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- 0:00Speaker 1: Various analysts in town breaking down one unit of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Washington Huskies twenty twenty six season for one entire interview,
- 0:08Speaker 1: and today we have our QB one talking about the
- 0:11Speaker 1: QB one. You know what I would really love to
- 0:12Speaker 1: do at some point, Ashley is like Interstellar, this thing
- 0:16Speaker 1: where Hugh goes back to the year nineteen eighty four
- 0:20Speaker 1: somehow as analysts today and analyzes the Washington Huskies quarterback.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Analyze himself, right exactly.
- 0:29Speaker 1: That's what I'd love to see, Hugh Millan, is that
- 0:31Speaker 1: you're hiding behind a bookshelf. We have some interstellar ghost
- 0:35Speaker 1: and you're analyzing the quarterback that you see and it's yourself.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Let's not do that. Let's yeah, yeah, the internet's bad enough.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Let's not have time machines.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Nope, nope, no, let's just keep our feet.
- 0:49Speaker 1: On the ground here. Hell of a plot twist, So
- 0:53Speaker 1: pass hard pass on that one, please, yes, Well, thank
- 0:58Speaker 1: you for doing this for us to day. Yeah, we're
- 1:01Speaker 1: going to talk about Demon Williams Junior. And there is
- 1:04Speaker 1: a whole lot to break down with this young man.
- 1:08Speaker 1: So uh, let's just get it started. Just your general thoughts.
- 1:12Speaker 1: I mean, this is somebody in the Husky family of quarterbacks. Uh,
- 1:17Speaker 1: Demon Williams Junior. What I mean, he's obviously a very
- 1:21Speaker 1: interesting player.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Well, I think what gets your attention is that just
- 1:27Speaker 3: you know, and I've watched the quarterbacks going back to
- 1:29Speaker 3: Sonny six killer, all of them, and and and have
- 1:34Speaker 3: you know, uh, if not a keen eye, at least
- 1:36Speaker 3: a very interested eye in all of them. And I
- 1:40Speaker 3: look at him, and the first thing that jumps out
- 1:42Speaker 3: at is is he's just he's.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Probably the fastest.
- 1:46Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you got Mark Burnell, Jake Locker,
- 1:51Speaker 3: I would put my money on Demond Williams. Uh, you know,
- 1:54Speaker 3: foot race against those at any distance. But he is
- 1:57Speaker 3: definitely the quickest. There's no debate about that. I mean,
- 2:01Speaker 3: he is a flat out, live wire, twitchy dude. And
- 2:05Speaker 3: then you watch him throw and he can spin it.
- 2:08Speaker 3: I mean, he's got a really beautiful natural throwing motion.
- 2:11Speaker 3: The ball comes out high revolutions, that's aerodynamically efficient. You
- 2:15Speaker 3: have less drag, less wake, you get more velocity for
- 2:19Speaker 3: the same effort because you can spin it looks pretty
- 2:22Speaker 3: cuts the wind. So there's a lot of things to
- 2:25Speaker 3: like about him, But I think first and foremost is
- 2:29Speaker 3: that athleticism. Now it comes in a smaller package. He's
- 2:32Speaker 3: listed at five to eleven one ninety one. I think
- 2:35Speaker 3: it's closer to five ten and generally in the one eighties,
- 2:39Speaker 3: hopefully high one eighties. So I think that the size
- 2:42Speaker 3: has been an issue will continue to be an issue
- 2:44Speaker 3: for him, but that that just breathtaking athleticism is kind
- 2:48Speaker 3: of my first word association when I think Devon Williams.
- 2:51Speaker 1: It's one thing to have it, it's another thing to
- 2:54Speaker 1: impact the game with it. I mean, there are some
- 2:58Speaker 1: quarterbacks that can run, but then there are guys like
- 3:01Speaker 1: Williams who might run just as well as they pass.
- 3:04Speaker 1: So how has that athleticism of his impacted games? Yeah?
- 3:09Speaker 3: You know, I think that that's the challenge for demond
- 3:12Speaker 3: Is is where's his signature win? I mean, was it Illinois?
- 3:17Speaker 3: They were ranked twenty third when they came into Husky Stadium,
- 3:20Speaker 3: but they finished with four losses and unranked.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Was it Boise?
- 3:24Speaker 3: I mean they were ranked twenty fifth in going into
- 3:26Speaker 3: the season last year, but they lost their opening game.
- 3:30Speaker 3: They were unranked after Week one. They had five losses.
- 3:32Speaker 3: The Maryland fourth quarter comeback, Maryland had four wins, So
- 3:36Speaker 3: I think that he's desperately in need of that signature win.
- 3:41Speaker 3: And you know, you look at the best opponents Ohio State.
- 3:46Speaker 3: This is the part about it that gets me is
- 3:48Speaker 3: I just absolutely I would have never imagined in twenty
- 3:51Speaker 3: twenty five that Williams athleticism would be So you know,
- 3:58Speaker 3: I want to say not prominent against Yeah, just Ohio State.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Twenty yard yards on seven carries. That's a two point
- 4:08Speaker 3: nine average. Against Michigan just eleven yards, Oregon seven yards,
- 4:12Speaker 3: a one point eight average. I mean, if you'd have
- 4:14Speaker 3: told me those opponents that he'd have thirty eight total.
- 4:18Speaker 3: And by the way, that's filtered for true rushing yards,
- 4:22Speaker 3: because you say, wait a minute, college football, they count sacks. No, no, no,
- 4:25Speaker 3: what the numbers I just gave you are eliminating sacks.
- 4:28Speaker 3: That's the true rushing numbers. And and you know, Matt
- 4:32Speaker 3: Patricia just bottled him up, the defensive coordinator for Ohio State.
- 4:35Speaker 3: And schematically they're just waiting for him on the edge,
- 4:38Speaker 3: on his red zone and on his boot legs. And
- 4:42Speaker 3: you know when you compare them against other Huskies, and
- 4:44Speaker 3: and and the legacy, if it matters to DeMont, you
- 4:47Speaker 3: know too, Yes, Soapa It wasn't just the Stanford three
- 4:50Speaker 3: hundred and two hundred game where he threw, he rushed
- 4:53Speaker 3: for two hundred and fifteen true yards. That was against
- 4:55Speaker 3: the Stanford team that was undefeated in conference coming into
- 4:59Speaker 3: that game. They ended only losing one game in conference.
- 5:02Speaker 3: It was to the Huskies. Huskies foiled away the Roseball opportunities.
- 5:06Speaker 3: So Stanford played in the Rose Bowl, but against Miami.
- 5:08Speaker 3: That was against six number one draft picks, ten guys
- 5:12Speaker 3: on the defense, only ten guys who played in the
- 5:15Speaker 3: NFL two. He had sixty six yards in the Rose
- 5:18Speaker 3: Bowl against Purdue. You think of Drew Brees, but that
- 5:21Speaker 3: defense had four guys drafted in the top four rounds.
- 5:25Speaker 3: They had nine guys drafted, excuse me, seven guys in
- 5:29Speaker 3: the top four rounds, nine guys overall on that defense too.
- 5:32Speaker 3: He had eighty six yards rush and Jake Locker in
- 5:34Speaker 3: a bowl game against Nebraska eighty three yards. Like that,
- 5:38Speaker 3: athleticism needs to translate against the best teams, and thus
- 5:44Speaker 3: far it just hasn't.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's a great point. Well, let's
- 5:48Speaker 1: talk about his passing attack, because he can't spin it.
- 5:53Speaker 1: What do you see in his passing game? Right now.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Well, if you look at the Huskies played nine conference
- 6:02Speaker 3: games that there are sixty six, sixty seven excuse me,
- 6:07Speaker 3: sixty seven Power four teams, and if you rank them
- 6:10Speaker 3: in terms of points per game in the conference, the
- 6:14Speaker 3: Huskies had four opponents that are inside the top twenty
- 6:17Speaker 3: five defensively, and they had five opponents in the bottom
- 6:22Speaker 3: twenty ranked forty seven to sixty four. To be specific,
- 6:27Speaker 3: all of the Huskies losses were against the top twenty
- 6:31Speaker 3: five defense, the four in the top twenty five. The
- 6:34Speaker 3: five wins they went five and four. The five wins
- 6:38Speaker 3: were all against the defenses in the bottom twenty And
- 6:42Speaker 3: by the way, the Husky defense was ninth. So this
- 6:46Speaker 3: was a hell of a defense and the offense just
- 6:49Speaker 3: didn't do their job. And yet we hear Jed Fish
- 6:53Speaker 3: at the end of the year, and I'm gonna quote
- 6:54Speaker 3: he says, the Husky offense, for one example, went from
- 6:57Speaker 3: one oh four in the nation in scoring offense to seventeenth.
- 7:01Speaker 3: Washington's red zone offense improved from number one oh four
- 7:04Speaker 3: to number seven, and from one hundred first to tenth
- 7:07Speaker 3: and third down conversion. So he's he's citing the head
- 7:10Speaker 3: coach is citing statistics for you. Here's another way to
- 7:14Speaker 3: look at it, because all of those numbers that he
- 7:16Speaker 3: cited again are counting the non conference games against UC Davis,
- 7:22Speaker 3: Colorado State, Washington State. As I said, the five conference
- 7:27Speaker 3: games where five opponents were in the bottom twenty in
- 7:31Speaker 3: the Power four. Here's another way to analyze it. There
- 7:35Speaker 3: are fifty nine quarterbacks last year in Power for schools
- 7:40Speaker 3: who started at least one game versus a top twenty
- 7:43Speaker 3: five defense and one game against an opponent outside the
- 7:46Speaker 3: top twenty five. I'm gonna give you three stats EPA.
- 7:50Speaker 3: That's expected point average. You can google it. It's a
- 7:53Speaker 3: new emerging sabermetrician deal that has a very very high
- 7:59Speaker 3: correlational to winning. It is the skeleton. It's the bones
- 8:02Speaker 3: of the QBR that ESPN uses. So EPA. The average
- 8:07Speaker 3: reduction the difference between how you play against top twenty
- 8:12Speaker 3: five versus out of the top twenty five. The average
- 8:15Speaker 3: reduction of those for those fifty nine quarterbacks is minus
- 8:19Speaker 3: point seventeen. Taylor Green for Arkansas, similar type player to
- 8:23Speaker 3: Demon who went in the six round. Last foot dollars
- 8:27Speaker 3: Yeah well yeah, yeah, yeah, true. He had a positive
- 8:33Speaker 3: point one nine Demon Williams had a a point seven
- 8:37Speaker 3: zero drop out of fifty nine quarterbacks. That I said,
- 8:41Speaker 3: that's the lowest. That's the worst drop. Okay, you say
- 8:44Speaker 3: passer rating, give me something I know passer rating. Then
- 8:48Speaker 3: NCAA calls a pass efficiency. The average drop is seventeen points.
- 8:52Speaker 3: Leonora Sellers for South Carolina, a similar type of athlete.
- 8:56Speaker 3: He raised his against the best team thirty one points.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Demond Williams had a seventy three point drop in passer
- 9:03Speaker 3: rating between the bad teams the outside of the top
- 9:10Speaker 3: twenty five or is the good His seventy three point
- 9:12Speaker 3: drop is the second lowest out of the fifty nine.
- 9:15Speaker 1: One more.
- 9:16Speaker 3: I'll give it to you simple passing yards again, the
- 9:18Speaker 3: average drop is twelve yards. True and Dad Chambliss, similar
- 9:23Speaker 3: player at ole Miss, he went up forty one yards.
- 9:26Speaker 3: Demond Williams drops one hundred and twenty four yards. That's
- 9:30Speaker 3: the third lowest out of fifty nine. So you take
- 9:32Speaker 3: those three together, combine him. You can say this factually
- 9:36Speaker 3: and statistically by those metrics, Demond Williams had the biggest
- 9:41Speaker 3: drop when he played good teams versus when he played
- 9:46Speaker 3: the not good teams. As discribed as defined by what
- 9:50Speaker 3: I stated, so at an't event, he's simply just got
- 9:52Speaker 3: to pick it up against the better teams.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Hugh melanis so with us our Huskies one series one
- 9:59Speaker 1: analyst breaking down on one unit of the Washington Huskies
- 10:02Speaker 1: roster for one entire interview, and yeah, there is a
- 10:05Speaker 1: quarterback room, but we are going to focus on the starter,
- 10:08Speaker 1: Demond Williams Junior, because there are many layers to this conversation.
- 10:13Speaker 1: The running ability, the passing ability, the overall just football abilities.
- 10:18Speaker 1: That's one part of the story, Hugh. But there's another
- 10:22Speaker 1: huge part of the Demond Williams Junior story heading into
- 10:26Speaker 1: this season, and that's what happened this offseason with him
- 10:31Speaker 1: as it looked like he was on his way out
- 10:33Speaker 1: of town until he was lassoed and forced back to Seattle.
- 10:39Speaker 1: And I'm curious as to how you believe this is
- 10:43Speaker 1: going to impact him on this football team and also
- 10:47Speaker 1: just whether or not there's enough time that has healed
- 10:50Speaker 1: this as we get ready to start training camp.
- 10:54Speaker 3: Well, I think it's unprecedented, certainly in Washington history where
- 10:59Speaker 3: the quarterback, you know, he made a leap clearly to
- 11:03Speaker 3: go to LSU and it was a couple of days
- 11:07Speaker 3: after he had signed his contract with Washington. And so
- 11:11Speaker 3: when we hear this talk that he got bad advice,
- 11:16Speaker 3: I think that's that's projected in kind of an ambiguous tone,
- 11:20Speaker 3: that did he get bad advice to leave Washington? Well, specifically,
- 11:24Speaker 3: the bad advice he got was to violate the contract.
- 11:27Speaker 3: So he was wanting to go to LSU for two
- 11:32Speaker 3: million dollars more. And so we've never had the specter
- 11:37Speaker 3: of the Washington quarterback who is playing for the Huskies
- 11:42Speaker 3: because he's bent over a barrel. He can't play for
- 11:45Speaker 3: LSU because of Washington holds his right. He can't play
- 11:50Speaker 3: for Purdue, he can't play for any other team because
- 11:52Speaker 3: it's financially not viable, not unless he wants to lose millions.
- 11:55Speaker 3: So he's back at Washington for one reason over because
- 11:59Speaker 3: he's leveraged legally. And so that's kind of you know,
- 12:03Speaker 3: I don't know, sobering for some he's got a challenge
- 12:07Speaker 3: in that locker room. And uh, you're gonna have roughly
- 12:11Speaker 3: three type of players in the locker room. You're gonna
- 12:13Speaker 3: have the pro demond like, hey, no big deal. You know,
- 12:16Speaker 3: that's just the side of the times. And they're they're
- 12:18Speaker 3: all good. Then you have another group that really doesn't care,
- 12:23Speaker 3: probably a lot of defensive guys. Hey, it doesn't impact
- 12:25Speaker 3: me whatever, you know. And and then you're gonna have
- 12:27Speaker 3: a third group who are bothered by it. And and
- 12:31Speaker 3: here's the thing. They're never gonna comment on the radio.
- 12:34Speaker 3: They're not gonna comment on the newspaper. They're just gonna
- 12:37Speaker 3: bite their tongue. And the coaches are never gonna talk
- 12:41Speaker 3: about that faction of the locker room. So I think
- 12:44Speaker 3: that there's a lot of rehabilitation that he had to
- 12:47Speaker 3: undertake in the aftermath of that debacle, and I think
- 12:52Speaker 3: that he has done it to the best he can.
- 12:54Speaker 3: I think that from from the sources I have, I
- 12:56Speaker 3: think that he has engaged more since that with his team.
- 13:00Speaker 3: He makes it's a little bit of a lone wolf
- 13:02Speaker 3: to some degree last year socially and what have you.
- 13:04Speaker 3: And I think that he has endeavored to be more
- 13:09Speaker 3: socially involved and and and uh be a better teammate.
- 13:12Speaker 3: And so I think obviously that's a good thing. So
- 13:15Speaker 3: so he has responded, by by all accounts that I'm
- 13:19Speaker 3: aware of, I think he has responded.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Well to it.
- 13:22Speaker 3: And and you know, in the end, it's it's uh.
- 13:27Speaker 3: There's a favorable schedule. I think he's gonna mount. They're
- 13:29Speaker 3: gonna mount some wins. But if they have an unexpected
- 13:32Speaker 3: loss like Wisconsin, UH, or like Michigan, you know where
- 13:36Speaker 3: we had three interceptions, no touchdowns, and and and and
- 13:40Speaker 3: really threw the Huskies out of the game against a
- 13:43Speaker 3: winnable Michigan team. If he has a game like that,
- 13:47Speaker 3: that's where some of the strife and the internal UH
- 13:52Speaker 3: questioning could really come to the surface. Not publicly, but
- 13:55Speaker 3: it could absolutely impact how they how the team and
- 14:00Speaker 3: unity around their quarterback well publicly.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Jedfish commented on this just five days ago, and there
- 14:06Speaker 1: was one part of the press conference where he said, quote,
- 14:11Speaker 1: what I told our team is this is like the NFL.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Every now and then a guy says, hey, I want
- 14:15Speaker 1: to trade and then you say I'm not going to
- 14:17Speaker 1: trade you, and they come back and they love you.
- 14:20Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to franchise attack. Sometimes you have to
- 14:22Speaker 1: put a certain tender on a guy and then you
- 14:24Speaker 1: just keep it moving. Demand has come back and has
- 14:27Speaker 1: led our team. He got the most amount of votes
- 14:30Speaker 1: at the leadership council. I think he feels really good
- 14:33Speaker 1: about his decision to return. Is that an apt comparison
- 14:37Speaker 1: Jedfish is making about the situation with them?
- 14:41Speaker 3: Yeah, First of all, I think he's seeing what he
- 14:43Speaker 3: should say. Okay, And and the latter part of that
- 14:46Speaker 3: is what I tried to allude to about, you know,
- 14:49Speaker 3: how he's been a positive force since all of this.
- 14:52Speaker 3: But he's trying to convince you know, young man age.
- 14:59Speaker 3: You know, eighteen twenty two, twenty three, you know, those
- 15:04Speaker 3: of us adults who've got a little bit more, you know,
- 15:07Speaker 3: traded under the tires in life and picked up some wisdom.
- 15:10Speaker 3: We can see right through this. And and what I'm
- 15:13Speaker 3: in by this is if you go back, the NFL
- 15:16Speaker 3: had free agency beginning in nineteen ninety four. Essentially what
- 15:20Speaker 3: you're what he's describing as a a scenario where a
- 15:25Speaker 3: quarterback requested to be trade, got denied, was paid, nothing new,
- 15:30Speaker 3: and started anyways in the last thirty two years that
- 15:35Speaker 3: some of the situations that you would look at Jay Cutler,
- 15:40Speaker 3: he requested a trade, I went from the Broncos to
- 15:44Speaker 3: the Bears.
- 15:44Speaker 1: He was traded.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Donovan McNabb he requested a trade, went from the Eagles
- 15:49Speaker 3: to Washington Carson Palmer requested a trade. He was denied.
- 15:53Speaker 3: He refused to play, retired, and then after a year,
- 15:58Speaker 3: was traded on to Oakland. Shaun Watson he requested a trade,
- 16:03Speaker 3: he was denied. He took zero snaps all that season.
- 16:07Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford requested a trade. I'm not gonna give the years.
- 16:11Speaker 3: You can look this up. He was, and he was
- 16:13Speaker 3: traded the Rams. Matt Ryan requested a trade at from
- 16:16Speaker 3: the Falcons. He was traded to the Colts. Baker Mayfield
- 16:20Speaker 3: I'm almost done here, requested a trade from the Browns.
- 16:23Speaker 3: He was traded to the Panthers. Lamar Jackson requested a trade,
- 16:28Speaker 3: but he came back to the team after he was
- 16:31Speaker 3: given two hundred and sixty million dollars, which obviously killed
- 16:34Speaker 3: his trade request. Two more, Aaron Rodgers did not make
- 16:39Speaker 3: a trade request.
- 16:40Speaker 1: He skipped me in he camp.
- 16:43Speaker 3: He never went on the record to say it, but
- 16:45Speaker 3: there was kind of overtures coming from his camp. He
- 16:48Speaker 3: returned after they restructured his contract and gave him a
- 16:51Speaker 3: totally different exit leverage coming out of the Packers. And finally,
- 16:55Speaker 3: Russell Wilson, he floated the no request, I don't want
- 16:59Speaker 3: to request US. But if there are four teams. If
- 17:03Speaker 3: there are, here's four teams. He played that year went
- 17:06Speaker 3: seven and ten and he was gone in the year.
- 17:08Speaker 3: So in the thirty two years of free agency where
- 17:12Speaker 3: this could apply what Jedfish said, there are exactly zero
- 17:18Speaker 3: examples of what he said where the court what he say,
- 17:21Speaker 3: he said, say hey, I want to trade, We're not
- 17:24Speaker 3: going to trade you, an he come back and they
- 17:26Speaker 3: love you. No, never happened. Never happened. That's not to
- 17:31Speaker 3: say that he shouldn't say that in the locker room.
- 17:34Speaker 3: That's what I'd be saying if I was Jetfish. But
- 17:38Speaker 3: let's let's let's sort this thing through. Let's look at
- 17:41Speaker 3: a little history. It never happened in thirty two years,
- 17:44Speaker 3: zero zero precedent or examples that Jetfish can point to
- 17:49Speaker 3: in the NFL where the quarterback did the material components
- 17:57Speaker 3: of of of that request. And then it was the
- 18:01Speaker 3: happy ending that Jedfish described. So at any event, you know,
- 18:05Speaker 3: like I said, I think I think that uh uh,
- 18:09Speaker 3: that's going to be the.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Challenge for him.
- 18:11Speaker 3: You know, you know there's the football side of it
- 18:13Speaker 3: as well, that that he's he's just got.
- 18:16Speaker 1: To be better. Yeah. Well, He's a fun, talented player,
- 18:20Speaker 1: but complicated the story certainly on top of all of that,
- 18:24Speaker 1: so an interesting figure heading into this fault. You are
- 18:27Speaker 1: the man. Thank you, sir. We greatly appreciate it, and
- 18:30Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again real soon. All right. Always
- 18:32Speaker 1: good to be with you, Chuck. That right here, Mellen
- 18:34Speaker 1: ur QB one joining us for the Huskies one series
- 18:38Speaker 1: breaking down Demon Williams Junior for us right here on
- 18:41Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ A r f M.
- 18:43Speaker 1: We've got to get an update from the Open Championship.
- 18:46Speaker 4: We'll do it now.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Well, what a day, What a week? What a life?
- 19:05Speaker 2: It has been all of those things. Yeah, a weekend,
- 19:08Speaker 2: a life.
- 19:09Speaker 1: This is the day, and it's a day in the
- 19:11Speaker 1: week in the life. I think that's a common expression,
- 19:15Speaker 1: it's a day in the week in the life.
- 19:17Speaker 2: That's right.
- 19:19Speaker 1: It's Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with you here on this
- 19:22Speaker 1: Friday morning, getting your set for the weekend, getting yourself
- 19:25Speaker 1: for Mike Benton filling in for Greg Bell again today
- 19:28Speaker 1: coming up at ten o'clock. You know, our Green Jacket
- 19:32Speaker 1: draft that we did for the World Cup comes down
- 19:35Speaker 1: to Anders and I on Sunday, Anders and I I
- 19:39Speaker 1: have Spain. He has Argentina, of course, because he's a homer. Yeah,
- 19:45Speaker 1: this is his wife's butt.
- 19:47Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh for Spain because I don't like Argentina.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Oh you don't. What just just rubbed you?
- 19:54Speaker 2: Well, I just you know, with all their little last
- 19:56Speaker 2: minute goals and their let's all crowd around the referee
- 20:01Speaker 2: and will him into doing things our way because we're Argentina. Yeah, yeah,
- 20:08Speaker 2: that's what I say. And yeah, I'm bitter.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Take that at Vita.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Mostly that it's mostly me being bitter that they beat England.
- 20:14Speaker 2: That's it, So go Spain.
- 20:16Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm alright with that. You know. That
- 20:19Speaker 1: leads me right to the doorstep of something I just
- 20:22Speaker 1: wanted to get off my chest finally, because I think
- 20:24Speaker 1: I've been a good soldier this month, and I have
- 20:27Speaker 1: been entertained by the World Cup and like I said,
- 20:30Speaker 1: drawn to the magnitude of the event, drawn to the
- 20:33Speaker 1: passion that people have for the event. I've really taken
- 20:37Speaker 1: the time to kind of smell those roses this year,
- 20:41Speaker 1: and I've enjoyed it. I've even gone to the local bar,
- 20:44Speaker 1: the old kitchen, the old Wooden Creek Kitchen. It's a
- 20:47Speaker 1: couple of times just to watch soccer, and they're doing
- 20:50Speaker 1: They did a great job with it throughout the course
- 20:53Speaker 1: of the month, and so I have enjoyed it. And
- 20:56Speaker 1: I've definitely enjoyed our analysts that we've had on, specifically
- 21:02Speaker 1: our guys, the guys in charge of our World Cup coverage,
- 21:05Speaker 1: Jackson Anders, Brad Danny Pete. They've been sensational and they've
- 21:12Speaker 1: actually given me tangible reasons for things and why they
- 21:16Speaker 1: turn out. And I feel like I've learned something from
- 21:19Speaker 1: all of them this past month, which makes them unlike
- 21:22Speaker 1: all other soccer analysts because as good as soldiers I've been,
- 21:30Speaker 1: and I've tried real hard Ringo to be the shepherd
- 21:33Speaker 1: as hard as I've tried to be that for you
- 21:36Speaker 1: during this month, even though I don't really like the sport.
- 21:39Speaker 1: One of the problems I continue to have is when
- 21:42Speaker 1: I hear analysts get ready to break down a match
- 21:47Speaker 1: and then they give me the tired, lazy analysis of well,
- 21:51Speaker 1: that team just wanted it more.
- 21:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Now, there are times, no question and the sports world,
- 21:58Speaker 1: where you can watch a game and the reason one
- 22:01Speaker 1: team won over the other is because one team wanted
- 22:03Speaker 1: it more. It does happen. It absolutely happens, and I
- 22:07Speaker 1: like it when an analyst can pinpoint it when they
- 22:10Speaker 1: don't do that every single game or match. I mean,
- 22:15Speaker 1: I just heard a fantastic interview yesterday with a guy
- 22:19Speaker 1: I think is Jamie o'harrising. He was fantastic, but very entertaining,
- 22:25Speaker 1: very passionate. He's an he's an Englishman, so he.
- 22:28Speaker 2: Was broken by the second second.
- 22:31Speaker 1: He was broken by England having lost. And yet he
- 22:36Speaker 1: said that England just gave it away, they just didn't
- 22:41Speaker 1: show up in the end, and that France never did
- 22:46Speaker 1: show up in their previous round. And it's like, man,
- 22:52Speaker 1: I'll listen to I really like an analyst that'll call
- 22:55Speaker 1: out a coach if that's the reason, call out a player,
- 22:58Speaker 1: if that's the reason, call auled execution. There are a
- 23:02Speaker 1: million ways that a team will lose a game. Most
- 23:07Speaker 1: of them, though, are because one team was just better,
- 23:10Speaker 1: maybe not even overall, but that day they were just
- 23:14Speaker 1: Most of the time that is the case. Sometimes it's
- 23:17Speaker 1: the officials. Sometimes the officials will be the reason why
- 23:19Speaker 1: a game went one way or the other, but that's rare.
- 23:22Speaker 1: It's just hard for me to believe, Ashley, these national
- 23:27Speaker 1: and international soccer analysts who always just seem to say
- 23:30Speaker 1: they just wanted it more. Yeah, that Argentina as badly
- 23:35Speaker 1: as they wanted it. Scale from one to ten. Thirty
- 23:39Speaker 1: five is how bad Argentina wanted it. England, how bad
- 23:43Speaker 1: did they want it thirty five? There's no way that
- 23:46Speaker 1: they didn't want it just as badly as Argentina. And
- 23:50Speaker 1: so I like that. Jackson comes on and Brad comes
- 23:54Speaker 1: on yesterday and says England coach, England's coach blew it
- 23:59Speaker 1: and the players look lost at the end and they
- 24:02Speaker 1: didn't understand why they had changed what they were doing successfully,
- 24:06Speaker 1: and that Argentina dominated the last thirty minutes of the match,
- 24:10Speaker 1: because that is what happened. Argentina took over. They could
- 24:13Speaker 1: have won seven to two or seven to one if.
- 24:17Speaker 2: They decided they wanted to score goals earlier.
- 24:19Speaker 1: Well, no, they were just so many close goals. They
- 24:21Speaker 1: were constantly putting heat and pressure on England in the
- 24:24Speaker 1: last thirty minutes of that match. They could have scored
- 24:27Speaker 1: a lot more than two goals during that time. But
- 24:31Speaker 1: there's no way on earth England lost because they didn't
- 24:35Speaker 1: want because they didn't want it as much. They absolutely
- 24:38Speaker 1: wanted it just as much. They wanted that more than
- 24:42Speaker 1: anything that they wanted ever in the history of England sports.
- 24:47Speaker 1: They're not really that good at anything else, I mean no,
- 24:51Speaker 1: and then the things that they love, like tennis, turns
- 24:53Speaker 1: out they're not very good at tennis, but they love tennis.
- 24:57Speaker 1: This is something that they're great at. And they absolutely
- 25:01Speaker 1: from coast to coast love soccer there and they were
- 25:06Speaker 1: grown up on that. There's no way as badly as
- 25:10Speaker 1: Argentina wanted it, they wanted it more than England. And
- 25:12Speaker 1: I just hate using that as a lazy excuse and
- 25:16Speaker 1: analysis for why a match turned out one way.
- 25:19Speaker 4: Or the other.
- 25:19Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and it is absolutely lazy because if you
- 25:21Speaker 2: looked at it, it was the similar thing to what
- 25:23Speaker 2: other people did play in Argentina and why Argentina scored
- 25:26Speaker 2: goals late because other teams went to just kind of
- 25:30Speaker 2: guard their lead versus try to score more, try it,
- 25:34Speaker 2: continuing to be aggressive or continue with their game plan.
- 25:36Speaker 2: I mean Egypt, same way. You know you can't it.
- 25:40Speaker 2: It was kind of the thing that made it more
- 25:41Speaker 2: disappointing and why I would put even more of it
- 25:44Speaker 2: on the coaches. You knew what they were gonna do.
- 25:47Speaker 2: If you not, if you've watched an Argentina game, they
- 25:51Speaker 2: how many goals have they scored late in the game.
- 25:53Speaker 2: They do not tire. They wait for you to change
- 25:55Speaker 2: your game plan and then they take advantage of it.
- 25:58Speaker 1: I mean, I think they want to score early.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Well yeah, they're not strategizing.
- 26:04Speaker 1: Just to score at the end, but certainly they do
- 26:08Speaker 1: scrap I mean they're scrappers. They big hearts on that team,
- 26:12Speaker 1: and it's part of why they're so good. But the
- 26:16Speaker 1: reasons were that adjustments were made by England, they were
- 26:20Speaker 1: bad adjustments, and Argentina flat out outplayed them for thirty
- 26:25Speaker 1: straight minutes at the end of that match. And that's
- 26:27Speaker 1: why Argentina won the match. It's not because England didn't
- 26:31Speaker 1: show up or England didn't want it, I promise you.
- 26:36Speaker 1: In this sport, at this stage of the competition, with
- 26:40Speaker 1: these countries involved, there is zero shortage of how badly
- 26:45Speaker 1: the players and the teams and the countries want to win.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Right, And so yeah, I was My point was not
- 26:51Speaker 2: that Argentina doesn't want to score early or anything like that,
- 26:54Speaker 2: but that they are patient, they wait, they don't panic,
- 26:57Speaker 2: they know they've got time and they use it. And
- 26:59Speaker 2: anyone who would look at that game or watch that game,
- 27:02Speaker 2: you could see the pain in Jude Bellingham's eyes when
- 27:05Speaker 2: they gave up the first goal. He was like we
- 27:08Speaker 2: had this? What just happened? And he's laying on the
- 27:12Speaker 2: turf looking up like, come on, guys, how did this
- 27:16Speaker 2: just happen?
- 27:17Speaker 1: Well, now I know he's sitting there thinking is our
- 27:19Speaker 1: coach dumb?
- 27:20Speaker 2: Maybe?
- 27:20Speaker 1: Why did we do that?
- 27:21Speaker 2: Yeah? And you could see the frustration so and I actually,
- 27:26Speaker 2: I mean I turned it off right before it ended
- 27:28Speaker 2: because I didn't want to see Argentina celebrate because I
- 27:31Speaker 2: was angry. But I just think, you you all I
- 27:35Speaker 2: have to do is watch all of the teams in
- 27:37Speaker 2: this tournament. It happens once every four years. It's such
- 27:40Speaker 2: a big damn deal for all of these guys to
- 27:42Speaker 2: make these rosters, to represent their countries and to try
- 27:45Speaker 2: and pull off something amazing. And if you watched any
- 27:49Speaker 2: of them, if you watched Norway with their row with
- 27:52Speaker 2: their fans, and he watched England with you know, singing
- 27:55Speaker 2: Wonderwall with their fans, I mean every team had something
- 27:59Speaker 2: with their fans, some moment they were sharing and it
- 28:01Speaker 2: was for everybody, and they all want it, none of
- 28:04Speaker 2: them want it more than the others. That's just an
- 28:08Speaker 2: absurd thing to say and on about something that happens
- 28:11Speaker 2: every four years, that it's such an honor to even
- 28:14Speaker 2: have this opportunity.
- 28:15Speaker 1: I mean, is the is the reason that Argentina's just
- 28:19Speaker 1: in that much better shape so they can play full
- 28:21Speaker 1: tilt from the now? There's a reason? Is it that
- 28:24Speaker 1: Argentina is relentless? I mean, I can see them that
- 28:27Speaker 1: they're more relentless, they're group than what England is. But
- 28:31Speaker 1: I just I've always had a problem with this. Seems
- 28:34Speaker 1: like it's what Eglexi Lawless says every single time that
- 28:37Speaker 1: he's ever asked about why a match went one way
- 28:39Speaker 1: or the other. But he's annoying, We've gotta be you
- 28:42Speaker 1: gotta be better. You just gotta be better at it.
- 28:44Speaker 1: And our guys were fantastic at it. And I felt
- 28:47Speaker 1: like I got a good reason every single time as
- 28:51Speaker 1: to and some things that I didn't understand about the sport,
- 28:53Speaker 1: or I might not have understood about the match, or
- 28:55Speaker 1: I might not have understood about strategy. There's a lot
- 28:58Speaker 1: that I don't understand about the strategy and to have
- 29:00Speaker 1: people on our staff kind of pinpoint after every big match,
- 29:05Speaker 1: every time that we had them on some specific tangible
- 29:08Speaker 1: reasons why they felt maybe they're not right, but why
- 29:11Speaker 1: they felt the match went one way or the other.
- 29:14Speaker 1: It's so refreshing as compared to the well they just
- 29:17Speaker 1: wanted it more.
- 29:18Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree, all right.
- 29:20Speaker 1: One last thing actually Booze News to close us out
- 29:23Speaker 1: this week next on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Mike Ben didn't know what he was getting into and
- 29:34Speaker 1: he asked me, what are you doing this weekend? I'm like,
- 29:36Speaker 1: told him like a thirty two minute story during the break,
- 29:40Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I asked, shut up.
- 29:43Speaker 2: Well, you know what you always you never That's half
- 29:46Speaker 2: the fun. That's why you asked the questions.
- 29:48Speaker 1: Oh boy, you never know, you never know. Well, we're
- 29:51Speaker 1: getting ready to close out a crazy day here on
- 29:54Speaker 1: the radio program, a close crazy week here on the
- 29:58Speaker 1: radio program. And you know how we do on Fridays.
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- 30:41Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Sure changed me a little bit.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Usually I did because hand, because I got nervous.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Here.
- 30:47Speaker 2: You want this that you can pour more in there?
- 30:48Speaker 1: I'm good.
- 30:49Speaker 2: We'll pour more in after.
- 30:50Speaker 1: We got a lot more of this later today. I
- 30:52Speaker 1: think we probably should go slow today.
- 30:53Speaker 2: That's probably true. It is the second Friday in a
- 30:56Speaker 2: row where my soccer dreams have been crushed, which is
- 30:58Speaker 2: a weird thing to say. A week ago the US
- 31:00Speaker 2: was out of the World Cup, and this week England
- 31:02Speaker 2: was eliminated. They lost the Argentina and it was yucky.
- 31:06Speaker 2: You want a different soccer analysis.
- 31:08Speaker 1: There you go.
- 31:08Speaker 2: I thought it was yucky. I'm sick of Argentina and
- 31:11Speaker 2: there's swarms of rough whiners and their late game goals.
- 31:14Speaker 2: And if I sound bitter, it's because I am cheers.
- 31:18Speaker 2: Hell yeah, deal with Yeah, go Spain, and no, I
- 31:25Speaker 2: will not be tuning in on Saturday to watch a
- 31:28Speaker 2: third place game between England and France. Even soccer fans
- 31:32Speaker 2: don't care about that game. I'd rather watch them play
- 31:34Speaker 2: a game of Red Rover in the chunnel.
- 31:36Speaker 1: Sounds like most games, Like nobody even likes it, Like
- 31:39Speaker 1: Andres is like it's dumb.
- 31:42Speaker 2: But he's Argentina. But he doesn't want to watch a
- 31:45Speaker 2: third He said he wouldn't watch a third place game.
- 31:47Speaker 2: Oh that yeah, He's like, I'm not watching a third
- 31:50Speaker 2: place game because no one. No one goes to the
- 31:53Speaker 2: World Cup and then finishes third place and goes home
- 31:55Speaker 2: and tells their whole country how great it was they
- 31:57Speaker 2: finished in third.
- 31:58Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think everybody here within earshot of me
- 32:03Speaker 1: knows and a.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Weird yeah, but that's one of the normal things, he thinks.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Yeah, And so for him to arrive at that conclusion,
- 32:12Speaker 1: it's a pretty obvious, near unanimous decision.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Yes, So in my mind, there is one game left
- 32:17Speaker 2: one Sunday.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, and Saturday's just I don't know.
- 32:20Speaker 2: It's like watching the Pro Bowl. You're gonna watch the
- 32:23Speaker 2: Pro Bowl, right?
- 32:24Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 32:25Speaker 1: I agree, Yeah, you're not.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Yeah, baseball's back after the longest All Star break ever. Sorry,
- 32:30Speaker 2: but it sure seemed like it did. The Giants are
- 32:32Speaker 2: in town and they're not great, but news flash, we
- 32:34Speaker 2: aren't either. Yeah, on paper, we're better and we do
- 32:37Speaker 2: have a better record, but have you seen the ways
- 32:39Speaker 2: we've figured out how to lose games. Yeah, don't tempt
- 32:43Speaker 2: the Mariners.
- 32:44Speaker 1: With a challenge, Oh gosh, don't.
- 32:46Speaker 2: They will they can come up with something new. But
- 32:48Speaker 2: I'm hoping when we get back Monday, we're playing the
- 32:51Speaker 2: winning song and celebrating a sweep. Yes, a series win
- 32:55Speaker 2: would suffice, Yes, but you can't finish the second half
- 32:59Speaker 2: of the season undefeated if you lose one of the
- 33:01Speaker 2: first three games. It's just math for all you people
- 33:04Speaker 2: who think we don't understand.
- 33:05Speaker 1: It, and there's only one way to be above five
- 33:07Speaker 1: hundred on Monday. That's true, and that's a sweet that's yeah.
- 33:12Speaker 2: And you know what, while we're at it because I
- 33:13Speaker 2: was talking like people that think we don't understand math.
- 33:16Speaker 2: We know the season is more than halfway over. We
- 33:18Speaker 2: are aware of how many games are left.
- 33:20Speaker 4: Who does the thing?
- 33:21Speaker 2: I understand math because when we say the second half
- 33:24Speaker 2: of the season, it's just like when you come out
- 33:27Speaker 2: of the All Star break. You just say it's the
- 33:28Speaker 2: second half of the season. That's baseball people.
- 33:31Speaker 1: Okay, oh that people have had a problem with.
- 33:34Speaker 2: It's not the second half. Yeah, we know that. It's
- 33:38Speaker 2: just what you say. And yes, it is still early. Okay,
- 33:41Speaker 2: so there you go. Get all that out of the way.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Oh my god, you said it. It's early. It's true.
- 33:49Speaker 2: This will be our last weekend without football activities until
- 33:53Speaker 2: late February. Let that sink into your melon. Seahawks rookies
- 33:58Speaker 2: and renting today. That's report next Friday, with training camp
- 34:01Speaker 2: officially underway next Saturday, the twenty fifth. And I was
- 34:04Speaker 2: talking with Leave last night and he's super excited for
- 34:07Speaker 2: this year's case. Yeah, he's really excited. He's been working
- 34:09Speaker 2: on his narration and all the things he's gonna say
- 34:12Speaker 2: for hard Knocks.
- 34:12Speaker 1: He never shows up, does.
- 34:13Speaker 2: Oh yeah he does?
- 34:14Speaker 1: Oh, he does show up.
- 34:15Speaker 4: For it.
- 34:15Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he just doesn't get a script and read it.
- 34:18Speaker 2: No, no, he like he does the script, but he
- 34:21Speaker 2: shows up. He chats with people. I've seen him on
- 34:23Speaker 2: almost every season.
- 34:24Speaker 1: We got to get him on the show, I know,
- 34:25Speaker 1: we do. We got to get that.
- 34:26Speaker 2: Okay, I'm guest listing him. There you go, I'm somebody.
- 34:30Speaker 2: Don't go email right now that you get him? We
- 34:32Speaker 2: get him, dang it.
- 34:33Speaker 1: We want we want Donovan.
- 34:35Speaker 2: I've got proof. Yeah, yeah, Ray Donovan's coming on our show.
- 34:39Speaker 2: The Open Championships underway, and I don't even know what
- 34:41Speaker 2: to make of it. Honestly. It's seventy degrees in sunny
- 34:44Speaker 2: and warm. This is not the England I know, and
- 34:46Speaker 2: I can't comprehend. That's not compute.
- 34:49Speaker 1: Probably not a sixty four year old at the top
- 34:52Speaker 1: of the board either, with the Open Championship.
- 34:56Speaker 2: So that's it.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Cheers, Okay, all right, well, very good? He zip right,
- 35:00Speaker 1: that sure did. Yeah.
- 35:01Speaker 2: I don't even know what time it is because I
- 35:02Speaker 2: don't wear a watch anymore, really messing with me? All right?
- 35:06Speaker 1: Well, that gives us plenty of time to get out
- 35:08Speaker 1: so that Mike Menton can start right on the dot.
- 35:12Speaker 2: Yay.
- 35:13Speaker 1: I mean, he's even in here like a segment early. Yeah,
- 35:16Speaker 1: he just was too excited, I know, just love. He
- 35:19Speaker 1: just loves being a part of the team. I mean,
- 35:22Speaker 1: look at that guy.
- 35:23Speaker 2: I don't blame him. Yeah, we're pretty great.
- 35:25Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna gravitate towards two people. It's probably Ashley.
- 35:30Speaker 2: Yeah, smart choice, smart choice, you're just like in your organs.
- 35:36Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you.
- 35:38Speaker 2: You guys have a really great gravitational pull.
- 35:40Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Thanks tears. I used to the think it's just because
- 35:43Speaker 2: I give a lot of people booze, that's why they
- 35:45Speaker 2: like me. Well that's also true.
- 35:48Speaker 1: We'll talk to you on Monday. Mike and Jess are
- 35:51Speaker 1: coming your way next. Enjoy Sports Radio ninety three point
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