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Chuck in the Morning 8-19 H4: Elinneus Davis and Jauden Limar, UW Football growth · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh there's that music. Elanius Davis and.
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  Speaker 2: Jane Lebarr they wake up every morning listening to this
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  Speaker 2: dancing in their dorm rooms.
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  Speaker 1: It's Chuck in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 1: three k j R f M.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us here on the radio program.
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  Speaker 2: We are broadcasting from Husky's camp and joining us now
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  Speaker 2: at our set. We got a running back and a
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackle with us here, Jane Lamar the running back
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  Speaker 2: and Elanius Davis, the defensive tackle who Ryan Walters just
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  Speaker 2: said as a coach on the field.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get to that here in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But gentlemen, thanks for being on the program with us.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: It's thanks for having how.
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  Speaker 2: Often the defensive tackles and running backs even hang out together.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I've gotten close to the running backs of my
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  Speaker 4: years for sure?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I'll say we're actually running to the good of Mouna.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Good?
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  Speaker 2: I just thought you spent your old time in the
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  Speaker 2: gym doing bcey girls kind of get like you got
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  Speaker 2: make me look small. You know, there's a guy when
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  Speaker 2: I would in Arizona's name is Michael Pittman. You probably
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  Speaker 2: know his son, Michael Pittman Junior, but we called him
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  Speaker 2: four four Legs because for some reason, his biceps were
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  Speaker 2: just enormous as a running back. Does it actually help
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  Speaker 2: you to hold on to the football to develop big biceps, Jayden?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think it hurts at all. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna do everything I can to keep them.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a football element. You're not just trying to
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  Speaker 2: impress the ladies. Sir, Well, it's working.
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  Speaker 1: You just keep it up. Uh, Olandias, respond to your coach.
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  Speaker 2: He just told us, he said, if anybody's got a
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  Speaker 2: solid spot on my depth chart, it's you because you're
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  Speaker 2: like a coach on the field.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean to hear that from him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean obviously, coach Wallace someone I really looked
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  Speaker 4: up to and uh, he recruited me back in back
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  Speaker 4: in high school, So obviously you have those connections.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Well, like I try and watch as much film as
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  Speaker 4: I can and try to trying to help out in
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  Speaker 4: any way I can. So I feel like just me
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  Speaker 4: knowing stuff and and not and not being silent and
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  Speaker 4: being vocal really helps.
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  Speaker 3: Like the guys understand the game and just slowed down
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  Speaker 3: for them.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, it's for sure awesome to her coach
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  Speaker 4: Walt say that, Yeah, but I feel like it's just
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  Speaker 4: just time on task, just just watching film and understanding
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously, I mean, you've got things to work on yourself.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about your game that you feel is
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  Speaker 2: starting to reach another level here as you get ready
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  Speaker 2: for a brand new season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously, just just my football IQ and
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  Speaker 4: just being a good leader. I feel like I've been
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  Speaker 4: a lot more vocal this year, so that's really I
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  Speaker 4: feel like, just looking back, I feel like I've grown
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  Speaker 4: in that aspect, just like the off the office field
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  Speaker 4: football stuff, and obviously on the field of just being
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  Speaker 4: like a guy that everybody can depend on and my consistency.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like he has been getting better. Obviously just
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  Speaker 4: stacking days and stacking plays is awesome. Overall, just being
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  Speaker 4: just being like a guy that people can count on.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I've grown in that aspect.
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  Speaker 1: So what are you seeing out of this guy? So
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  Speaker 1: give me a stout report.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely a downhill, damn near bowling ball type like, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: obviously Jenaen's coming back from this this last week, But
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  Speaker 4: just seeing him run, I feel like it's it's really fluid.
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  Speaker 4: It is very smooth, very fast, Like I'll like I'll
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  Speaker 4: see him in one gap and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, like it's just just stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's been awesome to see him, to see him
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  Speaker 3: get better each rep.
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  Speaker 2: So house camp going for you, then, Jaden, because I
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  Speaker 2: mean you're in a you're in a forgive the term
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  Speaker 2: dogfight obviously, I mean it's all about getting carries during
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  Speaker 2: the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think it's going for you?
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  Speaker 5: It's been great, honestly. I mean our room's yelling very well.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of young guys are stepping up and trying
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  Speaker 5: to take roles and that's amazing to see. Competition has
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  Speaker 5: been great. Everyone's balling on a high level and we're
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  Speaker 5: just getting better and that's all you want to see.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone's been growing a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now you made the terrible mistake of going to ore again, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and then returning to the state of Washington and put
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  Speaker 2: on the colors you were meant to put on. Talk
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  Speaker 2: about what went into that decision to write You're terrible wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Uh? Well, if I'm being honest, started back in high school,
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  Speaker 5: my relationship with Fish and Scottie, and so when they
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  Speaker 5: came to Washington this previous season, I started, you know,
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  Speaker 5: looking at the portal a little bit, thinking about maybe leaving,
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  Speaker 5: and there was only one place I was going. It
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  Speaker 5: was home. I wouldn't have went anywhere else in the country.
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  Speaker 5: And so after I got in the portal, first person
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  Speaker 5: I talked to was coach Graham, and after that it
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  Speaker 5: was over where. I didn't take any visits, didn't take
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  Speaker 5: any calls. I knew I was coming home. Family gets
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  Speaker 5: to see me play my senior season, So looking forward
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  Speaker 5: to that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, what's the transition been like?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you you, I mean rival schools here, so
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  Speaker 2: going from one program to the next, wanting to finish
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  Speaker 2: as strongly as you possibly can. What's that transition been
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  Speaker 2: like for you?
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  Speaker 5: Definitely been interesting. I would say it's a It's a
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  Speaker 5: lot different than I expected, just because I'm here and
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the film we're watching is when I
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  Speaker 5: was on the other side, so I can kind of
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  Speaker 5: give a different aspect to the game that they didn't
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  Speaker 5: see on this side. And so we bounced a lot
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  Speaker 5: of stuff off of each other. We talk about different
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  Speaker 5: plays and whatnot and what we were thinking on this
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  Speaker 5: side of everythinking on that side. And it was interesting
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  Speaker 5: because I had a month in between when I played
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  Speaker 5: here and when I became part of the team, and
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  Speaker 5: so that was definitely it was a fun factor though.
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  Speaker 5: I got to talk to the guys and be like,
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  Speaker 5: I remember seeing you what this plowed up? And it's
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  Speaker 5: fun now because we're all teammates can talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Jade Lamar, give us a breakdown of now
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  Speaker 2: you gotta be now you gotta be a broadcaster. Tell
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  Speaker 2: us about this man over here to your left.
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  Speaker 5: After my first practice watching him, I called my dad.
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  Speaker 5: I said, we got this d lineman. I said, I'm
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  Speaker 5: excited to watch him play this year. Every play he's
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  Speaker 5: in the backfield every play. It was amazing to see.
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  Speaker 5: And now that I'm on the field playing with him.
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  Speaker 5: People don't think running backs care much about the D line,
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  Speaker 5: but we're playing games with them. They're trying to two
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  Speaker 5: gap and everything, and we gotta play games with them
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  Speaker 5: before we ever get to the linebackers. And so he's
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  Speaker 5: grown me a lot and he's an amazing player. So
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  Speaker 5: it's been fun watching him ball this fall.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, good job, good job, both good breakdown here. How
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  Speaker 2: important is it for you, Alaneus, to hey, look, we've
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  Speaker 2: done some things here, but we've got to do great things.
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  Speaker 2: How important is it for you to put that stamp
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  Speaker 2: on this program like this guy Greg Lewis put a
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  Speaker 2: stamp on this program. He's telling you about those ninety
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  Speaker 2: and ninety one teams, but he played for one of them,
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  Speaker 2: was around the other. How important is it for you
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  Speaker 2: to have one of those kind of stories, to tell.
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  Speaker 3: One of these things?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, I feel like every year it's like
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  Speaker 4: its own life, and I feel like it all just
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  Speaker 4: kind of starts in winter, where like that we just
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  Speaker 4: put the work in and mind and obviously like that
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  Speaker 4: just keeps on growing and growing and growing. And I
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  Speaker 4: feel like the most important thing is like having like
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  Speaker 4: the team really bonded and having like brothers that you
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  Speaker 4: can count on, Like I feel like the defense with
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  Speaker 4: the offense, I feel like we have a really good chemistry,
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  Speaker 4: and I feel like we're all brothers and family. So I
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  Speaker 4: feel like that really helps in times of like like
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  Speaker 4: the dog days of camp or like adversity shows boxtly,
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  Speaker 4: like our whole model this offseason was the final ten,
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like just be able to finish and
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  Speaker 4: and just have like that mindset to really go turn
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  Speaker 4: up like another notch those last ten. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: that really helps us. And obviously, like our model Beeno Pro,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we truly live that and have that
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  Speaker 4: ingrained in our program. So it's it's awesome my coach
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  Speaker 4: Fish put that put that program into place.
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  Speaker 2: I know a couple of years ago, Coach Fish, people
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  Speaker 2: were questioning like, Okay, well you got some skilled players,
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  Speaker 2: what about the line play? And now two years later
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  Speaker 2: people are talking about it being the strength of the team.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like going against the offensive line? Tell us
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  Speaker 2: how good they are looking so far in camp or bad?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you're gonna tell us, no, I got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work.
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  Speaker 3: No, They're really good.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, like I've like, I've seen them grow so much
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  Speaker 4: over the last two years and obviously like eating and
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  Speaker 4: gaining weight and getting strong in the way room. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like that's something that we've done. But honestly, just
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  Speaker 4: seeing all their hard work come differuition, like the offseason,
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  Speaker 4: both both the O line and D line against some
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  Speaker 4: extra work in or just hanging out I feel like
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  Speaker 4: we're we're honestly where we need to be, and we
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  Speaker 4: have so much more to go to but honestly, just
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  Speaker 4: go just going against them, like, for example, like I
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  Speaker 4: go against John Mills damn near every play and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like, fun, yeah, you see, just seeing him get
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  Speaker 4: better and me telling him what I'm thinking here and
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  Speaker 4: what I couldn't you hear? Like if I beat him
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  Speaker 4: on a rep, like like, I will tell him like yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like so and so might happen. Or if he beats me,
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  Speaker 4: like he'll tell me like yeah, like I got under
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  Speaker 4: you or something like that. So I feel like it's
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  Speaker 4: just like an iron sharpens iron type of deal. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm really happy to go against an old line, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure that they're really happy to go against us too.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we're just going back and forth, sharpening iron.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, you've got a different view. So what's
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  Speaker 4: it like running behind those guys right now?
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  Speaker 3: It's been great.
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  Speaker 5: I mean their chemistry, I mean, like you said, the
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  Speaker 5: whole team's chemistry honestly has been amazing, but the O
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  Speaker 5: line in particular, all those dudes, they know exactly what
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  Speaker 5: they're doing, they know where they're going and their communication
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  Speaker 5: with the running backs. It's a huge piece to an
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  Speaker 5: offense and a lot of people don't understand that. But
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  Speaker 5: we need to be able to communicate to them and protections,
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  Speaker 5: know where they're going with blocks, where they're pointing and everything.
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  Speaker 5: And so they've done amazing communicating with us and they
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  Speaker 5: make our job very easy.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you got to get to some bar bells.
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  Speaker 1: And then you gotta warn him.
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  Speaker 2: He's up against when he meets Softy this year, So
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  Speaker 2: please prepare him for that.
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  Speaker 1: I know, Alanius, you know what it's like to be
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  Speaker 1: around Softy.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't, and he's gonna be caught off guard and
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  Speaker 2: then it's chaos. Yeah, get ready for sure. Hey, great
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  Speaker 2: to meet you, have a great year. Thanks all right,
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  Speaker 2: year out so much?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Joining us here is two of the stars of this team,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully Elaneus Davis, the defensive tackle for your Washington Dusky's
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  Speaker 2: also running back Jade and Lamar joining us as well,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna sprint off to practice.
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  Speaker 1: So you know what, you know what, Andrews, I tell
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  Speaker 1: you what.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like a good time to take a little
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  Speaker 2: break and okay, that's a little normal abnormal for us.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll come back. We'll get Greg's reaction to what
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  Speaker 2: he just heard, and then we'll have some conversations about
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  Speaker 2: some college football. Next we'll make the next segment, our
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  Speaker 2: Ah, what a perfect morning, What a great, great day
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you with us. By the Huskies talk.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting ready for that football season, which is not
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  Speaker 2: too far away. I'm just gonna write something out. I
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  Speaker 2: just thought of another thing I want to ask Greg
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  Speaker 2: Lewis before the show comes to a close. All right,
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  Speaker 2: but our special guest host here today is the former
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  Speaker 2: Doak Walker Award winner for your Washington Husky's, the legendary
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  Speaker 2: Greg Lewis, also, of course a Husky Hank.
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  Speaker 1: And so how about those guys Lanius Davis and Jade Lamar.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, those are two young men who obviously have a
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  Speaker 7: lot of confidence in their abilities. They're well spoken as well.
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  Speaker 7: You know, that's one thing I always like about the
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  Speaker 7: University of Washington. We recruit, you know, the total guy,
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  Speaker 7: you know, the guy who's smart, good in the community,
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  Speaker 7: and great football players and for all intents and purposes,
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  Speaker 7: looks like these guys are gonna have a really good season.
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  Speaker 7: They look like they're in great shape. I tell you that.
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell you one thing that was uncanny for me.
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  Speaker 7: When you look at Jade Lamar, he looks a lot
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  Speaker 7: like Miles Gaskin. I mean just physically, he looks a
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  Speaker 7: lot like Miles. He's built the way Miles is built.
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  Speaker 7: If he's anything like Miles on the field, then the
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  Speaker 7: Huskies are gonna have their running game in really great shape.
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  Speaker 3: It just struck me he looked a lot like Miles.
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  Speaker 2: Is that crazy a modern day though, that we have
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  Speaker 2: an Oregon Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Thing and then you you don't even make.
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  Speaker 2: A big deal out of it, like, yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: went to Oregon and then I decided to come home.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you this, I hold grudges and anybody
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  Speaker 7: who leaves Washington to go to Oregon, which happened a
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  Speaker 7: couple of years ago. We had a cornerback I won't
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  Speaker 7: even say his name on the air, who played a
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  Speaker 7: big part in a successful and then he left it
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  Speaker 7: with the Oregon I have already written to the committee
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  Speaker 7: and said that he will never ever be allowed to
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  Speaker 7: come and be recognized as a great Husky in any way,
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  Speaker 7: shape or for him, because I'm petty like that. I
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  Speaker 7: give Jayden a pass. He was seventeen, eighteen years old
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  Speaker 7: and he made that terrible decision. Yeah, and now he's
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  Speaker 7: right in his wrongs. And if he can come here
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  Speaker 7: and have a really good season, then we will fully
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  Speaker 7: accept him and he can be brought back as a
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  Speaker 7: Husky legend or whatever, especially if in the last game
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  Speaker 7: of the season, which I'm sure he's gotta have circled
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  Speaker 7: on his calendar, when we go down to Oregon to
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  Speaker 7: play Oregon, that's got to be something that's going to
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  Speaker 7: be huge for him. If he can go out there
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  Speaker 7: and have a great game that helps the Huskies win,
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  Speaker 7: then you know, he he gets all the Husky tattoos
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  Speaker 7: and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, We'll make him the marshal
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  Speaker 2: of the parade exact at that point. Alan is very impressive,
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  Speaker 2: not just then the interview, but to hear Jaden evaluate
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  Speaker 2: him in a short period of time, to hear coach
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  Speaker 2: Walter say that might be the exception on my defense
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  Speaker 2: that guy. Yeah, you can put him in pen.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody else is fighting out here every day.
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  Speaker 2: There is no depth chart that guy, I'll make an
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  Speaker 2: exception for sounds like he's getting ready to have a
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  Speaker 2: big year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: What I love about him is you've seen him grow
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  Speaker 7: up in the program and become a good great player,
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  Speaker 7: to work to getting to become a great player, and
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  Speaker 7: he's done it against you know, the biggest and toughest
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  Speaker 7: conference in football. You can tell that that work and
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  Speaker 7: that maturity has allowed him to become a great football player.
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  Speaker 7: Knowing that he was one of the guys coming back
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  Speaker 7: and going to be on this Husky defensive line had
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  Speaker 7: to make you feel like, you know, we got some
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  Speaker 7: foundation to build around. You know, we're we're still trying
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  Speaker 7: to figure out who the you know, athletic guy is
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  Speaker 7: gonna be on the edge. He's got a freshman probably
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  Speaker 7: gonna be next to him. A lot of snaps on
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  Speaker 7: the defensive line. He's not only looking like he's gonna
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  Speaker 7: have a great season, but he's gonna have to have
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  Speaker 7: a great season. I think everybody is looking at this
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  Speaker 7: Husky defense as the part of this team. And you know,
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  Speaker 7: you look through Husky history and yeah, we had some
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  Speaker 7: great offenses, and when Michael Pennix was here. Hell, I
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  Speaker 7: like to think my senior year we set a lot
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  Speaker 7: of Pac ten records in offense, but the defense always
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  Speaker 7: has set the tone and stirred the drink for Washington
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  Speaker 7: Husky football. And I think he's a guy along with
• 14:22
  Speaker 7: that linebacking corps that are going to show up every
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: single Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And now it's not just Saturday.
• 14:29
  Speaker 7: We got a Sunday game and a couple of Fridays.
• 14:31
  Speaker 7: But he's going to show up every game and he's
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: going to put in work and the Big Ten is
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: going to have a lot of problems trying to contain
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: that guy. He's going to be a really good physical player.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Because Empman's shadows still hover over this place, or these
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: guys so young now that they don't even.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: I think more the latter.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: You know, Steve Epman last year in Husky stadium was
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: nineteen ninety one. Probably most of these guys weren't born.
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: I mean, when you think about it, how long ago
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: that was.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I would imagine the North Carolina linebackers that are like Lawrence
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: who yeah.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, those guys what those guys were not even born
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: when Steve Vitman played his last game. Now the name
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: still rings around here, so I'm sure they know who
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: he is. And you know, we point to the lineage
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: of Husky football, but I don't think his shadow is
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: imposy like that. But I also think that no one
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: should try to come in here and become the next
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: Steve Vitman. He was a different kind of beast. I mean,
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: he literally is one of the greatest college football players
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: of all time. Now to be nice to have some
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: more of those, not saying we don't want any of them.
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: Hopefully somebody does show up and can do that, But
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: you don't want to try to come in and compare
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: yourself and walk in that those shoes of that shadow,
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: because Steve was something different. And I was telling you
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: a story off off the air about running the mile
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: my senior year and having to make it his six minutes.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Regardless of what I ran it in.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Steve Hittman ran the mile at three hundred plus pounds
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: about twenty five seconds faster than I did.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: That tells you all you need to know about Steve Hitman.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was amazing.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, Greg Lewis with us our Huskies camp coverage. All right,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: let's before we get off defense, just your overall thoughts
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: on you know how strong Ryan Walters group's going to.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Be this year.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: I think this is going to be.
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: You know, last year we were top five defense in
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: the Big Ten, and even though the year before we
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: weren't statistically bad, there was times in the second half
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: of games where teams just ran the ball down our
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: throats and we ended up with a six and seven season.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: We made some big improvements last year, especially in getting turnovers.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: I think this defense has an opportunity to take that
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: up another notch because of the personnel, especially at the
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: linebacker spot. You have four coach talked about a little bit,
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: but you got four starting inside linebackers, and all these
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: guys got tough names for the most part, but Zadris,
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Rainey Salle, Jacob Manu ex Ray, Alexander and Buddha al Utah.
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: Those guys are all starting linebackers. You're not gonna have
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: any drop off. Somebody gets nicked up, banged up, it's
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: not going to matter. Those guys are all athletic. They
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: all can cover every part of the field. I think
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: x Ray's the leading tackler coming back from last year,
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: and he might be coming off the bench this year
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: because Jacob Manu was the Pack ten defensive player of
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: the Year a couple of years ago, and the rookie
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: last year is Adris Raindy Sale as a freshman made
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: fantastic plays. I just think everything stops and starts with them.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: He also talked about the kid that played high school
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: basketball was Adris out on the defensive end, who Ramzach Furyan,
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: who people are talking about, could be that next great
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: outside edge rust guy first naming brought up that's the
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: one thing to me that was missing from last year,
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: that pressure from that outside because our guys got banged
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: up quite a bit. That we're playing out there on
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: the defensive end outside linebacker spot. So I think our
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: secondary extremely solid, especially if the corners get healthy. I
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: think Rayshawn Clark, who played in the nickel, a guy
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: out of Garfield High School, I know his family. Fantastic
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: football player if he's healthy in that nickel. I think
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: our back end and the best player on the defense
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: last year every game was Alex McLoughlin. He is up
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: for all kinds of awards. This kid is a football player.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: And Ryan Dillard Allen Batman, the wild guy, the guy
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: who's physical, the guy who you know can make plays
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: back there on that back end with him, I think
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: this defense has a chance to be extremely special, one
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: of the top couple of defenses in the Big Ten.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: And to me, we're gonna go as far as this
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: defense can help take us. Yes, we got a great quarterback,
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: we want to see him take the next step, but
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: I think this defense is what can give us an
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: opportunity to be in every single football game.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I just Scott Ecklin from dog Man. I had him
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: on a couple of weeks ago and I said, is
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: this buzz around Coach Walters? I mean, do we have
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: a defensive star?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Do we have a young coaching star here on campus here?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: And he said, Oh, it's not even a question. Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: it's not even a dispute. He is a defensive coaching star.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: You get that impression for oh, yeah, and he's been
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: a head coach in the Big Ten. He didn't have
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: as much success, and you know, the program he went to,
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: you know, probably speaks a lot about his ability to
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: have a lot of success. But he is certainly And
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: as we saw him sit here, young looking guy, he's
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: dialed in. He answered every one of our when we
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: asked the question. He already knew what his answer was
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: going to be because he's dialed in.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: He knows his personnel.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: And last year, I think we saw the season before
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: he came, the Huskies were one of the lowest turnover
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: causing teams in the conference and in the nation. Fast
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: forward to the next year, he's here one season not
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: with all his guys, people learned his scheme for the
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: first time, and we end up producing the third most
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: turnovers in the entire conference. That was a big leap.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Now it's about fortifying the pass rush, getting more pressure
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: on the quarterback. Once you add that into this defense,
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: you know, the sky's the limit. And that is you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: all about his architecture because we didn't change a ton
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: of personnel last year, but we got guys in the
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: right place. And I'm sure now with some of the recruits.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: We brought in some of the transfers we got in,
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: like we talked about in the linebacker spots, and I
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: think two or three of those guys are transfers.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I think he's ready to go. I think he's he's excited.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's flip it over to the offensive
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: side of the ball, and yeah, a lot of interesting
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: components about this how's it gonna come together?
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: You have to nail on the head. I think in
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: your pre entry to this whole Husky talk, it starts
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: and stops with the offensive line, and boy, they got
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: a good one. I think this offensive line is really good.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: You know they're going to be deep. We talked about
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: the freshman on the left side. You got Cody Green
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: out there on left tackle. You got the sophomore John Mills,
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: who's a freshman, old world guy last year. The center position,
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: you know, landed Hatchet at center as long as he's healthy.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: And then at the guard you got gear Hatchet or
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: Champ Tuyayala. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I apologize
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: if I am not. And then the guy to stalwart
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: that a lot of people are not talking about, but
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: Drew as a party was the most improved player on
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: the team last year, and now he's going to be
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: a senior. And from what I've seen out here the
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: times i've come, he looks like a man out there.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: This offensive line is not only good with the starters.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: I think they're about nine deep and then the big ten.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: You gotta be because it's a long season. Guys are
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: gonna get nicked up, banged up because it's gonna be
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: a war down in those trenches. But I think we
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: got the right guys up front for this Husky team
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: to be successful. I think we still got to figure
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: out who's gonna carry the mail. I love looking at
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Jade Lamar. Looking at him right now, it looks like
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: he looks like he's you know, like I said, he
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: looks like visually like Miles Gaskin.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping we can get you know, that kind of
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: production out of him.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: And then on the outside, does Desmond Roebuck Is he
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: able to take the next step where and he's the
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: main there's no Denzel Boston on the other side. You're
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: the guy that the best corner is gonna roll to
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: the cover's gonna shift to completely different tests. Can you
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: still and He's made some huge playoffs. Remember the Maryland
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: game last year. So this kid's been in the trenches,
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: he's seen that, done that. What's gonna develop around him?
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I think for me, one of the big things is
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: going to be how this Rashid Williams, who was projected
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: to start last year got injured early. But I think
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: because of his ability to come back this year and
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: be healthy, does he give us that solid, you know
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: guy on the other side to balance that out, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: then one of the freshmen gonna have to play. But
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: I think the quarterback role the guy who stirs the drink.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: Back to your earlier's comments, we know he's a super
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: talented player. We know he's a playmaker. We know what
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: he can do throwing the ball. Remember that Maryland game
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: down the stretch, had to throw that touchdown to win
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: the game. And we know he can run the ball
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: and be exciting. I think he's gonna be counted on
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: to do a little more of that running this year
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: because of the running back by committee thing. I think
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: if he's able to take the next step, which I
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: fully expect him to do. I think football players make
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: their biggest leaps from their first year starting to their
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: second year starting. And let's face it, he doesn't need
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: to get more talented, he just needs to be more consistent.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: I think all of this stuff that he's gone through
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: during the off season, with the transferring and all of that,
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: I think that's the kind of stuff that helps you
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: mature as a person. When you go through crazy stuff
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: like that and conflict and you know you're now all
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: of a sudden you got to, you know, prove yourself
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: and do all that. I think that's going to do
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: something that we're going to benefit from as a program.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: I think that's going to help him mature. And those
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: are when you go into foreign stadiums and people are criticizing. Hell,
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: he's taking all the criticism now, even from some of
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: his own fans, and he goes on the road and
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: the crowd's going and all of that. He can silence
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: that noise.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Now, you can handle that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: And if he comes out and he takes that next step,
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: this offense with that offensive line can do some fantastic things.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: So I'm high on the dogs on both sides of
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: the ball. But just like the great Husky teams in
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: the past, I think the Husky defense will keep them
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: in every game, and if you keep the other team
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: under twenty five points, then this offense can certainly score
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: enough to win football games.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Greg Lewis with us our special guest host.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: To your point about the offensive line, I think that
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: it is Colt Dietrich, who was supposed to be the
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: backup left tackle, might be running first team center right now.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: So that speaks to the depth while the hatchets get
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: healthy that this offensive line has.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about a few things that are just off
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the roster. For example, the Apple Cup landing on a
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Sunday this year.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I actually I'll weigh in on this first and just
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: then you get your thoughts in terms of where the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Apple Cup is right now and the fact that it
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: probably is never going to be what it used to
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: be ever again. Right at first, like Sunday to start
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the season seems a little shocking to the system, But
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: now that it might be the perfect place under the circumstances,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I think I would still rather add the traditional game
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: at the end of the year. I think most people would,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: but under the circumstances, considering all the change, this might
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: save the game. If that's now your first one out
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: of the gates every year, and it's on a Sunday night,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and you've got a national audience. You might be able
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: to build a new tradition, not what it used to be,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: but a new tradition around this new date.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they should really take a look at
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: how do we make this super special every year. It
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: shouldn't be the second or third game, some random game
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: during the season. If it's not going to be the last,
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: then let's make it the first. Let's make it a
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: game where we can build that excitement and that momentum
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: around for two three weeks, get everybody pumped about the
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Apple Cup. It's the first game of the year. We
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: get to see what our team looks like, you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: so everybody's fire it up and everybody's excited. I'm the
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: one person who will continue to go on record and
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: say I don't think the game should ever be in
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: Pullman again.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just small. We went there last year.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: There was not a lot of energy in the town
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: and excitement because we're not in the same conference anymore.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: But if you build it up where it's in Seattle
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: and not here at Husky Stadium down there where the
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: Seahawks play Littleman, I know it's not fully neutral, but
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: most of the Cougar fans live here in Seattle anyway.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I don't live out there. Let's face it. They don't
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: live in Pullman other than the students.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: And if you have it at the beginning of the year,
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: it's not necessarily a travel issue for them. Then you
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: can build some excitement. You get the city behind it,
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: you get the sponsorships, you get all that going to
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: make it a special deal. That to me is how
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: you make this exciting, and then you can maximize your
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: revenue in that way, because in that small stadium over
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: in Pullman, you can't maximize the revenue. Those sponsors are
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: really getting behind going over there and you're here in Seattle.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: And yes, it does provide an advantage for US. US
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: being in the Big ten and our ability to recruit
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: is a huge advantage anyway, whether we played a game
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: in Seeler and Pullman. We went down there last year
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: and had a big win. So I think you got
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: to try to make this a special outside of the
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: game as much as you can and put as much
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: excitement in building up to it in that momentum in
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: order to make it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: You know, something that people.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Still I mean, you're gonna have a national television audience
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that you've never had before. Absolutely, there's gonna be this
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: hunger and thirst for college football, and the NFL hasn't
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: started yet, and you're gonna have the stage to yourself.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, on Friday, whack when they when the
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: game was played on Fridays after Thanksgiving, you had.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: A little bit of that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: But when it was ever was played on a Saturday,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: You're going up against every other giant rivalry game in absolunctry.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: So you might actually get more eyeballs on this game
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: this year nationally anyway than you ever then you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Bat in the past. Yeah, you got to capitalize on
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: those things.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: I think, you know, during my era, we played it
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: on Saturday, you know, and it was either here over there,
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: and yes it was a big game in the Northwest
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: and to Husky fans and the Cougar fans. But I
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: think I don't think on the national skill people had
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: even really considered the Apple Cup and what that was
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: really all about. You have a chance now to build
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: It's kind of like what you know Oklahoma does with.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Texas the Red River rivalry.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: It's at a neutral site every year and I'm not
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: early in the season, and folks know that game throughout
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: the country. I just said it because I've heard of it. Right,
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: how many people say the Apple Cup? You know, if
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: they have a chance to build that And I think
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: using the early season, playing it on the day where
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: not every other team is playing, and to me again,
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: playing it in Seattle all the time at a professional
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: NFL stadium gives it kind of that juice that it
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: might need in order to keep this rivalry going.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean under the circumstances, I think it's actually
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a pretty interesting pivot the more that I think about it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the polls.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people can't stand Poles soft
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: and can't stand season polls. Cam Cleveland can't stand or
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan can't stand Poles. I love polls. I like
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: a college football poll because it just gives us stuff
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to discuss, like this, Washington's number seventeen. You're okay with
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: that ranking? Well, I think yes, I'm okay with that ranking.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: From the standpoint that you never really know what to think.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: You know who's going.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: To be great.
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: You can make some assertions based on what happened last season.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: College football has more turnover each year than the NFL
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: and all those things. So I think it's a guestimation
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: what it is. To me, like you just said, I'm
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: kind of in the middle. I don't hate them, I
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: don't love them. I think sometimes it can have an
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: impact on how you end the season, be ending on
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: where you start in the polls and the Southeastern Conference,
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Let's face it, gets a boost every year just because
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: their teams in the Southeastern Conference and they have an
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: unfair they've had an unfair advantage. But I'm a college
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: football fan, and to me, the polls kind of gets
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: you started talking about it. It kind of gets the
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  Speaker 7: co conversations going in. And if you're a coach and
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  Speaker 7: your team's ranked high, you know you can use that
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: to motivate your players. You know, we have a great
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: opportunity here this. You know we can capitalize thee And
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: if your team's ranked too low or not ranked, you
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  Speaker 7: got some motivation for him. Hey, they don't think we're
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  Speaker 7: any good. Let's go out and prove everybody wrong. So
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  Speaker 7: I think coaches can use it to their advantage if
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: you look at it from that perspective.
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  Speaker 3: I think for the Washington Huskies, coming off.
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  Speaker 7: Last year, making the lead from six wins the nine
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: wins and getting a bowl game. You know, playing well
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  Speaker 7: in that game at the end of the season, with
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  Speaker 7: all the guys coming back, I think it sets us up,
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  Speaker 7: you know, and and it's kind of a nod to you.
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  Speaker 7: Guys can be good, but you got to go out
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  Speaker 7: and prove it. And I think that's where you want
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  Speaker 7: to be. You know, we got a lot of good
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  Speaker 7: players coming back. I think people know DeMont Williams is
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  Speaker 7: a good quarterback. They know that we're building a good
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  Speaker 7: defense over here. So seventeen is kind of that we
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: like you, but we want you to show us really
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  Speaker 7: what you can do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And when I look at the Husky schedule though, that's
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  Speaker 7: the going to be the determined factor. You look at
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  Speaker 7: those last five weeks of the season where you gotta
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: go to Nebraska, you know that's not gonna be an easy.
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  Speaker 3: Football game going down there.
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: You got Oregon in Indiana the last two games, or
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: let's flip that, Indiana organ the last two games, and
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  Speaker 7: then you got a trip to usc in there. I
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  Speaker 7: think that that's gonna determine what happens.
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  Speaker 3: To me.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta go into that those last two games of
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: the season with only one loss, and you got to
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: pull one of those off most likely in order to
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: make it to the playoffs. So you gotta get through Iowa.
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  Speaker 7: You know, that's gonna be a tough game. You gotta,
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: like I said, go down to USC. So it really
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: is going to depend on taking all of those you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Michigan State going there, that's not gonna be easy. You're
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: going to you know, Michigan State in the middle of
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: the winter time, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, yeah, yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: They got to be coaching a new situation there, so
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: it's going to be a challenge. But if they can
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: get to that those last two games of the season
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  Speaker 7: with one loss and have an opportunity to pull one
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: of those off, you got Indiana here, that'll probably be
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: the you know, on paper, the easiest one. But then
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: you get to go to Orient player traditional rival. Man,
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: look at that, you've already wrote the script. So I
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: think seventeen is about right, because we do got a
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: we got a tough schedule for the third year in
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: a row. Think about this, the third year in a row,
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: the defending national champions are coming into Husky Stadium, Michigan
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: we pulled that one off when they came in the
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: next year. Last year we had Ohio State. This year
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: we got Indiana. So the home schedule is gonna be lit.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: You know, Fangie guys gotta come down. Here's going to
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: be exciting. But the schedule sets up just right, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: you can get into the playoff into Big ten with
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: two losses if they're the right two losses.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: One last Thing with Greg Lewis next to close out
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  Speaker 2: the show on Sports Radio ninety three point three k
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  Speaker 2: A r F M. All right, fine, whole segment here
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  Speaker 2: from Husky Stadium. That's right, our coverage of Husky Scamp.
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  Speaker 2: We got two full days out here, two full mornings,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: beautiful day, perfect Day number one here with Craig Lewis
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: as my special co host, and we always close every
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: show with one last thing and your show, Greg, how
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: it's done.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, we've had a couple hours of some
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: Husky talk here, so I'll just sprinkle in a little
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: back from the Mariners. I know there's a lot of
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: people that are feeling pretty frustrated after last night, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: you know, rightfully so after a tough loss. But for
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: all those saying see that's a regular baseball team that
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: doesn't use analytics.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Guys.
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: I just want to tell you that the Brewers are probably,
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: if not the most, one of the three most teams
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: that relies most heavily on the analytics in baseball. So
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: to say that this is what you get when you
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: just look at launch angle and X of velocity for
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: Jerry Ball, that's that's That's just not the case. That's
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: not the reason why the Mariners are where they're at
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: right now. So I just wanted to put that out there.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: I'm sure the tax line will love it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, if you're doing anything, you should
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: be studying the teams having the most success, right, Yes,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: and the Milwaukee Brewers do a lot of things right
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: considering their circumstances, their financial circumstances, And I think the
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Mariners could learn a thing or two from the Milwaukee
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Brewers playbook. I know I went off on a tangent
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: at seven o'clock, but they are pretty similar with how
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: they operate. If anything, the Mariners use analytics less and
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: spend less.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Money than what the Milwaukee Brewers. Yeah.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Mariners spend more money, yes than what the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: what the Brewers do. But but yes, I think they
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: are a team worth studying and seeing. If you could
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: steal a couple of things. That's what Mike McDonnell does
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: every coach he's ever been around. Let me steal a
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: couple of things from the and then I make it
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: my own. That's just that's how sports works. All right, Greg,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: there you go. One last thing, any place you want.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: To go, all right, I'll go a little bit off script.
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: A lot of people think I do this for a living.
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: This is just a hobby, all this Husky football radio
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: and all that kind of stuff. In my real life, folks,
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: I work for the YMC of Greater Seattle. I'm one
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: of the vps over there, and this year we are
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: celebrating our one hundred and fiftieth anniversary at the YMC
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: of Greater Seattle. The YMCA of Greater Seattle has been
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: around longer than Washington has been a state. So happy
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: birthday to the YMCA of Greater Seattle. Happy one hundred
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: and fifty of perth.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: That's a phenomenal. Yeah, that's how you do it. Look
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: at that. And one last thing, very good, very good.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Do you have a big celebration this year?
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: We are.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been celebrating pretty much all year.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: But October ninth, we're having a big gala downtown Seattle
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: called change Makers, And really what we do there is
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: just celebrate people who have really done a lot for
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: the city of Seattle, people who have volunteered and been
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: great you know, citizens and you know volunteers just helped
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: do good work.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: And so we're gonna celebrate October night.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Doesn't getting away of a game?
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Does it?
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: No?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Doesn't game? Okay, you made sure.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Well even if it does, I know where I'm gonna be.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, I were close with this.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Uh. I just want to thank you first of all.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: And I am a Hank listener every Saturday. I won't
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: catch all three hours, but I catch it every Saturday.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: And I am just happy this year for the first
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: time that I'm going to tune in and Softy won't
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: make Zach Durfy this keying game.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: That is a great one.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: You know, I didn't want to say Zach's name earlier
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: when I was talking about the outside guys that had
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: banged up a little bit, But yes, Softy does you
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: know have an affinity for Zach Durfy And I love
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: that kid, and I hope that he has a successful
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: uh stint in the NFL, get past all his injuries.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's soft. He's got well.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't always because he's in love with was
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: that it is Docdrvi stop up this way, I'm way.
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: He got some good games before his injury. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: great kid, great kid though. Yeah, that that's a good one.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: You and Mario would always have different ones. You have
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: running backs a lot, though, but was always like.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Oh I'm going to make Doc drthy. I'll tell you
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: and you can say this to Mario tomorrow right when
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: he's here.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: Why is every single game, I mean, without feel, every
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: game his favorite or his player of the game is
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: Alex McLaughlin. I mean every single game, Mario, man choose
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: somebody else out Alex.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Every game we created, he just mails Mario, just mails
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: stuff in. Tell him to do some homework next time.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: Watch the game a little better, stay off his phone,
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: stay off this phone and watch the game.
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  Speaker 3: So you pick somebody else. Here's my shot at Mark.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: He got it.
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: Geeze, it hasn't even started yet.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Geez, here we go.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a hell of a here, hell of
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: it right.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I do have Mario out tomorrow, as you mentioned,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: so he's gonna be uh, he's gonna be doing what
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: you did today.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: So I hope you had fun.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: I had a lot of fun.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: You know, you're gonna have to give Mario some coffee
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: or something to perk him up, you know, to get
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: him excited, because you know, Mario Thong's like this man.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: You know that's again. And I give him a lot
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: of stuff. But what's he gonna do. He weighs a
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: buck fifty. You can't beat me up.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, that'll do it for us. Practice getting ready,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Well it's already started. But nah, they're coming over here
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: to the main field, and so we'll be back out
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: here again tomorrow at six o'clock.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Greg, thank you very much. That was a pleasure for sure.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Greg lewis husky legend joining us here today to be
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: our special guest host and so tremendous. And now we're
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: gonna go enjoy a little bit of practice and I'm
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: going to gain a little bit of information and Ryan
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Walter is gonna tell me all of his secrets. That's
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen here in the next couple of hours.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Talk to you tomorrow at six. Greg Bell and Jessaman
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