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November 12, 2024 36 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler is joined by Mario Bailey and Greg Lewis for The Husky Honks as the guys discuss UW’s loss to Penn State, the state of NIL for UW and in college athletics, the starting quarterback situation and UCLA coming up on Saturday.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
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(01:15):
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that up right away. I appreciate that. But we're all
back home after a weekend that I don't know, fun
to see the stadium, fun to see the white out,
but not fun boys to see the result in that stadium.
You said it, Greg, I think after the Iowa game
that Washington is just not ready yet for games like this,

(01:38):
and that played out again Saturday in State College.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, you know, typically it's the sixty minute grinds, the
guys up front not being able to sort of sustain
any real dominance. But this game, from almost the second
series on, I think Penn State flexed this muscle. You know,
Penn State is a program that has coaching consistency. They've
been real successful, They've been into Big Ten for long

(02:05):
time and embraced that style of football. So right now
in our infancy in this conference, in our early you know,
process of trying to fortify ourselves in the front, you know,
the offensive and defensive lines, especially after all the defections
from last year. We're not at that stage in our development.
We're not at that caliber. There was a couple of

(02:26):
good things I think we saw near the end of
the game. That's hope for the future, But I think
right now we're a team who's still waiting for the future.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, we just outright got our butts kicked from beginning
to end. Actually, I thought, well, Greg said there was
some stuff at the end that maybe you can think
of for the future. But coming into that game, we've
talked about how we just struggle on the road, but
we've been struggling on the road in the second half.
This one, we just got beat from the start. I
think the targeting call right there, and they got a

(02:56):
touchdown right after that. They scored on the first four drives,
just touched downs. Our offense really couldn't move the ball
after that first drive, and then we had the third
down in whish we couldn't do anything with it. But
all around, Penn State was just great. They just were
more disciplined, they were more in tune. They didn't make
any mistakes. They just came after us.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well, you mentioned the first drive of the game, because
we're watching the Huskies kind of march down the field
first and ten from the Penn State twenty eight yard length,
thinking okay, we.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Got something going on here.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
And then four plays later, Grady Gross hits the upright,
misses a field goal, Penn State gets the ball back,
and about eight plays later, Thaddeus Dixon got kicked out.
I mean, it's just like everything just flipped from that
point on. So what happened after that drive? Because Brendan
Carroll was asked today about that, he said he thought
the environment had a negative effect on them. I don't know, guys,

(03:45):
Maybe it was where we were sitting. We didn't really
get to hear it as much as maybe the fans did.
I didn't walk away thinking the place was that loud,
But maybe it's because it was twenty eight nothing at halftime.
Did you think the atmosphere kind of freaked those guys out?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, I don't know what he means by saying that,
because I heard from Penn State fans that I had
an opportunity to engage with kind of right at halftime,
that they were kind of bummed that it was not
a lot of energy and electricity in the building, that
there wasn't a whole lot of excitement, and they acknowledged
that it wasn't a super competitive game, so they didn't
feel like people got into it.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
So maybe that's what he meant, Softie.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Maybe he felt like, sometimes when you're on the road,
you thrive off of the US against them and the
negative energy coming against you. But there wasn't that much
energy or anything in there. It was just a dominance.
If you look at the stats and really break them down,
they were what eight for eight on their first eight
third down conversions. That dictates that you got dominated. There

(04:47):
was nothing you could do to stop that team from
doing whatever it is that they wanted to do. And
then Mario just said it a touchdown on their first
four drives.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
You were dominated.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Every step of the way every and most of it
leads back to your offensive line got their butts kicked
and your defensive line got their butts kicked. I mean,
it's just as simple as that. It's the same song
we've sung most of this year, especially against top caliber
teams out on the road, and we're just not ready
for prime time.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
As it released of those things.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Should they be better by now on the line of scrimmage,
Not necessarily.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
I think, you know, once the season goes, a lot
of injuries happen and things happen. So we've had lots
of injuries and we don't have depth, so that doesn't
necessarily equate to being better. I will say I was
down on the sidelines on the pregame and that that
was loud. That was a lot louder than when we
were in Iowa. They were ready to go. But what

(05:47):
Greg is saying, it's true. Once the game got going,
you're up fourteen nothing and there's really no competition. They
didn't get to rev their head like they wanted to.
They wanted to get hyped in there, but they really
had nothing to get hyped about.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
They left it half time. Well, some people did leave
it at have time. You're right about that.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I just thought that as a team, this moment was
bigger than what we were prepared for and what we
were ready for. And you know, back to Softy's original question, though,
I think the offensive line and our defensive line potentially
could be better now, but you wouldn't know it because
we're playing much better teams now, and so what progress

(06:27):
they may have made has been deflected by injury because
we've gotten guys hurt that we're playing on the offensive
line that might you know, provide a little more resistance
right now, and same.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Thing on the defensive line.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
So maybe they've gotten a little better technique wise, they've
gotten a little better, you know, incrementally, but not enough
to play against the Penn States. Yeah, not enough to
play against the you know, the big boys of the
Big Ten that are going to really test your metal.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I mean, look, here's the thing, and this is going
to come across as an excuse, and if people want
to take it that way, that's fine. I don't think
it's an excuse at all. I think you got to
be ready to play whoever they put in front of
your face. But you, Dub in their last three road
games of the year, will play what is right now,
the number five, number four, and number one team in
the country. All right, that's their schedule, okay, for their

(07:15):
final three road games. And for a team that's got
fifty two players, they're not ready for that, and they're
not ready for the environment potentially either. I heard from
someone that Penn State's got twenty one thousand tickets in
their students section alone, and we were there five hours
before the game. Yeah, and you made the point. I
think that you've never seen kids getting into the stadium

(07:35):
three four hours before kickoff.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
We show up there and.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
There's thousands of people online five six hours before the
game starts. I mean that is big time college football,
die hard, big time environment. And I don't think we're
ready for that yet. I don't think this university is
ready for that. I thought that when we went to
Michigan a couple of years ago. I'm seeing it now
at places like Penn State. To me, it's another wake

(08:01):
up call for where this program wants to be and
has to be.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, and I think we can get there.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I think it's a matter of everybody being, you know,
on the on board with Husky football being successful and
being great. We gotta stick with our team first and foremost.
And I think, you know, going into this year, we
all talk preseason this is gonna be a rebuilding year.
So it is what it is. It's gonna take some
time to build this up. I do have some confidence.

(08:27):
I've seen this coach take on a rebuilding project before.
At Arizona, and the biggest difference between Arizona this year
last year's what the coach right. Last year they were
ten to two preseason rate number ten. This year they
struggling big, big time. Yeah, So I think a lot
of that is Jed Fish and his coaching staff. So

(08:47):
that's what they modeled. They show that they can be.
We just got to stick in state. Of course, the
coaches got to stick around and be here, and then
the fans got to buy in and start to transform
into big ten caliber fans where we're getting there early,
we're packing the stadium regardless of who the opponent is
and all of that. It can't happen here, and I'm
looking for it to it happening.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
He's gonna need money, right to buy players.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
That's it. I was telling somebody today.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
I was like, Oh, we don't have the money, like
we're to compete, And they looked at me and they're like, yeah,
we got the money. It's just how we're gonna spend
it to compete. Like I do believe Washington, we have
the money here, but we're gonna have to pay to
compete with these teams and the Michigan's and Ohio States
and the Penn States. We have to pay. It's just
the bottom line. That's where college football is right now.

(09:34):
That's where college sports are. We're gonna have to pay
to get some.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Guys in here. Give them that nil money.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Or you're gonna see guys going to transfer portal and
get out of here to go get the money. And
that's disappointing when I know that we do have the
money around.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
So you guys, I think, and if I'm out of turn,
tell me, have long been a proponent for the players
getting a piece of the pipe?

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Is that fair to say? Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Four players getting old pieces of pie that they decid
back in nineteen ninety stale pie.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Better than you don't want to You want a multipiece
of for thirty four years. So okay, So we want
the players to be taken care of. Do we like
this though?

Speaker 5 (10:15):
Like?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Do you like this current atmosphere in college football where
we are literally on the air talking about, Hey, if
you want to get this thing turned around, we need
to raise money so we can pay players.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, I think there's something to be looked at when
you talk about what the coaches and administrators are all
getting paid as opposed to the players. From this perspective,
why do we have to raise additional nil money to
pay the players when the television contracts and all of
that are huge right now, and the billions of dollars
we're not raising in il money to pay coaches, We're

(10:48):
not raising l money to pay all the people who
are around the game. But now we got to come
up with just money extra that we don't have to
pay the players who are actually doing the work. How
about some of that money that's already here from the
television deals and all that paying the dang players. Right
maybe instead of the coaches all getting thirty million dollars
a year, you know, maybe they take fifteen or ten

(11:09):
and the players get some of that.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
I think there could have been a different model.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
If you're telling me that nil is the only way
to come up with money to pay the players, I
call bs on that, because there's a lot of money
already in.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
College football, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
But the problem is is that not every team will
spend the same right. I mean, yeah, you can take
from your budget and teams and programs can start doing that.
They can start literally setting aside money to pay players,
But not every team will be able to spend twenty
million dollars, right. Not every team will be able to
spend twenty five million. Some teams will spend five some
teams will spend more. And if everybody takes the same

(11:45):
amount of money from the TV contracts, they still may
need more money to get to the number they have
to get to.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, that's the unfortunate part is there's going to be
teams and donors and people that are going to pay
more money and that team is always going to be
near the top because they're paying their players or they're
always going to have not necessarily, now are they going
to always be at the top, because you can look
at Texas in and they struggled the past few years, right,
and they're handing out money out there, So you might
not necessarily be at the top, but you're always going

(12:12):
to have the talent because guys are coming with the money.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Is well.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I mean, look if you look at what Jed Fish
is doing right now and recruiting, they're doing pretty dang good.
They've got twenty six players that will walk on Friday night,
twenty six seniors, which is Jed said, and he's right,
is a massive number of players that are departing the program.
But the good news is there's a massive number of
players you can bring in. And I'm sure you guys
have noticed this too, Gregor Mario, I have never heard

(12:35):
a head coach talk more about the offseason during the
season than Jedfish right. I mean, he's already annoyed Demon
Williams the starter for next year. He's already annointed Demon
Williams the face of the program for next year. He's
already talking about all the players that they're going to
need to bring in in December. This guy, I'm telling you,
I'm not saying he's not focused as well on Friday.

(12:55):
He cannot wait to get to the offseason to start
tinkering with this ross.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well, I think if you look at any team or
program right now that is not in contingent for a
bowl game or you know, not living up to the
standards and has that vision for the future, they would
say the same thing, and maybe they won't verbalize it,
but that's really what you have to start doing. We're
not going to play for a national championship this year,
We're not playing for a conference championship anymore. Those things

(13:22):
are gone. You know, you're the reward you can get
is a Bowl game. I don't think you know whether
or not he's got an eye on the future as
well as preparing to win this Saturday means that he's
not going to be you know, get the team ready.
I think you can kind of do both, especially when
you're no longer in line for all of those rewards.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, how much of what he's talking about, Mario, you
think with Demon Williams is Hey, I know that this
guy's basically on one year contracts every single year, and
I know there's going to be teams coming after him
over the offseason, and you know, like the barstool guy
has already offered a couple of million bucks to find
Michigan a new quarterback. Much of that is, Hey, I
really need this guy to stick around here, so I'm

(14:04):
going to say things about him that will make him
feel like he's wanted and make him feel like he's
better off.

Speaker 5 (14:10):
Here than there.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I believe that, and I believe he's already told him
and they've had conversations. It's like, you guys recruit guys
every year, and I believe this is part of his
recruiting this young man and letting him know that this
program is his after this year, and that's part of
getting him in these last few games and letting him
start the second half of last game. It's kind of
showing him the future. But you know it doesn't matter again.

(14:34):
If Texas A and M came and off of this
kid two millions, right, he could be gone.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Well, I think you put it correctly there that he's
recruiting him. He's recruiting Devon Williams right now to stay
at Washington. How much of that went into the idea
to play him? And the second half on Saturday down
twenty eight Zip was a great spot for him. There's
no pressure at all.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
Well, I think that wasn't just recruiting him.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
That was also our starter isn't doing anything today and
we need some kind of spark.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
And was that on him though? Will? Was that on Will? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Well, sometimes whether it's on you or not, it's the
reality and you've got to do something different.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'll let the coaches determine whether that was on him
or not. But we weren't being successful offensively, so change
it up. You know, we got a team who's putting
a ton of pressure on our immobile quarterback. So we
bring in the guy who can run around a little
bit and make him see something different. You know, we
talk about him being coy about who's going to be
the starter this week. I think he's going to start demand,

(15:30):
but he doesn't want to say that. He said Will
is going but maybe. Yeah, here's the thing. I would
love to have UCLA preparing for Will all week and
then throw demand on him. So, you know, I think
there's some sportsman, you know, some some playing games and
all of that. But I think you know, he got
demand in because at that point in time, nothing was working. Well,

(15:50):
you might as well get the young guy some experience.
This game's over. We're not going to come back and win,
especially playing the way we are, So get him some
time and start preparing him and preparing our team to
move forward.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
I thought it was a good spot for demand. Like
I said, there's no pressure. I mean, whatever happens happens.
But you made the point of the postgame show that
you were worried watching the game that he was going
to get killed.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, at the end of the game, coaches calling the
five step and seven step drop back, Like I felt
like five minutes in the game, let's Let's get everybody
healthy and let's get out of here. We can run
the ball. We don't have to tinker with that young man.
You see what he can do. You know what he
can do. Like, I just didn't like that point at
the end. Well, I think the question needs to be
asked and talked about. Is this the right hole? Does

(16:31):
Demon Williams or Will Rogers give you a better if
the focus is simply put on Friday night, Greg and
Mario on UCLA, Which one of these two guys right
now gives us the best chance to win? We'll chat
about that.

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(17:06):
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(18:20):
surprise late start. I was gonna give you a chance
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Speaker 5 (18:26):
Week, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
No, I'm talking about next week, for next week, next week,
the surprise starting demon Williams, or maybe he doesn't start
in the first series, but he comes in. He sparks
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Speaker 2 (18:40):
All right, to mon Williams is the guy next Friday.
This Friday, Mario, how about you.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
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Speaker 7 (18:56):
Right, No, I've gotten it was right by the way.
This season, who's been right? Don't look at me crazy
this time? He's not playing right now. He has two
bad big toes. Yeah yeah, yeah, Zach, Yes, he's the
one game he got off. He's I mean, he's not
the waying right now.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Hey, guys, before we continue.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
With this, real quick.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
I know Greg wants to mention this Regina Rodgers, who
is the daughter of one of the greatest Husky football
players of all time, Reggie Rodgers, who obviously Reggie himself
passed away about what a decade ago or so thirteen.
Regina Rodgers is Reggie's daughter, and she we found out
this morning that she had also passed away. And you're
very close with the family, man, So yeah, condolences to

(19:39):
you guys for U.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
I know the university put out a statement today, but
yesterday morning, Regina Rodgers, a Husky women's basketball legend from
twenty two thousand and nine to twenty twelve passatail player,
passed away. Is she comes from one of the most
influential sports families in the University of Washington. Her maternal uncle,
the late great Chester Dorsey, who just passed away this

(20:03):
passed August. And so my heart goes out to her mom, Sheila,
her brother Reggie, her sister Amanda, who've lost so much
here just in the last little bit and even going
back to their dad. Regina was unbelievable. I met her
when she was twelve years old. She was the strongest
basketball player I've ever seen. She was so strong when

(20:23):
I was coaching her that I had to guard her
during practices because the other.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Little girls didn't have a chance. Wow. Her and my
family grow really close.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
But my heart just goes out to Sheila Dorsey, to
Amanda and Reggie Rogers for.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Their loss and Husky Nation.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
We lost another great one from that Rogers Dorsey family,
Husky Legends and just a great husky family, and my
heart goes out to it.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Now it's well said, and I'm certainly going to be
some kind of recognition at the game on Friday, for
sure about Regina passing away, but just another crushing loss. Man,
I mean, you get older and this kind of study
six years old just way way too young. Well, maybe
they'll go out and play motivated, uh, you know, in
part for her on on Friday. And I mean Greg
just mentioned it right there that he's not he's not

(21:08):
buying the Will Rogers hype all the way yet for Friday,
that maybe Jed's playing a little cooy, that maybe we'll
see more of Number two this Friday against UCLA. Are
you buying that yourself, Mario, Well, you know I've been
asking for Deman for a few weeks now I thought
maybe it was time, but no, I honestly think he'll
put in Will Rogers unless he struggles like he did

(21:30):
last weekend. He's gonna play, and we're trying to get
into a bowl game, and Will hasn't played bad, he
just hasn't played great, and so I think he'll go
with Will Rogers.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, this thing is totally flipped.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
I mean, two weeks ago, mar Will say I still
I'm just saying I'm with the coaches gonna do. But
I did I think I did say though, that this
would be a better time to me to start him
or give him significant playing time than going into Penn State.
We didn't do absolutely anything in the first half, so
you know, we could have started, probably would have been.

(22:03):
It couldn't have been a worse. So for me, you know,
this week you're playing UCLA. Not that they're bad team,
because they've gotten better and they've won three games in
a row. I think they're gonna present a sizable challenge
and they've kind of adapted to Big twelve football sort
of better than we have, you know, running the ball
extremely well, playing good defense lately lately.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
And you know, sometimes it takes some time.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
You got a new head coach and all that, and
you know, we've talked about should we be further along.
So I think this is an opportunity for demand. Whether
he starts the first nap or you know, plays the
majority of him, I think we're definitely gonna see a
bigger increased role. And I think he's gonna make some
plays in this game that UCLA is not gonna get
a stop, and that's gonna benefit Washington.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
I asked Jed Fish at the press conference yesterday why
Will Rogers is still the right call at quarterback Friday.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Here's what he said, for a few reasons.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
Number one, he's let us all see law, and he's
five and zero at home. He has done a fantastic
job against both Michigan and USC and our home games
here and Northwestern. He has been a fantastic leader since

(23:17):
arriving here. There wasn't anything that I would say that
occurred on Saturday night that I would hold him solely
responsible for that would have caused us to say, hey,
there's just no way we're going to win this game. Otherwise,
I have total faith that we're going to win the
game with Will at the starting quarterback position, and I

(23:39):
think the team feels the same way. So he's worked
extremely hard. This would be his fifty first college start.
And the decision I made at halftime was for multiple reasons,
certainly to try to provide a spark. Certainly we weren't
where we wanted to be, but there was there was

(24:01):
a lot that went into that decision to give them
on the opportunity to lead us in the second half.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Okay, you agree with all that? Is he doing the
right thing.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
I totally respect everything he said, Like I agree with
everything he said. Yeah, I just think again, if you're
trying to get to a bowl game, you don't want
your team to think that, and Will has done nothing
bad to just totally get binched like that. I just
thought we're going towards the future, so we're trying to
get into a bowl game. He is five and zero
at home. He didn't do anything last game. He threw

(24:30):
one bad interception, but for the most part that was
an overall offensive effort that we just couldn't move the ball.

Speaker 5 (24:35):
So I would give him this opportunity.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
I'm starting to think there's an on air Mario and
an off air Mario. Does he say any of this got.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Us the last week.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
I agree with what the coach said, and I'm gonna
say it again so you hear me so so defense.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
That clip was from yesterday, that Saturday. Let me just
say it.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I want demon and I thought he should be starting
a few games ago. But I think with coaches saying
I agree, Will Rogers just doesn't may be.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
A hard time because I'm I'm I'm sitting up here
advocating this on the radio.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
I talk to you, by the way, this stuff that
happens off the air, Come on, man, come on, man,
keep it off there. I agree. I agree with what
everything coach said.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
I just think that there's also that side of him
that wants to start.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
You know, like you just.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Said a minute ago, it didn't get to what it's
gonna look like. Yeah, So I believe that, Uh you know,
we'll see Will Rogers.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
I think the rope will be a little shorter.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
I think it will be, and I think we'll see
more demand Williams just because just because he wants to
get him some series, get him active, and if the
office is sputtering and struggling, I think we'll see more
and more of demand as a game goes.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, look, I mean, we talked about this during the
break off the here and I have no problem bringing
this on here. So the the twenty twenty one Will Rogers,
all right, who put up thirty six touchdowns, nine picks,
forty eight hundred yards, I think that's the guy that
we thought we would see or maybe some kind of
version of that, and that's not happening. I went back
and looked at the twenty twenty one Mississippi State offensive line.

(26:11):
They had a guy playing left tackle named Charles Cross
who was a first round draft pick for the Seahawks
a couple years later. So obviously a little bit of
a different story, But why aren't we seeing that quarterback
three years later?

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Totally different offense, and that offense Will was a gunsling
or Coach Leach's offense. You're passing first and then run later.
Right right now, Greg has said for the past eight
nine weeks, we're a play action team. So this offense
is built to run in past second, even though some
games we're gonna pass it more because we're behind or
we're just trying to get some yards. But it's just

(26:45):
a totally different offense. Will was given the keys to
that offense. He has not been given the keys to
this offense.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Two things. One, like Mario said, totally did of offense. Secondly,
it was never going to be a Will Rogers led
team throwing the ball all the way to feel because
I think this was a rebuilding year. This was a
year where we weren't going to have a strong offensive
line necessarily protecting a QB. We weren't gonna have all
the pieces in place to make a deep run. So

(27:12):
I think the coaches to some degree, as much as
they are trying and playing to win now, do have
overall a perspective of preparing for next year when we
should have more pieces in place to make a deep run.
So I think you know, this year wasn't set up
for a quarterback like where Rodgers are coming here and
have all of those passing yards and all of that

(27:33):
kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Well, what's your concern meter for UCLA? We threw a
pall out there, six hundred votes in so far, forty
two point nine somewhat concerned, thirty seven point two very concerned,
and nineteen point nine percent say they're not concerned at
all about UCLA. On Friday, let's come back and chat
about that. We'll get your thoughts on Jed Fish turning

(27:56):
this thing around, and are we seeing just how valuable
Jed Fish is by what's happening in Tucson right now
with the Arizona Wildcat football team where they are. They
are hot about their new coach down there, not in
a good way. We'll get the Zoom Care injury update.
The opponent preview from Valentine Roofing Marrac Greg and Mario
John Wilner at five right here on ninety three three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
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Speaker 5 (28:30):
Time for the opponent preview.

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(28:52):
five win U, four win USC and five win Fresno State.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
They think they can make a bowl game.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
They're motivated, and they went to the Rose Bowl last
week on a Friday night against Iowa and ran for
two hundred and eleven yards against the Iowa Hawk guys.
And they held Caden Johnson to eighteen carries for forty
nine yards. Greg lewis, what does your concern meter for
this UCLA game on Friday.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
I'm with the people who are at forty two percent
who were somewhat concerned. And I say that because you know,
we're not a great football team, but also we play
extremely well at home. We've played good against some decent
teams at home. UCLA is not a great football team
by any stretch of the imagination. They're a team who's
playing hard, playing well, playing determined. They got what they

(29:40):
just did this past week was notable, but it was
down at the Rose Bowl. It was at their home field.
They got to come into Husky Stadium on a Friday
night and go up against all hopefully seventy five thousand
people or however many we fit nowadays, seventy two. I
think it is against a Husky team who's fighting for
their lives. Talk about someone who really needs to have

(30:02):
a win. We're staring down a game where if we
don't win this one, we got to go on the
road and beat Oregon. Yeah, so you gotta win this
football game. I'm somewhat concerned, but I think we have
enough weapons to get it done. I watched the UCLA play.
They're very rudimentary. They don't do anything fancy, they don't
do anything, you know, really exciting. They just try to
run the football and play good defensive. We beat teams

(30:22):
like that so far this year at home.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's a must win game, no question, unless you feel
like they're going.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
To beat the Ducks. No, okay, is that it's a
must win game. Yeah, No, I'm on the very concerned meter.
I think UCLA is hungry. I think I watched the
second half of that Iowa game and they were beating
up on Iowa, and Iowa kind of beat up on us.
But I just think they're a hungrier team. They've won
the last three and then you look at the five

(30:48):
in a row that they lost from Indiana, LSU, Oregon,
Penn State, Minnesota. Those are some great teams for the
most part, besides Minnesota, those that schedule is daunting. So
they're losses aren't like they just lost to some cupcake teams, right,
But they're hungry and they won a ball game, and
I can see them in a bowl game. And our
University of Washington team, I don't think we're as hungry.

(31:10):
We're just thinking that maybe we can win at home.
We've won nineteen in a row. We'll win this one.
But it's not going to be an easy task. I say,
UCLA comes in here to try and give it to us,
and their ingredients and how they beat Iowa is kind
of what hurts us. Like they stopped the run, they
were stopping that running back for Iowa, and they were
running the ball on on Iowa. So those two things

(31:32):
I think makes us me very concerned.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
God, when did they get so negative that has been
around you?

Speaker 3 (31:39):
So send them to sit with Dick Beard for a
week exactly.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
You need to chuck up from the nookup. I'm with
you that I'm concerned about it too. I'm kind of
more with Greg than I am with Mario, but I
can see both sides of that coin. I mean, look,
I mean the Huskies, let's face that, they haven't really
beaten anybody this year, right, I mean the nineteen games
at home is awesome, but it'd be awesome or if
we were nine and zero right now and riding a
nineteen game winning streak in the entire country was talking

(32:07):
about that? Does that kind of creep you guys out
a little bit? That you're kind of playing with fire?
You've won nineteen in a row? Are you really going
to get to twenty? Is this really gonna keep going?
Are they like just do for a loss?

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Man?

Speaker 3 (32:19):
No, I don't believe in that do for a stuff.
I think you make whatever happens happens. And I think
we found a way to make our sales successful at
Husky Stadium, and I think being at home has a
lot to do with it.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
What about with Jedfish and what's happening in Arizona, Because
I wonder if Husky fans look at what's happening at
Arizona and thinking of what maybe Jedfish deserves a lot
more credit for the way Noah Fafita played last year.
Tep McMillan, for example, have you seen Fafeitas numbers, Mario.
He's gone from seventy two percent to sixty one, twenty
five touchdowns to thirteen, six interceptions to ten All of

(32:53):
the brand new head coach, Tep McMillan's numbers are way
down from a year ago. They are a three win
football team right now. The new coach is getting fried
down there in Tucson, and maybe looking at that, does
it give you more confidence that Jedfish knows what he's doing.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
I like Coach Fish, and like I said, if you
have fifty some new players, that's a growing process. I
think the process and the journey is fun for coach Fish,
just like it was at Arizona. He started off at
Arizona rough, but if you look at how he left
that place, he left it better than when he got there.
So I think Coach Fish is looking forward to that.
In Arizona, the quarterback has one guy to throw it to,

(33:31):
and after that first game they had record breaking stats
on that first game, all they did was start doubling
him every time.

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there's going to be twenty six players walking out there
on Friday night. Some of them are going to be

(34:00):
banged up obviously and not playing in the game like
we saw, you know, Zach Drfied didn't even play or
even travel. I think the Penn State. We'll see if
he comes out, you know, for this game on Friday.
But you guys both remember Senior night, obviously your last
game ever at Washington Mario, what do you remember about
walking out of that tunnel for that for the very

(34:20):
last time? And what those guys will experience on Friday.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
It was a great moment.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Of course it was against the Koogs and we just
had beat up on them, so it was great. And
just I just remember coach Gilberson. He was the one
person I was looking forward to hugging. But I also
remember thinking like this is great, but we have a
job to finish.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
So for me, yeah, a little bit of a different story,
A little bit of a different story, similar to these guys.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
My senior game was against UCLA Costas.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Wow, Well it was against UCLA and it costs me,
cost me my knee. I left my knee on the
thirty yard line somewhere in the first quarter of that game.
Excuse me getting choked up thinking about it. And we
ended up losing the national championship on that day. But
before the game, I do remember reflecting back on all
the great times that I had had at university, all

(35:11):
my friends, those guys are still my lifelong friends to
this day. All the seniors that I graduated with, Guys
on the offensive line like Dean Kirkland, Jeff Powellcola, you know,
then guys like Charles minciuh and Don Jones on the defense.
So it was it was a bittersweet. You know, before
the game, I was all hyped up and excited. The
prior week we had clinched the Rose Bowl. You know,

(35:32):
we knew we were going to Rose Bowl, so we
were all excited about that. And then the game itself
was a big cluster, a big letdown.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
So I don't I don't. I tried to forget the
last half of it.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
I was gonna say sorry for bringing it up, man, Yeah, thanks,
thanks a lot. But the the the walking out of
the tunnel was a good memory, and then once the
game started it was a bad memory. Well, maybe these
guys can put something together Friday, because this just feels
like one thousand percent must win territory. Uh, don't want
to rely on having to go to Eugene to beat
the Ducks. And by the way, just a little precursor.
No matter what happens in two and a half weeks

(36:03):
in Eugene, we got the big one in Vegas last year,
so those guys can suck on that.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
No matter how many times we play, Oregon will never
play a bigger game unless we meet in the quarterfinals
of a twelve team playoff. There will never be a
bigger game than what happened to a year ago. If I
would have told you last year before the game in Vegas, Mario,
you can win this one, but you can't get next
year's game down there, you were to said.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
Hell, yes, you were saying sign me up.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
All right, we'll see you guys at two o'clock on
Friday from the zone kick off at six against UCLA.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
John Wilner coming up next to
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