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Chuck in the Morning 8-19 H3: Greg Lewis joins at Husky Camp · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the music that Greg Lewis played at his wedding.
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  Speaker 4: Dance, both of them. Great morning to you all.
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  Speaker 3: It's eight o'clock here and we are on Montlake sitting
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  Speaker 3: at the fifty yard line at.
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  Speaker 4: The greatest setting in college football.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Husky Camp coverage right here on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 3: ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Chuck poll Anders. Hearts back at the studio.
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  Speaker 3: We have a special guest host for our final two
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  Speaker 3: hours this morning. The former Doak Walker Award winner, Husky
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  Speaker 3: Legend at running back and uh current Husky Hank Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Lewis is with us.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what, out of all the stuff you
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  Speaker 5: just announced, being a Husky Honk is probably the thing
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  Speaker 5: I'm most proud of. I get to hang out with
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  Speaker 5: Sophie and Mario Bailey for about eleven or twelve weeks
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  Speaker 5: throughout the year, and it's just the highlight of my
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  Speaker 5: every single year.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, did I hear that right?
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  Speaker 5: I get to our have to you know, yeah, you
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  Speaker 5: know you word usage semantics, you know that it could
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  Speaker 5: be either or either or, but no, thanks for having
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  Speaker 5: me out here.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Great.
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  Speaker 5: Every time I come out and walk on this stadium,
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  Speaker 5: in this field, you know, it brings back memories and
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  Speaker 5: I go, you know, I kind of feel like I
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  Speaker 5: want to get out there again. And then my knee
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  Speaker 5: injuries kick in and my sore back kicks in and
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  Speaker 5: I go, nah, I'm fine.
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  Speaker 4: But that never goes away, does it?
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  Speaker 2: It does?
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  Speaker 3: It could be one hundred and five, and I think
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  Speaker 3: you'd come out here like, gosh, if I could just
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  Speaker 3: carry the ball, you know, it could be my old
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  Speaker 3: self again.
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  Speaker 5: And that's really what I do love about being a
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  Speaker 5: part of the Husky Hanks and Husky broadcast and radio
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  Speaker 5: for the last I don't know, since ninety seven, I
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  Speaker 5: think I've done a Husky radio or television show. I
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  Speaker 5: got the honor of doing the Husky post game show
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  Speaker 5: on Como with Bruce King a long time ago, and
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  Speaker 5: now I've been doing this with KJR. It's just keeps
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  Speaker 5: me connected to a place that I love, and the
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  Speaker 5: memories don't just get to be memories. I get to
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  Speaker 5: be reminded. I get to see things that I saw
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  Speaker 5: back in those days, and I get to see posters
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  Speaker 5: and artwork and some of my friends, the Utman's and
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  Speaker 5: the Bailey's and all that kind of stuff. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: I just love being a Husky and still being a
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  Speaker 5: part of the scene.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I love it, and it comes across certainly.
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  Speaker 3: And the broadcast, you guys do a fantastic job and
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to it every Saturday. So and it's
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  Speaker 3: great to have you with us here today. Have you
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  Speaker 3: ever broadcast from this perspective, fifty yard line, empty building,
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  Speaker 3: sun just rose and is splashed across this beautiful setting.
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  Speaker 5: No, this is a little bit new, yeah, with nobody
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  Speaker 5: out here. Usually when I'm out here, to's somebody around.
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  Speaker 5: I remember years ago, I was doing a Seahawk post
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  Speaker 5: game show the season that they actually played at Husky Stadium,
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  Speaker 5: and I was out here doing some Seahawk post game
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  Speaker 5: stuff on the sideline kind of like this, and there
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  Speaker 5: were only a few people around because the game had ended. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this is a new view and vantage point
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  Speaker 5: for me. But hey, it's the most beautiful setting in
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  Speaker 5: college football. Like you said, whether the stadium's filled or not.
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  Speaker 5: We got the sun popping up over the scoreboard over
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  Speaker 5: here on the east side. So, man, this is beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't been to them all. I have a hard
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  Speaker 4: time believing anything tops this. Yeah, I really do.
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  Speaker 5: There can't be many. Yeah, and you know, this is
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  Speaker 5: just a great stadium. The rebuild was fantastic and the
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  Speaker 5: fans get to come into a beautiful place every Saturday,
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  Speaker 5: and the Huskies will continue, hopefully to provide a good
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  Speaker 5: product on the field. So you know, can't beat this
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  Speaker 5: on a Saturday afternoon or in these day and age
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  Speaker 5: Saturday evenings yeah, yeah, Saturday evening late nights for the Hawks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, long postgame shows.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this season is Jet Fish's third and where
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  Speaker 3: is your excitement level for this team?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: Is it ratcheted up from the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you always are optimistic. I know every season
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  Speaker 3: you gotta be. You're a fan, you're an alum, you
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  Speaker 3: were those colors, you ran that football.
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  Speaker 4: But does this year feel a little bit different?
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  Speaker 3: Are you a little more excited because of the potential
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  Speaker 3: for this squad?
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  Speaker 5: Well, let's start off by saying I am truly a
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  Speaker 5: Husky hounk, not Dick Bard level hunk, but I am
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  Speaker 5: a Husky haunk. So I am always, you know, optimistic
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  Speaker 5: about the team and where they should end up and
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  Speaker 5: where they could finish. I think this season, knowing what
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  Speaker 5: I know about coach Fish and his history and what
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  Speaker 5: he did at Arizona kind of third year and where
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  Speaker 5: he took that program, and now having had a full
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  Speaker 5: couple of seasons to transform.
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  Speaker 2: Let let's let's just be honest here.
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  Speaker 5: I was a big Pac ten, you know, proponent, and
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  Speaker 5: felt like it was one of the best conferences in football.
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  Speaker 5: But the Big Ten, as we found out, especially with
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  Speaker 5: the four best Pac ten teams coming over, is a beast.
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  Speaker 5: And so the transformation of the team coming into being
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  Speaker 5: a Big Ten style of program, I think we're kind
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  Speaker 5: of there now. When you look at the defense, this
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  Speaker 5: might be the best defense we've had since death Row
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  Speaker 5: back in twenty sixteen. I think offensively, we have some
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  Speaker 5: exciting players. Yeah, we got to figure out who's going
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  Speaker 5: to run the ball. We got to figure out who's
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  Speaker 5: going to be the top wide receiver. But from the
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  Speaker 5: offensive line, you talked about them a little bit in
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  Speaker 5: your last segment, and the quarterback and his development and
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  Speaker 5: where he could be in the second year starting. I
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  Speaker 5: think there's a lot of excitement that this team might
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  Speaker 5: be ready to take that next step. And because you're
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  Speaker 5: in the conference like the Big Ten, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: get through this thing, maybe with a loss of two,
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  Speaker 5: you still have an opportunity to play in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: So I think, you know, all Husky Fish should be
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  Speaker 5: excited right now because I think there's something continuing to
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  Speaker 5: be special about this program and you can.
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  Speaker 2: Be successful here Washington coach out the coach has proved that.
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  Speaker 5: So I have no doubt that Coach Fish and the
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  Speaker 5: coaching staff and the guys they've assembled are ready to
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  Speaker 5: take that next step and hopefully you know, cracked down
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  Speaker 5: playoff and now we got twelve teams in so yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we can get in there.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, That's right, you can definitely get in there.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's break down some of those things that you
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  Speaker 3: said individually. Let's start with your expertise. Let's start about
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  Speaker 3: with that running back as a I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: you'd rather have one clear cut guy coming back from
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  Speaker 3: the previous year that you you know is going to
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  Speaker 3: get the job done. A Jonah Coleman coming into last season,
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  Speaker 3: you probably felt a little more comfortable with But to
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  Speaker 3: have a group and you can't get through a season
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  Speaker 3: this these days with just one guy. Do you like
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  Speaker 3: this group and who do you think is going to emerge?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I got to get to know this group to
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  Speaker 2: be honest with you, Yea.
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  Speaker 5: You know, last year was a complete luxury coming in
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  Speaker 5: with Jonah Coleman as a known entity, knowing that he
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  Speaker 5: had had success not just at Washington, but he had
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  Speaker 5: success at Arizona his previous stop. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Adam Muhammad had shown that he could be a guy
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  Speaker 5: who could really tote the mail and run tough, and
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  Speaker 5: he showed last year before the seat, by the time
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  Speaker 5: the scene was over, that he was a really good player.
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  Speaker 5: The guys that are going to be back there this
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  Speaker 5: year are kind of an unknown. You know, jade lemar
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  Speaker 5: kid out of the state of Washington, who chose to
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  Speaker 5: go to over again. But I'm not gonna hold that
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  Speaker 5: against him. He's got into purple now, you know.
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  Speaker 4: People make mistake make mistakes, kids do stupid things.
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  Speaker 5: He's been down there for about what four years, and
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  Speaker 5: he's I think total of about four hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 5: yards rushing over that time. I think last year he
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  Speaker 5: had about sixty five touches receiving and rushing, so not
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  Speaker 5: a lot of experience, you know, not a lot of
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  Speaker 5: you know, stuff on tape for us to kind of
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  Speaker 5: look at. I think Quaid Carr is gonna be the
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  Speaker 5: other person, you know of redshirt sophomore. Six touches last year,
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  Speaker 5: six plays that he actually played during the game. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it was unfortunate with Adam leaving with Washington, you know,
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  Speaker 5: being injured and not being able to play. The top
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  Speaker 5: two guys returning. Uh so we got to get to
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  Speaker 5: know these guys. I think certainly. You know, jayde Lemar
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  Speaker 5: was a highly recruited kid. He hasn't had his full
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  Speaker 5: life opportunity. So see if he stays healthy. He was
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  Speaker 5: nicked up a little bit in the spring, I think
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  Speaker 5: he can.
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  Speaker 2: Be a guy.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure though, that they have someone that they
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  Speaker 5: can turn around and hand the ball off to and
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  Speaker 5: expect to get four or five yards every carry and
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  Speaker 5: he'll get him through a whole season. So it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be jade Lee Maark, quad Car maybe one of
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  Speaker 5: the freshmen stepping up. I know they got a really,
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  Speaker 5: really big guy out of Oregon, Sanoi or something like that,
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  Speaker 5: like two hundred and forty something pounds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how good is this kid going to be?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think we're I hear he shows up
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  Speaker 3: when he walks across the field to see him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 5: And Brian Bonner was a highly recruited kid, fast, you know,
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  Speaker 5: guy out of California, Valencia who's got a lot of speed.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm still waiting to get to know these guys
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  Speaker 5: and really getting to see him. I've seen him at
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  Speaker 5: practice a little bit, and I think they all show
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  Speaker 5: some flashes. I think Jade will probably be the first
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  Speaker 5: guy out the gate because he does have experience, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, in this offense, it's going to be important
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  Speaker 5: to protect the passer. It's going to be important to
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  Speaker 5: get out down the field in passing routes and run
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  Speaker 5: the football with this offensive line. This quarterback, though, I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, hugely is kind of the flip. We got
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  Speaker 5: the running backs to get the quarterback into it and
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  Speaker 5: build up. Now I think it's going to be the
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  Speaker 5: quarterback kind of handling things, you know, being a big
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  Speaker 5: part of the run game. I think might lead to
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  Speaker 5: pot I think by the end of the year, he will.
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  Speaker 5: That's certainly something I believe will happen. He'll be the
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  Speaker 5: leading Russer. But it'll give those guys a chance to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, get out there and get some snaps, figure
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  Speaker 5: out who they are as running backs, and then have
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  Speaker 5: that success later on down the line.
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  Speaker 3: Husky legend Greg Lewis with US Husky Honk Now and
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  Speaker 3: our pleasure to have them as part of our Husky
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  Speaker 3: Camp coverage here this morning as my special guest host,
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  Speaker 3: is it music to your ears? Is somebody that used to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, carry the ball that when you hear that
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  Speaker 3: your favorite football team is returning a lot from his
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  Speaker 3: offensive line and that people are suggesting that the offensive
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  Speaker 3: line might be the strength of this team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 5: When I was playing, you know, folks used to ask me,
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  Speaker 5: you know, what's your best trait? Your speed? I wasn't
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  Speaker 5: a four to four guy, you know, I was a
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  Speaker 5: high four to four guy. Your your size, I was
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  Speaker 5: about two fifteen. Your shiftiness. Yeah, I could cut in
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  Speaker 5: the hole and I had good feet, But my best
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  Speaker 5: attribute was my offensive line. The guys that were in
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  Speaker 5: front of me, almost every one of them played in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL for some length of time had some great players,
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  Speaker 5: some all conference guys. So your offensive line as a
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  Speaker 5: running back is always going to be your best attribute,
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  Speaker 5: your best asset, and this one is shaping up to
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  Speaker 5: be a really good offensive line. I think if the
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  Speaker 5: Hatchet brothers can get fully healthy, because I think they're
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  Speaker 5: a little nicked up. The center and the right guard
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  Speaker 5: position are kind of influx a little bit because of that,
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  Speaker 5: but I think they have the requisite depth now of
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  Speaker 5: a Big ten team, and in the Big tai let's
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  Speaker 5: face it, you were going to need to have more
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  Speaker 5: than just your starting five play well and be healthy
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  Speaker 5: because somebody's gonna get nicked up. It's a tough, grueling
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  Speaker 5: conference in the trenches, so you're going to need to
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  Speaker 5: have those backup guys. But I'm super excited the freshman
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  Speaker 5: Cody Green, left tackle. He's got all the intangibles, he's
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  Speaker 5: got all the statistics, he looks the part. I'm hearing that,
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  Speaker 5: he's just killing it in the weight room. And we
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  Speaker 5: had a freshman guy by the name of Jeff Power
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  Speaker 5: Coolla who came in with me, who started as a
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  Speaker 5: tackle during his freshman year. So certainly and we saw
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  Speaker 5: Jeff Mills last year, who again freshman All American. I
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  Speaker 5: think this offensive line has a chance to be really,
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  Speaker 5: really good. And if the freshman Cody Green is as
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  Speaker 5: good as we think he can be, watch out. This
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  Speaker 5: offensive line not only is going to open holes running downhill,
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  Speaker 5: which will give these running backs a chance to you know,
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  Speaker 5: show what they can do, but also, you know, protect
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  Speaker 5: Demon Williams and give this entire offense a chance to
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  Speaker 5: be special while they're developing. On the outside. You know
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  Speaker 5: who's going to be our go to guy. You know,
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  Speaker 5: Desmond Roebuck's gonna be fine, but as a number one guy,
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  Speaker 5: you know, now all the defensive attention on him, what
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  Speaker 5: can he do? But I think they also, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all the whole offense to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: I like to get your response to something you overheard
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  Speaker 3: me say in the previous segment about the freshman. I
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  Speaker 3: don't have any doubt that a freshman today is more
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  Speaker 3: prepared because of the way that you know, we treat
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  Speaker 3: these kids. I mean, they're basically professional football players are
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  Speaker 3: planning to be from age fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: Fields.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that wasn't the case when you and Iron were
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  Speaker 3: growing up, So they're probably more prepared to be into
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  Speaker 3: a starting lineup by their freshman season than ever before.
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  Speaker 3: But should we be worried at all that the left
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  Speaker 3: tackle and maybe the best pass rusher on the team
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  Speaker 3: and a cornerback are I mean, those are some critical
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  Speaker 3: positions on a football team are going to be unproven freshmen.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you always have some trepidation about freshmen because you
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  Speaker 5: just don't know until you see them out there against
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  Speaker 5: college level competition. And you know, over the last several
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  Speaker 5: years the way college football's gone, and I know they
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  Speaker 5: changed the rules now five to play five, but you
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  Speaker 5: might have some twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Year old guys out there.
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  Speaker 5: It's eighteen just turned eighteen year old guys going up
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  Speaker 5: against But what you said, you know guys are doing
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  Speaker 5: with the seven on seven and all the development and
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  Speaker 5: training that these guys are getting even before they hit
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  Speaker 5: high school and then before they get to college, these
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  Speaker 5: guys are physically more ready. They've seen more football, they've
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  Speaker 5: you know, got an opportunity to grow mentally in the game,
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  Speaker 5: so they're more ready. There's some positions though, I think, like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, running back. You know, be honest, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to try to make running back to
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  Speaker 5: this tough, hard position. When you have great instincts and
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  Speaker 5: you know you have a certain skill set, you can
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  Speaker 5: go out there and play in college as a freshman.
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  Speaker 5: But there are some that are a little tougher. Like
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  Speaker 5: corner you mentioned that, I would be a little nervous
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  Speaker 5: about the first time, you know, true freshman going out
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  Speaker 5: there and covering the college receiver. I think the way
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  Speaker 5: the schedules set up though, for the Huskies, and let's
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  Speaker 5: start with the defense side, that Husky defense is going
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  Speaker 5: to be so good. I think upfront and probably almost
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  Speaker 5: everywhere else around. The freshmen that we can kind of,
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  Speaker 5: you know, get by and there's some experience player he doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: And I think the schedule will give them an opportunity
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  Speaker 5: for the older guys that might be a little nicked up,
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  Speaker 5: that will replace some of these freshmen in game four
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  Speaker 5: or five by the time we'll get in to the
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  Speaker 5: Big ten.
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  Speaker 2: That's a luxury for us. The way the schedule set up.
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  Speaker 5: First game of the year, going against your rival is
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  Speaker 5: always something that you know to be a little you know,
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  Speaker 5: make sure guys are ready and not too excited, because
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  Speaker 5: that's going to be a tougher game than maybe their
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  Speaker 5: talent level.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we.
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  Speaker 5: Have a schedule that's set up for those freshmen to
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  Speaker 5: kind of ease into it and those that are gonna
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  Speaker 5: have to play the whole season get better, and those
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  Speaker 5: that are kind of fill in. It'll give the older,
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  Speaker 5: more experienced players an opportunity to get there. And I
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  Speaker 5: think on the defensive side, there's so much talent. This
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  Speaker 5: really looks like a big ten deepense. I think they
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  Speaker 5: are going to be just fine. Offensively. I think there's
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  Speaker 5: just gonna be that growing, you know, ramp up for
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  Speaker 5: a guy like Cody Green. I think there's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: a freshman wide receiver two that are going to have
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  Speaker 5: to play. And again another position where I think raw
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  Speaker 5: talent gives guys an ability to come out and they've
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  Speaker 5: done seven on seven probably every year since they were
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  Speaker 5: in eighth grade, a chance to be successful early in
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: their careers.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Walk us through you as a Husky, through and through
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: the emotional experience you had when Demon Williams looked like
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: he was trying to get out of the program, when
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: he was sort of forced to stay in the program,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: When Jedfish told us young man makes an honest mistake
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: but wants to be here until now take us through
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: that entire process. He's now getting ready to lead this
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: team into this new season.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: What did it take you through?
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny because I remember near the end of
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: the season we were talking about this coming year and
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: how great things could be if Mario Bailey would always say, yeah,
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: but we're gonna have to recruit and keep demand Williams here.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: And I was like, oh no, that's not you know,
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: a thing to even have to worry about. Well, I
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: don't know what Mario knew, what inside Evermason he had,
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: because it just.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Completely off guard. I'm going to be honest with you.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: Having said that, I think that, you know, a young
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: man making a mistake is kind of part of the story.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: And what I mean when I say that is this.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: You know, we tell during recruiting, coaches tell parents, you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: we're going to be like a father figure to your kid,
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: and when he's in our program, we're going to be
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: an example and help him grow into a young man. Well,
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: what do we see from college coaches all the time
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: when there's more money offered somewhere else, they leave and
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: they go take the money. Right, So those are the
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: examples we're showing these kids that if you got more
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: money somewhere else or the situation could be more advantageous
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: to you, run and go take it. So we're seeing
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: the product and in Demand's Williams situation, that's you know,
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: out there for them to lean from, you know, the
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: coaches when they have an opportunity to do it.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: So we're getting that same information. Of course, it hurt.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: It made me, you know, I wouldn't say angry, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: it just was like almost deflating. I was like, oh man,
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: we just got to this point. So then I started
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: thinking about, Okay, who's out there? Who can we go get?
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: You know, he started thinking about the quarterback in Arizona.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: You know, Jefish has a great relationship, so I kind
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: of got excited about, all right, what can we do
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: now to you know.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Fortify our team. Then he had to come back, and I.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Fully believe, in almost all conjectured rumor that the offer
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: he got from somewhere else. I think it probably was
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: LSU and it probably was you know, kiffing and that
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: because the Husky decided to fight and we're gonna delay it,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: then they probably could have you know, won that eventually.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: But you want to get your quarterback there early during
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: the springball and to acclim make the team and be.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: There for camp. This is all conjecture.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Everybody just speculation that that was going to take too
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: long for them to get the quarterback in the time
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: and they wanted so they pulled their offer, and now
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Demond's got to come back. And for that kid, I'm
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: sure that was, you know, a humbling situation. That was
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: a situation where he realized, now I'm gonna have to
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: go back and win these guys back over. But I
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: think he learned something from it. I think it's something
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: that as Husky fans we got to understand. This is
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: how college football is now, with the transferportal, with the
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: amount of money. I mean, hey, if the numbers are true,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: he's getting four point five year, he could have got
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: six million.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Think about it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: That kid's probably the largest earner in his entire family,
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: and now he's thinking about taking care of not just himself,
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: but mom and brothers and all that kind of stuff.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: So there's pressure on these kids to make decisions at
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: nineteen years old that a lot of us don't have
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: the opportunity to make. And he probably wishes it didn't
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: happen this way. But from everything I've heard, he's done
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: everything he's needed to do to come back, and when
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: his teammates back over, have the coaching.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Staff believe in him.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: And I think if he's able to take the steps
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: you talked about Frankly, last year in the tough, big games,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: you know, he didn't have his best showings. If he
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: can do that this year, I think he'll win Husky
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: fans back over. He's already won me back over because
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: we got a ride with this guy. I'm good again.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: A young man who's dealing with all these pressures of
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: supporting family, seeing examples of coaches leaving and all that
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: kind of stuff. You know, it was a moment of indecision.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: He made what he thought was best. It ended up
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: not working out. Now he's got to come back, but
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: he's still young and he still has an opportunity to
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: win Husky fans over out on the field on Saturday.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Our great pleasure to have Greg Lewis with us here
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: this morning as we're broadcasting from the fifty yard line
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: here at Husky Stadium.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Husky's camp coverage for the next.
• 19:25
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• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, how perfect is this? I mean gorgeous?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Stay here in the Pacific northwest the sun. I got
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: to watch it rise up over the end zone here
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: at Husky Stadium, and now it's just completely splashed across
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: the field.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I mean I can lay right now on the w
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: right in and get a tan.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he's just perfect location right now.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I know that Jeff Bechdel would love if I just
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: took my pants and my shirt off.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think he wants to see all that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I don't think we will.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, trust me, Greg Ward, here right there
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: was just us.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: You know, the team will be out a little while,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: but they might mistake you for a linebacker and try
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: to get you in some pad.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I think there's a better chance, uh that they'll just
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: mistake me for a vagrant.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: So uh well, great, morning to you all.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I got Greg Lewis here, the Husky Legend, the Husky Hall,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: joining me here at the set from eight to ten
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: to be my special guest host as we cover Husky's
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: training camp. We got Jay and Lamar and Olinnius Davis
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: gonna join us here at eight poin forty this morning,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: so we'll get.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: To know them a little bit.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: But got some time here to ask you and we'll
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: have more time talking about this a little later as well.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: But are you wrapping your brain around modern college football?
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I mean I talked to guys like you and Mario
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: and Cam and I know that it never even crossed
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: your mind to ever wear another uniform and you couldn't
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: even imagine to have left Seattle and gone somewhere else.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: But games changed, Yeah, the games change. There's money flying around.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Is it hard for you to embrace modern college football
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: because of that?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: It is in some ways, And you know you said
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: it right. As a kid, I always wanted to be
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: a Husky and my mom tried to make me go
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: to Stanford, and initially I was gonna have to go
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: there because I was only seventeen when I came, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: she had to write to sign my letter intent for me.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: But I wanted to be a Husky since I was
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: a real little kid, and it never ever crossed my mind.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: I remember after my sophomore year not playing as much
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: as I thought I should. The first couple of years,
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: I kind of was feeling a little sorry for myself,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: and my roommate Donald Jones, great outside linebacker, said stop
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: acting like a You know, I won't say exactly what
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: he said, and you know, go out there and show
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: who you can be, and you know the rest, as
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: they say, it's history. But nowadays they're faced with different decisions.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: And I can't sit here and honestly one hundred percent
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: say going into my senior year, after I had my
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: junior year rush for over eleven hundred yards, was an
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: all Pack ten player, the only experienced running back on
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: the team going into my seat, literally the guys behind
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: me had never played. If there was money on the table,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: I would have been in a position to ask for something.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: And who knows if somebody else was calling saying, hey, Greg,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: we got three million for you over here. I know
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: at Washington you're not. I can't honestly say, but my
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: heart tells me I would stay you know, continue to
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: be a dog.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: But also I will hope obviously, James, you know.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Greg, I think we can find something over here in
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: the end of board chest to keep you around.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: So I think those pressures.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: So for me, I think the biggest craziness with college
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: football isn't just the nil or the contractual money that
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: they get from television, but it's that compared with the
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: transfer portal. With those two things operating together, it's almost
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: like pro football, where everybody can become a free agent
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: every year. Like next year you can become a free agent.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: The next year you can come a free agent. So
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: if we're going to play this game like professional football,
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: which it really is, let's just be honest, this is
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: professional football. Everybody's getting something, then we got to start
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: adopting some of the things that professional football does, like
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: signing an actual binding contract that lasts for several years
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: so that guys aren't switching teams every single season. I
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: think that's the first thing that we got to do.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: They've settled some of the link to play stuff by
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: you get five years of just play five and so
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: that helps a little bit. So we don't have guys
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: like at University of Miami a couple of years ago.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Tight End was in his ninth season. Okay, you kind
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: of calm that down a little bit. So I like
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: to see that they're starting to put some things in.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: I think with the television money being the main ward
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: chess now stead of just nil, that'll help a little
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: bit because now we're tying revenue to the players and
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: they're getting what we would consider a fair share, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: hopefully that'll keep guys from jumping ship so much because
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: there's an amount of money that they can count on
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: coming into every season. But the whole term student athlete
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: is something that used to be true. It's not true anymore.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: So let's stop pretending and let's adopt a lot of
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: the rules and protections. Tampering is another thing. What's to
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: stop a team from calling the guy?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: You know? I heard the story of this Alabama.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Kid who originally committed to school in tech know, Iowa
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: or something like that, ended up getting out of his
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: commitment going to Alabama. At the end of the season,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Nick Saban leaves. This is the year saving left. He
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: goes back to Iowa or wherever it was for spring.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: If the end of spring goes back to Alabama. So
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: people are calling kids all the time, Hey, it's better
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: over here, it's bet over here. So come up with
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: some tamporary rules and things like that to keep kids
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: from signing a deal and then hearing from somebody else
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: and then trying to get out of it. I think
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: if they can control all of that stuff, we can
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: get to some semblance of making this making sense. But
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: the whole notion of this being amateur athletics and amateur sports,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: get rid of that. That's not true, that's not real.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: It's professional sports being played on college campuses. And we
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: just got to take it that way so that we
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: can do things the right way.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the combination of the things. I mean, I
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: don't think anybody should have any problem. You should have
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: been paid something, you know, Cam should have been paid,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Mario should have been paid, you Millen should have been paid.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: You should have been paid. Yeah, and so I think
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that people need to come to grips with that here
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: in today's football world.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: But when you add it with the other things, now
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: you do have chaos. Now, you do have the wild West.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And there should be some protection for the player's own
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: benefit too, Rather than getting vultured. We shouldn't have had
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: the demand Williams junior situation this offseason. We shouldn't be
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: talking about that going into the year. But unfortunately, because
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: the system is set up the way that it is.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: And their kids.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: A lot of these guys are eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: so they're having to make decisions with all these people
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: in their ear and they're still you know, learning and growing.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: They're not you know, a guy who's had to figure
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: out how God forbid.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: That you want to focus on academics.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, gosh, and you know, the only good
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: thing about this is, and I don't know where it's
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: going to end up going is you know, over the
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: last ten years or fifteen years or so, you've seen
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: a lot more kids graduating, Right, is this going to
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: change that because guys are jumping around so much and
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: now we don't have his any guys graduating because there
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: is a student part to it, but it's just like
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: a student who's got a job. I mean, you really
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: have a job, and you're a professional where you're playing
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: college athletics. And again, these guys are young when they're
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: having to make all these decisions and figure all these
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: things out. Yeah, they probably got parents helping them and
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: those kinds of things, but literally the decision ultimately, and
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: we're as fans, and that's probably who it sucks for
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: the most all of this stuff, is the fans because
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: a kid, you know, Jay and Lamar is gonna come
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: here and talk today and love the fact that he's
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: back at Washington. You know, certainly our running back spot
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: was a little uneasy after some of the transfers and
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: graduations and stuff. But I'm sure the people at Oregon
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: are wishing he was down there and now he's over here.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: And so the fans are the ones who kind of
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: lose in all of this. And now you got to
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: get used to learning names and numbers every year. I'll
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: tell you what, as much as it's caused disruption in
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: college football and crazy, I would not want to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: involved in college basketball right now.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: It's like you got a whole new team every single year.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: So I think for basketball it's even worse.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this about I say this all the time.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I realize that it's been chaos. But for whatever reason
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: on the field, man, have we been treated to a
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: great product in college football the last two years I
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: mean it has been wildly popular for as many people
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: that are complaining.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: You sure are watching a lot more football than you
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: once were.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say this.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: They're coaches like Jed Fish and this is why we're
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: lucky to have him, who have embraced the chaos, who
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: have embraced this system and knows enough about professional sports
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: football at the professional level to be able to infuse
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: and leverage the things that are good about it to
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: impact his team at the college level.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: That's the reason why though people.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Like you know, Nick Saban have gotten out of the
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: game because of not being able to really fully embrace it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: You look at Clemson, a team who's historically been great,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: and Dabbo Swingey's been slow to embrace this.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: And they are not that good a coach. Peterson.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: I remember having a conversation with Chris Peterson years ago
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: during his last season, and it might have been right
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: after he left, and just asking him and he said, Greg,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: the way college football is going and what I see coming,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: I'm not you know that type of guy. I haven't
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: been involved in Wayane's yes this, and so he decided
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: to tap out. And I see why guys like that
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: would tap out, But we are lucky at the University
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: of Washington. The reason I'm so high on this program
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: is we have the coach that embraces this. He knows
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: how to work through this system, and he's getting the
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: right guys. He's using the transportal the right way. He's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: still recruiting to build and all of those things. So
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: I think we're in a great position because we got
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: the right coach.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Greg Lewis is here. My name is Chuck Powell. Will
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: continue from h Husky's camp. As a matter of fact,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: we're gonna hear from a couple of players next, Jayden
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Lamar running back and defensive tackle Olenius Davis going to
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: join us next.
• 29:56
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  Speaker 4: Call an audible on the field is what we did.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: We're gonna go with coach Walters right now here on
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the radio program, and we'll have Jaden and Alnius coming
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: up a little bit later on in the program.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: But the DC is here. On the show and we
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: welcome you. How you doing?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Hold on where you're at?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Two?
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I put you on this site. See, I'm having to
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: be my own engineer.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Here, coach.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: We're still getting in pre season fourteen.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: You know it's our training camp.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Are you good? I still can't hear you? All right,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: let's try that. Let's try that.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Goat you hear me? Now I can?
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  Speaker 2: Right there? We go?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, see we have to call an audible
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  Speaker 3: and you see what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody jumped off side.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right.
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  Speaker 4: You just got to adapt and adjust.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: House camp.
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  Speaker 6: Going camp has been awesome. You know, we're we're pretty
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  Speaker 6: healthy right now, which is the most important part. You know,
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  Speaker 6: you're not seeing repeated mistakes. You know, from practice to practice,
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  Speaker 6: they're practicing the way we want them to. They're upholding
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  Speaker 6: the standard and holding each other accountable. You've seen a
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  Speaker 6: lot of guys be productive this uh, this fall camp,
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  Speaker 6: and so hopefully that comes to fruition this fall.
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  Speaker 2: Coach.
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  Speaker 5: This time of year, people always say the defense is
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: ahead of the offense and they look more ready. Would
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: you say that's holding true now? Because we know on
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: the office side there's still some weapons and skill size
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  Speaker 5: guys that we got to develop.
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  Speaker 2: But it sounds like the defense is pretty loaded.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I do like our death on defense. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we've had guys in and out of the lineup just
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: with you know, Nick knacked, injuries that you that you
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: normally get during fall camp.
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  Speaker 4: But there's been good back and forth every practice.
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  Speaker 6: And you know we're not like keeping score and we
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: need place to keep developing and things like that. We
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: can't stay you know, got to stay away from the quarterback. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you know, our quarterback is as elusive as anybody. So
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  Speaker 6: some of the times when the whistle might get blown
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  Speaker 6: did because of a potential sack like you might have
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  Speaker 6: got out. And so it's not so much about you know,
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  Speaker 6: who's winning from practice to practice, but you know, are
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  Speaker 6: we getting the right type of work? Are we accomplistable
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  Speaker 6: we need to accomplish and are we playing tough and
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  Speaker 6: physical and competitive and disciplined while we're doing so?
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: D c Ryan walters with us here on the radio program.
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  Speaker 5: Right every measure statistically, you look at this defense last year,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: top five defense in the Big Ten and had a
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: great season, one of the leaders in turnovers, I think
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  Speaker 5: third in the conference and turnovers.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: What does this defense need to do.
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  Speaker 5: Now in your eyes as the guy who's the architect,
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: to take that next step to become an even better defense,
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  Speaker 5: to really be elite.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, one of the things that we've been focusing on
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  Speaker 6: has been creating more havoc plays, you know, TfL sacks, takeaways,
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  Speaker 6: you know, getting stops.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier in drives.
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  Speaker 6: Those are areas that I felt like we could improve
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  Speaker 6: on from a year ago. You know, we got to
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: come out to gate hot. I thought we started kind
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: of slow last season and really didn't find our groove
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  Speaker 6: until game four or five. But you know, having a
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: better understanding of the roster, the guys in the locker room,
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: have a better understanding of the scheme, and then all
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: the coaches just you know, in year two together have
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: been on the same pace, speaking the same language, and
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: seeing the game the same way. Hopefully we'll play dividends,
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: you know, come Saturdays this season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I was gonna ask you about year two because
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: we have.
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  Speaker 3: A football coach by the name of Mike McDonald here
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  Speaker 3: in town as well that knows a little bit about defense,
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  Speaker 3: and his track record is there's improvement in year one
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: and then in year two, it really takes hold. Has
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  Speaker 3: that been your experience as well? Do you feel like, hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we improved last year, but now that we're all speaking
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  Speaker 3: the same language, we're speaking Walter ees here that this thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's generally the case.
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  Speaker 6: You know, historically, just in my career both at Missouri
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  Speaker 6: and Illinois as a coordinator. Uh, you definitely saw a
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  Speaker 6: big jump from year one to year two. And it's
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: because of all the things I had previously mentioned. So
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  Speaker 6: hopefully history repeats itself. I don't see any reason why
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  Speaker 6: it wouldn't. Obviously we got, you know, some tough opponents
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  Speaker 6: this season, as does everybody that that plays in a
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  Speaker 6: big ten. Uh. But I like our guys. I like
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: what how our coaches have been teaching the schemes and
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: and and reaching their minds. And you know, offensively, we
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: do a great job of moving the chains and keeping
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: us off the field. So that should be a good
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: combination for having a pre style defense.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Now in training camp, you come in, you got a
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: lot of returning guys, guys who are known quantities, you
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: know what they're going to do. But it's also kind
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: of a time to see the new guys transfers in
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: this day and age, the recruits that are come in,
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: has anyone kind of jumped out or surprising maybe even
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: the guy who just didn't play a lot last year
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  Speaker 5: that's kind of shown themselves during this training camp that
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  Speaker 5: you're excited about.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a couple of guys that kind of just
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: jump out in my mind. You know, everybody's been talking
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: about Ramsac and sort of the buzz he's created, and
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: you know, he's he's made a big lead from springball
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  Speaker 6: to now. You know, Darren Coleman Brussa obviously has all
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: the physical attributes and but you know, learning how to
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: play inside and what that entails from a technique and
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: fundamental standpoint, He's made minus leaps as well from spring
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  Speaker 6: to fall. You know, transfer guys like Darren Conley, he's
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: been doing great. So you know, those those added editions
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: I've definitely been a pleasant surprise. And then you know
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: also like Jaron Jones freshman corner who can cover, you know,
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: just as good as anybody we have on the team,
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: and practices the right way and and has a really
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: good skill set. So you know, looking forward for him
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  Speaker 6: to help us on Saturdays as.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Well, where he's still in Robinson right now.
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  Speaker 6: He's you know, he's he's been in like rehab. He'll
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: I think he's very clear to go next week at
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: some point. But you know, he's moving around great. Obviously,
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: it looks like a creative player. So we'll be we'll
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: be blessed to have him back and he's it's at
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: the opportunity.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: I played with one of the best defenses in Husky
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: history back in nineteen ninety, right, and then there's the
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: eighty four defense. Some of the nicknames I remember, Purple Rain,
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Purple Hayes, those Death Row Defense in twenty.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Sixteen, those guys a lot, do you I got him
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  Speaker 3: a fun thing for the fans.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: What's this defense going to be known for? Like? And
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: if they were going to get a nickname, what would
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: it be here?
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  Speaker 6: So you know, our guys definitely recognize and are humbled
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: to wear the w and recognize the people that have
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: played here before. And so we call ourselves the Death
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Row Dogs. And we had a meeting on what that
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: means and what that looks like and how you need
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  Speaker 6: to move to be a part of that company and
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: what kind of tradition that that entails. Uh So, hopefully
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: we make those those past defenses, those past teams proud
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: with the way we play this season.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: At this stage of camp, how much of your depth
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: chart is set on nothing?
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Nothing is set not ever job your spot.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: The depth chart is rented, It is not owned, and
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: rent is do every day, so we are always competing.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: What about this guy might be set.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he's a he's a coach on the field.
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't think I've ever had a defensive
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: lineman as as intelligent as him in terms of, like
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: I ding what's going on from the offense. He's like
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: a linebacker that's playing you know, three tech or or
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: a shade. So I love having him in our front.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: You mentioned him being like a linebacker. But let's talk
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: about your actual linebackers. It seems to me from now
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: side looking in that there's a ridiculous you know, wealth
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: there at that position for the University of Washington Huskie
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: football team. Talk a little bit about your linebacker core
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: and what that depth means for this team and and
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: playing in the conference like the Big Ten.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's I think it's unique because we've got
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: like four guys that are alpha's. But they all get
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: along with each other really well and are on the
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: same page and and and cheer for each other. Uh So,
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: you know you're playing a big ten, you're gonna need
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: death at that position.
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  Speaker 2: We saw that last season.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: Right when, you know, you didn't ever really have all
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: of them healthy at the same time. And so especially
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: with the way they play, you know, they get downhill
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: and get downhill and a hurdy with an attitude. Uh
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: So you're gonna get your bumps and bruises and uh
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: so depth is required, uh to to be able to
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: play our style of ball. But all those guys, you know,
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: they they are extremely well coached by coach otom They
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: put an extra time to study. They're leaders on the field,
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: you know, they're they're my voice out on the field.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: So definitely to please with with the way they operate
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: and then the way they produce this so far.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've got people excited. I know that you personally
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: got people excited about this defense. So go out there,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: have a great year. Thank you very much. Appreciated Ryan
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Walters joining us right here on the radio program once
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: I figured out which my head said he was on.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, we're still the preseason for him.
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  Speaker 2: Too. You know, we're trying to get ready.
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  Speaker 3: Olivius Davis is going to join US next Sports Radio
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