May 8, 2026 • 15 mins
Washington Huskies broadcaster Tony Castricone joins Softy and Dick Fain to discuss last week’s Spring Game for the UW football team, the new look defense and the young players who can make a difference in their first year, how the running back room can stay strong after the departure of Jonah Coleman, the receivers, and Demond Williams.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's a snap, holds it out, He's gonna run.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Demand william straight ahead twenty fifteen speed to the left side,
ten fun into the left pilon is he in waiting
for the signal. Two wks up touchdown Washington, twenty five yards.
De Mon Williams just hit the be button and angled
off to the left as Demond Williams scamper's into the
end zone for his fifth rushing touchdown of the year.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
All right, Tony Castra Cone with us on the radio
show Tony, I meant at four o'clock Pacific time, by
the way, is what we were asking about. I'm sorry
it wasn't more clear on that, So thanks you for
doing that.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, yeah, it's okay, no problems, got it. Good be
with you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Hey, stuff happens, man, You know what, I get it.
As long as you're okay, the family's okay, then we're
all good to go.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So well, yeah, yeah, stuff happens, like stuff.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Being like, you know, you're kind of on vacation and
you know, I thought I was just going to well,
I won't use any brand names because I don't know
who your sponsors are, but just the quick run to
the big box retailer here in town. Thought it was
going to take me fifteen minutes. And then the wife
decides she wants to come along, and she's got a
broken foot, and we woah. And then and then we
(01:13):
also take along my wife's eighty eight year old grandmother.
And so I'm like, all right, we still got plenty
of time. But it's a big store, and people get lost,
and then you got to go to customer service, and
you got to say their names over the PA. Wow,
all the things to try to wrangle the the crew
(01:34):
back together. And then I left my phone in the car,
and by the time I came back, I was like, oh, crap,
oh crap.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, well we got to ask you the wife or
the grandma that got lost. We're the kid who got lost, grandma,
the grandma, grandma. Okay, Well, what you could have done
is you could have jumped, because your classic call, your
classic sign off, which we all know by now what
that is. You should have jumped on the PA and said,
so Lena, I'm going home. Okay, that's what you should
have said, and then maybe she was where you were.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, we we're glad that everybody's back together.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Again.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But Tony casher Cone is with us on the radio
show Let's Keep a View from forty thousand feet. Your
thoughts on what you took away from the spring ball
in the game last Friday, Man, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You know, I thought it was a really productive spring
I thought it was great to get to kind of
see some guys that you've heard a lot about but
didn't know what they would look like in purple and gold.
And you know, I mean, I think some of these
freshmen just look so just years beyond their age, right,
I mean, you're just so impressed with Cody Green, Derek Coleman, Brusa,
(02:38):
Ramzach Fruan comes in, He's ready to go. Three freshmen,
true freshman wide receivers that should all still be seniors
at their high school from SEC Country right, one from Texas,
one from Louisiana, one from Oklahoma. All of them had
moments where they flashed and looked incredible. So I think
that's kind of the part that was really fun. You're like, oh,
I could totally see a half dozen, eight maybe ten
(03:02):
of these guys like playing meaningful reps in the Apple
Cup on September fifth. So I think that's the part
that excited me the most, you know, getting familiar with
just you know where some of these guys are gonna
fit in from a position standpoint. You know, it's still
gonna be interesting to see the competition for running back,
(03:25):
you know, where they're going to place some pieces at
wide receiver. I think the offensive line is starting to
kind of gel together a little bit, but you still
didn't have the hatchets out there, so you don't know
what happens once you throw them back into the mix.
But I just think like the offense is starting to
look exciting to me, and I'm already sold on the defense.
I think the defense is going to be really good.
(03:46):
I think they had like kind of a low key,
like one of the best defenses in the country last year.
But you know, I think there were times in some
of those big games where the offense just couldn't quite
come through Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You just need a little bit more out of that
side of the ball.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And I think we saw that they're deeper and they're forward,
So now it's just going to come down to winning
fourth quarters, right Like, I mean, can you do that first?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
On September fifth, and the Apple Cup, and then after that,
you know, hopefully you don't have a four quarter game
in the next two weeks. Then you got a home
game against Minnesota, and then it just gets real at
USC six days later home against Iowa, and I just
think in November, you know, you're just going to have
hopefully some really exciting fourth quarters, and hopefully the Huskies
(04:37):
are able to win some of those you know, that
stretch at home against Penn State. You know, you got
Indiana at home and closing out the season at or.
It's just really compelling schedule this year and I'm super
excited to see how it all unfolds.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Well, Tony, I'm with you on the defense. I mean,
I think it's going to be fantastic this year. But
are there any stars? I mean, Ryan Walter's second year
at Missouri, Tigers went down from twenty five points to
nineteen points. Second year in Illinois they went from twenty
two down to what twelve point seven? I mean, the
Huskies could be down in that fourteen or fifteen point
(05:11):
per game range in Walter's second year, But who are
the guys that are gonna do it? Or are they
just gonna kind of do it like the Seahawks did.
I mean, other than you know, Spoon and maybe even Worth.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, there wasn't a.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Lot of superstars on the Seahawks defense last year.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
So the way I think about the defense is this
the points per game metric. A lot of that is
going to come down to complimentary football. The offense is
going to have to help them out in order for
that number to be as low as possible. But I
don't think that this defense is going to give up
a ton of points. Like I just last year they
gave up at most twenty six against over again, and
(05:47):
that was the third lowest MAC that they had allowed
in all of college football. Like the only other two
teams that had a lower MAC last year were Indiana
and Ohas State. So that's kind of like what you're
talking about, like when you're saying, what's kind of the
ceiling as far as what the defense is going to
allow and can your offense go out and beat that?
(06:10):
Washington was third in the nation in that last year.
So now the question is, you know, Okay, what can
the defense do to help compliment the offense?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think last.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Year we saw them be really really good and fundamentally
sound in every area, except they weren't a super explosive.
They didn't create as many havocs as I would have
liked to see. You know, some of that's going to
come down to who are those stars going to be
getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You know, there's a very.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Very experienced linebacking course.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So if they do decide to rush five at times, right.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
You know, who are those inside linebackers going to be
that are able to crack through and get a quarterback sack?
We already know about some of the names off the edge,
you know, Isaiah Ward, Jacob Blaine, Will Russell Davis be
a guy that's available this year.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Ramsack Fruin is a rising star. Are freshmen.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
So those are some of those guys from those places.
But then in the secondary, you know, I just want
to see more turnovers. I really want to see them
force more turnovers. They got through a twelve game regular
season only forcing fourteen turnovers. They had five in the
bowl game, which kind of padded the stats a little bit.
But you know, I think coming up with those interceptions,
(07:21):
and it's not a league where you're always going to
face teams that are going to throw the ball a
lot or put the ball in danger when they do
throw the football, so you're not always going to have
those opportunities, but just turnovers on downs three and outs, interceptions,
fumbles forced, all those sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That's really what I want to see.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
And I think Alex mclo we already saw last year
Alex McLoughlin like he's riable for some of those.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But can we to kind of step up there?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Ryland Dillard Allen is a guy that I just I'm
really hot. Rashaan Clark could be a candidate. Just start
at Nickel. Could he get his hands on a few.
That's really the thing that I think is the next
step for the defense.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, No, you're right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
They got to start definitely forcing the issue with turnovers,
and they're gonna have to do it without Price socking
Davis right, which is going to be hard to do.
But Tony castro cones with us on the radio show,
and Tony, you mentioned the running back room there, and
I'm kind of intrigued by this Quaid car kid because
I looked at his high school numbers and eleven hundred
yards rushing in high school as a senior doesn't sound
(08:25):
like a lot. But when you realize it was on
eighty carries. It does the guy averaged thirteen yards to
carry as a senior. And it sounds like, either because
of injuries that are going on now or just his talent,
that this guy might have a shot to maybe b
RB one by the Apple Cup.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, I think there's First of all, he's a Servit
kid and Servit's been really good to jet to programs,
right when you just think about the talent that they
got to go from there to Arizona and Jacobmanu now
a Washington Husky, but they really trust that connection.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Scottie Graham absolutely loves him.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Some of the folks on the recruiting staff that I
talked to absolutely love him. They think he could be
the next star at the UDUB. So like, when I
hear those guys talk about him that way, I believe
them because normally that kind of comes through. The One
thing is it's a very crowded room, right, you know,
I mean, we don't know what the story is going
to be with Jordan Washington. Obviously he was kind of
(09:29):
the incumbent, the guy that well, I mean not just
Jordan Washington, but if you really think about it, the
three most experienced college football players at that running back
position on the Husky roster, none of them played right
in camp. Jordan Washington went down with the injury, Shade
Lamar and then Trey Cooley.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Those guys were injured as well.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
They're incoming transfers, and so you know that's really interesting.
You know, you've got all these super young players. An
sus Sino looked really good. Brian Bonner is highly touted.
Like they got so many bodies in that room, but
they've only got so many carries to go around, and
so I think it might be a little bit situation
(10:09):
like they might not have a thousand yard rusher this year.
You know, Jonah Coleman hit that mark two years ago.
They might not have that guy. They might go more
situational with a bunch of the different bodies that they have.
But I certainly think that, like you look at Kwayd
car and he's gonna have the potential to be that
super explosive player not just running the football but also
(10:30):
catching the ball out of the backfield as well.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well, I probably a wager that they're not going to
have a thousand yard receiver either, but they have a
lot of guys. I think we like Desmond Roebuck in
the slot. I think we like Rashid Williams. But I
mean who steps up and becomes that go to guy
that you need to hit down the field?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, you know, I think that's kind of the big
battle that's going to go on in fall camp. I
just think Jordan Clay the true freshman out of San Antonio.
He really lashed and they really love him, and they
got him to go to Washington over a ton of offers.
They had him flip on commitment day from Baylor to
U dub You know. I think Tres Davis is another
(11:12):
guy that had a ton of offers and they feel
really excited about his potential. Chris Lawson is a player
that I thought looked pretty good towards the end of
last season. I think he played in eight games last year,
and as the season war on, they started to trust
him with a few more plays. Had that explosive against UCLA.
So you know, there's gonna be a lot of candidates
(11:33):
for that position. But it's really the first time in
like four or five years where we go into the
season right not knowing who that person's going to be
So that's what makes it kind of exciting.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Tony Casher coming with us, Tony, do me a favorite.
Can you just look around and make sure that Grandma
is is near you. I just want to make sure
she hasn't wandered off.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Okay, everybody's in the house, all right, good, but he's
in that house locked in, good to go.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
All right. Well, the one guy that we haven't talked
about yet, and honestly, we haven't spent a lot of
time talking about him as a player lately, and that's
number one, who's now Demon Williams. By the way, first
Husky quarterback to wear number one since Warren Moon. We've
seen players wear number one, John Ross, Reggie Williams, players
like that before of warn number one, defense Byron Murphy,
(12:19):
war number one obviously, but it's the first quarterback in
you know, fifty whatever years that we've seen wear number one.
And to me, there's I mean, longtime Husky fan like me,
there's some significance in that that's a special number that
Demond Williams is wearing. So what are you seeing, if
anything out of Demond Williams that gives you any idea,
(12:40):
whether positive or negative about the step or lack thereof
that he'll take this year.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Well, I think he's got all the talent in the war.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It comes.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Can he take that big step from a leadership standpoint
and from a mastery of the offense and from decision making.
That's what it's going to come down to you. Because
he can make all the throws, he can win all
those you know, foot races in open field. He's got
good vision. Now it's just come down to But only
(13:12):
noticed as I was prepping for the string game. But
looking back at the play by play logs, like all
eight of Demon Williams interceptions last year were on first down, right,
Not that there's ever a good time to have an interception,
but you know, third down on a long bomb down
the field is it doesn't hurt you quite as bad
(13:33):
as the first play of the drive, right, you know,
I mean those sort of things. So can you just
get him to maybe you know, I don't know, Like
I'm sure Jed and him are totally in sync on
They've watched the tape.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They know what they want to do. But if it's an.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Issue with taking just a tad too big of a
risk on a first down play, like can can you
grow out of that and just understand the situation.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I think that what was interesting to me and I
totally get it, was like showing up to camp and
it's early April, and it's the first time everybody on
the outside has had a chance to see demand, and
everybody's thinking like, well, how is this, Like are things
weird right now?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
But from the inside that was like old news.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
That's like ninety days ago, right, and now it's even
older news because they've had fifteen practices together. So I
don't think they're going to have any personality issues or
anything like that, any any issues with like that was
weird what happened this past year. I think it's just
more gonna come down to, like, can he can he
mature as a decision maker, as a leader and all
(14:45):
of those things, and so far everything that everybody.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Has had to say about him is absolutely yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
All right, listen, great stuff. I keep an eye on Grandma.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
All right, yep, don't losser.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's a hard job, but somebody's got to do it.
We believe in you, great stuff, and we'll see when
you get back home. All right, it sounds great, All right,
Tony Casher, come with US
There's a snap, holds it out, He's gonna run.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Demand william straight ahead twenty fifteen speed to the left side,
ten fun into the left pilon is he in waiting
for the signal. Two wks up touchdown Washington, twenty five yards.
De Mon Williams just hit the be button and angled
off to the left as Demond Williams scamper's into the
end zone for his fifth rushing touchdown of the year.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
All right, Tony Castra Cone with us on the radio
show Tony, I meant at four o'clock Pacific time, by
the way, is what we were asking about. I'm sorry
it wasn't more clear on that, So thanks you for
doing that.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, yeah, it's okay, no problems, got it. Good be
with you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Hey, stuff happens, man, You know what, I get it.
As long as you're okay, the family's okay, then we're
all good to go.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So well, yeah, yeah, stuff happens, like stuff.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Being like, you know, you're kind of on vacation and
you know, I thought I was just going to well,
I won't use any brand names because I don't know
who your sponsors are, but just the quick run to
the big box retailer here in town. Thought it was
going to take me fifteen minutes. And then the wife
decides she wants to come along, and she's got a
broken foot, and we woah. And then and then we
(01:13):
also take along my wife's eighty eight year old grandmother.
And so I'm like, all right, we still got plenty
of time. But it's a big store, and people get lost,
and then you got to go to customer service, and
you got to say their names over the PA. Wow,
all the things to try to wrangle the the crew
(01:34):
back together. And then I left my phone in the car,
and by the time I came back, I was like, oh, crap,
oh crap.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, well we got to ask you the wife or
the grandma that got lost. We're the kid who got lost, grandma,
the grandma, grandma. Okay, Well, what you could have done
is you could have jumped, because your classic call, your
classic sign off, which we all know by now what
that is. You should have jumped on the PA and said,
so Lena, I'm going home. Okay, that's what you should
have said, and then maybe she was where you were.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, we we're glad that everybody's back together.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Again.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But Tony casher Cone is with us on the radio
show Let's Keep a View from forty thousand feet. Your
thoughts on what you took away from the spring ball
in the game last Friday, Man, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You know, I thought it was a really productive spring
I thought it was great to get to kind of
see some guys that you've heard a lot about but
didn't know what they would look like in purple and gold.
And you know, I mean, I think some of these
freshmen just look so just years beyond their age, right,
I mean, you're just so impressed with Cody Green, Derek Coleman, Brusa,
(02:38):
Ramzach Fruan comes in, He's ready to go. Three freshmen,
true freshman wide receivers that should all still be seniors
at their high school from SEC Country right, one from Texas,
one from Louisiana, one from Oklahoma. All of them had
moments where they flashed and looked incredible. So I think
that's kind of the part that was really fun. You're like, oh,
I could totally see a half dozen, eight maybe ten
(03:02):
of these guys like playing meaningful reps in the Apple
Cup on September fifth. So I think that's the part
that excited me the most, you know, getting familiar with
just you know where some of these guys are gonna
fit in from a position standpoint. You know, it's still
gonna be interesting to see the competition for running back,
(03:25):
you know, where they're going to place some pieces at
wide receiver. I think the offensive line is starting to
kind of gel together a little bit, but you still
didn't have the hatchets out there, so you don't know
what happens once you throw them back into the mix.
But I just think like the offense is starting to
look exciting to me, and I'm already sold on the defense.
I think the defense is going to be really good.
(03:46):
I think they had like kind of a low key,
like one of the best defenses in the country last year.
But you know, I think there were times in some
of those big games where the offense just couldn't quite
come through Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You just need a little bit more out of that
side of the ball.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And I think we saw that they're deeper and they're forward,
So now it's just going to come down to winning
fourth quarters, right Like, I mean, can you do that first?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
On September fifth, and the Apple Cup, and then after that,
you know, hopefully you don't have a four quarter game
in the next two weeks. Then you got a home
game against Minnesota, and then it just gets real at
USC six days later home against Iowa, and I just
think in November, you know, you're just going to have
hopefully some really exciting fourth quarters, and hopefully the Huskies
(04:37):
are able to win some of those you know, that
stretch at home against Penn State. You know, you got
Indiana at home and closing out the season at or.
It's just really compelling schedule this year and I'm super
excited to see how it all unfolds.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Well, Tony, I'm with you on the defense. I mean,
I think it's going to be fantastic this year. But
are there any stars? I mean, Ryan Walter's second year
at Missouri, Tigers went down from twenty five points to
nineteen points. Second year in Illinois they went from twenty
two down to what twelve point seven? I mean, the
Huskies could be down in that fourteen or fifteen point
(05:11):
per game range in Walter's second year, But who are
the guys that are gonna do it? Or are they
just gonna kind of do it like the Seahawks did.
I mean, other than you know, Spoon and maybe even Worth.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, there wasn't a.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Lot of superstars on the Seahawks defense last year.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
So the way I think about the defense is this
the points per game metric. A lot of that is
going to come down to complimentary football. The offense is
going to have to help them out in order for
that number to be as low as possible. But I
don't think that this defense is going to give up
a ton of points. Like I just last year they
gave up at most twenty six against over again, and
(05:47):
that was the third lowest MAC that they had allowed
in all of college football. Like the only other two
teams that had a lower MAC last year were Indiana
and Ohas State. So that's kind of like what you're
talking about, like when you're saying, what's kind of the
ceiling as far as what the defense is going to
allow and can your offense go out and beat that?
(06:10):
Washington was third in the nation in that last year.
So now the question is, you know, Okay, what can
the defense do to help compliment the offense?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I think last.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Year we saw them be really really good and fundamentally
sound in every area, except they weren't a super explosive.
They didn't create as many havocs as I would have
liked to see. You know, some of that's going to
come down to who are those stars going to be
getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You know, there's a very.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Very experienced linebacking course.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So if they do decide to rush five at times, right.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
You know, who are those inside linebackers going to be
that are able to crack through and get a quarterback sack?
We already know about some of the names off the edge,
you know, Isaiah Ward, Jacob Blaine, Will Russell Davis be
a guy that's available this year.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Ramsack Fruin is a rising star. Are freshmen.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
So those are some of those guys from those places.
But then in the secondary, you know, I just want
to see more turnovers. I really want to see them
force more turnovers. They got through a twelve game regular
season only forcing fourteen turnovers. They had five in the
bowl game, which kind of padded the stats a little bit.
But you know, I think coming up with those interceptions,
(07:21):
and it's not a league where you're always going to
face teams that are going to throw the ball a
lot or put the ball in danger when they do
throw the football, so you're not always going to have
those opportunities, but just turnovers on downs three and outs, interceptions,
fumbles forced, all those sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That's really what I want to see.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
And I think Alex mclo we already saw last year
Alex McLoughlin like he's riable for some of those.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But can we to kind of step up there?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Ryland Dillard Allen is a guy that I just I'm
really hot. Rashaan Clark could be a candidate. Just start
at Nickel. Could he get his hands on a few.
That's really the thing that I think is the next
step for the defense.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, No, you're right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
They got to start definitely forcing the issue with turnovers,
and they're gonna have to do it without Price socking
Davis right, which is going to be hard to do.
But Tony castro cones with us on the radio show,
and Tony, you mentioned the running back room there, and
I'm kind of intrigued by this Quaid car kid because
I looked at his high school numbers and eleven hundred
yards rushing in high school as a senior doesn't sound
(08:25):
like a lot. But when you realize it was on
eighty carries. It does the guy averaged thirteen yards to
carry as a senior. And it sounds like, either because
of injuries that are going on now or just his talent,
that this guy might have a shot to maybe b
RB one by the Apple Cup.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, I think there's First of all, he's a Servit
kid and Servit's been really good to jet to programs,
right when you just think about the talent that they
got to go from there to Arizona and Jacobmanu now
a Washington Husky, but they really trust that connection.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Scottie Graham absolutely loves him.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Some of the folks on the recruiting staff that I
talked to absolutely love him. They think he could be
the next star at the UDUB. So like, when I
hear those guys talk about him that way, I believe
them because normally that kind of comes through. The One
thing is it's a very crowded room, right, you know,
I mean, we don't know what the story is going
to be with Jordan Washington. Obviously he was kind of
(09:29):
the incumbent, the guy that well, I mean not just
Jordan Washington, but if you really think about it, the
three most experienced college football players at that running back
position on the Husky roster, none of them played right
in camp. Jordan Washington went down with the injury, Shade
Lamar and then Trey Cooley.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Those guys were injured as well.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
They're incoming transfers, and so you know that's really interesting.
You know, you've got all these super young players. An
sus Sino looked really good. Brian Bonner is highly touted.
Like they got so many bodies in that room, but
they've only got so many carries to go around, and
so I think it might be a little bit situation
(10:09):
like they might not have a thousand yard rusher this year.
You know, Jonah Coleman hit that mark two years ago.
They might not have that guy. They might go more
situational with a bunch of the different bodies that they have.
But I certainly think that, like you look at Kwayd
car and he's gonna have the potential to be that
super explosive player not just running the football but also
(10:30):
catching the ball out of the backfield as well.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well, I probably a wager that they're not going to
have a thousand yard receiver either, but they have a
lot of guys. I think we like Desmond Roebuck in
the slot. I think we like Rashid Williams. But I
mean who steps up and becomes that go to guy
that you need to hit down the field?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, you know, I think that's kind of the big
battle that's going to go on in fall camp. I
just think Jordan Clay the true freshman out of San Antonio.
He really lashed and they really love him, and they
got him to go to Washington over a ton of offers.
They had him flip on commitment day from Baylor to
U dub You know. I think Tres Davis is another
(11:12):
guy that had a ton of offers and they feel
really excited about his potential. Chris Lawson is a player
that I thought looked pretty good towards the end of
last season. I think he played in eight games last year,
and as the season war on, they started to trust
him with a few more plays. Had that explosive against UCLA.
So you know, there's gonna be a lot of candidates
(11:33):
for that position. But it's really the first time in
like four or five years where we go into the
season right not knowing who that person's going to be
So that's what makes it kind of exciting.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Tony Casher coming with us, Tony, do me a favorite.
Can you just look around and make sure that Grandma
is is near you. I just want to make sure
she hasn't wandered off.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Okay, everybody's in the house, all right, good, but he's
in that house locked in, good to go.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
All right. Well, the one guy that we haven't talked
about yet, and honestly, we haven't spent a lot of
time talking about him as a player lately, and that's
number one, who's now Demon Williams. By the way, first
Husky quarterback to wear number one since Warren Moon. We've
seen players wear number one, John Ross, Reggie Williams, players
like that before of warn number one, defense Byron Murphy,
(12:19):
war number one obviously, but it's the first quarterback in
you know, fifty whatever years that we've seen wear number one.
And to me, there's I mean, longtime Husky fan like me,
there's some significance in that that's a special number that
Demond Williams is wearing. So what are you seeing, if
anything out of Demond Williams that gives you any idea,
(12:40):
whether positive or negative about the step or lack thereof
that he'll take this year.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Well, I think he's got all the talent in the war.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It comes.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Can he take that big step from a leadership standpoint
and from a mastery of the offense and from decision making.
That's what it's going to come down to you. Because
he can make all the throws, he can win all
those you know, foot races in open field. He's got
good vision. Now it's just come down to But only
(13:12):
noticed as I was prepping for the string game. But
looking back at the play by play logs, like all
eight of Demon Williams interceptions last year were on first down, right,
Not that there's ever a good time to have an interception,
but you know, third down on a long bomb down
the field is it doesn't hurt you quite as bad
(13:33):
as the first play of the drive, right, you know,
I mean those sort of things. So can you just
get him to maybe you know, I don't know, Like
I'm sure Jed and him are totally in sync on
They've watched the tape.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They know what they want to do. But if it's an.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Issue with taking just a tad too big of a
risk on a first down play, like can can you
grow out of that and just understand the situation.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I think that what was interesting to me and I
totally get it, was like showing up to camp and
it's early April, and it's the first time everybody on
the outside has had a chance to see demand, and
everybody's thinking like, well, how is this, Like are things
weird right now?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
But from the inside that was like old news.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
That's like ninety days ago, right, and now it's even
older news because they've had fifteen practices together. So I
don't think they're going to have any personality issues or
anything like that, any any issues with like that was
weird what happened this past year. I think it's just
more gonna come down to, like, can he can he
mature as a decision maker, as a leader and all
(14:45):
of those things, and so far everything that everybody.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Has had to say about him is absolutely yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
All right, listen, great stuff. I keep an eye on Grandma.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
All right, yep, don't losser.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's a hard job, but somebody's got to do it.
We believe in you, great stuff, and we'll see when
you get back home. All right, it sounds great, All right,
Tony Casher, come with US
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