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Chuck in the Morning 8-20 H4: Jedd Fisch and Demond Williams join · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Are we live on the air, Anders, Yeah, now you are,
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  Speaker 1: now we.
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  Speaker 2: Are all right, Yeah, we're just talking about my Fu
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  Speaker 2: Manshu in the fifth grade, Mario nine.
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  Speaker 1: If that's built over on the air, that's fine. Great
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  Speaker 1: morning to you all.
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  Speaker 2: It is our nine o'clock hour here on this Thursday
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  Speaker 2: man with a gorgeous day. Not everybody gets the chance
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  Speaker 2: to take advantage of a gorgeous day. They got things
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  Speaker 2: like work to do. But we're taking advantage of it
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  Speaker 2: this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: We're sitting at the field at Husky Stadium at the
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  Speaker 2: fifty yard line and it's just a beautiful sunlit day.
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  Speaker 1: I had to take off my jacket that I started
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  Speaker 1: the show with.
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  Speaker 2: But Mario Bailey is with US Husky Legend and of
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  Speaker 2: course one of the Husky Hanks. He's back for another
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  Speaker 2: season with Softy and Greg Lewis for this upcoming year,
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  Speaker 2: and so we stole them away for a couple of
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  Speaker 2: hours here this morning to be my special cut guest
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  Speaker 2: host here at Husky's Camp. And we're gonna have some guests,
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  Speaker 2: other guests coming on a little bit later on here
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  Speaker 2: in the hour, but a lot to discuss.
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  Speaker 1: We were discussing all sorts of things in the break.
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  Speaker 2: We're about the same age, Mario and I, even though
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  Speaker 2: he looks thirty and I look seventy eight.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, he was like, did they do two a
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  Speaker 1: days anymore? Am I? I don't think they do anything anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I watch a football practice, and I don't mean anything
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  Speaker 2: against today's current athletes because I think you're probably doing it.
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  Speaker 1: The right way.
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  Speaker 2: We did it the wrong way the way we were
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  Speaker 2: raised on it, and so I don't hold it against
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  Speaker 2: you at all.
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  Speaker 1: But I do hold it against my high school coach because.
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  Speaker 2: I watched Seahawks practices Mario, and I know you've watched
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  Speaker 2: a few of those as well, and I just sit
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  Speaker 2: on the sideline, like.
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  Speaker 1: How are you even tired? You're not doing anything.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, you've got shorts on and you're walking through stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and every once in a while you do a drill
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  Speaker 2: and that's all you do. I remember a time where
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  Speaker 2: you practice for two and a half hours and one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and five degree weather with eighty percent humidity in
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  Speaker 2: southern Illinois, and then at the end of practice, that's
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  Speaker 2: when you really did conditioning.
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  Speaker 3: I hated it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Here at the University of Washington, coach James was pretty
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  Speaker 4: strict on us, and each day we had a conditioning
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  Speaker 4: after our two hour and forty seven minute practice. Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: would be like we have to run the mile or so,
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  Speaker 4: and then Wednesday was always the rough day. We called
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  Speaker 4: it one oh six is you have to jog the
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  Speaker 4: width of the field in fifteen seconds down and back twice.
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  Speaker 3: It was a nightmare.
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  Speaker 4: And we were talking about this, like half of practice,
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  Speaker 4: all you're thinking about is let me conserve my energy
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  Speaker 4: because after this practice we have to run these drills,
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  Speaker 4: conditioning drills. And I was telling you about Greg Lewis.
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  Speaker 4: Greg Lewis would be in his red jersey, which meant
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  Speaker 4: you were injured, and he would laugh at us. Every Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think Greg practiced the entire season. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but it was a different ball game. Two hours and
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  Speaker 4: forty seven minutes of hell out here, and then we'd
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  Speaker 4: have conditioning afterwards. Thursday was a little more lenient because
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  Speaker 4: we were getting closer to the game, but all week conditioning,
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  Speaker 4: even the day after the game. We had conditioning on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: That's how much running. And we were always in full pads,
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  Speaker 4: always in full pad always.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now I didn't I certainly didn't make it to your level.
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  Speaker 2: I never got to play for a guy like Don James.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it might have even been worse for
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  Speaker 2: you know, a kid from southern Illinois with hacks for
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  Speaker 2: coaches that didn't know what they were doing. They were
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  Speaker 2: just taking delight and making a bunch of these mullet
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  Speaker 2: headed white boys look look like they might die before
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  Speaker 2: they could get off the field. I think there was
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  Speaker 2: some pleasure that they took in it, but I never
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  Speaker 2: discussed this. It never even dawned on me. But how
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  Speaker 2: much more effective could we have been in practice? I
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  Speaker 2: mean I sat there every practice, and football practice was
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  Speaker 2: bad enough, but I sat there every practice.
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  Speaker 1: Like dreading the end of practice. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't we get the conditioning done first? And then
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  Speaker 2: maybe you could just maybe you would enjoy practice more
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  Speaker 2: rather than dreading the conditioning that came at the end
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  Speaker 2: of practice.
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  Speaker 4: I would like, The thing is, if you practice great,
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  Speaker 4: then maybe you don't have to do conditioning. Coach Coach
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  Speaker 4: James had none of that in it. That was never
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen. You were gonna do it. The worst part
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  Speaker 4: I think about all of it is they didn't make
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  Speaker 4: you hydrate. Back then, you didn't tell you to drink
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  Speaker 4: water like it was like.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta taken away from us as a punishment.
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  Speaker 4: It was an insult. If you were over there drinking
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  Speaker 4: water too much. Now you gotta hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Back
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  Speaker 4: then they were trying to starve you from the water.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, World Cup, they got hydration breaks, yes, yeah, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Back then, if you were over drinking water too much,
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  Speaker 4: you you were gonna be in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: You were soft, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you do it again, you're never gonna
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  Speaker 1: get water ever again.
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  Speaker 3: For the rest of your line. To ban water from
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  Speaker 3: the field if you do that again.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't that long ago.
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  Speaker 2: I got a buddy of mine that played actually for
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks one year, played offensive line for twelve years
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  Speaker 2: in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: And as I.
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  Speaker 2: Started to get to know him, because we now when
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  Speaker 2: we get together, we never talk football because he just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't even like the memories. He doesn't I think you
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  Speaker 2: like your memories. Maybe not all of them at all though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but he didn't even like the memories of it. And
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  Speaker 2: he won't really sit around and watch a football game
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  Speaker 2: unless it's like the Super Bowl so we could have
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  Speaker 2: chips and dip. But when I first started getting to
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  Speaker 2: him and I would ask him questions, He's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you ask your football questions, but you
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  Speaker 2: better not. This will not be a friendship if this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be our every conversation. And so I
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  Speaker 2: would ask him about training camp and how much softer
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  Speaker 2: he is now he goes, we had two days and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not telling and we did it in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was a cardinal Arizona cardinal.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, so they took up. They gave us a break.
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  Speaker 2: It's twenty five degrees cooler than what it would have
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  Speaker 2: been in Phoenix. But he goes, Chuck, I'm not even
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  Speaker 2: kidding you. Every day I drove to practice, I contemplated
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  Speaker 2: driving my truck into the ditch just so I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to practice football that day.
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  Speaker 4: That is the mentality that's quietly, that's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: guys are thinking what am I doing out here. My
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  Speaker 4: first year was in Houston, and we practiced in San Antonio.
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  Speaker 4: The first practice started at six thirty because of how hot.
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  Speaker 3: It was at six thirty, and we had two days.
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  Speaker 4: The next practice started that I believe one thirty or
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  Speaker 4: two got a little break in between, but it was
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  Speaker 4: always one hundred degrees. So the first practice started at
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  Speaker 4: six thirty full pads, another two and a half hours.
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  Speaker 4: It total hell. So every day you wake up you're like,
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  Speaker 4: what am I doing? Why am I here?
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  Speaker 3: Is this worth? It?
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  Speaker 4: Is this what I am supposed to be doing? And
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  Speaker 4: that's just because camp was like hell? But now it's
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  Speaker 4: more of like a country club to me. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: not mad at the guys the way they should be. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: it should have always been like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know what point was trying
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  Speaker 2: to be. I know you wanted them to be tougher
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  Speaker 2: than the opponent. I know you wanted them to be
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  Speaker 2: in better condition by.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I get all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously they're showing today that there's a way to
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  Speaker 2: do that without having forty percent of your roster wanting
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  Speaker 2: to walk out the door.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, because she didn't give him a drink of water.
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  Speaker 3: It's totally different.
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  Speaker 4: Now, stay hydrated, meet a lot, don't hit too much.
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  Speaker 2: There's a snack table over here. That's all a snack
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  Speaker 2: table at preck. Can you imagine having a snack table
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  Speaker 2: once upon a time.
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  Speaker 4: Unbelievable, Like I said, coach James. You know, but coach
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  Speaker 4: James is also in a tower. He wasn't on the field.
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  Speaker 4: He actually had a tower, and if you heard him
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  Speaker 4: yell through his bullhorn, it was like lightning boats coming
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  Speaker 4: down on the field.
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  Speaker 3: So totally different air that I that I played it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, up, yep.
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  Speaker 2: And back at Southern Illinois we were even more antiquated.
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  Speaker 2: There was like a moment I think where coach Linton
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  Speaker 2: was like, if you are that hungry, you have to
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  Speaker 2: kill one of your teammates and eat it on the field.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds about right, his blood if you're thirsty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of the way that it went back
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  Speaker 2: in the game. All right, well, let's talk I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we've already talked some Huskies football, and we got more
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  Speaker 2: of that to discuss before our time's up. Though, Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the national sort of conversations that are going
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  Speaker 2: on right now, including the playoff. How much do you
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  Speaker 2: like the playoff? Would you like to see it expanded?
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  Speaker 2: It looks like it's an inevitability, but there's an argument
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  Speaker 2: between the Big Ten and the SEC over how much
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  Speaker 2: it should be expanded. Where do you weigh in on this.
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  Speaker 4: I think you could expand it one more, but I
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  Speaker 4: think that's about it. I think to sixteen. You're saying sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I think that would be great. I think the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs is a wonderful thing. But you're talking to a
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  Speaker 4: guy who people like to say, I have a co
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  Speaker 4: national championship, so the playoffs is the great thing.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: I liked it when it was the final four, but
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  Speaker 4: I think it should have expanded to more, and I
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  Speaker 4: like it where it's at right now. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to keep having a conversation about expanding because then you're
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  Speaker 4: just gonna you're gonna end up trying to talk like this.
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  Speaker 4: NCAA basketball and football is not that way, and we
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  Speaker 4: need to end the season at a certain time and
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  Speaker 4: give guys a chance to recuperate and get their bodies
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  Speaker 4: back together. But I do love the playoff system. I
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  Speaker 4: hope that we keep it right where it's at. But
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  Speaker 4: I could understand expanding one last time.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I mean, if you start getting to twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four and now you're talking about asking potentially a team
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  Speaker 2: to play four extra games, you're gonna have to cut
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  Speaker 2: something off you're at conference. If they do think conference championships.
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  Speaker 1: Are gonna games are gonna go away.
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  Speaker 4: I was just about to say that that would be
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  Speaker 4: you would have to take out conference championship, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Think they get in the way anyway. They kind of
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  Speaker 2: muddy the waters on the picture, because now how do
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  Speaker 2: I judge a team that went eleven and one played
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  Speaker 2: an extra game and then lost badly in the conference
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  Speaker 2: championship game because they would have never had to play
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  Speaker 2: in that game and it would have been in the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: So I that's gonna leave right, We're not gonna have
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  Speaker 2: conference championship games anymore.
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  Speaker 4: That'll be the only way that you can Expand another
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  Speaker 4: time is if you take away the conference champions Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe if you traded it for.
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  Speaker 2: Like that you have a play in round instead of
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  Speaker 2: conference championship games, and then you just had a play
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  Speaker 2: in round into the twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a way to get it up to twenty that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we should ever go to twenty. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I like it where it's at right now. And I
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  Speaker 4: always think about an eleven to one team that didn't
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  Speaker 4: make it to their conference champion they lost an early
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  Speaker 4: game and their conference and now they're not in the
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: conference champion, they have an advantage over the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the guys. That conference champion is taken away from some
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: of these teams every single year when you go in
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  Speaker 4: that conference championship, whether you win or lose, it's taken
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  Speaker 4: away from you.
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  Speaker 2: What But and that's just yeah, I mean, and the
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  Speaker 2: college that's college football. I'm sorry, I lost my train
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  Speaker 2: of offer a second. That's college football for you, in
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: a nutshell. As great as the product has been historically,
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  Speaker 2: the way that it's been run and managed, I knew
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  Speaker 2: this was gonna happen. I used to boycott watching bowl
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  Speaker 2: games because they didn't have a playoff, They didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a true because we had to do things like co
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  Speaker 2: champions or we're naming a national champion because of the
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: ap pole, you know, and so things like that. Had
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: the fact that they never changed it, and I knew
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  Speaker 2: they were going to do this. They were finally going
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  Speaker 2: to give us a college football playoff, and these idiots
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  Speaker 2: were gonna sit there on high like this is actually
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  Speaker 2: really fun. Wow, people like this. Oh my gosh. The
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  Speaker 2: networks are want more games. Let's give them more games.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go from never having more than two to having
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  Speaker 2: sixty four college football teams.
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  Speaker 1: In a turn.
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  Speaker 2: I knew they were going to do this, and it's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what they're trying to do right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, but if you look at it the most,
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  Speaker 4: the sport that I love the most is playoff time
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  Speaker 4: is college basketball, and that's.
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  Speaker 3: The sixty four I love the NCAA tournaments.
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  Speaker 4: Even screwed that up, yeah they have, but that's what
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  Speaker 4: college football is trying to do.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to get that excitement and.
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  Speaker 4: I love like, like I said, I'm happy where we're
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  Speaker 4: at right now. I don't think you keep expanding. I
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  Speaker 4: think you take away the championships for the conferences and
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  Speaker 4: you keep the twelve and we go from there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I kind of like, you know, I
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: like the they keep tinkering with it and making a
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: little bit better every year, you know, the home field.
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  Speaker 2: And then we started stopped giving the automatic because you
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: want a conference championship, you get a top four seat.
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  Speaker 2: We stopped doing that. So that's that's growth and improvement.
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  Speaker 2: Look that we're gonna be even some of the mistakes made.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to make an Omelet you gotta break some
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  Speaker 2: eggs along the way. But it seems like we're on
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  Speaker 2: our way to doing it exactly the right way. And
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  Speaker 2: instead of like king again, another round or two, what's
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  Speaker 2: the feeling? No, no, no, no, let's expand it. Let's make
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  Speaker 2: it gross, Let's make it disgusting. Let's now have arguments
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  Speaker 2: over whether an eight and four teams should get in
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  Speaker 2: over a seven and five team. Like I, there's gotta
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  Speaker 2: be some elite level of football that's played to have
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  Speaker 2: a shot at a national champion.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why you stop expanding, because that's what you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna end up having. You're gonna have the nine and threes,
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  Speaker 4: the eight and fours and eight and four. Nine and
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  Speaker 4: three shouldn't be in the national championship race. It shouldn't
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: be an option. So you don't want to keep expanding
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what I imagine if it's the eleven and one
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  Speaker 2: Koug's out of the PAC twelve versus nine and four Texas,
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  Speaker 2: No way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to have that argument. No, the answer
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  Speaker 1: is no, neither of those teams get in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be three losses. You probably shouldn't be
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs. So yeah, yeah, if you keep expanding,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna have three and four teams that have have losses.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So what is this is it's a realistic
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  Speaker 2: goal here this year. I mean, I know it's the
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  Speaker 2: goal to make it to the playoff this year. The
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  Speaker 2: Washington Huskies.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see it? Do you see it in this
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  Speaker 1: team that they can crack the top twelve in America
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  Speaker 1: this year as they start the year at number seventeen rank.
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  Speaker 4: I do see it, and I see it because I
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  Speaker 4: was here a few years ago when Kaylin de Boor
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  Speaker 4: came and just we came out of nowhere. And it's
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: what we talked about earlier is if you look at Indiana,
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  Speaker 4: nobody ever thought Indiana could do what they did last year,
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  Speaker 4: and they're the national champion, not only the national champion,
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  Speaker 4: but they're undefeated.
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  Speaker 3: We can come out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: We can compete, We can compete with these top tier teams.
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  Speaker 4: We can compete with the Michigan's, Ohio State and Indiana,
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  Speaker 4: and we can beat one or two of them. And
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: if we can beat one or two of them or Oregon,
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  Speaker 4: then we can make it. So I do think that
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: there's hope for US. I think we have a great team.
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  Speaker 4: I think coach is great. He does a great job recruiting.
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  Speaker 4: So you have to go into the season thinking positively
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  Speaker 4: if we can get to that top tier, can make it.
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  Speaker 4: We're in the best conference in the USA, and I
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  Speaker 4: think we have an opportunity if we can just beat
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  Speaker 4: one or two of those teams, we'll make it to
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  Speaker 4: the college playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's just it, and that's you know, we have
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  Speaker 2: not seen that version, and it's only been a couple
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: of years under Jedfish and one of them had to
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: basically rebuild everything.
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  Speaker 1: But I did not.
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  Speaker 2: See a team last year that because you're gonna have
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: to do two things. You're gonna have to be good
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: enough to beat one of those great teams as you
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: just mentioned. And right now you've got three of the
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: top six teams in America ranked that are all out
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: of the big ten Ohio State, Oregon, in Indiana, so
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to be good enough.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: And then the US.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: He's four teams you're gonna have to You don't face
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: all four of those, but you do face three of
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: them Oregon, Indiana, and USC. Yeah, so you're gonna have
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: to beat one of those because I think USC is
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: gonna be better this year and we can. And then
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: you also to be good enough to avoid losing to
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: someone you shouldn't have lost to during the course of
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: the year, which I don't think that they've shown yet
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: either in two years a short sample size. But you
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: also have to have that ability where we're not going
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: to play down to our competition ever during the course
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: of the season. So have they graduated to that? Is
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: this group capable? Is there enough experienced talent? Do you
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: have the right people at those marquee positions that you
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: are ready to be that team that can upset a
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: big dog and avoid that embarrassing loss on the road
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: to Maryland, for example.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: That's the biggest question, and you said it perfectly.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: And you can't play to the competition every week, and
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: we have to always take care of business, just like
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: a Washington State. We have to beat Washington State by
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: thirty points like we're supposed to beat Washington State. We
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: have to win those games that we're supposed to win
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: those games. We can't go to a Maryland or to
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: a Wisconsin and lose the game. We have to win
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: the games that we're supposed to, and then we have
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: to win the games, the big games. We have to
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: be competitive and win one of those games. I think
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: the biggest question is Demand Williams. You know we talk
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: about him and you don't want to put that pressure
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: on the quarterback. I thought our defense got a lot
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: better last year, and I look forward to them playing
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: great this year. But I think as demand Williams goes,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: our team goes. We need him to play big in
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: those big spots and get us one of those victories.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: The young man is capable of having a three hundred
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: yard passing game and one hundred yard rushing game. If
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: we can have one of those big games and he
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: steps up and takes it to that next level, then
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: our team can take it to that next level.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: You said I don't want to put pressure on the quarterback.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Am I a jerk for saying I do want to
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: put pressure on the quarterback. I do want to put
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: that on you. Demand. I want you to play. You
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: got to bring you at least your B game to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: these these major challenges on your schedule. I'm putting that
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: on you. We need you to play close to your
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: best against the best competition that we face all great
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks do that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: No, not at all. You're not a jerk for that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: That's how it's supposed to be. Like you're supposed to.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: You're getting paid the big money. I don't know how much.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: That weird, great money.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Four or five million dollars.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Like you are the man, and we are supposed to
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: be on your shoulders and you're supposed to take us
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: to the Promised Land. There's no problem with that. That's
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: what we want from and there's no excuses anymore. Like
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I said, his first year of starting an entire season
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: was last year. You can give him that. He played
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: a little bit as a freshman. But now it's your time.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Now it's your time to take us to the next level.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: And you see it all the time. You see the
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks taking their teams to the next level, whether it's
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: in the NFL or college. If you look at Mendoza
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: last year from Indiana, that's who they put the pressure on.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: That's who drove them to the national championship. You look
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: at Michigan's quarterback, I can't think of his name right now.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: He's in Minnesota, but jjcar J J McCarthy. If you
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: look at it, that's who who does, so that's no problem.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: He should know that it's on him, and I think
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: he does. But I think he's capable of putting that
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: on his shoulders and showing us exactly why he's getting
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: the money.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: The Great Mario Bailey, our special guest host out here
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: at a Husky's camp. Two straight days out here for
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: the morning show at Husky's Camp, and man.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: The weather is cooperated.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I haven't really seen many personnel walking around here though
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: this morning. It didn't look like they're getting ready for practice.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Jed already tearing him a new one.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Somewhere late practice.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they'll sleep in a little bit. Maybe, I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: But I would imagine some activity is going to start
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: milling around here in a little bit. And we were
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: expected to be visited by Jed Fish this morning. Mario
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and I will chat with him at nine forty five. Also,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: the guy we were just talking about, Demon Williams Junior,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: expected to join us here at our set as well,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: along with Emmanuel Carnly, So hopefully that's coming up. On
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: the other side, it is Chuck in the mornings with
• 20:03
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• 20:10
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• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're in a dancing mood here this morning. Yeah, everybody,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: everybody here is a friend, unlike when Bucky used to
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: co host with me out here, But it was always
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: fun watching him bow down.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: On the sidelines, Oh man, the the kick I got
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: out of watching an Oregon Duck fans show up here
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and then immediately Andersfield compelled to bow down.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: It was awesome.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: I mean when you hear the husky beds that we play,
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: we cycle through them all in this case, Louis Louis,
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: I think it's a instinct that Oregon Duck like fans,
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: whether you're born into it or become a fan later
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: in life, you immediately have to bow down.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Ride right right exactly. Yeah, that's just it. They talk
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a big game.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I realized they've had some success, but then as soon
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: as they walk onto this field, the greatest setting, it's
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: as if they just crumble into a bow down position.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I do miss that a little bit, frankly
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: of our Huskies coverage here this year. But we are
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: out here at the greatest setting in college football, little
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Husky's Camp Action. I've had special guest co host Mario
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Bailey with me here for the last couple of hours.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: They'll rejoin me here in a little bit when Coach
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Fish slides over here and we'll talk to the coach
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: before practice here today. We also expected to hear from
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Demon Williams and Emmanuel Carnly as well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: They'll join us here at our set.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: And Emmanuel Carnly, I know you know Demon Williams Junior
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: if you're listening, might not know the name. Emmanuel Carnly
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: is transferred in this year from Virginia, but his history
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: goes back with Jedfish to Arizona. So recruited by Jed
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to Tucson, played a season with him there, played a
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: season without him, decided to spend some time in Virginia
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: because life just wasn't the same in Tucson without Jedfish.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: And now here he is, with some eligibility remaining, enters
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the transfer portal and lo and behold, he reunites with
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: coach here in Washington, and he's expected to be a
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: starting corner for this team this upcoming year, and so
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that's that's a bit of an expectation. So he's expected
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to play a big role on this squad this upcoming season.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: So we'll certainly talk to Emmanuel about that whenever he
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: joins us. Also, of course, Demon Williams Junior will be
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: joining us as well, and we know what his role
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: on this team is going to be, and so we
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: anticipate them joining us here momentarily. But yeah, I mean
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: this is sort of it. I'm sure you heard Mario
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: and I Andrews talking about this in our last segment.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I do want to put the pressure on Demon Williams Junior.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I want him to be the voice of this team.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I want to I want him to, you know, do
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: the interview, you know, when the radio shows in town
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: doing camp coverage. I want it to be Demon Williams
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: speaking on behalf of the team. I want to see
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the jump up in leadership this year. I want to
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: see that excellent version of him that we saw, you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: kind of take the country by storm at Maryland. I
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: want to see that against Indiana this year. So Yeah,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I do kind of want to put that pressure on
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: a young man's shoulders.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: You need to be the best player on this team.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Let's see it this year.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it is something, especially with the offseason
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: noise as well. He's going to need to, you know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: do what he can to make some fans. Some some
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: fans will automatically just because you're wearing husky purple and
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: be endeared by him and root for him and get
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: behind him. But some fans will need to be kind
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: of convinced otherwise that you're you're all in on this program.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: So I'm I'm interested to see how he responds to that,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: and not just in the media talking, but on the
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: field as well well.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Michael Pennock's shadow looms large here. It does, and Michael
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Pennix comes to Washington without even a promise of starting,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and this is a transfer that comes here. And then
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the next thing, you know is just like I mean,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: you want to talk about somebody that got more popular
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: with every snap that he took, So it just kept
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: growing and growing and growing. Then you lead the team
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: to a national championship game. And so the next guy
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that comes in after that, you know, I don't think
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: anybody's expecting you to be Michael Pennix junior, but there
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: is sort of an expectation of, you know, be behave
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: like Michael Pennix junior that you want them to like
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: look like there's this is they were meant to play here,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: like this is everything came together the coach player roma
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: doone say everything was in such symmetry and there was
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: just this love affair that took place right there. So
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I think that people wanted to go down that same
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: road with demand and it wasn't quite as smooth. Then again,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: you know, didn't play on as good a team as
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: what Michael PENNICKX played on overall, and then you have
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: this offseason when you were sure that the big step
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: was coming forward this year. Then you had this off season, right,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and so now all of a sudden, that was.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Truly unpinnised, Like.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: We never had to entertain that that was never anything
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that we had that crossed our minds that he didn't
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: want to be here. And unfortunately the story put the
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Washington Husky fan in a position where they had to
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: wonder whether or not arguably the best player on the
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: team actually wanted to be here. So so now you know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: he's done all the right things from what we hear,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: from what we understand, and now he's had a good
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: camp and now we see if he can on the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: field take that game to the next level. Mario believes
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: that not only can he, he will, Yeah, this season,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: and I think we will see a better version of him,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: But we need to see the best version of him
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: in those big games in order for him to take
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: this team where it wants to go this year, which
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: is a playoff.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: And it's not just like playing well and not screwing up, right,
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: I think he has to show that he can kind
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: of carry this offense and be the kind of guy
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: that you know you're paid to be at this point,
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: which is to be a guy like make plays with
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: your legs, with your arm.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Obviously, I think he's going to lead the team in
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: rushing by the way, you think, so, wow, I'm gonna
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: go ahead and predict that.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to be the leading rusher on
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: this team this year, Okay, and obviously the leading passer.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Well yes, hopefully if he's not, then there's some other
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: issues in there.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: But well, if he leads us in tackles, that could
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: be a problem, you know, So I'm gonna end it there. Yeah, yeah, sure,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: be the passing leader, and he I think's going to
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: end up being the rushing leader on this team as well.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: I think that'll be interesting to kind of see you.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I think that could be like a thousand yards. Yeah,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that's not because nobody's rushed for three hundred yards here.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I think he could rush for one thousand yards for
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: twelve games. I think absolutely what I've seen from Demon
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Williams that he could rush for a thousand yards in
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: a season.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Well, the Heisman talk was loud going into last season,
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: and for maybe for whatever reason of what happened in
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: the offseason, if that's quiet down quite a bit. But
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: I think he's going to take another step up as
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: well on the field. I just I just hope that
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: the offseason noise and everything that went on doesn't kind
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: of contribute to maybe some conflict of interest, so to speak.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You know what, though, sometimes.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Though, when you have your cage rattled like that, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I know that he had his cage rattled by that
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: entire experience, I don't think that he expected the noise,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: and and so sometimes when you have it, it forces
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: you too mature, It forces you to do more, It
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: forces you to focus on the leadership aspect of it,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: like you don't have a choice, Like what other what
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: else was he going to do in the off season
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: program at training camp? Was he going to show up
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: and act aloof you know? It was no, it was
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: going to Okay, I'm here and and I am my
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: cage has been rated, and I am going to be
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a leader. Sometimes that experience, those experiences where you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: maybe you got a little off the rail, maybe you
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: got a little negative publicity, it kind of sharpens the focus.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: So I would imagine that what we're hearing about him
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: that he has been a tremendous leader. I'm iagin that's
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: all true. And maybe it was because he had the
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: adversity here in the off season. So we'll see how
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: it unfolds. All Right, it's not gonna time out right here.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I know we'd have Coach Fish coming. I don't know
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: if demand and the manual got delayed, but we will
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: at least have Coach Fish before the end of the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: show here today. So Husky's training camp coverage continues right
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: here on Chuck in the Morning Sports.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Well, there's that music with Jetfish Blairs on his patio
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: for his neighbors to hear every evening while he's having
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: a cocktail to wind down. There's that music demand Williams
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: will play when he dances with his wife for the
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: first time.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: When his gets married here in a few years.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Joining us now on the program, Coach and quarterback, we're
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: gonna make radio history here on Chuck in the mornings
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: that Jetfish is with us.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Demon Williams Junior is with us.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Thanks for hosting us first and foremost, and thanks for
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: being with us.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Coach.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's great to have you here and in the
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: greatest sitting at college football. And there's no question today
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: fits the bill. So we're glad you guys are out
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: here on the stadium, brand new field. Yeah, and we're
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: excited to be able to open this thing up here soon.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: How nice is it demon to not be practicing football
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: in Arizona and instead here at the greatest setting.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, sir, thanks for having us too, and really it's amazing.
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: You know you're out here for fall camp and you
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: know you get whatever it is eighty eighty five degrees
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: right now, Son's ALLERGI just feels great outside.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good, well you look great. By the way
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I was talking to you off the air. You put
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: on some weight. It all looks like good weight. Tell
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: us what went into that this offseason?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: Really, just you know, trying to prepare my body for
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: the season, you know, having a whole season under my
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: belt now as a starter, help me understand a little bit,
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: kind of keep my body in maintenance and being able
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: to stay healthy throughout the entire year.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: What are you saying about your quarterback that looks even
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a little different than last year.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, well, the first thing is I tell
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: him that, like his body's his moneymaker, right and you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: we always want to make sure that we protect that
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: and uh, but more the you know, you just feel
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: glow with him right now, Like you feel like the smile,
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: he looks bigger.
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: He looks to part more.
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: But it's really more along the line of we talk
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: about this year a lot about Curry joy and playing
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: with that Steph Curry mentality of just really enjoying every moment.
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: And I think a lot of that comes from experience
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: going back under center now for the third year, the
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: second year as a starter, and you can kind of
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: feel and bounce around a little bit.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: What about from the leadership standpoint, what are you seeing
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: from your quarterback that shows that maturity that every young
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: man's got to go through in this sport.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think he's taking the team over.
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: You know, it's hard to take a team over when
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: it's your first year ever as a starter. Like, it's
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: just it's unique in that regard. Plus, when you're only
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: a sophomore in nineteen and really just coming off of
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  Speaker 7: three games of starting, you know, it's really harder just
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  Speaker 7: to own it. I think now in training camp, there's
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  Speaker 7: no doubt, right it's thirteen starts, it's you know, running
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  Speaker 7: one of you know, leading a top offense, winning the
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  Speaker 7: last three at the last four games we played, and
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  Speaker 7: then going into this offseason and then this this offseason,
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  Speaker 7: this spring and this training camp. Really I think the
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  Speaker 7: command he probably has right now it's pretty special, which
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  Speaker 7: is allowing that leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Is that happening naturally for you? Or did you make
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  Speaker 2: it a point this year like I know, coach, what
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  Speaker 2: do I need to do.
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  Speaker 1: More to lead this team? What happened there for you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: I think I definitely just bought it a part myself
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  Speaker 8: throughout really the entire offseason, starting the winter, really winter conditioning,
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: summer conditioning, all the hardest training of the stuff that
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: we go through as a program, and being able to
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: take that next step forward to being a lot more vocal,
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  Speaker 8: a lot louder to the team, understanding you know, my
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: voice means a lot, and continuing to go out there
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  Speaker 8: every day and trying to embrace the guys.
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  Speaker 1: How's your offensive line look amazing? Great?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: I love those guys, love the twice that they bring
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  Speaker 8: every day, and you know they still are.
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  Speaker 1: Ready to work every day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you had to build an offensive line when
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  Speaker 2: you got here. But coach, I mean they're talking about
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  Speaker 2: this might be the strength of the team along with
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback. So how are you feeling about that symmetry there?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean Dee and I talked about that this morning.
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  Speaker 7: We were just talking about really the size of our team.
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  Speaker 7: I look today, we have thirty four guys over three
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  Speaker 7: hundred pounds out of one hundred and three man roster.
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  Speaker 7: We have an offensive line that I think the smallest
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  Speaker 7: or the smallest offensive Linehan. We have a six four
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  Speaker 7: and a half or six five right now, if you
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: look at our five starters currently when coltsman in the
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  Speaker 7: game at center and more than anything, I mean, these
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: guys love ball and they love each other like they
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: are close. And to me, the best offensive lines that
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: I've had the opportunity to be around over twenty five
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: years of coaching is the ones that are the most
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  Speaker 7: connected and that know how to bring that lunchbox mentality.
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  Speaker 7: And I'd say our guys are elite at that.
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  Speaker 2: I asked coach Walters, who we had on yesterday, how
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  Speaker 2: much of your depth chart is set on defense? He goes,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I have no depth chart. There is no depth chart.
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  Speaker 2: It will it will always be a competition. I'll ask
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  Speaker 2: you the same question because I gotta believe you got
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  Speaker 2: some starters locked.
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  Speaker 1: In right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I gotta I gotta imagine this guy's
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: want to Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: We got some starters locked in. So do they.
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  Speaker 7: But you know, I think when you have competition as
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  Speaker 7: your central theme of the program, and you know there's
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: a obviously that's a peak carroll ism from twenty ten on,
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  Speaker 7: and I mean that's always been his line.
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  Speaker 9: And then on the you know, you.
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: Can't write a book called always compete, and you can't
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: work for a head coach that you know believes so
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: much in that philosophy, and really that's what we believe
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  Speaker 7: in as well. On the same token, where we have
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: great competition is because our depth has gotten much better
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: over the two years. That we have players that are
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: constantly challenging other players and there's a lack of feeling
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  Speaker 7: comfortable in a good way. We want guys to always
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: compete for their spot, you know. Now, obviously there's not
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: a number two at every position that is as good
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  Speaker 7: as the number one, but our goal is for that
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  Speaker 7: to be the case.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're not in a competition, we know your
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: QB one, how are you challenging yourself? What are you
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: asking yourself to do to become the best quarterback you
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: can be for yourself and for this team.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Really, I just think it's the mindset going into it
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  Speaker 8: every day, you know, just taking it one step at
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: a time and understanding each day is and present its
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: own challenges, and really just throughout practice understanding trying to
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: put to put myself in the headspace of game time
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  Speaker 8: situations and continue to take practice like a game every day.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: What's the line for you between take off and run
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  Speaker 2: and stay in the pocket and let's let the play
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  Speaker 2: play out.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Where is that for you? Yeah?
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: I mean I want to be a passor as much
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: as I can. You know, I'm a pastor until I've
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: become a runner. So that's really the main goal for
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: me is to continue being I can tell you've been
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: a passer and a when it's time the run makes
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: you get down?
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Take this his? What is? What are the instructions you
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: give somebody?
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Because you got to play the exist game somewhat with instinct,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: but you also got to stay within the plays.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: That you're calling. So what do you tell him to do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I mean that you know, we we were talking about
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  Speaker 7: the other day, like you know, your feet is your clock,
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: and you kind of know you know when it's time
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: and you have to know when to stay when in
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: a lot of different manners. But when you have the
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: skills that d has, it's very unique because you know
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: where normally you would tell a quarterback throw that away.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: You know, maybe that throwaway turns into a twelve yard
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: scramble and that was a missed opportunity to get a
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: first down. So I think it's his instincts are always
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: going to win versus what you know we coach him
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: to do. He's got to play with instincts, number one,
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: But number two, it's our goal to try to make
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: the game the the easiest thing he does all week.
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: So if we can make the game the easiest thing
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: he does all week, then all week long in practice,
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: we're challenging him to feel like, Okay, this is one
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: i'd take off, this is one that I could wait,
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: This is one that this pressure I know we can
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: pick up. So therefore I can hang in the pocket
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: a little longer. And that's kind of what our goal
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: is as a coaching staff.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have some design runs too, though.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean, let's not forget the tools and
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: the toolbox, right, I mean, that would be coaching malpractice
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: if we don't take advantage of every asset.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to take advantage of having you two
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: here together. So uh, give me and I don't care
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: what it is. It could maybe maybe you don't like
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: his dance moves. Give me your favorite thing about your quarterback,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: and then give me something that drives you nuts about him,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna ask him that about you.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: My favorite thing about him is his smile because when
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: he's smile and I know that we're just in a
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: great spot and that that that energy, that positivity is elite.
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: What drives me crazy about him?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what drives him crazy.
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: That he's uh right a lot.
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  Speaker 7: So when I kind of trying to make a correction
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: and then I go back and I'm like, hm, it
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: was right on that all right?
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Now you evaluate your coach? Yeah, pressure's on here.
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: I think how player friendly is uh, you know, you
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: can go into this office at any time say what's up,
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: stop by, just talk about life, talk about football. It
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: really don't matter. And one thing to drive me crazy. Yeah,
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: I don't think it drives me like crazy, but I
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: feel like on the play call sometimes if I don't
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: get it, it's like, oh I need it again. But
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: you know he's on to the next place, so we gotta,
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: you know, figure out figure out how to get the
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: communication to get it twice sometimes?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Fair statement?
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is it fair for me to say, Hey, I want
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: to put the pressure on you be your best this year,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: go out and have a great season. I want to
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: put the pressure on coach Fish to you know, break
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: through that glass ceiling and have this year be the breakthrough?
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Is that fair of me to ask both of you?
• 38:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, pressure is a privilege. We want that.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're good with that, for sure. You're good with
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: that that.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I'm having huge expectations for you this year, and so
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: do a lot of people listening right now.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: You're ready for it? All right? All right?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Well let's promote this Saturday before I let you go
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: and your head off to practice mock game. Why is
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: it important? And fan Fest? Why do you want people
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: to come out and be a part of this?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's the last opportunity to get out
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: here for free before you know, game day game opportunity.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: So we'd love to see as many people as we can.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: It's great for our kids to be able to play
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: in front of as many people as they can. A
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: lot of these guys this might be their last opportunity
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: to have a true game like situation in the stadium
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: for a few months. So we're gonna play everybody and
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: give those guys a chance. And fan Fest that's our
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: way to say thank you. And you know, we want
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: to we want to sell this place out for the
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Apple Cup and then we want to sell it out
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: every game after that. So we're just here those couple
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: hours on Saturday really to be grateful and say thanks.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Last thing that I'm gonna mention, Mario and I were
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: discuss saying when we played high school football and he
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: played college I didn't play college football, that they always
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: saved running in sprints for the end of practice, and
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: we dreaded practice because we did not want to do
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: the conditioning at the end. We're so glad that that
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: has changed.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, what you know? Did you know this? By the way, demon,
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  Speaker 1: do you do sprints at the end?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it hasn't hasn't changed.
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  Speaker 9: It hasn't changed.
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  Speaker 2: Changed that coach, because I spent my entire practice like,
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  Speaker 2: oh gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I got to do those sprints at the end.
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  Speaker 9: Exactly right.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: That's what you wanted, you create, you crafted this. Oh, coaches,
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  Speaker 2: they never do change. Hey, thank you very much. Have
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: a great year.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, thanks for coming on, coach, Thanks very much.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Jed Fish, Damon Williams Junior joining us right here on
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: the radio program as we get ready to sign off
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: here from Husky's Camp and ham things off to Greg
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Bell also certainly want to thank Mario Bailey real quickly.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Just put those on real quick because I want to
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: at least, uh say thank you to you as we're
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: getting ready to do.
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  Speaker 3: You have them?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to see you. Yeah, great, to see you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it again sometime next time.
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  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, yeah, no worries. The Great Mario Bailey
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: with us as well.
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