# Petros Papadakis on UW FB and Jedd Fisch, JaMarcus at OSU, Dodgers

An episode of [Softy & Dick Interviews](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1245866571), 15 Oct 2026, 23 min.

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Petros Papadakis joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the state of UW Huskies football and the job Jedd Fisch is doing and has done at Washington, JaMarcus Shephard with Oregon State and if he is only going to spend one year there, the enthusiasm for the LA Dodgers right now with game three of the NLCS tonight, and how Softy needs to start doing yoga ASAP. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
[0:04] Speaker 1: Petros Papadakis.
[0:05] Speaker 2: Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
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[0:29] Speaker 3: And now with Petros, here's Dave Softy Muller.
[0:32] Speaker 2: Losers.
[0:33] Speaker 3: All right, here we go, baby, on a busy Wednesday.
[0:36] Speaker 4: Normally at 4 o'clock, but wanted to give our buddy
[0:39] Speaker 4: here some time to get off the air, get in
[0:40] Speaker 4: the car, and exit Chavez Ravine. Because there is no chance,
[0:44] Speaker 4: no way, this guy would even remotely think about sticking
[0:47] Speaker 4: around for Game 3 of the NLCS.
[0:50] Speaker 3: Here he is, our buddy, Dave.
[0:52] Speaker 4: One half of the legendary, fabled Petros and Money Show
[0:55] Speaker 4: in Southern California. College football analyst, former USC superstar, one
[1:00] Speaker 4: damn fine Greek-American, my friend, husband of the year, father
[1:03] Speaker 4: of the month, Petros Papadakis.
[1:05] Speaker 3: Brought to you by.
[1:07] Speaker 4: How do I sound?
[1:11] Speaker 3: You sound terrible, to be honest with you. I'm sorry.
[1:13] Speaker 3: I cannot lie.
[1:14] Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, bad. It's bad. Like how bad is bad?
[1:20] Speaker 4: Scale of one to 10, 10 being the best one
[1:23] Speaker 4: being the worst.
[1:23] Speaker 3: I'd say it's a 1.73.
[1:26] Speaker 2: All right. I'll change to it. All right. All right.
[1:30] Speaker 2: How about this? Now I have the phone in my head.
[1:33] Speaker 3: Way better.
[1:33] Speaker 2: Yes.
[1:34] Speaker 3: Break the law. The hell with Bluetooth. The hell with
[1:36] Speaker 3: the wireless. Come on, man. Break the law.
[1:38] Speaker 2: There's cops everywhere. And it's places crawling with freaking five. Oh,
[1:42] Speaker 2: but I brought you my sweet James. The dense beard
[1:45] Speaker 2: of justice he can jump through for you if you've
[1:47] Speaker 2: ever been in a car accident or a motorcycle accident.
[1:50] Speaker 2: If a dog has ever bitten your ball, get those
[1:54] Speaker 2: ancient secrets in which you extract the mud from your...
[1:58] Speaker 2: Give him a call at 809-BILLION. That's 809-BILLION. Or switch it.
[2:04] Speaker 3: Yeah, your phone's already breaking up, man. It's not going
[2:06] Speaker 3: to work. Jack, so you want to jump on the
[2:08] Speaker 3: air and confirm that, by the way? No, it was
[2:09] Speaker 3: better the previous time. That was just because he was
[2:11] Speaker 3: pulling the phone away. Okay, so you want to go
[2:13] Speaker 3: back to the Bluetooth? Is that what you're telling me?
[2:15] Speaker 2: Why?
[2:15] Speaker 4: Because that just sounded terrible there. Your phone was breaking up, man.
[2:19] Speaker 4: It was awful.
[2:19] Speaker 3: I got like every 19th word.
[2:23] Speaker 2: Well, I'm in Chavez Ravine, for God's sake. I told
[2:25] Speaker 2: you we should have taped this.
[2:29] Speaker 4: That's not what you said, number one. And second of all,
[2:31] Speaker 4: we never tape. We're always live.
[2:33] Speaker 3: Wink, wink.
[2:33] Speaker 4: All right, let's jump into it. Let's jump into it.
[2:36] Speaker 4: All right, let's get what we can out of you.
[2:38] Speaker 4: All right, we'll just suck up as much as we
[2:41] Speaker 4: can here and then move on if it doesn't work.
[2:43] Speaker 2: Well, that doesn't feel good. That doesn't feel good at all. Well,
[2:46] Speaker 2: let's get what we can.
[2:47] Speaker 3: That's I don't know what to tell you, pal.
[2:49] Speaker 4: I want to just get to the gist of this
[2:51] Speaker 4: before your phone melts into your brain. UW got hammered
[2:57] Speaker 4: by Iowa Friday. Now they're heading to Purdue. Husky fans
[3:01] Speaker 4: are all worked up. Washington fans are all worked up.
[3:04] Speaker 3: Where do you make it what's happening here on Motley, man?
[3:08] Speaker 2: Well, I think they have a right to be worked up.
[3:10] Speaker 2: They have a right to be angry because every time
[3:14] Speaker 2: the team falters, the head coach starts to bitch about
[3:18] Speaker 2: the fact that he doesn't have any money. And his
[3:21] Speaker 2: message in the preseason had nothing to do with money.
[3:24] Speaker 2: It had to do with building a team and not
[3:27] Speaker 2: taking transfers and things like that. And then all of
[3:29] Speaker 2: a sudden things get a little rough during the season
[3:32] Speaker 2: and people are criticizing you and you have a problem
[3:35] Speaker 2: with your roster and you have a problem with the
[3:38] Speaker 2: amount of money that you were given to go get
[3:40] Speaker 2: your roster. You weren't saying anything like that when the
[3:43] Speaker 2: team was ranked and you were acting all cool. And
[3:45] Speaker 2: this goes back softly to the stuff we've talked about
[3:49] Speaker 2: for a long time. This is a guy that doesn't
[3:52] Speaker 2: have a magnetic personality. And he's very defensive and he's
[3:56] Speaker 2: a little bit sour and vinegary and snarky. And when
[4:00] Speaker 2: things go wrong, you really start to see that. And
[4:03] Speaker 2: it's not a good side. It's not a likable side.
[4:06] Speaker 2: And you're starting to see why a lot of those
[4:08] Speaker 2: Arizona football players didn't want to come with them to Montlake.
[4:12] Speaker 2: All right.
[4:13] Speaker 3: Well, okay.
[4:15] Speaker 4: That just paints a pretty terrible picture for UW football
[4:18] Speaker 4: right now.
[4:19] Speaker 3: No doubt.
[4:20] Speaker 2: I'm just glad that you could hear me. I'm just
[4:22] Speaker 2: glad that it was legible to a certain degree and understandable.
[4:26] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[4:26] Speaker 3: What was that? Your phone just broke up.
[4:29] Speaker 2: Don't you say, I don't know if it's working or not,
[4:31] Speaker 2: and you just torture me, and I'm tired of it.
[4:33] Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
[4:34] Speaker 4: Well, how do you handle the DeMond Williams story, right?
[4:36] Speaker 4: So he hurts his ribs against Iowa. Elijah Brown comes in,
[4:41] Speaker 4: looks good, but it's 27-3 when he came in. Defense
[4:46] Speaker 4: couldn't stop anybody. They had a really bad night against
[4:49] Speaker 4: the run, no doubt. And now Elijah's likely going to
[4:52] Speaker 4: start Friday against Purdue. Do you believe that you can
[4:56] Speaker 4: lose your job due to injury? And if Elijah Brown
[4:59] Speaker 4: plays well, should he continue to keep the job no
[5:01] Speaker 4: matter what the team is paying DeMond Williams?
[5:05] Speaker 2: I think DeMond Williams should have lost his job when
[5:07] Speaker 2: he tried to leave. And I know that it was
[5:11] Speaker 2: a desperate thing to keep him. And what happened in
[5:14] Speaker 2: the moment is what happened in the moment. But I
[5:17] Speaker 2: think looking back, most Washington people would agree that we
[5:22] Speaker 2: should have let this guy go. If somebody doesn't want
[5:24] Speaker 2: to be there, forcing them to stay, like any relationship
[5:28] Speaker 2: you've ever been in, is not a recipe for trust
[5:33] Speaker 2: and a recipe for success. And it certainly hasn't worked
[5:38] Speaker 2: for the rest of the team. And you said it yourself, Safi,
[5:41] Speaker 2: I think on a tweet, they played harder and more
[5:45] Speaker 2: alert and they surged. more physically for Elijah than they
[5:51] Speaker 2: did for DeMond. And that might not even be a
[5:54] Speaker 2: conscious thing for the players, for the offense, but it's
[5:59] Speaker 2: a different feel and it's a different guy. And it's
[6:02] Speaker 2: a guy who didn't try to betray the whole football
[6:04] Speaker 2: team in the middle of a funeral inside the athletic
[6:07] Speaker 2: department for a young person. So the tumult of the
[6:12] Speaker 2: offseason has followed Washington into this season. I'm not sure...
[6:17] Speaker 2: if there was a better way to handle it in
[6:19] Speaker 2: the moment that, you know, hindsight in these situations is
[6:23] Speaker 2: always a lot easier to criticize people. But I think that,
[6:27] Speaker 2: and the true personality of Jed fish have kind of
[6:31] Speaker 2: sunk this team before things even started. I mean, when
[6:34] Speaker 2: Jed fish is performing for the fan base and throwing
[6:39] Speaker 2: down his headset and acting like a petulant child, when
[6:43] Speaker 2: they can't get a yard against Washington state, and acting
[6:46] Speaker 2: like he's doing something and making some great statement. Well,
[6:50] Speaker 2: are you going to throw your headset when I was
[6:53] Speaker 2: running for eight yards a clip? Are you going to
[6:55] Speaker 2: get angry and get all pissy about that and yell
[6:59] Speaker 2: at the sideline person about that yet? Or are those
[7:02] Speaker 2: performances over and now you have to make excuses? I'm
[7:06] Speaker 2: telling you, this guy's media personality and the way he
[7:10] Speaker 2: tries to act by... poo-pooing the last moment and trying
[7:15] Speaker 2: to act like he never said what he said three
[7:17] Speaker 2: weeks ago is getting pretty tired. And I think the
[7:21] Speaker 2: people of Seattle have seen that.
[7:23] Speaker 4: Well, I think he inherited a really difficult situation. There's
[7:27] Speaker 4: no doubt about it with every offensive player walking away,
[7:30] Speaker 4: but it's also the transfer portal.
[7:32] Speaker 2: Era.
[7:33] Speaker 4: And I've said before, Petros, many times that if I
[7:35] Speaker 4: had money to spend, I'm spending it on the portal.
[7:38] Speaker 4: I'm going out and getting guys that have already been
[7:40] Speaker 4: coached up, right? I'm taking advantage of the fruits of
[7:43] Speaker 4: somebody else's labor. And Jed doesn't agree with that. He
[7:46] Speaker 4: wants high school guys. I mean, how would you build
[7:49] Speaker 4: a roster if you were in charge of one?
[7:51] Speaker 2: Tell us. Well, I think that nobody wants... However you're
[7:56] Speaker 2: going to build a roster, nobody wants to hear, I
[8:00] Speaker 2: need time anymore because of whatever they call the Signetti effect.
[8:05] Speaker 2: You look at what Bob Chesney's done at UCLA. Nobody
[8:10] Speaker 2: recognizes half of those players, more than half of those
[8:13] Speaker 2: players on the UCLA roster. And now that Nico Iamaleava
[8:19] Speaker 2: is out, the whole team... is unrecognizable. Yeah. But even
[8:24] Speaker 2: though they can't figure out the A clap, they play together.
[8:28] Speaker 2: They have a purpose. They play for each other. And
[8:31] Speaker 2: they play hard. And a lot of those guys never
[8:33] Speaker 2: knew each other last year. Some of them are coming
[8:36] Speaker 2: all the way from weird-ass places like Delaware and Virginia.
[8:41] Speaker 2: And suddenly they're here in what everybody thought was an
[8:43] Speaker 2: impossible football situation in Westwood. And look at what they've done.
[8:49] Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear, look at what I inherited. I
[8:52] Speaker 2: don't have enough money. Nobody wants to hear those excuses anymore.
[8:56] Speaker 2: Inspire players and go out and win football games. Look
[9:00] Speaker 2: at what's happening right now in Corvallis. Right. Are they
[9:03] Speaker 2: sitting on a pot of gold like a leprechaun? No, no.
[9:06] Speaker 2: They have enthusiasm. They have belief. They have belief in
[9:10] Speaker 2: each other. And that's what we want to see when
[9:12] Speaker 2: we watch football games. We don't want to say, well,
[9:14] Speaker 2: this guy's getting paid this much and this guy's getting
[9:17] Speaker 2: paid this much. I enough to pay that guy. You're
[9:20] Speaker 2: a football coach. Go inspire the players and get them
[9:23] Speaker 2: to fight for you. That's why you get paid millions
[9:25] Speaker 2: of dollars not to act like some CEO who's been
[9:29] Speaker 2: stabbed in the back by a bunch of 18-year-olds. I'm
[9:32] Speaker 2: not buying it.
[9:34] Speaker 4: Petros Papadakis, who's not buying it, is with us on
[9:37] Speaker 4: the air. You mentioned Jamarcus Shepard.
[9:39] Speaker 2: I'm glad you understood me.
[9:41] Speaker 4: Well, I'm getting like every fourth word, but it's enough
[9:44] Speaker 4: to parse it together.
[9:44] Speaker 3: No, don't say that.
[9:45] Speaker 2: That's not cool. Don't say that. That's not cool.
[9:49] Speaker 4: You mentioned Jamarcus Shepard, our old pal, wide receiver coach
[9:53] Speaker 4: for Kalen, coach to Doonze, McMillan, Jalen Polk, all those
[9:57] Speaker 4: guys here at UW, and took them all way to
[10:00] Speaker 4: the college football national championship. Do you think he could
[10:04] Speaker 4: be one and done in Corvallis? I was looking at
[10:06] Speaker 4: his buyout. It's only about $ 6 million. If he leaves
[10:09] Speaker 4: after a year, somebody could cover that easily. Or do
[10:13] Speaker 4: you think he's going to maybe stick around? Because I
[10:15] Speaker 4: guess the question is, if you want Jamarcus Shepard, do
[10:18] Speaker 4: you have to act quick to get him?
[10:21] Speaker 2: That's a great question. And I mean, UW's interested in him, right?
[10:28] Speaker 2: And I'm sure Jonathan Smith is sad that the UW
[10:32] Speaker 2: window closed on him and he took the wrong job.
[10:35] Speaker 2: And I'm sure UW is probably at this point sad
[10:39] Speaker 2: that they hired Jed Fish instead because of the way
[10:42] Speaker 2: things have played out, especially this year. I love Shepard,
[10:47] Speaker 2: and I think he's a special coach. I don't know
[10:51] Speaker 2: what they can do in Corvallis to keep him. It's
[10:53] Speaker 2: a little unfortunate in that way, but watching that place
[10:56] Speaker 2: play And it's not like they had a great start,
[10:59] Speaker 2: but watching that place ignite with excitement because the guy
[11:02] Speaker 2: has an infectious attitude to lead is a great example
[11:06] Speaker 2: of what's not happening at USC, even though they just
[11:09] Speaker 2: won a big game at Penn State, what's not happening
[11:13] Speaker 2: at Washington. I mean, this guy has infected the community
[11:17] Speaker 2: a lot like Bob Chesney. But those guys that we're
[11:20] Speaker 2: talking about, Bob Chesney and Shepard, they're going to be
[11:23] Speaker 2: a couple of the hottest coaches in America down the stretch,
[11:26] Speaker 2: probably regardless of how the rest of the season plays
[11:30] Speaker 2: out for both teams. Yeah.
[11:31] Speaker 4: Hey, did you watch the Alabama-Georgia game on Saturday? Oh,
[11:34] Speaker 4: by the way, you see Kalen flip out in the
[11:35] Speaker 4: sideline there.
[11:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, you just cost us the game, he told that
[11:40] Speaker 2: guy a bunch of times over and over and over again. And,
[11:44] Speaker 2: you know, honestly, if you pay a guy millions of dollars,
[11:48] Speaker 2: I know they're only 19 years old and all, but
[11:50] Speaker 2: this is SEC football on the highest level and the
[11:54] Speaker 2: biggest stage, Alabama, Georgia. These guys all get paid at
[11:58] Speaker 2: least a million dollars who are out there. I mean,
[12:01] Speaker 2: the oldest... Freshmen are like 22 now. The guy Trent Mosley,
[12:06] Speaker 2: the great freshman for USC, is like 21 years old
[12:09] Speaker 2: or something. I don't care if you want to mother-eff
[12:11] Speaker 2: that guy a little bit on the sideline. He's not
[12:13] Speaker 2: a baby seal like the guy Jimmy Lake punched. I don't...
[12:17] Speaker 2: I don't... I don't care anymore if a guy gets
[12:22] Speaker 2: a little bit aired out on the sideline. I mean,
[12:24] Speaker 2: the long snappers making six figures, I don't want to
[12:27] Speaker 2: hear it anymore. I'm sorry you got butt hurt, Alabama player,
[12:30] Speaker 2: who did the personal foul. Wow.
[12:33] Speaker 4: Yeah, God bless Rocky Fuavai, by the way, from UW.
[12:39] Speaker 4: who took one to the noggin by Jimmy Lake. I
[12:42] Speaker 4: believe that was during the Oregon game, if I'm not mistaken.
[12:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I got to be honest with you.
[12:47] Speaker 2: If Jimmy Lake didn't sock that guy, they might still
[12:50] Speaker 2: be trying to fire him over there.
[12:51] Speaker 3: What was that? Your phone broke up. I didn't get
[12:54] Speaker 3: that part.
[12:55] Speaker 2: Sorry.
[12:56] Speaker 3: Shut up!
[12:57] Speaker 2: Shut up!
[12:57] Speaker 4: Hey, are people fired up for the Dodgers, man? It
[13:01] Speaker 4: kind of feels like they're a little jaded down there.
[13:03] Speaker 2: What?
[13:04] Speaker 4: Maybe down 2-0, the apathy's starting to set in a
[13:07] Speaker 4: little bit.
[13:07] Speaker 2: What do you think? I just left Dodger Stadium. It's
[13:12] Speaker 2: a freaking zoo. Okay, good. I'm wrong. Everybody wants, I mean, look,
[13:17] Speaker 2: when the Dodgers play in L.A. when they're in the playoffs, everybody,
[13:21] Speaker 2: just like anywhere with Seattle, I'm sure it's the same,
[13:24] Speaker 2: though it doesn't happen very often with the Mariners, but
[13:27] Speaker 2: of course your experience with the Seahawks, I would tell you.
[13:31] Speaker 2: Everybody in the town, like even people at my sister's
[13:33] Speaker 2: yoga studio, who I don't even know if they speak English,
[13:37] Speaker 2: come up to me and ask me why they haven't
[13:39] Speaker 2: benched Otani. And it's like, oh my God. You know, people,
[13:42] Speaker 2: this time of year, everybody gets very much invested. But
[13:46] Speaker 2: the Otani thing is really interesting. I mean, here's a
[13:49] Speaker 2: guy that yesterday, half the fan base wants him benched
[13:54] Speaker 2: because he can't hit. And I don't think he's benchable.
[13:57] Speaker 2: I don't think... you can bench a guy that dictates
[14:00] Speaker 2: to the team like Otani does. So they had to
[14:04] Speaker 2: have like a whole press conference yesterday. And then Otani
[14:07] Speaker 2: spoke where he wasn't scheduled to, but I think he
[14:10] Speaker 2: wanted to take some of the slings and arrows of
[14:13] Speaker 2: outrageous fortune to the chest because his teammates are tired
[14:16] Speaker 2: of answering questions about him. We'll see how he performs tonight.
[14:20] Speaker 2: He's batting all the way down at six. Right. And
[14:23] Speaker 2: a great, a great Seattle native. Yeah. Like me, the
[14:29] Speaker 2: great Blake Snell has got to pitch the game of
[14:32] Speaker 2: his life. It's the game of his career for the Dodgers.
[14:36] Speaker 2: He did not pitch well in game two of the
[14:42] Speaker 2: last series. So let's see what he can do here
[14:45] Speaker 2: in the NLCS after Yoshi Yamamoto laid a very rare
[14:49] Speaker 2: playoff egg there. in the last one in Milwaukee. So
[14:53] Speaker 2: this is a must-win game tonight for the Dodgers, but
[14:56] Speaker 2: I wouldn't use the word apathy, Softy. Apathy is what
[14:59] Speaker 2: happens in Seattle with the Mariners.
[15:03] Speaker 3: What was that? Your phone broke up.
[15:06] Speaker 2: I'm saying we have a lot of angry Mexican fans.
[15:10] Speaker 3: Your sister owns a yoga studio? I didn't know that.
[15:14] Speaker 2: You didn't know that? I'm there every day.
[15:16] Speaker 3: I know that you do yoga.
[15:17] Speaker 2: It's an award-winning... It's an award-winning yoga studio, Kefi Yoga
[15:21] Speaker 2: in LaMita, Torrance, California. Okay. And you can look it up.
[15:26] Speaker 2: It's very famous. K-E-F-I. It has a Greek motif.
[15:31] Speaker 3: K-E-F-I.
[15:32] Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew that you were big into yoga. I
[15:33] Speaker 4: didn't know that your sister owned the studio. Would you
[15:36] Speaker 4: recommend yoga for me? I need to limber up a
[15:38] Speaker 4: little bit, man.
[15:38] Speaker 2: Seriously. I would recommend yoga for everybody. No one is
[15:42] Speaker 2: too old, too young, or too sick, or too... flexible
[15:48] Speaker 2: for yoga. Yoga is a breathing practice that helps you
[15:53] Speaker 2: regulate your body. And it also is a workout, but
[15:58] Speaker 2: it's like a mindfulness practice as well. And it's been
[16:03] Speaker 2: very good for me. I don't know if you recognize
[16:05] Speaker 2: this over the years, Safi, but I'm not exactly all there.
[16:09] Speaker 2: As a person. So, you know, I can I anything
[16:12] Speaker 2: I can do to help myself regulate is is welcome.
[16:15] Speaker 2: And yoga has been very good for me as an
[16:18] Speaker 2: old beat up football player. I think it's very good
[16:20] Speaker 2: for everybody. And I see the old people in yoga
[16:23] Speaker 2: class and they're standing up straight. Right. Yeah. And I
[16:26] Speaker 2: see so many people that I played football with around
[16:30] Speaker 2: and they're hunched. So I'm trying to be in the
[16:33] Speaker 2: yoga studio so I can stand up straight.
[16:35] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's me. I'm hunched. And I can barely even
[16:38] Speaker 3: touch my toes, and I'm still hunched. So I don't know.
[16:41] Speaker 3: Maybe next time I'm down there.
[16:44] Speaker 2: All the girls think you're a guy. You've got Marty
[16:47] Speaker 2: Feldman eyes.
[16:49] Speaker 4: Maybe next time I'm in L.A., we'll swing by the
[16:51] Speaker 4: Kefi Yoga Studio, and you can show me what's up.
[16:54] Speaker 3: Hey, where are you at this weekend.
[16:55] Speaker 2: By the way?
[16:56] Speaker 3: What are you doing?
[16:58] Speaker 2: I have the revival read. So I will be at Waco, Texas.
[17:02] Speaker 2: Baylor's pretty good.
[17:03] Speaker 3: Okay.
[17:05] Speaker 2: Baylor's four, four and one. And they're hosting our old friend,
[17:09] Speaker 2: Sonny Dykes and TCU. Okay. Who's having some trouble with
[17:14] Speaker 2: their offensive pro style transition. You know, it used to
[17:17] Speaker 2: be the whole big 12. It was a race to
[17:19] Speaker 2: see who could score 50. And now everybody's moving to
[17:23] Speaker 2: like a four down defense and a pro style offense
[17:26] Speaker 2: and try not to turn the ball over. So yeah,
[17:29] Speaker 2: kind of an interesting transition and I'm not being facetious
[17:34] Speaker 2: or anything. I've done this game in the past, Texas
[17:38] Speaker 2: Christian going to Baylor and the revival re and it
[17:42] Speaker 2: is doing Texas football. in Texas is a lot of fun.
[17:48] Speaker 2: And the way people, the way people treat you, just
[17:51] Speaker 2: the whole, the whole overall feeling and the fanfare around
[17:56] Speaker 2: the event of a football game is a pretty special
[17:59] Speaker 2: thing in the state of Texas, especially with two bigger
[18:02] Speaker 2: teams like TCU and Baylor have been pretty successful this century.
[18:06] Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to it. It's a lot of fun.
[18:09] Speaker 3: Hey, before you go, you mentioned UCLA, Petros.
[18:12] Speaker 4: You saw where Dan Lanning is not going to punish,
[18:16] Speaker 4: what's his name, Bear Alexander, the defensive lineman. He said
[18:20] Speaker 4: he was trying to force a fumble on the play
[18:23] Speaker 4: that knocked out Nico during the game. And the guy's
[18:27] Speaker 4: punching him in the freaking throat, going for a fumble.
[18:31] Speaker 4: And Dan Lanning is not going to punish the guy.
[18:33] Speaker 4: Dan Lanning comes across sometimes as a major D-bag, by
[18:36] Speaker 4: the way. Did you think the guy should have been
[18:38] Speaker 4: suspended for punching Nico?
[18:41] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if Nico's out for the year
[18:46] Speaker 2: because of a knee injury. Right. But it happened on
[18:49] Speaker 2: a play that he got punched in the neck, which
[18:51] Speaker 2: is kind of weird. Exactly.
[18:53] Speaker 1: Right.
[18:53] Speaker 2: Right. There is a little bit of a disconnect there,
[18:57] Speaker 2: but it was a very clear judo chop. Now, the
[19:01] Speaker 2: other guy was taking a swipe at the ball. then
[19:04] Speaker 2: bear did the same thing, but probably just a little late. Uh,
[19:09] Speaker 2: it looked intentional. I can understand why his coach is
[19:12] Speaker 2: defending him. Uh, It puts him in a very awkward position,
[19:18] Speaker 2: given the framing, which we've been talking about a lot
[19:21] Speaker 2: this year, with what happened with Dante Moore and the Coliseum.
[19:26] Speaker 2: I'm driving right by the LA Coliseum right now. How
[19:29] Speaker 2: about that? Where you were sweating it out just the
[19:32] Speaker 2: other day, Safi. I was. But I have to say
[19:36] Speaker 2: that Dan Lanning does a great job performing and being
[19:43] Speaker 2: that guy, quote-unquote, for the people that support Oregon football
[19:49] Speaker 2: and a lot of, I think a lot of what
[19:51] Speaker 2: he does, I don't think he's a person that doesn't
[19:54] Speaker 2: have integrity. I think he's a coach that has honor
[19:59] Speaker 2: and integrity. I really do. That's my impression. I don't
[20:01] Speaker 2: know him well, I've only covered a handful of their
[20:04] Speaker 2: games when he was there, but I liked the way
[20:08] Speaker 2: he's treated the Oregon program. A lot better than Willie
[20:11] Speaker 2: Taggart or Mario Cristobal. And I think a lot of
[20:15] Speaker 2: what he says and does is throwing red beat to
[20:18] Speaker 2: the Oregon fan base. Yes. I think this situation put
[20:23] Speaker 2: him in a tough spot. And... I mean, I don't
[20:27] Speaker 2: think he's dying on the hill of Bear Alexander as
[20:30] Speaker 2: a Saint, but I think that you could make an
[20:34] Speaker 2: argument that he was punching for the ball, but it
[20:37] Speaker 2: was late and it was egregious. Bob Chesney was right
[20:41] Speaker 2: when he says that, but if that's the hit that
[20:46] Speaker 2: took him out of the season and he's out for
[20:48] Speaker 2: the year, I don't understand how a judo chops of
[20:53] Speaker 2: the neck is what blew out your knee. That's, That's
[20:57] Speaker 2: the part of it that's a little bit of a disconnect.
[20:59] Speaker 2: for me. But Nico Amaliava, it's interesting. It's not like
[21:05] Speaker 2: he was, UCLA's been playing great, but it's not exactly
[21:08] Speaker 2: like he's been setting the world on fire this year
[21:13] Speaker 2: as the quarterback with their offensive transition. Maybe the threat
[21:17] Speaker 2: of his arm just because he's out there and throwing
[21:20] Speaker 2: the ball down the field has set up their run game,
[21:22] Speaker 2: but I'm not sure how different they're going to be
[21:25] Speaker 2: at home against Wisconsin with the other guy, Ty Dieffenbach.
[21:29] Speaker 2: He played at Cal Poly and never played at Pitt,
[21:32] Speaker 2: but he was there.
[21:33] Speaker 3: Well, you're right. Lanning plays to his base. There's no
[21:37] Speaker 3: doubt about it.
[21:37] Speaker 4: He plays to the fat-faced Oregon douches wearing North Face
[21:43] Speaker 4: vests in Eugene, and he does it very well.
[21:46] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[21:47] Speaker 3: Fat-faced, bearded Oregon douche, you know, in a North Face vest.
[21:51] Speaker 3: All right. Hey, we got through it. Great job with
[21:53] Speaker 3: the phone, man. Let's get back to the.
[21:55] Speaker 2: Don't forget about Patagonia.
[21:57] Speaker 3: Yeah, Patagonia, for sure. No doubt. And REI. You got
[22:00] Speaker 3: to include REI if you're in the PNW.
[22:02] Speaker 2: All right, man.
[22:03] Speaker 3: Great stuff.
[22:04] Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, they are a little bit... They
[22:07] Speaker 2: wear less Tevas than the people of Seattle, and that's
[22:10] Speaker 2: always been a black mark on the people of Seattle
[22:13] Speaker 2: is those Teva sandals.
[22:16] Speaker 4: This isn't 1995 anymore, pal. You got to get up
[22:19] Speaker 4: here and walk around a little bit.
[22:20] Speaker 2: All right. Well, you walk around. There's still people at them.
[22:24] Speaker 2: Keep your eyes open, Softy. Look down at the ground.
[22:26] Speaker 2: You'll see.
[22:29] Speaker 4: As Morgan Freeman said, though, in Shawshank Redemption, who really
[22:32] Speaker 4: looks at another man's shoes? Doesn't happen very often. We'll
[22:36] Speaker 4: get out of here.
[22:37] Speaker 3: Good stuff. Enjoy the game tonight. We'll talk in a week, man.
[22:39] Speaker 3: Love you.
[22:42] Speaker 2: The fish.
[22:43] Speaker 3: See you, buddy. Petros Papadakis with us. We're going to break.
[22:47] Speaker 4: Text the modules, and then Kevin Harlan joins at 5
[22:50] Speaker 4: tonight right here on 93.3 KJRFM.

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