Dawgman Radio: A Washington Huskies athletics podcast

Just two weekends removed from their final game of the year, the Washington Huskies have the honor of playing on the opening Saturday of bowl season. The Mountain West Champions, Boise State, will be meeting the Dawgs in SoFi to compete for the Bucked Up LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk. Jack McCauley and Luke Mounger get together to preview one last Husky game for the 2025 season.

The two former Dawgman interns rotate through their normal segments and crown Luke the champion of Betting B1G for 2025. Tune in to hear the storylines Jack and Luke will be monitoring, who they anticipate to have a big day on Saturday, and their thoughts on the upcoming tilt with the Broncos by clicking the audio link

Last week, Washington's coaching staff signed 25 players during the early signing period. In this podcast, Dawgman's Scott Eklund and Chris Fetters go through each of the 12 defensive prospects who signed and where they see each one fitting in once they arrive.

A big focus was the versatility of the defensive prospects including top in-state prospect Derek Colman-Brusa who could play almost anywhere along the defensive line next season.

He is joined by another top in-state prospect in O'Dea's David Schwerzel who signed late on Wednesday with the Dawgs as well as top out-of-state targets Tufanua Ionatana Umu-Cais  and JD Hill and a developmental prospect like Ta'a Malu who is only in his second season of playing football.

At linebacker the Huskies added two long, hard-hitting athletes at the position in Ramzak Fruean and Ezaya Tokio, each of whom is over 6'4" tall.

In the secondary, much like the defensive line, the Huskies added five players, four of which could project at four different positions in the deep patrol.

Elijah Durr, Jeron Jones and Ksani Jiles each look like they are fits at corner. Gavin Day, a hard-hitting safety from the state of Nevada, will be an in-the-box safety while Rahsjon Duncan is a swing player who could play both safety or corner and was called by national pundits/analysts the hardest hitting corner in class.

Last week, Washington's coaching staff signed 25 players during the early signing period. In this podcast, Dawgman's Scott Eklund and Chris Fetters go through each of the 12 offensive prospects and the one specialist who signed and where they see each one fitting in once they arrive.

They went through each position group and started things off by discussing Derek Zammit, a quarterback from New Jersey, who committed to the Huskies over offers from Alabama and Miami among others. 

A big focus was the targets that Zammit will have to throw to including a three highly-rated wideouts in Mason James, Jordan Clay and Trez Davis as well as a wideout who emerged on the 7on camp circuit, Blaise LaVista.

The Huskies were able to flip Clay (Baylor) and Davis (Tulane) late in the process and they talked about how all that played out.

The offensive line got a lot of attention with five-star Kodi Greene leading the way.

They also talked a lot about the running back class which featured four-star Valencia (Ca.) tailback Brian Bonner and three-star Oregon tailback Ansu Sanoe as well as the tight ends who saw a flip from Kekua Aumua from Florida as well as Sam Vyhlidal who came on during the spring and summer with great workouts in front of the Husky coaching staff.

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund - had all sorts of things to talk about after Washington's 26-14 loss to No. 6 Oregon Saturday at Husky Stadium. 

Among the topics discussed: 

The slow start for the Washington offense, especially QB Demond Williams, and his struggles taking what the Oregon defense was giving him. 

The inability of UW Head Coach Jedd Fisch to stick with the run when it was working, especially feeding Adam Mohammed.

The UW defense keeping them in the game, despite very little pressure on Oregon QB Dante Moore, as well as their day shutting down the Ducks' run game.

Oregon using long drives to take the air out of the game, especially in the second and third quarters. 

Special teams issues. 

Bowl game preference and how that will affect how the Huskies attack their offseason plans. 

Yesterday was Black Friday, so does that mean today could be Blue Saturday? Either way, one of the fanbases - either from Oregon or Washington - will definitely be singing the blues come this afternoon.

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund - got together a little early this week because the coaching carousel is about to be put into overdrive. What that means for Washington and Jedd Fisch is obviously yet to be determined, but there's already rumblings of movement with the major job openings.

So a caveat; when you hear this podcast things may have changed a little bit in that regard, but we expect most of the coaching carousel carnage to happen starting tonight and moving into Sunday and Monday.

We get to all of that eventually, but we also covered the below topics during the pregame show:

Is the Oregon-Washington game really hate week?
Does a Washington win kill Oregon's playoff chances?
Dante Moore...can he be rattled?
Oregon's strong stable of running backs
No Jacob Manu, so who will step up on defense for Washington?
Both teams dealing with injuries
Quentin Moore a bigger target in this game for UW?
Washington's run threats
Dealing with more of a mixed crowd, UW fans giving up their tickets
Recruiting update and who will be at the game
Final Thoughts

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After a decisive road victory against UCLA in the Rose Bowl, the Washington Huskies return home to take on the Oregon Ducks. Former interns, Jack McCauley and Luke Mounger, get together to recap last week and turn their eyes to rivalry week.

First, Jack and Luke assign letter grades to Washington's 48-14 domination of the Bruins in the Rose Bowl. This wire-to-wire beatdown allowed the Dawgs to secure their 8th win in the season, exceeding the O/U 7.5 mark many sports books assigned to UW this year. Additionally, it guarantees that Washington will be at least two-wins-better in year two under Jedd Fisch than they were in his pilot season.

Next, Jack and Luke discuss storylines that they will be keeping an eye on in Washington's upcoming battle with Dan Lanning's Ducks. These include discussing how Oregon's potent rushing offense will fare against Washington's solid defense, injury limitations on both sides, and more.

After that, each pick their "Bets to Bark" for this upcoming contest. Not to give away hints, but you could likely guess a few of the players that were selected. One of them may or may not be pictured below.

The show transitions away from this upcoming game for the Betting B1g segment. Luke continues to dominate this space and has already secured the season victory.

Lastly, the former interns disclose their confidence interval that Washington could pull off an upset with possible College Football Playoff ramifications.

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds in Los Angeles and Chris Fetters and Scott Eklund in Seattle - stayed up late and burned the midnight oil, but why not? There was so much to talk about as Washington took UCLA to the woodshed 48-14 in what might be the last league game ever played in the Rose Bowl.

If you're a Washington fan, what a way to do it. It was a game that had so many crazy things happen, including the possibility that this game was the last league game ever at the Rose Bowl, playing on grass the first time this season, a handful of UCLA fumbles, two special teams touchdowns, Adam Mohammed running for over 100 yards, Demond Williams gaining more and more confidence as the game wore on, the defense absolutely showing up when they needed to, and so much more.

And they did it all with a pretty banged up team, one that had a limited Jonah Coleman and Denzel Boston, and no Tacario Davis even though he warmed up before the game.

But plenty of other players stepped up to handle their business. And the guys also tried to tackle the question a lot of UW fans were asking themselves after the game; should UW now be extending Fisch's contract? And should they also be looking to sweeten the deal they have in place for Washington DC Ryan Walters like they did former OC Ryan Grubb back after the 2022 season?

The guys from Dawgman.com - Chris Fetters and Scott Eklund in Seattle - got together early this morning while Kim Grinolds was trying to evade the Los Angeles traffic in order to get to the Rose Bowl.

This game between Washington and UCLA can definitely be seen as a game with two teams going in opposite directions. Washington is 7-3, coming off a win over Purdue and trying to end their season on a high note. UCLA, having already fired their coach two months ago, is 3-7 and won't have a postseason.

So does this game and their game against USC count as 'bowl' games for the Bruins? And as such will Tim Skipper, Jerry Neuheisel, and Kevin Coyle empty their playbooks and literally throw everything they can at Washington?

During the 85-minute pregame show, Scott and I hit on the following topics:

- How the recent LA rains might impact the surface at the Rose Bowl and UW playing on grass for the first time this season
- How injuries are impacting both teams, including QB Nico Iamaleava for UCLA and Denzel Boston for UW
- Matchups for both Washington's offense and defense against what UCLA is going to offer
- Will Audric Harris play tonight, or continue his plan to redshirt?
- Recruiting talk, including thoughts on UW's latest commit, DL JD Hill, and the updated 247Sports' recruiting rankings and ratings
- How UW might be affected by the coaching carousel, especially if the Huskies win out and get to 10-3. Will Fisch become a hot commodity, and if so will Pat Chun be able to keep him at UW?
- Final game thoughts

The Washington Huskies, fresh off a dominant win over the Purdue Boilermakers last weekend, are headed to Pasadena to take on the Bruins of UCLA. Given Washington's road performance this year and UCLA's possible departure from the Rose Bowl, there are a number of factors that make this game between two teams with opposite records quite interesting.

Former interns Jack and Luke discuss the storylines they're most eager to watch unfold this Saturday at the Rose Bowl at 7:30 pm local time. Additionally, they share their thoughts on who they think will have a standout performance for the Huskies. One of the two gives a nod to Jordan Washington, who had a highlight touchdown run, showing off his highly anticipated wheels against Purdue.

Afterwards, they move onto Betting B1G. Jack and Luke each went a perfect 3-0 last week and are hoping to back that up with another great performance.

Finally, they provide their confidence interval that Washington can collect its eighth win of the year, officially exceeding the Vegas projected 7.5 win total before the start of the season.

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund - got together after Washington's 49-13 win over Purdue Saturday night and there were plenty of things to break down - almost all of it was good if you're a Washington fan.

During the course of the 45-minute review podcast, the guys hit on the following topics:

Weather making an impact on the game

Seeing the 2000 guys again ahead of the game and their reunion

Using John Mills at right tackle and incorporating Champ Taulealea in the OL mix

Injuries, especially when WR Raiden Vines-Bright was hurt and some of the other skill players that stepped up, including Decker DeGraaf and Audric Harris.

Adam Mohammed's day running the ball and getting his first start for an injured Jonah Coleman

Unsportsmanlike penalties

How Purdue used their quarterbacks

Recruiting recap, including information on four official visitors to Montlake this weekend 

Final thoughts