# Husky Honks on Many Issues w/ Offense: Softy and Dick 9-15 Hour 2

An episode of [Softy & Dick Interviews](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1245866571), 16 Sep 2026, 38 min.

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In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler is joined by Mario Bailey and Greg Lewis for the Husky Honks as the guys dive deep into the poor UW offense right now, the amount of injuries on the team, including the offensive line situation with poor play and the Landon Hatchett situation being out, Demond Williams, plus the Eastern Washington game next. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Your home for the Huskies proudly presents the Coors Light
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[0:25] Speaker 1: and your host, Dave Softy Muller.
[0:28] Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Here we go.
[0:30] Speaker 3: Husky Honks brought to you by our friends at Frostbrood,
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[0:36] Speaker 3: many sponsors. Bless you, Greg, that it takes to pay
[0:39] Speaker 3: the gigantic salaries combined of Greg Lewis.
[0:42] Speaker 4: And Mario Bailey. We appreciate you people.
[0:44] Speaker 3: Stepping up to the plate and meeting their gigantic financial demands. Well,
[0:48] Speaker 3: my name is Softee. Greg Lewis, Mario Bailey are here.
[0:51] Speaker 3: We're talking Husky football for the next hour. And guys,
[0:53] Speaker 3: I guess the good news is, is that Washington's 2-0.
[0:57] Speaker 3: The good news is, is that the defense has given
[1:00] Speaker 3: up 12 points a game. The bad news is pretty
[1:03] Speaker 3: much everything else. You can't run the ball, you can't
[1:06] Speaker 3: throw the ball, and you really are having a hard
[1:07] Speaker 3: time kind of blocking people right.
[1:09] Speaker 4: Now as well.
[1:10] Speaker 3: So why don't we go around the room, and Greg,
[1:12] Speaker 3: we'll start with you, being the senior in the group,
[1:16] Speaker 3: and let you chime in with your thoughts on what
[1:19] Speaker 3: you've seen through eight quarters so far of Husky football.
[1:21] Speaker 5: You left one thing out. You said you can't run
[1:23] Speaker 5: the ball, throw the ball, can't catch it either.
[1:25] Speaker 4: Oh, there you go. Sorry.
[1:26] Speaker 5: Let's not leave the wide receivers.
[1:27] Speaker 4: My bad. I apologize. I apologize profusely.
[1:31] Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been... A struggle offensively, to say the least.
[1:34] Speaker 5: The Washington Huskies right now, defensively, yes, they've shut other
[1:40] Speaker 5: teams down. I think me and Mario both have said, though,
[1:44] Speaker 5: let's see what happens when the competition is elevated on
[1:47] Speaker 5: the offensive side of the other teams a little bit.
[1:49] Speaker 5: But our offense has been bad at all levels.
[1:52] Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
[1:53] Speaker 5: I watched a play on film that someone had laid
[1:56] Speaker 5: out on social media, and it was a simple run
[1:59] Speaker 5: play to the right side, and the right tackle got
[2:03] Speaker 5: hit by the defensive lineman, knocked back on his butt
[2:07] Speaker 5: four yards into the backfield. I didn't say his name.
[2:10] Speaker 5: I just said the right tackle, number 74.
[2:12] Speaker 4: I think everybody knows who you're talking about. On his
[2:15] Speaker 4: butt four yards.
[2:17] Speaker 5: That's a guy who's in his third year of starting
[2:20] Speaker 5: and playing against Utah State, so it's been bad offensive line.
[2:23] Speaker 5: I think from a running back standpoint, this is all
[2:25] Speaker 5: you need to know. The leading rusher from the running
[2:28] Speaker 5: back spot this past week was 22 yards.
[2:31] Speaker 2: Right, right.
[2:32] Speaker 5: Nine carries, 22 yards.
[2:33] Speaker 2: You do the math.
[2:34] Speaker 5: Averaging about two yards a carry right now. So I
[2:37] Speaker 5: think there's some problems. And then the wide receivers, Desmond
[2:40] Speaker 5: Roebuck is your guy who coming back was your leading
[2:44] Speaker 5: receiver coming back. Your go-to guy, the guy they're going
[2:46] Speaker 5: to move around. They're going to try to get him
[2:49] Speaker 5: in advantageous situations. Dropped two passes recently. where there was
[2:53] Speaker 5: no one within 20 yards of him. I mean, literally
[2:56] Speaker 5: one could have been a touchdown. The other one at
[2:57] Speaker 5: least is a dry, sustaining reception. And there've been other
[3:01] Speaker 5: people who have dropped passes too. We're fumbling the ball.
[3:04] Speaker 5: And I think right now, our quarterback has played a
[3:09] Speaker 5: couple of good quarters, but he hasn't been consistent. I think,
[3:12] Speaker 5: you know, the whole, when he's in the pocket, having
[3:14] Speaker 5: to throw over 300 pound, 300, seven foot lineman and
[3:18] Speaker 5: get the ball in the middle of the field and,
[3:20] Speaker 5: you know, dropping it in is a little tough. He
[3:23] Speaker 5: does better off script. So I think right now they
[3:25] Speaker 5: got to figure out who they are offensively, what their idea,
[3:27] Speaker 5: we talked a couple of years ago, what is their identity?
[3:30] Speaker 5: Back then, they might have had one play action pass.
[3:32] Speaker 5: Right now, no one knows what their identity is. No
[3:34] Speaker 5: one knows what they do well. And I could go
[3:38] Speaker 5: on and on. I don't want to take up all
[3:39] Speaker 5: the airtime. But right now, offensively, this is a bad
[3:42] Speaker 5: football team. And if they can't figure out how to
[3:45] Speaker 5: run the football by the time we get to Big
[3:47] Speaker 5: Ten play, we're going to be in a world of trouble.
[3:50] Speaker 5: And I don't see a Barry Sanders or anybody like
[3:53] Speaker 5: that coming. I don't see a Corey Dillon, a Napoleon Kaufman.
[3:57] Speaker 5: I don't see an old, fat, slow Greg Lewis coming.
[4:01] Speaker 5: So it's going to be interesting, Mario.
[4:04] Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just disappointing because Coach Fish is an offensive coordinator.
[4:08] Speaker 6: He's an offensive guy. But I will give him this excuse.
[4:12] Speaker 6: We lost our top two running backs. We lost two receivers.
[4:15] Speaker 6: And I believe Moss and Rasheed Williams got hurt this
[4:18] Speaker 6: past game. But our biggest play on the pass has
[4:21] Speaker 6: been from a flea flicker. Our offensive line, who I
[4:24] Speaker 6: still say is the most talented. I'll change it. They're
[4:27] Speaker 6: the most talented unit that we have. But we have
[4:31] Speaker 6: a true freshman and a true sophomore starting. And Landon
[4:35] Speaker 6: Hatchett is not there. So I think that's a big
[4:37] Speaker 6: loss for us right now. They can't seem to get
[4:40] Speaker 6: any rhythm and any continuity. We have a non-existent run
[4:44] Speaker 6: game right now. We can't throw down the field. We
[4:47] Speaker 6: gave up two sacks to Utah State. 33 rushes for
[4:51] Speaker 6: 107 yards is absolutely despicable.
[4:55] Speaker 5: The quarterback got the lion's share of those.
[4:58] Speaker 6: Yep, and he had one big carry, and other than that,
[5:00] Speaker 6: they were stuffing him too. We can't give up two
[5:04] Speaker 6: sacks to Utah State. We can't drop the ball. Offensively,
[5:08] Speaker 6: I don't know if we have a plan. We had
[5:10] Speaker 6: two freshman receivers come in. who I seen DeMond throw
[5:14] Speaker 6: the ball to that I thought, like, these guys must
[5:17] Speaker 6: be nice because he's going at these guys. If we
[5:20] Speaker 6: don't have a weapon at receiver and we don't get
[5:23] Speaker 6: a weapon, like Coach Gilbertson would make sure that I
[5:26] Speaker 6: got the ball, he'd call a play for me. I
[5:28] Speaker 6: don't see that being done. I see that being done
[5:31] Speaker 6: for Robach, but I don't see it being done. We
[5:33] Speaker 6: have absolutely no identity, and you're right. We're in trouble now.
[5:37] Speaker 6: We're not going to make it to the Big Ten play.
[5:39] Speaker 6: We're going to be in trouble this week for Eastern
[5:41] Speaker 6: Washington if we can't figure it out.
[5:43] Speaker 3: Well, yeah, okay, so the situation with the injuries, first
[5:46] Speaker 3: of all, and you're exactly right when you talk about
[5:49] Speaker 3: they're dealing with a short deck at certain spots, including
[5:52] Speaker 3: running back. But we also saw Quade Card and Jaden
[5:55] Speaker 3: Lamar play against Wazoo.
[5:58] Speaker 4: I didn't see much different. Did you? Slightly.
[6:01] Speaker 3: Right, but we're not sitting around thinking that, my God,
[6:04] Speaker 3: they lost two guys that would have been Big Ten
[6:07] Speaker 3: Player of the Year candidates.
[6:09] Speaker 4: They were in trouble with those guys.
[6:11] Speaker 5: Absolutely.
[6:11] Speaker 3: So is this, honestly, is this a scheme problem? Is
[6:15] Speaker 3: it a talent problem? or is it something else? I mean, look,
[6:19] Speaker 3: obviously they've got a ton of guys on the team
[6:21] Speaker 3: that are brand new. Now your number three guy is
[6:24] Speaker 3: now your number one guy. Your four guy is now
[6:26] Speaker 3: your number two guy, which means your four guy is
[6:29] Speaker 3: a breakaway from being your number one guy. Is this
[6:32] Speaker 3: a scheme problem? Is this a personnel problem? Is this
[6:35] Speaker 3: a chemistry problem? This is an offense that's got a
[6:38] Speaker 3: third-year quarterback. Remember the Louisville performance in the Sun Bowl,
[6:42] Speaker 3: how jacked up we were after that? If I would
[6:44] Speaker 3: have told you that we'd be sitting here two years
[6:47] Speaker 3: later against Wazoo and Utah State struggling to score points,
[6:52] Speaker 3: you would have said you're out of your mind.
[6:53] Speaker 4: You're out of your mind. So what happened?
[6:56] Speaker 5: Well, I think, you know, I'm trying not to give
[6:59] Speaker 5: individual people a pass because it's a team effort and
[7:02] Speaker 5: everybody has a little liability here. But I do know
[7:06] Speaker 5: this as a quarterback. You can't really show all the talents, skills,
[7:10] Speaker 5: and ability you have when there isn't enough talent around you.
[7:15] Speaker 5: When the offensive line isn't giving you perhaps the protection
[7:18] Speaker 5: that you want to get against some of these type
[7:21] Speaker 5: of teams. When the receivers, frankly, are flat out dropping
[7:25] Speaker 5: passes that are hitting them right in the hands, that
[7:27] Speaker 5: could change the dynamic. I think this past week, if
[7:30] Speaker 5: they catch all the balls, you're supposed to, they score
[7:33] Speaker 5: at least another 10 points, at least another 10, maybe more.
[7:37] Speaker 5: So I think that, and then when you don't have
[7:39] Speaker 5: anyone to take the pressure off of you right now,
[7:41] Speaker 5: we talked about it with Cam Cleland in the post game,
[7:44] Speaker 5: this defense, when they're playing against you, they're saying we're
[7:47] Speaker 5: going to make the quarterback beat you beat us. And
[7:50] Speaker 5: so we're not going to do anything by over committing
[7:54] Speaker 5: to the box. We're going to leave enough secondary guys
[7:57] Speaker 5: out there to bracket coverage, to take away any particular
[8:01] Speaker 5: player that you think might be able to do something
[8:03] Speaker 5: down the field. And we're going to make you beat us.
[8:05] Speaker 5: We're going to make you have to defeat a good defense,
[8:09] Speaker 5: a crowded secondary and all those things. As good as
[8:12] Speaker 5: DeMond is in some areas, I think the one area
[8:15] Speaker 5: where he's not great is dropping back right in the
[8:18] Speaker 5: pocket and throwing the ball on dig routes and crossing
[8:22] Speaker 5: routes and deep post kind of routes because that's where
[8:26] Speaker 5: his trajectory on the pass, because he's a shorter guy
[8:29] Speaker 5: and his line of sight is hampered.
[8:31] Speaker 3: Like the play to Chris Lawson in the end zone,
[8:33] Speaker 3: which he almost made a great catch.
[8:36] Speaker 2: That was a great catch.
[8:37] Speaker 4: That ball had way too much air on it.
[8:39] Speaker 5: It's just the way he has to throw the ball
[8:40] Speaker 5: because of some of those deficiencies. So I think right now,
[8:45] Speaker 5: when it comes to our offense, DeMond, we were excited
[8:49] Speaker 5: about him for certain reasons. He still has those talents
[8:51] Speaker 5: and abilities, but he needs other guys around him to
[8:55] Speaker 5: be able to help him because of the deficiencies that
[8:58] Speaker 5: he doesn't.
[8:58] Speaker 6: Coach is going to have to do a better job
[9:00] Speaker 6: with DeMond now. If we're lacking weapons, he's going to
[9:03] Speaker 6: have to figure something out. DeMond Williams is the guy
[9:06] Speaker 6: that we have, but we're lacking weapons. And we're also, DeMond,
[9:10] Speaker 6: he's proven it the last few years. He's not a
[9:12] Speaker 6: deep throw, deep passer. So we need to figure out
[9:16] Speaker 6: what we have. Like I said, Coach Gilbertson would call
[9:18] Speaker 6: plays for me. I don't see plays being called for guys.
[9:22] Speaker 6: I've seen Trez Davis and Jordan Clay coming there, two
[9:25] Speaker 6: freshman receivers. They came in there like they were meant
[9:27] Speaker 6: to play. And I couldn't understand it because we have
[9:30] Speaker 6: some guys that have been playing. So why aren't we
[9:33] Speaker 6: calling plays specifically for these guys? or calling plays for
[9:36] Speaker 6: DeMond to get out of the pocket.
[9:38] Speaker 4: What kind of plays? What are we talking about?
[9:40] Speaker 2: Man, it doesn't matter.
[9:42] Speaker 6: Offensive coordinator's job is how to distribute the ball to
[9:45] Speaker 6: the different weapons. These two freshmen came in there, and
[9:49] Speaker 6: I seen DeMond looking for these guys. Why isn't Robach
[9:52] Speaker 6: being called for the reverse or the flea flicker? We
[9:55] Speaker 6: don't want the flea flicker, but a play specifically for
[9:58] Speaker 6: him or any else like the our tight ends we
[10:02] Speaker 6: didn't have any plays being called it just felt like
[10:04] Speaker 6: we're just out there calling plays to call plays you
[10:07] Speaker 6: should be calling plays to get certain guys the balls
[10:10] Speaker 6: in great positions that they're used to getting the ball
[10:13] Speaker 6: in and that they can do the most work.
[10:14] Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, look, this is obviously supposed to
[10:17] Speaker 3: be Jed Fish's specialty, right? And you mentioned the coordinator.
[10:19] Speaker 3: He is the coordinator because he's got no coordinator. People
[10:22] Speaker 3: have talked about that, if that's an issue for UW.
[10:26] Speaker 3: I don't know if it is an issue. I mean,
[10:28] Speaker 3: I could see them struggling even if Jimmy Doherty was
[10:30] Speaker 3: still here. as the offensive coordinator. I frankly happen to
[10:34] Speaker 3: think this sounds and feels to me, guys, like it's
[10:38] Speaker 3: a talent issue. The running backs just aren't good enough.
[10:41] Speaker 3: The wide receivers just aren't good enough. You lost Jonah
[10:43] Speaker 3: Coleman and you lost Denzel Boston to the NFL, and
[10:47] Speaker 3: there doesn't seem to be anybody on.
[10:49] Speaker 4: This roster that can remotely take their spot.
[10:51] Speaker 5: Yeah, some of it is bad luck, and some of it's,
[10:55] Speaker 5: you know, I don't know how I would explain it,
[10:58] Speaker 5: but if you think about Adam Muhammad was a guy
[11:01] Speaker 5: they went out, recruited, and got to commit to the
[11:03] Speaker 5: University of Washington. He's having a great year. It's just
[11:06] Speaker 5: not here. So they went out and got a guy, right,
[11:09] Speaker 5: that was great. Last year, you saw Washington have one
[11:12] Speaker 5: of the biggest runs of the year, 60-some-odd yards. So
[11:17] Speaker 5: he's a guy who you know can hit the home run,
[11:19] Speaker 5: can go the distance. He gets a freak neck injury. Nice.
[11:22] Speaker 5: in a spring ball and now he isn't available. Then
[11:26] Speaker 5: you go out and get a couple of guys in
[11:27] Speaker 5: the portal. One of them who... ends up being your
[11:30] Speaker 5: starting guy, he gets injured. So some of this is
[11:33] Speaker 5: bad luck. You know, you can't have seven great tailbacks
[11:36] Speaker 5: on the team. That's just not possible, right? The way
[11:39] Speaker 5: they spend money nowadays, you have to allocate a certain
[11:42] Speaker 5: amount of money to each position on the team. It's
[11:45] Speaker 5: like the NFL now. So you can't put $ 10 million
[11:48] Speaker 5: in your running backs. So now that they've lost guys
[11:51] Speaker 5: who they had invested in because of the injury, and
[11:54] Speaker 5: you let a guy like Adam Muhammad, who for all
[11:57] Speaker 5: intents and purposes should be the guy right now— get
[12:00] Speaker 5: away in the transfer portal, which is another complication of
[12:03] Speaker 5: college football, then, you know, there's some reasons why they
[12:06] Speaker 5: don't have the running backs that they need. And it's
[12:08] Speaker 5: not all just they didn't get it done. Some of
[12:11] Speaker 5: it's problems. Now, I will say this, and I don't
[12:14] Speaker 5: ever want to think that college coaches don't care about
[12:17] Speaker 5: their players, right?
[12:18] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[12:18] Speaker 5: So I'm not saying that. But the fact that all
[12:21] Speaker 5: of a sudden Washington might be healthy at some point
[12:23] Speaker 5: this year when we were talking earlier about he may
[12:26] Speaker 5: never play football again is kind of interesting.
[12:29] Speaker 4: You think that's out of necessity? Is that what you're
[12:32] Speaker 4: telling us?
[12:32] Speaker 5: I'm hoping it's not, but it just makes you wonder
[12:36] Speaker 5: how a kid who we weren't even talking about Two
[12:39] Speaker 5: weeks ago, weren't talking about him at all. He may
[12:42] Speaker 5: never play football again. If he does, it definitely won't
[12:44] Speaker 5: be this year. Now there's some, well, he might get
[12:47] Speaker 5: healthy this year and play, you know, again, I'm not,
[12:50] Speaker 5: I don't think the coaches would ever put a kid
[12:52] Speaker 5: in jeopardy, but I think they might've been being overprotected before.
[12:56] Speaker 2: Sure.
[12:56] Speaker 5: Now that the situation.
[12:58] Speaker 4: Well, it's possible it's totally unrelated, obviously.
[13:01] Speaker 3: I have to go back and talk to some folks
[13:03] Speaker 3: and see if Jed mentioned anything about that before the
[13:06] Speaker 3: season started. He may have mentioned something that we just
[13:08] Speaker 3: don't remember about Jordan Washington coming back. I mean, it
[13:12] Speaker 3: is a neck, and obviously you don't want to mess
[13:14] Speaker 3: around with that at all. I mean, I would assume
[13:16] Speaker 3: that's all in the doctors. Jed's like out of it, right?
[13:19] Speaker 3: The doctors tell him he's either playing or he's not playing.
[13:21] Speaker 3: But they're going to get Lamar back at some point.
[13:24] Speaker 3: They're going to get Quade Carr back at some point.
[13:26] Speaker 3: and they might get Jordan Washington back, and they might
[13:28] Speaker 3: get Christian Moss back. The problem is when you get
[13:30] Speaker 3: them back, you might be 3-6 by the time they
[13:34] Speaker 3: come back.
[13:34] Speaker 4: Guys, we're talking off the air.
[13:36] Speaker 3: The over-under on wins was 7.5, which I thought was low,
[13:40] Speaker 3: and I grabbed the over. If I'm asking you right
[13:43] Speaker 3: now to bet the over-under 7.5, that means they've got
[13:45] Speaker 3: to win five games in the Big Ten. If they
[13:48] Speaker 3: win Saturday, are you going over still with this team?
[13:51] Speaker 3: Or do you see a six or a seven win
[13:54] Speaker 3: season coming?
[13:54] Speaker 6: Well, I always think that when you play these games
[13:57] Speaker 6: in the beginning of the season, they can build confidence. Like, yes,
[14:00] Speaker 6: we've had some horrible games, but you can look at
[14:03] Speaker 6: the positive. Like our defense is playing still pretty good.
[14:06] Speaker 6: We cut down on the penalties. If we were to
[14:09] Speaker 6: go 4-0 like we're supposed to, that's going to build
[14:13] Speaker 6: some confidence. We might not see it, but it's going
[14:16] Speaker 6: to build confidence to see that your record is 4-0.
[14:19] Speaker 6: And I think you can squeeze a couple Big Ten games.
[14:22] Speaker 6: I would still go over.
[14:23] Speaker 4: Okay.
[14:24] Speaker 3: Greg?
[14:24] Speaker 5: I am, what's the name of this show? The Husky Honks.
[14:27] Speaker 5: The Husky Honks.
[14:28] Speaker 4: Not the Husky Haters.
[14:29] Speaker 5: So I am always going to see the glass half
[14:33] Speaker 5: full when it comes. Now, I'm going to be honest,
[14:35] Speaker 5: you know, because my integrity is on the line when
[14:37] Speaker 5: I talk about these games. Oh, yeah, really? That's why
[14:39] Speaker 5: people tune into this show. Well, I'm just saying. He
[14:42] Speaker 5: better be legit, man. I think we all, you know,
[14:45] Speaker 5: are going to tell the truth. I'm not going to
[14:46] Speaker 5: be Pollyanna on here is what I'm saying, right? I'm
[14:48] Speaker 5: going to tell the truth. So that's why I can
[14:49] Speaker 5: be critical. But at the same time, These are kids.
[14:54] Speaker 5: This is the beginning of the year. Things can get better.
[14:57] Speaker 5: Players can improve. And we can stop doing some of
[15:00] Speaker 5: the bonehead things. Now, dropping passes can be corrected. It's
[15:04] Speaker 5: just a focus and attention thing, right? That can be corrected.
[15:07] Speaker 5: The penalties that come at inopportune times, again, a focus
[15:11] Speaker 5: and a discipline thing. So those things can be corrected.
[15:15] Speaker 5: We get through Eastern Washington. I know you said this
[15:17] Speaker 5: could be a tough game, too, but I'm not buying that.
[15:20] Speaker 3: They're going to beat Eastern Washington. They could win by three.
[15:23] Speaker 3: They could win by two like they did Saturday. I'm
[15:26] Speaker 3: not saying they'll lose. Have you seen the line? Let
[15:28] Speaker 3: me finish my point.
[15:29] Speaker 4: 44 points.
[15:30] Speaker 3: They're not going to win.
[15:31] Speaker 4: I don't think they're going to win.
[15:34] Speaker 5: I don't buy into that. I'm not a gambler. That's crazy.
[15:37] Speaker 5: I don't know if this team right now can score
[15:39] Speaker 5: 44 points. That's what I mean. I keep it a
[15:42] Speaker 5: buck with you. I don't see him scoring 44. But
[15:44] Speaker 5: I still think this team can exceed seven wins. Yes,
[15:48] Speaker 5: it is possible. And I'm going to believe that they're
[15:51] Speaker 5: going to start figuring some things out. And they're going
[15:54] Speaker 5: to start getting, especially on the offensive line. I'm hopeful
[15:57] Speaker 5: that when Landon Hatchett gets back.
[15:59] Speaker 1: Right.
[16:00] Speaker 5: And Garion has another week under his belt or two,
[16:03] Speaker 5: that this offense line will be better and they'll play better.
[16:05] Speaker 4: Sorry, Mario.
[16:06] Speaker 3: It's 42 and a half, not 44. UW's giving 42
[16:09] Speaker 3: and a half this weekend. That means they've got to
[16:12] Speaker 3: score 43 just to cover it, right? I just talk
[16:14] Speaker 3: about wins and losses. I don't talk about the line.
[16:16] Speaker 1: I'm not.
[16:16] Speaker 3: Of gamblers but well but it just goes to show
[16:18] Speaker 3: you what vegas still thinks of washington versus a team
[16:22] Speaker 3: like eastern they think east is terrible i agree with
[16:24] Speaker 3: you i would not touch that with a 10-foot pole
[16:27] Speaker 3: uh but here's the thing that's getting to me right
[16:30] Speaker 3: now you just said you still think they're going to
[16:32] Speaker 3: win more than seven so you see an eight and
[16:34] Speaker 3: four team right so they go they go three and
[16:37] Speaker 3: oh i guess i'm a husky hunk okay hang on
[16:39] Speaker 3: they go three and oh against cupcake city yeah And
[16:42] Speaker 3: the Big Ten, they've got to go five and four.
[16:45] Speaker 3: So they've got Iowa, USC, Indiana, Oregon, Penn State, Nebraska, Minnesota,
[16:50] Speaker 3: Michigan State, Purdue. Let's live in a world for a
[16:53] Speaker 3: second where they beat Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan State, and Purdue.
[16:56] Speaker 3: Then they've got to win one. of those other games
[16:59] Speaker 3: right there to get their fifth win. If they lose
[17:02] Speaker 3: to any of those other teams that we talked about,
[17:05] Speaker 3: then of the Iowa, USC, Indiana, Oregon, Penn.
[17:08] Speaker 4: State, they're going to win two of them.
[17:09] Speaker 2: How many are at home?
[17:10] Speaker 3: They've got Iowa here. They've got Indiana here. They've got
[17:14] Speaker 3: Penn State here. Minnesota here. Those four, I believe.
[17:18] Speaker 5: Did we count Penn State and the ones that you
[17:19] Speaker 5: were already giving us? Penn State is in the iffy column.
[17:22] Speaker 5: So I'm going to take Penn State and I'm going
[17:24] Speaker 5: to take Iowa. Minnesota and Penn State. Minnesota, Penn State, Iowa.
[17:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, we got chances at those three.
[17:29] Speaker 4: All right, so they'll beat Penn State and Iowa, says Greg.
[17:32] Speaker 3: I don't know, guys. I mean, right now, I think
[17:34] Speaker 3: I'd bet the under. I gotta be honest with you.
[17:37] Speaker 3: I think I'd take the under. I just don't know
[17:39] Speaker 3: if I see them being able to run the ball enough.
[17:42] Speaker 6: To get that done. Well, the most important thing, Greg
[17:44] Speaker 6: just mentioned it, is the line. Like, we have to
[17:47] Speaker 6: get the offensive line. And I said that they were
[17:50] Speaker 6: the best unit. I still think they're the most talented.
[17:52] Speaker 6: But when you have Landon Hatchett out. John Mills is
[17:56] Speaker 6: a sophomore. Cody Green is a true freshman. That's a lot.
[18:00] Speaker 6: As a party, he's not playing the way he's been
[18:03] Speaker 6: playing the past few years. So we need offensive line
[18:06] Speaker 6: because that's how we got to the championship with DeBoer
[18:09] Speaker 6: was our offensive line. And if our offensive line can't play,
[18:12] Speaker 6: then we're going to struggle like we have been.
[18:13] Speaker 4: Speaking of, look behind you. You just missed him. He
[18:15] Speaker 4: was on TV. He's skinny. He's got to have a
[18:17] Speaker 4: cheeseburger or something, man. But let's come back and talk
[18:19] Speaker 4: about that line.
[18:19] Speaker 3: Because I kind of feel like the essence of the
[18:23] Speaker 3: Husky Honks is not just overly optimistic and positive. The
[18:27] Speaker 3: essence of the Husky Honks is unfiltered truth.
[18:31] Speaker 1: Right?
[18:32] Speaker 3: That you love the team, you're going to be worked
[18:34] Speaker 3: up when they play terribly, and you're going to be
[18:36] Speaker 3: celebrating like a madman when they play well.
[18:38] Speaker 5: Absolutely.
[18:39] Speaker 3: And I think we're kind of moving the goalposts here, guys,
[18:42] Speaker 3: a little bit. Come back and chat about that next
[18:44] Speaker 3: on 93.3 KJRFM.
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[19:10] Speaker 4: Rosterhaus takes the snap. Rolls out to his left at
[19:13] Speaker 4: the left hash.
[19:15] Speaker 1: Lets it fly towards the end zone in the air
[19:18] Speaker 1: jump ball.
[19:19] Speaker 3: And it is intercepted Washington has it it is Clark
[19:22] Speaker 3: to the 25 to the 30 he's got a blocker
[19:26] Speaker 3: in front at midfield he wants to take it and
[19:30] Speaker 3: he's going to go down at the 40 yard line
[19:33] Speaker 3: and it is a.
[19:34] Speaker 4: Done deal.
[19:38] Speaker 3: Somebody desperately wanted to pick six there at the end
[19:41] Speaker 3: of the game.
[19:42] Speaker 4: What'd you make of that?
[19:43] Speaker 5: Salty, I love Ray Sean Clark. You guys know this.
[19:45] Speaker 5: I know his family and everything's been one of the
[19:47] Speaker 5: guys i've been pumping up but bro it's the last
[19:51] Speaker 5: play of the game you get an interception and you're
[19:54] Speaker 5: only up by three points fall on the ground that's
[19:58] Speaker 5: right ray sean fall on the ground god that'd be
[20:01] Speaker 5: crazy you you get tackled you fumble they scoop it
[20:03] Speaker 5: up and score a touchdown or something fall on the
[20:05] Speaker 5: ground man.
[20:05] Speaker 3: You Yeah, well, you know what? Look, man, you only
[20:07] Speaker 3: get so many cracks at a pick six when you're
[20:09] Speaker 3: in college. So in some ways, I don't blame the
[20:11] Speaker 3: kid for going for it. But if he would have
[20:13] Speaker 3: messed that up, man, oh boy, that would not have
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[20:24] Speaker 4: I don't know.
[20:24] Speaker 3: We just got done in the last segment talking about
[20:26] Speaker 3: kind of what the goals are, the realistic goals are.
[20:30] Speaker 3: Over-under in Vegas was 7.5. I would probably put my
[20:34] Speaker 3: money on the under right now with this football team.
[20:38] Speaker 4: You're staying optimistic. You're saying the over, Greg.
[20:41] Speaker 3: But, guys, we started the year talking about the CFP,
[20:45] Speaker 3: and now we're debating whether or not they're going to
[20:47] Speaker 3: win eight games.
[20:48] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[20:48] Speaker 5: Right? So here's the real question. Let's say they won
[20:52] Speaker 5: eight even. Is that a step back?
[20:55] Speaker 2: Is that a disappointment?
[20:55] Speaker 4: Of course it is.
[20:56] Speaker 5: As a program.
[20:57] Speaker 4: It's a massive step back.
[20:58] Speaker 5: So you're trying to build towards getting to.
[21:00] Speaker 3: You were a nine-win football team that brought back a
[21:03] Speaker 3: third-year quarterback and one of the best defenses in the country.
[21:06] Speaker 5: So who gets held accountable for that?
[21:07] Speaker 3: Everybody does. Players and coaches. The whole thing. Look, we're
[21:11] Speaker 3: only two weeks in. We probably should save that conversation
[21:14] Speaker 3: for November. But I don't think this is just a
[21:17] Speaker 3: let's rip the coach thing anymore in college football, Mario.
[21:21] Speaker 3: If things don't go well, you've got guys making millions
[21:24] Speaker 3: of dollars a year. including your quarterback, making $ 4 million.
[21:29] Speaker 3: There are probably guys on the Seahawks that don't make
[21:31] Speaker 3: as much as DeMond Williams does.
[21:33] Speaker 4: Okay? Honestly.
[21:35] Speaker 3: Guys that play for the Mariners that don't make as
[21:37] Speaker 3: much money as DeMond Williams does. So I think we've
[21:40] Speaker 3: gone away from the, hey, they're just kids, let's not
[21:43] Speaker 3: hold them accountable thing, to this is a whole new
[21:46] Speaker 3: world now, man.
[21:47] Speaker 4: Everybody is under the Klieg light.
[21:48] Speaker 6: Well, you know, like I said at the top of
[21:50] Speaker 6: the hour, we're going to have a built-in excuse with
[21:53] Speaker 6: our top two running backs, two top receivers, one of
[21:57] Speaker 6: our starting linemen.
[21:58] Speaker 2: It's going to be injuries. That's what they're going to
[22:00] Speaker 2: say the problem is.
[22:02] Speaker 6: There is no excuse for how we're playing. We should
[22:04] Speaker 6: be playing better than that consistently. It doesn't matter. Like
[22:07] Speaker 6: I said, we have the most talented offensive unit. We're
[22:10] Speaker 6: supposed to beat up on Washington State. We're supposed to
[22:13] Speaker 6: beat up on Utah State. I guess that's why we're
[22:16] Speaker 6: 40-point favorites. I can't see us beating anybody by 40
[22:20] Speaker 6: because I can't see an offense that I've seen on
[22:23] Speaker 6: the field so far score 40 points.
[22:25] Speaker 5: You know how many points we scored in the first
[22:27] Speaker 5: quarter after two games?
[22:29] Speaker 3: Three.
[22:30] Speaker 5: We scored three points. We're getting off to terrible starts.
[22:35] Speaker 5: Most teams come out. with a script that they're going
[22:37] Speaker 5: to run their first drive. First half, second half. First half,
[22:41] Speaker 5: second half. So for us to start off every game
[22:44] Speaker 5: and not be able to get the ball down the field,
[22:47] Speaker 5: score points. And then going into the second quarter with
[22:50] Speaker 5: nothing to show for it against teams that, frankly, shouldn't
[22:53] Speaker 5: be competing with us speaks volumes about how prepared they
[22:58] Speaker 5: are when they come into the football game. It's not just, yes,
[23:02] Speaker 5: talent is one thing. But to me, if you can't
[23:04] Speaker 5: get any points on the board at home with your
[23:08] Speaker 5: crowd behind you against teams that shouldn't be able to
[23:11] Speaker 5: push you around, then how prepared are you? going into
[23:15] Speaker 5: these football games. And we've talked about getting off to
[23:17] Speaker 5: a good start over the years many, many times. Right now,
[23:21] Speaker 5: they can't get off to a good start against teams
[23:23] Speaker 5: that we should beat.
[23:23] Speaker 3: Well, and then just to follow up on your point
[23:26] Speaker 3: about the first quarter offense, they've got four drives to
[23:29] Speaker 3: start the first half and the second half.
[23:32] Speaker 4: They've run 12 plays.
[23:33] Speaker 3: And they've totaled negative 12 yards on those four drives. Literally,
[23:37] Speaker 3: they are averaging negative one yard per play on each
[23:41] Speaker 3: of their drives to start each half. So you tell me,
[23:45] Speaker 3: I mean, you've been in locker rooms at halftime. You
[23:47] Speaker 3: know the energy coming out of the building, the tunnel
[23:50] Speaker 3: to start a game. This team is coming out flat
[23:53] Speaker 3: as a freaking pancake.
[23:54] Speaker 2: And I'm saying it again. It's the offensive coordinator.
[23:57] Speaker 6: You have guys that you know that, should get the
[24:01] Speaker 6: ball in certain spots and that can do things for you,
[24:03] Speaker 6: you should be getting on the ball. We have no
[24:05] Speaker 6: direction out there. At least that's what it looks like.
[24:08] Speaker 6: Like we're not going that this is DeMond's favorite play.
[24:11] Speaker 6: He's going to roll out to the right. He's going
[24:12] Speaker 6: to throw it. We have Robach, this is his play. Williams,
[24:15] Speaker 6: this is his play. We're not doing any of that.
[24:18] Speaker 6: It's like we're just calling plays to call plays and
[24:21] Speaker 6: not calling plays for players to make plays.
[24:23] Speaker 4: But you keep saying the offensive coordinator. That's the head coach.
[24:26] Speaker 4: There is no offensive coordinator.
[24:27] Speaker 2: Well, I'm like Greg. I don't like to call anybody out.
[24:31] Speaker 3: But guys, if you look at the roster, they literally,
[24:35] Speaker 3: the words offensive coordinator do not appear. Nope.
[24:38] Speaker 4: On the coaching staff.
[24:39] Speaker 2: I'm talking about nobody.
[24:41] Speaker 4: Okay, right.
[24:43] Speaker 3: Maybe that's the problem. This team's got no coordinator. What
[24:46] Speaker 3: the hell are we doing? But the play of the
[24:48] Speaker 3: offensive line has almost been the most surprising thing, right?
[24:51] Speaker 3: Young wide receivers, young running backs, okay, whatever. If they
[24:54] Speaker 3: don't have the talent, they don't have the talent. And
[24:56] Speaker 3: I think right now there's a problem there, especially at
[25:00] Speaker 3: running back. I am massively concerned about this team's run game.
[25:03] Speaker 3: I would be, at this point, almost fairly shocked that
[25:06] Speaker 3: if they found a way to run the ball with
[25:08] Speaker 3: any consistency between now and the end of the year,
[25:11] Speaker 3: unless they get healthy and a guy comes back. The
[25:13] Speaker 3: offensive line, though, getting pushed around is stunning.
[25:18] Speaker 4: This is what we talked about over the offseason.
[25:20] Speaker 3: This was supposed to be, like you said, Mario, the
[25:22] Speaker 3: strength of this football team, and they don't look like
[25:25] Speaker 3: it right now.
[25:26] Speaker 4: I asked John Mills, left guard, I said.
[25:28] Speaker 3: Dude, just give me a take on the way you
[25:31] Speaker 3: think this line is played through two games.
[25:33] Speaker 7: Substandard, I think that we all need to be better,
[25:36] Speaker 7: starting with me for sure. I've got to make the
[25:37] Speaker 7: plays when the plays need to be needed. Definitely not
[25:42] Speaker 7: up to my standard or the group's standard. All of
[25:45] Speaker 7: us need to step up, and we will.
[25:47] Speaker 2: It's not a talent problem at all.
[25:48] Speaker 7: We just need to continue finishing late in blocks and
[25:51] Speaker 7: not doing the front correctly.
[25:52] Speaker 3: Okay, substandard. It's not a talent problem, says John Mills.
[25:56] Speaker 3: We just got to start finishing blocks. What's going on
[25:59] Speaker 3: with the offensive line, Greg?
[26:00] Speaker 5: Well, the one play that I was mentioning earlier, it's
[26:02] Speaker 5: hard to finish a block when you're laying flat on
[26:04] Speaker 5: your ass at the start of the play. So I
[26:08] Speaker 5: don't know what that has to do with it. It is,
[26:12] Speaker 5: for all intents and purposes, a talent problem when you
[26:15] Speaker 5: have three players or four starters coming back from the
[26:18] Speaker 5: previous year, and you guys are getting pushed around. You
[26:21] Speaker 5: can't score from the one-yard line. You can't get a
[26:24] Speaker 5: first down one yard out. So I think for me,
[26:27] Speaker 5: regardless of whatever play I'm running, I got to be
[26:29] Speaker 5: able to get a yard, right? And that's talent from
[26:32] Speaker 5: the offensive line and the running back spot. Like I said,
[26:34] Speaker 5: if I got hit in the backfield, that was still
[26:37] Speaker 5: a one-yard gain because I know how to fall forward
[26:39] Speaker 5: for two yards.
[26:40] Speaker 4: It's just.
[26:41] Speaker 5: All levels, though. It's the offensive line and it's the
[26:44] Speaker 5: running backs. And that's why we don't have a good
[26:46] Speaker 5: running game right now. I appreciate him saying it's unacceptable.
[26:50] Speaker 2: Accountability.
[26:51] Speaker 5: Because it is unacceptable. And what that means is you've
[26:55] Speaker 5: got to practice your butt off this week. You've got
[26:57] Speaker 5: to go out. at practice, and every rep has got
[27:00] Speaker 5: to be a competition. Every drill has got to be,
[27:03] Speaker 5: we're going to win this drill. We're going to dominate
[27:05] Speaker 5: this drill. You have to have a physical mentality. That
[27:09] Speaker 5: was my mindset before the game. I would go out
[27:11] Speaker 5: and watch the defense, and I would just stand there
[27:13] Speaker 5: and stare at them. And for me, that was me
[27:16] Speaker 5: letting you know, I'm going to be physical today. Regardless
[27:18] Speaker 5: of what you do, I'm going to be physical. So
[27:20] Speaker 5: I'm going to get that one or two or three
[27:22] Speaker 5: yards if I need it. So they got to come
[27:24] Speaker 5: out with that mentality. It can't just be, oh, we're accountable.
[27:27] Speaker 5: It's how are you going to practice? How are you
[27:29] Speaker 5: going to prepare? And how are you going to dominate
[27:31] Speaker 5: when you get out there on the field?
[27:33] Speaker 6: I'm starting to think it's just Landon Hatchett. I think
[27:36] Speaker 6: I've said this before. Offensive line, you need that guy
[27:39] Speaker 6: that's helping everybody, getting everybody together. Missing Landon Hatchett seems
[27:43] Speaker 6: to be the biggest problem out there. We got some
[27:45] Speaker 6: young guys out there. They never have played together. in
[27:49] Speaker 6: a real game until the Washington State game. So I
[27:52] Speaker 6: think that's the problem. But we have to get it
[27:54] Speaker 6: together because the offensive line, again, is going to be
[27:57] Speaker 6: the people that take us to the next level. And
[28:00] Speaker 6: right now, it doesn't look like for you that we
[28:02] Speaker 6: can win eight games. So the offensive line will be
[28:05] Speaker 6: the reason that we do win eight games when Landon
[28:08] Speaker 6: Hatcher gets back on the lineup.
[28:09] Speaker 3: I talked to Chris Peterson a couple weeks ago and
[28:12] Speaker 3: just unabated just mentioned what you said. He said they
[28:14] Speaker 3: got to get Landon back. I mean, he's the key
[28:16] Speaker 3: to the whole thing. So if he is the key...
[28:19] Speaker 3: Which I'm not convinced he is. I think they're better
[28:22] Speaker 3: with him, but I think that's a lot of expectation
[28:24] Speaker 3: that all of a sudden things are going to look
[28:26] Speaker 3: dramatically different in the run game with Landon Hatchett out there.
[28:30] Speaker 3: If he is, then whatever he's making, you better triple
[28:33] Speaker 3: it for crying out loud.
[28:34] Speaker 6: Well, you're going to see the difference when the guy's
[28:37] Speaker 6: out there and he's been in situations and he can
[28:39] Speaker 6: tell guys who to get, where to go.
[28:41] Speaker 2: I think that makes a big difference. Who's their best back?
[28:44] Speaker 4: Is it Bonner?
[28:45] Speaker 2: Bonner's our best back right now.
[28:47] Speaker 4: The Cooley?
[28:48] Speaker 2: No, Bonner's our best back right now. Bonner.
[28:50] Speaker 4: Well, they're going with Bonner.
[28:51] Speaker 5: You like Bonner? I mean, I like it better than
[28:55] Speaker 5: the other guy, yes. I mean, Cooley, you know, no
[29:01] Speaker 5: disrespect to the young man. He hasn't played any football
[29:03] Speaker 5: in the last two and a half years, really.
[29:05] Speaker 4: Very little.
[29:06] Speaker 5: And he doesn't look explosive. He doesn't look confident. He
[29:08] Speaker 5: doesn't look sure of himself. And it just might be,
[29:12] Speaker 5: you know, that the time has passed him by. Bonner's
[29:15] Speaker 5: a kid. He's a freshman. And we don't always start
[29:19] Speaker 5: off on fire as a freshman. He could still have
[29:21] Speaker 5: a great career ahead of him. And I'm not taking
[29:23] Speaker 5: that away from him. But I think right now we
[29:27] Speaker 5: saw him put the ball on the ground, which can happen.
[29:29] Speaker 5: We saw him. I believe I saw him drop a
[29:31] Speaker 5: pass as well. So I think this is a kid
[29:35] Speaker 5: who has got to get better in a hurry because
[29:38] Speaker 5: there's nobody else. If there's nobody else, you've got to
[29:42] Speaker 5: be the guy. And is he ready for that load?
[29:45] Speaker 5: I can't say that he is. That would be, you know,
[29:47] Speaker 5: a hard thing for a kid who's just out of
[29:50] Speaker 5: high school and, you know, now has to put the
[29:53] Speaker 5: weight of the team on his back as the main
[29:57] Speaker 5: runner with the offensive line not playing that well. That's
[29:59] Speaker 5: a lot to ask.
[30:00] Speaker 6: You guys keep saying we got to run the ball
[30:01] Speaker 6: in the Big Ten. I keep saying that Coach Fish
[30:04] Speaker 6: really hasn't ran the ball well in the Big Ten.
[30:06] Speaker 6: Jonah Coleman didn't do much in the Big Ten. Jonah's
[30:09] Speaker 6: yards would come in those first few games. And once
[30:11] Speaker 6: the Big Ten came, like I said, He barely had
[30:14] Speaker 6: a 20-carry game. It's not like we were running the ball.
[30:17] Speaker 6: Coach Fish wants to be cute and pass that ball.
[30:20] Speaker 6: It's not like we're a run team. You have to
[30:22] Speaker 6: run the ball in the Big Ten, but we haven't
[30:24] Speaker 6: necessarily been successful.
[30:25] Speaker 4: Running the ball.
[30:26] Speaker 5: You've got to have a run threat, though, to do that, sir.
[30:28] Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay.
[30:28] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[30:29] Speaker 3: I mean, you're right about what Jonah Coleman did in
[30:31] Speaker 3: the Big Ten last year.
[30:33] Speaker 4: Not much.
[30:34] Speaker 3: I mean, he was 27th, guys. But you've got to
[30:37] Speaker 3: add the other running back into that as well. Right,
[30:38] Speaker 3: but I'm saying Jonah Coleman, though.
[30:41] Speaker 2: Well, add them both.
[30:41] Speaker 4: Jonah Coleman. Adam Muhammad.
[30:44] Speaker 3: You can add Muhammad. You can add Jordan Washington. But
[30:48] Speaker 3: for Jonah Coleman to be 27th? That's not good enough.
[30:53] Speaker 5: They don't run one guy that many times. DeMond Williams
[30:55] Speaker 5: was your leading rusher.
[30:56] Speaker 4: Greg, yeah, but that's 27th, not 17th. Okay. 27th, man.
[31:00] Speaker 4: What was our run game, though? Do you get me?
[31:02] Speaker 3: 27th? I'm just saying you have to have an average
[31:04] Speaker 3: run game if you're going to throw it. All right,
[31:06] Speaker 3: let's get a break. Should we be at all concerned
[31:09] Speaker 3: about Eastern?
[31:10] Speaker 4: I mean, honestly. Coming up on Saturday. Next on 93.3 KJRFM.
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[31:41] Speaker 4: and it is a Washington touchdown.
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[31:46] Speaker 7: And the first touchdown in the career of the true freshman.
[31:53] Speaker 4: All right, there it is, Elyse Woodward.
[31:55] Speaker 3: You'll hear more of her on Saturday, 4-15 kickoff, I
[31:59] Speaker 3: believe it is, against Eastern Washington. Before we continue and
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[32:21] Speaker 4: I don't know, is it even a debate about who the...
[32:23] Speaker 4: I don't think so.
[32:24] Speaker 2: That's his best game.
[32:26] Speaker 4: We all agree it's Jacob Manu, right, from Saturday?
[32:28] Speaker 1: No?
[32:28] Speaker 4: Okay. Jacob Manu week one, but for week two it was?
[32:32] Speaker 2: Old Faithful.
[32:33] Speaker 4: Old Faithful.
[32:34] Speaker 5: McLaughlin.
[32:34] Speaker 4: A.K.A. Alex McLaughlin.
[32:36] Speaker 5: He had a great game.
[32:37] Speaker 4: Where would they be without this guy? Is there any
[32:39] Speaker 4: concern about the defense, guys?
[32:40] Speaker 3: Because we've been talking about the offense for the first
[32:42] Speaker 3: half hour because that's where the question marks are, right?
[32:44] Speaker 3: Defense is playing well, but let's face it, we expected
[32:48] Speaker 3: them to play well, especially against these two teams that
[32:52] Speaker 3: we saw. So, are we seeing a defense that can
[32:55] Speaker 3: hang no matter who they play once Big Ten play starts?
[32:59] Speaker 6: Our defense has been consistent and we could have easily
[33:02] Speaker 6: shut when they gave up a big play this past game,
[33:04] Speaker 6: but we could have shut both teams out. I think
[33:06] Speaker 6: our defense has been solid and impressive, and they've created
[33:10] Speaker 6: three turnovers for both games. We just have to see
[33:13] Speaker 6: them play against some talent, I guess.
[33:15] Speaker 5: Yeah, if you want me to nitpick, I'll say this.
[33:18] Speaker 5: In a crucial moment in a football game, you can't
[33:21] Speaker 5: give the other team an opportunity to catch a ball
[33:24] Speaker 5: 40 yards down the field and put themselves in field
[33:27] Speaker 5: goal range. Thankfully, the receiver... from Utah State dropped that pass.
[33:32] Speaker 5: Because had he caught that, I think they're in field
[33:35] Speaker 5: goal range and they're close to it. They can maybe
[33:37] Speaker 5: get another five or seven yards with a quick out
[33:39] Speaker 5: or something like that. So, you know, giving up the
[33:42] Speaker 5: big play has happened a couple of times. And so
[33:45] Speaker 5: I think that's the one thing that they can shore
[33:47] Speaker 5: up a little bit, especially in those critical moments. And
[33:50] Speaker 5: other than that, if there's some injuries in the secondary,
[33:52] Speaker 5: which we're starting to get a little bit, you know,
[33:54] Speaker 5: making sure you got enough guys to.
[33:56] Speaker 3: Well, and you've got a guy in Nate Bell, who
[33:59] Speaker 3: you'll see Saturday, who likes to run. He is Eastern's
[34:02] Speaker 3: leading rusher. He's kind of like DeMond Williams in that regard.
[34:05] Speaker 3: He's run for 159 yards on 40 carries and four
[34:09] Speaker 3: touchdowns already. In the first three games of the year,
[34:12] Speaker 3: we can argue about who they've played and how good
[34:14] Speaker 3: they are, and we're talking about Northern Arizona and Northern
[34:17] Speaker 3: Iowa teams.
[34:18] Speaker 4: And South Dakota, but they've got a football team.
[34:21] Speaker 3: I guarantee you Eastern's talking about, hey, let's go to
[34:24] Speaker 3: Seattle and let's do what that 2014 team of Vernon
[34:27] Speaker 3: Adams and Cooper Cup could not do.
[34:29] Speaker 4: Let's win.
[34:30] Speaker 5: That's what I was going to say. As long as
[34:31] Speaker 5: they ain't got Vernon Adams and Cooper Cup, I ain't
[34:34] Speaker 5: worried about them.
[34:35] Speaker 2: You're good.
[34:35] Speaker 5: I saw Cooper Cup catch about 300 yards with the passes.
[34:40] Speaker 3: You got no concerns about a team that got pushed
[34:42] Speaker 3: around by Wazoo and a team that beat Utah State
[34:45] Speaker 3: by two?
[34:46] Speaker 5: I have no concern.
[34:47] Speaker 7: Okay.
[34:48] Speaker 1: Mario?
[34:49] Speaker 6: I have no concerns about us winning the game. I
[34:51] Speaker 6: have concerns about us getting better. Like I said, you
[34:54] Speaker 6: want to be consistent. In these games, you want to
[34:56] Speaker 6: take the opportunity to get better each week. And I
[34:59] Speaker 6: want our offensive line, our offensive players, everybody, DeMond, our defense,
[35:03] Speaker 6: just to get better each week. Don't look at these
[35:05] Speaker 6: games as, don't look at the line and don't read
[35:08] Speaker 6: the paper. Don't look online and see any of that. Like,
[35:12] Speaker 6: get better each week because the Big Ten games are
[35:14] Speaker 6: coming up.
[35:15] Speaker 5: I heard a little birdie told me that Cooper Cup
[35:18] Speaker 5: is going to be at the game sitting in the
[35:20] Speaker 5: Don James Center. Is he going to have on Eastern
[35:23] Speaker 5: Washington paraphernalia and rooting for the Eastern Washington Eagles in
[35:28] Speaker 5: the Don James Center?
[35:29] Speaker 3: So when the Hawks are in Arizona getting ready to
[35:32] Speaker 3: play the Cardinals the next day, Cooper Cup will be
[35:35] Speaker 3: here watching the Huskies?
[35:37] Speaker 2: His family will.
[35:38] Speaker 4: Is that what you're telling me?
[35:39] Speaker 2: I'm just telling you.
[35:40] Speaker 4: You're trying to make it funny. I'm just trying to
[35:42] Speaker 4: make it funny.
[35:43] Speaker 6: His family will be here wearing some Eastern Washington gear.
[35:46] Speaker 3: But here's the thing, right? Like, if you destroy Eastern,
[35:49] Speaker 3: you're supposed to destroy Eastern.
[35:51] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[35:51] Speaker 4: We need to see some semblance of a running game.
[35:54] Speaker 3: We need to see the Huskies get off to a
[35:56] Speaker 3: fast start in the first half and the second half
[35:59] Speaker 3: when they come out of the locker room. We want
[36:01] Speaker 3: to see them do what they haven't done because it's
[36:04] Speaker 3: not like they can get a lot of wins out of.
[36:06] Speaker 4: This thing or a lot of positives out of it,
[36:09] Speaker 4: I think.
[36:09] Speaker 3: But you can sure as hell take some negatives.
[36:12] Speaker 4: Guys, if they can't run the ball Saturday versus.
[36:14] Speaker 3: Eastern Washington, what makes us think they can do it
[36:17] Speaker 3: against USC or Michigan State or Nebraska or Penn State
[36:22] Speaker 3: or Oregon or Indiana? You want to see a red flag?
[36:25] Speaker 3: Go have a hard time running the ball Saturday against Eastern.
[36:28] Speaker 3: I'll show you a red flag.
[36:29] Speaker 5: I don't disagree with anything you're saying. And I'll say this,
[36:32] Speaker 5: we've talked about the offense line to death, so I
[36:34] Speaker 5: don't want to Go there much more. Let's hope they
[36:37] Speaker 5: play better and they don't get knocked off the ball.
[36:40] Speaker 5: But I do believe that this is an opportunity for
[36:43] Speaker 5: Bonner to actually show that he's the guy that they recruited.
[36:47] Speaker 5: He's the number seven guy. He's a four-star kid. He's
[36:51] Speaker 5: a person who we can be excited about over the
[36:53] Speaker 5: next several years because you're playing against an Eastern Washington defense.
[36:56] Speaker 5: that your offensive line should be able to dominate. Now
[36:59] Speaker 5: you've got to go out and make plays. Not just
[37:01] Speaker 5: get what they get you, but make somebody miss. Run
[37:04] Speaker 5: somebody over. Get around somebody. Hit the sideline and outrun
[37:07] Speaker 5: some guys. He's got to show by five, six yards
[37:11] Speaker 5: of carry this week that he's the guy.
[37:14] Speaker 6: I want to see the offensive coordinator call the first
[37:16] Speaker 6: ten plays and go down the field and give each
[37:20] Speaker 6: weapon the ball and figure out how to score on
[37:23] Speaker 6: the first drive of the game.
[37:25] Speaker 4: We don't have an offensive coordinator. Why do you keep
[37:28] Speaker 4: saying that?
[37:28] Speaker 2: You understood me.
[37:29] Speaker 4: Now you're saying it just to drive us nuts.
[37:30] Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
[37:31] Speaker 4: Why don't you just say his name? His name is
[37:34] Speaker 4: Jed Fish.
[37:35] Speaker 6: I want to see Coach call those first 10 plays
[37:37] Speaker 6: and get us a touchdown on the first drive.
[37:40] Speaker 4: All right. Well, we'll be on the air. I think
[37:41] Speaker 4: we're going on the air at noon, by the way.
[37:43] Speaker 3: The extra 15 minutes will be reflected in your next paycheck,
[37:46] Speaker 3: by the way.
[37:46] Speaker 4: So keep an eye out for that. UW Eastern Saturday.
[37:49] Speaker 4: We'll see you then.
[37:50] Speaker 2: Go Dawgs.

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