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Chuck in the Morning 9/17 H1: NFC West, Mariners Morning After & Lane Kiffin · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Is anybody out there? We're live. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
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  Speaker 2: to chaos. Let the games begin. And now.
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  Speaker 1: Are you writing this down? No. something completely different this
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  Speaker 1: is chuck in the morning why.
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  Speaker 2: You people are beyond let's go let's get the game
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  Speaker 2: on Hey, there we go. Great morning to you. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: into the radio program here on a Thursday. It is
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  Speaker 2: great to have you with us. My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 2: Anders Hurst is here. Travis Moger is here. I got
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  Speaker 2: to give it to you, Anders. I mean, you look spry.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is your fourth day of getting up
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. In a row, getting used to your
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  Speaker 2: new hours and responsibilities. It's taken down many a great
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  Speaker 2: men before. There was a time I had the great
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  Speaker 2: Donald Watts on back-to-back shows, and on day number two,
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  Speaker 2: there was a break where I had to give him CPR. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He was he was not prepared for the hours fair
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  Speaker 3: enough you seem to be you seem to i guess
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  Speaker 3: it comes with age yeah yes it comes with youth
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  Speaker 3: yeah it comes with having a baby i don't know
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  Speaker 3: that's probably the the third part about that is the
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  Speaker 3: most true um i mean.
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  Speaker 4: I've always been sort of a morning person so it
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been a huge deal to me and i've done
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  Speaker 4: this show um with you know, week long stretches before.
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  Speaker 4: So the real test is like two or three weeks
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  Speaker 4: in when I'm like, Oh, this is like my life now.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be the big test. Cause like I
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  Speaker 4: can survive.
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  Speaker 2: The real test, trust me, is doing it when you're
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  Speaker 2: 55 years old. Yeah, that'll be the real test. That's
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Well, great morning to you all. It's good
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  Speaker 2: to have you with us. We've got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: do on this Thursday. We have the 12th Man Roundtable's
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  Speaker 2: debut episode. I mean, it's a little overdue, but the
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  Speaker 2: wonky way in which the season started, the Wednesday night affair,
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  Speaker 2: and then Greg's off to Hawaii and all sorts of things.
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  Speaker 2: And so we are going to have our first official
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  Speaker 2: roundtable of the year today at 8 o'clock. Excited to
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  Speaker 2: have Hugh and Greg Abord for that, and all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of other Seahawks talk as we get ready for the
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  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals. Of course, it was made official yesterday that
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold will not be playing in this game. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know beyond that. That was the other part of
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  Speaker 2: the report. But he's certainly not going to play in
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  Speaker 2: game number two. I don't think that surprises anyone. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: maybe if Sam was at the Moger household, that he
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  Speaker 2: would have been served, delivered some bread yesterday. Apparently some
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  Speaker 2: quarterback healing bread was served to Moger's house. Is that
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  Speaker 2: how I'm supposed to understand this, Travis?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I was surprised by the box.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: What was the box? Tell me the box. You got
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  Speaker 2: a delivery at home?
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  Speaker 5: My wife gets special kind of bread. I think it
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  Speaker 5: has like extra protein or something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, special bread. Oh, how about the Mogers get special bread? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I've never tried it, so I don't know if it
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  Speaker 5: tastes good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But anyway, on the box it said, bettering your buns.
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  Speaker 2: Oh!
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  Speaker 5: And that just made me think of one set of buns.
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  Speaker 2: The most famous.
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  Speaker 4: Second most famous set of buns in town. We like
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  Speaker 4: our butts here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently. Cal Raleigh, I think, has the most famous set
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  Speaker 2: of buns in Seattle sports down for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: his career. But now, suddenly, we are more interested and
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  Speaker 2: worried about bettering Sam Donald's buns. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A little peek behind the curtain here. When you sent
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  Speaker 4: that text out to us showing the bettering your buns,
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  Speaker 4: and like, should I send this to Sam?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, what does that mean? Who's Sam? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you're really slow with comedy.
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  Speaker 4: This and this is this is very much back into
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  Speaker 4: the morning show routine that I'm still adjusting to.
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  Speaker 2: I was waking up from my nap. OK. OK. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So that's very important. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, what's going on here? I get a
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  Speaker 4: text from Travis sending it to. Us, purple sheet, and
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  Speaker 4: it just says buttering your buns. Should I send this
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  Speaker 4: to Sam? I'm like, I am so confused right now.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I got it immediately, Travis. I got it immediately. But
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  Speaker 2: there is something to the grogginess waking up from your
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  Speaker 2: nap because I had to text the unicorn yesterday and say,
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  Speaker 2: did I leave the trash anywhere in the house? Cause
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  Speaker 2: I was meaning to take that out and I know
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  Speaker 2: that I didn't. So did I like accidentally put it
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  Speaker 2: like in the sink? You know, what did I do
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  Speaker 2: with the trash? And no, I just left it. I
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  Speaker 2: just didn't pick it up. So yeah, but that grogginess
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  Speaker 2: is a real thing.
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  Speaker 4: Honest to God. I've always been a nap person too.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever I need them, I can, I can just pop
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  Speaker 4: it down and get a quick Quick power nap or
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  Speaker 4: an actual nap. Yeah, they're so great. But I always
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  Speaker 4: feel more groggy after naps than I do when I
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  Speaker 4: wake up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why that is.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I feel like it's pretty quick that even early
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  Speaker 4: as we're waking up now. I'm like, okay, ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get rolling, get my coffee, all that stuff. But naps,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: It all depends. Okay, I'm going to give you both
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  Speaker 2: a pass on this. Okay. We should never talk about
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  Speaker 2: sleep in the first segment of this show.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Like ever. Okay. But it's been brought up, so I
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  Speaker 2: will just say this. It all depends on how deeply
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  Speaker 2: you slept.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you really got some REM sleep, which, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, you never will again. Yeah. Fair enough. If
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  Speaker 2: you really got some REM sleep, then it is hard
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  Speaker 2: to come out of that. Okay, that's fair. But if
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  Speaker 2: you kind of just... I know I got some sleep
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  Speaker 2: in there. I'm not really sure how much. If you
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  Speaker 2: have that, then you're not as groggy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It all depends on how deeply you go under. Makes sense. Yeah. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an expert at it. Which part? At not getting sleep.
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  Speaker 2: I'm an expert at it. And so stick with me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll walk you through it hand in hand. We'll make
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  Speaker 2: it through these corridors. All right. Well, let's get into
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  Speaker 2: some Seahawks talk here because, of course, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: take on the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. And it will
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  Speaker 2: be the first divisional game of the season. And it's
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  Speaker 2: very strange how rapidly the gears shift in our sports
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  Speaker 2: world because we've only played one game. football game. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: played one football game and already people are jumping ship.
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  Speaker 2: They are abandoning their predictions for the NFC West this year,
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  Speaker 2: or at least altering them. Yeah. And frankly, I mean, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really trying not to do that. I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's a mistake. I am for the most part going
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  Speaker 2: to stick to my guns. But, Anders, you do have
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  Speaker 2: to sort of assess what happened. I mean, that is
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  Speaker 2: a dramatic first week of football for the four teams
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  Speaker 2: in the NFC West. I'll give you an example. The
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  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals, their over-under at the beginning of the year
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  Speaker 2: was 3.5. 3.5 wins in a 17-game schedule. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's about as low a figure as you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see to start a season in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: And although I'm not going to budge off of I
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  Speaker 2: don't think the Arizona Cardinals have a shot at finishing
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  Speaker 2: above fourth place in the NFC West this year. I
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  Speaker 2: still think they're going to have a rebuilding season, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to end up with a pretty high pick
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL draft. When you get a win right
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  Speaker 2: out of the chute and you win it over a
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  Speaker 2: good team or at least a team that's perceived to
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  Speaker 2: be really good, I mean, even if you won over
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  Speaker 2: a team that was perceived to be bad, when you're
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  Speaker 2: over under three and a half and you've already got
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  Speaker 2: one win, you almost have to adjust. at least a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, your outlook on the Arizona Cardinals, for example. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're already a quarter of the way. They're over the season.
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  Speaker 2: One week in. Yeah, you're three wins away from topping that.
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  Speaker 2: Which is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, I also am trying not to adjust
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  Speaker 4: my entire outlook on everything. But it's hard not to
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  Speaker 4: because it's the only thing we can react to at
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  Speaker 4: this point. Everything else has been predictions and how much
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  Speaker 4: you can take from training camp and preseason games and offseason.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's like, OK, we actually watch the games
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  Speaker 4: for the first time. We see them in action for
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  Speaker 4: the first time. I realize week one is a lot
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  Speaker 4: different from a lot of teams when they look for
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the year. But it's still week one
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  Speaker 4: is you gather a lot more information from that from
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  Speaker 4: anything else before that.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the only information we have that we're reacting to.
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  Speaker 2: If you're trying to– if you're talking to a girl
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  Speaker 2: and you're going out on a first date and you
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  Speaker 2: can have all of your conversations beforehand and the friends
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  Speaker 2: can tell you, oh, you're really going to like this girl,
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  Speaker 2: but you're going to collect the most data on the date.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. When you actually meet her. Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And have a conversation with her. Yeah, I think that's
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  Speaker 4: a great analogy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And kind of leading into that, I was always pretty
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  Speaker 4: relatively lower on the Rams than a lot of people were.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they had gotten way too much hype in
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  Speaker 4: this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Um i don't remember them getting any hype at all
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  Speaker 2: yeah what are we talking about you know they won
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  Speaker 2: the super bowl it was uh it was warranted right
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  Speaker 2: right i mean the only reason they didn't was because
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  Speaker 2: of that two-point yeah seriously oh god that's the worst
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  Speaker 2: is that not the dumbest argument dumbest argument I've ever
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  Speaker 2: heard like period so you have to jump like 15
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  Speaker 2: steps past that point anyways but and I was also
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  Speaker 2: like having trying to write.
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  Speaker 4: Off the 49ers for years similarly to how I've tried
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  Speaker 4: to write off the Astros for years and being the
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  Speaker 4: home team's biggest rival, I've gotten bit by that way
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  Speaker 4: too many times, thinking that they're going to be bad
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  Speaker 4: and they turn out to be good. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not doing that again this year. I'm not overlooking
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  Speaker 4: the 49ers. I think they're going to be pretty good. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: the health factor is going to be there, but they're
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  Speaker 4: going to be there at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, I don't want to say it's validating,
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  Speaker 4: but it's kind of proving to be the case where
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  Speaker 4: They're going to be right there, and the Rams might
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  Speaker 4: not be obviously going 20-0 like everyone thought.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're obviously not going to go undefeated. Right. So
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  Speaker 2: for those that were riding that train, they have to
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  Speaker 2: obviously adjust their predictions. And now Miles Garrett's out for
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  Speaker 2: four weeks, and now Aaron Donald's like, well, the only
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  Speaker 2: reason I came back was to play with Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: It's true. And I've already sat out one game for you.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I won't play until he returns. So there's that.
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  Speaker 2: And then, obviously, they were... And as I said at
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  Speaker 2: the time, Sean McVay is trying to dismiss that they
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  Speaker 2: made a mistake by flying in late. I would totally
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  Speaker 2: own it. I would own that for every player in
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  Speaker 2: my locker room. We clearly made a mistake. Our scientists
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  Speaker 2: are stupid. We should have never listened to that. We
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  Speaker 2: played flat. That's not us. And we're going to get home,
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  Speaker 2: get back into our routine, and get back to playing
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  Speaker 2: Rams football. That's how I would have approached that. And
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  Speaker 2: Sean McVay took the other approach because he would rather
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  Speaker 2: admit that we stink. We're really not that good. That's
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  Speaker 2: what he's admitting, basically. You overhyped us. They're a lot
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  Speaker 2: better team than we are. We had no chance against
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers. Clearly, we didn't make a mistake by flying in.
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  Speaker 2: 15 minutes before the game started so i would have
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  Speaker 2: owned that so that obviously has to change yeah but
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  Speaker 2: i'm just saying from my standpoint i mean you might
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  Speaker 2: have said that to protect your heart i mean there's
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  Speaker 2: no way to have not believed that the rams are
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  Speaker 2: going to be excellent they're gonna be good yeah and
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  Speaker 2: i still believe that the rams are going to be
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  Speaker 2: excellent this year Um, and I do believe that will
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  Speaker 2: prove to be some sort of outlier. And I do
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  Speaker 2: believe that their horrible play had a lot to do
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  Speaker 2: with the stupid decision of flying in late because they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have played flatter than what they played against the
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco 49ers. So we, we do have to, everybody's
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  Speaker 2: got to back off at a little bit for the
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  Speaker 2: people that pricked predicted undefeated. You're already wrong. Right. and
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  Speaker 2: I still think we're going to see an excellent team.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the 49ers, I am. Now, I've predicted
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  Speaker 2: the demise of the 49ers for a couple of years myself,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been proven wrong about it, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to stick to my guns. When the 49ers' best players,
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  Speaker 2: and they have a lot of great players on their team,
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  Speaker 2: more than really good, they have a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: players on their team. I mean, when they're healthy, but
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  Speaker 2: those guys are never healthy. It's the same guys that
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  Speaker 2: get hurt every single year. And as the seasons have,
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  Speaker 2: as the years have gone on, and this has been
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  Speaker 2: a big topic in San Francisco, Grant Cohn has become
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  Speaker 2: almost famous for it. Their drafts have been terrible. John
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  Speaker 2: Lynch is not a drafter. John Lynch is a, hey,
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  Speaker 2: that Christian McCaffrey's good. What will it take to get him?
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  Speaker 2: And then finds teams that are like, okay, he's available.
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  Speaker 2: You can have him. That's what John Lynch does. He's
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  Speaker 2: very aggressive from that standpoint and good for him. But
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  Speaker 2: he's not been drafting all that well, which means their
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  Speaker 2: depth is probably worse than it's been in years. So
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  Speaker 2: as those bad draft picks accumulate over the years, and
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  Speaker 2: they've already lost dribbling for the season this year. And
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  Speaker 2: Tongis as well. As those bad draft picks accumulate, now
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  Speaker 2: if you suffer those same injuries... which history dictates you're
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  Speaker 2: going to because you have the same superstar players who
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  Speaker 2: get hurt every year, and they're a year older.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are.
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  Speaker 2: And they have rehabbed for an entire year. Rather than
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  Speaker 2: work on getting better, they've worked on just getting back
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  Speaker 2: onto the football field, and that makes a difference. So
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  Speaker 2: if you lose them again, which you're probably going to do,
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  Speaker 2: and your depth isn't as good, it's taken another hit,
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  Speaker 2: another year's gone by where you haven't hit on draft picks,
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's going to catch up to them.
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  Speaker 2: But I will tell you, if, and it's the biggest
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  Speaker 2: if in the national football league, if those star players,
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  Speaker 2: those superstar players stay healthy, yeah, they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: very dangerous. They are going to be in the mix
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  Speaker 2: in the NFC West with the Seahawks, with the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think they're going to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the biggest part about that game versus
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  Speaker 4: the Rams is the fact that it was week one.
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  Speaker 4: If you had played that game in week 14, maybe
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  Speaker 4: the Niners have a completely different team at that point.
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  Speaker 4: But because they had basically all their guys, maybe you
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  Speaker 4: could say George Kittle coming back. So that was kind
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  Speaker 4: of limited compared to what it would have been a
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  Speaker 4: couple weeks later. But relatively, you have all of you
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  Speaker 4: guys healthy because it was the first game of the season.
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  Speaker 4: That also was going in the Niners' favor. A lot
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  Speaker 4: of stuff was going in that direction. I don't think...
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  Speaker 4: I'll kind of revise my statement. I don't think the
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  Speaker 4: Niners are the best team in the NFC West. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not saying that by any stretch of the imagination. You're
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  Speaker 4: just not going to sleep on them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sleeping on them.
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  Speaker 4: I think they'll... Very similarly to last season, they'll be
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  Speaker 4: right there at the end of the year with the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks and the Rams. And it's funny because the one
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  Speaker 4: team that I feel like people haven't changed their opinion on.
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  Speaker 2: The Seattle Seahawks. Well, that's not entirely true either. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a different quarterback and we don't know how long
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  Speaker 2: our starting quarterback's going to be out. I think here
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle, we have to like wonder, all right, how
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  Speaker 2: long is he going to be out? I mean, when
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  Speaker 2: you're having conversations about how often. How many losses can
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  Speaker 2: you afford over the course of the next four to
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  Speaker 2: six weeks if that's how long Sam Darnold's going to
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  Speaker 2: be out? Because that was the report from Jay Glazer
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  Speaker 2: and Mike Florio. When you're having those conversations, you better
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  Speaker 2: believe that the narrative has changed on the Seattle Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: after one week. Now, I mean, as Softie has said,
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  Speaker 2: to have lost your starting quarterback on play five of
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the season against an AFC champion... And then gutted out
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: a win on opening night should be scary for the
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: rest of the league. I think there's some truth to that.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: But I think the rest of the league, I think
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals are like... Perfect time to play them. Perfect
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: time to play them. Yeah, we would much rather play
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: you with Drew Locke than Sam Darnold. So it certainly has...
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: it's fractured some of the immediate outlook.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: But in terms of the long-term outlook, now that we
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: know that Sam Arnold's not going to be out for
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season, you know, you got to
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: dig a little deeper and let's not forget that's a
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: long year. Yes. And so by the end of the season,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I think maybe we will suffer a loss that we
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: weren't going to suffer in the first four or five weeks.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll suffer two. But in the long term, I
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: think we could end up being better for it. And
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I think we'll be just as dangerous as we were
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: going to be at the end of the season. But
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: that's without having a crystal ball knowledge of who else
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: might get hurt during the course of the year. I
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: know this in the San Francisco Coliseum. Maybe I shouldn't
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: be sleeping on the 49ers as much as I've been,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: but I know this much. Mike McDonald owns your ass,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan. Oh, he does. He owns Kyle Shanahan. That
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: was no fluke. We won two out of three, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: we embarrassed them in both of the last two games.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: And he did the same thing in Baltimore as well,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: if you remember. On Christmas Day in 2023, when the
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Niners were the super team that everyone in Baltimore destroyed
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: them because that was Mike McDonald's.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but Kyle Shanahan also owns Sean McVay.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: It's like a cycle.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: We'll take that. Go ahead. Keep doing that. Yeah, please
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: do that. And now we've got LeFleur in the division
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: who we're facing this week who learned from both of
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: those guys. So does he own Mike or does Mike
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: own him? Good test. We're going to find out on Sunday.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: radio program.
• 18:59
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• 19:12
  Speaker 2: All right, roundtable today. First one of the football season, 8-9.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Hugh Millen, Greg Bell will be with us to break
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: it all down for you. Of course, we'll start with
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold. He is officially out for this week. We'll
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: find out from Greg how much longer he's hearing that
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: he will be out. Of course, now that we know
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: that there is a bun out there that will better
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: your buns, well, it should be no time that Sam
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Darnold's back on the field. We just got to get
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: him a box of those biscuits. Thursday night football is tonight.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Detroit at Buffalo. Buffalo Bills. I mean, this is a
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: fantastic matchup. if the Seahawks don't get there this is
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl that I think a lot of people
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: have been wanting to see if your own team can't
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: get there I think most football fans want to see
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the Lions face the Bills in the Super Bowl.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Two teams that have not been there in forever. In
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: some cases, like, long, long time. And they're both fun.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: They are both fun. Yeah, I totally agree. Yeah, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: so that's the matchup tonight. The Bills are also debuting
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: their brand new stadium, and there is a feeling that
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: they're going to play like it is the Super Bowl
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: tonight to treat those Bills fans to a night to remember.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: We'll play some fact or fiction today at 735. College football,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I think it's the game of the year. Ole Miss
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: versus LSU, I can't wait for this thing to go
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: down on Saturday. Yesterday, and we'll talk more about this
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: later in the hour, actually last night, LSU may or
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: may not have played more of their stupid Lane Kiffin games.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: They put Sam Levitt on the injury list, and yet
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: they did not cite an injury. They even went as
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: far as calling him doubtful for the football game without
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: citing an injury. Most people think it's gamesmanship from Kiffin again,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: that he's just trying to get inside Ole Miss's heads
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and there's really not an injury here. But then people
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: don't want to go too far with that just in
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: case there is an injury or some personal issue with
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Sam Levitt. And then you have egg on your face
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: by accusing, you know, Lane Kiffin of cheating when Sam
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Levitt's favorite aunt passed away i mean who knows uh
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: what's going on but obviously people are a little suspicious
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: of the most suspicious human being on planet earth so
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that later on in the show huskies
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: taking on eastern washington on saturday a 43 point favorite
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: can the huskies score 43 points the way they've played
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: offense uh we'll talk to softy today at 720 ish
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: sounders colorado tomorrow at 6 30 how about a win
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: could we get a win i'd love that Wouldn't that
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: be nice? Come on. Draws are fine, but let's get
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: a win. Are they fine? I think in this sport
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: they are. I don't know it all that well, but
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: other sports, no, unacceptable. But in this sport, it sounds
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: like they're fine. They tie in football, too. Kraken camp continues.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: The Kraken play their first preseason game tomorrow as well. Yes,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: a preseason game tomorrow at 6 o'clock against the Canucks.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Do we have enough radio stations to play all this stuff? Yes,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: we do. And then the Mariners will be in action
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: tomorrow as well. Did I say tomorrow? All that's Saturday. Sounders, Colorado, Saturday. Kraken,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Canucks on Saturday. Does it feel like a Friday to you?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: A little bit. Mariners won over the Angels by a
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: final score of 7-2 last night. And what's really sad
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: about all of this is that the Astros are completely cooperating.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: They've lost four of their last five games, and the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Mariners have not been able to take advantage of that,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: having lost back-to-back series games. against the A's and the angels.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: We'll recap their win, uh, next though on Mariners morning
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: after sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM. Uh, great to have
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you with us here on this Thursday morning. And it
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: might not sound like it, but, uh, it is time
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: for Mariners morning after, and I'm committed to doing it
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: till the end of the season and not because there's
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: any value to recapping these games. Um, but certainly we'll
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: stumble into some conversations that, um, we all want to
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: have right now, uh, as we are all angry about
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: how this season has, uh, unfolded, uh, the Mariners last night,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: trying to salvage a game against the, uh, angels. Um,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and even in a night, even on a night Anders,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: where you win seven to two in lopsided fashion, there's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: a moment where there's a complete meltdown from the fan
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: base because Josh Naylor Decided we're up five. I don't
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: care anymore. And gets picked off of third base on
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a play that is right in front of him, but
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: he doesn't get back to the bag in time. And
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: in the most negligent, lackadaisical way, like Zach Netto was,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, he gave Zach Netto and the third baseman
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: time to get in position to double him off. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Netto was like, are you going to get back on third? Okay,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you're not going to get back on? Okay, we'll get
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: you out. And then they got him out, and then
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Naylor couldn't believe it. What a terrible call by the umpire. Oh, God.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So that's... Even on a night where you win 7-2,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: you still have to do something that infuriates your fan
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: base and becomes the talk of Twitter last night. Yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: not even that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Like, that's not even discussing multiple egregious errors, too. JP's
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: just all the time in the world throwing it into
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: the Mariners' dugout. Julio, again, letting a ball by him
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: in center field. Like, that should have been a pretty
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: routine play.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: It's just.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I... It's just the stuff we've seen all year, unfortunately.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: And that's what people are talking about instead of a
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: 7-2 win, which is unfortunate. But that's where you're at
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: this season. So it's just a sign of a team
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: that kind of looks like it wants the season to
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: be over.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, it does. They do. They do.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: They know they're not coming back from it. And yet
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson managed it like with the most urgency that
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: he's managed a game before. All season long. Am I
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: wrong about that? No, you're so right. I mean, he
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: made like four pitching changes in the middle of an
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: inning to, oh, we got to win this one. This
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: is the one we got to win. This is the one.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Circle this, Manny, because this is the one that turns
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: around the season. We can't be saving our guys. Yeah. God.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Get George out in the fourth. We got to get
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Ferrer in there. It's our only chance to win. This
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: is the one that turns it around, people.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Trying to save his job, maybe.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Can't well no he's not saving his job he knows
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: he's going to lose his job but he wants as
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: many wins as possible on his final resume so it
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: doesn't look as bad historically as it's actually been right
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: that's what he's trying to do if we really want
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: to peel back the curtain yeah that's what he's trying
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: to do he's trying to avoid having as bad a
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: record as it's going to look in his final year
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: as a manager ever But anyway, Mariners-Angels last night. And
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: here's another. It's actually frustrating. It's unbelievable that Cal Raleigh
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: is back to being Cal Raleigh, and yet it's so late.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: It's too late, baby. It's too late that even that
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: makes you angry.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Imagine.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Having such a frustrating year that your face of the
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: franchise is finally back to looking like it's swinging the
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: hell out of the bat right now. And you're angry
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: about it. Yes, you are. And yet that's where we are.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Cal was the highlight star last night. Cal trying to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: put the Mariners in front of the fifth. He hits
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: this hard into left field, fair ball, base hit. Rosarena
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: is coming around to score. Canzone held at third base.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Cal Raleigh a go-ahead RBI double in the fifth inning.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: And the Mariners lead it 3-2. Raleigh on the game,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: two hits and three at-bats, a walk, drove in three,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: and just hitting line drives. Even when he struck out,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: he smoked a ball down the left field line that
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: just went foul. I mean, he looks locked back in.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: But unfortunately, he dug such a hole for himself, even
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: with a good to great final month and a half
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: of the season. He's still going to finish this year
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: with a batting average under 190.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I looked at Luke Arkins sent something out
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: yesterday looking at Cal Raleigh's second half numbers. And he
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: took out last year because it was the outlier. So
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: compared to his other... what is that, four or five
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: years for Cal Raleigh. This is actually his second-best second
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: half that he's actually had.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Is that right? Isn't that weird? Well, he's got 22
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: home runs, and the way he's swinging it, he's going
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: to finish with 25. He's going to get closer around
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: 700 OPS, which 700 OPS is a fine season. It's
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: not good, but it's a fine season to finish with
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: a 700 OPS. It's just in comparison to, what, a
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: 960 from the previous year? We did not get the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: same Cal, but it's encouraging to me that he's found
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: his swing at any point this season, and I think
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that that bodes well for next season if we are
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: forced to start looking forward to such a thing. Here's
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Cal after the game. Yeah, I mean, anytime you can,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: you know....
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Make the pitcher work that first inning, you know, tire
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: him out a little bit, you know, try to, you know,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: work him hard. And, you know, we were able to
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: do that early on and a good game plan going in.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: And, you know, from there, we're able to, you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: keep adding on. You got a base three times, three
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: RBIs for you. The fifth inning double, the hardest hit
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: ball of the season for you. 112 miles per hour.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I know that you were wondering that, so I wanted
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: to be the one to tell you. 112 off the bat.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Two guys in front of you walked. Are you really
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: making him just be selective there, make him come to you,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: make sure he throws the strike, be in the zone
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: right there?
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, just trying to, you know, get him in, trying to,
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: you know, not trying to do too much, just trying
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: to square it up and, you know, whatever happens, happens.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And, you know, usually when you square it up and
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: you're on time, good things happen.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: So, you know, he was able to, I was able
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: to take advantage there of a fastball there in the
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: heart of the plate, so.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, nine games left. I know you guys are keep fighting.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: How do you guys want to finish? Like, how badly
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: do you want to just finish strong these last nine games? Yeah, just,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Head down, go as hard as you can, one game
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: at a time. You've got nine of them left. Play
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: as hard as you can. Try to win the game
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: and go from there.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Whatever happens, happens.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Can't control anything that's already happened.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Happened. Just got to play hard and hope for the best.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: That's Kyle Raleigh with Brad Adam on Mariners TV last night.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: And look, this was a big conversation last night I
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: saw on social media as well and probably on our
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: radio station for most of the day. I don't mind
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: them playing the lineup to win the baseball game. I
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: don't mind them. Like, hey, I know it's insane, but
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: why would we just fold the tent? If there's still
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: like a mathematical chance, let's go ahead and finish as
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: strong as we possibly can. So there are a lot
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: of people that are upset that we're not seeing Montez
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: and Arroyo play right now. I think you should be
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: upset by that because I think they make you a
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: better team.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: I was going to say, though, those guys not only
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: are better future options, they might be better than the
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: players that you're playing.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Right. And I am with you from that standpoint. Apparently
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Dan thinks that Weston Wilson gives them a better chance
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: of winning a baseball game. And so, like I said before,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: he sees the writing on the wall. He knows he's
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: not going to be back. And I think he's trying
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to accumulate as many wins as possible. And I don't
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: want to just be a smart ass jerk about it either.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I think he is like, I'm not going to stop
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: trying to win. I'm going to try to see if,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: If Houston collapses, I want to be there if Houston collapses.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And so I think there's part of Dan Wilson that's
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: doing that as well. I think the argument is, just
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: as we touched upon, I don't think Weston Wilson and J.P.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Crawford give you the best chance to win at this
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: stage in the game, Dan. No, it doesn't.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: You could easily play Cole Young at shortstop, put Arroyo
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: at second, and then... I mean, or even JP at third,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: like I just, whatever. There's a lot of ways you
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: can go about it. But the one thing I noticed
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: from that Cal interview, do you notice who he sounds like?
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Taylor Ward is who you would place on. Yes, yes, exactly. Right. Um,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: all the, you knows, who does that remind you of
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson? Oh, geez.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: He does the same thing. It's like it's like it's
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: caught in the clubhouse. And I just could not not
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: hear Dan Wilson when I heard that interview. So anyways,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: that was just a weird thing. coincidence that I heard, but, uh, maybe,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: maybe it is that they're learning from each other and
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: how to, how to talk post game. But no, I
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: think I hope not.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: I really, I really hope not as well. Otherwise we're
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: going to get a lot of tough ones from Cal
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: next year. But, um, I look, I do think that
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: there has to be some sort of like, Hey, we're
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: still going out to win the game right now. Um, and,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: and Dan Wilson obviously is doing that to what he
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: thinks is that case right now.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: But it also clarifies for everybody who's made this story up.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: that Dan Wilson's making the lineup.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Because if Jerry and Justin were making the lineup. They'd
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: put Arroyo and Montez. And they had a. 03 chance
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: of making the playoffs. They want to see Montez and Arroyo.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: For next year. And they want to showcase them in
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: case maybe there's a trade this offseason. Or get them
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: ready for next year. So this should clarify once and
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: for all. Dan Wilson makes out the lineup. So stop
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: spreading your stupid lies out there.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: I think that's a good conclusion to be drawn at
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: this point because.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: And Dan Wilson loves Weston Wilson. I mean, loves him.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: It's his son, don't we know that? It is unbelievable
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: how much he loves. There are cartoon hearts around Dan
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Wilson's head when Weston Wilson steps to the plate. I've
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: never seen anyone love a player that bad more than
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: what Dan Wilson does. And I don't want to pick
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: on Weston Wilson because he's done some things here and there,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: but the fact that he's played as much as he's
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  Speaker 2: played here in the last couple of months... It is absurd.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next on the program, another controversy
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  Speaker 2: in college football from the same person. Sports Radio 93.3
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  Speaker 2: KJR FM. All right, coming up at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the hour, we've got your headlines. That's normal. Normally at
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell at 7.05, but We got a roundtable today, people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, baby.
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  Speaker 2: From 8 to 9, Greg Bell, Hugh Millen. From 8
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  Speaker 2: to 9 today, our first roundtable of the season. Way overdue.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll do that today. Also, Softie has decided 7.05
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  Speaker 2: is just way too early to get up. Way too early.
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  Speaker 2: So he's going to join us at 7.20. That apparently
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  Speaker 2: is fine. So he'll be with us at a different time. uh,
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  Speaker 2: this season for Thursdays, uh, with 15 minutes, huge difference. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it really is going to make a hold 15 minutes
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  Speaker 2: per day. Um, softy, softy might change worlds with that
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  Speaker 2: extra 15 minutes per day. So he's going to join
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  Speaker 2: us today at seven 20 Thursdays with softy right here
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  Speaker 2: on Chuck in the mornings. Um, but before we get
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  Speaker 2: to a Huskies talk with softy, um, let's talk some
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  Speaker 2: college football because the big story that nationally everybody's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: gobbling up here this morning is that last night, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, Sam Levitt, the quarterback of the LSU Tigers,
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  Speaker 2: in anticipation of the game of the week against Ole Miss,
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  Speaker 2: has been placed on the injury list, listed as doubtful.
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  Speaker 2: The exact nature of Levitt's injury is unclear because there
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  Speaker 2: was no specification given by LSU of what the injury is.
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  Speaker 2: but he was listed as doubtful. Now, maybe Sam Levitt
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  Speaker 2: suffered an injury. Maybe that's very well the case. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that seems like the logical conclusion to draw. Maybe Sam
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  Speaker 2: Levitt had some sort of personal thing, which would be
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  Speaker 2: horrible for he and the Levitt family and He needs
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  Speaker 2: to go address that immediately and doesn't know if he's
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  Speaker 2: going to get back to the game on time on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: That's perfectly reasonable. We're just going to list him as doubtful.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know if he's going to be there. But
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  Speaker 2: of course, because of Lane Kiffin's history, both recent and
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  Speaker 2: throughout his entire life, nobody trusts that he's on the
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  Speaker 2: up and up with this. They think it's just a
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  Speaker 2: level of gamesmanship. Two days before this big game goes
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  Speaker 2: down against a team that you know Lane Kiffin wants
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  Speaker 2: to beat more so than any other team that they
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  Speaker 2: played this year, it's People think that Lane Kiffin's done
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  Speaker 2: this so that he gets inside Ole Miss' head. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: they've got to change their preparation to prepare for another quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that will work. I think Ole Miss
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  Speaker 2: is out of their minds if they're not preparing for
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  Speaker 2: Sam Levitt one way or the other. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how you prepare for his backup because you probably don't
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  Speaker 2: have any information on his backup. But nonetheless, Lane Kiffin's
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  Speaker 2: earned this. He's always doing stuff like this. And that
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  Speaker 2: seems to be the belief that there's nothing wrong with
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  Speaker 2: Sam Levitt. He's going to play on Saturday. And this
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  Speaker 2: is just Kiffin playing his silly little game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the other weird part about this is
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  Speaker 4: the timing, right? I'm not sure 100% about the routines
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  Speaker 4: of a lot of college football. I'm a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more aware of how the week plays out for NFL
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  Speaker 4: teams just because it's a little closer to home and
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  Speaker 4: it's like we're there a little bit more often. But
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  Speaker 4: Announcing this, like you said, two days before, I guess
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  Speaker 4: it would be three days because it was yesterday. Hasn't
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  Speaker 4: most of the preparation work been done by now? uh
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  Speaker 4: with with the guys and it's more just like kind
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  Speaker 4: of walkthroughs at that point for the for the last
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  Speaker 4: couple days i don't again i don't know what the
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  Speaker 4: what the week looks like in terms of practice but
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  Speaker 4: i mean if this was any other coach would there
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  Speaker 4: be any sort of question yes as to if there
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  Speaker 4: was any foul play going yes.
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  Speaker 2: Um because it happens all the time and these guys
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  Speaker 2: are weird with their injury reports and things like that
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  Speaker 2: um so Yes, I think that it would happen with
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  Speaker 2: other coach, but it obviously gets far more emphasized with
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  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin because he's always doing crap like this. Especially
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  Speaker 2: this week, too. Yeah, he's always done crap like this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was even a conversation this morning that
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  Speaker 2: I heard on the way in where they believe he's
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  Speaker 2: doing it so that he gets fined. that he will
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  Speaker 2: get fined if Sam Levitt plays on Saturday for having
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  Speaker 2: falsely put a healthy player on an injury report. And
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  Speaker 2: the fine, I guess, is around $ 100, 000. But the argument
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  Speaker 2: was this is the type of thing he does to
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  Speaker 2: stay in the news cycle. He wants people to think
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  Speaker 2: he's a heel. He wants to be a villain right now.
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  Speaker 2: He wants people to talk about him because if they're
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  Speaker 2: talking about him It improves the brand of Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 2: and people have LSU forefront on their minds and they
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  Speaker 2: will know that Lane Kiffin will do anything to win
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  Speaker 2: a football game, including have his university pay a hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollar fine for him for lying. So this is
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  Speaker 2: just what he's earned. And it doesn't look like he's
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  Speaker 2: going to back down from this anytime soon. This is
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to deal with all football season long.
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  Speaker 2: And it is, I think, a coordinated effort. All right,
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  Speaker 2: headlines next. Plus, the role that Jadarian Price might play
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  Speaker 2: against the Cardinals on Sunday. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.