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- 0:09Speaker 1: All right, time to talk some college football with our
- 0:12Speaker 1: college football insider. Back for another season, thanks to him
- 0:16Speaker 1: and to Taco Time. Rick Neuheisel is with us from
- 0:19Speaker 1: CBS Sports and, of course, former UW head coach. And
- 0:23Speaker 1: he joins us here every Tuesday at 9 o'clock.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Hi, Coach. How the heck are you guys today?
- 0:29Speaker 1: We're doing all right. And you're doing fine, I trust.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Yeah, no bad news here. College football is delivering as
- 0:37Speaker 2: it always does. The Texas-Ohio State game was epic. Great stuff.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Great stuff to talk about. Would you have let Texas
- 0:48Speaker 2: score with 50 seconds left?
- 0:51Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think I'm going to try
- 0:53Speaker 1: to stand tall on the one-yard line and trust that
- 0:57Speaker 1: I have one of the best defenses in the country. But, yeah,
- 1:02Speaker 1: I get that there's an argument to be made. What
- 1:04Speaker 1: would you have done?
- 1:06Speaker 2: Had you watched the fourth quarter?
- 1:07Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Did you notice that they were pushing you around a
- 1:12Speaker 2: little bit?
- 1:13Speaker 1: A little bit, sure, sure. So I take it you're
- 1:16Speaker 1: going to let him score. So.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I had said to my cohorts there on the CBS
- 1:22Speaker 2: desk when it was, I said, if they get inside
- 1:27Speaker 2: this five-yard line, you got to let them score because
- 1:31Speaker 2: you got to have time to come down and kick
- 1:33Speaker 2: a field goal. And when they got to the one
- 1:36Speaker 2: with 50 seconds left, I could not believe that they
- 1:40Speaker 2: chose to stop them. Now, it could have turned out
- 1:43Speaker 2: to be genius because it caused the fumble. But then
- 1:47Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Sark screwed up by not letting
- 1:49Speaker 2: the clock just roll down even further when they actually
- 1:55Speaker 2: put the ball back in play. But that's how hard
- 1:59Speaker 2: it is to make those decisions in real time. You
- 2:02Speaker 2: have to almost rehearse those decisions. And it's much different
- 2:07Speaker 2: standing on the sideline than it is at the desk
- 2:09Speaker 2: at CBS.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. And What did turn it around in
- 2:13Speaker 1: your estimation? Because it looked like Ohio State was just
- 2:16Speaker 1: dominating that football game. So what changed so dramatically for
- 2:20Speaker 1: the Longhorns?
- 2:22Speaker 2: Well, they just started making the plays that they could make, right?
- 2:27Speaker 2: I thought Art Fanning played well. I think there's more
- 2:29Speaker 2: in the tank, but he showed the value of being
- 2:33Speaker 2: able to go off script. He'd break contain and get
- 2:37Speaker 2: outside on that fourth and nine on the 15-play drive
- 2:40Speaker 2: that got him within 14 or 13. He makes the
- 2:45Speaker 2: play to kind of a backup tight end that basically
- 2:49Speaker 2: wasn't the play call, but it ends up being the
- 2:52Speaker 2: play because he's that athletic. Julian Sand made very few
- 2:57Speaker 2: plays like that in the deal. And I just wonder,
- 3:00Speaker 2: as you look at Ohio State, you know, in games
- 3:04Speaker 2: against Indiana– who was obviously a really good team, went
- 3:08Speaker 2: 16-0 and won the national championship last year, in a
- 3:12Speaker 2: game against Miami who played them, they scored 10 and
- 3:16Speaker 2: 14 points in those two games. In this game, they
- 3:19Speaker 2: scored 23 points, two touchdowns, one because of a turnover
- 3:23Speaker 2: that gave them a short field, and then the other
- 3:26Speaker 2: one right before the half, and the other three were
- 3:29Speaker 2: field goals. So they scored 47 points in the last
- 3:33Speaker 2: three games against really good teams. And I just wonder,
- 3:38Speaker 2: number one, are they being aggressive enough as play callers,
- 3:44Speaker 2: understanding that they got a good defense and that can,
- 3:47Speaker 2: you know, win with defense. But in those three games,
- 3:50Speaker 2: they did not. And then number two, did maybe they
- 3:54Speaker 2: make a mistake in letting Lincoln Keenholz walk out the
- 3:58Speaker 2: door and because he's more of a dual threat guy
- 4:01Speaker 2: at Louisville and has looked pretty good in the early going.
- 4:05Speaker 2: We'll find out more this week. But at day's end,
- 4:09Speaker 2: do they have more when a quarterback can make those
- 4:12Speaker 2: off-schedule plays?
- 4:14Speaker 3: Interesting.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Rick Neuheisel is with us. Texas wins over Ohio State,
- 4:18Speaker 1: come from behind fashion, and then they take over the
- 4:22Speaker 1: number one ranking in America. Let's talk about Oregon. Oregon.
- 4:26Speaker 1: let's laugh about Oregon together as friends. Um, let's, uh,
- 4:31Speaker 1: let's talk about their demise. Um, as they put it in, uh, uh, jaws, uh, what,
- 4:38Speaker 1: what happened to the ducks? What's wrong with the ducks?
- 4:40Speaker 1: Will the ducks respond from this?
- 4:43Speaker 2: Well, those are all great questions. Uh, clearly they're not
- 4:49Speaker 2: playing like the Dan Lanning teams we've seen in previous years. Uh,
- 4:55Speaker 2: you immediately kind of can jump to a conclusion of entitlement.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Maybe these guys are in their world as acting professionals
- 5:05Speaker 2: and driving nice cars and all that kind of stuff.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Maybe they're not as in love with football as teams
- 5:13Speaker 2: in the past. You've got to question the leadership. Dan
- 5:16Speaker 2: Lanning questioned the leadership, starting with himself, which is always
- 5:20Speaker 2: the appropriate thing to do because the buck stops there.
- 5:25Speaker 2: but I just wonder how much they love football because
- 5:31Speaker 2: that was not an accident watching Boise State have a
- 5:34Speaker 2: chance to beat them at home and then go on
- 5:37Speaker 2: the road. I know it was hot in Stillwater and humid,
- 5:42Speaker 2: and Dante Moore had to have two IVs after the game,
- 5:46Speaker 2: but the bottom line is you beat that team 69-3
- 5:51Speaker 2: the year before. And I know that's not the same
- 5:55Speaker 2: team because Eric Morris brought the guys from North Texas,
- 5:58Speaker 2: but that's a group of six programs. How in the
- 6:01Speaker 2: heck are you getting pushed around by that and kind
- 6:05Speaker 2: of taking it without anybody on the sideline looking demonstrative
- 6:10Speaker 2: or angry or talking to guys? And at the day's end,
- 6:14Speaker 2: that's got to be a lot of introspection there. Now,
- 6:19Speaker 2: they do have two new coordinators that are maybe– learning
- 6:24Speaker 2: on the job. And I think that's going to be
- 6:29Speaker 2: an interesting subplot as we watch Oregon progress. Two weeks
- 6:33Speaker 2: from now, they've got to be ready to go to
- 6:35Speaker 2: USC and beat the Trojans. And right now, you would
- 6:39Speaker 2: lean a lot towards USC.
- 6:41Speaker 1: I think that rock bottom can still be hit. Let's
- 6:44Speaker 1: have Portland State beat them by 12 this weekend.
- 6:49Speaker 2: You're pulling for the Vikings.
- 6:51Speaker 1: The fighting Neil Lomaxes.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Yeah. There you go.
- 6:58Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about our team here in Seattle.
- 7:01Speaker 1: UW's not exactly lighting the world on fire. You know
- 7:04Speaker 1: Jed Fish personally. How much is it bothering him that
- 7:07Speaker 1: his offense looks so bad to start this season?
- 7:13Speaker 2: I'm sure it's confounding him. You know, The running game
- 7:19Speaker 2: fuels everything. Everything's easier when a team can't stop your
- 7:24Speaker 2: running game because they have to add resources from their
- 7:29Speaker 2: back end to get that fixed. And in so doing,
- 7:33Speaker 2: that creates all sorts of air in the back end
- 7:35Speaker 2: and it makes it fun as a play caller. I
- 7:38Speaker 2: never will forget the world that was open to me
- 7:43Speaker 2: when Marcus Tuiasosopo all of a sudden introduced the beer.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Because we asked him. Because we realized having lost to
- 7:50Speaker 2: BYU and the Air Force, we were stuck. And we
- 7:55Speaker 2: put the beer in, and the world changed. We won
- 7:58Speaker 2: 20 of our next 24. I think Devon and the
- 8:03Speaker 2: quarterback run game has to be more featured to help
- 8:06Speaker 2: the rest of the run game rather than vice versa.
- 8:09Speaker 1: I agree.
- 8:09Speaker 2: And until they do that, I think they're going to struggle.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Yeah, but Marcus was built like a brick house. Can
- 8:17Speaker 1: you do it with someone as small as DeMond? Can
- 8:19Speaker 1: you put that on him?
- 8:21Speaker 2: You can. You just have to be– Marcus, we could
- 8:25Speaker 2: run inside. So on a veer, you're handing the ball
- 8:29Speaker 2: off to the fullback and Conniff takes it in there,
- 8:32Speaker 2: and if they squeeze, Marcus keeps it, and now you're
- 8:35Speaker 2: pitching off a player. With DeMond, you're going to want
- 8:38Speaker 2: to make sure that he's the– outside guy rather than
- 8:44Speaker 2: almost the pitch guy so the inside uh is the
- 8:48Speaker 2: is the bigger player and so that you keep them
- 8:51Speaker 2: on from having too many big hits but quarterback runs
- 8:54Speaker 2: got to be featured in this if if they're going
- 8:56Speaker 2: to get this fixed because right now uh their running
- 8:59Speaker 2: game isn't good enough to get them to the college
- 9:01Speaker 2: football playoff yeah.
- 9:02Speaker 1: No no doubt i mean it's Hey, you got to
- 9:04Speaker 1: show a lot of improvement to be thinking about that.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Rick Neuheisel is with us. Our college football insider joins
- 9:09Speaker 1: us every Tuesday to talk some college football. Thanks to delicious,
- 9:12Speaker 1: delicious taco time. All right. Speaking of delicious, I mean,
- 9:16Speaker 1: this is, this to me, this is better than Texas,
- 9:20Speaker 1: Ohio State, frankly. Ole Miss, LSU.
- 9:23Speaker 2: You want to get a little late? You want to
- 9:25Speaker 2: make a lane change here, is that what you're telling me?
- 9:29Speaker 1: And I agree. He's very funny in his ads. He's
- 9:32Speaker 1: been very great in them. Maybe the league didn't, maybe
- 9:36Speaker 1: college football didn't need a heel. Maybe he's fulfilling a
- 9:39Speaker 1: role right now, but I want him to lose by
- 9:42Speaker 1: 50 to Ole Miss on Saturday. Anything, any chance that
- 9:45Speaker 1: could happen?
- 9:47Speaker 2: Well, you and me both, because he beat me by
- 9:50Speaker 2: 50 one day. So I'd love to see that kind
- 9:55Speaker 2: of revenge. But, I actually think Ole Miss has a
- 10:01Speaker 2: really good chance to win the game just because I
- 10:03Speaker 2: think the quarterback matchup favors hottie-tottie. Trinidad Chambliss is a
- 10:09Speaker 2: hell of a player. I know he started his career
- 10:12Speaker 2: at Ferris State and D2. So everybody kind of watered
- 10:16Speaker 2: down what his real, you know, upside is. And yet
- 10:20Speaker 2: watching him play in the playoff game against Miami last year,
- 10:24Speaker 2: he was fantastic. And I think that he'll be up
- 10:28Speaker 2: for the game. Now, LSU's got a bunch of dudes
- 10:32Speaker 2: on defense. There's no question about that. But Sam Leavitt,
- 10:36Speaker 2: Just know this. When he was at Arizona State last year,
- 10:39Speaker 2: they went and played at Mississippi State. He threw for
- 10:42Speaker 2: 80 yards. And he had a D1, I mean, a
- 10:47Speaker 2: first-round wide receiver on that team. And he had a
- 10:50Speaker 2: couple of picks. He threw three picks last week against
- 10:53Speaker 2: La Tech. I think it's going to be a great game,
- 10:57Speaker 2: but I'm going to take Hotty Toddy.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be great. Oh, my gosh. Can you even imagine?
- 11:04Speaker 1: Can you imagine the joy? Love that. That would happen. Yeah,
- 11:10Speaker 1: let's go, Rebels. All right, some other good stuff on
- 11:14Speaker 1: the schedule as well, including a Friday matchup, Houston and
- 11:18Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Texas Tech stubbed its toe a little bit.
- 11:22Speaker 1: I mean, they haven't exactly lit the world on fire.
- 11:24Speaker 1: That freshman from Oregon State almost beat them by himself, Legree,
- 11:29Speaker 1: over the weekend. My goodness, how amazing is that guy?
- 11:34Speaker 2: He's got 370 yards receiving already on 13 catches in
- 11:39Speaker 2: two games. The only sad thing is he won't be
- 11:43Speaker 2: on Oregon State's team next year.
- 11:44Speaker 1: No, he will not.
- 11:46Speaker 2: He will be somewhere else. And he will be being
- 11:50Speaker 2: paid lavishly.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Which is great for him, but bad for the Beavers. Look,
- 11:59Speaker 2: I think as you look at this Big 12 matchup,
- 12:01Speaker 2: first of all, recall that.
- 12:05Speaker 2: The billionaire, Cody Campbell, that kind of runs things at
- 12:09Speaker 2: Texas Tech, he got all sideways with Brett Yormark about
- 12:14Speaker 2: this game because he didn't want it on a Friday.
- 12:17Speaker 2: And Yormark said, I'm sorry, that's what we're doing. And
- 12:20Speaker 2: because his kid plays on Friday. So he was like,
- 12:24Speaker 2: you can't do this to, you know, the great college
- 12:26Speaker 2: football traditions of Saturday and so forth. So anyway, there's
- 12:29Speaker 2: a little bit of a subplot there. But both teams
- 12:32Speaker 2: have played Oregon State. So if we had Mike McIntyre,
- 12:36Speaker 2: the former Colorado head coach, on as the defensive coordinator,
- 12:40Speaker 2: I think he'd tell you that Houston's tougher to play. Houston,
- 12:44Speaker 2: with Connor Wegman, the former Texas A & M quarterback,
- 12:49Speaker 2: is kind of doing for Houston what Haynes King did
- 12:52Speaker 2: for Georgia Tech. And I think that Houston has more
- 12:59Speaker 2: weaponry offensively. And right now, you know, Will Hammond is
- 13:05Speaker 2: still kind of an injured version of himself. I'm going
- 13:08Speaker 2: to take Houston in this game on the road and
- 13:11Speaker 2: love it.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they've looked sensational so far this year,
- 13:15Speaker 1: and Texas Tech simply has not. So, yeah, it feels
- 13:19Speaker 1: like Houston's the hot team right now. All right, let's
- 13:23Speaker 1: go to Louisville, which you mentioned earlier, with Keinholz taking
- 13:27Speaker 1: on SMU. I mean, one of these two teams needs
- 13:31Speaker 1: to be good for this conference this year, don't you think?
- 13:34Speaker 2: So SMU has beat Louisville each of the last two
- 13:37Speaker 2: years since joining the ACC. And they've done it with
- 13:40Speaker 2: Kevin Jennings, who's a special, special player. You talk about
- 13:45Speaker 2: a quarterback run threat. Kevin Jennings is it. But they're
- 13:48Speaker 2: leaning way more towards the throw. I think they've got
- 13:53Speaker 2: 880 yards passing and just a little over 200 yards rushing.
- 13:57Speaker 2: To me... Kienholz, now that he's at Louisville, gives Jeff
- 14:03Speaker 2: Brom an extra deal. Last year, Miller Moss was negative
- 14:08Speaker 2: yardage from the quarterback position and rushing. The year before,
- 14:12Speaker 2: Tyler Schuch is now the starter for the Saints, was
- 14:16Speaker 2: 19 yards rushing on the season. Kienholz already has 111
- 14:19Speaker 2: on like 15 carries. So he's a weapon. And I
- 14:25Speaker 2: think that extra dimension, especially with the game being Louisville,
- 14:29Speaker 2: I'm going to go Cardinals on this one.
- 14:31Speaker 1: All right. Last game I want to ask you about,
- 14:33Speaker 1: and then we'll get the taco time pick of the week.
- 14:36Speaker 1: You know, the big crescendo, the big dismount landing.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. We took Ohio State last week, didn't we?
- 14:43Speaker 1: Yes, you did. Yes.
- 14:45Speaker 2: And by the way, given the point and a half
- 14:47Speaker 2: that I got, we did well for your team. There
- 14:49Speaker 2: you go.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Oh, they did cover.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Yeah. You did slip that in there. Nice. Nice work.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Just so everybody understands.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Nailed it.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Just so everybody understands.
- 15:03Speaker 1: But no, I wanted to ask you about Clemson, North Carolina,
- 15:06Speaker 1: the hot seat bowl. Either of these legendary figures going
- 15:10Speaker 1: to survive? Are they going to be coaching college football
- 15:13Speaker 1: next season the way things are going?
- 15:15Speaker 2: That's a great question. That is a great question. And
- 15:20Speaker 2: you could easily... defend any of the answers you might provide.
- 15:26Speaker 2: You could defend it, that Dabo has reached the end
- 15:30Speaker 2: of the road. He's stuck in yesterday, and the Beatles
- 15:37Speaker 2: aren't here to sing it with him. So it's going
- 15:40Speaker 2: to be tough sledding. He's going to start a freshman
- 15:43Speaker 2: quarterback this week. Vazina got hurt. So here comes, I
- 15:50Speaker 2: think it's Tate Reynolds. And I, I, I'm going to
- 15:55Speaker 2: tell you, I think this game's 13 to 10, 13
- 15:59Speaker 2: to 10. I don't think either offense is going to
- 16:02Speaker 2: make the other one scared. And because of it, it's
- 16:06Speaker 2: going to be a rock them sock them game. And
- 16:08Speaker 2: in that kind of game, I don't have any problem
- 16:12Speaker 2: saying Belichick could get that done. I'm going to pick Clemson,
- 16:16Speaker 2: but I'm going to be nervous about North Carolina.
- 16:20Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get to it. I want you
- 16:21Speaker 1: to thread the needle again. I'm not just going to
- 16:24Speaker 1: ask you for a pick. I want you to, like,
- 16:27Speaker 1: get me a point spread where it lands right in
- 16:30Speaker 1: the middle once again for the victory. If you can
- 16:33Speaker 1: do that again, you know, Robin Hood, then I will
- 16:39Speaker 1: call you the archer of the decade. But give me
- 16:41Speaker 1: your taco time pick of the week, sir. All right.
- 16:46Speaker 2: Let's see if we can do this again.
- 16:49Speaker 1: He's going to try.
- 16:50Speaker 2: As I look at the board, I told you I
- 16:53Speaker 2: was kind of interested in that game with Louisville at home.
- 16:58Speaker 2: I think Louisville is a one-and-a-half point favorite in that game.
- 17:03Speaker 2: And I think that's probably a pretty good one to
- 17:06Speaker 2: stay right there. We're going to take Louisville. We're going
- 17:11Speaker 2: to lay the point-and-a-half, and we're going to say they
- 17:13Speaker 2: can get it done against the Mustangs of SMU.
- 17:17Speaker 1: Okay. Louisville it is then. In my last 30 seconds,
- 17:21Speaker 1: I have time to ask this, and I just want
- 17:22Speaker 1: to ask it now before we get deeper into the season.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Am I crazy for thinking Jaden Mayava might be the
- 17:28Speaker 1: best quarterback in the country?
- 17:31Speaker 2: You're not crazy for thinking it at all. And they've
- 17:33Speaker 2: got a couple of freshman receivers there that are on fire.
- 17:38Speaker 2: One of them, ironically, was coached by Carson Palmer. at
- 17:43Speaker 2: Santa Margarita. It is a very, very bona fide offense.
- 17:49Speaker 2: They play at Rutgers this week. Rutgers is on the
- 17:53Speaker 2: struggle bus from hell. It doesn't set up well for
- 17:58Speaker 2: us at CBS, but that's what they thought when Oregon
- 18:01Speaker 2: went to Oklahoma State last week, too. Maybe we'll get
- 18:04Speaker 2: a good game, but Right now, Jaden Maiava is playing
- 18:08Speaker 2: on all cylinders. Oh, man.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Number one pick, maybe? That kind of a talent? I mean, 6'4, 230,
- 18:17Speaker 1: can move, can throw. He looks fantastic to me.
- 18:20Speaker 2: You know, I've never talked to him. I got a
- 18:25Speaker 2: chance to interview him at the... at the media days,
- 18:30Speaker 2: and he seems like a really, really cool kid. He
- 18:32Speaker 2: grew up in a place, I think, 18 folks in
- 18:37Speaker 2: a three-bedroom apartment, and obviously trying to funnel a lot
- 18:43Speaker 2: of his NIL money back to his family. He's a
- 18:45Speaker 2: wonderful kid, happy for him, and he's tough. And you
- 18:50Speaker 2: know what? Lincoln Riley quarterbacks usually fare pretty well. Yeah,
- 18:56Speaker 2: that's true. It wouldn't shock me at all that he
- 18:58Speaker 2: becomes a top, top target for the NFL.
- 19:01Speaker 1: All right. Great stuff, as always. Have a great Saturday.
- 19:05Speaker 1: We'll be watching there on CBS and talk to you soon,
- 19:08Speaker 1: all right?
- 19:10Speaker 2: I look forward to it. All right. See you.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Great. Rick Neuheisel joining us right here on Chuck in
- 19:15Speaker 1: the Mornings, and we'll replay some of that for you
- 19:17Speaker 1: later in the week if you're just now joining us
- 19:19Speaker 1: and you missed it. But you can always catch it
- 19:21Speaker 1: at 93.3 KJR.com, the interview in full. Covered a lot
- 19:26Speaker 1: of ground. Yes, Jade Maiava, keep an eye on him.
- 19:29Speaker 1: And that Legree kid from Oregon State might be the
- 19:31Speaker 1: best receiver in the country and is a true freshman
- 19:34Speaker 1: that went to the Beavers, for goodness sake. All right,
- 19:37Speaker 1: coming up next, we need to talk about Sam Darnold
- 19:40Speaker 1: and his butt on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. You've
- 19:46Speaker 1: earned this promotion to be around someone 55, 55 years
- 19:50Speaker 1: old that can't stop telling butt jokes.
- 19:52Speaker 4: Yeah, the separation's in the separation.
- 19:58Speaker 1: As Hugh Millen puts it, the success is in the details. Yeah.
- 20:03Speaker 4: It's true.
- 20:04Speaker 1: The precision is in the details. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah.
- 20:07Speaker 1: You give a good detailed butt joke. And that's the
- 20:11Speaker 1: difference between your run-of-the-mill sports talk show host and a
- 20:15Speaker 1: guy like me.
- 20:16Speaker 4: A guy like you. You're not afraid to tell like
- 20:21Speaker 4: it is. Hey, Travis is doing it, too. He's playing
- 20:22Speaker 4: Sir Mix-a-Lot, for goodness sake.
- 20:23Speaker 1: I know.
- 20:24Speaker 2: I know.
- 20:24Speaker 4: He's leaning into it.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 20:26Speaker 3: I'm just having a fun time.
- 20:27Speaker 1: He's encouraging me. Yeah, I know. Well, look, when your
- 20:31Speaker 1: quarterback is out for an unknown period of time with
- 20:34Speaker 1: a unique butt injury... See, you're laughing. It's true. That's
- 20:39Speaker 1: just the truth. That is just the absolute truth of things.
- 20:43Speaker 1: It makes you wonder, like, how am I supposed to
- 20:45Speaker 1: talk about this without Anders giggling?
- 20:47Speaker 4: That's true.
- 20:48Speaker 2: But... But....
- 20:52Speaker 1: With one T.
- 20:52Speaker 4: Hot stuff.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Here we go. Here's where we sit.
- 20:58Speaker 2: Barely.
- 20:59Speaker 1: I mean, it hurts to sit here. But....
- 21:04Speaker 4: All right, how many puns are we going to get?
- 21:06Speaker 5: How many?
- 21:07Speaker 2: Fuck!
- 21:08Speaker 1: I didn't ask to be in the ass crack of
- 21:10Speaker 1: the football season. And lose my quarterback two games in.
- 21:16Speaker 1: I didn't ask for that.
- 21:17Speaker 4: I mean, it happened just in the opening of the season.
- 21:23Speaker 1: That's the spirit. Yeah!
- 21:26Speaker 4: Tush, tush. You just touched a little too much.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Look, we thought it was a hip. there's been a
- 21:34Speaker 1: lot of like, um, he's got an injury.
- 21:39Speaker 4: It's undisclosed.
- 21:40Speaker 1: It's good news that it's not a hip.
- 21:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:42Speaker 1: So when they are telling, but when they, but when
- 21:45Speaker 1: they are telling us that it's a unique butt injury,
- 21:51Speaker 1: I don't know how to read that. And that's what
- 21:54Speaker 1: we do. That's our job as fans. We read into things.
- 21:57Speaker 1: What does that mean? What am I supposed to take
- 21:59Speaker 1: from that? It means one of two things. Either it's,
- 22:04Speaker 1: Something a little embarrassing, like it's a whole situation. It's
- 22:12Speaker 1: something maybe that's embarrassing, and they don't feel like we're obligated.
- 22:17Speaker 1: We don't need to know exactly what's going on. Now
- 22:21Speaker 1: we're getting personal. We're up here in his business now.
- 22:24Speaker 1: That'd be getting personal. That kind of stuff can haunt you.
- 22:26Speaker 1: People still think of hemorrhoids when they think of George Brett.
- 22:30Speaker 4: I don't.
- 22:31Speaker 1: Well, you don't because you didn't grow up in that era.
- 22:33Speaker 1: It's true. Anybody my age thinks of hemorrhoids when they
- 22:36Speaker 1: think of George Brett. Wow. So it can follow you around.
- 22:39Speaker 4: What a legacy.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He's also a pretty good player. Yeah, almost
- 22:44Speaker 1: hit 400 one year, you know? But it's either he's
- 22:49Speaker 1: got some injury that they're like, you don't need to
- 22:52Speaker 1: know what he has. Just trust us. It's not a
- 22:56Speaker 1: hip thing. It's a butt thing. Yeah. It's a glute thing, okay?
- 23:01Speaker 1: Stop poking around. Or it's something that they're not sure
- 23:10Speaker 1: how to treat it.
- 23:11Speaker 4: To diagnose it, yeah.
- 23:12Speaker 1: Right, right? It's got to be one or the other.
- 23:15Speaker 1: If it's something else, tell me. But it's either I'm
- 23:18Speaker 1: hoping it's something a little embarrassing and we can tell
- 23:21Speaker 1: jokes about it for the rest of our lives. And
- 23:24Speaker 1: we get Sam back in a couple of weeks and
- 23:26Speaker 1: he's perfectly good. That's my hope. If it's something like,
- 23:31Speaker 1: we've never seen this before, we don't know how to
- 23:33Speaker 1: diagnose it, we don't know how to rehab it, he
- 23:35Speaker 1: could miss some time. To me, that's the worst case scenario,
- 23:39Speaker 1: and I don't know if there's a third option. That's
- 23:42Speaker 1: how I'm reading it. It's either a unique injury, they
- 23:45Speaker 1: don't know how to describe it, or they don't want
- 23:48Speaker 1: to describe it.
- 23:49Speaker 4: Yeah, I always look at what your actions speak louder
- 23:53Speaker 4: than your words, right? And You could tell us all
- 23:56Speaker 4: this stuff, but the fact that he hasn't gone on
- 23:59Speaker 4: IR yet tells me that either A, it's short term.
- 24:03Speaker 4: and he'll be back before the four weeks would be up.
- 24:05Speaker 4: Or B, they don't know.
- 24:08Speaker 1: They don't know how it will heal. Exactly.
- 24:10Speaker 4: So that's kind of the thought process there. I don't
- 24:12Speaker 4: think they know for sure it's going to be a
- 24:14Speaker 4: long-term injury and they're hiding it from us or anything
- 24:16Speaker 4: like that, because we would know. We would know at
- 24:19Speaker 4: this point that if it was going to be longer than,
- 24:23Speaker 4: let's say, six weeks or even four weeks, that he
- 24:26Speaker 4: would be on IR right now. But the fact that
- 24:29Speaker 4: he's not tells me that they at least have some
- 24:31Speaker 4: sort of uh optimism that he could come back before
- 24:35Speaker 4: that time period but but but it there is like
- 24:42Speaker 4: the way they're kind of approaching this is quite strange
- 24:46Speaker 4: i've never really seen something like this where they like
- 24:49Speaker 4: they're not telling us for a reason we're almost a
- 24:51Speaker 4: week right since the game happened yeah i mean yeah
- 24:55Speaker 4: it's in our rear view mirror yeah.
- 24:58Speaker 1: But but Those objects are closer than they appear.
- 25:03Speaker 4: It's true. It's true.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Go ahead. All right. Sorry.
- 25:07Speaker 4: But if you look at the fall, I've seen the
- 25:08Speaker 4: replay a million times. I don't see how a butt
- 25:11Speaker 4: injury could come from that.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Oh, I could see how a butt injury.
- 25:13Speaker 2: Really? Yeah.
- 25:14Speaker 1: The awkwardness, you're being driven in, the knee hits, it
- 25:19Speaker 1: shoots the hip socket up. Yeah. And that's why you
- 25:23Speaker 1: think it's a hip.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 25:24Speaker 1: But then if the other leg was trapped in an
- 25:27Speaker 1: odd direction. Yeah. I mean, he could have done like
- 25:30Speaker 1: a really unexaggerated splits.
- 25:33Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. In the vertical direction instead of the
- 25:37Speaker 4: horizontal direction.
- 25:37Speaker 1: That's just it. You don't know how bodies get twisted
- 25:40Speaker 1: or contorted or how an injury can occur. It does
- 25:46Speaker 1: seem to me like it's an odd thing. Otherwise, they
- 25:48Speaker 1: would have a description for us. I mean, they've been
- 25:50Speaker 1: at this for a long time, describing football injuries and
- 25:54Speaker 1: updating us as to what those football injuries are. And
- 25:58Speaker 1: a unique butt injury is going to grab some headlines.
- 26:02Speaker 1: A unique glute injury. They didn't say butt. It's a
- 26:05Speaker 1: unique glute injury. So again, like I said, I'm just
- 26:10Speaker 1: falling back on either their description It's something that's a
- 26:14Speaker 1: little too personal, and they don't think we need to
- 26:18Speaker 1: know what's wrong. Or it's something that they've never really diagnosed,
- 26:24Speaker 1: and they don't know how long it's going to take
- 26:25Speaker 1: to recover from that.
- 26:26Speaker 4: Did you see who was the one who caused the injury,
- 26:30Speaker 4: by the way?
- 26:31Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Draymond Jones.
- 26:33Speaker 4: And then he posted it on his Instagram.
- 26:34Speaker 1: Oh, what an ass.
- 26:35Speaker 2: I know.
- 26:35Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 26:37Speaker 4: It's just too easy at this point. But, like, that's
- 26:41Speaker 4: a weird thing to post after you know you injured
- 26:44Speaker 4: that guy, right? Especially when you used to play for
- 26:46Speaker 4: this team. So, I don't know. That whole aspect of
- 26:49Speaker 4: it's a little weird to me, too. But, thankfully, we
- 26:51Speaker 4: beat them. I don't know.
- 26:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Well, you did get the win. What do you think, Travis?
- 26:55Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 26:56Speaker 3: Well, I'm just watching the butt jokes roll into the
- 26:58Speaker 3: text line.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Oh, I need to check. Oh, do we have a few?
- 27:00Speaker 4: I need to check a few.
- 27:01Speaker 3: I got a couple good ones.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Let's hear a few.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Come on, now.
- 27:03Speaker 1: From the 206.
- 27:03Speaker 3: These butt jokes really crack me up. And then another
- 27:09Speaker 3: good one is.
- 27:10Speaker 1: It's funny because how daddy of a joke it is.
- 27:13Speaker 1: That's one of the daddiest jokes I've ever heard.
- 27:15Speaker 4: Maybe I need to start getting used to it as
- 27:17Speaker 4: a new dad.
- 27:19Speaker 1: Yes.
- 27:19Speaker 4: I need to get my game up in these instances.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 27:24Speaker 5: Another good one from the 253. The separation is in
- 27:28Speaker 5: the preparation H.
- 27:31Speaker 1: That one's good.
- 27:32Speaker 2: All right.
- 27:33Speaker 1: That one is good.
- 27:34Speaker 4: That one is good.
- 27:36Speaker 1: Honestly, the word separation, I mean, I don't want to
- 27:39Speaker 1: get graphic, but I think there might have been an
- 27:44Speaker 1: odd separation the way that the body landed. Yeah. And
- 27:47Speaker 1: that might have done something. For sure. You know?
- 27:51Speaker 4: That is a muscle or a tendon.
- 27:53Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 27:54Speaker 1: And it would hurt.
- 27:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:56Speaker 3: Definitely.
- 27:56Speaker 1: I would think. So, anything else?
- 28:01Speaker 4: They tore him a new one.
- 28:02Speaker 1: They tore him.
- 28:04Speaker 4: Honestly, when you started talking about the more graphic things,
- 28:09Speaker 4: I was like, well, that is a saying.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Was that on the text line or did you just
- 28:13Speaker 1: say that?
- 28:13Speaker 4: No, it was on the text line. But that's the
- 28:15Speaker 4: kind of thought process that I.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Was like, that could actually have happened. I didn't want
- 28:20Speaker 1: to say it, say it. The fun is dancing around it.
- 28:23Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
- 28:25Speaker 1: But yeah.
- 28:26Speaker 2: Maybe.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Maybe. Yeah.
- 28:31Speaker 4: And we're not even joking. Actually, that could be the injury.
- 28:34Speaker 2: Right.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, not a new one. No,
- 28:38Speaker 1: but the current one. And the speculation will continue until
- 28:47Speaker 1: they get around to finally saying. I'm just going to
- 28:49Speaker 1: start doing this, by the way. I'm not going to
- 28:51Speaker 1: do it to the Seahawks because they're really good, but
- 28:52Speaker 1: Mariners next year, if you don't start updating us on
- 28:55Speaker 1: your injuries in-game, I'm going to start making stuff up
- 28:58Speaker 1: on the internet. I'm just going to warn you. I'm like, oh, wait.
- 29:03Speaker 1: Player X, I'm not even going to use a name,
- 29:05Speaker 1: left the game. Oh, he's got syphilis, everybody. Reports are
- 29:10Speaker 1: coming out.
- 29:11Speaker 4: Of Sacramento that he has syphilis.
- 29:13Speaker 1: Yeah, really scorching case of it. He can't get back
- 29:15Speaker 1: in the game. Sorry, he contracted it in the third inning.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Don't know when we're going to see him again.
- 29:20Speaker 4: Along those lines, 253, how to tell your baseball team
- 29:24Speaker 4: season didn't go well without saying it. We're talking about
- 29:26Speaker 4: Sam Darnold's butt on September 15th instead of playoff baseball.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Well, it's a pretty big deal.
- 29:33Speaker 4: It is.
- 29:34Speaker 1: Yes.
- 29:35Speaker 3: That's an important but.
- 29:36Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, big dumpers, the most... important but in town.
- 29:41Speaker 1: It's probably the second most important but in town right now.
- 29:44Speaker 4: We have a lot of but stuff with our athletes.
- 29:49Speaker 4: What's going on here? First, it was the Big Dumper
- 29:52Speaker 4: in a positive way.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Great.
- 29:54Speaker 4: I love that dumper when it's not hitting 170. But,
- 29:59Speaker 4: Now we got Sam Donald's Tushy. Hey, it's not like
- 30:04Speaker 4: we gave him the nickname. Might as well become the
- 30:06Speaker 4: New Eagles with the Tush Push.
- 30:07Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just it fell in our laps. Yeah, it did.
- 30:11Speaker 1: That's what we're dealing with at this point.
- 30:13Speaker 4: It backed that ass up.
- 30:15Speaker 1: But it did.
- 30:16Speaker 4: All right.
- 30:17Speaker 1: One last thing's next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. See,
- 30:36Speaker 1: all I'm saying, Anders, if you'd stop being so sophomoric
- 30:40Speaker 1: about the whole thing.
- 30:41Speaker 2: All right.
- 30:41Speaker 1: I just don't know if we're getting the whole story
- 30:45Speaker 1: with Sam. That's all I'm saying.
- 30:49Speaker 4: What is the whole story?
- 30:52Speaker 1: We don't know. That's just it.
- 30:53Speaker 2: Okay.
- 30:53Speaker 1: If we could just get the whole story.
- 30:55Speaker 4: I'm going to bypass that pun that you're doing there.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:59Speaker 4: Because apparently I'm sophomoric in this situation.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Yes. I'm just trying to talk about sports and our
- 31:05Speaker 1: quarterback's injury, and you just keep shaking your head. You're
- 31:11Speaker 1: seeing the mischief in the statement when all I'm trying
- 31:14Speaker 1: to do is report the facts.
- 31:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:16Speaker 1: And it bums me out.
- 31:18Speaker 4: All right. All right.
- 31:20Speaker 1: All right. What's your one last thing today?
- 31:22Speaker 4: I'm going to go with something Mariners related because we
- 31:28Speaker 4: didn't really touch on them a bunch today. I just
- 31:32Speaker 4: feel like with everything going on, I have questions and
- 31:37Speaker 4: I don't even know. I don't even really have a
- 31:39Speaker 4: take on this. It's more just like, I have no
- 31:41Speaker 4: idea if the Mariners are going to come to the
- 31:44Speaker 4: off season and have the mentality of, well, we had
- 31:48Speaker 4: historically bad years from Cal unexpected, bad years from Josh
- 31:54Speaker 4: Naylor and Julio Rodriguez. And our pitching staff was not
- 31:58Speaker 4: nearly as good as we thought it would be overall.
- 32:02Speaker 4: We feel like that's a one-off and we're going to
- 32:05Speaker 4: try and kind of keep the same core, keep a
- 32:08Speaker 4: very similar roster coming into 2027 and I just don't
- 32:14Speaker 4: know if that's the kind of reaction they're going to
- 32:17Speaker 4: have to this season or if they are going to
- 32:20Speaker 4: try and shake things up a little bit more than that.
- 32:23Speaker 4: There's just so many question marks, more than I think
- 32:25Speaker 4: of any in this so-called window for the Mariners that
- 32:29Speaker 4: I've had. At least in the years, the 2023 and
- 32:32Speaker 4: 2024 that you missed the playoffs, there was some sort
- 32:35Speaker 4: of like, OK, there were really good aspects to this
- 32:38Speaker 4: team and we just need a couple tweaks here and there.
- 32:42Speaker 4: This year feels different than that. And I just don't
- 32:44Speaker 4: know what the reaction is going to be from the
- 32:45Speaker 4: front office. So I'm just really curious on what they
- 32:48Speaker 4: do this offseason. Well, number one, we don't know what
- 32:50Speaker 4: the offseason is going to entail to begin with. That
- 32:53Speaker 4: has to lead every conversation we have. Before we get
- 32:56Speaker 4: to the offseason, that has to lead every conversation about
- 32:58Speaker 4: the offseason. We don't even know what the rules for
- 33:00Speaker 4: building teams are going to be.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Yeah. by the time that this offseason comes to a close.
- 33:05Speaker 1: We don't even know if teams are going to wait
- 33:06Speaker 1: for those rules to be put in place before they
- 33:09Speaker 1: start acting. I don't know what the offseason is going
- 33:11Speaker 1: to look like because they're not going to sit down
- 33:13Speaker 1: on the negotiating table until February probably because that's usually
- 33:17Speaker 1: when they get serious is when they're getting ready to
- 33:20Speaker 1: report for work. I mean, there will be meetings throughout
- 33:23Speaker 1: the offseason, but teams aren't even going to really know
- 33:25Speaker 1: what the rules going forward are going to be, and
- 33:27Speaker 1: I do wonder how that's going to affect offseason decisions.
- 33:30Speaker 1: So that's number one. Number two, let's assume that everything
- 33:34Speaker 1: stays the exact same. Or mostly the same.
- 33:37Speaker 4: Just status quo.
- 33:38Speaker 1: They are not going to run it back. There will
- 33:41Speaker 1: be more changes than what you've seen in the past.
- 33:44Speaker 1: I've told you for years, George Kirby's going to get traded.
- 33:47Speaker 1: There's going to be some sort of move like that.
- 33:48Speaker 1: They're going to move on from one of their minor
- 33:50Speaker 1: league prospects. They're probably going to bolster the bullpen. And really,
- 33:53Speaker 1: they only have two holes to fill, which is left
- 33:55Speaker 1: field and third base offensively, because I'm expecting Randy Rosarino
- 34:00Speaker 1: to walk. And then the third thing, and we'll have
- 34:03Speaker 1: plenty of time to talk about this in the offseason.
- 34:06Speaker 1: The third thing is there's no way they're abandoning what
- 34:09Speaker 1: they believe is a championship window. Right. And even though
- 34:12Speaker 1: this season has been an outright, unmitigated disaster. They still
- 34:16Speaker 1: believe they have the foundation plus the up-and-coming young pieces
- 34:22Speaker 1: like Kate Anderson and others that are only going to
- 34:26Speaker 1: get better. And they've cleared a lot of money from
- 34:30Speaker 1: the decks in order to add this offseason as well.
- 34:34Speaker 1: There is no way they're going to treat this like, oh, boy,
- 34:37Speaker 1: we better rebuild again. No, they are still in a
- 34:40Speaker 1: championship window. I think there will be some shakeup, and
- 34:43Speaker 1: I have no idea how the uncertainty of the rules
- 34:47Speaker 1: of baseball are going to affect any team in the sport,
- 34:49Speaker 1: much less ours.
- 34:50Speaker 4: Not to mention a new manager as well.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Yes, and they will have a new manager.
- 34:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 34:54Speaker 1: Or I will quit. All right, Travis, what do you
- 34:57Speaker 1: got back there?
- 34:58Speaker 3: So I went to the dentist yesterday.
- 35:00Speaker 4: Oh, God.
- 35:01Speaker 5: And a lot of people, when they go to the dentist,
- 35:02Speaker 5: they're afraid about being asked if they're flossing.
- 35:05Speaker 2: Yep.
- 35:06Speaker 1: All the time.
- 35:07Speaker 3: And yesterday, my technician, Kristen, she asked me, have you
- 35:11Speaker 3: been flossing?
- 35:12Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 35:12Speaker 3: I said, no.
- 35:14Speaker 5: And that was the end of the conversation. I didn't
- 35:16Speaker 5: hear about it for the rest of the visit. There
- 35:18Speaker 5: was no pressure.
- 35:20Speaker 1: No, you know, they didn't. And the cops came. Yes.
- 35:24Speaker 3: They called the cops.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 35:27Speaker 5: So I just wanted to shout out Kristen at Marcus
- 35:30Speaker 5: and Family Dentistry for not making me feel like a
- 35:35Speaker 5: piece of poo for not flossing my teeth.
- 35:39Speaker 1: You should floss. I should.
- 35:40Speaker 4: I'm going to make you feel that way.
- 35:43Speaker 3: I really should.
- 35:44Speaker 1: You know what? It's kind of strange, though, because there
- 35:46Speaker 1: are those questions that everybody asks, and there are some
- 35:49Speaker 1: that you regret because you don't do certain things. But
- 35:52Speaker 1: that's one I knock out of the ballpark because I
- 35:54Speaker 1: pretty much, when I'm not on the air, all I
- 35:56Speaker 1: do is floss. Like when the dentist asked me, I'm like, yes,
- 36:02Speaker 1: I do. Probably more than you think I should.
- 36:06Speaker 4: More than you as a dentist.
- 36:08Speaker 1: Yes. The best flosser you've ever met. Is there a discount?
- 36:15Speaker 1: Love that question. Love getting that question.
- 36:17Speaker 2: Really?
- 36:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:18Speaker 4: Okay.
- 36:19Speaker 1: You're the only one, I think. I think so, yeah.
- 36:20Speaker 4: I was going to say, I didn't pin you as
- 36:21Speaker 4: a flosser.
- 36:22Speaker 1: Really? Why?
- 36:23Speaker 2: Oh, I just.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Can't stand anything in my teeth. I'm flossing constantly. Yeah.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Get it out of my teeth.
- 36:29Speaker 4: Fair enough.
- 36:29Speaker 1: I think there's a psychological thing about that, and if
- 36:32Speaker 1: you know what it is listening, don't tell me. I
- 36:34Speaker 1: want to find out some weird thing, but I can't
- 36:36Speaker 1: stand anything in my teeth.
- 36:37Speaker 4: Okay.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Or in my nose, or in my ears.
- 36:40Speaker 4: I'm kind of the same way. That's why I hate
- 36:41Speaker 4: going to the dentist. Yeah. Because it's like, They're working
- 36:45Speaker 4: on your mouth.
- 36:45Speaker 1: I'm a cleaner. All right, my last one thing. Elie
- 36:49Speaker 1: Delacruz last night for the Cincinnati Reds hit a ball
- 36:52Speaker 1: out of the stadium at Cincinnati to dead center.
- 36:57Speaker 4: 457 feet.
- 37:00Speaker 1: In other words... 17 feet shorter than Laz Montes' home
- 37:07Speaker 1: run a couple of weeks ago. Think about that. I mean,
- 37:10Speaker 1: it doesn't look as spectacular when you just hit it
- 37:12Speaker 1: above the J-Rod squad and there's still another deck in
- 37:16Speaker 1: center field that's even higher. He hit it out of
- 37:20Speaker 1: the ballpark. Obviously, Reds fans are going crazy over his
- 37:23Speaker 1: 457-foot home run that left the stadium. First time it's
- 37:26Speaker 1: ever happened in Cincinnati where it left the entire stadium.
- 37:30Speaker 1: To dead center at that. And our guy hit it
- 37:35Speaker 1: 17 feet further two weeks ago. And he's 22. Pretty
- 37:38Speaker 1: dang cool. Yeah. All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow
- 37:41Speaker 1: at 6 a.m. Coming up next, it's, well, I think
- 37:45Speaker 1: it's the different captain. Benton again? Benton and Jess? Sports
- 37:48Speaker 1: Radio 93.3 KJRFM.