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Speaker 2: They are NFL champions, don't see Hattlesey Hawks have one

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Speaker 3: As part of our non stop coverage of the NFL,

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Speaker 3: this is Softy's weekly visit with Kevin Harlan.

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Speaker 2: He's a pulldozer.

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Speaker 4: HiT's crap bike purse. Now with Kevin, here's Softy.

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Speaker 2: How boys are the Tannaberraiders in the gun. There's the shotgun. Snap,

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Speaker 2: It's me by the back pedaling CD Lamb in the

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Speaker 2: back of the m zone and the Cowboys have taking

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Speaker 2: a lead. They're first tonight.

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Speaker 5: All right, boys and girls, we are back on a

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Speaker 5: busy Wednesday night right here on ninety three to three KJRFM.

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Speaker 5: Big thanks to our friends at Twin Peaks Lodge in Tuckuilla.

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Speaker 5: Get on down there, eats, drinks, scenic views, have your

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Speaker 5: company holiday party. Brad would love to have you at

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Speaker 5: Twin Peaks, Tuckuilla. We're stepping up and meeting the gigantic

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Speaker 5: financial demands of our next guest and his representatives from

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Speaker 5: the NFL in Westwood One, the NFL and CBS, a

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Speaker 5: voice of football for millions around the globe and right

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Speaker 4: Our friend Kevin Harlan, How are you, pal?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. You know, Brad and I were enjoying

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Speaker 2: a nice drink the other night and I was up

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Speaker 2: over Twin Peaks and I said, I said, Brad, you know,

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Speaker 2: let me ask you something. Why do you associate with

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Speaker 2: a guy like Dave's softy mall is? Because he's iconic

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Speaker 2: in the Pacific Northwest. He is he rules the airwaves.

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Speaker 2: You should feel, my friend, this is him talking Brad.

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Speaker 2: You should feel lucky to be on with him once

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Speaker 2: a week. And I said, you know, he never looked

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Speaker 2: but that's good. It's good to hear you say that.

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Speaker 4: Well, so I think Brad.

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Speaker 5: I think Brad would say to you the reason why

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Speaker 5: he associates with me is because it's a reminder for

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Speaker 5: him that no matter how miserable your life is, it

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Speaker 5: can always be worse. I think that's why he likes

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Speaker 5: to have me in his life for that perspective. My friend,

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Speaker 5: Oh you come on, hey, just listen.

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Speaker 4: It is great to have you back.

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Speaker 5: And people may be wondering, you know, God, that that

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Speaker 5: that cowboy highlight that was from a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 5: which it was, But you got yourself a nice little

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Speaker 4: How is Thanksgiving? And can we expect a.

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Speaker 5: Totally energized now refresh Kevin Harlan come Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Well, energy has never been my problem. So I don't

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Speaker 2: that that has been replenished. It's always been kind of

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Speaker 2: I hope you had one as well, and I hope

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Speaker 2: your listeners that are safe and and wonderful. Thanksgivting holiday

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Speaker 4: No doubt.

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Speaker 5: Well, we're going to see the Seahawks back in action

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Speaker 5: of bummed out that. Okay, good, but Pennix is not playing.

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Speaker 2: The season speaks for itself, you know, Darnold, aside from

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Speaker 5: We brought this up yesterday Kevin on the radio show

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Speaker 5: Kevin Harlan again with us courtesy at Twin Peaks Tuckwilla

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Speaker 5: every Wednesday, unless he's got the week off like you

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Speaker 2: Well, should the Rams fans be, you know, worrying about

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Speaker 2: We just saw the Niners this past weekend in Cleveland,

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Speaker 2: But I I just I just think that you know,

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Speaker 4: In this year, Yeah, who's the best team in the NFC.

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Speaker 2: Well, boy, I was going to say the Rams, and

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Speaker 2: We're gonna see Tampa Bayer Group is this week, but

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Speaker 2: when you play division games, Dave, as you know, you know,

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Speaker 2: Division games are the most difficult games to play on

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Speaker 2: This will be a great This will be an interesting

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Speaker 2: And that could be incredibly empowering for the Seahawks moving forward.

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Speaker 5: Well, Kevin Harlan again is with us speaking of ramifications

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm looking at the current MVP odds in the NFL,

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Speaker 5: Kevin Harlan, speaking a special back with us on the

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Speaker 2: But but how about that? Your guy has done won

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Speaker 2: They're a top the NFC. The quarterback is playing with

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Speaker 2: And that's gonna be a tough thing to do. But

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Speaker 2: I think it speaks volumes, even more so than what

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Speaker 5: Now, I'll be big, all right, Kevin, great stuff. You're

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Speaker 5: a smart guy, because you already told us you're doing

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Speaker 2: I want to do that every week, people said, and

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Speaker 5: Well whatever sts TV on Sunday, and then Eagles Chargers

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Speaker 5: night in La. All right, man, great stuff, Glad to

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Speaker 4: Appreciate this, Bud.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Dave, take care of my best of you

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Speaker 5: All right, man, Kevin Harlan with us on the radio show.

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Speaker 5: Jedfish is going to join. How about that big signing

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Speaker 5: For sure? We'll get to all that at six ninety

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Speaker 5: All right, so, Kevin Harlan says, give Sam Darnold a break.

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Speaker 4: Everybody has a bad month, everybody has a bad.

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Speaker 5: Game, says the Great Kevin Harlan. We talked about this

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Speaker 6: Dick?

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Speaker 4: Do you have a belief system? Jackson feltz I do okay?

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Speaker 5: Well, whatever your belief system says about Sam Darnold today,

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Speaker 4: If this keeps going, you know that I.

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Speaker 7: Agree with everything Kevin Harlan had to say. I just

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Speaker 7: but I try not to be the recency bias sports fan,

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Speaker 7: And if you everybody, every quarterback goes through stretches where

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Speaker 7: And I think we've seen enough of Sam Donald to

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Speaker 7: He's certainly much better than Jill Smith is now, and

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Speaker 8: I mean Colts, Rams, suddenly, the Panthers away, the game

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Speaker 8: suddenly is all of them, four of.

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Speaker 4: The last five.

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Speaker 8: So, buddy, Sam, like you were great in the first

436
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Speaker 8: half of the year, MVP caliber in the first half

437
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Speaker 8: of the year, but these are the pressure games, and guys,

438
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Speaker 8: we just haven't seen him in the clutch yet. So

439
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Speaker 8: I need to see that before I kind of turn

440
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Speaker 8: my head and believe this guy.

441
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Speaker 4: Can lead us in the playoffs.

442
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Speaker 5: If you want to, just look at the body of work,

443
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Speaker 5: going back to last year's opener again for Minnesota. Okay,

444
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 5: the guy has in his last twenty nine games, he

445
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Speaker 5: is twenty three and six as a starter. This is

446
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Speaker 5: just regular season, so we're not including the playoff game

447
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Speaker 5: against the Rams.

448
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Speaker 4: Right, twenty three and.

449
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Speaker 5: Six, sixty seven percent, fifty four touchdowns, twenty two interceptions,

450
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Speaker 5: passer rating of one oh two point seven. Uh he's

451
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Speaker 5: also taken sixty three sacks. The majority of those were

452
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Speaker 5: with the Vikings, by the way, obviously, because it's only

453
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Speaker 5: taken fifteen this year. But if I would have told

454
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Speaker 5: you over a near thirty game period that the guy

455
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Speaker 5: is twenty three and six with fifty four touchdowns, twenty

456
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Speaker 5: two interceptions at a passer rating of one hundred and three,

457
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Speaker 5: you would say, you know what before I just roll

458
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Speaker 5: the dice and look at door number two, right, just

459
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Speaker 5: I'll take it. Yeah, give it to us, We'll.

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Speaker 8: Take I would say, really quick again, all those numbers

461
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Speaker 8: are great, and I absolutely would take those numbers. I

462
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Speaker 8: would love to look at just the stats in what

463
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Speaker 8: we would consider the three of us would consider big,

464
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Speaker 8: big clutch games. Yes, and I those stats just aren't

465
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Speaker 8: there touch games.

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Speaker 5: But let me just ask you guys this, and give

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Speaker 5: full credit to Millan because he brought this up. So

468
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Speaker 5: we're talking about what I think you're talking about, Jackson,

469
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Speaker 5: is the Lion game, the RAM game in the playoffs,

470
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Speaker 5: and the RAM game this year for the Seahawks. Correct, Yeah,

471
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Speaker 5: those are the games that you're focused on, those three.

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Speaker 5: But right, okay, So, as Hugh has said, and I

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Speaker 5: agree with him. Was the Packer game last year at

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Speaker 5: Lambeau a big game for the Vikings and Sam darm

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Speaker 5: When was that that was in Week four? Was the

476
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Speaker 5: Packer game in Week seventeen?

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Speaker 4: Yes? At home? Was that a big game.

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Speaker 5: For Sam Darny the thirty three of forty three, three

479
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Speaker 5: seventy seven, three touchdowns and a pick and he was

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Speaker 5: at seventy eight percent.

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Speaker 4: There we go, but nobody, nobody talks about that. Don't

482
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Speaker 4: talk about it, you know why? Because they won. That's why. Yes,

483
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Speaker 4: nobody's gonna sit.

484
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Speaker 5: Around and go, oh, this is great, Sam, don't won

485
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Speaker 5: a game of importance.

486
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Speaker 4: No, they wait and they wait and they wait to pout.

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Speaker 8: So do that again against Indianapolis, please, Sam.

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Speaker 6: Well.

489
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Speaker 7: And it is very difficult for even really good quarterbacks

490
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Speaker 7: to have great games against great defenses and big spots.

491
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Speaker 4: It's just hard.

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Speaker 7: If you're if your name's not Patrick Mahomes, if your

493
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Speaker 7: name's not Josh Allen, I mean, are you really gonna

494
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Speaker 7: shred top five defenses in the biggest spots. No, you

495
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 7: just have to play well enough to win.

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Speaker 8: Indianapolis doesn't have a good defense right now, especially with

497
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Speaker 8: Sauce Gardner out right now. So I would say that

498
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Speaker 8: game's here, right, Yeah, the perfect opportunity for Sam to

499
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Speaker 8: have a big game against the Okay defense.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 5: Well yeah, I mean this game on Sunday is a

502
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Speaker 5: is a tricky one because the Falcons like to get

503
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Speaker 5: after the quarterback. So I'm really curious to see what

504
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Speaker 5: Biac does, what the offensive line does to protect him

505
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Speaker 5: on Sunday. I don't think this is going to be

506
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Speaker 5: like if the Hawks go down to Atlanta and they

507
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Speaker 5: win by three or four, or they come from behind

508
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Speaker 5: to win the game. I'm not going to be surprised

509
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Speaker 5: by that. I'm kind of at a point now in

510
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Speaker 5: the season. Look, guys, you're fighting for let's be honest

511
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Speaker 5: with you. You're fighting for the number one seed in

512
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Speaker 5: the NFC. You have the exact same record as the

513
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Speaker 5: team with the number one seed in the NFC has,

514
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Speaker 5: and that's the Chicago Bears. Okay, reason why you don't

515
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Speaker 5: have it because you got the tiebreaker lost to the

516
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Speaker 5: Rams and they have the division.

517
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Speaker 4: But you're fighting for the one seed. I don't even

518
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Speaker 4: know if people really.

519
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Speaker 5: Kind of realize that right now, we are literally fighting,

520
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Speaker 5: guys for a home field that vantaged Dick in the

521
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Speaker 5: NFL playoffs with five games to go.

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Speaker 7: And we know what that means. That means so far

523
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Speaker 7: in Seahawks history, perfection, Yes every year, Yes, six and

524
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Speaker 7: oh never losing when you have the you have the

525
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Speaker 7: one seed. But I mean, I'm with you on the

526
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Speaker 7: on the Falcons game. I mean, if you win, dude,

527
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Speaker 7: just win. I think there's a better chance that we

528
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Speaker 7: were in a dog fight with eight minutes left to

529
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Speaker 7: go in that game than we win by twenty. I

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Speaker 7: just think it's look what Atlanta's done the last five weeks.

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Speaker 7: They lost at New England, pretty good team, by one point.

532
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Speaker 7: They lost in overtime against Indianapolis, they lost in overtime

533
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Speaker 7: to Carolina, They blew out in New Orleans, and they

534
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Speaker 7: lost by three at the Jets. They have covered this

535
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Speaker 7: seven point spread that's coming up with Seattle. They've covered

536
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Speaker 7: it five weeks in a row.

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Speaker 8: I really quickly say all but one of those were

538
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Speaker 8: with Drake London, and he made not playing.

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Speaker 4: That that's fair.

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Speaker 5: That Saints game, by the way, was sixteen to ten

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Speaker 5: with twelve minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Atlanta

542
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Speaker 5: had a one score lead in that game, and they

543
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Speaker 5: found a way to get the late touchdown from the

544
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Speaker 5: Cousins to Moody. But the point is is that they're

545
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Speaker 5: playing much better football. They're better playing better football, they're

546
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Speaker 5: playing better for better.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, I just think this man.

548
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Speaker 5: I think going back to Sam and everything he's doing

549
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 5: for the Seahawks this year, Okay, fine, he has struggled

550
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 5: in some big games that we've seen him play. But

551
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Speaker 5: I think people, as Don James said to hum Millin,

552
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 5: they only remember the games you lost. They don't talk

553
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 5: about the games that you won. There's no position in

554
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 5: sports that's nitpicked more than quarterback and critics right that

555
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Speaker 5: Sam Donald goes. And that's also why he makes thirty

556
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Speaker 5: five million guys. Come on, there's a reason why these

557
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 5: guys are making sixty million dollars a year because they

558
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 5: take all the crap and they get all the credit

559
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Speaker 5: when things go well, and they take it all when

560
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 5: things go poorly. But to act like Sam Donald has

561
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 5: never won a big game since he became a starter

562
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 5: a year ago is stupid.

563
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Speaker 4: I just gave you two of them he won last year.

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Speaker 7: I just think if Seahawk fans can just accept Sam

565
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Speaker 7: Donald for what he is, which is a good starting

566
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Speaker 7: NFL quarterback, a solid NFL starting quarterback. You're not gonna

567
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Speaker 7: worry so much when he has bad games. That does

568
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Speaker 7: happen all the time.

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Speaker 5: If I made you an offer and said you can,

570
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Speaker 5: you can do one of two things. You can hang

571
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 5: on to Sam Donald, or you can take him back

572
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 5: and we can go over here and we can open

573
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Speaker 5: up door number three and see what's sitting there.

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Speaker 7: There's nothing indoor number three. It's a goat, Like, let's

575
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 7: make a deal. Okay, there's literally like a goat.

576
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Speaker 5: I'm just saying that there might be a better option,

577
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Speaker 5: or there might be a worse option.

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Speaker 6: There.

579
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Speaker 5: Odds are there's gonna be a worse option. That's part you.

580
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Speaker 7: Know why the odds are because there's only like nine

581
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Speaker 7: quarterbacks on the planet better than Sam Darnald.

582
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Speaker 4: We extracars.

583
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Speaker 7: Yet we did that exercise yesterday.

584
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Speaker 5: We will get a break a little fun with audio

585
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Speaker 5: slash hat did you hear that? Including Abdul Carter, who

586
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 5: did not play on the opening drive for the Giants

587
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 5: the other night. Question is why and was the Twitter

588
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 5: report that he was caught watching pornography in a team

589
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Speaker 5: meeting accurate? That's coming up. And then Jedfish at six

590
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Speaker 5: on ninety three three kJ RFM.

591
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Speaker 4: It's now time for Softy in Dig's Fun with Audio.

592
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Speaker 6: Jimmy Gaunt, Jimmy mister garoppolo.

593
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Speaker 4: Now let's have some fun with audio.

594
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Speaker 5: Jetfish will join next segment. Signing day over at you

595
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Speaker 5: talk about some of the highlights of the class. Is

596
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Speaker 5: Denzel Boston back, Jacob Manu Buddha, the linebacker, Tyreek Aluk?

597
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 5: Does he coming back next year? So lots of questions,

598
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Speaker 5: man hey, is jet Fish coming back? Is he get

599
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 5: to answer all I he better from what we're paying for?

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Speaker 8: What?

601
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Speaker 4: Yeah?

602
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 5: Or I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna kick

603
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Speaker 5: his ass. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna punch

604
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 5: him right in the nose. If he doesn't answer all

605
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 5: those questions.

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Speaker 7: You know what you say, would you pay us for that?

607
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Speaker 6: Watch? Softy?

608
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 5: Just a cost j Fish.

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Speaker 8: I think the better question, Dick is if we started

610
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Speaker 8: a Kickstarter, how much money could we raise?

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Speaker 4: Is that like a go fund me?

612
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Speaker 5: By the way, did you see the story on Twitter

613
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Speaker 5: there night that some guy was at a Lows and

614
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 5: there was like an eighty eight year old Army veteran

615
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 5: that was working there and he said he had to

616
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Speaker 5: work at the age of eighty eight, beca as he

617
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 5: lost his pension with General Motors and his wife passed

618
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Speaker 5: away like seven years ago. And so Twitter and this

619
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Speaker 5: might be a hoax, It might be a scam. I

620
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 5: might be somebody ripping somebody off. Twitter got together and

621
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Speaker 5: started a GoFundMe page for the guy. They have over

622
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Speaker 5: a million dollars for the guy now so he can retire.

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Speaker 5: That's tremendous. Sometimes Twitter is not the piss hole that

624
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Speaker 5: you think it is, by the way, he usually is,

625
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Speaker 5: but not in that case.

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Speaker 4: All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?

627
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Speaker 4: What's that day? What's that?

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Speaker 6: Dick?

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Speaker 4: All right? Monday there was a report. Are we sure

630
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Speaker 4: this was fake?

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Speaker 8: We are knowing that it's from a parody account.

632
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Speaker 5: Okay, Wesley Steinberg was at his name whatever. There was

633
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Speaker 5: a report from a parody Giants reporter that said that

634
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Speaker 5: New York rookie lineman Abdua Carter would be sitting out

635
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Speaker 5: the start of Monday night's game because he was caught

636
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Speaker 5: watching porn during a team meeting. The plot thickened when

637
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Speaker 5: Carter was actually benched for the start of the game,

638
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Speaker 5: so after.

639
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Speaker 4: New York's loss.

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Speaker 5: Here is what interim head coach Mike Acas said about

641
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Speaker 5: his decision to keep Carter out of the game.

642
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Speaker 7: Was abduel not out there the first couple of series.

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Speaker 9: That was a coach's decision, my decision.

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Speaker 2: Why have you made that decision.

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Speaker 9: Just based on how we how we went during the week.

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Speaker 9: Just that was that was a decision I wanted to.

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Speaker 2: Make another just onary reason.

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Speaker 9: No, it was just my decision to not to not

649
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Speaker 9: play them. There was a report that that he had

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Speaker 9: was missed part of or all of a team event.

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Speaker 2: Is that true.

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Speaker 9: No, it was just strictly my decision.

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Speaker 7: I mean, Mike, I imagine that when you mentioned on

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Speaker 7: the first time you hope that the message would get

655
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Speaker 7: through to the fact that this now two weeks later.

656
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 4: It's it's the same exact thing again, I mean, or

657
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 4: it's something similar again.

658
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 9: I mean what so just say, we have great communication

659
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 9: and he's one of my favorite players on the team,

660
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 9: and that was one thing that you know, we talked

661
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 9: about and it was my decision to not play this

662
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 9: one again. That was again, this is one of the

663
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 9: things that I decided to do a time.

664
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Speaker 4: Still a problem may that being a constant problem.

665
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 9: It's this was just strictly my decision to not plan

666
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 9: this week.

667
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 4: And by the way, it went on like that for

668
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 4: another minute. So I'm confused. Was it whose decision was.

669
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 7: I don't think I think it was Kafka's decision, but

670
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 7: I'm not sure.

671
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 4: He didn't make it very clear at.

672
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 5: One point after the eighteenth it was my decision? Does

673
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 5: a member of the New York media, And I'm stunned

674
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,479
Speaker 5: that nobody actually asked, is it true he was watching

675
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 5: Forrest Hump.

676
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 4: In a team meeting?

677
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 5: Is it true he got caught watching the Da Vinci load.

678
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 10: Ohe Nobody stepped up and asked that question. Nobody asked,

679
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 10: there's like fifty people that cover the giants in New

680
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 10: York City, Mike, is it true he was watching womb Raider?

681
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 7: Eh, you're spitting these out way too easily.

682
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 4: Dave whether on the web. I'm looking at him right now? Oh, okay,

683
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 4: would like me to continue? Please?

684
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 5: Actually, Edward Penis hands, I mean, I don't know, dude, Dick.

685
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 5: Are you shocked though that nobody actually just asked that

686
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 5: flat out? All the knuckleheads that live in New York

687
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 5: can cover the team and we saw that.

688
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 4: We saw the report off the air.

689
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 7: And we were like, is this really true?

690
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 4: And we were we were like, ye, but it is.

691
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 5: We do know it is a parody. Wesley Steinberg. Guy, Okay,

692
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 5: all right, well there you go. But at minimum we

693
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 5: do know whose decision it was, and it was Mike

694
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 5: Kafka's decision.

695
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,959
Speaker 4: All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?

696
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 6: What's that?

697
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:34,719
Speaker 4: Dick? You want to go to two?

698
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 6: Then?

699
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 4: Yeah?

700
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 6: All right.

701
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 5: Abdul Carter himself also spoke briefly after the loss and

702
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 5: was asked about why he was benched for the start

703
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 5: of the game.

704
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 9: Second time in three weeks, start for half?

705
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 4: It happens?

706
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 6: What happened to the detail?

707
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 4: Why? Why? I for asking the same question? I just answered,

708
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 4: is it true you were caught watching drill Bill?

709
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 5: I just I'm amazed man that when it came to

710
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 5: his locker room interview and Kafka's interview, that nobody actually

711
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 5: mentioned that because they were hiding something.

712
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 4: Right, clearly clearly hiding something.

713
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 7: God, well, are you going to get in trouble for

714
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 7: on the company computer looking up all those movies?

715
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 5: Probably it's all work related, man, Right, I just typed

716
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 5: in porn parody titles, and all these names came up

717
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 5: on the screen here. Oh wait, he's just gonna you

718
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 5: know what, I'd realized. I just screwed up. I'm sorry,

719
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 5: they just came up automatically. I'm logged into Mark James's account.

720
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 5: We're gonna break Jeed Fish gonna join next on ninety

721
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 5: three three KJRFM.

722
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 4: All right, let's get to it.

723
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 5: Uh Husky's thirteenth best class in America is deemed by

724
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 5: our friends over at two four seven would you say?

725
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 4: Dick Composite has them at.

726
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 5: Number twelve in the country, including the number one player

727
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 5: in California, tackle Cody Green. Great day for Jedfish and

728
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 5: company over at you Dub, and he joins us right

729
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 5: now on the radio program, Coach, how are you?

730
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 6: I'm doing great, really excited about the way it went today.

731
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 6: I think our whole staff, Matt Doherty's personnel department are

732
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 6: assistant coaches, did an unbelievable job. Highest ranked class in

733
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 6: the history, you Dub. I'm just so proud of the

734
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 6: team and the amount of great players we brought in.

735
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 5: Well, let's talk about these guys, a few of them

736
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 5: in detail, because I think in years past, you have

737
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 5: a class like this and maybe there's two or three

738
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 5: guys jed that would play right away, right, you know,

739
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 5: most freshmen back in the day would sit and learn

740
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 5: for a couple of years and not the way of

741
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 5: the world coach anymore. And let's start with the big

742
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 5: offensive tackle from matter day, Cody Green. There's gonna be

743
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 5: an opening in case you didn't know, at left tackle

744
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 5: next year with Carver Willis taken off. So where does

745
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 5: Cody Green fit into your plans as far as a

746
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 5: day one player on that offensive line?

747
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,959
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, he's you know, the coolest part about

748
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 6: Cody is he's you know, he's from Seattle, just played

749
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 6: a modern day Dad's a you know, dad's a teacher

750
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 6: here in Bellevue. So just so excited about having Cody

751
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 6: with us. I think, you know, when you bring in

752
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 6: somebody of his caliber, athleticism, size, way, mentality, he reminds

753
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 6: me a lot of bringing a guy like John Mills

754
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 6: that they're ready to play day one. Now you've got

755
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 6: to earn it, you've got to compete for it. You've

756
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 6: got to be able to, you know, handle the pass

757
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 6: rushers of the big can and be able to handle

758
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 6: everything that goes into being a starting offensive lineman. But

759
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 6: he's in position to have that to compete for that spot,

760
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 6: and we're excited about having him here. Obviously, the number

761
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 6: one player in the state of California to come to

762
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 6: the University of Washington's pretty cool.

763
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 4: No question.

764
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 7: Well, about ten years ago we got the moniker DBU

765
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 7: over there at at mont Lake and you guys are

766
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 7: still great at the defensive back position, but it he's

767
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 7: almost turning into wide receiver. You over the last few

768
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 7: years with the last few recruiting classes, tell us about

769
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 7: Jordan Clay, another kid with just NFL body six three

770
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 7: from Texas.

771
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know he was. He was one of our

772
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 6: later rivals. We were able to get him yesterday and

773
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 6: we've recruited him. Really, we've known about him for I

774
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 6: don't know, nine ten months. I think I have like

775
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 6: original messages since July and even before with him. But

776
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 6: he is he looks he looks how you want him

777
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 6: to look. And you know, he looks like a younger

778
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 6: Denzel Boston type body type and a younger t mac

779
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 6: and that type of body that you know we want

780
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 6: to have in our exposition is that somebody that's in

781
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 6: that above six two frame, somebody that's long and linear,

782
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 6: that could win one on one battles. And when we

783
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 6: were able to sign him along with you know, Mason James,

784
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 6: whos been committed to us from the very beginning, you know,

785
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 6: with the number one player in Oklahoma, and then adding

786
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 6: in Trads and Blaze of Vista Group.

787
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the kid from Kennedy Catholic right down

788
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 5: where Dick and I live by the way, just off

789
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 5: the highway. There there's a great history, a great pipeline

790
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 5: from Kennedy to you dub as you know that's been

791
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 5: going on for a long long time. And Derek Coleman

792
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 5: Brusa edge rusher Man. I think you talk to a

793
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 5: lot of Husky fans and you ask him what's one

794
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 5: thing you'd love to have over the offseason, They say,

795
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 5: a war daddy on the on the edge, on the

796
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 5: defensive line. So I'm just gonna call the guy d

797
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 5: c B. Where does DCB fit with your plans for

798
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 5: twenty twenty six?

799
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 6: Oh? Well, he's special now he's he is playing that

800
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 6: we will be playing him early. Wow. I beck him

801
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 6: to walk in here and make a huge difference. He

802
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 6: reminds me of you know what it looks like when

803
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 6: you take a first round pick in the NFL's He's

804
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 6: a first round pick here in college, and you know

805
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 6: we'd beat the best teams in the country for him.

806
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 6: He's the number one player in the state of Washington,

807
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 6: him and Zadrias from a year ago. It's important to

808
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 6: us to get the best players in the state to

809
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 6: stay here and to get back to back number one

810
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 6: players in the States. It's critical. And then this guy

811
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 6: is I think he can rush the poster. I think

812
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 6: he'd stop the run. I think he could play really

813
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 6: at all four spots on the defensive line, depending on

814
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 6: what we need and when. And really thrilled about him

815
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 6: joining us, Softie.

816
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 7: I saw him about four weeks ago in person and

817
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 7: he had four sacks in the second half against my

818
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 7: alma Maters, So you know, I wasn't happy about that game,

819
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 7: but I was happy he was coming to the University

820
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 7: of Watching, no question about it.

821
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: Coach.

822
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 7: You know, recruiters need a ward chest these days. It's

823
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 7: a it's a different world than it used to be.

824
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 7: How satisfied were you with with the ward chest you

825
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 7: had to work with?

826
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 6: Well, you know, as I said to our staff that

827
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 6: I've read a lot of articles over the last week

828
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 6: or so about what some teams have done, and I'm

829
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 6: very proud of the fact that we recruited the old

830
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 6: fashioned way and we were able to get players to

831
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 6: commit here based on their ability to be developed. We

832
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 6: were ready to get players to commit here based on

833
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 6: the relationships, and then they learned that when they get

834
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 6: here that they'll be able to receive compensation. And we

835
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 6: were not in that position to be able to play

836
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 6: high school players early, and we didn't do it. So

837
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 6: we're really happy with how it worked. And now we're

838
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 6: trying to build that war chest out to be able

839
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 6: to make sure that we can retain the team that

840
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 6: we need to retain here in January and then also

841
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 6: be able to reward the team after spring for next year.

842
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 5: On what you look on well, Jake, you said just

843
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago, I think you and I

844
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 5: were talking on a Monday or a Thursday, that you're

845
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 5: not where you got to be with the nil budget.

846
00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 5: How much of your daily grind is spent convincing people

847
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 5: to help get you where you need to be financially

848
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 5: to be on that level where you can recruit the

849
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 5: old fashioned way with a great sales job, but also

850
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 5: have the war chest, as Dick talked about, to get

851
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 5: the players you're looking for and keep the players you have.

852
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, it certainly takes up a good amount of time

853
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 6: as we're continuing to try to, you know, create the

854
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 6: program that we want to create. You could see really

855
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 6: throughout the last two weeks there's been a lot of

856
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 6: reports of programs, you know, trying to get to ten

857
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 6: million dollars out above above revenue share, you know, and

858
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 6: most of these programs that we've heard about on Twitter,

859
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 6: and you know, that's what you're looking to do. And

860
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 6: I think the top twenty five rosters next year will

861
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 6: probably cost somewhere between twenty to thirty million dollars. And

862
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 6: you know, those are going to be the teams that

863
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 6: are going to be competing the CFP annually. And it's

864
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 6: going to be our goal to be able to get

865
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 6: our revenue share plus our community behind a great third

866
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 6: party program and be able to put ourselves in position

867
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 6: to have that type of roster.

868
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 5: Well, let me just let me just jump in there,

869
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 5: because you mentioned between twenty and thirty million. Where are

870
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 5: we at I mean, I'll just ask you flat out,

871
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 5: how much are we spending on football next year?

872
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna have to We're gonna have to find

873
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 6: a way to get to that number. Uh, We're gonna

874
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 6: have to find a way to get to, you know,

875
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,959
Speaker 6: between twenty and twenty five million dollars. And we're gonna

876
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 6: work really hard over the next you know, six months

877
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 6: to get there. And I think we can get there.

878
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 6: And I believe if we can get there, we'll be

879
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 6: able to put ourselves in a position that there won't

880
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 6: be as big of a gap as there as there

881
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 6: was this season in terms of some of the some

882
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 6: of the teams and some of the rosters that we played.

883
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 6: I think we all can see good way the gaps work.

884
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 6: Some programs that we we had a big gap on

885
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 6: that we played our team a lot more than their team,

886
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 6: and you could see the scores, and there's other times

887
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 6: that you could see some of the programs that paid

888
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 6: their guys a lot more than what we were able

889
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 6: to do, and you see the scores. And we're proud

890
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 6: that all of our games that we didn't win was

891
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 6: a one score game in the fourth quarter. For all

892
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 6: four games, we feel we're one quarter away, and we

893
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 6: feel like that quarter is a quarter of depth, and

894
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 6: we got to be able to pay for depth, and

895
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 6: that's going to be the key for us to be

896
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 6: able to get to that next spot.

897
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 7: Are the conversations with players and parents a lot different

898
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 7: now in the nil era? Or is too much being

899
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 7: made and it's really not a ton of parents or

900
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 7: players that are just looking for the most money now.

901
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, I would say that they are what you would

902
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 6: expect them to be at the end, I'd say, you know,

903
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 6: for about three hundred and sixty days or so, you know,

904
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 6: if you're recruiting a kid for a year, for about

905
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 6: three hundred and sixty days or so, not ninety nine

906
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 6: percent of the conversations are what they've always been. It's

907
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 6: the last five days when I think people so trying

908
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 6: to get involved. Agents start calling kids up and start

909
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 6: saying we can get you more if you sign with us.

910
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 6: And you have guys that have come out of the

911
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 6: woodwork and wanting to try to get a hold of you,

912
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 6: you know, twenty four hours before signing today and tell

913
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,919
Speaker 6: you that they now represent X, Y or Z. Yeah,

914
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 6: and you know, the challenge becomes, you know, a lot

915
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 6: of these agents are out there trying to pedal guys

916
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 6: and you don't even know what they're really getting and

917
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 6: what they're really asking for, but they're just trying to

918
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 6: prove their worth. So you got to be able to

919
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 6: get through all of that. And you know, it's a

920
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 6: lot more fun to work with agents that represent NFL

921
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 6: players as you kind of know that they're making their

922
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 6: money off of those guys, not off of these kids.

923
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 5: Well, Jeff Fish is with us a signing day you

924
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 5: dub thirteenth in the country according to our friends over

925
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 5: at two four seven sports. You're bringing in the four

926
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 5: wide receivers. Audric hitting the portal yesterday. You mentioned Denzel Boston.

927
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 5: He did walk for the Oregon game, but he's got

928
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 5: one more year if he wants it.

929
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 4: You think Denzel's coming back next year?

930
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 6: I don't know. You know, there's a lot of conversations

931
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 6: about it. There's a lot going on in his said

932
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,439
Speaker 6: there's a lot of people that are, you know, giving

933
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 6: him a lot of information. I'm a big believer that

934
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 6: you have to you have to make he has to

935
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 6: make that decision, because I don't want to be in

936
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 6: a situation.

937
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 4: Where he has to regret one.

938
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 6: Way or the other who had support it one hundred

939
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 6: percent either way, there's great arguments for both. You know,

940
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 6: there's always opportunities now that there never were before to

941
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 6: come back, get paid and give your chance self a

942
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 6: chance to rise in the draft. And then there's other

943
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 6: opportunities to say, I feel good where I'm at and

944
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 6: it's time for me to go. So we're gonna continue

945
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 6: to have those conversations here, but I'm gonna, you know,

946
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 6: leave it up to him to make that final call. Certainly,

947
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 6: I've had a lot of players that have returned in

948
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 6: my past and they've all benefited from that. But again,

949
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 6: you know, you just never know.

950
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 7: Well, we talked a lot about the wide receiver. Do

951
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 7: you feel like that that position group got the most

952
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 7: help in this recruiting class or is there another group

953
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 7: that you really think really benefited.

954
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 6: Well, I think our receiver group continued to to be enhanced.

955
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 6: But we played a lot of freshmen this year at receiver,

956
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 6: and those guys are going to have an off season,

957
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 6: they're going to know the system, they're going to build

958
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 6: the callus up and the guys that we have here,

959
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 6: the robots, the Chris Lawson's the Raid and Vines Bright.

960
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 6: Those guys were huge, you know, huge impact in our program.

961
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 6: And I expect those guys to make even more of

962
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 6: an impact next next year as well as the market

963
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 6: terrists of the world that are that are all so young,

964
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 6: so that group is going to continue to grow. With

965
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 6: the four guys that we were that came as well.

966
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 6: But I think that we got reinforcements the defensive backs.

967
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 6: We signed five signed five dbs. We signed two safeties,

968
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 6: three corners, and I think that's going to make a

969
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 6: huge difference for US. US getting those five guys, I

970
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 6: really like, I love, I love signing Ramsack threw in

971
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,439
Speaker 6: another in state player from Bethel. I think he's gonna

972
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 6: make a huge impact as another in state linebacker, very

973
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 6: similar to Dadrius. We're now looking at two six foot

974
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 6: three linebackers out there and Ziotokio another linebacker six foot three.

975
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 6: So as I told you, guys, man, we're growing. And

976
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 6: I look back in the twenty twenty three game of

977
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 6: Washington brus Michigan, and you know what it looked like

978
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 6: rushing the football, what it looked like in score? And

979
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:37,879
Speaker 6: I say, okay, well that was the big ten vers

980
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 6: Pac twelve game.

981
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

982
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 6: Now it's time for the Big ten versus Big ten

983
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 6: games to work themselves out the way we hope. Now.

984
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 4: I love it well.

985
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 5: Jet Fish is with us, and I'm just just curious

986
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 5: about the transfer portal. If I'm not mistaken, you got

987
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 5: nineteen kids in the portal a year ago, including your

988
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 5: starting left tackle and Carver Willison. I'm also interested in

989
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 5: guys that are, you know, coming back or maybe taking off.

990
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 4: I mean, can we, for example, Jay, can we count

991
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 4: on Jacob.

992
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 5: Manu and Buddha tarik Al Lucta playing together for you

993
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 5: next season?

994
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 6: Yeah? We can counnot we can count on those guys

995
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 6: being here. Yeah, you know, I believe that's what I'm

996
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 6: planning on. No, those guys are good. Yeah, but I

997
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 6: think that, you know, as we look at it, there

998
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 6: are always gonna be some changes. There's always gonna be

999
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 6: some players that you know, get talked into going into

1000
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 6: the portal, that feel that they should go in the

1001
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 6: portal so they can play. Guys that have played that

1002
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 6: feel like compensation might work out better from somewhere else.

1003
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 6: On the same token, you know, I always throw our players.

1004
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 6: I will take as many players from the portal that

1005
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 6: enter the portal. So if nobody enters, nobody comes. If

1006
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 6: one enters, one comes, three enters, free come. So you know,

1007
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 6: it's up to the locker room. It's up to the

1008
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 6: team to figure out how they want to do it.

1009
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 6: But I am loyal to the players that I signed

1010
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 6: and that we signed and then or that came here

1011
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 6: from high school. After that, if they choose to move on,

1012
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 6: then well then we'll go find players in the portal.

1013
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 6: But the key is I want the core nucleus of

1014
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 6: players that we signed to be here for Senior Day

1015
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 6: and for our fans to say, wow, I've known this

1016
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 6: kid for four years, and I think that just will

1017
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 6: make college football remain the best sport there is.

1018
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 7: Coach, you know, preseason hype means nothing in the NFL

1019
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 7: as far as reaching the playoffs, But preseason hype in

1020
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 7: college football still matters because the teams that are ranked two, three,

1021
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 7: four in the preseason, they can lose a few games

1022
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 7: and still be right there at the at the end

1023
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 7: of the season. What needs to be done fan base,

1024
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 7: University of Washington itself to let the country know how

1025
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 7: damn good this team should be. In twenty twenty six,

1026
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 7: So they're ranked I in twenty two that first poll.

1027
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that we just have to be behind

1028
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 6: our team and the more positive, the more positive we are,

1029
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 6: you know, the more positive the national media will look

1030
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 6: at us. But you know, there's gonna be a there's

1031
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 6: a prove it, there's a proven world that we live in,

1032
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 6: and it's gonna be our job that when we host Indiana,

1033
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 6: when we host ten State uh here, that we're gonna

1034
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 6: you know, we got to come out on top. And

1035
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 6: we host Iowa here, we've got to come out on top.

1036
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 6: And when we go to Michigan State, and when we

1037
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 6: go to USC and when we go to Purdue and

1038
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 6: you know, we go to Minnesota or whatever the games

1039
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 6: are that we have, we got to come out on top.

1040
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 6: And if you win, you'll be run time. And that's

1041
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 6: what I tell our team. Just win. If you keep winning,

1042
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 6: it doesn't matter where you start, you'll finish in the

1043
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 6: top twelve. And that's gonna be our goal, no doubt.

1044
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 5: Jed finish with us and John tell you what you know,

1045
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,479
Speaker 5: Dick and I mentioned the other day that we're gonna

1046
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 5: have you on and the text line just blows up

1047
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 5: with questions for you, right, I mean, we gotta Jeded,

1048
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 5: we gotta have you come down here over the offseason

1049
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 5: like he did last summer and sit in the studio

1050
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,919
Speaker 5: and just stare at the text line for about an hour.

1051
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 5: All right, just see what people are asking, what the

1052
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 5: questions they want to know, the answers they want to know.

1053
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 4: Can I can I pull a couple off.

1054
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 5: The text line from the audience for you here? Do

1055
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 5: you mind before you take off? Is that all right?

1056
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 6: Sure? Go ahead?

1057
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 4: All right?

1058
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 5: So this one's for the two five three. Ask Jed

1059
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 5: why he didn't run the ball more against Oregon. Mohammed

1060
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 5: was the hot hand and he took him out of

1061
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 5: the game too early. What do you say to people

1062
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 5: who have that take on the game with the Ducks?

1063
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think we ran at thirty three times.

1064
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 6: We probably could have kept running some more. I think

1065
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 6: there were some opportunities that you know, that we probably

1066
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 6: could have given them the ball a few more times.

1067
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 6: I also think that we had some great opportunities there

1068
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 6: to hit on some passes that we didn't, and then

1069
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 6: we hit on some we needed to. So the last

1070
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 6: seven plays of the game or five, we're passes because

1071
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 6: we were down by twelve. Other than that, I think

1072
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 6: we ran the ball pretty decent. I love the fact

1073
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 6: that we outgained him by sixty yards. It tells me

1074
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 6: that we went from you know, a year ago, they

1075
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 6: outrushed us by over o one hundred yards. A year ago,

1076
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 6: they had eleven more first downs than we did this week.

1077
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 6: This year, we had one first time more than they did,

1078
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 6: and we outgained them by sixty So we're getting there.

1079
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 6: But yeah, we got to keep running the ball and

1080
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 6: keep doing great team that can do both.

1081
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.

1082
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 5: And this is from the eight oh eight area code.

1083
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 5: I think that's Hawaii, Dick, if I'm not mistaken. We

1084
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 5: got a lot of people tuning in from Hawaii. Softy,

1085
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 5: I'm considering buying season tickets for next year. I love

1086
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 5: the group that's potentially coming back. Can you please ask

1087
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 5: Jed if he can guarantee he'll be coaching Washington in

1088
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 5: twenty twenty six.

1089
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 4: Respond to that, I will be.

1090
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 6: Coaching Washington in twenty twenty six. He should buy his ticket,

1091
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 6: buy their tickets. There was a there was a lot

1092
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 6: of articles and a lot of rumors about me now

1093
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 6: coaching Washington, but that dose ever came from me, and

1094
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 6: I really one hundred percent believe in this team. I

1095
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 6: believe in the jump that we made from year one

1096
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 6: to year two, and I had zero interest in seeing

1097
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 6: anything other than the jump we're going to make from

1098
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 6: year two to three. And it would be very nice

1099
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 6: to one day have a tenure at a place that

1100
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 6: people can look back on and say, wow, that was

1101
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 6: one hell of a run, so.

1102
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 4: That where I see it good.

1103
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 7: Was that a distraction at all for your kids in

1104
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 7: your locker room this year? All those articles you talked about, you.

1105
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 6: Know, I hope not, but I'm sure they were at

1106
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 6: some point. You know, I'm sure at at some point

1107
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 6: kids start thinking and talking their kids. They're you know,

1108
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 6: everyone's talking a little bit about what's true, what's false,

1109
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 6: what does it look like, what it doesn't. But in

1110
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 6: the end, I thought that the last few weeks of

1111
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 6: the season, our guys played some of our best games

1112
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 6: of football against perdu in UCLA, which were two games

1113
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 6: that the rumors were hot and heavy. And you know,

1114
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 6: I look back at the Oregon game and I say,

1115
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 6: you know, you look at our team and it's nineteen

1116
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 6: to fourteen with eight minutes left in the game, a

1117
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 6: year ago he lost by twenty eight points and it

1118
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 6: wasn't even that close. So I felt like our team

1119
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 6: has really taken a big stride of being able to

1120
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 6: put distractions, you know, aside. And I thought, we came

1121
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 6: out ready to play this whole month of November, and

1122
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 6: we're gonna do the same thing for the Bowl.

1123
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 5: Well before you go, jed to get to that point

1124
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 5: you want to get to and look, you know, I

1125
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 5: think all of us see a bright future starting obviously

1126
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 5: this offseason, you know, heading in the next year. But

1127
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 5: Demand the season he had. I think if you were

1128
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 5: to told people at the start of the year that

1129
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 5: Demand would have the year he had numbers wise, especially

1130
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,720
Speaker 5: against the big boys right Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, I think.

1131
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,399
Speaker 4: A lot of folks would have been disappointed.

1132
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 5: You know, twelve sacks, five picks, two touchdowns in those

1133
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 5: games and you went oh and three. So how do

1134
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 5: you assess from your perspective the year that Demand just Chad?

1135
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I talked to our team a little

1136
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 6: bit about it, you know, and I said, you guys,

1137
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 6: when you look at last year, we were one hundred

1138
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 6: and fourth in the country and scoring this year, we

1139
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 6: were twenty third, we were one hundred and first and

1140
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 6: third down. This year we were seventh, We were seventy

1141
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 6: fifth in the red zone. This year were fourteen, and

1142
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 6: we were ninety seventh in touchdowns and this year a fifth.

1143
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 6: So when you look at that type of jump, you

1144
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 6: got to look at a twelve game You got to

1145
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 6: look at a twelve game schedule, just like we did

1146
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 6: a year ago. When you look at games against some

1147
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,760
Speaker 6: of the teams that were the better teams, I would

1148
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 6: say that, you know, statistically, it wasn't much different than

1149
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 6: you know, a guy that might have been taking in

1150
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 6: the first round against teams like Michigan and Ohio State.

1151
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 6: There's some really good defenses. I think Ohio State had

1152
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 6: the record for the greatest defense in college football this year,

1153
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 6: and I think they let up one hundred points or

1154
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 6: less than one hundred points all season long. These guys

1155
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 6: are elite, and we're working to become elite. But Demon's nineteen,

1156
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 6: and when Demon's twenty, he's going to be better than

1157
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 6: when he was nineteen. And I think that it's easy

1158
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 6: to get so excited about the mom when we score

1159
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 6: fifty and sixty and seventy points in games that we

1160
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 6: forget about the challenge when you start playing teams like Michigan, Oregon,

1161
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:26,479
Speaker 6: Wisconsin in the snow, rain, whatever, and we get real

1162
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 6: disappointed in certain outcomes and we forget the fact that

1163
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 6: all we're going to do is get better. And I

1164
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,280
Speaker 6: believe that when you look at what he's done overall,

1165
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 6: I thought he's had an elite year for where he

1166
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 6: was as a true freshman. This was his first year

1167
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 6: ever as a starter now as a true sophomore, and

1168
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 6: he didn't red shirt when he got here. He played

1169
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 6: right away, and his receivers were too true freshmen. He

1170
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 6: was playing with two true freshman out of three. He

1171
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 6: was playing with a true sophomore tight end, he was

1172
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 6: playing with a true freshman at tackle, a true sophomore

1173
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 6: running back when Jonah got hurt, and the truth, you know,

1174
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 6: and really with no backup behind them, that were the

1175
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 6: two true freshmen that were behind them both got hurt.

1176
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 6: So you know, as I look at what we've done

1177
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 6: and how we've done it, I think that he's done

1178
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 6: some great things and I can't wait to watch what

1179
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 6: demand does next year. When now you're playing against those

1180
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 6: teams and you have a year of experience. Those teams

1181
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 6: are really really good on defense, and that's been proven

1182
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 6: across the country.

1183
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels like the nucleus is there. I'll give

1184
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 5: you one more before you go. You can tell this

1185
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 5: to your marketing team over there. There were only ten

1186
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 5: teams in the country that finished in the top twenty

1187
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 5: three in scoring defense and scoring offense.

1188
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 4: And you were one of them this year.

1189
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 5: So find a way to finish those games, be competitive

1190
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 5: in the second half against the big boys, and who

1191
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 5: knows what's coming. Hey, listen, good stuff. Appreciate this, Thanks

1192
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 5: for doing this. Congrats on the class, and we'll talk soon.

1193
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 4: Coach.

1194
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 6: Thanks coach, Thanks guys, appreciate you having me on here.