September 4, 2024 • 23 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about USC beating LSU in Las Vegas on Sunday, Kirk Herbstreit bringing his dog into the broadcast booths, Oregon not beating Idaho by very much, and some Dawgs football.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
How are you? I was week number one of the
college football season. For you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was cool. I was pleasantly surprised by some things,
shocked at some others. The game I did. Arizona State
was way better than I thought they would be, and
Wyoming was terrible. Despite winning nine games last year and
beating Texas Tech and the opener, Wyoming really struggles on
the road, and that might have been part of it.
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But man, Arizona State looked a lot better than they
did last year when I did their games against Oklahoma
State and Fresno State. So there was that. But at
the same time, I guess USC was the biggest kind
of shock to me. And there was a one really
glaring difference, which was they tackled like they tackled defensively,
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they were accountable defensively, they had trust in each other. Defensively,
you couldn't just line up and run over USC and
put yourself in a position to win the game. Now, LSU,
because they're LSU, and they're big, strong and fast and
they have great athletes, and they're a blue blood. They
were in a position to win that game. But then
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at the same time, USC was the more poised football team.
I've said it a couple times, but it bears repeating.
If you had told me on Saturday that on Sunday
a player in the game in Vegas was going to
be flagged fifteen yards for scoring a touchdown and doing
a fake shotgun blast in the opponent's phase, I would
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have sworn, like, heyw of course that's a USC guy.
And it wasn't. And that was kind of It wasn't
just one isolated thing. That was kind of what happened
throughout the game, so much so that that poor Brian
Kelly went full Nikita Krushchev after the game. I mean,
he didn't take a shoe off, but he might as well.
I mean, he took personal accountability, but he slammed the table,
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which made him look kind of silly. But the point
is that was a shock to me. And then the
other thing about USC that I found, that's something that
I told you about. I told you about the hires.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
They made Lynn right, the DC correct.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, and they made adjustments in halftime. Who knew Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, who knew that was possible? Who would have thought
you could actually make adjustments inside the locker room based
on what you saw in half number one.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They didn't look like a soft, big twelve air a team.
For the first time in the Lincoln Riley era, the
linebackers tackled and these are people that had been there before,
a lot of them, and a couple transfers like the
Oregon State guys looked great. A leaky Arnold and mascarenas uh.
And then come Ramsey who came over from UCLA was
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tackling like an animal, and I was impressed. Matt Enz,
the guy who was at North Dakota State is the
linebacker coach. He was the head coach there, and they
know how to tackle there, of course, and he's got
a much different level athlete to deal with. And Doug
Belk in the secondary. I was impressed. And then Lincoln
Riley calling plays on time like for a guy who's
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throwing the ball when you ask him to. We all
agree Caleb Williams is spectacular, but that doesn't help the
identity of the team. When you improvise, improvise, improvise, overall,
no one really ends up knowing what to do in
any given situation. And I thought Miller Moss was great.
I really. I mean, there's been guys at USC, Caleb Williams,
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Sam Darnold, Marquise Lee. There's been some individually great performances
over the years since the Pete Carroll era, but I, well,
that's the Pete Carroll era. Since the Pete Carroll era,
those were great teams. You don't agree with that. I'm saying,
this is the this is the best team effort I've
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seen from USC since maybe ed Ogeron was the interim.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know, well, I'm glad to hear you talk so
glowingly about your alma mater. I was.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I was. I was pleasantly surprised. You know. I didn't think.
I didn't think they'd be as bad as last year,
but I think there I thought there would be an
element of them being pushed around a little bit, and
there was no element of that at all. Their defense
put them in a position to win the game, and
then they went and won the game. So I was.
It was impressive, just like Darth Vader says, Just like
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Darth Vader says in Empire, impressive, most impressive.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's not bad, do we do? We really think though,
that a fake shotgun blast should be a personal foul
and a fifteen year d I mean it's not like
it was an AK forty seven or like an oozy
or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I mean, well, I think a shot I would do
terrible damage as well. I read a lot of and
you know that range.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
We're just we're just like play acting here, like you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, but I mean you can't. That would get you
a flag at any level of football. I can't go
into the other guy's face and go blam. You can't.
That's just absolutely uncalled for out there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Hey, was was that order on that?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Bloom? Kabloom kabloom.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't know. I wasn't there, so I don't know
who was there.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, you don't have to be there to know that
he was there or not.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Hell, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
if he was there. I know dog was there.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, now he's taking some heat and he went online.
I don't give a damn what you people think. He's
my best friend. Yeah, wife loves it. My wife loves ben.
My got you cannot get enough of that Dog's Yeah,
bother you that he brings his dog on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yes, why I mean, I've always felt like, once you're
done with Pop Warner, like your practice field or where
you're playing football, you should and have to deal with
somebody's dog. I've always felt that way, and I've always
had a problem with people bringing their dogs to football.
I don't like it. And the truth is, no one else,
literally no one else, no one else is allowed to
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bring their dog except for Herbstreet. And if you've ever
called a game or been in those environments, especially big games,
like he does, it's got to be a massive pain
in the ass to everybody. It's not like I have
some perspective of your wife sitting at home like hey,
I love the dog. It's like, okay, that's a massive
pain in the ass for people that probably aren't paid
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any extra to deal with somebody's dog because Herbstreet's having
an emotional crisis or whatever it is. And look, there's
a few ways to think about it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
There's the perspective of he's like Lebron James or Kobe
and at this point he can do whatever he wants
because of what he's created. But he's also been paid
maybe one hundred million dollars to do the job over
the years. There's a lot that I like about herb Street.
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I love the way he treats Corso. I think he's
a great guy. I think he's a little bit leveraged
as far as being an analyst because he's friends with everybody.
But that's what happens when you're at the top level.
You end up celebrating everybody you come across, kind of overtly,
and that's the job. I think he does a great job.
The dog thing is it bugs me. I'm sorry to say,
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but it would bug me if it was anybody. I
remember Susie Schuster, who was a reporter in LA. She's
married to rich Eisen, who doesn't like me either. She
brought her dog to USC practice and I literally threw
a conniption fit years ago on the radio, off the
radio and made Pete Carroll admit that it was wrong
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and it shouldn't be allowed on radio. Wow. Yeah, I
appreciate it. He said, we have the dog out there, Petrols,
You're right, we don't want it crapping her on the
field or something like that. We used it as a
box forever. Those were in happier times. You know, oh god,
there's pictures of Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson happy and smiling,
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and you know, anyway, p.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Even a Fowler wanted to bring, like his peaking ease
or his shaha.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well pretty sure, Like what at what point? How many
dogs are we going to allow?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
How many just just Herb Street? Right? How many? I
was on the radio with LeVar Arrington this morning and
he's like, well, I bring my dog mister sticks everywhere,
and I was I was like, well, yeah, it's like, well,
you're a Hall of Famer. I was like, you're a
Hall of College Football hall of Famer, you in Herb Street.
I guess you guys get to do whatever you want
and nobody else. But I mean, I don't like it
when the rules only apply to literally one person in
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the sport gets to bring his dog and everybody over it.
And I don't like it? Well should I? I don't
hate dogs. I don't hate I'm allergic to dogs. You
know a lot of people are, and I and and
you know, it's football. People are breaking their legs and
out there and it's a place of business. It's not
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a place for your dog. Okay, well, Gina loves it.
We saw she was, well, that's what it's become. It's
become like a Taylor Swift thing. It's like, well, I'll
watch the game just because I might see the dog,
you know, because I love Retrievers. Right.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
She was sitting next to ESPN's booth for the Michigan
game and she's like, Ben, it's Ben. It's like, what,
who's Ben? Oh? The dog walked up right next to
the plexiglass, right between the sweet that she was in,
and there's Ben. The highlight of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
If you're asking, it's dog nepotism.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So Petro is not a fan of Ben. Don't don't
bring Ben on the road. Keep no, that again's Ben.
I mean, the poor dog. It can't be good for
the dog being on like three private jets or six
flights every weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Either, Like what do you all right?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Any vets out there? Tell us? Is it is?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It? Is? It?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Is it traumatizing for Ben to have to fly at
a a a jet.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
My dog lives in this My dog lives in the
sky like George Clooney in that movie.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Petros Papadaccus with us. Did you get a chance to
watch any of the Husky Weaver game over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is it blacked out where you live to No? No, No.
I have Cox and Cox blocks a lot, but do
you have what Cox cable? Cox? Cox blocks a lot
of stuff, but it doesn't block that. So Cox doesn't
have an issue right now with the blockage. So I
but I didn't watch it. I was I think it
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was on while I was on. Yeah, whatever, I mean,
that's kind of like it's that's sort of the argument
as to why that USC game was so great. And
you know this from having Michigan State a couple of
years ago, which sort of put washing it on the
map early and Panix and all that. I mean, people
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watch when you play somebody meaningful and it's way bit
bigger than beating Weber or Utah State by thirty forty points.
Everybody feels it. And it's a great argument for y
s he should be playing Notre Dame every year. Bothers me, everything,
bothers me, I hate everything, everybody, I hate everything and
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everybody what so what from the West Coast where people
actually live.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, we have.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
On the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I'm literally on the West coast right now.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm not yea thousand miles, but like any moment, any moment,
you could be hit by like a falling tree or
like a lumber like shooting down. Wait a minute, time out.
Weren't you the guy that walked into a tree that
that did what I That was a terrible moment and
I don't want to think about it. It happened years two,
three years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Now what else is bugging you that that?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'm fine? I'm fine. I was wasn't wasn't I positive
about USC? I never watched I didn't. I didn't watch
the Weber game.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
No, you got and they got pissed off about Ben.
How about Idaho push an Oregon around about Yeah, I
didn't watch that either.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hawaiian pushed the CLA around.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well that's because UCLA is terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, but I mean UCLA is enormous compared to Hawaii.
Just physically. You can't go out there and just not
be able to move the ball. My god, say enormous again, enormous.
What's wrong with the first time I said it? I
just I just like the way you said it. Enormous. Well,
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I didn't, I didn't see Idaho. But to see the
vandals who are fcs like Weber go in there, go
in there and grab the duck by its tail feathers
and flipping around. What happened to Dylan Gabriel. He didn't
do anything like what happened.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't know. He didn't play well. The offensive line
didn't do well for Oregon. They're panicking in the streets
and they're playing mighty Boise State this Saturday. My god,
like a thousand points to Georgia Southern on side on
the road though, I mean they were Boise was on
the road and they're running back who's maybe the best
running back probably in the country, and he had six
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touchdowns from from Frisco, Texas. He scored six touchdowns and
he might kick Orgon in the nuts. That's fine by me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You knew who coordinates for Boyce? C uh?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Tell me who their new OC is. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's Dirk Cutter.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He's back.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
He went back. Yeah, they have that young guy, Spencer Danielson,
the coach from Azusa Pacific, who's the most famous football
player ever from Azusa Pacific. Christian correct the Nigerian Nightmare
backed up by Barry Word. Anyway, the point is uh
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the great h Spencer. Danielson needed to hire a new
offensive coordinator because his old offensive coordinator, guy whose first
name was Bush. Your dad's bush Ah Bush Hampden. I
don't know where he was.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Missouri.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, he went to Missou, Missou on his zoo. We'll
never leave you anyway. You had to hire him. He's
at Kentucky now, yeah, one of them places. So Bush
rolled out and Spencer had to hire a new offensive coordinator.
And he had like three candidates, and he brought them
before the Altar of Dirk Cutter, which is where all
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these boys he guys go to worship that and they
go do their vespers at the altar of Dirk Cutter
and Chris Peterson and they he took the three candidates
to the altar of Dirk, and he said, who of
these men should I hire? Oh, boise wise one, and
Dirk said, Dirk said, I don't like any of them?
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Ill do it?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Is that how it went down?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yes? And thus he spoken he has spoken to the
young coach Danielson like the young David in the Old Testament.
And now Danielson, who's a defensive guy, is rolling in
with coach Dirk and they might. They might kick Organ's nuts.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, we got u Dub's got Eastern Michigan Saturday.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh great.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Chris Creighton went to Roosevelt High School here in Seattle.
He's their head coach. Now a little factoid for you.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh good, You can ask him like, what was it
like back of the day?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know we had him on the are yesterday's.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Oh was it like that? Did you ask him? Hey,
what are you saying? What was it like back of
the day?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
What do you remember about Husky Stadium?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah? Did you used to go watch the Seattle super Sonics?
Remember how cool that was? Hey? Remember griff Remember Griffy?
Remember Mario Bailey?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Why are you talking like Pete Carroll? That sounds like
Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's my imitation to you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That doesn't send anything like me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Most of my invitations don't send anything like the person
leave me, you do.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
An impression of me that actually sounds like me.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Wazoo's got Texas Tech this Saturday. Man in Pulman. They
put seventy on Portland State. They couds might feel legit.
I'm starting to get concerned about the Apple cup. Ja
loves Saturday Gina loves Ben.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I don't know Texas Tech for on the spot. Texas
Tech is uh well coached. I like Texas Tech and
they have a great running back in Taj Brooks.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Didn't they just give up like a thousand points this weekend? Though?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
To Abilene Christian who Jesus is, Listen, they sho an
election year and you can't. It's gonna be hard to
go against Jesus. Jesus struck blows before every football game,
everybody prays to Jesus that Jesus will help them win.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Did you do that well?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I used to, though I am a Christian, I used
to say, I'm pretty sure those guys think Jesus is
with them too. I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Though I have a Christian.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I told you I used to tell the guys on
the team, well, you didn't have to worry about it.
This kid doesn't look Jewish. But I used to tell
the guys. I used to tell the guys on the
team like, listen, man, Jesus, you know he didn't make
us do this. Jesus is not making us play football.
I mean, we could pray that our legs don't snap off,
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but we can act like We're not happy when theirs don't.
We're bad guys.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah you did root for the opponent to get hurt,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, break a rid well. I mean, since one of
our team goals was to knock the opposing teams quarterback out,
I would say, yes, that's right, we want to knock
that guy out of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
We want to finish that guy right now. Hell yeah,
Dick Baird would say that before every game. I want
to see the backup. Stupid idiot, Kimmy, stupid idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Number two guys, remember Arizona State had a guy name
He was the guy that was after Plumber, and he
was actually kind of promising and then he literally had
like sixty uy's. I think his last name was Keeley
or something like that, played quarterback for Arizona State. I
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think Bruce Snyder was still the coach in these days,
and we were playing him at USC in ninety eight,
and we had a really great linebacker who won the
buck Gets that year, and he was a heavy, heavy
hitting middle linebacker, Ryan Keeley. And our linebacker was Chris Claiborne,
and he was Chris Claiborne was every part of two
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sixty five and six ' three and in the first
series of the game at the Coliseum, Ryan Keeley kind
of got caught on a rollout in no man's land
between running and throwing with Claiborne and on this true story,
and Claiborne dipped his shoulder and fired his legs and
I knew, because I played against the guy every day
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for years, I knew that Keeley was going to die,
that he was caught. And they literally he literally got
This was before they stretched people off and put guys
in a neck brace. He was literally dragged unconscious off
the field.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And I was like, I think he killed. It was
like the it was like the longest yard when they're like,
I think he broke us back. You know, everybody's saying
it like and that was an example of knocking the
opposing cornerback out of the cave. And it was Dick
and it was Dick Baird right there.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I want to see the number two. Stupid, stupid idiot.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The only other time that happened was I was a
sideline guy, like my first year being a sideline guy
for usc on radio, and Troy Polamalu misunderstood his uncle
Kennedy Polamalu's instructions. Kennedy's now you're running back coach at Seattle.
He's one of the great He's one of the great
people and coaches of all time and a mentor of
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mine and a wonderful person. And Kennedy used to Kennedy
got Troy and s C and was the special teams
coordinator when Troy was was there with Pete Carroll. And
apparently Kennedy told Troy he could get one penalty again.
But Troy didn't really understand, like what kind of severity
you know that would be? Like but uncle said, like
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that's literally how they talked, like it's like a freaking anime,
like oh but uncle. And and they were playing Kansas
State at at the coliseum and it was that guy Lockett,
not the one you guys have, but the other one
the the right. Maybe it wasn't Lockett, but the returner,
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one of the returners from Kansas State, and he was
remember Troy just hit him like the punt was like right,
I don't know whoever it was that the ball was
like fifteen yards away and the guy was standing there
and acted like he was getting fair catch it, and
Troy just I mean Troy knocked him into the the
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stratosphere and I thought that he had killed that guy too. Wow.
And the penalty came and Troub was.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Like, but uncle said, I don't think it was lock
it because he's twelve years younger than it was.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Said, No, it wasn't the receiver, locket. It was one
of the It was a corner of the return. All right,
those are the two.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Said, but uncle.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Knew that, young man, that is not acceptable penalty. But uncle,
young man like, you cannot do that, young man.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Okay, we gotta go. Oh god, all right, I love it.
You gotta buy this weekend, enjoy the weekend off, and
uh we'll talk Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I remember going out for Captains once and that Keeley
guy came out in jeans in his jersey because he
was ineligible from all his DUIs. And I was like,
hey man, let's what's going on? Well, no wonder he
got a d ui. You saw his face, Chris Playbour
drinking too and his head into a kayak.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
My god, we gotta go. Larry Stone coming up in
five as Jerry Depoto Dnzo that's right here on ninety
three to three kJ R FM.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah. Why don't you guys get wopped off again.
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Dakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
How are you? I was week number one of the
college football season. For you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was cool. I was pleasantly surprised by some things,
shocked at some others. The game I did. Arizona State
was way better than I thought they would be, and
Wyoming was terrible. Despite winning nine games last year and
beating Texas Tech and the opener, Wyoming really struggles on
the road, and that might have been part of it.
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But man, Arizona State looked a lot better than they
did last year when I did their games against Oklahoma
State and Fresno State. So there was that. But at
the same time, I guess USC was the biggest kind
of shock to me. And there was a one really
glaring difference, which was they tackled like they tackled defensively,
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they were accountable defensively, they had trust in each other. Defensively,
you couldn't just line up and run over USC and
put yourself in a position to win the game. Now, LSU,
because they're LSU, and they're big, strong and fast and
they have great athletes, and they're a blue blood. They
were in a position to win that game. But then
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at the same time, USC was the more poised football team.
I've said it a couple times, but it bears repeating.
If you had told me on Saturday that on Sunday
a player in the game in Vegas was going to
be flagged fifteen yards for scoring a touchdown and doing
a fake shotgun blast in the opponent's phase, I would
(02:51):
have sworn, like, heyw of course that's a USC guy.
And it wasn't. And that was kind of It wasn't
just one isolated thing. That was kind of what happened
throughout the game, so much so that that poor Brian
Kelly went full Nikita Krushchev after the game. I mean,
he didn't take a shoe off, but he might as well.
I mean, he took personal accountability, but he slammed the table,
(03:13):
which made him look kind of silly. But the point
is that was a shock to me. And then the
other thing about USC that I found, that's something that
I told you about. I told you about the hires.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
They made Lynn right, the DC correct.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, and they made adjustments in halftime. Who knew Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, who knew that was possible? Who would have thought
you could actually make adjustments inside the locker room based
on what you saw in half number one.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They didn't look like a soft, big twelve air a team.
For the first time in the Lincoln Riley era, the
linebackers tackled and these are people that had been there before,
a lot of them, and a couple transfers like the
Oregon State guys looked great. A leaky Arnold and mascarenas uh.
And then come Ramsey who came over from UCLA was
(04:03):
tackling like an animal, and I was impressed. Matt Enz,
the guy who was at North Dakota State is the
linebacker coach. He was the head coach there, and they
know how to tackle there, of course, and he's got
a much different level athlete to deal with. And Doug
Belk in the secondary. I was impressed. And then Lincoln
Riley calling plays on time like for a guy who's
(04:28):
throwing the ball when you ask him to. We all
agree Caleb Williams is spectacular, but that doesn't help the
identity of the team. When you improvise, improvise, improvise, overall,
no one really ends up knowing what to do in
any given situation. And I thought Miller Moss was great.
I really. I mean, there's been guys at USC, Caleb Williams,
(04:51):
Sam Darnold, Marquise Lee. There's been some individually great performances
over the years since the Pete Carroll era, but I, well,
that's the Pete Carroll era. Since the Pete Carroll era,
those were great teams. You don't agree with that. I'm saying,
this is the this is the best team effort I've
(05:11):
seen from USC since maybe ed Ogeron was the interim.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know, well, I'm glad to hear you talk so
glowingly about your alma mater. I was.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I was. I was pleasantly surprised. You know. I didn't think.
I didn't think they'd be as bad as last year,
but I think there I thought there would be an
element of them being pushed around a little bit, and
there was no element of that at all. Their defense
put them in a position to win the game, and
then they went and won the game. So I was.
It was impressive, just like Darth Vader says, Just like
(05:42):
Darth Vader says in Empire, impressive, most impressive.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's not bad, do we do? We really think though,
that a fake shotgun blast should be a personal foul
and a fifteen year d I mean it's not like
it was an AK forty seven or like an oozy
or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I mean, well, I think a shot I would do
terrible damage as well. I read a lot of and
you know that range.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
We're just we're just like play acting here, like you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, but I mean you can't. That would get you
a flag at any level of football. I can't go
into the other guy's face and go blam. You can't.
That's just absolutely uncalled for out there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Hey, was was that order on that?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Bloom? Kabloom kabloom.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't know. I wasn't there, so I don't know
who was there.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, you don't have to be there to know that
he was there or not.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Hell, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
if he was there. I know dog was there.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, now he's taking some heat and he went online.
I don't give a damn what you people think. He's
my best friend. Yeah, wife loves it. My wife loves ben.
My got you cannot get enough of that Dog's Yeah,
bother you that he brings his dog on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yes, why I mean, I've always felt like, once you're
done with Pop Warner, like your practice field or where
you're playing football, you should and have to deal with
somebody's dog. I've always felt that way, and I've always
had a problem with people bringing their dogs to football.
I don't like it. And the truth is, no one else,
literally no one else, no one else is allowed to
(07:14):
bring their dog except for Herbstreet. And if you've ever
called a game or been in those environments, especially big games,
like he does, it's got to be a massive pain
in the ass to everybody. It's not like I have
some perspective of your wife sitting at home like hey,
I love the dog. It's like, okay, that's a massive
pain in the ass for people that probably aren't paid
(07:36):
any extra to deal with somebody's dog because Herbstreet's having
an emotional crisis or whatever it is. And look, there's
a few ways to think about it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
There's the perspective of he's like Lebron James or Kobe
and at this point he can do whatever he wants
because of what he's created. But he's also been paid
maybe one hundred million dollars to do the job over
the years. There's a lot that I like about herb Street.
(08:08):
I love the way he treats Corso. I think he's
a great guy. I think he's a little bit leveraged
as far as being an analyst because he's friends with everybody.
But that's what happens when you're at the top level.
You end up celebrating everybody you come across, kind of overtly,
and that's the job. I think he does a great job.
The dog thing is it bugs me. I'm sorry to say,
(08:31):
but it would bug me if it was anybody. I
remember Susie Schuster, who was a reporter in LA. She's
married to rich Eisen, who doesn't like me either. She
brought her dog to USC practice and I literally threw
a conniption fit years ago on the radio, off the
radio and made Pete Carroll admit that it was wrong
(08:53):
and it shouldn't be allowed on radio. Wow. Yeah, I
appreciate it. He said, we have the dog out there, Petrols,
You're right, we don't want it crapping her on the
field or something like that. We used it as a
box forever. Those were in happier times. You know, oh god,
there's pictures of Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson happy and smiling,
(09:13):
and you know, anyway, p.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Even a Fowler wanted to bring, like his peaking ease
or his shaha.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well pretty sure, Like what at what point? How many
dogs are we going to allow?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
How many just just Herb Street? Right? How many? I
was on the radio with LeVar Arrington this morning and
he's like, well, I bring my dog mister sticks everywhere,
and I was I was like, well, yeah, it's like, well,
you're a Hall of Famer. I was like, you're a
Hall of College Football hall of Famer, you in Herb Street.
I guess you guys get to do whatever you want
and nobody else. But I mean, I don't like it
when the rules only apply to literally one person in
(09:50):
the sport gets to bring his dog and everybody over it.
And I don't like it? Well should I? I don't
hate dogs. I don't hate I'm allergic to dogs. You
know a lot of people are, and I and and
you know, it's football. People are breaking their legs and
out there and it's a place of business. It's not
(10:12):
a place for your dog. Okay, well, Gina loves it.
We saw she was, well, that's what it's become. It's
become like a Taylor Swift thing. It's like, well, I'll
watch the game just because I might see the dog,
you know, because I love Retrievers. Right.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
She was sitting next to ESPN's booth for the Michigan
game and she's like, Ben, it's Ben. It's like, what,
who's Ben? Oh? The dog walked up right next to
the plexiglass, right between the sweet that she was in,
and there's Ben. The highlight of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
If you're asking, it's dog nepotism.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So Petro is not a fan of Ben. Don't don't
bring Ben on the road. Keep no, that again's Ben.
I mean, the poor dog. It can't be good for
the dog being on like three private jets or six
flights every weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Either, Like what do you all right?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Any vets out there? Tell us? Is it is?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It? Is? It?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Is it traumatizing for Ben to have to fly at
a a a jet.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
My dog lives in this My dog lives in the
sky like George Clooney in that movie.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Petros Papadaccus with us. Did you get a chance to
watch any of the Husky Weaver game over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is it blacked out where you live to No? No, No.
I have Cox and Cox blocks a lot, but do
you have what Cox cable? Cox? Cox blocks a lot
of stuff, but it doesn't block that. So Cox doesn't
have an issue right now with the blockage. So I
but I didn't watch it. I was I think it
(11:37):
was on while I was on. Yeah, whatever, I mean,
that's kind of like it's that's sort of the argument
as to why that USC game was so great. And
you know this from having Michigan State a couple of
years ago, which sort of put washing it on the
map early and Panix and all that. I mean, people
(11:58):
watch when you play somebody meaningful and it's way bit
bigger than beating Weber or Utah State by thirty forty points.
Everybody feels it. And it's a great argument for y
s he should be playing Notre Dame every year. Bothers me, everything,
bothers me, I hate everything, everybody, I hate everything and
(12:19):
everybody what so what from the West Coast where people
actually live.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, we have.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
On the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I'm literally on the West coast right now.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm not yea thousand miles, but like any moment, any moment,
you could be hit by like a falling tree or
like a lumber like shooting down. Wait a minute, time out.
Weren't you the guy that walked into a tree that
that did what I That was a terrible moment and
I don't want to think about it. It happened years two,
three years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Now what else is bugging you that that?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'm fine? I'm fine. I was wasn't wasn't I positive
about USC? I never watched I didn't. I didn't watch
the Weber game.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
No, you got and they got pissed off about Ben.
How about Idaho push an Oregon around about Yeah, I
didn't watch that either.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hawaiian pushed the CLA around.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well that's because UCLA is terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, but I mean UCLA is enormous compared to Hawaii.
Just physically. You can't go out there and just not
be able to move the ball. My god, say enormous again, enormous.
What's wrong with the first time I said it? I
just I just like the way you said it. Enormous. Well,
(13:29):
I didn't, I didn't see Idaho. But to see the
vandals who are fcs like Weber go in there, go
in there and grab the duck by its tail feathers
and flipping around. What happened to Dylan Gabriel. He didn't
do anything like what happened.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't know. He didn't play well. The offensive line
didn't do well for Oregon. They're panicking in the streets
and they're playing mighty Boise State this Saturday. My god,
like a thousand points to Georgia Southern on side on
the road though, I mean they were Boise was on
the road and they're running back who's maybe the best
running back probably in the country, and he had six
(14:07):
touchdowns from from Frisco, Texas. He scored six touchdowns and
he might kick Orgon in the nuts. That's fine by me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You knew who coordinates for Boyce? C uh?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Tell me who their new OC is. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's Dirk Cutter.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He's back.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
He went back. Yeah, they have that young guy, Spencer Danielson,
the coach from Azusa Pacific, who's the most famous football
player ever from Azusa Pacific. Christian correct the Nigerian Nightmare
backed up by Barry Word. Anyway, the point is uh
(14:49):
the great h Spencer. Danielson needed to hire a new
offensive coordinator because his old offensive coordinator, guy whose first
name was Bush. Your dad's bush Ah Bush Hampden. I
don't know where he was.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Missouri.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, he went to Missou, Missou on his zoo. We'll
never leave you anyway. You had to hire him. He's
at Kentucky now, yeah, one of them places. So Bush
rolled out and Spencer had to hire a new offensive coordinator.
And he had like three candidates, and he brought them
before the Altar of Dirk Cutter, which is where all
(15:30):
these boys he guys go to worship that and they
go do their vespers at the altar of Dirk Cutter
and Chris Peterson and they he took the three candidates
to the altar of Dirk, and he said, who of
these men should I hire? Oh, boise wise one, and
Dirk said, Dirk said, I don't like any of them?
(15:52):
Ill do it?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Is that how it went down?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yes? And thus he spoken he has spoken to the
young coach Danielson like the young David in the Old Testament.
And now Danielson, who's a defensive guy, is rolling in
with coach Dirk and they might. They might kick Organ's nuts.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, we got u Dub's got Eastern Michigan Saturday.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh great.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Chris Creighton went to Roosevelt High School here in Seattle.
He's their head coach. Now a little factoid for you.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh good, You can ask him like, what was it
like back of the day?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know we had him on the are yesterday's.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Oh was it like that? Did you ask him? Hey,
what are you saying? What was it like back of
the day?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
What do you remember about Husky Stadium?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah? Did you used to go watch the Seattle super Sonics?
Remember how cool that was? Hey? Remember griff Remember Griffy?
Remember Mario Bailey?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Why are you talking like Pete Carroll? That sounds like
Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's my imitation to you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That doesn't send anything like me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Most of my invitations don't send anything like the person
leave me, you do.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
An impression of me that actually sounds like me.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Wazoo's got Texas Tech this Saturday. Man in Pulman. They
put seventy on Portland State. They couds might feel legit.
I'm starting to get concerned about the Apple cup. Ja
loves Saturday Gina loves Ben.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I don't know Texas Tech for on the spot. Texas
Tech is uh well coached. I like Texas Tech and
they have a great running back in Taj Brooks.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Didn't they just give up like a thousand points this weekend? Though?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
To Abilene Christian who Jesus is, Listen, they sho an
election year and you can't. It's gonna be hard to
go against Jesus. Jesus struck blows before every football game,
everybody prays to Jesus that Jesus will help them win.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Did you do that well?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I used to, though I am a Christian, I used
to say, I'm pretty sure those guys think Jesus is
with them too. I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Though I have a Christian.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I told you I used to tell the guys on
the team, well, you didn't have to worry about it.
This kid doesn't look Jewish. But I used to tell
the guys. I used to tell the guys on the
team like, listen, man, Jesus, you know he didn't make
us do this. Jesus is not making us play football.
I mean, we could pray that our legs don't snap off,
(18:21):
but we can act like We're not happy when theirs don't.
We're bad guys.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah you did root for the opponent to get hurt,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, break a rid well. I mean, since one of
our team goals was to knock the opposing teams quarterback out,
I would say, yes, that's right, we want to knock
that guy out of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
We want to finish that guy right now. Hell yeah,
Dick Baird would say that before every game. I want
to see the backup. Stupid idiot, Kimmy, stupid idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Number two guys, remember Arizona State had a guy name
He was the guy that was after Plumber, and he
was actually kind of promising and then he literally had
like sixty uy's. I think his last name was Keeley
or something like that, played quarterback for Arizona State. I
(19:12):
think Bruce Snyder was still the coach in these days,
and we were playing him at USC in ninety eight,
and we had a really great linebacker who won the
buck Gets that year, and he was a heavy, heavy
hitting middle linebacker, Ryan Keeley. And our linebacker was Chris Claiborne,
and he was Chris Claiborne was every part of two
(19:34):
sixty five and six ' three and in the first
series of the game at the Coliseum, Ryan Keeley kind
of got caught on a rollout in no man's land
between running and throwing with Claiborne and on this true story,
and Claiborne dipped his shoulder and fired his legs and
I knew, because I played against the guy every day
(19:56):
for years, I knew that Keeley was going to die,
that he was caught. And they literally he literally got
This was before they stretched people off and put guys
in a neck brace. He was literally dragged unconscious off
the field.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And I was like, I think he killed. It was
like the it was like the longest yard when they're like,
I think he broke us back. You know, everybody's saying
it like and that was an example of knocking the
opposing cornerback out of the cave. And it was Dick
and it was Dick Baird right there.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I want to see the number two. Stupid, stupid idiot.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The only other time that happened was I was a
sideline guy, like my first year being a sideline guy
for usc on radio, and Troy Polamalu misunderstood his uncle
Kennedy Polamalu's instructions. Kennedy's now you're running back coach at Seattle.
He's one of the great He's one of the great
people and coaches of all time and a mentor of
(20:53):
mine and a wonderful person. And Kennedy used to Kennedy
got Troy and s C and was the special teams
coordinator when Troy was was there with Pete Carroll. And
apparently Kennedy told Troy he could get one penalty again.
But Troy didn't really understand, like what kind of severity
you know that would be? Like but uncle said, like
(21:14):
that's literally how they talked, like it's like a freaking anime,
like oh but uncle. And and they were playing Kansas
State at at the coliseum and it was that guy Lockett,
not the one you guys have, but the other one
the the right. Maybe it wasn't Lockett, but the returner,
(21:35):
one of the returners from Kansas State, and he was
remember Troy just hit him like the punt was like right,
I don't know whoever it was that the ball was
like fifteen yards away and the guy was standing there
and acted like he was getting fair catch it, and
Troy just I mean Troy knocked him into the the
(21:56):
stratosphere and I thought that he had killed that guy too. Wow.
And the penalty came and Troub was.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Like, but uncle said, I don't think it was lock
it because he's twelve years younger than it was.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Said, No, it wasn't the receiver, locket. It was one
of the It was a corner of the return. All right,
those are the two.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Said, but uncle.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Knew that, young man, that is not acceptable penalty. But uncle,
young man like, you cannot do that, young man.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Okay, we gotta go. Oh god, all right, I love it.
You gotta buy this weekend, enjoy the weekend off, and
uh we'll talk Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I remember going out for Captains once and that Keeley
guy came out in jeans in his jersey because he
was ineligible from all his DUIs. And I was like,
hey man, let's what's going on? Well, no wonder he
got a d ui. You saw his face, Chris Playbour
drinking too and his head into a kayak.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
My god, we gotta go. Larry Stone coming up in
five as Jerry Depoto Dnzo that's right here on ninety
three to three kJ R FM.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah. Why don't you guys get wopped off again.
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