"Climbing is easier than hanging on" - Duck football

[Omaha 680]

Please Lord let this be true, I'm asking with a sincere heart and real intent.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/re...ve-an-opening/

Would Oregon be his #1 choice or would he want a different challenge?

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Please Lord let this be true, I'm asking with a sincere heart and real intent.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/re...ve-an-opening/

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Before the Washington game there was a lot of chatter on local sports talk about Helfrich. Looks like I'm going to suffer this general topic for the next 3 months. Is it really possible that CKelley would come back after he's one and done in SF?

All I'll say is this -- right now, the worst HC job in the NFL is the SF job. Bad.owner, the GM will be.fired any day now and a total lack of even adequate offensive personnel.

He should leave and take the USC job if it opens up.

[clackamascoug]

Before the Washington game there was a lot of chatter on local sports talk about Helfrich. Looks like I'm going to suffer this general topic for the next 3 months. Is it really possible that CKelley would come back after he's one and done in SF?

[smokymountainrain]

how hot is Helfrich's seat, or how hot will it be by the end of the season?

[BigPiney]

The descent is never as fun as the climb. So many problems with this team, many of them do not look fixable this season. The season boils down to 2 games for Oregon at this point, keeping the Washington and Oregon State streaks alive. I'm doubtful either will be a reality.

The Beavers are a steaming pile of poo. It may depend on where the civil war is played this year.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

The descent is never as fun as the climb. So many problems with this team, many of them do not look fixable this season. The season boils down to 2 games for Oregon at this point, keeping the Washington and Oregon State streaks alive. I'm doubtful either will be a reality.

[The_Tick]

What blows my mind is that I moved from Seattle 17 years ago...and Softy was on the air then.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

KJR is always a fun listen, they have a way of promoting Seattle teams to levels that are nearly unattainable for any team, which then creates this air of misery and disappointment. If I thought Softy was capable of working a radio bit on purpose I'd say he was a broadcasting genius.

[Walter Sobchak]

It is fun seeing the Husky Honk talking superior about Chip Kelly. Of course I have listened to enough KJR to know that Hugh and Softy were saying how Pete Carroll looked old and decrepit and there was a new sheriff in the P12 who was knew how to bark named Sark. I also remember to Hugh going on for at least an hour after the first game in the 2012 season when Husky Hugh was promising Seattle that Russell Wilson was too short to make the needed NFL throws, breaking down the final drive in the opener against Arizona as proof. So maybe his hubris about how great the Seahawks are now is masquerading as some hate for all the beatdowns Chip gave the Huskies.

As you know I'm a transplant here and my connection to UW is tenuous (I still root for the hometown team), but you have to admit that Softy and Hugh (and Mitch and Holmgren) are nothing short of entertaining... even when they are wearing their purple (or action green) tinted glasses. The lather Hugh got himself into in that little segment above was hilarious.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

From yesterday's Sports Radio here in Seattle:

<http://sportsradiokjr.iheart.com/media/play/27346306/>

Starting @ 33:00, Hugh Millen spends 5 minutes deconstructing a play in the Seahawks/49ers game that happened with 5:15 to go in the first half.

Partial transcript:



(NOTE: watch the play here @ the 51:15 mark.)

It is fun seeing the Husky Honk talking superior about Chip Kelly. Of course I have listened to enough KJR to know that Hugh and Softy were saying how Pete Carroll looked old and decrepit and there was a new sheriff in the P12 who was knew how to bark named Sark. I also remember to Hugh going on for at least an hour after the first game in the 2012 season when Husky Hugh was promising Seattle that Russell Wilson was too short to make the needed NFL throws, breaking down the final drive in the opener against Arizona as proof. So maybe his hubris about how great the Seahawks are now is masquerading as some hate for all the beatdowns Chip gave the Huskies.

[Walter Sobchak]

From yesterday's Sports Radio here in Seattle:

<http://sportsradiokjr.iheart.com/media/play/27346306/>

Starting @ 33:00, Hugh Millen spends 5 minutes deconstructing a play in the Seahawks/49ers game that happened with 5:15 to go in the first half.

Partial transcript:

Just watch Kam Chancellor on that play, the 49ers are trying to get wide right on that play. What they choose to do is bring a guard named Andrew Tiller, listed at 6'4", 324 lbs. He's the right guard and the sweep is going to the right end. The backside left guard also pulls. Pulling both guards on an outside play has been going on in football for 50-60 years. [...] What I love about this play used to work at Oregon like gangbusters, hell, sometimes they had Max Unger leading this play. But Seattle's defense is too fast for that. Watching Chip Kelly get that rammed right up his tailpipe was awesome because, hey, dude take that weak stuff back to Eugene. You are trying to do this against the Seattle defense?! You've still got an education coming. You cannot do this.

Here's the cool part. Kam Chancellor has got to set the edge. Here comes the big fella, here comes Andrew Tiller, all 324 lbs of him and he's got a head of steam... probably got a 4 or 5 yard head start. But Chancellor has got to force that play, be the force guy, set the edge. So as he gets set, he just drops his hips and throws his shoulder into this dude [getting louder] and he just STONEWALLS this guy. [louder still] This guy has a 5-yard head start and he's got 94 pounds on him, 324 to 230, and Chancellor just all but dropped him! Just flat out stood him up. It's like the dude ran into a 300 year old oak tree. That's how fast the guy came to a stop at 324 lbs. That power just uncoiled on him like a cobra. Guess what happened when he stopped. That gummed up everything. And here comes Wagner, and here comes everybody else jump in and it's a minus 3 yards.

TAKE THAT BACK TO EUGENE!!

It was beautiful football. You gotta be kidding me. You're gonna throw that at Kam Chancellor?! I saw that stuff work for 18 yards against Tyrone Willingham; I see it in my sleep. And now Kelly tries to bring that to Seattle, not in Husky stadium, in Seahawks stadium, against Kam Chancellor?! Watch what happens. It was beautiful.

(NOTE: watch the play here @ the 51:15 mark.)

[Paperback Writer]

Here's a link to a Husker beat writer's view on Oregon who visits Nebraska in week 3 (Sept. 17). Per the writer, Oregon has lost a "little bit of the shine" after going 9-4 in 2015 after a five-year-span of going 60-8. No mention of the shine (or rust) on Nebraska after going 6-7 last year. Mike Riley is familiar with Oregon and it should be a good game.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/oregon-...e2e53b2fa.html

[Flystripper]

His defense at Boise was good but that was almost a decade ago. He has been pretty bad with quality talent as of late. Its a bad choice in my opinion.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Wilcox is awful...they wouldn't hire him would they?

He shut down Oregon twice as DC of Boise and he's local/alum lots of support for him.