me to explain it. No, I'm
not saying that.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
But he put Jonah in, who's hurt, and he's averaging
two yards of carry. I understand, this guy's the seniors,
his last game, but we're trying to win the game.
The hot hend is Adam Muhammad. Why do you bring
Jonah in? He's averaging two yards of carry in that game?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And I look, I mean, I get what you're saying
about who he is, and who he is has gotten
him a long way, right. He's gone from a guy
that played tennis, never played in high school football, and
never played college football, never played in the NFL. Basically
begged Steve Spurrier for a gig and did everything he
had to do right to work. I mean, give him
credit for working his way up. But that's all good
(27:13):
and dandy when you have the pieces to do what
you're talking about wanting to do. When you don't have
the pieces and it's clear that you have a hot
hand at running back, maybe you just shell the aspirations
down the road for one day, absolutely, and just go
with what's working.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I mean, I'm looking up like guys.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You know, Petros brought this up a few months ago
that head coaches in college football that call plays do
not win national titles.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
They just don't.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
The last guy to do it was Jimbo Fisher when
he was Florida State's head coach. Jamis Wins twelve years ago.
Is the last time it happened? And I asked, you
had earlier in the year. I said, would you ever
consider giving up play calling? And he said no. He
said that's kind of who I am and what I do,
And is it time for him to maybe reconsider that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Greg, It might be time, but it's not going to happen.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
So, I mean, we can waste twenty minutes on the
air talking about yeah, but it's absolutely not going to happen.
So you know that that's who, like we said, that's
who Jed is, and that's.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
How he rolls.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
And you know whether or not it's Adam Muhammet or
Jonah Coleman, you know, it doesn't even matter Mario because
at the end of the day, he's going to throw
the football, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And what's the name.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I'm sorry, Jonah Coleman could have come in and been dynamic,
but guess what, he'd have got two or three carries anyway,
and then they would have went back to throw the ball.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Let's get a break.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We'll come back and talk about what this team needs
to do over the offseason. We've already had one player
enter the portal Orodre Harris has gone announcing today he's
leaving the team, so the portal has begun.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Signing day is tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
They got a couple of wide receivers locked in for
the class tomorrow. We'll see what happens in a transfer
portal as well. The CFP rankings are out. We can
talk about that. The lame Kiffin thing, we can talk
about that. Or are we gonna sit here and talk
and waste twenty minutes on Jed Fish give it up
play calling. Let's do that next on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Now back to the cours Light Husky Honks on Tuesdays,
Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey and Dave Satti Mullard on your
home for the Husky Sports Radio point three kjr FM.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Hey big thanks all of our sponsors this year.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Final segments of the penultimate Tusky Honk Show of the year,
because we do have one more show coming up wherever
the bowl game is, although if it's the La Ball,
Greg Lewis will not be there.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Just found out moments ago.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I was like, great, be the first game I've missed
in like twenty years.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Wow, it's just like the first time relate whose schedule
is a trip in the middle of bull season.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Pal, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I don't know someone whose daughter's graduating from college with
her masters and nursing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Tours Light UA Local thirty two, K two Vision, Bowen
scar Ford and Ken Hyder Construction are in our foundation specialists,
your local Northwest Chevy Dealer, and of course our friends
at Delta Mitzubishi Heating and Air who have brought us
the hyper heat defensive Player of the game all year,
long Old faithful. Alex McLaughlin won that award eighty five
(30:17):
times this season. Courtesy A Mario Bailey. We did mention
the Nojack Harris is in the portal. Signing day is tomorrow.
Huskies have the fifteenth best class in America according to
two four seven right now, so we'll see what tomorrow
brings with you, Dub.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
But now we're into a roster rebuilding, right.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I mean, you can talk all you want about the
one game that's left to play, but I think the
majority of Husky fans are talking about what this team
needs to do over the offseason to improve this football team.
A lot of guys coming back, tons of guys coming back,
But what's on the shopping list you think for a
Jetfish and Company that said this offseason.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Well, if you're going to start with his specialty, which
is the offensive side of the ball, when I said,
you know, it's the improvement of the quarterback and finding
a decent backup just in case anything goes wrong there,
because right now we don't have a backup quarterback on
the roster. And you know, I think Denzel Boston walked
with the team, so this might have been his final game.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Should he come back, I I think he should because.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I'm a Husky fan. I would love to see him
back in the Husky uniform. If his goal, I think, yeah,
if I'm his dad and he wants to be the
best wide receiver and go as high in the draft
as possible, he comes back with a good nil deal
that's secured because now you can get paid to be
in college. So yeah, but I think you if you're
the Husky team and you know that he might leave,
(31:36):
you have to make sure that you go out in
the portal. They got some good recruits out they're bringing
in wide receiver. But I'm going to go out in
the portal and find a really good wide receiver. Uh
So somebody be that number one guy, because I still
think Desmond Roebuck and you know, the rest of the
guys aren't number one receivers. I think they are number
two guys. So you go out and find your number
one wide receiver. And then on the other side, and
(31:57):
there's a couple of holes you plug in on the
offensive line because I think they're your pretty solid. But
on the defensive side of the ball, you got to
get you a monster up front. You need somebody who's
chomping at the bed, who's collapse the pocket from the middle,
and then you got to get both edge rushers. You know,
at least one of those guys on the edge, who
again is an athletic pass rusher, not just you know,
(32:17):
your your der fy who's more of a you know,
bull rusher, but an athletic guy. And I think your
linebacker's your set, and I think defensive backs are set.
So to me, it's that defensive monster on the edge
in the middle, and then a couple of guys plugging
play on the offensive line, a number one receiver in
a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's a lot. That's a lot. Not these days.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Though not these days, you might get the those freshman
wide receivers. I've seen a couple of great ones come
in and start and be the number one guy right away.
Did Ohio State did it at Alabama, So they got
some good guys on the line. But I think, you know,
you want to find an experienced guy. But it sounds
like a lot. But in today's football, because of the
portal and all of that, it's not as much as
it would have been in the past.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Well, you can get it. It just shows you how
many holes they still have, I guess is the point.
But what should Denzel Boston do. You're the wide receiver
in the group. You tell us he should stay.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
And the only reason I would say he should stay
is because he can get in IO money and what
Greg said, he could be the best receiver coming out,
and he has his quarterback. They have some continuity together.
They like each other. His quarterback throws to him. Coach
Fish knows him. He could be what we were hoping
he could be this year, He could be that next year,
and just get it together.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, Well, I just think guys, look in the end,
they got to take advantage of what they have, and
that's say athletic quarterback that not a lot of teams
can match. And thought, I thought, honestly that every game
the Huskies played this year that there was a good
chance that Demon Williams was going to be the most
athletic player on the field, and that just never materialized.
And again I asked, you, guys going to a break,
(33:47):
because what is unique about Jed Fish's offense? Right, Like
we all have these memories of Ryan Grubb calling an
offense with a doonsay and Polk and McMillan running wide
open Jonathan Smith and the offense he called when he
was coaching for Chris Peterson back in twenty sixteen. What
is Jedfish doing offensively that you find to be unique?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I haven't seen it yet, and I think just looking
at where we're coming from, coming to our whole team
was disrupted.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
He had to bring in all new pieces.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I think the third year is where we should see something,
but I haven't seen it yet. Last year we had
Rogers here and we got to see demon at the
end of the season. I was hoping we would see
more of demand this year. But I'm hoping maybe we
get a few linemen pieces, some line, maybe another weapon
out there that maybe next year will be the year.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
I can't even begin to compare him to Ryan Grubb,
not because Ryan Grubb is so much of a master
over him. Ryan Grubb had three of the greatest receivers
we've ever had here, not I mean really really good. Yeah,
and the best arm we've ever had here at this institution.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
And the best offensive line and the best offensive line
all of that.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
So I'm not going to compare him to that guy,
because I think the variables are completely different. But here's
where I think me and Mario both agree. I was,
you know, chit chatting with some folks over social media too,
and what I said was, this is year three. Now
we're going into Jedfish's third season. Right, he started with nothing.
He built up the first year, right, we ended up
(35:18):
six and seven or whatever. So he did a decent job.
This year, we took a step got a little better.
Now he has a quarterback that it's his guy that
he picked, that has a full year starting under him.
He's got to unleash this guy like you talk about
softye and make him into the quarterback that is going
to make his offense go. This year, we will see
what Jedfish is supposed to be all about. There's no
(35:39):
excuses anymore. He's got a decent, good enough offensive line,
he's got the quarterback that he chose, His system is
in place. So if we're going to see something softy,
we should see it this year. And if we don't,
then I think the jury, you know, can go in
and start debating and deliberating.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, I think there's already some criticism because it's college football, right,
come on, you know, just the way fans are and
I love that about the passion of college football fans.
But next year, I mean the gloves are off, right,
like this is now you you've you've been here for
three years.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Now you've built the thing back up.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
You're there's no more breaks, right, There's no more passes
versus you know what you had in year one when
you took over a mess. So hey, listen, good stuff,
you guys, miss me. Just shoot me a text, I'll
give you a call. We can zoom, FaceTime whatever if
you want to see each other's faces.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
We will reconvene before the.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Ball game or on the bowl game day, unless it's
the LA Bowl and then Greg is out and Mario
we got to find a buddy to take greg spot.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
So you guys have a great holiday and we'll talk sooner, right.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
John Wilner will join next on ninety three three KJRFM.
It's Husky Football.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Football Football, Your Home for the Huskies proudly presents the
Coors Light Husky Hunks on Tuesday and brought to you
by Mitsubishi Electric Heating and Air Conditioning, by Valentine Roofine
EU Way Local thirty two K two visions by Hyder Construction,
rn R Foundation Specialists, by Bowen scar four your Northwest Shemusers,
(00:24):
Delta Airlines, and by King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
County Metro porka card.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now the Husky Hunks, Great Lewis, Mario Bailey and your
host Dave Zucky Mullers in.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I Renown and then we'll start the radio show with
a Husky highlight from the previous week's victory. But we're
not doing that for a couple of reasons. Huskies did
not win, and nobody wants to hear any of that,
I think. On Saturday at Husky Stadium after a twenty
six to fourteen loss to the Oregon Ducks, a game
that saw the Huskies go eight and four on the air,
(00:58):
five and four in the Big Ten, which is one
game better than last year, two more wins overall in
the regular season than last year.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So boys were making progress.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Welcome to progress, Man Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey with us
one final time, bittersweet, one last time for the three
of us to get together before the ball game. Who
knows where and when that will be. Rumors about the
LA Ball, rumors about the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.
But I think we're all still kind of reeling a
little bit after Saturday's loss against the Ducks. So let's
(01:29):
start with you guys. Mario, you go first. We always
allow Greg to go first for whatever reason. Discuss maybe
it's age before beauty. I got no idea that's most likely. Well,
let's let you go first. The view from forty thousand feet,
What you made of what you saw Saturday?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I thought our defense once again kept us in the game.
That kept us in the game, definitely in the first half.
I was impressed with Oregon going after our corners a
little bit, but for the most part, our offense just struggled.
And we talked about a pregame that the offense needs
to start early to get going, but they could not
get it going. The one thing I watched the game
(02:05):
over last night it came on TV, was number twenty
four Adam Muhammad like he was rolling and you're supposed
to go with the hot hand in the first half.
He took us all the way down the field and
we threw an errant pass and it got interception. It
was definitely into double coverage. I was talking to Softie earlier.
It's a predetermined pass. He knew he was going to Boston.
(02:26):
They got the look they wanted. Boston was on the linebacker,
but there was a safety there the entire time, and
that kind of took the wind out. The offense tried
to get it together in the second half, made a
couple of touchdowns. I was impressed with coach Fish calling
the slant down at the goal line to Denzel in
which we never call a slant. It's always a fade.
(02:46):
And then I was also impressed with the over route
they called to Boston. But for the most part, the
offense couldn't do it, and when they did do it
and we had a chance, the defense gave up. The
big play I was watching last night, I thought in
the game time, I thought that they called a blitz.
They did have a blitz formation, but they backed out
of it. But they backed out of it too late.
(03:07):
By that time, that young man caught the ball and
was gone. Down the field. Again, our offense in a
big game struggled the most. Our defense held organ to
enough points that if our offense came to play like
they've played at home, we could have won. But they
couldn't do it. Demand Williams just didn't play well. I
didn't think he did well in the pocket. Again, we
(03:29):
couldn't get him out inside the pocket. It doesn't seem
like he can actually see over the line. He's not
a pocket passer, at least not yet. He's nineteen years old.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, Greg, that was alf a breakdown. By the way,
that was good Stuffy follow that, Greg, Good luck with that. Greg.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well, you know, I'm always up for a challenge, But
today I'm just gonna compliment my brother Mario and play
complimentary to what he said. Let me just first start
off by I'm freaking bummed that we lost to the
Oregon Ducks. It's always tough for me to lose the
Oregon because if there's a team that I always hope
(04:07):
that we can show up and play our best football
against them, and unfortunately, we did not play our best
football game against the Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Two things stood out to me.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
One Right now, they're better than us talent wise, they
are a more talented football team than we are, and
Oregon plays better defense then I've seen them play, you know,
probably in a lot of ways over all the years
that we've come up against them. They're usually, you know,
predicated on explosive offenses, Mario throwing the ball down the field,
(04:39):
having real explosive plays in the run game, and they
didn't necessarily do any of those things. I thought, our defense, again,
I'm gonna play complimentary to what Mario said, played a sound,
fundamental defensive football game where they did not allow Oregon
to have a bunch of big explosive plays. Yes, they
did hit a couple of things on the outside, and
(04:59):
there was a couple of penalties, but I think overall
we did a good job limiting their big explosive plays.
I thought that we did a pretty decent job on
most first and second downs. We limit their running runs
to two and three yards, especially most of the first half.
But at the end of the day, our defense was
out there too much. Our offense couldn't make any plays.
(05:22):
I think that, you know, for me, I've said this
all year long. We get infatuated and enamored with the
pass game and throwing the ball around. And you know,
I did a little data mining myself, Softian. Do you
know we actually went backwards in passing yards per game
this year over last year. We increased our rushing by
(05:45):
almost forty yards. We talked about all the problems in
the run game and Jonah Coleman's statistics and all that,
but we actually rushed for almost forty yards more per
game this year than we did last year. The pass
game actually went backwards. So for me, that's an indicative
of the coach is not really understanding or leaning on
the thing that's being successful for you, and that really
(06:06):
played out in this game. We should have run the
ball more, We should have been more patient, We should
have gone with what was working, and we didn't. We
went away from it in the costas well. I mean,
I just I hear a stat like that.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You're right there, ran for twenty twenty four yards this year,
just under seventeen hundred last year. The difference is obvious,
and that's Will Rogers versus Demon Williams as a runner.
I mean, Will Rodgers was minus seventy nine. Because the
NCAA takes sacks off rushing totals for some stupid reason.
Unlike the NFL demon Williams ran for six hundred yards.
(06:39):
So I mean that's the difference right there. As a
running quarterback. What bums me out? And I'm totally with
you on the Oregon thing. You just kind of never
get over it, no matter how many years it's been.
It's gross. I hate that feeling, and I hope that
they're just as pissed off over there as.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We are in the studio.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But Greg and Mario, I'm looking at Joonah Coleman, and
we've been talking about this for months now. In nine
Big Ten games, Joonah Coleman ran for three hundred and
twenty six yards rushing. That is absurd, absurd that Jonah
Coleman would have that kind of a year in the conference.
And I realized he was hurt late in the year,
but not the entire year. Yeah, three hundred and thirty
(07:13):
yards rushing in nine Big Ten games.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For that guy? Are you out of your mind?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I was watching College Football Final when I got home
from our game, and I don't remember the team or
the back off the top of my head right now
because I'm getting old. But there was a young man
who got a helmet sticker for rushing for two hundred
and seventy yards.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He had thirty eight carries. Wow, Jonah Coleman can't.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
He hasn't had four games together where he's had thirty
eight carries. Right, that's the big problem. That's the difference.
I'm not gonna sit here and act like Jonah Coleman
himself was disappointing this year. Yes, his stats might be disappointing,
but never in any world will Jonah Coleman playing for
the Washington Huskies or any other running back have thirty
(07:56):
seven thirty eight carries, And so they're never going to
have the big.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Rushing stats and the big rushing numbers.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
So I look at that as a microcosm of the
offensive system that we run, the play calls that we
run in a game. And again you mentioned that, yes,
Demond Williams was a big part of our rushing stats
going up, but our passing stats went down. So again,
we're not really throwing the ball that effectively. That well, Mario,
(08:23):
you are true, and you are one hundred percent right.
You dig into the numbers, we're not throwing the ball
that well at all, and so why not lean into
your players that are doing well. You know, Jonah Coleman
came out like gang busses. Yes, those were less than teams,
but he was doing that Mario in seventeen eighteen carries.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So against the good teams you get him twenty two
to twenty three carries.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I think he still has enough and with Adam Muhammad
coming off the off the sideline to spell him enough
for us to win games with the running game being
a bigger part of our offense.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I say that if you were to look at last
year's Big two in rushing for Jonah, I don't think
it's more maybe two hundred more. I don't think he
did great in the Big Big ten last year.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Offensive line stunk last year, yep, So I think it's
a trend.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
But we talked about that all last season, like when
was he getting twenty carries?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Coach just does not do that.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And I think if we look at our rushing yards
those first three games, if you take out the first
three games, it's not great either.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I'll give the coaches a pass on last year because
the offensive line did stick. But I think the offensive
line was much improved this year, especially in the run game,
because what I saw in that Oregon game was an
offensive line that gave Adam Muhammad Lane's the run through
holes where it was him one on one and he
made guys miss. He look better doing that. But what
(09:47):
I also saw was in the pass game. I saw
our offensive line have some free runners, miss some pickups,
miss some checks, miss some blitz assignments. So I think
even this year, although our offense line and it's better,
there's still better run blockers than they are pass blocking
right now.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
My question is if you talk about the line being
bad last year, but why wouldn't you run the ball?
If your line is bad, shouldn't you run it more?
If your line's bad, you shouldn't be passing and get
keep your quarterback in trouble.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Well, I think sometimes, though, Mario, when it comes to
the pass game, you can win with more technique than
just you know, guys' physical ability.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You can do slide protections, you can keep a tight
end in, you can keep it back in to give
the quarterback just enough time to get the pass off
or run block. You either win at the line of
scrimmage or you lose, and there's not a whole lot
of difference to it. So I think they the reason
they were able to have some success ish passing last
year was, you know, you run formation wise, protection wise,
(10:48):
and you know guys aren't. It's not on me to
just win. Every time I can get help. I can
get slide protection or the quarterback and even check out
of things and go to the other direction.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
When you're passing more last year because you get in
a butt.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes, exactly. Part of the numbers. I just looked it up.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
He had one hundred and forty three carries in Big
Ten play a year ago, ninety three this year. Seven
hundred and five yards rushing in the Big Ten last year,
three twenty six this year, So his numbers were cut
more than half yards and fifty less carries. Some of that,
obviously was the fact that he was banged up against Wisconsin,
UCLA and Oregon, but that's not an extra fifty carries
(11:25):
and one hundred.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I would look at the running backs as a team. Yeah, no, totally.
I mean not just Jonah, but yeah, you put them together.
What did those numbers say?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
But the reason why I'm looking at Jonah because I
think if you would have told people at the start
of the year in July, for example, that Demon Williams,
Denzel Boston, Jonah Coleman have the years that they have numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wise, I would have thought that was a disappointment, Like,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I mean, of course this is except for test down right, But.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Jetfish is the guy.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And this is where I just kind of wonder if
maybe he made a little bit of a mistake, and
I guess I realized why he did it right. This
is the nil era. Guys are leaving every year. You're
constantly recruiting high school players and your own players from
taking off.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But when Will Rogers was the starting quarterback for this
team last year, Jed Fish was literally at a press
conference during the year talking about how they're gonna put
demand to New York.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He's going to be the face of the franchise.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He's the next great starting quarterback in Washington before there
was even any competition or before the guy even started
a game. So the pressure and the hype that was
built around Demon Williams was fed gasoline by the head
coach of the football team.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Well, I think certainly Jed you know, pumped him up
and gave him all the accolades. But Jed knew who
his backup quarterback was this year, a guy by the
name of Kay Horton, And so who else are you
going to pump up? You have to give that quarterback
that ultimate, you know, confidence and let him know he's
the leader and understand that because he can look around
(12:53):
a quarterback room too and see that you know, there's
not a whole lot here.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So I'm going to have to be the guy. So
I think you know that was part of that.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
But you know, at the end of the day, demand
Williams has to get better between this year and next year.
If this offense is going to be effective, right, he's
going to have to be able to play well against
top competition. He's going to have to play well on
the road. He's going to have to be accurate in
those situations. And right now, I think as a young kid,
(13:22):
the pressure got to him. You know, maybe he wasn't
ready for all that responsibility that you're mentioning. They're softy,
but this offense really win as he went. The games
where he played well, we won. The games where he
didn't play well, we lost, And so there is a
lot of pressure on him. He's got to get better.
He's got to make better decisions. He's got to be
a better pocket passer, and we have to put him
(13:43):
in positions and situations where he's not going to have
the mistake to make and which means take some of
the pressure off him with a great running gay.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, okay, so all that stuff's great, right, but for
demand Williams to be a better passer. He's not going
to wake up tomorrow girl, And he's six to three.
He's always going to be five foot ten, right, And
so that interception that you're talking about, did he even
see safety jetfish doing a good enough job as a
play caller to move him around the pocket to get
(14:14):
him alleys that he can actually see.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
No, he's not. He's not. He's not using his weapon.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
We should be more throwing, more rollout passing because he's
not a pocket passer. I don't want to say he
can't see over the line. I know how it goes
with shorter quarterbacks and you're saying he can't see overline.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But that's insulting. It's not insulting. It is what it is.
It'd be the flat out truth. But he should be
rolling out more. And the pass that he threw the
interception to. I think that happens because they're saying get
it to Boston, get the ball to Boston. He's gonna
have this mismatch, and that he did have the mismatch,
But the safety was there the entire time, but he
(14:51):
predetermined and threw it to him.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, I'm not going to speculate whether he saw him
or not. But where I've seen the press, I can see.
But I'm sitting, you know, feet up in the air.
I can see them saying he's quarts.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
He was right in there.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
He never once looked the other way, stepped the other way.
He just dench Rent ran over there and got his
hands on the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
If he did see the safety, then why did he
throw the ball?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, again, sometimes you do. Guys do make up their mind.
This is where I'm going. And I've seen that. You know,
we see that, not just with him, We've seen it
with other quarterbacks and stuff. But again, my contention is
this goes back to the guy calling the place. You
have to have some sort of like, hey, if the
safety squatting on this, if he's sitting there and this
(15:39):
is what you do, or this is what you go
to or again, I think there's still with some pressure
on the Mond waves this year where he to some degree,
you know, as a nineteen year old, you know, succumb
to some of the pressure. I mean I saw some
skip passes, some overthrows, some you know, where guys are
wide open where he didn't hit them. And yes, those
things happened. So I'm not, you know, necessarily harping on that.
(16:02):
I just think that shows that where he is right
now in this development, he still has to get better now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Can he? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Like I was saying at the game, I sucked my
sophomore year for the University of washing Damn, That's not.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
What I was saying.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I agreed, I had a I had a rough sophomore
year right for a lot of reasons. It wasn't just
football related. I was still talented and all that, but
I had a rough sophomore year. And my junior year
I had I set the record for most yards in
the season for Husky football. So that can still happen,
and I think, you know, they have to make that
(16:39):
happen if the Husky football team is going to achieve
the success that we're looking because ultimately, right now we're
in that second tier.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Of Big twelve teams.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We want to get to the top tier Big ten,
if we want to get to the top tier. If
we want to get to the top tier, our quarterback
is the one who really has to make the most
improved because I see a lot of things. I got
a list here in what's better from last year to
this year? Right, the O line is definitely one of them.
Of course, the recruiting is definitely one of them. You know,
I think there's a lot of things that we're better.
(17:10):
The total defense, the run defense, the pass defense have
all been better. And I think we have a lot
of pieces in most of those areas. Coming back the
one area where we got to grow to Moses at
the quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, Well, and you might argue the head coach has
to grow a little bit as a party caller, right
to fit that system and fit his pieces he's got.
You know, I asked you guys a couple of weeks ago,
when you hire a guy like Jed Fish, I think
you hire him for one reason because of his unique offense, Right,
because he's bringing things to the table that other offensive
minds can't bring. Right, you're hiring McDonald for defense, You're
(17:43):
hiring Holmgrin for offense. You're hiring Pete Carroll for defense. Right,
this is why you bring these guys in. And if
your offense is going to show up in the biggest
games of the year and lay an egg, Now, what's
the point? What's the point? What is he doing that
is unique? Has he done anything since he's been here
that is unique? We'll come back and chat about that.
(18:04):
Next to Husky Hawks regularis Mario Bailey look ahead to
the offseason. Next on ninety three three KJRFM, Now back.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
To the cours line Husky Hanks On Tuesdays, Ray Lewis,
Mario Bailey and Dave Sattey Mullet on your home for
the Huskies Sports Radio ajr FM. Deatzel Boston motions from
right to left, Jona Coleman in the backfield, snapped at
Devond Williams in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
God even a love it wide open.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Detzel Boston touchdown Washington, his second touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Cats of the day, his tenth touchdown Tens of the season.
In Tedsel Boston on Senior Day, pulls the dots on
it six.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
All right, Well that was fun for about three minutes
of real time fifty nine seconds of clock time. Boys,
and girls, until on third and nine a Husky defense
decides to give up a sixty five yard catch and
run to Malik Benson, and you could just feel the
air come out of the balloon in that stadium. Man,
(19:08):
that was that was a gut punch crack. We actually thought,
we thought for a couple of minutes that maybe you
Dub would have a shot to get the ball back
and win this game.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, and unfortunately that that bubble was burst pretty dang fast.
But you know that goes back to and I hate
to keep beating a dead horse, but let me pull
my belt out and beat it a little more. Is
that your defense has to be perfect when your offense
is not playing extremely well. And the room and the
margin for error was really thin, and the defense had
(19:38):
done a great job up until that point, you know,
turning Organ drives into field goals, which you know, you
gotta kind of respect Organ's coach these days for taking
those field goals and punting the ball on fourth down
instead of going forward, things that he usually doesn't do
and gives us an opportunity, uh to to win those games.
But he took the three points that the defense was
(19:59):
holding him to and on that one particular play, like
Mario said, you know, when you were gonna blitz, or
if you're going to fake like you're going to blitz,
your linebackers and everybody have to drop back to the
right depth and make sure that they're covering those areas
where the receiver's going to end up. And the guy
got an inside release and ran up the scene kind
(20:19):
of a scene crossing, not a full crossing route, but
kind of into the scene, caught the ball and now
you got to tackle him right and when you don't,
you know, missing a tackle against Oregon's athletes is deadly.
And the guy turned it in touch down and the en
me and Mario watching it, all of a sudden, the
guy went into a different gear speed. It was like whoa, whoa,
He turned into a whole different speed on us.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
And yeah, but the defense has to be perfect at
this point against really tough teams. And that's a lot
to ask.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Lots of thing, Mario is that overall you played twelve games,
eleven of the twelve you held your opponent to twenty
five points or less. In this day and age in
college football, the one game you didn't is when you
gave up twenty six to Oregon twenty So if I
would have Guys, if I tell you before the season starts,
your defense is going to hold everybody to under twenty six,
(21:09):
and the one team that scores twenty six is the
Oregon Ducks, I think you would have taken twenty six
against Oregon when the year began.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Every single day you're thinking Oregon is the juggernaut on offense.
They scoring points, you've just seen them the week before,
and sc our defense did a great job the entire game.
Like that's one play they gave up. It's unfortunate that
we thought we were about to come back, but our
defense kept us in the game, so you can't be
mad at them. Like I said, I was impressed with
Oregon attacking our corners. They're the only team I've seen
(21:38):
attack our corners. But give it up for our defense
for the entire year. They played sound football and kept
us in every game.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yeah, even with that, Mario, we didn't have our best
or our most experienced corners all game long. We have
freshmen out there, and that's another bright spot that I
didn't put on my list here, Softy, of all the
bright spots for you know, the program right now. We
played a lot of young guys, a lot of freshmen
as sophomores, and those guys over the course of the
(22:05):
year got a lot better and made plays. Of course,
they had their missteps and mishaps here and there because
they're young, but those guys are going to be really
good football players. I saw some of our good defensive backs,
the Dillard, Ryan Dillards and then the the the I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
What's the young with the Clarks and Salle.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You know, I don't know if it's sale or sale,
you know, but all of those young guys played really well,
and I think that bodes for the future that you know,
this defense is going to continue to get better.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, just going back to the offense for a second,
I mean, just go back to the game Mario and
Greg on Saturday. This is an absolute clinic in hitting
home runs versus hitting singles. In the passing game, Demon
Williams had passes of sixteen, thirteen, eleven, ten, twenty four,
and the twenty four came with one thirty three to
go in the game to Decorad Graft down twenty six
(22:58):
to fourteen. So we had one play of twenty yards
or more, and that came in the fifty eighth minute
of the game, when the game was pretty much over.
Down twelve. Dante Moore had passes of thirty five, twenty two,
thirty one, forty one, and sixty four. The thirty five
yarder came on the first drive of the game for
the Oregon Ducks. So what you were saying a couple
(23:18):
weeks ago is that the downfield passing game is not good.
And people tried to argue, they tried to push you.
They said, hey, but look at this and look at
that one of the.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Guys is sitting right over here.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, all right, but you were proven right because the
lack of an ability Mario to stretch the field on
Saturday was obvious.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah, you look at it.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Our top receiver might have had twenty seven yards in
an entire game, and Denzel twenty five actually twenty five yards,
and that just shows we're not going down the field.
We don't have any true playmakers, anybody stretching the defense
with throwing hitches, slants and quick outs. And you can't
do that the entire game. You can't do that against
(24:02):
a great opponent of Ohio State and Michigan and Oregon.
You're gonna have to stress the field. You're gonna have
to have some playmakers out there, and your quarterback is
gonna have to get it down the field.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
And I'm not gonna let you defame my name, softy,
because I was clear that I was clear, and I
distinguished the difference between mediocre teams at home against opponents
that are, you know, of our caliber and really good
I did mark. I did say against the top teams
and on the road. Offensively, we aren't completing those types
(24:34):
of passes, but we we hit some long passes. We
hit some big plays down the line. But my bigger,
you know, concern isn't necessarily just that. It's I'll ask
you this if you go back, and what was Adam
Muhammett's longest run on the day on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I think it was eighteen yards. I got to bring
it up in double check for you.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Yeah, But my point is is some of his runs
were better than our longest two, which it's better than
some of our longest passes. So we should have just
kept running the damn ball.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Biggest disappointment in the game is Adam Muhammad didn't get
more carries. I watched that game again last night, and
they could not stop that young man.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
And that was the best he's ever run. Even on
the interception.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
He took us all the way down the field and
then we got cute again and through the ball, and
then even in the third quarter we put Jonah back.
In no disrespect to Jonah, but the hot hend is
Adam Muhammad. He should have got the ball at least
twenty times because they never screen five.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah, well then why didn't he Because the coach calls
the place and in his DNA there's this chromosome in
his d DNA that says past past past PPP.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He doesn't have any r T d B in his DNA.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Run the damn ball is not in his blood streamers DNA,
it's PPP.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Wow. And that's that's the bottom. I mean, that's that's
his Philosophy's who he is.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yeah, and you know he's you know, you got all
the you know, crazy people on the internet saying, you know,
we're gonna let's go get an offensive coordinator and hired
all that I think coach fish, you know, and you know,
whether he played football or not, to me, that's not
a big deal. But his enjoyment of the game of
football is calling the plays right, being in there, you know,
(26:16):
and having his hands on it and all of that.
That's what he likes to do. So he's gonna always
be the play caller. And he's not the type of
pay caller Mario that would ever have a Greg Lewis
on his team and hand the ball off to him
twenty five times.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Okay, but why take Adam Muhammad out? He's averaging seven
yards of carry.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I'm trying to ask me to explain it. No, I'm
not saying that.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
But he put Jonah in, who's hurt, and he's averaging
two yards of carry. I understand, this guy's the seniors,
his last game, but we're trying to win the game.
The hot hend is Adam Muhammad. Why do you bring
Jonah in? He's averaging two yards of carry in that game?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And I look, I mean, I get what you're saying
about who he is, and who he is has gotten
him a long way, right. He's gone from a guy
that played tennis, never played in high school football, and
never played college football, never played in the NFL. Basically
begged Steve Spurrier for a gig and did everything he
had to do right to work. I mean, give him
credit for working his way up. But that's all good
(27:13):
and dandy when you have the pieces to do what
you're talking about wanting to do. When you don't have
the pieces and it's clear that you have a hot
hand at running back, maybe you just shell the aspirations
down the road for one day, absolutely, and just go
with what's working.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I mean, I'm looking up like guys.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You know, Petros brought this up a few months ago
that head coaches in college football that call plays do
not win national titles.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
They just don't.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
The last guy to do it was Jimbo Fisher when
he was Florida State's head coach. Jamis Wins twelve years ago.
Is the last time it happened? And I asked, you
had earlier in the year. I said, would you ever
consider giving up play calling? And he said no. He
said that's kind of who I am and what I do,
And is it time for him to maybe reconsider that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Greg, It might be time, but it's not going to happen.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
So, I mean, we can waste twenty minutes on the
air talking about yeah, but it's absolutely not going to happen.
So you know that that's who, like we said, that's
who Jed is, and that's.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
How he rolls.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
And you know whether or not it's Adam Muhammet or
Jonah Coleman, you know, it doesn't even matter Mario because
at the end of the day, he's going to throw
the football, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And what's the name.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I'm sorry, Jonah Coleman could have come in and been dynamic,
but guess what, he'd have got two or three carries anyway,
and then they would have went back to throw the ball.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Let's get a break.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We'll come back and talk about what this team needs
to do over the offseason. We've already had one player
enter the portal Orodre Harris has gone announcing today he's
leaving the team, so the portal has begun.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Signing day is tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
They got a couple of wide receivers locked in for
the class tomorrow. We'll see what happens in a transfer
portal as well. The CFP rankings are out. We can
talk about that. The lame Kiffin thing, we can talk
about that. Or are we gonna sit here and talk
and waste twenty minutes on Jed Fish give it up
play calling. Let's do that next on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Now back to the cours Light Husky Honks on Tuesdays,
Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey and Dave Satti Mullard on your
home for the Husky Sports Radio point three kjr FM.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Hey big thanks all of our sponsors this year.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Final segments of the penultimate Tusky Honk Show of the year,
because we do have one more show coming up wherever
the bowl game is, although if it's the La Ball,
Greg Lewis will not be there.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Just found out moments ago.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I was like, great, be the first game I've missed
in like twenty years.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Wow, it's just like the first time relate whose schedule
is a trip in the middle of bull season.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Pal, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I don't know someone whose daughter's graduating from college with
her masters and nursing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Tours Light UA Local thirty two, K two Vision, Bowen
scar Ford and Ken Hyder Construction are in our foundation specialists,
your local Northwest Chevy Dealer, and of course our friends
at Delta Mitzubishi Heating and Air who have brought us
the hyper heat defensive Player of the game all year,
long Old faithful. Alex McLaughlin won that award eighty five
(30:17):
times this season. Courtesy A Mario Bailey. We did mention
the Nojack Harris is in the portal. Signing day is tomorrow.
Huskies have the fifteenth best class in America according to
two four seven right now, so we'll see what tomorrow
brings with you, Dub.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
But now we're into a roster rebuilding, right.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I mean, you can talk all you want about the
one game that's left to play, but I think the
majority of Husky fans are talking about what this team
needs to do over the offseason to improve this football team.
A lot of guys coming back, tons of guys coming back,
But what's on the shopping list you think for a
Jetfish and Company that said this offseason.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Well, if you're going to start with his specialty, which
is the offensive side of the ball, when I said,
you know, it's the improvement of the quarterback and finding
a decent backup just in case anything goes wrong there,
because right now we don't have a backup quarterback on
the roster. And you know, I think Denzel Boston walked
with the team, so this might have been his final game.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Should he come back, I I think he should because.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I'm a Husky fan. I would love to see him
back in the Husky uniform. If his goal, I think, yeah,
if I'm his dad and he wants to be the
best wide receiver and go as high in the draft
as possible, he comes back with a good nil deal
that's secured because now you can get paid to be
in college. So yeah, but I think you if you're
the Husky team and you know that he might leave,
(31:36):
you have to make sure that you go out in
the portal. They got some good recruits out they're bringing
in wide receiver. But I'm going to go out in
the portal and find a really good wide receiver. Uh
So somebody be that number one guy, because I still
think Desmond Roebuck and you know, the rest of the
guys aren't number one receivers. I think they are number
two guys. So you go out and find your number
one wide receiver. And then on the other side, and
(31:57):
there's a couple of holes you plug in on the
offensive line because I think they're your pretty solid. But
on the defensive side of the ball, you got to
get you a monster up front. You need somebody who's
chomping at the bed, who's collapse the pocket from the middle,
and then you got to get both edge rushers. You know,
at least one of those guys on the edge, who
again is an athletic pass rusher, not just you know,
(32:17):
your your der fy who's more of a you know,
bull rusher, but an athletic guy. And I think your
linebacker's your set, and I think defensive backs are set.
So to me, it's that defensive monster on the edge
in the middle, and then a couple of guys plugging
play on the offensive line, a number one receiver in
a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's a lot. That's a lot. Not these days.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Though not these days, you might get the those freshman
wide receivers. I've seen a couple of great ones come
in and start and be the number one guy right away.
Did Ohio State did it at Alabama, So they got
some good guys on the line. But I think, you know,
you want to find an experienced guy. But it sounds
like a lot. But in today's football, because of the
portal and all of that, it's not as much as
it would have been in the past.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Well, you can get it. It just shows you how
many holes they still have, I guess is the point.
But what should Denzel Boston do. You're the wide receiver
in the group. You tell us he should stay.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
And the only reason I would say he should stay
is because he can get in IO money and what
Greg said, he could be the best receiver coming out,
and he has his quarterback. They have some continuity together.
They like each other. His quarterback throws to him. Coach
Fish knows him. He could be what we were hoping
he could be this year, He could be that next year,
and just get it together.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, Well, I just think guys, look in the end,
they got to take advantage of what they have, and
that's say athletic quarterback that not a lot of teams
can match. And thought, I thought, honestly that every game
the Huskies played this year that there was a good
chance that Demon Williams was going to be the most
athletic player on the field, and that just never materialized.
And again I asked, you, guys going to a break,
(33:47):
because what is unique about Jed Fish's offense? Right, Like
we all have these memories of Ryan Grubb calling an
offense with a doonsay and Polk and McMillan running wide
open Jonathan Smith and the offense he called when he
was coaching for Chris Peterson back in twenty sixteen. What
is Jedfish doing offensively that you find to be unique?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I haven't seen it yet, and I think just looking
at where we're coming from, coming to our whole team
was disrupted.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
He had to bring in all new pieces.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I think the third year is where we should see something,
but I haven't seen it yet. Last year we had
Rogers here and we got to see demon at the
end of the season. I was hoping we would see
more of demand this year. But I'm hoping maybe we
get a few linemen pieces, some line, maybe another weapon
out there that maybe next year will be the year.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
I can't even begin to compare him to Ryan Grubb,
not because Ryan Grubb is so much of a master
over him. Ryan Grubb had three of the greatest receivers
we've ever had here, not I mean really really good. Yeah,
and the best arm we've ever had here at this institution.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
And the best offensive line and the best offensive line
all of that.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
So I'm not going to compare him to that guy,
because I think the variables are completely different. But here's
where I think me and Mario both agree. I was,
you know, chit chatting with some folks over social media too,
and what I said was, this is year three. Now
we're going into Jedfish's third season. Right, he started with nothing.
He built up the first year, right, we ended up
(35:18):
six and seven or whatever. So he did a decent job.
This year, we took a step got a little better.
Now he has a quarterback that it's his guy that
he picked, that has a full year starting under him.
He's got to unleash this guy like you talk about
softye and make him into the quarterback that is going
to make his offense go. This year, we will see
what Jedfish is supposed to be all about. There's no
(35:39):
excuses anymore. He's got a decent, good enough offensive line,
he's got the quarterback that he chose, His system is
in place. So if we're going to see something softy,
we should see it this year. And if we don't,
then I think the jury, you know, can go in
and start debating and deliberating.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, I think there's already some criticism because it's college football, right,
come on, you know, just the way fans are and
I love that about the passion of college football fans.
But next year, I mean the gloves are off, right,
like this is now you you've you've been here for
three years.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Now you've built the thing back up.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
You're there's no more breaks, right, There's no more passes
versus you know what you had in year one when
you took over a mess. So hey, listen, good stuff,
you guys, miss me. Just shoot me a text, I'll
give you a call. We can zoom, FaceTime whatever if
you want to see each other's faces.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
We will reconvene before the.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Ball game or on the bowl game day, unless it's
the LA Bowl and then Greg is out and Mario
we got to find a buddy to take greg spot.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
So you guys have a great holiday and we'll talk sooner, right.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
John Wilner will join next on ninety three three KJRFM.
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Are You A Charlotte?
In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.