November 26, 2025 • 19 mins
Rick Neuheisel, former UW coach now with CBS Sports, joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the Huskies win over UCLA last week, the game against Oregon this weekend, Jedd Fisch’s future, the Heisman trophy, USC, Miami, and more NCAAF.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
All boys and girls. Here we go in a busy
Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Normally this man would join us at three twenty on Thursdays.
But tomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I don't think Rick Neuheiseel. I
know he likes us, but I don't think he wants
to spend Thanksgiving with us. We're giving Kevin Harlan the
day off, Rick full disclosure, So you are you're taking
harlan spot here on the radio program?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I am thrilled to be with you boys today and tomorrow.
I would have been fine with you as well, except
I'll be in the air. I'm in Arizona. I'm going
to celebrate Thanksgiving to day with my crew, and then
I got to fly back because we got a double
header on Friday, and then we bring the Oregon Ducks
at the Washington Huskies on Saturday. That's right, be interested
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in that little game just a little bit happening over
there at that little venerable spot called Husky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yep, just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, let me let me first of all, because I
don't want to get in trouble here, let me just
start the radio show properly.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Another win for you, propski.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Props UNLV getting it done against Hawaii. You've crawled back
to seven and seven on the air, so we're looking
to get to above five hundred today where you're talking
a time pick of the week. But why don't we
first of all start off by I don't know how
much you saw.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The game last week.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It was a late game on the East Coast, obviously
seven thirty in LA, but Man, Ucla just looked terrible
against you. Dub jed Fish up thirty four to seven
early fourth quarter, is going for it on fourth and
one with Joannah Coleman and a gigantic knee brace just
to get the guy the touchdown. It's like the words
shut her down do not exist, and jed Fish's vocabulary
(02:05):
Rick at all.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, listen, not only that, it was the did I
watch it? I stayed up for every excruciating moment of
it because if my son had to go through it,
I said, I'm going through it too. Yeah. It was
a terrible night for the Bruins, and we could get
into that story, but it's not necessary. It was in
a great night for Washington. They wanted the Rose Bowl,
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and who knows if they'll be there again anytime soon,
so that was a cool thing. Jed obviously spent some
time there, so there was some nostalgia for him, and look,
he's trying to win games. No, no grudge held understood.
At the end of the day, It'll be interesting to
see now where Jed is. He's got this huge opportunity
(02:50):
to get a win over a college football playoff found Ducks,
and maybe he could knock him out. That would that
would be exciting for Washington fans. He could also get
himself in position to get a tenth win, which I
think would be a monumental step in the right direction
as they head down the path to the future.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Well, m coach, the questions are twofold going into that
game on Saturday. One is how much trouble is Oregon
in going to Husky Stadium? And the second part would
be if Washington does beat Oregon, how much trouble is
Oregon in getting into the CFP.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I think they're out. I think they have to win.
I think there's too many ten and two teams lurking. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt beats Tennessee in Nyland Stadium. That's a team that
probably could get there. You've got Texas. I know they
are a three loss team, but Texas with a big, big,
(03:47):
monumental win over Texas A and m might get the
judges nod. You've got Miami sitting there outside looking in.
That solves a problem for the committee because they don't
want to put them ahead of Notre Dame even though
they beat him. That's a team that could jump in.
It's not any place you want to be if you're Oregon.
(04:09):
There's a chance they could survive it, but I wouldn't
test the water.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, well, what is the elixir to beating this duck
football team? I mean, obviously Indiana did it, but that's
Indiana right Not a lot of people are Indiana right now,
which is still crazy to say in twenty twenty five
that the measuring stick is the freaking Indiana Hoosiers, But
here we are.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What's the elixir?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
What's the magic potion you think for taking these guys
down Saturday.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Shutting down the running game. Yeah, they do not have
a huge wide receiver room right now, and I don't
know that to Corey and Moore or Gary what's the
kid's name, Gary Blanket on his Brian talking about Gary Bryan. Yeah,
Gary Brian, if he's available, I don't know. They were
(04:57):
not available last week, and I'm sure they're trying to
get them healthy, but I don't know that they'll be ready.
And because of that lack of depth there, it's the
ability to slow these guys down. They have four guys
that average over five yards to carry. It's an incredible
running game and if you don't stop it, it's gonna
bludgeon you and then create all sorts of play action
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opportunities for a couple of big tight ends and the
guys who are left in the wide receiver room, and
that's where you just don't want to find yourself. If
you can stop the running game, which is listen Indiana
in the second half other than the last drive where
they were two scores down and made some yards. Was
held the forty one yards total offense in the second half.
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Held the Ducks to forty one yards total offense in
the second half.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Rick, I think this is a defensive battle. I mean,
I think the two maybe the two best units on
the field might be the Husky defense in the Oregon defense.
Maybe speak to the Husky defense because I think it's
even so underrated all season long, when all the talk
preseason was demand Denzel scoring points, it's really been the
defense that has been by far the most consistent side
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of the ball for Washington.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah. Ryan Walters deserves a big pat on the back.
That's been a great job that he's done defensively. He's
had answers against the zone read stuff. Last week he
went to basically a modified cover zero where the safety
came down to take the quarterback and make plays even
in the backfield. He's done really well. The question is
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can he do it against the speed that exists At Oregon,
UCLA had no speed advantage. That won't be the case
with this high flying duct team.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, Rick, new Heiseel's with us and one guy that
I'd like to have out there is Jacob mon who
he's the transfer from Arizona, you know, blew his acl out.
I think it was a year ago and just came
back a little bit in the last couple of weeks,
couple of months or so, and he had four games
to play before his red shirt got burned. He's suing
and he wants his five for five and he hasn't
(07:00):
heard yet from anybody on whether or not he's getting that.
So right now, Jedfish and Jacob have no choice but
to play by the NCAA's rules. And Jedfish played them
on Saturday at the Rose Bowl and that's it. A
lot of us thought maybe he'd wait until the Organ game,
but Jed said that Jacob came to him early in
the year and said, I'm from La servit Anaheim I'd
like to play at the Rose Bowl in front of
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family and friends. And Jed said, okay. So a lot
of Husky fans are wondering, is that something you would
have agreed to do or would you have told Jacob
looks and I'd love to take care of you, but
I got to have you against the ducks man.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
There would have been some horse trade and I'm sure, yeah,
trying to figure out a way to make it a
win win situation. But I certainly understand, you know, the
dream of playing in the Rose Bowl and having that
opportunity in front of friends and family, And I certainly
understand Jed making the promise. So if the kid that's
what the kid wanted to do, then I get following
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through on that, and we just got to find somebody
next man principle in football. But four we got to
go to five for five. There's too many people getting
extra eligibility. There's too many people that are won in
the courtroom for these other kids not to be given
the same treatment. And I hate that if you just
(08:19):
get the wrong judge, you don't get to play, because
it doesn't seem fair at all.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I'm seeing beautiful weather for ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday,
rick fifteen mile an hour wins, periods of snow, sleet,
freezing rain, and two to four inches of snowfall for
Michigan or for Michigan and Ohio State. Does that even
the playing field a little bit? Or does that give
all the favorites even more in an advantage?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know what was interesting to me is I said
prior to the game this week that Ohio State played
right into Michigan's hands last year by trying to play bulleyball,
you know, taking the bait that, hey, this is a slugfest.
You guys aren't tough enough to handle the trenches. So
they basically limited their high flying receivers and just played
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you know, nine on seven and kind of gave their
advantage away. If you're telling me that's the weather, that
advantage might be taken away anyway. So this is exactly
what Michigan's pulling for, and it's going to be a
yeoman effort by a kind of a beat up Buckeye
team to get this done.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well, Rick new Heiseel's with us, and Rick I got
to be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We got an email the other.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Day from Bovada, who's got jetfish is the new favorite
to land the Florida job. I guess there's an assumption
that Kiffin goes to LSU right potentially takes that gig.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That's definitely out there. Yeah, definitely out there. I got
a good source that said that's the confirmation.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, So if that happens and the Florida job then
remains vacant, is beating Oregon enough for the Florida High
Power to lums to turn an eye to the Pacific
Northwest and really consider Jetfish at the top of their list.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
You know, I I think, and I don't know where
Steve Spurrier's been on jet because I don't know that
he threw Jet's name out there. But I know he
threw Eli Drinkwitz's name out there as a guy that
he yeah, that he would really like to see involved
in this deal. So I think that Eli is the favorite.
So hopefully Husky fans can rest easy that Jedfish will
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be back and happily back wanting to be the head
coach of the Huskies.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Lane's got much more hype than Jed does, much more
name familiarity nationally. Is he a better coach than Jedfish?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Oh, I don't know. I think they're both tactical coaches.
Both like to call the plays. Both are you know,
guys that enjoy pouring over film and looking for new
ways to do things. I think Jed has probably more
experience a different offenses and things of that nature, having
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been so many different places in so many systems. But
I think both are interesting guys and make for great
college football coaches. Yeah, I would always I always thought
that Jed would want eventually to get to the NFL.
I never felt that way about Lane, even though that's
where his career started. We'll wait and.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
See Rick new isislah with us.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I don't know if you saw this news about the Heisman,
but they're limiting the window to forty eight hours for
voting from Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I believed a Monday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So nobody's sitting around for three days waiting to decide
who they're going to vote for for the Heisman.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I just wonder if it's for Nando Mendoza's right now,
Can we just give Fernando Mendoza the Heisman Trophy today
and be done with it, or is there actually something
to play for this weekend in your mind?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I'm telling you, don't count out that little kid, Diego
Papa at Vanderbilt, all right. I think I think Diego,
if he has another monster game against those boys at Knoxville,
I think he's going to be right in the mix
of it. And I wouldn't be surprised to see a
guy like Trindidad Chandliss to climb the Ranks or Ty
Simpson with some heroics in the Iron Bowl, or any
(12:09):
of these guys. What's been fascinating about this year is
the incredible amount of win change in terms of who's
been the favorite. Dante More was a favorite for a
couple of weeks, so it's been crazy. I think it's
going to be one of the great Heisman presentations recent memory,
because I don't think any of us is going to know.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Rick. A few minutes ago, you brought up Texas if
they can pull off the upset. You think a three
lost Texas team could sneak into the back door of
the college football playoffs? Do they pull that upset off
albe at minor one? I think they're two and a
half point dogs at home.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I think they actually win the game. I think they're
a better team at home. I still think Texas amm
is a little bit of fools gold. I think Marcel
reads fantastic. But I think the Texas defense, especially in
this kind of environment's going to play inspired football. And
I'm going to say Texas pulls an upset.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, Well, how about what's happening down at USC.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I just saw where Lincoln Riley said he's not going anywhere,
much to the chagrin of a lot of USC fans.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
By the way, it's like, damn it, man. And if
you saw what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
There was a young reporter that asked Lincoln Riley about
the Oregon fans holding up a sign that they wanted
to extend Lincoln, as if to say, you know, we'd
like you to stay forever, because we'd like beating you
every single year.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Lincoln kind of popped off on him a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
There was some embarrassing moments from the athletic staff as
well down there in Eugene, Oregon. I mean, this seems
like a friggin mess man in LA. Can they bring
Lincoln back? Can they afford to bring him back again?
There was just a year where they got to finally
swallow it and buy him out.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They can't buy him out. It's ninety million, it's ninety million.
I think that through they can't do it. They're stuck
with the their Lincoln. Whether they wanted a new Chevy
or a they got a Lincoln, and they're going to
have to see if that can get better. I think
there was improvement this year. I've been around Lincoln Riley
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he's a nice enough guy. There's nothing really wrong with Lincoln.
I don't know that he's a detailed guy from a
head coaching standpoint. I think he's a detailed guy when
it comes to offense, and I think some of the
stuff it gets away, which makes for a little bit
of a divided Trojan alumni base, which is always a problem.
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That's what ended up getting Clay Helton, That's what ended
up getting a lot of the Trojan coaches in the past.
When they get divided, it's just a matter of time.
But they cannot afford to get it rid of him now.
They were hopeful that maybe some of these big suitors
in the SEC would have wanted them. A little Lincoln
Riley and a win at Oregon would have created a market.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Rick I wrote an article on The Athletic Today, and
the writer was complaining that Miami could miss the playoffs
and the ACC title game despite me the highest ranked
team in their power for conference.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Is that a legit complaint?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah, it's a legit complaint. But it's how crazy because
of the size of these conference schedules, how crazy the
conference rosters are, how crazy the schedules are, and how
disparate they are. You're not always going to play the
same schedule, and because of it, we're going to have
really good teams that sit outside watching Georgia. Think this through, guys.
(15:27):
If A and M wins and Alabama wins, they will
play in the SEC Championship Game. George is the number
four team in the College Football Playoff Bowl. They won't
have to play in the SEC Championship Game. They won't
have to play in the first round. They get a
free pass, which means complete rehabilitation time to get ready
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for a January first ball. I think that is an incredible,
incredible opportunity. And I'll promise you if the Ducks get
the Dogs, they do not in any way, shape or
form want to see mission can win that game, because
that would mean they have to play next week, and
they want those their receivers to get healthy and so forth.
They don't want to go play again. We're going to.
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I think we're precariously close to the end of conference
championship games.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, they're worthless. I mean, for lack of a better term,
they're worthless. I mean they make money on TV. I guess,
they make money at the gate, I guess, But most
teams would rather not play them, don't you think.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Remember Carson Beck got hurt in the Georgia SEC championship
game last year. So this is this is we're getting close.
And the fact that they just extended the deadline to
determine what the CFP will look like next year. It
was going to be December one, they moved it to
January twenty third. I think we may go past sixteen
and go all the way to twenty four. Do not
be shocked if we go to twenty four teams.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, I gotta tell you, man, I like Georgia to
win the whole thing. If I'm taking a slight underdog,
I think they have the best resume in college football.
I know why they're ranked four because they have a loss,
but they've got three wins top nineteen teams. Nobody else
in college football can even come close to saying.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
That wreck and in their DNA they know how to
win a close game. Kirby Smart likes to call it,
we're hard to kill and they'd only have to win
three games. That to me is incredibly fortunate. If you
get a really healthy team and a confident gunner stocked
and they will be hard to kill.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, speaking of killing, you've been killing it on the
Taco Time Pick of the week. Man, I'm gonna go
with you, Chris beef burrito, the spicy tator fries, the
spicy rams. You are on a heater right now, six
and two in your last eight games on the air
to climb back from the dead, from the dead to
get to seven and seven?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Who do you like?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
We're going? You know what those who follow these trends
called the Hawaii game, the get right games. Right that's
the last game on the schedule. Yep, you've had a
rough Saturday. You go to find out what the line
is in Hawaii. All I can tell you is Timmy
Chang's Rainbow Warriors have had a great year. They have
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seven wins. Wyoming's come into town. They lost last week
to UNLB. I know because of the way this team
is played, they're going to play great at home. The
Cowboys can't go anywhere. Give me Wyoming, excuse me Hawaii.
I'll lay the ten and a half. They're going to
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win by two touchdowns or more. This is Hawaii and
we're going to get ourselves to the right side of
the law.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I actually got an early Christmas gift for you, pal,
it's down to eight and a half.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
How about that even better value? Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I love I love value.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hawaii concerns me? Why it is? Who cares if.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Somebody knows something that I don't know? As long as
that little as long as that little freshman quarterbacks play,
and I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Happy absolutely U Hawaii minus the eight and a half
against Wyoming over the weekend. All right, man, listen, have
a great stuff Thanksgiving. Enjoy yourself today, enjoy yourself tomorrow.
Dogs and Ducks. You'll be on the studio call for
that game. Is that right Saturday?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I can I cannot wait. I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I love it. Go get them man, We'll talk soon, Bud.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
All right, Jack, happy Thanksgiving you as well?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Now, Rick, you weil with us on the radio show.
We'll get a break. A lot more to get to,
including Lane Lambert will join us before tonight's Dallas Kraken
game around six ten tonight before face off at six
thirty or excuse me, seven o'clock. Pregame at six thirty right
here on ninety three to three KJRFM
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
All boys and girls. Here we go in a busy
Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Normally this man would join us at three twenty on Thursdays.
But tomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I don't think Rick Neuheiseel. I
know he likes us, but I don't think he wants
to spend Thanksgiving with us. We're giving Kevin Harlan the
day off, Rick full disclosure, So you are you're taking
harlan spot here on the radio program?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I am thrilled to be with you boys today and tomorrow.
I would have been fine with you as well, except
I'll be in the air. I'm in Arizona. I'm going
to celebrate Thanksgiving to day with my crew, and then
I got to fly back because we got a double
header on Friday, and then we bring the Oregon Ducks
at the Washington Huskies on Saturday. That's right, be interested
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in that little game just a little bit happening over
there at that little venerable spot called Husky Stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yep, just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, let me let me first of all, because I
don't want to get in trouble here, let me just
start the radio show properly.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Another win for you, propski.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Props UNLV getting it done against Hawaii. You've crawled back
to seven and seven on the air, so we're looking
to get to above five hundred today where you're talking
a time pick of the week. But why don't we
first of all start off by I don't know how
much you saw.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The game last week.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It was a late game on the East Coast, obviously
seven thirty in LA, but Man, Ucla just looked terrible
against you. Dub jed Fish up thirty four to seven
early fourth quarter, is going for it on fourth and
one with Joannah Coleman and a gigantic knee brace just
to get the guy the touchdown. It's like the words
shut her down do not exist, and jed Fish's vocabulary
(02:05):
Rick at all.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, listen, not only that, it was the did I
watch it? I stayed up for every excruciating moment of
it because if my son had to go through it,
I said, I'm going through it too. Yeah. It was
a terrible night for the Bruins, and we could get
into that story, but it's not necessary. It was in
a great night for Washington. They wanted the Rose Bowl,
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and who knows if they'll be there again anytime soon,
so that was a cool thing. Jed obviously spent some
time there, so there was some nostalgia for him, and look,
he's trying to win games. No, no grudge held understood.
At the end of the day, It'll be interesting to
see now where Jed is. He's got this huge opportunity
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to get a win over a college football playoff found Ducks,
and maybe he could knock him out. That would that
would be exciting for Washington fans. He could also get
himself in position to get a tenth win, which I
think would be a monumental step in the right direction
as they head down the path to the future.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Well, m coach, the questions are twofold going into that
game on Saturday. One is how much trouble is Oregon
in going to Husky Stadium? And the second part would
be if Washington does beat Oregon, how much trouble is
Oregon in getting into the CFP.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I think they're out. I think they have to win.
I think there's too many ten and two teams lurking. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt beats Tennessee in Nyland Stadium. That's a team that
probably could get there. You've got Texas. I know they
are a three loss team, but Texas with a big, big,
(03:47):
monumental win over Texas A and m might get the
judges nod. You've got Miami sitting there outside looking in.
That solves a problem for the committee because they don't
want to put them ahead of Notre Dame even though
they beat him. That's a team that could jump in.
It's not any place you want to be if you're Oregon.
(04:09):
There's a chance they could survive it, but I wouldn't
test the water.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, well, what is the elixir to beating this duck
football team? I mean, obviously Indiana did it, but that's
Indiana right Not a lot of people are Indiana right now,
which is still crazy to say in twenty twenty five
that the measuring stick is the freaking Indiana Hoosiers, But
here we are.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What's the elixir?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
What's the magic potion you think for taking these guys
down Saturday.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Shutting down the running game. Yeah, they do not have
a huge wide receiver room right now, and I don't
know that to Corey and Moore or Gary what's the
kid's name, Gary Blanket on his Brian talking about Gary Bryan. Yeah,
Gary Brian, if he's available, I don't know. They were
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not available last week, and I'm sure they're trying to
get them healthy, but I don't know that they'll be ready.
And because of that lack of depth there, it's the
ability to slow these guys down. They have four guys
that average over five yards to carry. It's an incredible
running game and if you don't stop it, it's gonna
bludgeon you and then create all sorts of play action
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opportunities for a couple of big tight ends and the
guys who are left in the wide receiver room, and
that's where you just don't want to find yourself. If
you can stop the running game, which is listen Indiana
in the second half other than the last drive where
they were two scores down and made some yards. Was
held the forty one yards total offense in the second half.
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Held the Ducks to forty one yards total offense in
the second half.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Rick, I think this is a defensive battle. I mean,
I think the two maybe the two best units on
the field might be the Husky defense in the Oregon defense.
Maybe speak to the Husky defense because I think it's
even so underrated all season long, when all the talk
preseason was demand Denzel scoring points, it's really been the
defense that has been by far the most consistent side
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of the ball for Washington.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah. Ryan Walters deserves a big pat on the back.
That's been a great job that he's done defensively. He's
had answers against the zone read stuff. Last week he
went to basically a modified cover zero where the safety
came down to take the quarterback and make plays even
in the backfield. He's done really well. The question is
(06:29):
can he do it against the speed that exists At Oregon,
UCLA had no speed advantage. That won't be the case
with this high flying duct team.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, Rick, new Heiseel's with us and one guy that
I'd like to have out there is Jacob mon who
he's the transfer from Arizona, you know, blew his acl out.
I think it was a year ago and just came
back a little bit in the last couple of weeks,
couple of months or so, and he had four games
to play before his red shirt got burned. He's suing
and he wants his five for five and he hasn't
(07:00):
heard yet from anybody on whether or not he's getting that.
So right now, Jedfish and Jacob have no choice but
to play by the NCAA's rules. And Jedfish played them
on Saturday at the Rose Bowl and that's it. A
lot of us thought maybe he'd wait until the Organ game,
but Jed said that Jacob came to him early in
the year and said, I'm from La servit Anaheim I'd
like to play at the Rose Bowl in front of
(07:21):
family and friends. And Jed said, okay. So a lot
of Husky fans are wondering, is that something you would
have agreed to do or would you have told Jacob
looks and I'd love to take care of you, but
I got to have you against the ducks man.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
There would have been some horse trade and I'm sure, yeah,
trying to figure out a way to make it a
win win situation. But I certainly understand, you know, the
dream of playing in the Rose Bowl and having that
opportunity in front of friends and family, And I certainly
understand Jed making the promise. So if the kid that's
what the kid wanted to do, then I get following
(07:56):
through on that, and we just got to find somebody
next man principle in football. But four we got to
go to five for five. There's too many people getting
extra eligibility. There's too many people that are won in
the courtroom for these other kids not to be given
the same treatment. And I hate that if you just
(08:19):
get the wrong judge, you don't get to play, because
it doesn't seem fair at all.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I'm seeing beautiful weather for ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday,
rick fifteen mile an hour wins, periods of snow, sleet,
freezing rain, and two to four inches of snowfall for
Michigan or for Michigan and Ohio State. Does that even
the playing field a little bit? Or does that give
all the favorites even more in an advantage?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know what was interesting to me is I said
prior to the game this week that Ohio State played
right into Michigan's hands last year by trying to play bulleyball,
you know, taking the bait that, hey, this is a slugfest.
You guys aren't tough enough to handle the trenches. So
they basically limited their high flying receivers and just played
(09:04):
you know, nine on seven and kind of gave their
advantage away. If you're telling me that's the weather, that
advantage might be taken away anyway. So this is exactly
what Michigan's pulling for, and it's going to be a
yeoman effort by a kind of a beat up Buckeye
team to get this done.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well, Rick new Heiseel's with us, and Rick I got
to be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We got an email the other.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Day from Bovada, who's got jetfish is the new favorite
to land the Florida job. I guess there's an assumption
that Kiffin goes to LSU right potentially takes that gig.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That's definitely out there. Yeah, definitely out there. I got
a good source that said that's the confirmation.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, So if that happens and the Florida job then
remains vacant, is beating Oregon enough for the Florida High
Power to lums to turn an eye to the Pacific
Northwest and really consider Jetfish at the top of their list.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
You know, I I think, and I don't know where
Steve Spurrier's been on jet because I don't know that
he threw Jet's name out there. But I know he
threw Eli Drinkwitz's name out there as a guy that
he yeah, that he would really like to see involved
in this deal. So I think that Eli is the favorite.
So hopefully Husky fans can rest easy that Jedfish will
(10:23):
be back and happily back wanting to be the head
coach of the Huskies.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Lane's got much more hype than Jed does, much more
name familiarity nationally. Is he a better coach than Jedfish?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Oh, I don't know. I think they're both tactical coaches.
Both like to call the plays. Both are you know,
guys that enjoy pouring over film and looking for new
ways to do things. I think Jed has probably more
experience a different offenses and things of that nature, having
(10:57):
been so many different places in so many systems. But
I think both are interesting guys and make for great
college football coaches. Yeah, I would always I always thought
that Jed would want eventually to get to the NFL.
I never felt that way about Lane, even though that's
where his career started. We'll wait and.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
See Rick new isislah with us.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I don't know if you saw this news about the Heisman,
but they're limiting the window to forty eight hours for
voting from Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I believed a Monday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So nobody's sitting around for three days waiting to decide
who they're going to vote for for the Heisman.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I just wonder if it's for Nando Mendoza's right now,
Can we just give Fernando Mendoza the Heisman Trophy today
and be done with it, or is there actually something
to play for this weekend in your mind?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I'm telling you, don't count out that little kid, Diego
Papa at Vanderbilt, all right. I think I think Diego,
if he has another monster game against those boys at Knoxville,
I think he's going to be right in the mix
of it. And I wouldn't be surprised to see a
guy like Trindidad Chandliss to climb the Ranks or Ty
Simpson with some heroics in the Iron Bowl, or any
(12:09):
of these guys. What's been fascinating about this year is
the incredible amount of win change in terms of who's
been the favorite. Dante More was a favorite for a
couple of weeks, so it's been crazy. I think it's
going to be one of the great Heisman presentations recent memory,
because I don't think any of us is going to know.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Rick. A few minutes ago, you brought up Texas if
they can pull off the upset. You think a three
lost Texas team could sneak into the back door of
the college football playoffs? Do they pull that upset off
albe at minor one? I think they're two and a
half point dogs at home.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I think they actually win the game. I think they're
a better team at home. I still think Texas amm
is a little bit of fools gold. I think Marcel
reads fantastic. But I think the Texas defense, especially in
this kind of environment's going to play inspired football. And
I'm going to say Texas pulls an upset.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, Well, how about what's happening down at USC.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I just saw where Lincoln Riley said he's not going anywhere,
much to the chagrin of a lot of USC fans.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
By the way, it's like, damn it, man. And if
you saw what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
There was a young reporter that asked Lincoln Riley about
the Oregon fans holding up a sign that they wanted
to extend Lincoln, as if to say, you know, we'd
like you to stay forever, because we'd like beating you
every single year.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Lincoln kind of popped off on him a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
There was some embarrassing moments from the athletic staff as
well down there in Eugene, Oregon. I mean, this seems
like a friggin mess man in LA. Can they bring
Lincoln back? Can they afford to bring him back again?
There was just a year where they got to finally
swallow it and buy him out.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They can't buy him out. It's ninety million, it's ninety million.
I think that through they can't do it. They're stuck
with the their Lincoln. Whether they wanted a new Chevy
or a they got a Lincoln, and they're going to
have to see if that can get better. I think
there was improvement this year. I've been around Lincoln Riley
(14:08):
he's a nice enough guy. There's nothing really wrong with Lincoln.
I don't know that he's a detailed guy from a
head coaching standpoint. I think he's a detailed guy when
it comes to offense, and I think some of the
stuff it gets away, which makes for a little bit
of a divided Trojan alumni base, which is always a problem.
(14:29):
That's what ended up getting Clay Helton, That's what ended
up getting a lot of the Trojan coaches in the past.
When they get divided, it's just a matter of time.
But they cannot afford to get it rid of him now.
They were hopeful that maybe some of these big suitors
in the SEC would have wanted them. A little Lincoln
Riley and a win at Oregon would have created a market.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Rick I wrote an article on The Athletic Today, and
the writer was complaining that Miami could miss the playoffs
and the ACC title game despite me the highest ranked
team in their power for conference.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Is that a legit complaint?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah, it's a legit complaint. But it's how crazy because
of the size of these conference schedules, how crazy the
conference rosters are, how crazy the schedules are, and how
disparate they are. You're not always going to play the
same schedule, and because of it, we're going to have
really good teams that sit outside watching Georgia. Think this through, guys.
(15:27):
If A and M wins and Alabama wins, they will
play in the SEC Championship Game. George is the number
four team in the College Football Playoff Bowl. They won't
have to play in the SEC Championship Game. They won't
have to play in the first round. They get a
free pass, which means complete rehabilitation time to get ready
(15:47):
for a January first ball. I think that is an incredible,
incredible opportunity. And I'll promise you if the Ducks get
the Dogs, they do not in any way, shape or
form want to see mission can win that game, because
that would mean they have to play next week, and
they want those their receivers to get healthy and so forth.
They don't want to go play again. We're going to.
(16:09):
I think we're precariously close to the end of conference
championship games.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, they're worthless. I mean, for lack of a better term,
they're worthless. I mean they make money on TV. I guess,
they make money at the gate, I guess, But most
teams would rather not play them, don't you think.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Remember Carson Beck got hurt in the Georgia SEC championship
game last year. So this is this is we're getting close.
And the fact that they just extended the deadline to
determine what the CFP will look like next year. It
was going to be December one, they moved it to
January twenty third. I think we may go past sixteen
and go all the way to twenty four. Do not
be shocked if we go to twenty four teams.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, I gotta tell you, man, I like Georgia to
win the whole thing. If I'm taking a slight underdog,
I think they have the best resume in college football.
I know why they're ranked four because they have a loss,
but they've got three wins top nineteen teams. Nobody else
in college football can even come close to saying.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
That wreck and in their DNA they know how to
win a close game. Kirby Smart likes to call it,
we're hard to kill and they'd only have to win
three games. That to me is incredibly fortunate. If you
get a really healthy team and a confident gunner stocked
and they will be hard to kill.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, speaking of killing, you've been killing it on the
Taco Time Pick of the week. Man, I'm gonna go
with you, Chris beef burrito, the spicy tator fries, the
spicy rams. You are on a heater right now, six
and two in your last eight games on the air
to climb back from the dead, from the dead to
get to seven and seven?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Who do you like?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
We're going? You know what those who follow these trends
called the Hawaii game, the get right games. Right that's
the last game on the schedule. Yep, you've had a
rough Saturday. You go to find out what the line
is in Hawaii. All I can tell you is Timmy
Chang's Rainbow Warriors have had a great year. They have
(18:04):
seven wins. Wyoming's come into town. They lost last week
to UNLB. I know because of the way this team
is played, they're going to play great at home. The
Cowboys can't go anywhere. Give me Wyoming, excuse me Hawaii.
I'll lay the ten and a half. They're going to
(18:24):
win by two touchdowns or more. This is Hawaii and
we're going to get ourselves to the right side of
the law.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I actually got an early Christmas gift for you, pal,
it's down to eight and a half.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
How about that even better value? Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I love I love value.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hawaii concerns me? Why it is? Who cares if.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Somebody knows something that I don't know? As long as
that little as long as that little freshman quarterbacks play,
and I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Happy absolutely U Hawaii minus the eight and a half
against Wyoming over the weekend. All right, man, listen, have
a great stuff Thanksgiving. Enjoy yourself today, enjoy yourself tomorrow.
Dogs and Ducks. You'll be on the studio call for
that game. Is that right Saturday?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I can I cannot wait. I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I love it. Go get them man, We'll talk soon, Bud.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
All right, Jack, happy Thanksgiving you as well?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Now, Rick, you weil with us on the radio show.
We'll get a break. A lot more to get to,
including Lane Lambert will join us before tonight's Dallas Kraken
game around six ten tonight before face off at six
thirty or excuse me, seven o'clock. Pregame at six thirty right
here on ninety three to three KJRFM
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