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Ian Furness 9/17 H1: Here comes hockey season! Ross Tucker & CFB just isn't the same. · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: Kraken Training Camp underway. More on that as the afternoon
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  Speaker 2: goes along. How about week two of the NFL season
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  Speaker 2: kicks off tonight. Lions head to Buffalo to face Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen and the Bills. First game in the new stadium
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  Speaker 2: in Buffalo. You can hear that game right here on
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  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJR FM. Our airwaves at 515. Mariners managed to
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  Speaker 2: win in Anaheim last night. Just when we declared they're dead.
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  Speaker 2: They're clinging to life. Are they? Five and a half
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  Speaker 2: out of first place. Nine to go. Rangers and Astros
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  Speaker 2: are now tied for first in the division. The Rangers
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  Speaker 2: won yesterday. The Astros lost to Kansas City. Steve Belichick
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  Speaker 2: has resigned as a defensive coordinator for the UNC Tar Heels.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he's the former Husky D coordinator as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's an internal investigation. He did a lot of bad things.
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  Speaker 2: Bad man.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the internal investigation said.
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  Speaker 2: Very bad thing.
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  Speaker 4: Very bad.
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  Speaker 3: Bad things. Lots of them.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of bad stuff. Christian Pulisic has been left off
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  Speaker 2: of the U.S. men's national team roster for the upcoming
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  Speaker 2: FIFA window. That's a good thing. You know why? Because
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  Speaker 2: he's soft. We were at Seahawks yesterday. Not soft. Cracking today.
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  Speaker 2: Not soft. Christian Pulisic.
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  Speaker 4: Soft. Fair.
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  Speaker 2: Sit on your asteroid. He probably doesn't even care. It's
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  Speaker 2: three and a half years away from the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: He's probably like, whatever, man. I'm good. Alright, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get the show going. Here we go. 32 Bar
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  Speaker 2: and Grill here at the Kraken Community Iceplex. Kraken practices preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Training camp is underway. I was telling Greg about it
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  Speaker 2: a minute ago. It's very different than what we're used
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  Speaker 2: to with the NFL. The NFL, that Saturday thing started
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  Speaker 2: and then Two and a half weeks later, they played
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  Speaker 2: a preseason game, but we had two and a half
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  Speaker 2: weeks of just football practice. Frankly, it gets a little monotonous,
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  Speaker 2: I think, for all. In hockey, I guess in some ways, Ash,
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  Speaker 2: it's like baseball now that I think of it. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: even the NBA is kind of this way, too, where
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  Speaker 2: you come in, you're expected to be in shape. You've
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  Speaker 2: got a couple days, but you get going, you split
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  Speaker 2: the squad in half. Some guys are on the ice,
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  Speaker 2: some are in the gym, and vice versa, morning and afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Then you play a preseason game on Saturday. And away
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  Speaker 2: we go.
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  Speaker 3: I was surprised.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like thinking as I was preparing stuff for today,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, my God, they start on Saturday
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  Speaker 5: against the Canucks, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and here's the thing. Canucks are Calgary, and I
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  Speaker 2: should know that.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's Canucks Saturday, then they go to Calgary,
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  Speaker 5: then they have Calgary at home, and then they finish
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  Speaker 5: at the Canucks.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's right. Well, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: You should be on the Kraken Hockey Network.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost like I work for the broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. You do work for the broadcast partner
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  Speaker 2: and actually coordinate everything for us. I do, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: More importantly, you know it than me. I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about it until the regular season. So I'll
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  Speaker 2: be concerned then. But, yeah, they get right after it.
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  Speaker 2: And they'll split the team in half for the two
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  Speaker 2: games this weekend and next Wednesday and one more after that.
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  Speaker 2: And then, boom, we drop the puck two weeks from today.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't seem. We're all waiting for fall to hit,
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  Speaker 2: for football to start. And then if you're a hockey
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  Speaker 2: or a basketball fan, for that to start. And then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden September hits. And it doesn't take long.
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  Speaker 2: for it just to come and like boom it's like
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  Speaker 2: a drinking out of a fire hose so uh here
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  Speaker 2: we go vince dunn's gonna join us coming up in
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  Speaker 2: the one o'clock hour excited for that ross tucker can't
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  Speaker 2: wait for that host of the ross tucker football podcast
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  Speaker 2: also the number two color analyst for both cbs and
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  Speaker 2: westwood one well number one for westwood one i think
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  Speaker 2: or number two but yeah he did he had the
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  Speaker 2: texans game last week against the bills uh he'll join
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  Speaker 2: us coming up that'll be fun because we've got the
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  Speaker 2: bills as we mentioned the headlines coming up tonight on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night football. So his weekly visit at 1220. Vince
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  Speaker 2: Dunn is mentioned in the 1 o'clock hour. As always,
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  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock on a Thursday. The unofficial start of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Funston will join us. You guys know the drill.
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  Speaker 2: 49451 on the Tacoma Dodge text line. Send your text in.
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  Speaker 2: If you send them in before noon, they won't get answered.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, but they can start at noon, right? Because I
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  Speaker 5: open the text line and I'm like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: What is happening?
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  Speaker 3: It is just all fantasy football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been trained. Our group has been Train sounds
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  Speaker 2: somewhat condescending. But they know. And you're going to see it, Ash.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite the phenomenon, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: I was shocked. I was like, well, he isn't on
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  Speaker 3: until 2. What's happening?
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  Speaker 2: And it's quite the phenomenon. People have realized now over
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  Speaker 2: the years that when you get your text in early,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get as many as we can early on. And
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  Speaker 2: then at 2 o'clock, then we'll answer the later ones
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  Speaker 2: as well. And then the phone calls get answered first.
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  Speaker 2: So it's all that. Yeah, it's a very... I would
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  Speaker 2: say it's a very unique group that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: meet today, Ashley, for the first time. All of our
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  Speaker 2: callers coming up at 2 o'clock. Very unique group.
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  Speaker 3: Asking for a friend.
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  Speaker 5: If people were to text in things that maybe had
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  Speaker 5: more to do with some of my fantasy football questions
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  Speaker 5: as well, should they get preferential treatment?
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's how it works. What we usually do, and
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  Speaker 2: that's a great question by you, what we usually do
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  Speaker 2: is we go and... We, when I do, after we
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  Speaker 2: take a handful of phone calls, then I will then
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  Speaker 2: switch over to the text line. And we go to
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  Speaker 2: the text line. We go to the text line. What
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  Speaker 2: we do with the text line is I'll answer, I'll
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  Speaker 2: pick out the first few ones that we got in
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  Speaker 2: right around noon. And then usually, it has been Anders
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  Speaker 2: in the past. What you will do then is you'll
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  Speaker 2: take the ones that come in later. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Fair.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like this. And it's your discretion. If you see
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  Speaker 2: ones that you seem to like better, that's perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's absolutely perfect.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I like your thinking along the way. I'm just looking
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  Speaker 2: here real quick. We had, I'm trying to see if
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  Speaker 2: anybody bullseyed.
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  Speaker 4: It, 12-01.
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  Speaker 2: We had one bullseye. Oh, did we? At 12-00-00. One
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  Speaker 2: absolute bullseye. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Because I see, yeah, Keith was in at 12-00-01.
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  Speaker 2: We have, I think there's four of them at 01, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to go back because, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: loads weird.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. One, two, three, four, five at one
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  Speaker 2: second after. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. There was that one.
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  Speaker 2: We had a couple at two seconds. five or six
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  Speaker 2: more at two seconds after so yeah they they they
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  Speaker 2: closest to the pin they nailed they nailed the kp today.
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  Speaker 5: They definitely typed it earlier and then they waited till
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  Speaker 5: their clock yes yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yes so they got that going on so yeah we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to those coming up at two o'clock today i
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  Speaker 2: i did i did chuckle with the headlines that you
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  Speaker 2: wrote oh the with no just with the just with
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  Speaker 2: our baseball team yeah um i don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: saw the ken rosenthal stuff that said basically he– it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of more opinion slash reporting. It's kind of both,
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  Speaker 2: a combo. But he was talking about the fact the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners are going to get rid of Dan Wilson, the
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  Speaker 2: coaching staff. And then he said they're probably going to
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  Speaker 2: keep Jerry DiPoto. And I saw that. And it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like this foregone conclusion. And the part of the–
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  Speaker 2: the insinuation or the assumption, I guess, is, Ash– that
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  Speaker 2: they're officially done. Are they officially done? Are they officially done?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, not officially.
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  Speaker 2: They're done in the wild card.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that is officially done.
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  Speaker 2: There's absolutely pretty much no feasible chance to get a
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  Speaker 2: wild card berth.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: We've kind of known that for a while. And I
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  Speaker 2: think in the West as well, like you're, because you
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  Speaker 2: could always look at Houston and say, well, Houston's, you've
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  Speaker 2: got the tiebreaker. So you're five and a half behind
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  Speaker 2: Houston right now, for example, right?
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  Speaker 3: Houston and Texas, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Texas. But Houston, you're only four and a half
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  Speaker 2: back because if you tie them, you're fine. Right. If
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  Speaker 2: you tie them.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you would beat them.
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  Speaker 2: But Texas, you're truly five and a half behind because
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  Speaker 2: they have the tiebreaker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we just need both of them to come
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  Speaker 5: down with a case of mono and not be able
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  Speaker 5: to play, like entire teams, and then we've got a chance.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time. But we still have to win.
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  Speaker 2: Think about this, though. Just take the games. Just think
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  Speaker 2: about this for a second. They're both 500 right now,
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  Speaker 2: Texas and Houston. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And the Mariners are 11 games below. 500.
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  Speaker 3: That sucks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I just, the math doesn't math. With, what
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  Speaker 2: is it, nine games left?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nine games, yep.
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  Speaker 2: The math doesn't math. I mean, win out and then
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  Speaker 2: both of them lose out? It's almost.
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  Speaker 3: It seems impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what the, Softee and those guys
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  Speaker 2: are doing the tragic number yesterday. I don't know truly
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  Speaker 2: what the tragic number is right now. And I'm just
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  Speaker 2: looking to see. The Rangers play tonight. They host the Royals. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they both play tonight. Okay, so they both play later
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  Speaker 2: on tonight.
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  Speaker 5: So then we have a chance to be even further back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rangers host the Red Sox and the Astros host
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  Speaker 2: the Royals. Both those games are later on today.
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  Speaker 5: We also have a chance to be further ahead. We
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  Speaker 5: could be further back, but we could be further ahead.
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  Speaker 5: They could both lose.
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  Speaker 2: Could happen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to be optimistic.
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  Speaker 2: Susie Sunshine.
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  Speaker 3: It's too much.
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  Speaker 2: I only bring that up for this reason. I think
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  Speaker 2: we've all given up hope. I think the team, just
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  Speaker 2: judging from the comments that they make after games, I
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  Speaker 2: think they've given up hope. Right? I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 2: else is in. Just real quick on the Seahawks. You
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  Speaker 2: heard Greg. He was out there today at the Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Mason Athletic Center getting things going. I think Drew Locke
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  Speaker 2: speaks here in a little bit. Maybe he is speaking
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  Speaker 2: right now. The injury report did come out yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, only in the sense that, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: what we expected. One little tweak of the injury report
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  Speaker 2: that came out for the Hawks yesterday from what I
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  Speaker 2: laid my own eyes on when I was out there
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  Speaker 2: is Nikkei Imanwari. He's listed as limited, which that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: surprise me, with an ankle, but then now there's a
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  Speaker 2: hip thing in there as well. Ankle, hip.
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  Speaker 4: Huh? What?
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  Speaker 3: So how did the hip get involved when he's barely
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  Speaker 3: doing anything?
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question, Ashley. Great question. So you got that.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of that, I mean, the fact that Torrey Horton
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  Speaker 2: was a full participant is a great sign. And now
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  Speaker 2: we find out, by the way, it was a hamstring.
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  Speaker 2: Because remember, they just never really kind of gave us,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, yeah, okay, it was a hamstring, leg injury,
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  Speaker 2: what have you. Okay, so Torrey Horton is full participant.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Jobe had a wrist situation full. Cooper Kopp limited
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  Speaker 2: with a back, but I think that's as much as anything.
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  Speaker 2: They just manage his practice, much like what they do
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  Speaker 2: with Buda Baker and a bunch of guys in the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 2: Trey McBride. But, yeah, Nicky Minwary, it feels like, could
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  Speaker 2: be on pace and trending towards playing this weekend against
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  Speaker 2: the Cardinals. And we talked about that yesterday a little
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  Speaker 2: bit on our show. We talked about it a little
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  Speaker 2: bit with Greg as well, and with Corbin Smith. That
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  Speaker 2: would be huge for this reason. Trey McBride. Arguably, not
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  Speaker 2: arguably one of the best tight ends in the league,
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  Speaker 2: arguably the best pass-catching tight end in the league as
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  Speaker 2: it stands right now. Like, special player. And Eamon Worry,
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  Speaker 2: you could really use his situation there. So we'll keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on that, but Nothing new, really, from Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get the injury report after we're off the air
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  Speaker 2: as they get ready for the game. Huge game tonight,
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  Speaker 2: Thursday Night Football, Detroit-Buffalo. Can't wait for that. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a ton of fun as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be such a good game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a guy that knows a little bit about that,
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  Speaker 2: because he called the game last week, is Ross Tucker
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  Speaker 2: with the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: get his thoughts on that coming up. Again, Vince Dunn
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  Speaker 2: on the 1 o'clock hour, and Brandon Funston at 2
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  Speaker 2: right here on 93.3 KGRFM. All right, welcome back. 32
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on as well, but It is a
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  Speaker 2: 12-20 on a Thursday. Thursday night football later tonight, including
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  Speaker 2: a team that our next guest actually saw up close
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  Speaker 2: and personal last week joining us. Ross Tucker is the
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  Speaker 2: host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, NFL Color Analyst
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  Speaker 2: for both CBS and Westwood One. You can follow him
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  Speaker 2: on social media at RossTuckerNFL. And Ross is brought to
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  Speaker 2: Request a quote today, nwhs.com, or give them a call, 425-255-0500. And, Ross,
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  Speaker 2: we're working on the forklift we talked about last week
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  Speaker 2: for you. We checked with Eric Gordon and the folks
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  Speaker 2: at Northwest Handling Systems. We're working on getting you that
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  Speaker 2: forklift for your house.
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  Speaker 4: I was just going to say, I'm glad you brought
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  Speaker 4: it up, because I love Northwest Handling Systems, but... You know,
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  Speaker 4: when I order a forklift, I expect it to be
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  Speaker 4: like DoorDash. I expect it to be like at my house,
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  Speaker 4: you know, within 15 minutes. No, I'm just kidding. Love
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  Speaker 4: the sponsorship. Love talking with you. And, yes, I still–
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  Speaker 4: they got to give me a heads up, though, because
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  Speaker 4: they have to deliver it. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 4: want them to deliver it while my wife is there
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  Speaker 4: or just have her come home from work and see
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  Speaker 4: it there in the front yard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably. My guess is you need to be there
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  Speaker 2: to accept it. That would be my guess. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: as a guy that's been married for 33 years, I
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  Speaker 2: let the boss lady know as little as possible sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: especially for things like that, fun toys like a forklift.
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  Speaker 2: All right. You're on the Thursday night game tonight. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that in just a couple seconds for Westwood 1.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have that game for you here on 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 2: Week one of the NFL season is in the books.
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  Speaker 2: And this is always, you know, and I think I
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  Speaker 2: laugh because every Monday in the NFL, Ross, as you
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  Speaker 2: well know, you do the daily podcast. Every Monday is
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  Speaker 2: overreaction Monday across the NFL. Week one, no more so
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  Speaker 2: than week one in the NFL. So instead of asking
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  Speaker 2: you about overreaction, what were your biggest takeaways? What were
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  Speaker 2: the things that just jumped out to Ross Tucker from
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  Speaker 2: week one of the NFL season?
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  Speaker 4: Well, certainly how many points were scored. Because I did
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  Speaker 4: not expect that. In the opener, you guys against the Patriots,
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks, 13-10. And then even the next night, the
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  Speaker 4: Rams only scored seven points. So I really was not
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  Speaker 4: expecting it to be as high scoring in so many
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  Speaker 4: games as it was. I mean, 59-37? For the Bears
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  Speaker 4: and the Panthers, even my game, 36-31, Bills-Texans, I certainly
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  Speaker 4: was not expecting that at all. So it was a stunner,
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  Speaker 4: I would say, that there were that many points scored. Typically,
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  Speaker 4: that's not the case in Week 1, but I think
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: with 21 new offensive coordinators... I think that there were
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: just so many unknowns with what to expect from a
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: lot of teams. There was just no real good way
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: to scout a lot of those guys because most of
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: them hadn't even ever called an offense before.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go in chronological order. Let's just start
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: with the Seattle game. We talked to you. A little
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: bit last week, they got, and I'm not even talking
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: about the game last week, they got through that game.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: We'll see Drew Locke again this week. They'll see an
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals team coming up this week that I think
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: we'd all agree maybe had one of the biggest surprises
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: of the weekend, right, Ross? A 26-14 win over the Chargers.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: The Chargers feel like, I used to bring this up
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: all the time in the old Pac-12, Ross. It always felt,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: in fact, I have to go back to the Pac-10 days.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: The Cal Bears, Berkeley Bears, especially with Jeff Tedford was there.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: He had the one upset over Pete Carroll in USC.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: everyone would fall in love with Cal every year, and
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: then Cal would just disappoint, and they'd have the odd upset,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: like they'd knock off Oregon or Washington or somebody, but
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: that was it. Then, I feel like the Chargers are
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: that same team. We always have these high expectations for
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: the Chargers, no matter who the coach is, who's there,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: and then they don't live up to those, whether it's
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: the playoffs or getting beat 26-14 by the Cardinals. That
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: really jumped off the page of me. I don't know
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: if it says more about the Cardinals or more about
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: the Chargers.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well... I was just asked on another radio interview
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: which one I thought it was, and I said, well,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: let me tell you after this Sunday. Give me another
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: week's sample size, and then I'll have a pretty good
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: idea of which one I think is which. And I
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: will say this. There are going to be a number
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: of results this weekend that are going to shock us
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: based on what we think we know from week one.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Because week one is just that. It's just one week,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: and really because of the fact that it's the first
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: game and there's so many new players and new schemes
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: that it almost like is a unique entity unto itself.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: And I know people say week one's a liar, and
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of truth to that. So
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: I think, I don't think the Chargers are as bad
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: as they were, my guess is. aren't as good as
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: they look in that game. That goes the same, by
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: the way, for Chiefs Broncos Monday night and a lot
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: of these games, quite frankly. Rams, Niners. So I think
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: things will begin to normalize a little bit more here
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: in Week 2 with some of these results.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about the Rams, 49ers for a second.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: And I'll lean on you as a former player. You know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: the easy thing is to say the Rams just They
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: just made a mistake by trying to be the smartest
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: guys in the room and fly down 24 hours before
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the game or whatever they did to have their body clocks.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: And then the other side could be, hey, look at
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: the 49ers. They're as dangerous. If healthy, they're dangerous. Is
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: there a concern? And just lean on you for the body.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're flying all across. You've got two games
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: this week. You're in Buffalo and then Jags-Broncos, I think,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: on Sunday. So you're flying all over the place. You're
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: not a player anymore, but you were. How much do
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you think fatigue played into that game?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Really, really tough to say. You know, I know this.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: The Rams have a lot of smart people working for them.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: And they put a lot of time into this discussion
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: and decision. And so I guess I kind of lean
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: and say that it doesn't have as much to do
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: with that as people want to make it out to be.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: You know, I think the Niners got a lot of
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: guys back from injury like Fred Warner and Nick Bosa
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: that had been chomping at the bit to get out there.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I think we forget how good they are when they're healthy. And,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: you know, the Rams, obviously, Myles Garrett wasn't 100%. He
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: did nothing and just had surgery and went on IR.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Aaron Donald didn't play. And I also think, you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: the Niners got sick of everybody telling them how good
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: the Rams are. You know, the Niners got sick of
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: everybody just handing the Rams the Super Bowl. Oh, they're
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: going to be 17-0. And it just looked to me like,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: you know, it's a cliche, but the Niners looked like
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: they had the chip on their shoulder. They looked like
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: they were sick of hearing about the Rams, and they
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: wanted to go out there and do something about it. And, boy,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: did they ever.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: You had the, Ross Tucker joining us, sponsored by Northwest
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Handling Systems. You had the Bills, Texas, last week on CBS.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: 36-31 Bills. And, you know, again, we're making assumptions, but
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I think it's a safe assumption that Texans have a
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: great defense. What you saw up close, and you're going
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: to see Buffalo tonight. What a great Thursday night game,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: by the way. Buffalo-Detroit. So you're going to see them
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: again tonight. Was Buffalo that good offensively?
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: You know, they were, but I would also say it
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: was uncharacteristic of Houston's defense, a lot of the things
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: that happened in that game. I was pretty surprised by
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: a lot of the things that went down in that
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: game and would not expect, you know, that to be
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: happening week in and week out with the Texans. Their
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: defense is awesome, and it's been awesome. So... You know,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: the Bills had a great plan. They did a terrific
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: job of making sure that the edge rushers for the
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Texans never really got going. So then the guys in
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: the secondary had to cover longer than they're used to covering.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: And the result was they weren't able to do it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: You know, they got torched. and I don't think that's
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: going to be the case moving forward with the Texans,
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: but I think the Bills got them at the right time.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: We're going to hear you on the call tonight. I mean,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I mentioned it a second ago, what a great Thursday night.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what the rest of this,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: I haven't looked ahead to the rest of the Thursday
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: games this year, but to go from Rams 49ers, which
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: obviously wasn't a great game when it was all said
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and done, it was a dominant effort by the 49ers,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: but to go from that to Detroit, a 31-30 winner
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: over the Saints, holding on for that win, and then
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the Bills opening up their new stadium against Detroit. I
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: can't think of many better matchups in Week 2, man.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about your game tonight and what you're looking at.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm so excited. I mean, first of all, out
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: of the five teams I played for, my favorite team
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: to play for was the Buffalo Bills. Just thoroughly enjoyed it,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: loved the people up here. So to be able to
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: be here... For them, opening a new stadium is super special.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: This is a really big deal. The ticket prices are
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: out of control, and they're treating this like the Super Bowl.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: It's really, really cool that I'm going to be able
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: to be a part of it. When these teams played
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: two years ago, the final score was 48-42. I mean,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: these teams, and I wouldn't be surprised, I don't know
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: if we'll get to 48-42, but I'm certainly expecting there
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: to be a lot of points in this game. Just
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: because the Bill's defense did not look great against Stroud
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: and the Texans. They're kind of getting used to their
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: new deep coordinator in Jim Leonard. Meanwhile, the Lions, Tyler
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Shuck tore them up in the second half and overtime
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: of that game, so... I think it's another shootout. I'd
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: be surprised if it's not. I just don't know with
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: the two injured offensive linemen if the Lions can really
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: keep pace.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: You mentioned Buffalo. I had the opportunity for years to
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: travel with the Seahawks working for the Fox affiliate here.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: It's the only stadium I didn't get to. The only
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: city the year we would have gone would have been
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the COVID year, so we didn't travel. I'm disappointed I
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: get to the old stadium. I'm disappointed I get to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: that area just to see I think we all, every
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: NFL team, well, let's be honest, outside of the Chargers
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and the Rams, and the Cardinals, I guess I'll end there,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: most cities feel like they've got the best fan bases
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. Certainly we feel that way here in Seattle.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: You mentioned Buffalo, though. What do the Bills mean to
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: that market? What do they mean to that town?
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, geez. It's hard to describe. It's sort of like
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: their identity and their relevance You know, when I played here,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: it was really interesting because people were just so appreciative
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: that they had a team that, you know, no one
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: was ever going to get mad at you, even if
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: things weren't going well. I mean, I can remember being
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: in New York City. And a guy came up to
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: me and said, I'm from Buffalo, and I'm sure you
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: guys hate it and don't like being there, but it
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: means a lot to us. I'm like, dude, I love it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about? I love playing for the Bills.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: So they just, it's a unique combination of them recognizing
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: that perhaps it's not, you know, in a lot of
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: people's minds, the most desirable place to live, but yet
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: it's what puts Buffalo on the map. If Buffalo didn't
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: have the Bills... People probably wouldn't talk about Buffalo very often.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I guess the stadium itself, I mean, I know there
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: was some stuff about seats obstructed, and I think they've
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: hopefully cleared up any confusion. It felt like more confusion.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: But just to have them in that market, in today's world,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: get that state-of-the-art stadium is cool. Should be a fun
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: one tonight to check out. Ross Tucker joining us for
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: a couple more minutes here as we preview week two
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: of the National Football League season. Seattle goes to Arizona.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I mentioned that a moment ago. Drew Locke will get
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the quarterback start. When you were playing on the offensive line,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: and I think we were asked this yesterday, I was
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: out at the facility, Ross, and we were talking to
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: different guys about it. Cooper Cupp was one of them,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: about how different is it? Cadence, everything you do, the quarterback,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: everything he's got to do with the line, how different
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: is it for the rest of the players? One of
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the things that Cooper Cupp said I thought was amazing,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and I think people that cover it every day see it,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: you know this, the backup quarterback doesn't throw to the
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: number one receivers at all during the regular season, and
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cupps said yesterday to us, he said, hey, I
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: saw like 10 passes for last year, 10 reps, I
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: should say, 10 reps from Drew Locke all year. So
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: it's like a new quarterback for him as well. What
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: do you expect and what should the expectations be for
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: a Drew Locke quarterback team for the next week or
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: maybe even two?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I mean, the good news is
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: he's been working with them, obviously, this whole week. And
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I thought drew acquitted himself very well in that game
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: last week. And, you know, for them, for Schneider to
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: get him for $ 5 million for two years, that feels
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: like a lot of value. I mean, a lot of
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: backup quarterbacks make, you know, the good ones make five
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: to 7 million. So to get a guy with his
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: pedigree and physical ability yet experience like lock at that price,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: it seems like a heck of a job by Schneider.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: And yeah, He went out and got him a win
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: already that no one would have expected coming from behind
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: against the AFC champs. So he's kind of already paid
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: him back, you know, for this year. That's for sure.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: It's super impressive.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: You've got the Jaguars and the Broncos on Sunday. I'll
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: wrap it up with that. That's a hell of a game, too.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Jags looked good in their first game. Broncos, we just
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: talked about, did not. What are you looking for in
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that game? Let me actually phrase it this way. We
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: talked about elite defenses. The Texans' defense got lit up
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: a little bit. The Broncos' defense we thought was elite.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Maybe it was just a, hey, Ken Walker's really good.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Remember what you had here in Seattle? And Pat Mahomes
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: is still good as well. Kansas City offense, or maybe
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: a red flag or something for what the Broncos have
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: on the defense, and they're going to get tested by
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence and company this week.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that game... It's going to prove to
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: be an aberration. I'm a believer in the Broncos, but
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: the Chiefs deserve a ton of credit for coming out
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: and running the ball like that. I don't know that
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: anybody was really expecting them to do that. It was super,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: super impressive that they did that. I mean, it's kind
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: of crazy to think here they are in a situation
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: where you have A guy like Kenneth Walker, I mean,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: where Mahomes, if he has a running game like that,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: that would be huge.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be scary. I do love what
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: you do. For people that don't follow you on Twitter
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and follow along, the press box meals around the league.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite things that you do, to
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: be honest with you, Ross. I love that thing. Now,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: we've got a whole new one tonight, though, right? What
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: are your expectations in Buffalo?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, interestingly, the Bills might be the only team
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: in the league that I'm aware of that goes ahead
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: and actually sends you the menu ahead of time. So
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: with them sending you the menu ahead of time, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: have a pretty good idea what to expect. And I'm
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: really fired up about it. Yeah, I mean... I can
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: even look at it and read it to you. Now,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: what's weird is they sent a lunch and dinner menu.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not really sure. Maybe lunch is before the game
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: and dinner is halftime, but we're looking at dinner rolls,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: sweet Italian sausage, herb-grilled chicken breast, pasta vodka, eggplant parm,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: crispy seasoned potato wedges, broccoli gratin, I mark chicken wings,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: of course, and... They have soft serve ice cream with toppings,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: with toppings, which is huge. Oh, my God.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Ashley, how's that sound? You hungry yet, Ash? Yes, please.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, please.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: It's making my protein bar sound less and less appealing.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Very much so. Although I'm sitting in a sports bar
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: at the hockey rink here, the 32 bar. So I'll
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: be taken care of as I get hungry listening. I thought,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I like that idea. They'll send it out beforehand. You know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I was such a good company man working for Fox
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: back in the day, Fox 13 here, Ross. I just
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: went in there blind every time and said, we'll blow
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: off the $ 35, $ 40 breakfast at the hotel, save the
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: company some money. And there were times you're very disappointed.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Some places you went. Never here in Seattle, by the way.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: They do the Omelette Bar. I think you've probably had
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: that here before. They do a great job. Julie Barber
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: does a great job here with the Omelette Bar. But
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: there are places. Detroit, I'm looking at you. Very disappointing.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: So that sounds like you've reached a new pinnacle there tonight.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm fired up. I mean, I've been told that
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: it's good. So I'm looking forward to it for sure.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Hey, have a great call tonight. We'll be listening here.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: We'll have the game right here on KJR. So we'll
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: hear your voice later on tonight. 5.15 Pacific Time kickoff.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: For all you guys, ex-Bills and others there, thoroughly enjoy
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: what's well-deserved, that brand-new state-of-the-art stadium. We look for a
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: great game tonight. Ross, we'll talk to you next week.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Tell folks, by the way, about the podcast and what
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• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks so much, Ian. I appreciate it. Looking forward
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: to it. Always just check me out on social media,
• 30:46
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• 30:49
  Speaker 4: want to see what that press box food in Buffalo
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: looks like. Plus, really, some of the other stuff that's
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: going on. in the stadium, launch of a new stadium, really,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: really a cool thing. So, at Ross Tucker NFL on
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• 31:24
  Speaker 2: talk to you next week, my friend.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Sounds great. Thanks, Ian.
• 31:28
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• 31:50
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• 31:52
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• 32:07
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• 32:11
  Speaker 2: to Ross Tucker for popping on with us. Good stuff there.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Food sounded good in the Buffalo New Buffalo Stadium. I
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: know most fans are like, I can't believe that. You
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: know what? It's one of the perks. Some places are great.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Some places aren't. I liked it. And I know it's
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: more of a media thing than it is a fan thing,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: but I think it's kind of cool to see what
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: they're serving. We're spoiled. We're spoiled in a lot of places.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Even if we don't get to eat it, but hearing
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: about it, I don't have a problem with hearing what
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: fun food is in the press box.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: What fun food is there? Sometimes as a media member
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: you feel like you're spoiled food-wise. Other times you feel
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: like you're not. The Kraken do a great job at
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: CPA for their staff and media. Always a really good meal.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: The worst thing that they have is up in the
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: press box, they've got like, and I don't have the
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: sweetest tooth. Are you a sweet tooth, Ash?
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: I would prefer probably salty over sweet.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. I'm kind of
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: the same way. But there are certain things, like I'm
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: a peanut M & M' s guy.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Okay. I like the peanut butter M & M' s.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's a whole upgrade. That's just like taking
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: peanut M & M' s and.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Just like putting steroids on them.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: HGH, that's human growth hormone. That's what that is. But
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I bring that up for this reason. They have up
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: in the press box, the gondola there, behind all the
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: booths that you see if you go to the game,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: they have like popcorn, but they have cookies, and they
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: have this whole candy section, like the little dispensers. And
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: when they have peanut M & M' s, That's kind of
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: my kryptonite. It's like the last thing I need at
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: 9 o'clock at night going into the third period is
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: like a big thing of peanut M & M' s. Inevitably, though,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I end up with a thing of peanut M & M' s.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: And then I just regret it afterwards. And the problem is,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: so my partner for most of the games, Allison Lucan,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: she also likes peanut M & M' s. And our photographer
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: up there that does our stuff for us by the
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: spacing lounge on our set, he knows that. And he'll
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: bring down a couple. And then maybe we'll have brought
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: down a couple. So inevitably, you have like two or
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: three things at peanut M & M' s.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Tough.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know what?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: That's why I look like I look like. I mean,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I need to get away. That's my goal this year,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: by the way. No peanut M & M' s. No peanut
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: M & M' s. Or how about limited peanut.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: M & M' s?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, can we do an over-under
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: on how many games that lasts?
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I'd give it three. I'm going to limit it. I'll
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: just say this. I'm going to try to limit it.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to limit it. Real quick, and we'll get
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: into this maybe next week a little bit more. We'll
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: get back to our college football guys. I don't know
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: if you saw this, Ashley, the Athletic, and I dropped
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the ball on this because I had seen it earlier
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: in the day. We had Stu Mandel on yesterday. Stuart
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Mandel and a bunch of guys at the Athletic put
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: together a list, and it was what your college football
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: team spends on basically on their roster.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I saw that yesterday.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Did you see that? They ranked them number one in
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: the country. No surprise. In fact, they just go through
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: the top five. Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, LSU, A & M.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: That's your top five. Miami, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Tennessee,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Alabama rounds out the top ten. Texas Tech's right there
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: as well. The money being thrown around in college football
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: right now is absolutely, I'm going to use the term obscene,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: and it is obscene. We're talking $ 54 million. roughly, for
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, somewhere in there. And they're estimating these,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: the estimated budget 49 to 54, 45 to 55. I
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: didn't get to hear the segment yesterday. I know Softie
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: and Fane were going to bring it up. Washington is
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: somewhat in the middle of the pack, and this is
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: just the power four schools that they did this for.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: But they're about, depending on how the estimates go, Washington
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: is somewhere around 11th to 13th in the Big Ten.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: But they're still spending $ 21 to $ 25 million. The concern
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I know that you would have if you're a Husky
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: fan is Northwestern, Michigan State, Maryland are the teams right
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: around you or kind of above you in your own conference.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: And you're thinking to yourself, Northwestern, Michigan State, Maryland, how
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: could that be?
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: But it is.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: It's true. Wisconsin, UCLA, you know, those teams are up
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: there as well. The arms race and the spending, and again,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I think the more I think about it, the more
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: I'm into the Protect College Sports Act. Like, there has
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: to be a limit at some point. There just has
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to be. And, you know, it's, yes, 14 million people
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: watched Ohio State, Texas. But I don't know what your
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: friends are like, Ash. I find more and more, and
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: we're seeing, I don't know, we'll see if there's really
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: a dip because it feels like the games are the same.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: They all feel the same. But I hear more and
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: more from people that are just, they're getting, A, turned
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: off by the sport. and B, having a harder time
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: following the sport. And I'll be honest, right? Like Huskies,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the Huskies aren't my team, but I work for the flagship.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I'm in Seattle. Two years ago, three years ago, I
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: could tell you everybody in the top 22 in the
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: depth chart.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Yep, me too.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I can't do that anymore.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: And I think that's a bad thing. I just think
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: that's a bad thing. Maybe I'm old man. No, no, no.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Am I old man yelling at clouds or not?
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: No, you are not old man yelling at clouds. That
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: is absolutely accurate.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: I've been saying forever, the whole thing is like the
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: loyalty and the fun, and you get these guys that
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: chose to go to the same school as you chose
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: to go to or went to the school that you
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: grew up near and rooting for.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: In my case, with Washington.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: And then it's like, oh, thanks for being here for
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: one year.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: And now who are you?
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Right. I think that's what– yes. And you can't get
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: excited about– it's all about– here's the other thing with
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: college sports. College sports used to be about the build.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: It used to be about the build. And, yes, there
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: were times like you're getting four or five-star guys coming in.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: They're going to play right away and be impact players,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: all those things. But the build was also, hey, we're
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: going to watch Marcus Tuiasosopo play. grow here, right? We're
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: going to, you know, I remember, I mean, I'm old.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: I worked at Como way back in the day. I
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: remember when Bean O'Brien, Napoleon Kaufman first walked on campus.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I can tell you this is how old I am.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I was working for Como TV and I was, you know,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: bottom of the barrel sports producer guy. And Bruce King
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: sent me out to do interviews first day of fall
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: practice one year with the Huskies. And I interviewed true freshmen,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: the following true freshmen, Steve Entman, Lincoln Kennedy, Mark Brunel, etc.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Those guys were pretty decent.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: They were babies though. Just babies. Kids. The Palakoa brothers
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: from Marysville Pilchuck, the offensive lineman and Shane the DB.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Those guys were studs. Mario. Greg Lewis. Greg's almost as
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: old as me though. But Mario. Guys like that. Seriously.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: And you'd watch them grow and build. Now you get
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: that guy and you don't know if he can stick around.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Adam Muhammad's a great example. Like, if I'm a Husky
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: fan a year ago, I'm like, okay, well, Jonah's going
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: to go to the NFL. Adam Mahomes would be great.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: He's fine.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Good player, right?
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Gone. Out of here. I just don't like where it's going.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: No.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: And, like, you go to Husky games, you go to tailgates.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I know when I would go to Coug games and tailgates,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I would sit there with my buddies and we'd talk
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: about so-and-so. God, is this him? Is Crystal Bruce going
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: to be any good? You know, is Brandon? Like, just
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: we talk about all these guys. And, yeah, in a
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: couple years, they'll be fine, you know. Now you don't
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: do that. I don't know what you guys discuss. Maybe
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: we don't even talk about the games anymore when you're tailgating.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: It just seems so different. And I just, there's got
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: to be a way to get it back and get
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: at least some sanity back in the sports. And, again,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: maybe I'm old, man, but it feels like we have
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: no sanity left.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: No, it just feels like the magic, the thing that
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: separated college football from the NFL is gone. And I
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: love the NFL, but I loved them for two very
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: different reasons.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: And now it feels like mini NFL, and I don't
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: love that. I'd much rather just watch the NFL.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't you, would you, yeah, because, and here's the thing
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: with the NFL, you're still beholden to your contracts.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Right, which is, I don't know, a novel idea.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: You're still, like, could you, I just, we bring up
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: football all the time. I was just thinking about baseball
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: the other day. Can you imagine if, If the Yankees
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: could just go, remember all those years? Hey, it would be,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I used to love the national media with this. You
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: know what would be great? Is if Felix Hernandez went
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: to the Yankees. That would be great. Great. Great for baseball.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: It would be great for baseball. And obviously that didn't happen.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: They did a great job of keeping him here and
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: never let him get to that point. And that was
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: a coup back then. But imagine now if it was
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: like college football. You're kind of on a one-year deal
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: for the most part, most of these players. Yeah, I
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: think the Dodgers like Logan Gilbert quite a bit. They're
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: just going to go get him. Yeah, that's basically it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Like, here, we'll just give you some more money.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: And we've watched the Edwin Diaz horror show this year.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I think we're going to go get that Munoz guy.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: You know, I know he struggled in Seattle, but we're
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: going to go get him. Like, it just, I don't know.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: 49451.
• 41:00
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• 41:02
  Speaker 2: quick reminder. It's an Ashley Ryan Factor Fiction Day.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I should make my pick.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: I gave you ample opportunity with Ross Tucker, Ash.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: He gave you all kinds of thoughts. Oh, I know. Okay.
• 41:15
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• 41:19
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• 41:21
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• 41:23
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• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I don't do that. Some hosts may do that. I
• 41:25
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