November 19, 2025 • 34 mins
In the fourth hour, Dave Softy Mahler is joined by Greg Lewis and Mario Bailey for the Husky Honks as the guys discuss UW’s win over Purdue, the home dominance and road issues, the offensive execution this season, Jedd Fisch, and UCLA on Saturday.
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As guys, what happened on Saturday, I think a lot
of people might say was predictable by the Huskies, right
coming off that loss to Wisconsin last Saturday. They go
back home against a terrible football team that has now
lost seventeen consecutive games in the Big Ten and Purdue
two and nine overall, zero to eight in the conference,
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and the Huskies put a whooping on a much inferior
opponent in the Purdue boiler Makers, forty nine to thirteen.
And I asked both of you guys last week, and Mario,
let's start with you this time.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
We always start with Greg. Let's start with Mario here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
We asked you last week, is there anything the Huskies
could do against Perdue that would make you feel better
about kicking that one at Wisconsin?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think all of us said no.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So let me ask you now that we're after the fact,
anything you saw against Perdue, Mario, that makes you feel
any better about what you saw against Wisconsin in Madison.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, there were a few things. We got to see
some new young guns get an opportunity to get out
there and make plays. From Jordan Washington, Adam Mohammad on
the running side, a couple of receivers making some plays.
I like seeing that. I like seeing guys step up
and take advantage of their opportunities. I know, going into
the game, I said there was nothing that could make
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me feel better, but seeing some young guns go out
there and play made me feel a lot better. To
see what the future looks like.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, I think, you know, for this season, I wouldn't
say I'm, you know, feeling any different because the Wisconsin
game was just such a terrible loss, and we knew
coming in that we'd be able to beat Purdue. Now
having beat them as bad as we did with like
Mario was just explaining, our second string running back, our
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third string running back having a great day, our probably
fourth and fifth fight receivers showing up does show how
much progress I think this program has made since last year.
You know, I was thinking about that as I was
looking at the data on how well Demand Williams is
doing right now. He's on pace to be the most
accurate quarterback in Husky history for a single season. And
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you know how you guys remember last year Purdue Indiana Iowa,
how bad our defense looked, especially in the second half
where they just ran the ball for ten yards, twenty yards,
thirty yards. So I think Ryan Walters has done a
great job kind of turning that into a big ten defense.
I think we're in the top twenty in both categories.
So I think as an overall program, we've made a
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lot of progress. We become a Big ten team in
a lot of ways. But as far as this year
is concerned, it's really coming down to can we win
a Big ten game on the road. You know, we
got Ucla to left, and I think if we end
up winning that Ucla game, it'll show that we progressed
overall record.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Wise and all of that this year.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
So you know, for me, it's going to take that
win at UCLA to really see something different and have
some progress.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, I'm just looking at it, guys, Mario.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
This is actually the second most points that Purdue was
allowed this year. They gave up fifty six to Notre
Dame in September, forty three to Illinois, thirty three to USC,
thirty four to Ohio State. And again, I didn't watch
all those games, Mario, obviously, so I don't know the
context of how those games were.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Going in the second half.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I mean, for all I know, Ohio State may have
just shut her down in the second half, but you
deb kind of kept going, got a touchdown from their
backup quarterback. But you mentioned it right there, right, I mean,
Jordan Washington with a sixty eight yard touchdown run. This
is a sprinter, one of the fastest guys right Mario
in California in high school, and we heard a lot
about him over the offseason. It never was really able
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to ever get into a game. And I don't know
about you, man, but I feel like the story at
running back more so Saturday was Jordan Washington in his
future than Ada Mohammad's three touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Man, that seems kind of unfair, But how about.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You, That's exactly Hosto. I told you pregame Saturday that
I thought Adam Muhammad had a pointy season. I was
expecting a lot from him and even his opportunities, it
just reminds me of of our other running backs in
the beginning of the first three games. He just took
advantage of his opportunity scored a few touchdowns. But those
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touchdowns don't really mean as much as as they do
during the season against Purdue. But Jordan Washington, he made
some plays. He looked like a genuine playmaker. He looked
like anytime he touched the ball he could make a play.
So that, like I said, that bodes well. It scares
me though, because we have the portal now, but that
bodes well for the future.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, Greg, you're the running back in the room, my friends,
So you tell us how fired up should Husky fans
be about Jordan Washington after what they saw last year?
And then how much is there a little bit of
hesitation from you because of exactly what Mario just talked about.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, I think Jordan Washington had a great opportunity to
showcase his speed by playing against a team like Purdue
where there was gonna be some big running lanes and
as a you know, speedster, you know, that's what he has,
that home run ability. So I'd like to see him
playing a game where he's going to have to make
some guys miss, where he's going to have to break
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some tackles, where he's going to have to show, you know,
all of the qualities. Not knocking him at all. I
was excited to see what he can do. He's definitely
a home run threat, but you know, you want to
see him playing a game where he's going to have
to show everything that you know, can get excited about
for a running back other than just speed.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Because what I.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Saw on that play, I might have been I wouldn't
have been able to go sixty eight yards, but I
might have been able to get nine. The hole was
so big. Now I might have got caught after nine yards.
But no, really, we know he's a speaster. We know
he can hit the home run. I'll be excited to
see him, you know, playing a game where the defense
is you know a little bit better, and he has
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an opportunity to showcase that he can do other things
other than just the speed in the long run.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, and then guys a situation where with Raydon vines
Bright in the game, you know, second quarter gets popping
the chin pretty good, turns out to be a concussion.
Sounds like there's a chance he actually may play on
Saturday Night versus UCLA. But you know, look, with Denzel
Boston not playing Mario, this is a great chance for
some of those young wide receivers to step up and
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show what they can do. Odrick Harris obviously, Raydon vines
Bright when he comes back, Desmond Roebuck comes back. How
important is this time, especially if Denzel doesn't play, for
those guys to earn playing time on next year's roster
and really kind of earn their spot with the way
they play in the final three games of the year.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Is it almost like a tryout for those guys right now?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, and I hate to say it, but it's a
tryout for all the other teams looking at you as well.
Altra chairs like he could put that on his tape.
Omari Evans was the one that I was happy to see.
We talked about him pregame as well, having a disappointing season,
but to see him go out there and make a
few plays, I was a little disappointed. And Desmond because
he didn't make as many plays. He didn't get that
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many opportunities. Of course, it was disheartening to see vines
Bran go out, but yes, this is an opportunity for
everybody next man up to make as many plays as
possible for the future.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Greg's kind of smirking back there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I mean, Mario is obviously a little bit concerned about
what this roster looks like next year, and it sounds
like you're not even thinking about that right now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I well, I.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Guess, you know, you got to just kind of take
things for what they are.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
And you know, Mario is negative ned like we talked
about last week, where he thinks everybody's going to hit
the transfer portal and be out of here.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
We're gonna be starting over scratch next year.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I'm trying not to be as as fatalistic necessarily as that.
What I what I will say is I thought the
young receivers did a good job. What's more, you know,
interesting right now is is as it relates to how
things work today, is Orodric Harris.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I think Odrick Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Is a really good player, and he show he made
some plays last year and then this game he looked good.
But he's at a crossroads right now. They were hoping
to red shirt him this year, kind of like Jacob
Manu and save a year, although he's a sophomore.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
And now if Roebuck doesn't play.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I think that I mean, I'm sorry, Yeah, if Bryan
s Bright doesn't play and Denzel Boston doesn't play, he's
gonna have to, you know, probably take that red shirt off.
And he set out a lot of games this year
didn't play, hoping to preserve that. So it kind of
makes you go, man, if I knew I was gonna
have to give up my red shirt, I probably should
have played all year.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
So I think Orodric Harris has.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
An interesting decision and if those guys aren't healthy, he's
going to have to play, and he could have had
more action this year had that not been the scenario
for him.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, I think he's got one more game, Greg, if
I'm not mistaken, one more game that Odrick Harris can play,
and then you know, look, man, I mean Mario, just
you know, the portal thing obviously is real, right, I mean,
obviously we're not expecting the entire roster to leave, but
you're expecting some guys to leave, and you have no
idea which guys that will be.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I mean, the head coach, you know, his.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Situation obviously has people on edge, and I think it's
got people on edge.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Mario in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You tell me if I'm wrong, because they just don't
know what it means for the roster, right, I mean,
if he takes off, he takes off, And frankly, if
I were a betting man guys right now, I think
I would say he's coming back for next season.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But you never know.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know what this guy's future will look like. And
that's the rub for me is it's not just Jet leaving,
it's what he would do to the entire roster.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Mario, if he takes off.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yes, that's the biggest concern. First, we're concerned with our quarterback.
Is Demon Williams go wherever Jed Fish goes. But yes,
you're concerned anytime a coach is going to leave, how
much of the roster you're gonna take with him, Because
we have too much turnover. We had too much turnover
last year and we had to rebuild this whole thing.
We don't want to keep rebuilding every two three years.
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So we're hoping that coach wants to stay, or we're
hoping that we get a coach that wants to stay
here for ten years.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, and Greg, look, I can see it kind of
just shaking your head back their pal. It's not something
that I'm sitting up at now thinking about. I don't
think about it twenty four to seven. As a matter
of fact, I used to think about it a lot,
and now I really don't. I've accepted whatever is going
to happen is going to happen. Like I said to
you a few minutes ago, a few seconds ago, I
think he's going to return. And frankly, I'm embracing these
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final three games of the year. You'll be proud of me.
I'm thinking about the progress the Huskies have made. You'll
be proud of me. There is a small, small, small
part of me, though, that wonders what this roster will
look like a year from now. Even if Jed does return.
There's going to be some attrition. There always is in
college football.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And now more than ever.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
But I think the frustrations for you and me and
the postgame show on Saturday, which by the way, Mario
was not on, I think the frustrations for you and
me Saturday is that, Hey, this is just another example
of Washington kicking the snot out of an inferior opponent.
Right Like we started the show talking about, Hey, this
is predictable.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We kind of knew this was going to happen. You know,
if we were.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Smart, we would have bet the house everything we own
on the Huskies covering the point spread in this game
on Saturday against Purdue. But I asked Jed greg after
the game, excuse me, this was Monday. This was actually
two days ago. I asked him Monday, how does he
get more consistent where he can really rely on his
offense to show up and be the offense that he
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has built here, no matter who they're playing Here's what
he said.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Yeah, I think that the ultimate goal is to be
able to, you know, have some consistency with your roster,
with the eleven guys, with who you're playing with. Again,
you know, our quarterback's very, very young. I mean when
you look at where we are, I think we're up
eighty spots in about seven different categories from one year
to year two. So I believe that when you look
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at it, what will look like in your three, like,
how will that work? It'll work when you go year
three and you are able to score twenty four to
thirty points in every game play.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And you mentioned something there about demand that we talked
about a lot, especially coming out of the Wisconsin game.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
He's nineteen.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
When you're evaluating him, how much do you allow that
to be a part of the context of the evaluation
that he's nineteen years old.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Well, I said to him, you know the other day,
I said, Demand, the most valuable thing you'll be able
to do is bank reps. Right, Like, Okay, I remember
when I was backed up against Wisconsin and I thought
I needed to make a Superman play. Now, I remember
I could just take a sack, or I can hand
the ball off or whatever it might be. If you
look at some of the things he did in this
past game, there was no Superman plays, and yet he
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played an elite game. Those are the type of things
that we want him to bank. And I think from
going from nineteen to twenty or twenty to twenty one,
it's also going from year one as a starter to
year two as a starter.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
He didn't start last year. He started two games.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So yeah, he talked about getting bigger, obviously talked about
Demon Williams being young. Some of those numbers and rankings
have gone up tremendously from where they were a year ago.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They've gone from one.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Hundred and fourth to twenty fourth, and scoring they've gone
from one hundred and first to third in the country
and third down percentage. They've obviously made some progress with
their red zone touchdown percentage, which has gone from fifty
five to seventy four percent, I believe, from the last
year to this year. But there still is kind of
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that question mark is this an offense and only shows
up when the opponent looks like they did on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Greg, Yeah, you got to look at the splits, the
home versus road splits, and I think overwhelming. P Ponna's
evidence is that at home they're significantly better than they
are on the road, especially when they are in Big
Ten play, and it hasn't just.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Been this year. I think that carries through even to
last year.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You know, I'm excited that we've run won twenty five
out of the last twenty six games at home, one
of the best home field advantages in the country. But
it's still there's still something to figure out. There's still
something to do differently or to understand why when we
go on the road that is completely different. And yeah,
I believe that, you know, the youngness and the youth
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of this team is.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Part of that.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I think there's some philosophical things. We talked about it
a little bit off the air. I think defense and
running the football carries on the road, and those are
things that regardless of the weather, regardless of the opponent,
if you have a solid, you know, consistent run game
that you are willing to go to and slug some
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games out, especially in the Big Ten, where you're okay
with running the ball on first down and second down
series after series and taking a shot on third down.
And we've been pretty good on third down, you know, that's,
you know, something that we've succeeded at. So I love
to see us be more patient with our offense. And
you know, I do believe that part of that theory
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and that way of playing relies on your punt game
to do well, and right now we're not doing well there,
so maybe that's a bigger thing. You know, you got
to be able to flip that field, make your opponent
have to drive eighty plus yards, and then when you
get the ball, you know, hopefully you're in that sixty
yard in zone and that's where you know you can
flip those and win those slug it out games. So
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our kicking game and our punt game in particular might
be a bigger issue than we're really you know, looking
at here in some of these road games, because that's
what I think. We got to run the ball more
on the road, have more consistent, patient run game, and
played the full position battle.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, they've actually gone from fifty five percent red zone
touchdowns to seventy nine percent red zone touchdowns, so big
big jump in that category. But I mean Mario just
kind of piggybacking on what Greg was saying there. Like
Jonah Coleman, I know he was out for the game
on Saturday versus Perdue, but he's averaging six yards of
carry at home, three point three yards of carry on
the road, nine touchdowns at home, four touchdowns on the road. Now,
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obviously a big chunk of that is what he did
against CSU and UC Davis. The guy had seven touchdowns
in the first two games of the year, and he's
got what he's got. He's got six the rest of
the way, and he's just not been the same guy
that he's been the first couple of games of the year.
So do you see a football team and do you
agree with what Jed said there? That part of the
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evaluation process has got to be the context of de
Mont Williams being nineteen years old in some ways kind
of giving the kid a bit of a break.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yes, I give the kid a break. I understand he's
getting paid and he's really a professional football player, But
I do say he's nineteen years old and probably hasn't
had but eleven start somewhere around there in his life,
and you have to give him a break, and he's
still learning and he's still figuring it out. But we
can't always make excuses for coach Fish and Jonah Coleman.
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I say, is one of the most disappointing seasons. To
start off like that. We were thinking All American Heisman Trophy,
he was going to be doing these things. But we
really haven't seen Jonah Coleman since the first three games,
maybe since Washington State actually put up anything. And I
don't blame that specifically just on coach Fish. He's not
trying to run the ball. I just feel like when
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we looked at Jonah in the beginning of the season,
Greg talked about he had a burst, he looked pretty fast.
As the season progresses now he just looks like a
running back. I hope that he can finish strong. Though.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, let's go come back and talk about how they
fix that going into the final three games, Greg, and
how they fix it going in the next year. You know,
Jed talked about how they still have to get bigger
on their offensive line. They're just still not where they
need to be to compete and survive in the Big
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dot com. So, Greg, let's go back to that running
game discussion for a second. I think if I would
have told you over the offseason the Huskies would go
from one hundredth in the nation and rushing offense to
fifty seventh, you would have said that's a pretty good jump.
But a lot of that's due to Demon Williams running
the football and not Joonah Coleman. So are we kind
of at a point in the year now where you're
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ten games in, you got three games left to go
where you kind of are what you kind of are
at this point, and there ain't gonna be much room
for improvement either way with this running game. How much
can they get better? How much do they have to
get better next year?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, I think the running game is producing the with
the opportunities that has been given. And I formally believe
that we don't run the ball enough. We could run
the ball ten times more per game, and any running
back you look through, I think Jonah colemb is just
fine personally him himself. I think it's the opportunities to
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get any running back across the country who's got a
thousand yards in all American it is averaging twenty yards.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Cary don agree and Mario that he's been a disappointment
this year.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Absolutely not. Joah Coleman is probably averaging.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I didn't say he's a disappointment.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I didn't, And I didn't say you said that.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Dave said you said that last second.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I said it's been a disappointing season.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Okay, okay, all right, Well, that's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
And I think that that disappointment squarely relies on the
play calling because Jonah Coleman, any running back that is
in the discussion for national awards and all that is
getting twenty yards to carry.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Jonah Coleman is.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Probably getting fourteen to fifteen yards of carry at the most.
And he's he carries.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
A game, carries a game, not marriage. Yeah, right, right, right.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Right, carries per game.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And he's missed the last game and a half, so
his opportunities and chances have gone down dramatically. Most guys,
I mean, they're running backs who you'll see on a
given Saturday have thirty three and thirty four carries, you
know for the big two hundred and fifty yards and
all of that. So we're our passing offense. We throw
the football more than we run it. I mean, we
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talk about balance and you know it's not overwhelming all
the time, but we clearly are not committed to running
the ball with Jonah Coleman twenty to twenty five times
a game, which is what you would need in order
to be, you know, a candidate for all the postseason awards.
So I think Jonah Coman's fine I think if we
made a commitment to running the football, he would easily
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go over one hundred yards. You know, I was glad
for the running backs this week, but that was against
a Purdue team where one carry produced the seventy yard
run just about. You know, so the numbers are skewed
a little bit against Purdue. But in the heart of
Big Ten play, we just have not gone to the
running game enough. And that's just you know, Coach Fish,
that's who he is. I don't expect him to change.
I don't expect him to be any different because that's
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who he is and that's what he's comfortable calling.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
So it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, well, Mario, thank you for correcting me. Jonah has
not been a disappointment. The run game has been a disappointment.
The season he's in some ways has been a disappointment because,
as you said, we thought this, there's a chance this
guy was going to be an All American, first team
All American right type Canada, you know, first team Big ten,
and he's not even close to getting any Big Ten
onners right now. And Greg's right that, you know, he's
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basically missed the last two games. He's got five carries
in the last eight quarters of football, so that's going
to skew his numbers dramatically. But I guess to Greg's
point there, do we ever even expect, as long as
Jet Fish as the head coach of this football team,
for this team to be anywhere near amongst the best
running teams in the country.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Mario, I'm not sure. And Gig, if we could go
back and listen to the first few weeks, like Coach
Fish was actually letting Jonah get in, he let him
stay in to make sure he got five testdowns, give
it a hundred yards. Like you talk about numbers being skewed,
the numbers exkewed for those first three games. Those first
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three opponents weren't that great Big Ten played from this
year and last year. We just aren't running the ball well.
And I'm not sure or if it's a coach Fish
not wanting to run. We talked about that forever, but
w'ere you look at Jonah's average in Big Ten play
and he's averaging maybe three yards of carry, so there's
something to that. But we don't pass the ball well either,
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So you can talk about Coach Fish not wanting to
run the ball. We don't pass the ball that Well,
why are you looking at You think we passed the ball.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Well, dude, we are on pace to set the team
record for completion percentage.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
For percentage, you know we're we're throwing. We're throwing hitches
and slants. We don't go downfield. We don't throw the
ball downfield. I don't care about percentage. I care about
actually making plays and scoring touchdowns. You're talking about a
percentage you can have seventy percent if you throw flats, flats,
slants and quick outs.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Well, Mario, they've just showed you how well our touchdown
percentage is seventy nine percent in the red zone. We're
leading the nation in third down conversion percentage, which is
throwing the football. I haven't I didn't prepare the numbers
today because I didn't know you were going to make
that outlandish statement. But I can guarantee you that when
it looks at passing yardage, we're one of the most
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productive passing teams in the country and we score what.
There was games where we were eleven twelve series in
a row with scoring touchdowns because of our passing game,
because we aren't running the football like that. So I
think we throw the ball just fine, and the percentages
and the numbers bear that out. The run game certainly
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is secondary, you know, it's complementary, and I think at
the beginning of the year the reason that it looked
good is you were trying to bring along a brand
new starting quarterback against teams that were less than so
you allowed the running game to be a big part
of the offense. As you've got Demond Williams up the
speed and now that you know he's had those starts
and he's got some experience, you're unleashing Demond Williams and
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that's you know, I don't have a necessarily a problem
with that. I'm just saying I'm not going to look
at the run game is say that it's not doing
well when we just frankly don't run the football well.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'm looking on Sati, go ahead. We don't pass the
ball will Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin. If we were
to pass the ball will, we would score and we
would pass on those teams. We don't pass the ball well.
We passed the ball well. We run the ball well
against a Purdue and Washington State. Our passing game is
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not what you would call great, even good when we're
playing an opponent that has a great defense.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I mean, that's that's fair because what Mario's talking about,
Greg is that he's not going to be satisfied until
he sees it against legit competition. That I understand. I
also agree with what Jed said earlier this week that
expecting these guys to put up forty against Ohio State,
against Wisconsin, against Michigan not going to happen. But can
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you score twenty four? Can you score twenty one? Can
you score twenty I mean they've scored and Greg, you've
mentioned this yourself seven six and ten in those three
games that we talked about against Michigan State and Wisconsin.
When the Hoskies go and it's typically on the road,
as you've talked about, when they go on the road
and they face teams like that, when they face legitimate,
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big time, big ten defenses. This year, and we'll see
what happens against Oregon in a couple weeks from now,
their offense totally falls apart, totally falls apart. So I
get looking at the numbers, but there's also a lot
of I think fans like me and Mario that strongly
desire as I know you do as well, Greg. For
this football team to get back to showing it no
matter who they're playing on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Yeah, I've been clear that they have not played well
on the road against whatever the competition is. But to
say that they don't pass the ball well, I think
is a misnomer. Because you play who's on your schedule.
I mean, you have twelve games, and if there are
three of them that weren't that great, you got to
figure out what you didn't do well in those two
or three games. Sometimes it's your opponent. I don't think
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anyone's passed the ball well against Ohio State or run
the ball well against Ohio State, one of the best
defenses I've ever seen. So you know there's that. But
I think we have twelve games on the schedule, and
if you throw the ball well in nine of those
twelve games, then you threw the ball well. You can't
just disregard and say that, oh, those games don't matter,
they don't count because there who's on your schedule. Those
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other teams practice and they play defense just like everyone else,
and there's only a few teams you're gonna play a
year that are like Ohio State, and Michigan.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Well, the Huskies are six.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Demand is six in the country, and completion percentage that
just under seventy three percent. NCAA, for some stupid reason,
tracks yards per completion and not yards per attempt on
their official website. So they've got you dubbed at thirty
first in the country and yards per completion. I've got
demanded just over nine yards per attempt, which in college football,
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I think you'd love that number to be a little
bit higher in college football.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That would look good in the NFL, but maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah, maybe, I mean just the deep threats, right, you
want those deep threats. You want to be able to
stretch the defense a little bit more, I think is
what you're talking about. So let's do this. Let's let's
come back and talk about UCLA. Because if anybody thinks
that Udub's just gonna walk into the Rose Pall and
just skate out of there with a win, dude, They've
lost nine of ten games against UCLA in that stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This has been a house of horrors for you. We'll
get to that next.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
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Speaker 3 (28:40):
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I know when you hear those four letters, Greg, sometimes
you get a little little PTSD, maybe from a game
back in nineteen ninety. I don't blame you at all, man,
But what in the world, guys, has been the problem
with this football team going down to Pasadena. They've lost
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nine of ten games to UCLA at the Rose Ball?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Is it kids from California? Greg?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You think just getting nervous playing in front of family
and friends. Is that the atmosphere, which kind of usually stinks.
To be honest with you, why has this team had
so many issues winning at the Rose Ball?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Dude, Yeah, that I can't necessarily put my finger on
you know. I remember my first game at UCLA and
it was my first ever career start. I've told this
story on the air before, and the first played a game,
I fumbled the football. Well, I didn't have relatives in
La and it had nothing to do necessarily. And that day, UCLA,
I think was ranked number two in the country, and
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it was a nationally televised game, and it was a crowded,
full Rose Bowl Troy Aikman and all of those guys.
So it's different teams, it's different reasons, you know. I
can't really put my finger on it. My junior year,
we went down there and we fell behind twenty one
to nothing. We did, fortunately some great plays by Mario
on fourth down and a great run by me on
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third and eleven at the end, you know, to win it.
The two guys on the radio show had a big,
big role in that we were able to come back
and win. But it's been a house of horrors. I
personally just hate ECLA. I mean, I blew my knee
out and did my national championship run impacted my entire
football career, and that was at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
But it was a guy with the powder blue and
gold helmet. So I don't know. LA has just been
a bad omen for the Dogs.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, Mario, how do you explain that, dude?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Because if you one thing, if this was like a
really solid program for twenty years, that every time you
go there, they're a top five football team, but that
has not been the case at all.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
No, I don't know. The good old Rose Bowl every
time we do play UCLA, and you know, I give
Greg a hard time. Sandy cost us, but in reality
we were supposed to win that game with or without him,
and they came in there and destroyed us and Greg
my true sophomore year, Greg's junior year, we went out there,
we were down twenty one. Nothing made a comeback. I
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think of Michael Pennix in them, and when they went
out there, it was a struggle and they got beat up.
It's just one of those teams, like you know, we
played packed pack ten, pac twelve pack eight, whatever you're playing.
When you're playing UCLA in Washington, it's just gonna be
a good game no matter what.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Yeah, and they look like they're kind of back greg
that be in Ucla. They had those wins over Penn State,
Michigan State, Maryland, Indiana clocked them fifty six to six.
Nebraska got him at the Rolls Ball twenty eight twenty one,
Ucla forty eight to ten. Now two of those three
teams are the top two teams in the country obviously, Yeah,
before the Husky game on Saturday. But I mean, Nico,
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we don't even know if he's gonna play in this game.
Nico Malayava, sorry, how to concussion and miss the game
last week? Luke Duncan was the starting quarterback. And I
don't know, man, I just feel like this is one
of those games where crazy wonky wacky things happen, and
we're kind of looking for Demon Williams to put together
back to back good games, which we haven't seen very often.
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And does this qualify. I know it's on the road,
but it's not a big time elite opponent, and you're
playing if they can go on the road, and Demon
Williams looks good, will that start to kind of heal
that one for you a little bit?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
About playing on the road.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Yeah, absolutely, I don't care who the opponent is. It's
about being away from Husky Stadium, being out of the
state of Washington. You know, of course we're not traveling
two time zones and playing at weird times. I still
think that that impacts young people, and you know, those
are things we're just gonna have to figure out along
the lines. But for me, it's just going on the
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road into Big Ten and getting those wins, because you're
gonna do that four or five times a year each year, right,
and so if we can figure that piece out, and
with the advantage we have in Hussy Stadium, it's going
to put us in a position each year where we
can potentially compete for a Big Ten championship or a
potential opportunity to get into the playoff by winning those
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road games. This year, if you think about the Michigan
game and the Wisconsin game, two teams, I think if
we played them at home, we might win those football games.
I'm not going to say we definitely win them, but
we might win those football games. We'd be in a
position to compete for the national playoffs. So it's about
figuring out how to get those wins on the road
and against the UCLA. You know, they've struggled a little bit,
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but they've played some decent football. So if we can
go out and get this win on the road, for me,
I'll feel a lot better about making progress to figuring
that scenario out.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, Mario, put yourself in the shoes of Martin Jarmond,
who's the.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
UCLA athletic director.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
If you're him or you kind of watching Jed Fish
a little bit closer on the sideline this Saturday, is
a potential answer for you down the road.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I don't know. I don't know how athletic directors feel
about coach Fish, but you know what, are we thirteen
and ten with coach Fish? To me, that's you know,
I don't know if you should be looking for somebody
like that unless they're like doing something spectacular. I don't
feel like the job he's done so far Washington is spectacular.
I do feel like he's been a great recruiter and
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does a great job, but on the field, record wise,
we haven't been spectaclar All.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
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As guys, what happened on Saturday, I think a lot
of people might say was predictable by the Huskies, right
coming off that loss to Wisconsin last Saturday. They go
back home against a terrible football team that has now
lost seventeen consecutive games in the Big Ten and Purdue
two and nine overall, zero to eight in the conference,
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and the Huskies put a whooping on a much inferior
opponent in the Purdue boiler Makers, forty nine to thirteen.
And I asked both of you guys last week, and Mario,
let's start with you this time.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
We always start with Greg. Let's start with Mario here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
We asked you last week, is there anything the Huskies
could do against Perdue that would make you feel better
about kicking that one at Wisconsin?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think all of us said no.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So let me ask you now that we're after the fact,
anything you saw against Perdue, Mario, that makes you feel
any better about what you saw against Wisconsin in Madison.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, there were a few things. We got to see
some new young guns get an opportunity to get out
there and make plays. From Jordan Washington, Adam Mohammad on
the running side, a couple of receivers making some plays.
I like seeing that. I like seeing guys step up
and take advantage of their opportunities. I know, going into
the game, I said there was nothing that could make
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me feel better, but seeing some young guns go out
there and play made me feel a lot better. To
see what the future looks like.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, I think, you know, for this season, I wouldn't
say I'm, you know, feeling any different because the Wisconsin
game was just such a terrible loss, and we knew
coming in that we'd be able to beat Purdue. Now
having beat them as bad as we did with like
Mario was just explaining, our second string running back, our
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third string running back having a great day, our probably
fourth and fifth fight receivers showing up does show how
much progress I think this program has made since last year.
You know, I was thinking about that as I was
looking at the data on how well Demand Williams is
doing right now. He's on pace to be the most
accurate quarterback in Husky history for a single season. And
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you know how you guys remember last year Purdue Indiana Iowa,
how bad our defense looked, especially in the second half
where they just ran the ball for ten yards, twenty yards,
thirty yards. So I think Ryan Walters has done a
great job kind of turning that into a big ten defense.
I think we're in the top twenty in both categories.
So I think as an overall program, we've made a
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lot of progress. We become a Big ten team in
a lot of ways. But as far as this year
is concerned, it's really coming down to can we win
a Big ten game on the road. You know, we
got Ucla to left, and I think if we end
up winning that Ucla game, it'll show that we progressed
overall record.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Wise and all of that this year.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
So you know, for me, it's going to take that
win at UCLA to really see something different and have
some progress.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, I'm just looking at it, guys, Mario.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
This is actually the second most points that Purdue was
allowed this year. They gave up fifty six to Notre
Dame in September, forty three to Illinois, thirty three to USC,
thirty four to Ohio State. And again, I didn't watch
all those games, Mario, obviously, so I don't know the
context of how those games were.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Going in the second half.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I mean, for all I know, Ohio State may have
just shut her down in the second half, but you
deb kind of kept going, got a touchdown from their
backup quarterback. But you mentioned it right there, right, I mean,
Jordan Washington with a sixty eight yard touchdown run. This
is a sprinter, one of the fastest guys right Mario
in California in high school, and we heard a lot
about him over the offseason. It never was really able
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to ever get into a game. And I don't know
about you, man, but I feel like the story at
running back more so Saturday was Jordan Washington in his
future than Ada Mohammad's three touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Man, that seems kind of unfair, But how about.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You, That's exactly Hosto. I told you pregame Saturday that
I thought Adam Muhammad had a pointy season. I was
expecting a lot from him and even his opportunities, it
just reminds me of of our other running backs in
the beginning of the first three games. He just took
advantage of his opportunity scored a few touchdowns. But those
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touchdowns don't really mean as much as as they do
during the season against Purdue. But Jordan Washington, he made
some plays. He looked like a genuine playmaker. He looked
like anytime he touched the ball he could make a play.
So that, like I said, that bodes well. It scares
me though, because we have the portal now, but that
bodes well for the future.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, Greg, you're the running back in the room, my friends,
So you tell us how fired up should Husky fans
be about Jordan Washington after what they saw last year?
And then how much is there a little bit of
hesitation from you because of exactly what Mario just talked about.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, I think Jordan Washington had a great opportunity to
showcase his speed by playing against a team like Purdue
where there was gonna be some big running lanes and
as a you know, speedster, you know, that's what he has,
that home run ability. So I'd like to see him
playing a game where he's going to have to make
some guys miss, where he's going to have to break
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some tackles, where he's going to have to show, you know,
all of the qualities. Not knocking him at all. I
was excited to see what he can do. He's definitely
a home run threat, but you know, you want to
see him playing a game where he's going to have
to show everything that you know, can get excited about
for a running back other than just speed.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Because what I.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Saw on that play, I might have been I wouldn't
have been able to go sixty eight yards, but I
might have been able to get nine. The hole was
so big. Now I might have got caught after nine yards.
But no, really, we know he's a speaster. We know
he can hit the home run. I'll be excited to
see him, you know, playing a game where the defense
is you know a little bit better, and he has
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an opportunity to showcase that he can do other things
other than just the speed in the long run.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, and then guys a situation where with Raydon vines
Bright in the game, you know, second quarter gets popping
the chin pretty good, turns out to be a concussion.
Sounds like there's a chance he actually may play on
Saturday Night versus UCLA. But you know, look, with Denzel
Boston not playing Mario, this is a great chance for
some of those young wide receivers to step up and
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show what they can do. Odrick Harris obviously, Raydon vines
Bright when he comes back, Desmond Roebuck comes back. How
important is this time, especially if Denzel doesn't play, for
those guys to earn playing time on next year's roster
and really kind of earn their spot with the way
they play in the final three games of the year.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Is it almost like a tryout for those guys right now?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, and I hate to say it, but it's a
tryout for all the other teams looking at you as well.
Altra chairs like he could put that on his tape.
Omari Evans was the one that I was happy to see.
We talked about him pregame as well, having a disappointing season,
but to see him go out there and make a
few plays, I was a little disappointed. And Desmond because
he didn't make as many plays. He didn't get that
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many opportunities. Of course, it was disheartening to see vines
Bran go out, but yes, this is an opportunity for
everybody next man up to make as many plays as
possible for the future.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Greg's kind of smirking back there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I mean, Mario is obviously a little bit concerned about
what this roster looks like next year, and it sounds
like you're not even thinking about that right now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I well, I.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Guess, you know, you got to just kind of take
things for what they are.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
And you know, Mario is negative ned like we talked
about last week, where he thinks everybody's going to hit
the transfer portal and be out of here.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
We're gonna be starting over scratch next year.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I'm trying not to be as as fatalistic necessarily as that.
What I what I will say is I thought the
young receivers did a good job. What's more, you know,
interesting right now is is as it relates to how
things work today, is Orodric Harris.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I think Odrick Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Is a really good player, and he show he made
some plays last year and then this game he looked good.
But he's at a crossroads right now. They were hoping
to red shirt him this year, kind of like Jacob
Manu and save a year, although he's a sophomore.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
And now if Roebuck doesn't play.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I think that I mean, I'm sorry, Yeah, if Bryan
s Bright doesn't play and Denzel Boston doesn't play, he's
gonna have to, you know, probably take that red shirt off.
And he set out a lot of games this year
didn't play, hoping to preserve that. So it kind of
makes you go, man, if I knew I was gonna
have to give up my red shirt, I probably should
have played all year.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
So I think Orodric Harris has.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
An interesting decision and if those guys aren't healthy, he's
going to have to play, and he could have had
more action this year had that not been the scenario
for him.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, I think he's got one more game, Greg, if
I'm not mistaken, one more game that Odrick Harris can play,
and then you know, look, man, I mean Mario, just
you know, the portal thing obviously is real, right, I mean,
obviously we're not expecting the entire roster to leave, but
you're expecting some guys to leave, and you have no
idea which guys that will be.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I mean, the head coach, you know, his.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Situation obviously has people on edge, and I think it's
got people on edge.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Mario in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You tell me if I'm wrong, because they just don't
know what it means for the roster, right, I mean,
if he takes off, he takes off, And frankly, if
I were a betting man guys right now, I think
I would say he's coming back for next season.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But you never know.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know what this guy's future will look like. And
that's the rub for me is it's not just Jet leaving,
it's what he would do to the entire roster.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Mario, if he takes off.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yes, that's the biggest concern. First, we're concerned with our quarterback.
Is Demon Williams go wherever Jed Fish goes. But yes,
you're concerned anytime a coach is going to leave, how
much of the roster you're gonna take with him, Because
we have too much turnover. We had too much turnover
last year and we had to rebuild this whole thing.
We don't want to keep rebuilding every two three years.
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So we're hoping that coach wants to stay, or we're
hoping that we get a coach that wants to stay
here for ten years.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, and Greg, look, I can see it kind of
just shaking your head back their pal. It's not something
that I'm sitting up at now thinking about. I don't
think about it twenty four to seven. As a matter
of fact, I used to think about it a lot,
and now I really don't. I've accepted whatever is going
to happen is going to happen. Like I said to
you a few minutes ago, a few seconds ago, I
think he's going to return. And frankly, I'm embracing these
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final three games of the year. You'll be proud of me.
I'm thinking about the progress the Huskies have made. You'll
be proud of me. There is a small, small, small
part of me, though, that wonders what this roster will
look like a year from now. Even if Jed does return.
There's going to be some attrition. There always is in
college football.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And now more than ever.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
But I think the frustrations for you and me and
the postgame show on Saturday, which by the way, Mario
was not on, I think the frustrations for you and
me Saturday is that, Hey, this is just another example
of Washington kicking the snot out of an inferior opponent.
Right Like we started the show talking about, Hey, this
is predictable.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We kind of knew this was going to happen. You know,
if we were.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Smart, we would have bet the house everything we own
on the Huskies covering the point spread in this game
on Saturday against Purdue. But I asked Jed greg after
the game, excuse me, this was Monday. This was actually
two days ago. I asked him Monday, how does he
get more consistent where he can really rely on his
offense to show up and be the offense that he
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has built here, no matter who they're playing Here's what
he said.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Yeah, I think that the ultimate goal is to be
able to, you know, have some consistency with your roster,
with the eleven guys, with who you're playing with. Again,
you know, our quarterback's very, very young. I mean when
you look at where we are, I think we're up
eighty spots in about seven different categories from one year
to year two. So I believe that when you look
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at it, what will look like in your three, like,
how will that work? It'll work when you go year
three and you are able to score twenty four to
thirty points in every game play.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And you mentioned something there about demand that we talked
about a lot, especially coming out of the Wisconsin game.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
He's nineteen.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
When you're evaluating him, how much do you allow that
to be a part of the context of the evaluation
that he's nineteen years old.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Well, I said to him, you know the other day,
I said, Demand, the most valuable thing you'll be able
to do is bank reps. Right, Like, Okay, I remember
when I was backed up against Wisconsin and I thought
I needed to make a Superman play. Now, I remember
I could just take a sack, or I can hand
the ball off or whatever it might be. If you
look at some of the things he did in this
past game, there was no Superman plays, and yet he
(13:21):
played an elite game. Those are the type of things
that we want him to bank. And I think from
going from nineteen to twenty or twenty to twenty one,
it's also going from year one as a starter to
year two as a starter.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
He didn't start last year. He started two games.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So yeah, he talked about getting bigger, obviously talked about
Demon Williams being young. Some of those numbers and rankings
have gone up tremendously from where they were a year ago.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They've gone from one.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Hundred and fourth to twenty fourth, and scoring they've gone
from one hundred and first to third in the country
and third down percentage. They've obviously made some progress with
their red zone touchdown percentage, which has gone from fifty
five to seventy four percent, I believe, from the last
year to this year. But there still is kind of
(14:07):
that question mark is this an offense and only shows
up when the opponent looks like they did on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Greg, Yeah, you got to look at the splits, the
home versus road splits, and I think overwhelming. P Ponna's
evidence is that at home they're significantly better than they
are on the road, especially when they are in Big
Ten play, and it hasn't just.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Been this year. I think that carries through even to
last year.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You know, I'm excited that we've run won twenty five
out of the last twenty six games at home, one
of the best home field advantages in the country. But
it's still there's still something to figure out. There's still
something to do differently or to understand why when we
go on the road that is completely different. And yeah,
I believe that, you know, the youngness and the youth
(14:54):
of this team is.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Part of that.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I think there's some philosophical things. We talked about it
a little bit off the air. I think defense and
running the football carries on the road, and those are
things that regardless of the weather, regardless of the opponent,
if you have a solid, you know, consistent run game
that you are willing to go to and slug some
(15:16):
games out, especially in the Big Ten, where you're okay
with running the ball on first down and second down
series after series and taking a shot on third down.
And we've been pretty good on third down, you know, that's,
you know, something that we've succeeded at. So I love
to see us be more patient with our offense. And
you know, I do believe that part of that theory
(15:37):
and that way of playing relies on your punt game
to do well, and right now we're not doing well there,
so maybe that's a bigger thing. You know, you got
to be able to flip that field, make your opponent
have to drive eighty plus yards, and then when you
get the ball, you know, hopefully you're in that sixty
yard in zone and that's where you know you can
flip those and win those slug it out games. So
(15:57):
our kicking game and our punt game in particular might
be a bigger issue than we're really you know, looking
at here in some of these road games, because that's
what I think. We got to run the ball more
on the road, have more consistent, patient run game, and
played the full position battle.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, they've actually gone from fifty five percent red zone
touchdowns to seventy nine percent red zone touchdowns, so big
big jump in that category. But I mean Mario just
kind of piggybacking on what Greg was saying there. Like
Jonah Coleman, I know he was out for the game
on Saturday versus Perdue, but he's averaging six yards of
carry at home, three point three yards of carry on
the road, nine touchdowns at home, four touchdowns on the road. Now,
(16:33):
obviously a big chunk of that is what he did
against CSU and UC Davis. The guy had seven touchdowns
in the first two games of the year, and he's
got what he's got. He's got six the rest of
the way, and he's just not been the same guy
that he's been the first couple of games of the year.
So do you see a football team and do you
agree with what Jed said there? That part of the
(16:55):
evaluation process has got to be the context of de
Mont Williams being nineteen years old in some ways kind
of giving the kid a bit of a break.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yes, I give the kid a break. I understand he's
getting paid and he's really a professional football player, But
I do say he's nineteen years old and probably hasn't
had but eleven start somewhere around there in his life,
and you have to give him a break, and he's
still learning and he's still figuring it out. But we
can't always make excuses for coach Fish and Jonah Coleman.
(17:27):
I say, is one of the most disappointing seasons. To
start off like that. We were thinking All American Heisman Trophy,
he was going to be doing these things. But we
really haven't seen Jonah Coleman since the first three games,
maybe since Washington State actually put up anything. And I
don't blame that specifically just on coach Fish. He's not
trying to run the ball. I just feel like when
(17:49):
we looked at Jonah in the beginning of the season,
Greg talked about he had a burst, he looked pretty fast.
As the season progresses now he just looks like a
running back. I hope that he can finish strong. Though.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, let's go come back and talk about how they
fix that going into the final three games, Greg, and
how they fix it going in the next year. You know,
Jed talked about how they still have to get bigger
on their offensive line. They're just still not where they
need to be to compete and survive in the Big
ten and the trenches. We got a lot more to
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Speaker 2 (18:28):
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Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey and Dave Safti Mullard on your
Home for the Husky Sports Radio ninety three point three
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Speaker 3 (18:41):
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(19:04):
dot com. So, Greg, let's go back to that running
game discussion for a second. I think if I would
have told you over the offseason the Huskies would go
from one hundredth in the nation and rushing offense to
fifty seventh, you would have said that's a pretty good jump.
But a lot of that's due to Demon Williams running
the football and not Joonah Coleman. So are we kind
of at a point in the year now where you're
(19:26):
ten games in, you got three games left to go
where you kind of are what you kind of are
at this point, and there ain't gonna be much room
for improvement either way with this running game. How much
can they get better? How much do they have to
get better next year?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, I think the running game is producing the with
the opportunities that has been given. And I formally believe
that we don't run the ball enough. We could run
the ball ten times more per game, and any running
back you look through, I think Jonah colemb is just
fine personally him himself. I think it's the opportunities to
(20:00):
get any running back across the country who's got a
thousand yards in all American it is averaging twenty yards.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Cary don agree and Mario that he's been a disappointment
this year.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Absolutely not. Joah Coleman is probably averaging.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I didn't say he's a disappointment.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I didn't, And I didn't say you said that.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Dave said you said that last second.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I said it's been a disappointing season.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Okay, okay, all right, Well, that's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
And I think that that disappointment squarely relies on the
play calling because Jonah Coleman, any running back that is
in the discussion for national awards and all that is
getting twenty yards to carry.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Jonah Coleman is.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Probably getting fourteen to fifteen yards of carry at the most.
And he's he carries.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
A game, carries a game, not marriage. Yeah, right, right, right.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Right, carries per game.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And he's missed the last game and a half, so
his opportunities and chances have gone down dramatically. Most guys,
I mean, they're running backs who you'll see on a
given Saturday have thirty three and thirty four carries, you
know for the big two hundred and fifty yards and
all of that. So we're our passing offense. We throw
the football more than we run it. I mean, we
(21:07):
talk about balance and you know it's not overwhelming all
the time, but we clearly are not committed to running
the ball with Jonah Coleman twenty to twenty five times
a game, which is what you would need in order
to be, you know, a candidate for all the postseason awards.
So I think Jonah Coman's fine I think if we
made a commitment to running the football, he would easily
(21:27):
go over one hundred yards. You know, I was glad
for the running backs this week, but that was against
a Purdue team where one carry produced the seventy yard
run just about. You know, so the numbers are skewed
a little bit against Purdue. But in the heart of
Big Ten play, we just have not gone to the
running game enough. And that's just you know, Coach Fish,
that's who he is. I don't expect him to change.
I don't expect him to be any different because that's
(21:49):
who he is and that's what he's comfortable calling.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
So it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, well, Mario, thank you for correcting me. Jonah has
not been a disappointment. The run game has been a disappointment.
The season he's in some ways has been a disappointment because,
as you said, we thought this, there's a chance this
guy was going to be an All American, first team
All American right type Canada, you know, first team Big ten,
and he's not even close to getting any Big Ten
onners right now. And Greg's right that, you know, he's
(22:14):
basically missed the last two games. He's got five carries
in the last eight quarters of football, so that's going
to skew his numbers dramatically. But I guess to Greg's
point there, do we ever even expect, as long as
Jet Fish as the head coach of this football team,
for this team to be anywhere near amongst the best
running teams in the country.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Mario, I'm not sure. And Gig, if we could go
back and listen to the first few weeks, like Coach
Fish was actually letting Jonah get in, he let him
stay in to make sure he got five testdowns, give
it a hundred yards. Like you talk about numbers being skewed,
the numbers exkewed for those first three games. Those first
(22:52):
three opponents weren't that great Big Ten played from this
year and last year. We just aren't running the ball well.
And I'm not sure or if it's a coach Fish
not wanting to run. We talked about that forever, but
w'ere you look at Jonah's average in Big Ten play
and he's averaging maybe three yards of carry, so there's
something to that. But we don't pass the ball well either,
(23:15):
So you can talk about Coach Fish not wanting to
run the ball. We don't pass the ball that Well,
why are you looking at You think we passed the ball.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Well, dude, we are on pace to set the team
record for completion percentage.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
For percentage, you know we're we're throwing. We're throwing hitches
and slants. We don't go downfield. We don't throw the
ball downfield. I don't care about percentage. I care about
actually making plays and scoring touchdowns. You're talking about a
percentage you can have seventy percent if you throw flats, flats,
slants and quick outs.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Well, Mario, they've just showed you how well our touchdown
percentage is seventy nine percent in the red zone. We're
leading the nation in third down conversion percentage, which is
throwing the football. I haven't I didn't prepare the numbers
today because I didn't know you were going to make
that outlandish statement. But I can guarantee you that when
it looks at passing yardage, we're one of the most
(24:14):
productive passing teams in the country and we score what.
There was games where we were eleven twelve series in
a row with scoring touchdowns because of our passing game,
because we aren't running the football like that. So I
think we throw the ball just fine, and the percentages
and the numbers bear that out. The run game certainly
(24:35):
is secondary, you know, it's complementary, and I think at
the beginning of the year the reason that it looked
good is you were trying to bring along a brand
new starting quarterback against teams that were less than so
you allowed the running game to be a big part
of the offense. As you've got Demond Williams up the
speed and now that you know he's had those starts
and he's got some experience, you're unleashing Demond Williams and
(24:58):
that's you know, I don't have a necessarily a problem
with that. I'm just saying I'm not going to look
at the run game is say that it's not doing
well when we just frankly don't run the football well.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'm looking on Sati, go ahead. We don't pass the
ball will Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin. If we were
to pass the ball will, we would score and we
would pass on those teams. We don't pass the ball well.
We passed the ball well. We run the ball well
against a Purdue and Washington State. Our passing game is
(25:30):
not what you would call great, even good when we're
playing an opponent that has a great defense.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I mean, that's that's fair because what Mario's talking about,
Greg is that he's not going to be satisfied until
he sees it against legit competition. That I understand. I
also agree with what Jed said earlier this week that
expecting these guys to put up forty against Ohio State,
against Wisconsin, against Michigan not going to happen. But can
(25:58):
you score twenty four? Can you score twenty one? Can
you score twenty I mean they've scored and Greg, you've
mentioned this yourself seven six and ten in those three
games that we talked about against Michigan State and Wisconsin.
When the Hoskies go and it's typically on the road,
as you've talked about, when they go on the road
and they face teams like that, when they face legitimate,
(26:19):
big time, big ten defenses. This year, and we'll see
what happens against Oregon in a couple weeks from now,
their offense totally falls apart, totally falls apart. So I
get looking at the numbers, but there's also a lot
of I think fans like me and Mario that strongly
desire as I know you do as well, Greg. For
this football team to get back to showing it no
matter who they're playing on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Yeah, I've been clear that they have not played well
on the road against whatever the competition is. But to
say that they don't pass the ball well, I think
is a misnomer. Because you play who's on your schedule.
I mean, you have twelve games, and if there are
three of them that weren't that great, you got to
figure out what you didn't do well in those two
or three games. Sometimes it's your opponent. I don't think
(27:03):
anyone's passed the ball well against Ohio State or run
the ball well against Ohio State, one of the best
defenses I've ever seen. So you know there's that. But
I think we have twelve games on the schedule, and
if you throw the ball well in nine of those
twelve games, then you threw the ball well. You can't
just disregard and say that, oh, those games don't matter,
they don't count because there who's on your schedule. Those
(27:25):
other teams practice and they play defense just like everyone else,
and there's only a few teams you're gonna play a
year that are like Ohio State, and Michigan.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Well, the Huskies are six.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Demand is six in the country, and completion percentage that
just under seventy three percent. NCAA, for some stupid reason,
tracks yards per completion and not yards per attempt on
their official website. So they've got you dubbed at thirty
first in the country and yards per completion. I've got
demanded just over nine yards per attempt, which in college football,
(27:54):
I think you'd love that number to be a little
bit higher in college football.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That would look good in the NFL, but maybe.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah, maybe, I mean just the deep threats, right, you
want those deep threats. You want to be able to
stretch the defense a little bit more, I think is
what you're talking about. So let's do this. Let's let's
come back and talk about UCLA. Because if anybody thinks
that Udub's just gonna walk into the Rose Pall and
just skate out of there with a win, dude, They've
lost nine of ten games against UCLA in that stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This has been a house of horrors for you. We'll
get to that next.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
The Husky Hawks on a Wednesday night right here on
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Speaker 2 (28:27):
Now back to the Coors Line Husky Hanks on Tuesdays.
Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey and Dave Sati Mullen on your
Home for the Husky Sports Radio ninety three point three
KJR FM.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
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I know when you hear those four letters, Greg, sometimes
you get a little little PTSD, maybe from a game
back in nineteen ninety. I don't blame you at all, man,
But what in the world, guys, has been the problem
with this football team going down to Pasadena. They've lost
(29:23):
nine of ten games to UCLA at the Rose Ball?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Is it kids from California? Greg?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You think just getting nervous playing in front of family
and friends. Is that the atmosphere, which kind of usually stinks.
To be honest with you, why has this team had
so many issues winning at the Rose Ball?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Dude, Yeah, that I can't necessarily put my finger on
you know. I remember my first game at UCLA and
it was my first ever career start. I've told this
story on the air before, and the first played a game,
I fumbled the football. Well, I didn't have relatives in
La and it had nothing to do necessarily. And that day, UCLA,
I think was ranked number two in the country, and
(30:00):
it was a nationally televised game, and it was a crowded,
full Rose Bowl Troy Aikman and all of those guys.
So it's different teams, it's different reasons, you know. I
can't really put my finger on it. My junior year,
we went down there and we fell behind twenty one
to nothing. We did, fortunately some great plays by Mario
on fourth down and a great run by me on
(30:21):
third and eleven at the end, you know, to win it.
The two guys on the radio show had a big,
big role in that we were able to come back
and win. But it's been a house of horrors. I
personally just hate ECLA. I mean, I blew my knee
out and did my national championship run impacted my entire
football career, and that was at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
But it was a guy with the powder blue and
gold helmet. So I don't know. LA has just been
a bad omen for the Dogs.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, Mario, how do you explain that, dude?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Because if you one thing, if this was like a
really solid program for twenty years, that every time you
go there, they're a top five football team, but that
has not been the case at all.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
No, I don't know. The good old Rose Bowl every
time we do play UCLA, and you know, I give
Greg a hard time. Sandy cost us, but in reality
we were supposed to win that game with or without him,
and they came in there and destroyed us and Greg
my true sophomore year, Greg's junior year, we went out there,
we were down twenty one. Nothing made a comeback. I
(31:18):
think of Michael Pennix in them, and when they went
out there, it was a struggle and they got beat up.
It's just one of those teams, like you know, we
played packed pack ten, pac twelve pack eight, whatever you're playing.
When you're playing UCLA in Washington, it's just gonna be
a good game no matter what.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Yeah, and they look like they're kind of back greg
that be in Ucla. They had those wins over Penn State,
Michigan State, Maryland, Indiana clocked them fifty six to six.
Nebraska got him at the Rolls Ball twenty eight twenty one,
Ucla forty eight to ten. Now two of those three
teams are the top two teams in the country obviously, Yeah,
before the Husky game on Saturday. But I mean, Nico,
(31:55):
we don't even know if he's gonna play in this game.
Nico Malayava, sorry, how to concussion and miss the game
last week? Luke Duncan was the starting quarterback. And I
don't know, man, I just feel like this is one
of those games where crazy wonky wacky things happen, and
we're kind of looking for Demon Williams to put together
back to back good games, which we haven't seen very often.
(32:18):
And does this qualify. I know it's on the road,
but it's not a big time elite opponent, and you're
playing if they can go on the road, and Demon
Williams looks good, will that start to kind of heal
that one for you a little bit?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
About playing on the road.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Yeah, absolutely, I don't care who the opponent is. It's
about being away from Husky Stadium, being out of the
state of Washington. You know, of course we're not traveling
two time zones and playing at weird times. I still
think that that impacts young people, and you know, those
are things we're just gonna have to figure out along
the lines. But for me, it's just going on the
(32:51):
road into Big Ten and getting those wins, because you're
gonna do that four or five times a year each year, right,
and so if we can figure that piece out, and
with the advantage we have in Hussy Stadium, it's going
to put us in a position each year where we
can potentially compete for a Big Ten championship or a
potential opportunity to get into the playoff by winning those
(33:12):
road games. This year, if you think about the Michigan
game and the Wisconsin game, two teams, I think if
we played them at home, we might win those football games.
I'm not going to say we definitely win them, but
we might win those football games. We'd be in a
position to compete for the national playoffs. So it's about
figuring out how to get those wins on the road
and against the UCLA. You know, they've struggled a little bit,
(33:34):
but they've played some decent football. So if we can
go out and get this win on the road, for me,
I'll feel a lot better about making progress to figuring
that scenario out.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, Mario, put yourself in the shoes of Martin Jarmond,
who's the.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
UCLA athletic director.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
If you're him or you kind of watching Jed Fish
a little bit closer on the sideline this Saturday, is
a potential answer for you down the road.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I don't know. I don't know how athletic directors feel
about coach Fish, but you know what, are we thirteen
and ten with coach Fish? To me, that's you know,
I don't know if you should be looking for somebody
like that unless they're like doing something spectacular. I don't
feel like the job he's done so far Washington is spectacular.
I do feel like he's been a great recruiter and
(34:21):
does a great job, but on the field, record wise,
we haven't been spectaclar All.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Right, good stuff, guys. We got seven thirty UCLA on
Saturday three thirty. Pregame from Tom's watch Bar across from
Climate Prege Pledge Arena. We will see you there and
talk on Saturday before the Dogs take on UCLA. Back
tomorrow from the five twenty bar and grill at three
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