Our friend Everett fits you right now. Oh there's the music. There's the cracking music.
Kind it makes me sounds like Mike Ben should be taken over for cracking pre game right now when you're playing this love it Everett.
How you doing man, Hey man.
I'm doing well. Anytime I hear that music, it's like, oh yeah, it's so weird. You know, it's working in sports. The off season is so sudden, right Like you're working one day and then the next day you're done for five months and then it's just like, all right, well, I guess I'll go to a baseball game. I'll do something for half a year. But no, it feels good to finally have something to talk about again.
Oh.
Absolutely.
And what we have to talk about is the new head coach, Lane Lambert. And let's just start with why you think the Seattle Kraken were intrigued in this associate coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I think there's a couple of factors here for me. I think number one, you listen to Ron France and Jason Bosherl and the vision for this team moving forward, and obviously it's one where they want to be focused on offense, but they want to get back to their strong defensive structure that we saw the first couple of years with the Kraken. I mean two years ago, the Kracking were the only team in the NHL in the top ten in defense to not make the playoffs. And
they got away from that a little bit. They were a hard team to play against, and you always heard from opposing coaches you know, they're a little bit unlucky right now. They're not scoring the goals at the rate that they would like, but man, they are tough to play against. We hate playing against Seattle because they're always going to outwork you and you didn't hear. I think the Kracking got away from that a little bit last season. So enter Lane Lambert, who is known for his defensive acuity,
who is known for having a structured system. And I think for a team like Seattle, who doesn't have know as our good friend Ian Ferness would say, he doesn't have the the aircraft care, you don't have that elite level of player. There's no McKinnon McDavid, there's no dry title on this team. But what you do have is a lot of really good players. A really good veteran Cory a really good group of young players, and if you can get them to work within the particular system,
it's going to be a hard system. But if you can get them to work and play in a structured way, the offense will follow. And that's why you'll say a lot of times, if you want to have good, good offense, you have to be good in your defensive zone as well. And we saw the crack can get away from that this past year.
So let's go.
Back to a year ago when the Jettison hacked All and they bring in Dan Bosma, right, And I thought that I heard that a big part of it is that they want to open up the ice that they want to they want to be more dynamic offensively.
Am I misremembering? Uh that?
To quote what was Roger Clemens? Am I misremembering? Do I have part of that?
Right? Vert?
And if so, kind of for a fan who might be saying, Okay, what's the philosophy here, it seemed like you're, well, the defense was great, but we need more offense. Now we whack another guy after one season, we want to go back to defense.
Just kind of sort that out for us.
Yeah, no, you're you're not misremembering at all. And I think, you know, for Dan, coming off of two really successful years in the AHL, getting back behind an NHL bench, you know, he'd won a Stanley Cup, he'd won the Jack Adams. You know, he had been in charge of some really good Penguins teams. The offensive production I think
was there compared to the year before. Obviously it wasn't good enough, but I think m Kraken went from twenty third in the league in offense in the twenty three twenty four seasons they were I think fifth teenth fourteenth this year. So your offense improved marginally a little bit, but where you did take a big dip was defensively.
So you're not misremembering. But it's gonna sound confusing, But when you talk about playing a quick north to south game, when you talk about, you know, finding the puck in your defensive zone, smothering the other team in your defensive zone, essentially what that is is if you play with the puck,
your offense is gonna follow. So when you're in the defensive zone, when you're making it hard on the other team to get a line change on the ice, when you're moving the puck up the ice, quickly catching teams in transition. When you're attacking the net. That all starts with strong play in the defensive zone. You're wearing the other teams down. You look at the Edmonton Oilers, right, you're gonna keep McDavid in dry siddle on the ice.
You're gonna force them to go for long shifts. Well, then now they're gonna have to maybe take that extra beat. When you're coming back up the ice, they're gonna be looking to get off the ice because you've hemmed been in so long. You've made life so challenging for them in their offensive zone. And a lot of times that's how your offense will start. Is if you can have a really strong, structured defensive style, the offense will follow. And that is what you're looking for for Lane Lambert.
I think offensively, the Maple Leafs, the Islanders, the Capitols, all teams that he was a part of their coaching staffs, you saw a strong defensive play ultimately leading to a number of positives in their offensive categories.
Why was he fired?
I mean he makes the playoffs his first year twenty twenty two to twenty three, and then in the second year. I mean they're halfway through the season, they're nineteen fifteen and eleven. And I mean, it's not like it was a terrible season.
Why was he fired?
Yeah, you know, that's a very interesting question, and that's the question that I don't think we've ever really gotten an answer to. You know, I was listening to Jordan Everley's hit earlier today on Ian Show, and he was talking about when he was on Long Island playing for the Islanders and the way that he coached and the way that players responded to him. And I think, you know, the the Lane Lambert that maybe you see in the media, you see in public, isn't the Lane Lambert that the
players see in the locker room. And by and large, a lot of folks who who you talk to when you listen to and you go back and read, they liked having him on the staff. A lot of Islanders liked playing for Lane Lambert. So it had to have been a managerial difference up in the front office, right Lou Lamarillo, the longtime GM president GM in the NHL,
he's known for running a tight secretive ship. And you know, this is obviously just my speculation, and having never been in an Islander's boardroom or locker room or anything like that. But to me, there had to have been some difference, some not seeing eye to eye on those on that part, because you're right, he was sixty one, forty and twenty, he was coming off of a playoff run. He had a number of good years as an associate coach. He helped the Islanders to back to back Eastern Conference finals
when he was all Long Island as well. So to fire him after a year and a half in favor of Patrick Wah, I get Patrick Wah is a big name. He's a little bit more media savvy, a little bit more media friendly in that regard. So you know, it was a head scratcher to a lot of people when he was fired, for sure. Up in Long Island.
Everett fits you with us, and we're discussing the coaching change with the Krack and Everett. Yesterday we had a nice chat with Mike Benton and he cited one of the two reasons along with defense that you cided, he cited one of the reasons for the change was to steward the young players that are presumed to be up and coming. Just kind of talk about what what does that mean to you, how important is that and describe to us the primacy of that particular aspect.
Well, I think that's big too. And and and when you listen to Ron Francis and Jason boscherl a number of players folks in this front office, the plan from day one has always been to build from within. You want to have sustain success from within your own organization. You want to build from a strong draft class. You want to have a good minor league system. You want to have good amateur scouts who can keep the cupboard stocks. You know, this team, this was never going to be
the Yankees of the nineties. They were never going to buy championships here in Seattle, right, But what they wanted to do is they want to grow from the inside. They want to build a strong base. So when you look at a Shane Wright and a Mattie Beniers and a Ranker Evans, and you've got Berkeley Catton, who you know, presumably is going to make the NHL roster next season coming out of training camp. You've got younger players in Capocaco,
who is still twenty three years old. You know a few other guys who are sub twenty four, sub twenty five guys that's gonna be the future of this team. And then you want to hope to supplement with some free agents. Last season, the Crack can go out and
get Chandler Stevenson, Brandon Montour. There's a number of big names on the free agency market this year, and next summer is gonna be massive, probably the biggest free agency summer next season, summer of twenty six that at least I can remember in the last ten or fifteen years of just you know, being a fan of the game and now working in the game. So you're gonna build that way. But you need to start from a good base.
So if you can get players like Shane Wright and Maddy Vaniers and Rocky Evans and Cappo Coca and Burtley Katton and all the guys who are going to be coming up for Seattle in the next two to three seasons, you need to get them ingrained in this system. You need to get them playing a strong, structured system, because that's just gonna lay the foundation for a long term success for each of them.
I went through some numbers yesterday and you mentioned, you know, not having an aircraft carrier. Well, if you remember our battleship game board, the Krack and Adam had a.
Battleship, a cruiser or a destroyer either.
When you look at just the ranking and points, I mean, Jared McCann seventy ninth in points last year was the highest Kracking. He was eighty second in the NHL the year before that, he was fifty ninth year before that, he was one twenty ninth the year before that, and that was the highest Kraken point scorer each and every year.
So I mean, talk about these young guys.
I mean, are is one or more of these young guys gonna be a top fifty point score or are you gonna have to go outside, whether it be through trades or whether it be that free agent class of twenty twenty six. You spoke of, how are we finally going to get a top fifty scorer on this franchise?
You know what, Honestly, it's gonna be a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. Right, you need a Matty Vanier's and a Shane Wright to take that next step. Matty vaneers two years removed from winning the Calder Award, and there has been a bit of a of a regression in his game. We saw the last twenty five thirty games of this past season, we saw him getting a little bit back to that form.
Shane Wright, same thing. A very slow start for him, but over his last fifty games of the regular season, Shane Wright was scoring at you know, a seventy point seventy five point clip if you extrapolate that over an a two game season. So if you're the crackh in, you know you're gonna need Shane Wright over the next two to three years to put together a thirty goal season. If you can sniff forty goals, great, If you can touch seventy plus points, awesome. You need Matty Beniers. You
know you're making seven million dollars. I've always been a big believer of ten points per million, right, So by my account, Matt Evaneers, you gotta get to seventy points and you have to consistently be between seventy sixty five seventy eighty points in a season like that. That for me is my base. So you're gonna have to find
a way to get there. And I think that's also why a guy like Lane Lambert makes more sense that I think some people may give them credit for Like I said before, when you don't have that Conor McDavid, that Nathan McKinnon, when you don't have that guy the guy, it's going to take a full team effort. You go back to the year the Crack and made the playoffs, thirteen different players had career highs and goals, assists or points. Right, you had a great year in net from Martin Jones.
This past season, Joey the Cord kept the Cracking in that playoff. You know, at least the coppersation until you know,
mid late February early March. So if you can find a coach who can install that structure, who can get players playing on the same way, on the same page, that's going to help you in the same way I feel as having, you know, one of those top offensive players with I remember a couple of years ago under Dave Hackstall, I was talking to Jared McCann and he was telling me about, you know, man, Dave Axtall system is hard, like playing a structured defense first game is hard.
But you know what, when it works, damn it, We're the best team in the NHL. No one can play with us. You know, We're going out there every single night and we're putting up positive results. And Jane Schwartz was sitting a couple of stalls down and he gave that look of boy, you ain't lyon, Like it's hard, it's not easy to play this way, but when you do, you're going to find success. And I think this is where a coach like Lane Lambert is going to pay
off dividends for Seattle. But like you just said, there's going to come a time, whether it's this summer when you see a Marner, Nikolai Eelers, you know Sam Bennett who's going back to the finals in Florida, or next summer when again just go look up twenty twenty six UFA class. I mean you've got the big fish is going to be Connor McDavid. I think he stays in Edmonton, but as of right now, he doesn't have a contract pass next season, So for all intents and purposes, Connor
McDavid is a free agent after next season. Kyle Conner up in Winnipeg, he's a free agentnumber of great, strong offensive defensemen are on the up on the free agency market next summer as well, So you're going to have to make a big splash in the next couple of
years in the free agent market. But if these internal players, if Maddivaneers, if Shane Wright can get to thirty goals, if Matty Beaneers can get to thirty goal seventy points, if Berkeley Katton can put himself in the Calder Rookie of the Year conversation this coming season, I think you're going to go a long way and maybe temporarily mitigating the dire need to go out and spend twelve, thirteen, fourteen million dollars for a player when you've got a
bunch of guys in house that are finding ways to get it done as well.
One more minute for me with ever Fitzhugh and Everett. I'm a little torn in my mind, and I'm going to lean on you to kind of just send me in a direction. Okay, So with the Stanley Cup Final now obviously ye, the repeat of a year ago, the bitter loss by Edmonton, Should I be rooting? Who should I root for? Should I root for Edmonton? Because Connor McDavid is a great dude that has never won it? Is there something about the Florida dynasty like like set
me straight? Because I'm kind of deadlocked in my mind, you.
Know what I think. For me, I'm kind of torn as well because I've always been a big fan of the quote unquote non traditional hockey market having success. Right, We're now six straight years of a team from Florida representing the East in the Stanley Cup Final, right, So the Sun Belt has been crushing it when it comes
to hockey. But also, you know, Connor McDavid has been through a lot in Edmonton and just having known a lot of members and met Edmonton Press Corps and the people who talk to him with him on a daily basis. He is the player. Obviously he's the best player in the world, but when you look at his work ethic, when you look at his habits, he is one of those guys who it is impossible not to root for because of all the stuff that he's had to put up with through his first eight years in the NHL,
and now he's going to back to back finals. You know, I think if you're a Kraken fan, you're probably gonna be rooting for for Florida because you don't want to see a division foe in uh in the spotlight. You know, I have to imagine number of folks in Seattle probably not rooting for OKC coming up in the finals either, right, Like you don't want to you don't want to see the enemy the enemy do well. So when I'm with you,
I'm a little I'm a little torn as well. But I do think that not having a horse in this race, it's hard to beat a team two years in a row, right and even though the Oilers, you know, they've beaten up the La Kings four straight years in the playoffs. But April hockey is a lot different than June hockey, and I I think Edmonton gets it done this year. I do think it's going to be a six or seven game series, but with Edmonson having home ice, they're not gonna get down three to one like they did
last year and have to claw their way back. I think Edmonton wins it in seven. But I do think this is going to be a hell of a series.
It's gonna be fun.
Now we know that you're free, so I can call you and play a little golf, all right, man?
Absolutely good? Uh, just golf and baroness games. I got nothing but.
Time, love it, love it, let's do it. Thanks ever, appreciate it man, all.
Right, fella's sit here.
Thanks for the time you mad evert Fitshu, the voice of the Seattle Kraken. We've got our new head coach in tow Lane Lambert when we come back. I had an interesting tweet that I saw. I don't know if Jackson's seen this uh yet, but there are our good friend Dove Kleimban whoever he is right, not a real person, but he's got a lot of followers. He put out a tweet of the goats of every NFL franchise.
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Listen to the general manager of the Seattle Crack and Jason Bottrell who was on the morning show that'll come up about forty minutes from now at six' ten will replace some of that conversation With chuck And buck. Today but back to FOOTBALL i thought this an interesting tweet by some people love, him some people hate, him some people have no idea who he really, is or if he's really a, person that would be dove climbing on On. Twitter he's got three hundred and fifty thousand, followers so you,
know he's account got, bought so his count got. Bought it it was bought from, somebody and now it's.
Just do we know who it is?
Now, nope we have no idea who it.
Is, WELL i thought it was an interesting topic regardless who this came, from and it was it was each team's EACH nfl team's goat and actually Looks jackson like it has the Fan duel logo up. Top so maybe bought out by By. FanDuel i JUST i just noticed. That,
NOW i hadn't noticed that. Before and, GUYS i you, KNOW i kind OF i kind of divide these up into kind of four, categories and the first category being there's just a clear, pick like you think of a team and there's just one person that comes to mind boom before any for, Example, patriots, duh, right It's Tom. Brady, saints, duh It's Drew, Brees Dan, Marino Barry, Sanders John.
Elway there's the like.
When you're when you're talking about like the top, ten top fifteen players of all. TIME i mean there's there's ten of your teams right, there ten to fifteen year teams right. There then there you've got the situation where there's a franchise been successful around for a long time that's got a couple top twenty players of all, time and you gotta pick or, choose like like The, bears do you want to Go Walter payton or do you
want to Go Mike. Singletary if you're The, niners do you want to Go Joe montana or do you want to Go Jerry.
RICE i, mean there's there's those questions in.
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Know and then there's the teams that.
Really don't have an all time, great but you've got to put somebody up. There for, example The, Jaguars Fred, taylor that's who they put not an all time, great but probably the Best jaguar that's ever. Played hugh's favorite quarterback with The, Panthers Cam. Newton, Right but LIKE i, mean maybe you Put Steve, Smith, yeah, Definitely maybe you put who's the pass, Rusher hugh the Jus peppers?
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And then there's The.
Hawks AND i find The hawks to be very unique in this because they don't fit any of The they fit the category of there are a couple Of seahawks that you absolutely could go to and dove climbing slash Fan duel decided not to go that.
Direction.
Jackson would you like to guess who The seahawks pick is for the greatest of all?
TIME i think we're pretty it has to Be Steve largen Or Walter. Jones those are the two OUs, obvious very very, obvious and is not one of those which very clearly by how you've run up into, this it's not one of those so FanDuel.
Idiots so where do you? Go but where do you go after? That where would you naturally go after? That if you didn't pick.
Those hoes Or kenny Or Bobby. Wagner see that's the.
Thing i'd PROBABLY i would go Probably cortes, next and then i'd go to the y Lo. Ob i'd go immediately And, hugh would you agree? That you'd Go largen Or jones Whichever i'm cool with Either jones was, Probably and then after that you go To tes who famously.
Planted Hugh millan on his ass and we've seen in.
A million times on The womenfield, screen which is absolutely. Awesome and THEN i would go after that to one of the yell.
Ob so, okay so you're saying it's not one of the five that we just, mentioned.
Would you like to guess what it? Is It's Russell, wilson isn't? It welcome to my happy, Place Russell.
Wilson on you your thoughts Of Russell wilson being amongst the greatest of.
All time and the greatest seawk of all.
Time you, know, look it's. Subjective there's no proving. THIS a guy could put on a website that you know The bengals are greater than The. Beatles you can say whatever the hell you, want right, like, okay But Russell wilson does not make my top Five Sea. Hawks just for me, PERSONALLY i Think Bobby wagner is the most accomplished in my opinion. Teams, well he's JUST i think it's six versus three or. Four six time first Team
All pro and and he has A Super bowl. Ring SO i you, KNOW i just THINK i think the number one guy Is Bobby. Wagner BUT i would Put Bobby, WAGNER i, PUT i would Put, WALT i would Put Steve, LARGENT i would Put Cortes, KENNEDY i would Put kenny, Easily i'd Put i'd put the three l ob defensive backs. Probably, Yeah SO i THINK i think, That, YEAH i think That Russell wilson's closer to tenth for me than. Fifth, yes Sures heck isn't. One but you, know how old
is the guy that did? This because you're knowing, that Uh, Well in looking at some of his, lists for the most, part there's a couple of. Exceptions he Had Jim brown for the for The Cleveland, browns and unless you want to Pick Auto. Graham BUT i Think Jim brown's is the right pick. There but on a number of teams he picked the more recent. Player for, Example Atlanta, Falcons Matt ryan's the number one. GUY i played for The
falcons for three. Years you're telling, now now there's a question Of Dion, sanders, Right but you may not know the Names jeff Van note Or Mike, Canner Tommy. Nobus but but if you played for The, falcons you'd know those.
Names they picked up for.
The Packers Aaron rodgers that's Over Bart starr Or Don hudson they picked for The, colts they Picked Peyton manning Over Johnny. Unitas for The, Chargers, Ladanian tomlinson Or Lance, Armstrong, Armstrong Lance, ALWORTH. Bambi look there there's cases in all of. Those each one of those you could you could, argue but just on virtually every time where it's it's, like you,
know Even Arizona, Cardinals Larry fitzgerald wonderful. Pick But Larry wilson is is until, uh Until Ronnie lot came, Around Larry wilson was considered the greatest safety that ever played for decades and decades and.
Decades, hall you.
Know hall of.
Fame so SO i just think that every time there was a maybe whoever wrote this, list they always you, know, hey that's a great. Pick but But Larry zonka and other guys that won Two Super bowls When Dan marino didn't like, like there's arguments to be made for the more recent, player and there's arguments to be made for a later you, know even players that predated. Me take
me out of. It the players and seeming every time now he had name it for The, jets and that's, obvious, Obvious but most of the time when there was a h you, know a six to one half dozen or the, other he chose the more RECENT i.
THINK i, think getting this back to The seahawk, CONVERSATION i think the more interesting debate is how far Is Russell wilson down the.
LIST i, Think, HUGHES i, mean we're not thinking everybody THAT i think. THAT i think That Cam sherman And thomas And wagner on that defense were all superior players at their position To russell Wils Steve. HUTCHINSON i Think Marshawn lynch was a superior player at his position To Russell. Wilson Steve Hutchinson Walter, jones Courts As, Kennedy.
Steve. LARGENT i, mean you're, It you're he is in the top. TEN i think he.
IS i THINK i don't THINK i can name anybody else because he was the quarterback for a long time and had a very successful. Run he is the greatest quarterback In seahawk history and have been around for.
Fifteen Seawan alexander Who alexander.
Is AN.
Mvp.
WELL i Think Russell, wilson it was thought that he was on the way to having A hall Of fame, career but it feels like that NOW i could be wrong on, this but it seems like he hasn't done enough agree and SO i don't think he's in The hall Of, fame whereas you've got some of these others that that are either in The hall Of fame or you, Know Bobby wagner is going to be just they're just slammed him as well handed to him right now, exactly you. Know and AND i Think Richard Richard, SHERMAN i had to.
BET i think That Richard sherman will make. It Earl thomas has a. CHANCE i Think Sherman's sherman's.
Can bridge by being so weird the last and then he was so poor.
Late he, might BUT i think, yet no cam.
Going Like kenny easily years years down the.
ROAD i don't think he's gonna make.
Them and also it's probably my my Favorite Sea, Hawk like IF i, HAD i, Don't god bless you if you wear. JERSEYS i love the fact that that people wear jersey to the.
GAMES i.
Don't but IF i had, to somebody, said, hey we'll give you any number and you're you're gonna go season tickets and you gotta WEAR i would say give me thirty.
One, yeah first day that the first day we came out with the new jerseys in twenty, twelve right and had the new logo of the new. Jerseys the first day they got, UNVEILED i was down at the pro shop at eight am and got myself at number thirty oneful.
Beautiful, yeah y, three we, agree but not A hall Of famer.
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Fm, So, jackson you know that some of our greatest ideas for show topics are spawned with just like random conversations right on the phone or our text You softy and my text threads that go like fifty four texts long over that you. Know edwards one Morning i'm talking To i'm talking To hugh after after the show, yesterday and we were talking about his his remember his buddy he talked about yesterday he was a.
Thunder fan AND i was, like, dude how can you?
Be you, know how can You i'll give you a thunder Fan and he says a HUGE nba, fan huis under?
Fan doesn't make sense? Whatever and it got ITS i don't.
Know it morphed into the conversation of what would it take what would it take for you to pull Somebody seattle fan, Card, like what would some somebody have to do as A seattle fan where you're just, like, dude, no like you have revoked all privileges to be A seattle sports.
Fan AND i was thinking about, IT i was, LIKE.
I think what it would be would be a twelve cents twelve that was just rabbed for five six years in the mid teens when we're going To Super bowls and we're going to playoffs every, year and then when The seahawks started to decline and The niners started to, rise he became A niner fan and like started wearing.
Jersey that's not even A seattle sports.
Fan that's just not.
Well BUT i, mean if somebody From seattle could potentially could potentially do, THAT i do sports fan, card.
That would be absolutely not just A seattle.
Exports right.
Exactly, BUTIES i, MEAN i almost think that would be worse than somebody being A thunder fan from the get, go because he is twisted. It as as awful as it, SOUNDS i guess there's some logic and what your friend's doing is, Like, okay they're my basketball. Team all the same players were there and they just went to a different. City so AS i, mean as gross as it is for me to spit that.
OUT i can kind of.
Sort of see that, over just like switching allegiances and going from The seahawks to The.
Allegiances but being a true bandwagon jumper would be this that would probably nauseate more fellow sports fans around. You that's that's probably the number one. Sin here's the.
Thing if you're just jumping from one rival to another, rival you're clearly not in it for the actual. Sports you're just in it for you, know you.
Just want to. Win you just want you want to be part of the.
Party you just want to you want to go where the party, is and you don't care who you're rooting. For you just want to like the team that happens to be good at the. Moment that doesn't make you a sports. Fan it makes you just a. Bandwagoner AND i consider specifically the people who are those kind of. Bandwagoners you. Aren't you're not a true sports. Fan you're just hopping on the next.
Party.
Like part of what's gonna make part of.
What makes what's gonna make The Mariners World Series championships so sweet is because we've gone through, hundreds if not, thousands of awful nights like last.
Night but hopefully we'll all be. Alive, Then, yeah that's a fair.
Point But, HUGH i thought you said it perfectly when we were talking about Sports hatia the other day and you, said you, know you don't have the bandwidth to really hate that much when you've got. Kids you, know you got two kids you're putting through. COLLEGE i got two,
kids one in high, school one in middle. School Like I'm i'm paying way more attention to a golf, tournament, here a volleyball game, there a basketball game there That i'm really worrying about how much Hate i'm putting out towards a professional or college.
Team but you did say that you had a pretty.
Interesting story THAT i would love to have you shot BECAUSE i haven't heard it yet on where You Oh, NO.
I THINK i wasn't that it's an interest LIKE I i just know precisely When i've experienced the most sports in my. Life if we're talking about the, thunder like measured by how how do you? Measure, okay imagine if you've got a fever every time you had sports hate and so you know you so there was a number ninety eight point, six so you could put, it you could put your thermometer under your, tongue and what the highest Fever i've ever had in a.
Moment your analogies are, fabulous by the.
Way, Right so if you pulled the thermometer out from under my, tongue that it.
Was it was a.
MOMENT i remember it well and and and the scene was two Thousand huskies and they had Beat miami at home And Husky, stadium AND i was just desperate for us to get back to The Rose bowl BECAUSE i hadn't been there since ninety, two which seemed like twenty five. Years and we Beat, miami Beat colorado on the on the, road but then lost the First pack ten game aim At, EUGENE. Yep so for us to get to The Rose, bowl we had to go undefeated. Throughout and so fast forward
to The stanford. Game the end The stanford game in the, rain it felt like a high school game because there was three thousand. People, yes so it's The Curtis williams.
Game and you, KNOW i could have looked up the, details But i'm just Gonna i'm just gonna go from memory BECAUSE i might be, off but BUT i remember us having a twenty four to six lead late in the third quarter or thereabouts twenty four to, six and then The curtis william thing hits right AROUND i don't know if eary fourth, quarter late third quarter, AGAIN i could have looked up the details and purposely. Didn't, okay and we didn't know what was going on With Curtis.
Williams BUT i never thought it was that, tragic, right let me, see like seiting in the. STANDS i never thought it was as tragic as it. Was SO i was still focused On washington has to Beat, stanford And
stanford was coming back and coming. Back and at the zach same, time my Buddy, tiger who Was tiger Before Tiger, woods but a dear friend of, mine he was he was watching ON, tv but he was also Watching oregon was At Arizona, state And Arizona state had been up in that, game And oregon was coming, back and there was a point where the nexus of these events Have i'm getting a play by, Play i'm in the. Rain Curtis,
williams what the? Hell The huskies are losing a twenty four to six, lead and my buddy is telling, me oh Or Arizona state still has the ball in the. Lead all they have to do is just you, know you, know get one first down or what and.
They fumble in their own.
Territory, god and this is right When stanford is going. Ahead and it was almost too much free for me to. Take sitting there in the. Rain it was almost LIKE i Hated oregon in some. MANNER i had a you know WHAT i, HAD i had one hundred and nine degree fevers me to the hospital that. Instant there was so much hate For oregon and it and it was,
like oh my, god we're gonna lose this damn thing To. Stanford, yes it was just the confluence of the events and the play by played from my buddy about what was happening In tempe was almost TO i almost. Combusted, Yeah and so that in that MOMENT i experienced more sports hate Than i've ever had in my.
Life and then we got three plays it was like wilber hooks Justin robbins AND i can't remember the other, one but and they ended up winning the game and all is girls And mellin's temperature went back down to ninety eight point SIX fiot fifty five on ninety three point three kJ fm