September 24, 2024 • 29 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain, in for Mario Bailey, are joined by Mario Bailey for the Husky Honks as the guys quickly look at the win over Northwestern last week and preview the road game this Friday at Rutgers and who needs to step up.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
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the studio with Greg Lewis.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Marlo Bailey is not here.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He's got some family things to tend to, so we
Mario's okay. He will join us Friday at one o'clock
at Moss bay Hall and Kirkland for the Rutgers pregame
kickoff at five o'clock. But we were asking, and Greg
and I were talking Jackson off the air, if Mario
can't do the Husky Hank show, Let's find somebody in
this town who knows Husky football, who lives and dies
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with Husky football, who is respected by Husky fans, knows
the history of this program, and obviously carries enough weight
to call himself a Husky Hawk.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
We could not find anybody here you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Go to fill that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Instead, we have Dick fans for Mario.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Bay Oh, that's all right, Dick. We accept you into
the Husky Football Nation. Yes, you get a guest pass
for today.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He gets a honks.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He is.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Really, you've done a great job of serving as the
fourth Hank.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
When when the situation calls for man you came to
usc with us a year ago for that game May
for the Peyton You saw that.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
So you're one and one on the road.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But the Husky's gotta win over Northwestern on Saturday. I mean, look,
I guess there's a glass half fall, glass half empty, right,
glass half full? You hold a team for the third
time this year, Greg A Conference opponent without a touchdown,
first time the Dogs have done that in the regular
season since the twenty seventeen Oregon game when they beat
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the Ducks thirty eight to three.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
The other side of that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Is, man, that team's awful, and that might be the
worst team in the Big Ten.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
If they're not, I'd be interested to see who is
and hope they're on our scheduled as well. Was not
a good football team that we played this past Saturday,
and I think for us it was more about how
do we play, how do we show up, especially coming
off the Washington State loss. And I got to tell you,
there's some things that I was really hoping that we
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had cleaned up, that we had kind of gotten over.
We put some attention towards it during our week of preparation,
and we would look different. We wouldn't have the penalties.
Now sixteen, of course we didn't have sixteen, but seven
against that opponent's still way too many, especially when they occurred.
I also think, you know, the Bible snaps, some of
the execution things were things that I had hoped that
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we had cleaned up. Because we're gonna start playing some
really good football teams this week. May be, you know,
a good team, although that still remains to be seen
because I don't know that they've played what I would
consider a upper echelon team yet. You know, they're three
and oh against teams that frankly they should be three
and oh against. So we'll see where that goes. We'll
find out more about us. But I just don't think
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this week, and you know, after having all of those
issues where we should have really honed in on those
during the week of practice, that we made enough progress
in those areas.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
No, I think that's fair, and I think I'm still
glad that we have this ramp up that we talked
about in August. You're like, look at the schedule, it's
just it's set up really nicely that we don't have
to be a really really good team until October.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
We hoped and thought that we'd get by Washington State.
That didn't happen. But this is the first game really
that we looked at on the schedule and went.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Ooh, this is fifty to fifty. This is fifty to fifty.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Are we going to be ready by September twenty seventh
to be able to go on the road and play
Rutgers and furthermore, will we be able to play Michigan
at home on October fifth. Now, what we've seen between
Rutgers in Michigan, though, is that we thought Michigan was
up here and Rutgers was down here. Right, Michigan and
Rutgers are. There's probably a spread between the two of them,
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but it's probably not as big as we thought two
months ago.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, I think that we're getting to that part of
the schedule. You know, Mario mentioned it the game there
in the postgame show.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
We still don't know who we are.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, we better be finding out real soon, real quick,
because the competition level just ramps up from here. I
think even though Rutgers in Michigan, like you said, it
may not be a big difference between them.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I think there's some things that play into the this.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
We have a shorter week of preparation now, so now
you cut that down by day. You got to fly
about four hours, so that takes away some prep time
just in that getting there, right, you're playing in a
hostile environment.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
They are blowing this up.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Coach Ciano and the Rutgers fans, they're having a blackout.
They're calling this the biggest you know, opponent that they've
had there in a very long time. It's the new
Big ten. So they're making this a signature game for them.
So they're gonna they'll be you know, I don't know
how loud it gets there, but whatever is the best
they can.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Do from crowds.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
But as far as the environment, this will be you
know ours, and this is our first road trip. This
is our first time going on the road with this
group of players and coaches and figuring out that routine.
So there are some things there that you know would
say this is going to be a tougher game than
we've had so far this year. So the question is
is how do we prepare, how do we get ready?
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And then when we come out and play on Saturday,
do we overcome those things that have been obstacles the
last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
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Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't know what that ESPN.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
They're at all these crazy fees with.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The freaking program here, but I'm looking at a there
are a couple of areas where Rutgers has a clear advantage,
and there might be an area where the Huskies have
a clear advantage for Washington. I think the clear advantage
is a quarterback. Will Rodgers has thrown almost two thousand
passes in his college career. Kaylee Acmanus, who is the
transfer from Minnesota, has thrown four hundred and seventy seven
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in his career. All right, Will Rodgers almost four or
five times more than this guy. Absolutely the advantage for Rutgers, though, Guys,
and this is what concerns me. Can we all agree
the Husky offensive line is still a work in progress?
Can we agree the defensive line is still a work
in progress? Okay, Rutgers has upperclassmen all over the place. Yeah,
on their offensive and defensive line.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Can they play?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They were good a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Senior junior, junior, redshirt, sophomore, redshirt junior, senior, senior, senior transfer, junior.
That's what Rutgers offensive and defensive lines look like. And
I mean if they can't play, then Greg Ciano's an
idiot because he's playing you know, guys that are twenty
four years old that are terrible. They should have a
big advantage on the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Well, I think we could. We could speculate that they
have an advantage on the line of scrimmage. You know,
it'll come down to game day and see how things
start to go. I think our coaches they'll understand what
the shortcomings of our offensive line in particular is. You know,
you and Mario and I were talking pregame before last week.
You know what type of team when I said play action,
play action, play action, and boy are we a play action.
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But you know why play action helps your offensive line
in the passing game. It slows down blitz is, it
slows down linebackers making your ease. It gives you an
ability to steal a down the field pass game, even
if your offensive line is not super strong. So they
understand where their shortcomings are. They're getting better. You know,
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I saw less pressure on our quarterback this week. Now
you might say, well, Greg, you know the talent that
the other team had was less than the week before.
I don't know if that's necessarily true or not, but
I do know that we look better in pass pro.
There was a couple of times where fake handoff rolled
out and there was a guy somebody missing assignment and
we took a sack early, but from then on I
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think most of the rest of the game will had
a pretty clean pocket. We talk about why don't we run, run, run,
I've heard so many people why don't we give you know,
our running back the ball twenty twenty five times a game. Well,
I don't know that we're blowing guys off the line
yet to where it warnants us to be able to
do that. So I think we could. We could speculate
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that they have a better front guys and maybe their
defensive line against our offense line might be an advantage
for them, But we won't truly know till we get there,
and there's some things game plan wise you can do
to offset some of that.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Because of that struggle with the offensive line, which I
think is probably about what we thought it was going
to be. I don't think it's been a disaster, But
at the same point, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It's been good knocking guys off the line either.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah, but what's been impressive to me this team's this
team's twelfth in scoring defense in America.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Now every so, oh, you.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Haven't payed anybody. Well, guess what, Almost none of the
power for teams have played em. So it's apples versus apples.
And you look at what this defense did last year.
They allowed seventeen points a game in the first four
games of the season, and they played Tulsa, they played
a terrible Michigan State team, they played cal and they
played Boise. I mean, is that any better than what
they played so far? I mean it's probably about the same,
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if slightly better. You've got You've held your opponents to
almost a touchdown less per game this year in the
first month than you did last year in the first month.
Husky fans could make an argument that this defense is
better than the one we saw last year.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
It's better than the defense we saw last year. I
believe in two parts. The linebacker.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We're seeing the Husky defense, right, I think.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I think I think the linebackers and the dbs are
better because one, you got all your linebackers back for
the most part, to me, the two most impact for
back and there are a year more experience, right and
Jack is not starting he started, yeah, and he's not
playing bad, but the guys in front of him are
playing better.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
So the secondary, I believe is better. I think your defensive.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Line and your pass rush has been something that we
need to see. But if you go back to last year, Soft,
you remember the beginning of the year Brayln tricesfre Yeah,
so they're still room to grow. So I can agree
with Dick that this defense right now, at this point
in the season is better than last year's defense at
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this point in the season, and hopefully they grow. And
I think they have the potential defensively at the linebacker
and the secondary the position to be better.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Now we know defense works together.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I can't cover guys all day if I don't get
any pass rush, So yes, those guys are gonna have
to step up. Those guys are going to have to
do a job putting pressure to the quarterback in order
for our secondary and the rest of our defense to
continue holding people out of the end zone.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I just I think that this defense has a lot
to prove. Sure, And if you want to say that
you like where they are compared to where that defense
was this time a year ago, I can dance with
you on.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That, thank you, But that like dances.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, that twenty twenty three defense played the Oregon Ducks
twice and took care of them.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean thirty one, right, But.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They also shut down Bucky Irving in the biggest game
of the year, I mean about eight.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Games in yeah, seven eight games, you know, I mean
we had growing up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
See, we're going to see what this team is all about,
because a lot of guys that you're relying on to
be those players that we had a year ago are
transfers or FCS players, right, So I think they have
a long way to go to be what that defense
was a year ago. But I do think there are
some areas of the defense that I will buy could
be potentially better than last year. I love where the
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secondary is at, there's no question about that. I do think, Dick,
what you said about the stats, I think it's way
too early to be diving into anything that we see
at NCAA dot com. Because Northwestern came in here and
we thought it was going to be really, really tough
against those guys that you know on the ground last week,
and there were times where it wasn't, you know, Will
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Rogers putting the ball in the year moving the ball
against Northwestern. So I think once you get into like
early October, maybe mid October, then maybe the numbers start
to make a little bit more sense.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, you said you can make an argument. I
can also make an argument the Huskies are about to
go six and six if they lose this game. I mean,
this is a fork in the road type game, right,
I mean, how many games will they really be favored
in the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
As a matter of fact, ESPN has them.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Favored outside of UCLA in one more game the rest
of the year. You know what that game is. It's
next Saturday against Michigan at home. Every other game they're
a dog. ESPN's got these guys going five and seven.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, I don't disagree that there's some real pivotal games
where this is going to depend on whether or not
we break six wins and become Bowl eligible.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This was a rebuilding year coming in.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
We all knew that, and I think had we won
the Washington State game right now, everybody would be playing
the over. If it six, is that number, right, everybody
be playing the over. Well, there's a pivotal game, like
you said, with Michigan that probably flipped our way. So
there's still that I for one, you know, I'm a
Husky hank Okay, That's why they call this show the
hak We always look for positive things to talk about.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But I'm also a realist.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Coming into this year, I would have said seven is
a really good season for these guys. I would have
said that's a really good season for this coaching staff
to get us the seven wins, right, So that to
me still is about the number that would be a
really great season for this Hussy football team. But you
guys know, in football, there are always games that the
team who's not supposed to win wins. You know, there
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are always those games that happened. So we might lose
one that we should have won. Maybe Washington State. Maybe
we took care of that. Maybe there's a game or
two down the line that we can pick up that
we weren't scheduled to win. I like our chance against
UCLA Michigan's probably a toss up. But this game, in
the Indiana game or two games where again, to me,
fifty to fifty games and then you play it. You
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got to play the game. And I think this team
has shown me some things that I like. Our quarterback
has thrown more passes than any active quarterback in college
football right now.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He's completed more passes than any.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Active quarterback in college football right now, second most touchdowns.
I'm sorry, And he has not thrown an interception this year.
And our wide receiving corps has shown that they got
some playmakers, and we know we have a good running back.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So what all those things said?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
We got a chance, a fighting chance to win seven
football games. And who knows, you know, maybe we'll get lucky,
somebody's star quarterbacks out for a week or something like that.
So I'm still, you know, looking for this to be
a winning team. But you know what's the question goes
to me now, is you get to a bowl game?
Maybe you win a bowl game? Is that a successful
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season for the Huskies and our fans gonna be excited
about that and ready to come back.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I think success and excitement are two different things right
now for me. Success, Yes, you lose fifty guys, whatever,
you take over this thing, you completely got the damn
thing and rebuild it into a bowl game.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yes, that's a success.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Will it be exciting, No it will not.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
We got to build excited for this progress our jobs
offt Yeah, we're gonna break more with that We're gonna
get excitement, but we're gonna build excitement.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
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Speaker 7 (15:41):
Lay think Will Rogers wants to take a shot looking
down field.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Goes for the home run ball. Has Denzel Boston open
to the en zone? I think you got it?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yeah, two arms up, touchdown Washington Tenzel Boston beat not
one but two.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
While Kat say fake to Muhammed, good pass pro for
Muhammad throws to the Enzel cock touchdown. Denzel Boston again
his second today in his fifth of the season, a
thirteen yard slam pattern at Denzel Boston into the end
zone in the Huskies have a sixteen to nothing lead
here in the first half.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
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Speaker 4 (16:15):
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at zoomcare dot com. So Carson Bruner obviously left the
game with ten minutes to go in the Apple Cup.
Pay came back and played a week ago, had the interception.
Mcquintin Moore probably not gonna be back for this game,
and Zach dr Fie should be back for the game
on Friday night against Rutgers. And you were talking off
the air, Greg about, hey, knowing what Rutgers likes to
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do offensively, we're not expecting the to show on turf, right,
Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt aren't walking through that door
for Rutgers. So what schematic changes would you think about
making to the Hosky defense that Friday.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well, college football has gone to, you know, matching the
offense with your personnel on the defensive side of the
ball by bringing an extra defensive back in your base defense.
When I was playing, it was nickel defense. On third downs,
medium and long, you bring an extra defensive back, take
a linebacker out. That's become the base defense now. But
you're playing a Rutgers team, and I don't want to
butcher the name manun guy. You're running back who ran
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all over teams like Ohio State last year and he's
had a two hundred yard game this year, and he's
one of the Doak Walker where candidates and you just
mentioned they have a very experienced offensive line. They're going
to run the football, and they're going to run it
first down, second down, and third and medium is short,
they may even run the football. So personnel wise, what
you do is you take that nickelbacker husky as we
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call him, and replace him with a linebacker. Or you
take one of those edges like an Isaiah if he's
you know, the smaller of the guys, and you replace
him with maybe a Vanoyd two feet and put three
offensive three defensive linemen there. So you kind of got
some things to play with. Do you replace one of
your edge guys with more of a defensive end, Do
you replace your nickel guy or your husky position with
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more of a linebacker, or do you do both It
really kind of depends. Those are things that you can
do personnel wise and matchup against the game.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Did you say vannoyd two fe void to fee v
if vannoy over to A and void, that's probably why
because some guy, I mean, you're you're talking about maybe
taking Jordan's Shaw off the field and putting somebody else
in there. I mean, look, I I I think that
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this this game is going to test their will on
their defensive front for certain, right Like, there's gonna be
a time where we get to see what this Husky
defensive line can handle.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And this might be the first test.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
There's your key to the game is third and ones,
third and two s, third and threes. You can be
able to get off get off the field on third
and short. That's gonna that's gonna be the key to
the game. And it's gonna be You were talking about
these these Blade of the Knife games. I mean, I
think there's about six of them between now and the
end of the year. That everything other than the last
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three games of the season. I think your next six
games or five games rather are all Blade of the
Knife games.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Rutgers that should.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Be a three point game. Michigan homes should be about
a three point game. At Iowa, the way they play football,
that's gonna be thirteen to ten in the fourth quarter.
USC just got run over by Michigan. If you can
play with Michigan, you should be able to play with USC.
And then in Indiana is not gonna be a pushover.
We think we get we could get that one. It's
just how many of these blade of knife games are
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you gonna make enough plays to win twenty to seventeen?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
And we haven't been used to those type.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Of games, right, We've been used to the thirty eights
twenty eights that could turn into forty five twenty eights
in their blowouts. That's not how Rutgers is gonna play.
That's not how Iowa's going to play. That's not how
many of these big ten game teams are gonna play.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah, I think this really comes down to the development
of your guys up front on both sides of the ball,
and then how do you scheme to make up for
deficiencies where you see them? Are you able to game
plan a little bit with how you align your defensive line,
how you align your linebackers to stop a team like
Rutgers who we know is going to run. And you know,
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to your point, the key really is to get them
in third and five and not have them in the
third and one, two three. What do you do on
first and second down? How do you keep their running
backs from getting the seven yards in the four and
a half, in the five yards?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Don't you think we win? I mean, they're consistently in
third and five.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
If we keep them in that sort of territory, then
I think we have the ability to win the game.
One thing that they have shown a good opportunity and
regardless of the opponent, they have been good in the
red zone. The Husky defense, they've been good down on
the one, two, five, ten yard line. And so hopefully
we have we make Rutgers have to drive, drive, drive,
they don't get any big plays and we become stout
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down there. That has a lot to say about how
much the other team scores. And I think again we've
shown we have the more experienced quarterback. We have some
really good skill players. I think we'll see Jonah Coleman,
you know, have to at some point, yes, you know,
break a tackle and go for forty and fifty yards,
and he has the ability to do that, and we
know we got Denzel Boston, we know we got Giles Jackson.
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We know we have the receivers that can make plays
and the quarterback who can pull the trigger.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
So do you put them, sorry, do you put them
in space? Then when you're on offense, do you say,
we've got better athletes than your defense has.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
We're widening the field.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I mean, that's a theory. I haven't looked enough, to
be honest with you. I'm just I've looked at Rutgers' offense,
but I haven't looked at their defense enough yet to
understand how they're going to play us. But the theory
is you want to get your playmakers the ball in
their hands in space and see if they can win
and make a guy miss and get up the field.
We do have people who can do that, So yes,
that is something that you know can be employed. I
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still need to look at their defense a little bit
just to kind of figure out. But again, we're a
play action team. We're gonna run the football, We're gonna
have the threat of run. We're gonna use play action
to slow down the pass list. I like to see
us screen a little more and draw a little more
with our running backs, because I think that also impacts
the other team's ability to get after your quarterback and
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makes them pause, hesitate a little bit, and gives you
an opportunity to be successful. And you know, I'm a
Keith Gilberson guy. I'm telling you we use the screen
and the draw extremely well and it's very effective. Well,
I think their skilled players are better than what Rutgers got.
I mean, Rutgers leading receiver as thirteen catches. Yep, We've
got two guys that have combined for fifty one already,
and Giles Jackson and Denzel Boston. Jonah Coleman's got twelve
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out of the backfield by himself. And look, I know
what last segment we just talked about not getting too
caught up in numbers yet, but Rutgers is eighty ninth
in the country and rushing defense and they're giving up
five and a half yards per game. I think you
absolutely start by giving the ball to Jonah Coleman, sure
one thousand percent, and let's get a twenty plus carry
day for him. If we can get the lead and
just run the clock out the entire game. But if
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you have to get into a situation where you want
to shock him a little bit with some West Coast
speed and some West Coast agility.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I don't think they're going to see a lot of
teams in the Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That have receivers and backs like Washington does, because that's
just not how the Big Ten operates well.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And I like spreading them out.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Put four wide receivers on the field, spread it out
and then give it to number one, and then he
give it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He's got space to operate. You can get it to
him a lot of ways. I can tell you this though.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
What I love about him is his ability to cut back,
and that really comes out of downhill running. Okay, you
don't get cutbacks when you're you know, running the read
option and all that kind of stuff. When guys are
running downhill and you're kicking your your zone blocking to
the strong side of the play and everybody on the
defense is flowing that way, then a big, strong running
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back like Jonah, coming downhill with good vision can see
those cutback lanes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
When he cuts back, that guy who's.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Strong side is not going to be able to reach
back an arm tackle Hilda Coleman. He's going to break
that and go for the big win. So I want
to see some more that downhill run.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yes, And I don't know what people's expectations are kind
of hopes are for this team. I mean, my hope
is that best case scenario, they can be maybe an
eight win team in the regular season, get the nine
wins in the bowl game somehow. That would be like
top of the mountain. Look at what Jed Fish just did.
But you talk about kind of the fifty to fifty
FOURK on the road type game. You lose to Rutgers,
you're three and two, then you gotta win three between Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, USC,
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Penn State, UCLA, Oregon. Can we just say, Okay, if
we're desperate, times called for desperate measures in that scenario,
let's call Indiana and UCLA victories. Which you can't do
that because Indiana is not a pushover. Then you got
to knock off either Michigan, Iowa, USC, Penn State or Oregon.
Michigan win Michigan and US. How about we do this?
How about just win Friday? Yeah, you win Friday, and
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you've relieved so much pressure. Let's get a break more
with the Husky Hawks next on ninety three three kJ
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Speaker 1 (25:00):
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Speaker 7 (25:12):
It's the pressure Lust steps up, He's gonna throw down.
Feel picked off by Carson Bruner at the twenty four
runs up the right side thirty block at the forty
brunner toward midfield and the Huskies come away with their
second interception of the season and off Jonah Coleman's space
in the middle, lowers the boom, drags the man across
the line two arms up, touchdown Washington, Jonah Coleman's fourth
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of the season as he punches it in form eighty
yards out and the Husky is taking eighteen point lead.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
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a three and oh sorry, after a win over Virginia
Tech in Blacksburg. Next last Saturday, last time we were
there was twenty seventeen. Byron Murphy was making his Husky
debut and had two picks as a freshman that night
for you dubs. So I'll take two picks today out
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Speaker 4 (26:22):
Or somebody of that ilk Fattius Dixon.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So Dogs and Rutgers on Friday, I want to talk
about what we expect to see the Dogs do well
in this game.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Do we think this is a game where they run.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The ball well, they throw the ball well, they stop
the run, they stopped the pass. What do we think
the Huskies on paper should be better at than Rutgers
that we can see them bring to the table on
Friday night.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Well, I know I'm the running back and I'm supposed
to say run the ball, and run it again, and
run it again. And everybody's been begging for Johnah Coleman
to get twenty yards of twenty carries in the game.
Our quarterback is completing seventy six said of his passes,
seventy six percent. I expect us knock on wood.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I expect us.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I expect us to throw the ball well. I expect
us to complete some passes down the field. I expect
us to keep them off balance with some run game.
I expect them to continue to use the play action
pass well. But I think our quarterback is a clear
advantage for us, and I think we have playmakers on
the outside. Seventy six percent no interceptions, right, that's pretty huge.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He's third in the country, by the way, in completion percentage.
This guy is behind Dylan Gabriel and Jackson Dart who
before the year began, we're both Heisman came to this
well and you take a look at.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
The other side of the ball. I mean, being able
to stop their running game. And you know, Virginia Tech
had a two running backs go for twenty four carries,
one hundred and eighty two yards and three touchdowns. I mean,
Virginia Tech was as one dimensional as you can possibly be.
Their quarterback was awful, thirteen of twenty seven a buck
thirty seven to one interception. That was a stat line.
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So Rutgers knew that they had to stop the run,
and they couldn't stop the run and they barely won
the game because of it. So I think we're going
to be able to run the football on them.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Well Will Rogers.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
By the way, I know a lot of people get
caught up in completion percentage, like what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Does that mean check down, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
No, he's thirteenth and passing efficiency in the nation, this
guy is.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
So he's up there. And yards per attempt as well.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
For some stupid reason, on the NCAA's website, they don't
track yards per attempt. They tracked yards per completion, which
I've never understood why they do that, but they do.
But the point is is that you should almost every
game you play, you should have an advantage at quarterback
because of this guy's experience every single week.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Absolutely, he's he's to me our X factor. He's the
one who gives us the ability to go. He's not
going to be like this. He's played in SEC stadiums,
you think, regardless of whatever happens at rectors, he's going
to be and there's nothing he'll see there and nothing
that will happen in experience and that'll shake him.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
He's solid.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
He's extremely you know, well versed in everything that he
can see in a football game, so I expect that.
And then again, it's not just the shorts and the
intermediate and crossing routes like we thought it was going
to be. He's throwing the ball down the field really well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, the slant connection to Denzel Boston looks like that
might be pretty good, by the way, for a couple
of years, at least for this year, because he's gone.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Bill Rodgers is after this year.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
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That is a lot of sponsors for this show, which
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Speaker 4 (00:55):
Marlo Bailey is not here.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He's got some family things to tend to, so we
Mario's okay. He will join us Friday at one o'clock
at Moss bay Hall and Kirkland for the Rutgers pregame
kickoff at five o'clock. But we were asking, and Greg
and I were talking Jackson off the air, if Mario
can't do the Husky Hank show, Let's find somebody in
this town who knows Husky football, who lives and dies
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with Husky football, who is respected by Husky fans, knows
the history of this program, and obviously carries enough weight
to call himself a Husky Hawk.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
We could not find anybody here you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Go to fill that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Instead, we have Dick fans for Mario.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Bay Oh, that's all right, Dick. We accept you into
the Husky Football Nation. Yes, you get a guest pass
for today.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
He gets a honks.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He is.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Really, you've done a great job of serving as the
fourth Hank.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
When when the situation calls for man you came to
usc with us a year ago for that game May
for the Peyton You saw that.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
So you're one and one on the road.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But the Husky's gotta win over Northwestern on Saturday. I mean, look,
I guess there's a glass half fall, glass half empty, right,
glass half full? You hold a team for the third
time this year, Greg A Conference opponent without a touchdown,
first time the Dogs have done that in the regular
season since the twenty seventeen Oregon game when they beat
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the Ducks thirty eight to three.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
The other side of that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Is, man, that team's awful, and that might be the
worst team in the Big Ten.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
If they're not, I'd be interested to see who is
and hope they're on our scheduled as well. Was not
a good football team that we played this past Saturday,
and I think for us it was more about how
do we play, how do we show up, especially coming
off the Washington State loss. And I got to tell you,
there's some things that I was really hoping that we
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had cleaned up, that we had kind of gotten over.
We put some attention towards it during our week of preparation,
and we would look different. We wouldn't have the penalties.
Now sixteen, of course we didn't have sixteen, but seven
against that opponent's still way too many, especially when they occurred.
I also think, you know, the Bible snaps, some of
the execution things were things that I had hoped that
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we had cleaned up. Because we're gonna start playing some
really good football teams this week. May be, you know,
a good team, although that still remains to be seen
because I don't know that they've played what I would
consider a upper echelon team yet. You know, they're three
and oh against teams that frankly they should be three
and oh against. So we'll see where that goes. We'll
find out more about us. But I just don't think
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this week, and you know, after having all of those
issues where we should have really honed in on those
during the week of practice, that we made enough progress
in those areas.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
No, I think that's fair, and I think I'm still
glad that we have this ramp up that we talked
about in August. You're like, look at the schedule, it's
just it's set up really nicely that we don't have
to be a really really good team until October.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
We hoped and thought that we'd get by Washington State.
That didn't happen. But this is the first game really
that we looked at on the schedule and went.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Ooh, this is fifty to fifty. This is fifty to fifty.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Are we going to be ready by September twenty seventh
to be able to go on the road and play
Rutgers and furthermore, will we be able to play Michigan
at home on October fifth. Now, what we've seen between
Rutgers in Michigan, though, is that we thought Michigan was
up here and Rutgers was down here. Right, Michigan and
Rutgers are. There's probably a spread between the two of them,
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but it's probably not as big as we thought two
months ago.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, I think that we're getting to that part of
the schedule. You know, Mario mentioned it the game there
in the postgame show.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
We still don't know who we are.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, we better be finding out real soon, real quick,
because the competition level just ramps up from here. I
think even though Rutgers in Michigan, like you said, it
may not be a big difference between them.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I think there's some things that play into the this.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
We have a shorter week of preparation now, so now
you cut that down by day. You got to fly
about four hours, so that takes away some prep time
just in that getting there, right, you're playing in a
hostile environment.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
They are blowing this up.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Coach Ciano and the Rutgers fans, they're having a blackout.
They're calling this the biggest you know, opponent that they've
had there in a very long time. It's the new
Big ten. So they're making this a signature game for them.
So they're gonna they'll be you know, I don't know
how loud it gets there, but whatever is the best
they can.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Do from crowds.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
But as far as the environment, this will be you
know ours, and this is our first road trip. This
is our first time going on the road with this
group of players and coaches and figuring out that routine.
So there are some things there that you know would
say this is going to be a tougher game than
we've had so far this year. So the question is
is how do we prepare, how do we get ready?
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And then when we come out and play on Saturday,
do we overcome those things that have been obstacles the
last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
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Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't know what that ESPN.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
They're at all these crazy fees with.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The freaking program here, but I'm looking at a there
are a couple of areas where Rutgers has a clear advantage,
and there might be an area where the Huskies have
a clear advantage for Washington. I think the clear advantage
is a quarterback. Will Rodgers has thrown almost two thousand
passes in his college career. Kaylee Acmanus, who is the
transfer from Minnesota, has thrown four hundred and seventy seven
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in his career. All right, Will Rodgers almost four or
five times more than this guy. Absolutely the advantage for Rutgers, though, Guys,
and this is what concerns me. Can we all agree
the Husky offensive line is still a work in progress?
Can we agree the defensive line is still a work
in progress? Okay, Rutgers has upperclassmen all over the place. Yeah,
on their offensive and defensive line.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Can they play?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They were good a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Senior junior, junior, redshirt, sophomore, redshirt junior, senior, senior, senior transfer, junior.
That's what Rutgers offensive and defensive lines look like. And
I mean if they can't play, then Greg Ciano's an
idiot because he's playing you know, guys that are twenty
four years old that are terrible. They should have a
big advantage on the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Well, I think we could. We could speculate that they
have an advantage on the line of scrimmage. You know,
it'll come down to game day and see how things
start to go. I think our coaches they'll understand what
the shortcomings of our offensive line in particular is. You know,
you and Mario and I were talking pregame before last week.
You know what type of team when I said play action,
play action, play action, and boy are we a play action.
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But you know why play action helps your offensive line
in the passing game. It slows down blitz is, it
slows down linebackers making your ease. It gives you an
ability to steal a down the field pass game, even
if your offensive line is not super strong. So they
understand where their shortcomings are. They're getting better. You know,
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I saw less pressure on our quarterback this week. Now
you might say, well, Greg, you know the talent that
the other team had was less than the week before.
I don't know if that's necessarily true or not, but
I do know that we look better in pass pro.
There was a couple of times where fake handoff rolled
out and there was a guy somebody missing assignment and
we took a sack early, but from then on I
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think most of the rest of the game will had
a pretty clean pocket. We talk about why don't we run, run, run,
I've heard so many people why don't we give you know,
our running back the ball twenty twenty five times a game. Well,
I don't know that we're blowing guys off the line
yet to where it warnants us to be able to
do that. So I think we could. We could speculate
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that they have a better front guys and maybe their
defensive line against our offense line might be an advantage
for them, But we won't truly know till we get there,
and there's some things game plan wise you can do
to offset some of that.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Because of that struggle with the offensive line, which I
think is probably about what we thought it was going
to be. I don't think it's been a disaster, But
at the same point, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It's been good knocking guys off the line either.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah, but what's been impressive to me this team's this
team's twelfth in scoring defense in America.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Now every so, oh, you.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Haven't payed anybody. Well, guess what, Almost none of the
power for teams have played em. So it's apples versus apples.
And you look at what this defense did last year.
They allowed seventeen points a game in the first four
games of the season, and they played Tulsa, they played
a terrible Michigan State team, they played cal and they
played Boise. I mean, is that any better than what
they played so far? I mean it's probably about the same,
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if slightly better. You've got You've held your opponents to
almost a touchdown less per game this year in the
first month than you did last year in the first month.
Husky fans could make an argument that this defense is
better than the one we saw last year.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
It's better than the defense we saw last year. I
believe in two parts. The linebacker.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We're seeing the Husky defense, right, I think.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I think I think the linebackers and the dbs are
better because one, you got all your linebackers back for
the most part, to me, the two most impact for
back and there are a year more experience, right and
Jack is not starting he started, yeah, and he's not
playing bad, but the guys in front of him are
playing better.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
So the secondary, I believe is better. I think your defensive.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Line and your pass rush has been something that we
need to see. But if you go back to last year, Soft,
you remember the beginning of the year Brayln tricesfre Yeah,
so they're still room to grow. So I can agree
with Dick that this defense right now, at this point
in the season is better than last year's defense at
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this point in the season, and hopefully they grow. And
I think they have the potential defensively at the linebacker
and the secondary the position to be better.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Now we know defense works together.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I can't cover guys all day if I don't get
any pass rush, So yes, those guys are gonna have
to step up. Those guys are going to have to
do a job putting pressure to the quarterback in order
for our secondary and the rest of our defense to
continue holding people out of the end zone.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I just I think that this defense has a lot
to prove. Sure, And if you want to say that
you like where they are compared to where that defense
was this time a year ago, I can dance with
you on.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That, thank you, But that like dances.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, that twenty twenty three defense played the Oregon Ducks
twice and took care of them.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean thirty one, right, But.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
They also shut down Bucky Irving in the biggest game
of the year, I mean about eight.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Games in yeah, seven eight games, you know, I mean
we had growing up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
See, we're going to see what this team is all about,
because a lot of guys that you're relying on to
be those players that we had a year ago are
transfers or FCS players, right, So I think they have
a long way to go to be what that defense
was a year ago. But I do think there are
some areas of the defense that I will buy could
be potentially better than last year. I love where the
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secondary is at, there's no question about that. I do think, Dick,
what you said about the stats, I think it's way
too early to be diving into anything that we see
at NCAA dot com. Because Northwestern came in here and
we thought it was going to be really, really tough
against those guys that you know on the ground last week,
and there were times where it wasn't, you know, Will
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Rogers putting the ball in the year moving the ball
against Northwestern. So I think once you get into like
early October, maybe mid October, then maybe the numbers start
to make a little bit more sense.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, you said you can make an argument. I
can also make an argument the Huskies are about to
go six and six if they lose this game. I mean,
this is a fork in the road type game, right,
I mean, how many games will they really be favored
in the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
As a matter of fact, ESPN has them.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Favored outside of UCLA in one more game the rest
of the year. You know what that game is. It's
next Saturday against Michigan at home. Every other game they're
a dog. ESPN's got these guys going five and seven.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah, I don't disagree that there's some real pivotal games
where this is going to depend on whether or not
we break six wins and become Bowl eligible.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This was a rebuilding year coming in.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
We all knew that, and I think had we won
the Washington State game right now, everybody would be playing
the over. If it six, is that number, right, everybody
be playing the over. Well, there's a pivotal game, like
you said, with Michigan that probably flipped our way. So
there's still that I for one, you know, I'm a
Husky hank Okay, That's why they call this show the
hak We always look for positive things to talk about.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But I'm also a realist.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Coming into this year, I would have said seven is
a really good season for these guys. I would have
said that's a really good season for this coaching staff
to get us the seven wins, right, So that to
me still is about the number that would be a
really great season for this Hussy football team. But you
guys know, in football, there are always games that the
team who's not supposed to win wins. You know, there
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are always those games that happened. So we might lose
one that we should have won. Maybe Washington State. Maybe
we took care of that. Maybe there's a game or
two down the line that we can pick up that
we weren't scheduled to win. I like our chance against
UCLA Michigan's probably a toss up. But this game, in
the Indiana game or two games where again, to me,
fifty to fifty games and then you play it. You
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got to play the game. And I think this team
has shown me some things that I like. Our quarterback
has thrown more passes than any active quarterback in college
football right now.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He's completed more passes than any.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Active quarterback in college football right now, second most touchdowns.
I'm sorry, And he has not thrown an interception this year.
And our wide receiving corps has shown that they got
some playmakers, and we know we have a good running back.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So what all those things said?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
We got a chance, a fighting chance to win seven
football games. And who knows, you know, maybe we'll get lucky,
somebody's star quarterbacks out for a week or something like that.
So I'm still, you know, looking for this to be
a winning team. But you know what's the question goes
to me now, is you get to a bowl game?
Maybe you win a bowl game? Is that a successful
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season for the Huskies and our fans gonna be excited
about that and ready to come back.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I think success and excitement are two different things right
now for me. Success, Yes, you lose fifty guys, whatever,
you take over this thing, you completely got the damn
thing and rebuild it into a bowl game.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yes, that's a success.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Will it be exciting, No it will not.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
We got to build excited for this progress our jobs
offt Yeah, we're gonna break more with that We're gonna
get excitement, but we're gonna build excitement.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's our gig. Next on ninety three three KJRFM out back.
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Speaker 7 (15:41):
Lay think Will Rogers wants to take a shot looking
down field.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Goes for the home run ball. Has Denzel Boston open
to the en zone? I think you got it?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yeah, two arms up, touchdown Washington Tenzel Boston beat not
one but two.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
While Kat say fake to Muhammed, good pass pro for
Muhammad throws to the Enzel cock touchdown. Denzel Boston again
his second today in his fifth of the season, a
thirteen yard slam pattern at Denzel Boston into the end
zone in the Huskies have a sixteen to nothing lead
here in the first half.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
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at zoomcare dot com. So Carson Bruner obviously left the
game with ten minutes to go in the Apple Cup.
Pay came back and played a week ago, had the interception.
Mcquintin Moore probably not gonna be back for this game,
and Zach dr Fie should be back for the game
on Friday night against Rutgers. And you were talking off
the air, Greg about, hey, knowing what Rutgers likes to
(16:57):
do offensively, we're not expecting the to show on turf, right,
Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt aren't walking through that door
for Rutgers. So what schematic changes would you think about
making to the Hosky defense that Friday.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well, college football has gone to, you know, matching the
offense with your personnel on the defensive side of the
ball by bringing an extra defensive back in your base defense.
When I was playing, it was nickel defense. On third downs,
medium and long, you bring an extra defensive back, take
a linebacker out. That's become the base defense now. But
you're playing a Rutgers team, and I don't want to
butcher the name manun guy. You're running back who ran
(17:32):
all over teams like Ohio State last year and he's
had a two hundred yard game this year, and he's
one of the Doak Walker where candidates and you just
mentioned they have a very experienced offensive line. They're going
to run the football, and they're going to run it
first down, second down, and third and medium is short,
they may even run the football. So personnel wise, what
you do is you take that nickelbacker husky as we
(17:55):
call him, and replace him with a linebacker. Or you
take one of those edges like an Isaiah if he's
you know, the smaller of the guys, and you replace
him with maybe a Vanoyd two feet and put three
offensive three defensive linemen there. So you kind of got
some things to play with. Do you replace one of
your edge guys with more of a defensive end, Do
you replace your nickel guy or your husky position with
(18:16):
more of a linebacker, or do you do both It
really kind of depends. Those are things that you can
do personnel wise and matchup against the game.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Did you say vannoyd two fe void to fee v
if vannoy over to A and void, that's probably why
because some guy, I mean, you're you're talking about maybe
taking Jordan's Shaw off the field and putting somebody else
in there. I mean, look, I I I think that
(18:44):
this this game is going to test their will on
their defensive front for certain, right Like, there's gonna be
a time where we get to see what this Husky
defensive line can handle.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And this might be the first test.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
There's your key to the game is third and ones,
third and two s, third and threes. You can be
able to get off get off the field on third
and short. That's gonna that's gonna be the key to
the game. And it's gonna be You were talking about
these these Blade of the Knife games. I mean, I
think there's about six of them between now and the
end of the year. That everything other than the last
(19:15):
three games of the season. I think your next six
games or five games rather are all Blade of the
Knife games.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Rutgers that should.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Be a three point game. Michigan homes should be about
a three point game. At Iowa, the way they play football,
that's gonna be thirteen to ten in the fourth quarter.
USC just got run over by Michigan. If you can
play with Michigan, you should be able to play with USC.
And then in Indiana is not gonna be a pushover.
We think we get we could get that one. It's
just how many of these blade of knife games are
(19:45):
you gonna make enough plays to win twenty to seventeen?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
And we haven't been used to those type.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Of games, right, We've been used to the thirty eights
twenty eights that could turn into forty five twenty eights
in their blowouts. That's not how Rutgers is gonna play.
That's not how Iowa's going to play. That's not how
many of these big ten game teams are gonna play.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah, I think this really comes down to the development
of your guys up front on both sides of the ball,
and then how do you scheme to make up for
deficiencies where you see them? Are you able to game
plan a little bit with how you align your defensive line,
how you align your linebackers to stop a team like
Rutgers who we know is going to run. And you know,
(20:24):
to your point, the key really is to get them
in third and five and not have them in the
third and one, two three. What do you do on
first and second down? How do you keep their running
backs from getting the seven yards in the four and
a half, in the five yards?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Don't you think we win? I mean, they're consistently in
third and five.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
If we keep them in that sort of territory, then
I think we have the ability to win the game.
One thing that they have shown a good opportunity and
regardless of the opponent, they have been good in the
red zone. The Husky defense, they've been good down on
the one, two, five, ten yard line. And so hopefully
we have we make Rutgers have to drive, drive, drive,
they don't get any big plays and we become stout
(21:04):
down there. That has a lot to say about how
much the other team scores. And I think again we've
shown we have the more experienced quarterback. We have some
really good skill players. I think we'll see Jonah Coleman,
you know, have to at some point, yes, you know,
break a tackle and go for forty and fifty yards,
and he has the ability to do that, and we
know we got Denzel Boston, we know we got Giles Jackson.
(21:25):
We know we have the receivers that can make plays
and the quarterback who can pull the trigger.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
So do you put them, sorry, do you put them
in space? Then when you're on offense, do you say,
we've got better athletes than your defense has.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
We're widening the field.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I mean, that's a theory. I haven't looked enough, to
be honest with you. I'm just I've looked at Rutgers' offense,
but I haven't looked at their defense enough yet to
understand how they're going to play us. But the theory
is you want to get your playmakers the ball in
their hands in space and see if they can win
and make a guy miss and get up the field.
We do have people who can do that, So yes,
that is something that you know can be employed. I
(22:00):
still need to look at their defense a little bit
just to kind of figure out. But again, we're a
play action team. We're gonna run the football, We're gonna
have the threat of run. We're gonna use play action
to slow down the pass list. I like to see
us screen a little more and draw a little more
with our running backs, because I think that also impacts
the other team's ability to get after your quarterback and
(22:21):
makes them pause, hesitate a little bit, and gives you
an opportunity to be successful. And you know, I'm a
Keith Gilberson guy. I'm telling you we use the screen
and the draw extremely well and it's very effective. Well,
I think their skilled players are better than what Rutgers got.
I mean, Rutgers leading receiver as thirteen catches. Yep, We've
got two guys that have combined for fifty one already,
and Giles Jackson and Denzel Boston. Jonah Coleman's got twelve
(22:42):
out of the backfield by himself. And look, I know
what last segment we just talked about not getting too
caught up in numbers yet, but Rutgers is eighty ninth
in the country and rushing defense and they're giving up
five and a half yards per game. I think you
absolutely start by giving the ball to Jonah Coleman, sure
one thousand percent, and let's get a twenty plus carry
day for him. If we can get the lead and
just run the clock out the entire game. But if
(23:03):
you have to get into a situation where you want
to shock him a little bit with some West Coast
speed and some West Coast agility.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I don't think they're going to see a lot of
teams in the Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That have receivers and backs like Washington does, because that's
just not how the Big Ten operates well.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And I like spreading them out.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Put four wide receivers on the field, spread it out
and then give it to number one, and then he
give it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
He's got space to operate. You can get it to
him a lot of ways. I can tell you this though.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
What I love about him is his ability to cut back,
and that really comes out of downhill running. Okay, you
don't get cutbacks when you're you know, running the read
option and all that kind of stuff. When guys are
running downhill and you're kicking your your zone blocking to
the strong side of the play and everybody on the
defense is flowing that way, then a big, strong running
(23:52):
back like Jonah, coming downhill with good vision can see
those cutback lanes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
When he cuts back, that guy who's.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Strong side is not going to be able to reach
back an arm tackle Hilda Coleman. He's going to break
that and go for the big win. So I want
to see some more that downhill run.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yes, And I don't know what people's expectations are kind
of hopes are for this team. I mean, my hope
is that best case scenario, they can be maybe an
eight win team in the regular season, get the nine
wins in the bowl game somehow. That would be like
top of the mountain. Look at what Jed Fish just did.
But you talk about kind of the fifty to fifty
FOURK on the road type game. You lose to Rutgers,
you're three and two, then you gotta win three between Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, USC,
(24:31):
Penn State, UCLA, Oregon. Can we just say, Okay, if
we're desperate, times called for desperate measures in that scenario,
let's call Indiana and UCLA victories. Which you can't do
that because Indiana is not a pushover. Then you got
to knock off either Michigan, Iowa, USC, Penn State or Oregon.
Michigan win Michigan and US. How about we do this?
How about just win Friday? Yeah, you win Friday, and
(24:53):
you've relieved so much pressure. Let's get a break more
with the Husky Hawks next on ninety three three kJ
A RFM to.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
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Speaker 7 (25:12):
It's the pressure Lust steps up, He's gonna throw down.
Feel picked off by Carson Bruner at the twenty four
runs up the right side thirty block at the forty
brunner toward midfield and the Huskies come away with their
second interception of the season and off Jonah Coleman's space
in the middle, lowers the boom, drags the man across
the line two arms up, touchdown Washington, Jonah Coleman's fourth
(25:35):
of the season as he punches it in form eighty
yards out and the Husky is taking eighteen point lead.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
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(26:03):
a three and oh sorry, after a win over Virginia
Tech in Blacksburg. Next last Saturday, last time we were
there was twenty seventeen. Byron Murphy was making his Husky
debut and had two picks as a freshman that night
for you dubs. So I'll take two picks today out
of Elijah Jackson or Cam fab or mickel Estein.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Or somebody of that ilk Fattius Dixon.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So Dogs and Rutgers on Friday, I want to talk
about what we expect to see the Dogs do well
in this game.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Do we think this is a game where they run.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The ball well, they throw the ball well, they stop
the run, they stopped the pass. What do we think
the Huskies on paper should be better at than Rutgers
that we can see them bring to the table on
Friday night.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Well, I know I'm the running back and I'm supposed
to say run the ball, and run it again, and
run it again. And everybody's been begging for Johnah Coleman
to get twenty yards of twenty carries in the game.
Our quarterback is completing seventy six said of his passes,
seventy six percent. I expect us knock on wood.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I expect us.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I expect us to throw the ball well. I expect
us to complete some passes down the field. I expect
us to keep them off balance with some run game.
I expect them to continue to use the play action
pass well. But I think our quarterback is a clear
advantage for us, and I think we have playmakers on
the outside. Seventy six percent no interceptions, right, that's pretty huge.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He's third in the country, by the way, in completion percentage.
This guy is behind Dylan Gabriel and Jackson Dart who
before the year began, we're both Heisman came to this
well and you take a look at.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
The other side of the ball. I mean, being able
to stop their running game. And you know, Virginia Tech
had a two running backs go for twenty four carries,
one hundred and eighty two yards and three touchdowns. I mean,
Virginia Tech was as one dimensional as you can possibly be.
Their quarterback was awful, thirteen of twenty seven a buck
thirty seven to one interception. That was a stat line.
(27:57):
So Rutgers knew that they had to stop the run,
and they couldn't stop the run and they barely won
the game because of it. So I think we're going
to be able to run the football on them.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Well Will Rogers.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
By the way, I know a lot of people get
caught up in completion percentage, like what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Does that mean check down, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
No, he's thirteenth and passing efficiency in the nation, this
guy is.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
So he's up there. And yards per attempt as well.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
For some stupid reason, on the NCAA's website, they don't
track yards per attempt. They tracked yards per completion, which
I've never understood why they do that, but they do.
But the point is is that you should almost every
game you play, you should have an advantage at quarterback
because of this guy's experience every single week.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Absolutely, he's he's to me our X factor. He's the
one who gives us the ability to go. He's not
going to be like this. He's played in SEC stadiums,
you think, regardless of whatever happens at rectors, he's going
to be and there's nothing he'll see there and nothing
that will happen in experience and that'll shake him.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
He's solid.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
He's extremely you know, well versed in everything that he
can see in a football game, so I expect that.
And then again, it's not just the shorts and the
intermediate and crossing routes like we thought it was going
to be. He's throwing the ball down the field really well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, the slant connection to Denzel Boston looks like that
might be pretty good, by the way, for a couple
of years, at least for this year, because he's gone.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Bill Rodgers is after this year.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
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Give somebody fifty bucks to Zeke's Pizza. All right, Greg,
good stuff. We'll see a Friday at Moss Bay Hall
in Kirkland on Central Way at one o'clock kickoff at five.
(29:38):
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