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- 0:07Speaker 1: So make a pet right your head.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Brown Ball ticks off his glove of checks for two
- 0:12Speaker 2: hambertson up in their first packs. Brian Row hang in
- 0:16Speaker 2: another zero seven to shut out an insight inside t
- 0:20Speaker 2: Mobile Park.
- 0:22Speaker 3: This is his house this.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Season in particular, he has been his story.
- 0:28Speaker 1: That crazy and't that the weirdest thing? How could that be?
- 0:33Speaker 1: It's all it's all psychological. There is something about when
- 0:38Speaker 1: he's on the road, he's expecting something bad. It's what
- 0:42Speaker 1: do they call that? That condition where if you start
- 0:46Speaker 1: hearing that the flus in the air, then psychosomatic where
- 0:51Speaker 1: you start feeling, you start experienced, you convince yourself you're
- 0:55Speaker 1: experiencing the symptoms because you heard about it. I think
- 0:58Speaker 1: that's what it happens to Brian Wu on the road
- 1:01Speaker 1: is he's expecting to have a bad inning at some point,
- 1:05Speaker 1: and the moment one thing goes the wrong way, then
- 1:08Speaker 1: he sort of gives into it, starts getting sloppy. He's
- 1:11Speaker 1: psychosomatic about it. Yeah, how do we fix it? I
- 1:14Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I mean, I've thrown this
- 1:17Speaker 1: out before us. I'll SOFTI throw it out last night.
- 1:20Speaker 1: It might come down to I mean Honestly, the games
- 1:23Speaker 1: are getting more important. It might come down to you're
- 1:26Speaker 1: not going to pitch on the road anymore. I mean,
- 1:30Speaker 1: I know we have to get this fixed, but we
- 1:32Speaker 1: can work on that next year. Right now, the games
- 1:35Speaker 1: are getting too important, and we got this Kate Anderson guy. Yeah,
- 1:39Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna have the same problems, So
- 1:42Speaker 1: I hope not. The next time. He's going to have
- 1:45Speaker 1: to pitch better on the road or I'm gonna lose
- 1:48Speaker 1: confidence in using him on the road when we really
- 1:51Speaker 1: are battling it out for a division title. I get
- 1:55Speaker 1: that interesting. But he was terrific last night. His defense
- 1:59Speaker 1: behind him was terrific last night. Julio came up big
- 2:02Speaker 1: with a three run omer, Colt Anderson responded. The kid
- 2:06Speaker 1: responded after a brawl that resulted in the Tigers cutting
- 2:11Speaker 1: the lead to one. Couple of ejections, it wasn't really
- 2:14Speaker 1: a brawl, A bench clearing discussion, yeah, bench clearing chat, yeah,
- 2:18Speaker 1: and then Emerson responds with the home run. Mariners end
- 2:20Speaker 1: up winning. It did feel like it was a complete
- 2:24Speaker 1: and total team effort last night, which is the type
- 2:27Speaker 1: of victory we've been waiting on for a while. And
- 2:30Speaker 1: they went at four to two thanks to Mariner's TV.
- 2:32Speaker 1: That was Jay and that was Aaron on the call.
- 2:35Speaker 1: I don't know where Ryan is. I call him Ryan
- 2:37Speaker 1: because he hasn't allowed me to call him hyphen. We
- 2:39Speaker 1: haven't had that.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Discussion yet, not yet.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Ed Zoe and I we had that discussion a long time.
- 2:44Speaker 1: I was there for it. Yeah, but Ryan and I, No,
- 2:48Speaker 1: we haven't had that one yet. The Cubs swept the
- 2:51Speaker 1: Dodgers yesterday. By the way, since they added Terrek School,
- 2:53Speaker 1: they haven't won. They've lost six straight games and I
- 2:56Speaker 1: hope they lose every game for the rest of their existence.
- 2:59Speaker 1: We're gonna have Hugh Millan on today to talk about
- 3:02Speaker 1: whether or not a salary cap is going to be
- 3:04Speaker 1: good for baseball. Because Hugh Millan was there discussing whether
- 3:07Speaker 1: or not a salary cap was in the room. When
- 3:10Speaker 1: a salary cap is good for the NFL, I mean,
- 3:12Speaker 1: what a source. Why are we not why we have
- 3:15Speaker 1: this conversation on the air. So we're gonna do that
- 3:17Speaker 1: today at nine o'clock. I can't wait for that. Snowhomish
- 3:20Speaker 1: Little League won yesterday over Canada. Since they got beat
- 3:23Speaker 1: up by Florida, they have responded. They've won two straight,
- 3:27Speaker 1: including nine to one over Canada yesterday, so they remain
- 3:31Speaker 1: alive in the Little League World Series. They'll play Friday
- 3:34Speaker 1: at noon. The Hall of Fame game is tonight Arizona
- 3:37Speaker 1: versus Carolina in Canton, Ohio, as we get ready for
- 3:41Speaker 1: Hall of Fame weekend as well, but pre season football
- 3:44Speaker 1: tonight at five o'clock, and of course Seahawks training camp
- 3:48Speaker 1: continuing and joining us now to discuss it is our
- 3:52Speaker 1: own Greg Bell.
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- 4:18Speaker 1: Good morning, Greg, Good morning, how are you?
- 4:23Speaker 5: Wow?
- 4:23Speaker 1: Yeah? Good?
- 4:24Speaker 6: We've been up for a while.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, is that right? Yeah? I found out that
- 4:28Speaker 1: Greg gets up a lot earlier than seven o'clock. He's
- 4:30Speaker 1: just not knocking the crusties out of his eyes at
- 4:32Speaker 1: seven o'clock and joining us at seven oh five. He's
- 4:34Speaker 1: been up. He's an army guy. Army guy. You probably
- 4:37Speaker 1: were up at four o'clock this morning, weren't you that
- 4:41Speaker 1: before the.
- 4:42Speaker 5: Roosters ran in three or four miles to three hundred
- 4:45Speaker 5: pushups some good?
- 4:47Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's there. You go. All right, Well
- 4:50Speaker 1: let's get into it. Let's uh, let's talk about a
- 4:53Speaker 1: few things before we talk Seahawks. I would I would
- 4:56Speaker 1: ask you, like this Aaron Donald story, like, you know,
- 4:59Speaker 1: he's trying to ramp up. Is he playing? Is he
- 5:02Speaker 1: not playing? Does this follow fall under the we do
- 5:05Speaker 1: not care umbrella of Mike McDonald or is this something
- 5:09Speaker 1: that they're at least interested in that facility?
- 5:15Speaker 6: Well, first of all, shameless Puck.
- 5:16Speaker 5: I'm gonna have far Hono Lology of TSN Canada, the
- 5:19Speaker 5: NFO reporter for TSN Canada who's in southern California, just
- 5:23Speaker 5: came to Rams and went to Rams camp yesterday and
- 5:25Speaker 5: saw Darnold working out. I'm gonna have him on it
- 5:28Speaker 5: eleven o'clock today on our show. They noticed the Seahawks. Notice,
- 5:32Speaker 5: I mean, it's not we do not care. That sounds
- 5:35Speaker 5: great and it's a great sound bite, but absolutely they
- 5:39Speaker 5: noticed Miles Garrett I mentioned that they noticed Jared Verus
- 5:41Speaker 5: went to Cleveland in the Miles Garrett trade, and they
- 5:45Speaker 5: absolutely would notice the best defensive tackle to ever play
- 5:49Speaker 5: rejoining along with Miles Garrett on the defensive front. Sure, yes,
- 5:55Speaker 5: and they would have to game plan for him, and
- 5:57Speaker 5: they would have to figure out who to double team,
- 6:00Speaker 5: and that would be everybody's problem that plays the Rams.
- 6:02Speaker 5: If Donald comes back. Donald coming back, by the way
- 6:06Speaker 5: I talked Afarhan just actdotally. It sounds like he's coming back,
- 6:11Speaker 5: but he's just smart enough not to do it on
- 6:14Speaker 5: August sixth. He's gonna wait till September the first or so.
- 6:18Speaker 5: That's what it sounds like. He's not going to play
- 6:22Speaker 5: every down when he comes back, right, he's been out
- 6:24Speaker 5: of the league for what three years now. It'll take
- 6:26Speaker 5: a ramp up. But by the time the Rams play
- 6:29Speaker 5: the Seahawks on Christmas Night for the first time, he
- 6:32Speaker 5: will be playing probably every down. To answer your question, yes,
- 6:37Speaker 5: they're noticing in Seahawks headquarters, and yeah, this is a
- 6:41Speaker 5: big deal. It's there's someone in the coaches in that
- 6:46Speaker 5: building that have to game plan how to block the Rams.
- 6:48Speaker 6: That is a big deal.
- 6:51Speaker 1: You know what the thing that stood out the most
- 6:52Speaker 1: about that entire commentary was that and we know this,
- 6:58Speaker 1: I knew this, but that they will play a division
- 7:00Speaker 1: opponent who they have to face twice for the first
- 7:03Speaker 1: time on Christmas Day.
- 7:05Speaker 6: Yeah, it is crazy.
- 7:08Speaker 5: And every time we've asked about all the Rams, and
- 7:11Speaker 5: are you ticked off that everybody's saying the Rams are
- 7:13Speaker 5: the Super Bowl favorites?
- 7:14Speaker 6: All right? You annoyed?
- 7:15Speaker 5: Everyone says, man, we got months and months, Yeah, fourteen
- 7:19Speaker 5: opponents before we worry.
- 7:20Speaker 6: About the Rams.
- 7:22Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, the Rams are a problem, but that's
- 7:24Speaker 5: a problem so far down the road after all the
- 7:26Speaker 5: other issues we're gonna have to get to.
- 7:28Speaker 1: You have no idea it was even going to be
- 7:29Speaker 1: healthy at that point, what the story's going to be
- 7:32Speaker 1: at that point. So, yeah, we had a lot of football. Yeah.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks Insider, a segment
- 7:38Speaker 1: brought to you by The Emerald Queen Casino, and he'll
- 7:40Speaker 1: be joining us throughout the football season and usually at
- 7:43Speaker 1: seven oh five. Yesterday we used him for an entire
- 7:45Speaker 1: hour from nine to ten because we're selfish like that. Well,
- 7:48Speaker 1: yesterday's training camp practice, Man, it seemed like the guy
- 7:51Speaker 1: the creating buzz is arguably the best player on the team,
- 7:55Speaker 1: arguably the best wide receiver in the world. Jackson, Smith
- 7:59Speaker 1: and jig I hear put on a show yesterday. Tell
- 8:02Speaker 1: me about it.
- 8:03Speaker 5: Yeah, that was part of my story up right now
- 8:05Speaker 5: at the News Tribune dot com. Look the best way
- 8:09Speaker 5: I guess I can describe how routinely brilliant he is.
- 8:14Speaker 5: Yesterday they were in seven on seven and Josh Job
- 8:18Speaker 5: was in press coverage.
- 8:21Speaker 6: Rat the line.
- 8:21Speaker 5: Scrimmings jammed them at the line, and Smith and Jigba
- 8:25Speaker 5: just took off right at him and was heading past them,
- 8:28Speaker 5: And Donald threw a short hitter out to the back
- 8:31Speaker 5: shoulder as if he thought that Smith and jigg was
- 8:34Speaker 5: going to stop, and Smith and Jagbab kept running and
- 8:36Speaker 5: the pass just skidded about five yards.
- 8:38Speaker 6: Away from anybody. I went to nowhere.
- 8:41Speaker 5: That's probably the only time in two years I've seen
- 8:44Speaker 5: Donald and Smith and jig but not connecting on the
- 8:47Speaker 5: same wavelength. That's how it startled me. I was like, WHOA,
- 8:51Speaker 5: I don't know if I've ever seen that.
- 8:53Speaker 6: That's how good they are. That's how good he is.
- 8:55Speaker 6: Every day.
- 8:57Speaker 5: He made a catch on the sideline yesterday that most
- 9:00Speaker 5: guys can't make because he couldn't get away from the defender,
- 9:02Speaker 5: who's Neemiah Pritchett, who was all over him. Then he
- 9:05Speaker 5: ran right past Pritchett, who has had a really good
- 9:07Speaker 5: camp as the new fifth defensive back. When they go Nickel,
- 9:13Speaker 5: He's really smooth in his route, running his body, his leverage.
- 9:17Speaker 5: We've seen how when balls are in the air, how
- 9:19Speaker 5: he puts guys.
- 9:20Speaker 6: On the defenders on their.
- 9:21Speaker 5: Back like a basketball player rebounding a ball. Because he's
- 9:27Speaker 5: not super big, he can control his body better than
- 9:30Speaker 5: most receivers, and it's on full display here in training camp.
- 9:35Speaker 5: He can always puts himself in perfect position to catch
- 9:39Speaker 5: the ball and usually the gain yards after the catch.
- 9:42Speaker 5: It it's almost it's not quite out of nowhere. We've
- 9:46Speaker 5: seen it since he got here as a rookie. But
- 9:48Speaker 5: now that they've traded DK Metcalf and they have just
- 9:51Speaker 5: centered the offense, the passing game around him, the results
- 9:54Speaker 5: speak for them. Eighteen hundred yards, the eighth best in
- 9:56Speaker 5: NFL history, one hundred and twenty plus catches, and we
- 10:00Speaker 5: talked yesterday how he may not have those same numbers
- 10:04Speaker 5: if they spread the ball around the tight end and
- 10:06Speaker 5: running backs like it looks like Brian Fleury intends to
- 10:09Speaker 5: do right, but he's still elite.
- 10:13Speaker 6: And route running and body control it.
- 10:15Speaker 5: For those Sea Ork fans who been here a day
- 10:17Speaker 5: or two, he's like Steve Largin in that way. And again,
- 10:22Speaker 5: I don't throw that around lightly, but the body control
- 10:25Speaker 5: the size, the technique of how he gets open, it's
- 10:30Speaker 5: very similar.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, I know I'm forcing this conversation because
- 10:34Speaker 1: I find it fascinating. So I keep asking you, and
- 10:36Speaker 1: I keep asking who, and I keep asking others about
- 10:39Speaker 1: how they're going to spread the ball around. And I
- 10:41Speaker 1: know in theory there that the idea would be to
- 10:45Speaker 1: get more players involved to make the offense look more
- 10:50Speaker 1: multi dimensional, so you can't key on one player. But
- 10:54Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is that connection last year,
- 10:57Speaker 1: I have a feeling that when it actually when the
- 11:01Speaker 1: games actually start getting played and when push comes to shove,
- 11:06Speaker 1: Sam's not gonna think about spreading the ball around. He's
- 11:08Speaker 1: gonna throw to the open receiver and he trusts JSN
- 11:12Speaker 1: And until I don't see him catch eight passes a game,
- 11:16Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust that he probably is going to continue
- 11:18Speaker 1: to do that.
- 11:19Speaker 6: Greg.
- 11:20Speaker 5: Yeah, it's that's that's true, and that's entirely possible. And
- 11:24Speaker 5: that's I would add that estimate forty some percent of
- 11:29Speaker 5: the time that they're throwing the ball that it doesn't
- 11:32Speaker 5: go to the design player, maybe whether the team blitzes
- 11:35Speaker 5: or they're in a different coverage than they expected, or
- 11:37Speaker 5: what you just said. Donald, human nature. Donald will when
- 11:43Speaker 5: when Miles Garrett is closing in on him Christmas night,
- 11:46Speaker 5: Sam Donald will in the back of in front and
- 11:49Speaker 5: side of his mind, remember, oh, that number eleven has
- 11:51Speaker 5: been pretty good when I throw to him, and he's
- 11:54Speaker 5: going to do it. And you're right, no matter what
- 11:56Speaker 5: Bryan Fleury dials up, no matter what they've studied and
- 11:59Speaker 5: rehearse in game planning for that, the quarterback decides when
- 12:03Speaker 5: the actual remember beat the road where the ball goes,
- 12:08Speaker 5: and the ball is going to go to Jackson Smiths
- 12:10Speaker 5: and Jigbo when they have to have something for sure.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, they might have both Steve
- 12:16Speaker 1: Largins in the National Football League. I mean one's older
- 12:19Speaker 1: and at the end of his career. But Cooper Cup
- 12:22Speaker 1: had one of the greatest individual seasons in the history
- 12:24Speaker 1: of the sport. And I've heard that he looks renewed.
- 12:29Speaker 1: I've heard that he looks younger than he has the
- 12:33Speaker 1: last couple of years, healthier than he's looked the last
- 12:35Speaker 1: couple of years. What's Cup? We talked about his leadership
- 12:38Speaker 1: and his knowledge yesterday on in our hour together, But
- 12:42Speaker 1: what about the football player that we still have in
- 12:44Speaker 1: Cooper Cup.
- 12:45Speaker 5: Yeah, Cooper Cup doesn't stinks very good. He's thirty three
- 12:50Speaker 5: years old. Mike McDonald you said yesterday, it's the best
- 12:53Speaker 5: he's ever seen him, including in the ten years he
- 12:55Speaker 5: studied him when the Ravens, the Ravens teams had to
- 12:58Speaker 5: play the Rams. He is always in prime physical condition.
- 13:05Speaker 5: He really works hard at being in shape and conditioning
- 13:09Speaker 5: and all of that. And for a thirty three year
- 13:13Speaker 5: old dad, he looks like an Olympian. I mean, just physique,
- 13:18Speaker 5: sculpted movement, no wasted movement. He's just really good. And
- 13:24Speaker 5: I know the numbers were down last year and then
- 13:27Speaker 5: the Rams gave.
- 13:27Speaker 6: Up on him because of the injuries.
- 13:29Speaker 5: He's not injured anymore and that really brings him back
- 13:32Speaker 5: to like four or five years ago, to his height
- 13:35Speaker 5: of his art. Just after he won the NFL or
- 13:39Speaker 5: Super Bowl MVP and Offensive Player of the Year. He's
- 13:44Speaker 5: a coach.
- 13:44Speaker 6: We mentioned that, and unless.
- 13:46Speaker 5: He's valuable to the room and hard knocks Audium saw
- 13:49Speaker 5: that the other night. But he's still a really damn
- 13:52Speaker 5: good football player now that he's healthy.
- 13:54Speaker 6: Again, put it this way. If he was like this, then.
- 13:57Speaker 5: Rams would have never let him go. But of course
- 13:58Speaker 5: that's the NFL works. You get hurt, you get expensive,
- 14:01Speaker 5: they let you go.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Craig bell Wether's a Seahawks insider. Of course, you can
- 14:04Speaker 1: follow with Seahawks coverage at Thenewstribune dot com and at
- 14:07Speaker 1: GM bel Seattle, which will lead to his coverage as well,
- 14:12Speaker 1: and joining us here at seven oh five most every
- 14:15Speaker 1: day during the football season. Let's talk about the offensive line.
- 14:19Speaker 1: You and I discussed this a little bit yesterday and
- 14:21Speaker 1: a little bit off the air. We just did a
- 14:23Speaker 1: camp battle, right guard. Is it safe to say that
- 14:28Speaker 1: that there I mean, barring an injury, of course, that
- 14:32Speaker 1: they believe that the starting five is set. I mean
- 14:36Speaker 1: it would take a real upset for anybody to root
- 14:40Speaker 1: a starter from a year ago the Super Bowl offensive
- 14:43Speaker 1: line out of his position.
- 14:45Speaker 5: Yes, they're not putting anyone in to compete with anybody.
- 14:48Speaker 6: At the starting five.
- 14:49Speaker 5: They are really valuing the continuity.
- 14:52Speaker 6: They talk about it all the time. John Benton in.
- 14:54Speaker 5: The second year running it back with the same five guys.
- 14:57Speaker 5: Brian Fleury mentioned how rare that is, especially for a
- 15:00Speaker 5: Super Bowl team, to have all five of your starters
- 15:02Speaker 5: coming back. Usually one of those guys get paid in
- 15:04Speaker 5: free agency and leave no and Fleury says it shows up.
- 15:09Speaker 5: He's really startled about how cohesive they are, how they
- 15:13Speaker 5: pick up things so quickly, how they make adjustments on
- 15:16Speaker 5: the fly, the protection calls, how seamless everything is for
- 15:20Speaker 5: these offensive linement. They're not breaking that up. There's no
- 15:24Speaker 5: Christian Haynes battling with Anthony Bradford. I was expecting both
- 15:27Speaker 5: Stevens to at least potentially have some kind of impact,
- 15:32Speaker 5: to see what he might have, what they might have
- 15:34Speaker 5: in Stevens be on the end of Bradford's contract after
- 15:37Speaker 5: this season, and Stevens is firmly entrenched as the third
- 15:40Speaker 5: strings right guard. He's not even Sniff's second team. And
- 15:44Speaker 5: we all know that Christian Haynes has failed three or
- 15:46Speaker 5: four times to win the job. Two different coaching stats
- 15:50Speaker 5: have tried, and two different line coaches have tried to
- 15:52Speaker 5: give him the job and he's not wanted. Anthony Bradford
- 15:55Speaker 5: is the undisputed right guard. There is no competition. As
- 15:58Speaker 5: you said, it would take an injury for that to change.
- 16:01Speaker 5: They're going to ride with him through the season and
- 16:03Speaker 5: then it's their peers are going to offer him a
- 16:06Speaker 5: contract extension. Now, whether it's rich enough for Enticing to
- 16:10Speaker 5: stay or whether he'll try free agency for the first time.
- 16:13Speaker 5: And that's a very big enticement for players in the
- 16:16Speaker 5: NFL to get their first chance at free agency. After
- 16:18Speaker 5: the rookie deal is up to Bradford and his agent.
- 16:21Speaker 5: It appears they really love the continuity in the offense.
- 16:24Speaker 5: They finally feel like there's some not only stability, but success.
- 16:30Speaker 6: On the offensive.
- 16:31Speaker 5: How many times have we been talking for the last
- 16:33Speaker 5: ten years before last year about the offensive line, right, Well,
- 16:36Speaker 5: they feel like that has solved and the solver has
- 16:39Speaker 5: been John Benton, and John Benton wants the same guy,
- 16:42Speaker 5: five guys starting. I'm really surprised that there is absolutely
- 16:45Speaker 5: zero competition, and it just reminds me that Benton loves
- 16:49Speaker 5: these five guys staying together.
- 16:51Speaker 1: What else did you see yesterday that was interesting to you?
- 16:56Speaker 5: Well, they gave. It looked like it was a veteran
- 16:59Speaker 5: rest day for Devin Witherspoon. He did all the individual
- 17:03Speaker 5: drills and then they didn't scrimmage. So Noa egg Monoghany
- 17:07Speaker 5: was the starting nickel, the veteran eighth year old cornerback.
- 17:12Speaker 6: I wrote a story that's.
- 17:13Speaker 5: Up at the News Tribune dot com right now about
- 17:15Speaker 5: no egg monogamy. His parents from Nigerian Olympians. His mother
- 17:20Speaker 5: was a four by one hundred meter and one hundred
- 17:23Speaker 5: and two hundred meter sprinter for her home country in
- 17:25Speaker 5: Nigeria in the ninety two Hunpigs in Barcelona, and his
- 17:28Speaker 5: father was a long jump trimple jump in nineteen ninety
- 17:32Speaker 5: six for Nigeria in the Atlanta Games. His mother actually
- 17:35Speaker 5: won a bronze medal on that relay team. He ran track.
- 17:38Speaker 5: Noah did at Auburn. His sister ran.
- 17:40Speaker 6: Track at Auburn.
- 17:42Speaker 5: His mother did it a track at international elite level
- 17:46Speaker 5: and was a bronze medalist while going through nursing school.
- 17:49Speaker 5: His sister's going through nursing school. His father went through
- 17:51Speaker 5: nursing school. It's a very interesting background. He was not
- 17:55Speaker 5: on defense until his second year at Auburn.
- 18:00Speaker 6: Is a wide receiver. When he got to Auburn and he.
- 18:02Speaker 5: Only played two he was so good at cornerback. He
- 18:04Speaker 5: only played two years and end of the NFL early
- 18:07Speaker 5: in twenty twenty. He was a first round draft pick
- 18:09Speaker 5: of the Miami Dolphins and the thirtieth pick overall. But
- 18:12Speaker 5: because he was so brand new to corner he wasn't
- 18:16Speaker 5: good enough at the NFL level, and he barely played
- 18:19Speaker 5: for the four years, four starts in three years for
- 18:21Speaker 5: a number one draft pick in Miami. But then Dan
- 18:25Speaker 5: Quinn changed him, and man, you want to.
- 18:26Speaker 6: Talk about a guy.
- 18:27Speaker 5: We talked a lot to a lot of people around
- 18:29Speaker 5: the Seahawks who loved Dan Quinn.
- 18:31Speaker 6: No, Big Monogamy loves dan.
- 18:33Speaker 5: Quinn because Quinn rescued his career had him as when
- 18:37Speaker 5: Quinn was a defensive coordinator for the Cowboys. The one
- 18:39Speaker 5: season in twenty twenty three that Big Monogamy played for
- 18:42Speaker 5: the Cowboys, Quinn moved Ignami to nickel. He had never
- 18:47Speaker 5: played nickel before inside of the slock because he only
- 18:49Speaker 5: been playing corner for a couple of years and he
- 18:52Speaker 5: didn't know the nuances. He didn't know how to play.
- 18:54Speaker 5: He was telling me how to play off coverage. He
- 18:56Speaker 5: thought he could just backpedal straight back.
- 18:58Speaker 6: He was shading and leveraging. You need the Quinn taught
- 19:01Speaker 6: them all that.
- 19:03Speaker 5: Quinn goes and gets the Washington commander's job, head job
- 19:05Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four, and he brought Ignanoghuri with him
- 19:08Speaker 5: to be the free agent that he made a starter
- 19:11Speaker 5: ten starts at nickelback for the Washington and it changed
- 19:14Speaker 5: his career.
- 19:14Speaker 6: He said, he now knows how to play football.
- 19:16Speaker 5: He knows to play NFL football and how to prepare
- 19:18Speaker 5: in his film study and read offenses and receivers. He's
- 19:21Speaker 5: a diamond in the rough, veteran.
- 19:23Speaker 6: Corner eighth year. The Seahawks need on.
- 19:26Speaker 5: A very young secondary and their cornerbacks in particular are
- 19:30Speaker 5: really young. And there's another Ouburn, the Niemia Pritchett who's
- 19:33Speaker 5: been getting run as the fifth back when they go
- 19:35Speaker 5: to nickel and Witherspoon goes inside. But they need depth
- 19:38Speaker 5: there and it looks like no Ignanaghmy's going to make
- 19:42Speaker 5: the team. And he could also return kicks and special
- 19:44Speaker 5: teams as well. He used to be a track guy too.
- 19:46Speaker 5: All right, well ran more.
- 19:48Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 19:48Speaker 5: The other day I would to say is Jake Bobo,
- 19:51Speaker 5: Julian Neil remain out. They've been practiced in a week.
- 19:54Speaker 5: I'm told it's a hamstring injury for Bobo, it's a
- 19:56Speaker 5: leg injury for Neil, and Niel's the third round pick,
- 19:59Speaker 5: the rookie third round pick. They've been out. Mike Morris
- 20:01Speaker 5: has been out injured. There's a good chunk of guys
- 20:05Speaker 5: that have been out injured, which is part of the
- 20:06Speaker 5: reason they went in shells yesterday.
- 20:08Speaker 6: And not full pads. Mike bon said.
- 20:10Speaker 5: Today's an act practice, which is shorts, t shirts, bucket hats,
- 20:15Speaker 5: just for an hour.
- 20:16Speaker 6: They're really late today.
- 20:17Speaker 1: All right, We'll read more at the Newstribune dot com.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. We'll listen at ten o'clock today.
- 20:23Speaker 6: All right. Thanks, Happy Thursday, all right.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Greg bel I, seealwks inside of joining us thanks to
- 20:27Speaker 1: the emeral Queen Casino right here on the radio program
- 20:30Speaker 1: nearly every day at seven oh five during the football campaign.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Coming up next, more on the Mariners they win last
- 20:37Speaker 1: night the ABC's of the MS Come your way on
- 20:39Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. It's Chuck and
- 20:42Speaker 1: Ashley with you. Good morning to you here on this
- 20:45Speaker 1: Thursday back in studio. Feels so good to be back
- 20:48Speaker 1: in studio. I mean, it's fun going out to training camp.
- 20:51Speaker 1: It's different. But really, for four hours I talked to grass.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's nice to me and listen to lawnmowers.
- 21:00Speaker 1: Listen to lawnmars for sure. But here we are in
- 21:04Speaker 1: studio and perfect place for the abcs of the MS.
- 21:07Speaker 1: We left off of the letter Jay yesterday, and Jay
- 21:09Speaker 1: has got to be for Julio. I tell you, I
- 21:12Speaker 1: make this stuff up. Yeah you didn't.
- 21:15Speaker 4: You didn't rearrange the alphabet exactly.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Jays for Julio, who was savage last night. Keep using
- 21:22Speaker 1: that word over and over. But he went to the
- 21:26Speaker 1: plate last night with two to one. Dom Canzone walked
- 21:29Speaker 1: in front of him, and he went up there with
- 21:31Speaker 1: dangerous intent and he crushed a three run homer to
- 21:36Speaker 1: right field. He knew it, he celebrated it, He celebrated
- 21:40Speaker 1: it with his teammates as he rounded the bases as well.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I mean, it's been another one of those years with
- 21:48Speaker 1: Julio where he still has not had I mean, he's
- 21:52Speaker 1: had a terrific career, a terrific career, he really has,
- 21:57Speaker 1: and we are taking it for granted as a community,
- 22:01Speaker 1: but we just think that there's another level that he
- 22:04Speaker 1: can reach, and then he has these long stretches of
- 22:07Speaker 1: being ineffective that if he didn't have those, what kind
- 22:12Speaker 1: of numbers would he be putting up for the season.
- 22:15Speaker 1: I float a theory towards you because I recently read something,
- 22:20Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's without merit, that what
- 22:23Speaker 1: is Kevin Sitzer done to Julio's swing? Because remember all
- 22:27Speaker 1: those times we complain about that he was trying to
- 22:29Speaker 1: hit a seven hundred foot home run. Yeah, I think
- 22:32Speaker 1: Kevin Sitzer tried to fix that. And what you have
- 22:36Speaker 1: seen this season, more so than past seasons, is Julio's
- 22:39Speaker 1: this dedication toward staying up the middle, staying gap to gap,
- 22:44Speaker 1: and it hasn't really worked out. He's hit a lot
- 22:46Speaker 1: of line drives right at the shortstop playing him up
- 22:49Speaker 1: the middle or right to the center field, or whatever
- 22:52Speaker 1: the case may be. He's had a lot of bad
- 22:54Speaker 1: luck at the plate so far this season. But I
- 22:57Speaker 1: think it's part of a plan from sites are that
- 23:01Speaker 1: if we can teach you this, and then once you've
- 23:06Speaker 1: got this, we are going to let you expand out further.
- 23:10Speaker 1: We're gonna let you swing for the fences more frequently.
- 23:14Speaker 1: It's gonna truly unlock you, but we gotta break you
- 23:17Speaker 1: down to Edgar Martinez fundamentals first, and then we're gonna
- 23:22Speaker 1: let you fly. It's kind of like training a race
- 23:24Speaker 1: horse that really that has all the speed in the world,
- 23:28Speaker 1: but you got to teach it how to race. And
- 23:32Speaker 1: sometimes they will restrict that horse. No, you can't run.
- 23:34Speaker 1: I know you want to run. I know you're fighting
- 23:36Speaker 1: me to run, but you can't run. And it takes
- 23:38Speaker 1: a long time to break that horse and to get
- 23:41Speaker 1: the horse to figure it out. And then if you
- 23:43Speaker 1: watch Seabiscuit, then at one point you just like all right,
- 23:47Speaker 1: the trainer looks at you, it says, let her run,
- 23:50Speaker 1: and I I don't know. Maybe it was just an outlier, maybe,
- 23:54Speaker 1: but that that approach last night, because it wasn't trying
- 23:59Speaker 1: to hit the a five thousand feet. It was I'm
- 24:02Speaker 1: looking for something and I'm going to hit the crud
- 24:06Speaker 1: out of it. That's what he went to the plate
- 24:09Speaker 1: looking to do, and he succeeded. Yes, So I hope
- 24:13Speaker 1: it unlocked something. I hope this theory of mine that
- 24:16Speaker 1: I just half baked concocted on the drive in today
- 24:21Speaker 1: actually holds some water because we know there's another level
- 24:25Speaker 1: for him to reach, and more so than any Taylor
- 24:28Speaker 1: Ward edition or Brendan Donovan activation. I mean, we got
- 24:32Speaker 1: to get Julio hitting like Julio can hit, and we
- 24:35Speaker 1: got to get Cal hitting close to the way Cal
- 24:37Speaker 1: can hit. If we're gonna pull this thing off. I
- 24:40Speaker 1: really believe that as at the core of this, those
- 24:43Speaker 1: two guys can no longer, not for one more day,
- 24:47Speaker 1: be bad at the plate. And I don't know if
- 24:49Speaker 1: Julio's ever been bad this year, but Cal has That's
- 24:52Speaker 1: gonna be the key to all of this. And I
- 24:54Speaker 1: hope what we saw out of Julio has unlocked something
- 24:58Speaker 1: because we're gonna need him.
- 25:00Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:00Speaker 4: I mean, and if those two could both gosh, I
- 25:03Speaker 4: just got really excited thinking about like the idea that
- 25:05Speaker 4: if they could. When they both had their home runs
- 25:08Speaker 4: in the same game and it had been since April
- 25:10Speaker 4: that they'd done it, I was so excited thinking, Okay,
- 25:13Speaker 4: here we go.
- 25:14Speaker 6: And.
- 25:15Speaker 4: I just I just want I want to will it
- 25:18Speaker 4: to happen. I want to like call the Etsy Witch
- 25:20Speaker 4: and be like, hey, you got one more spell on
- 25:22Speaker 4: you for us.
- 25:23Speaker 1: It's funny when that game occurred, I wanted to see
- 25:27Speaker 1: and maybe it occurred, I don't know, just didn't show
- 25:30Speaker 1: up on camera. I wanted to see Cal come over
- 25:33Speaker 1: to Julio and say, you and me, buddy, like just
- 25:35Speaker 1: a little private conversation, you and me. Yeah, that's all
- 25:39Speaker 1: you and me. I wanted to kind of see that,
- 25:41Speaker 1: like we both homered on the same day. Let's do this.
- 25:45Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe it occurred, maybe it didn't.
- 25:47Speaker 1: I like to think it did. I'd like to think
- 25:49Speaker 1: of it too. I like to see both of those
- 25:51Speaker 1: guys get hot right now. Those guys get hot. Those
- 25:53Speaker 1: two guys get hot right now. We're winning the division
- 25:55Speaker 1: by five games. Yeah, okay, K is for the kid
- 26:00Speaker 1: Dan three thousand. Another little half baked idea I had
- 26:05Speaker 1: this morning. Maybe there are a lot of good things
- 26:10Speaker 1: about Dan Wilson that he brings to the table on
- 26:12Speaker 1: a daily basis for this team. But for the things
- 26:16Speaker 1: he doesn't do well, we've got ai. Now, can we
- 26:20Speaker 1: have the K Dan ten three thousand, or can we
- 26:24Speaker 1: just have like a tag team coaching staff like last
- 26:27Speaker 1: night for example, not the fieriest ejection I've ever seen
- 26:31Speaker 1: in my life. It looked like he was more worried
- 26:34Speaker 1: about losing his gum than actually making his point. And
- 26:40Speaker 1: I would like to see Dan have his gum taken
- 26:42Speaker 1: away from him because the way he chomps his gum
- 26:45Speaker 1: makes me think that our manager is nervous for nine innings,
- 26:48Speaker 1: and I don't want our manager to appear nervous. I
- 26:51Speaker 1: want the commander of the ship to be the most
- 26:54Speaker 1: confident guy. And how the ship's constructed and our sailing
- 26:58Speaker 1: coordinates and everything else. Damn to me, looks like the
- 27:01Speaker 1: most nervous guy in the building nearly every game, the
- 27:04Speaker 1: way he chomps that gum. But if you're gonna go
- 27:07Speaker 1: out to argue with an umpire, at least throw the
- 27:10Speaker 1: gum then so it's not in the way of you
- 27:13Speaker 1: telling the ump exactly how you feel. But maybe this
- 27:16Speaker 1: is what we need Ashley for everything that he struggles at,
- 27:20Speaker 1: you know, pitching, change time, AI three thousand, go out
- 27:23Speaker 1: to the mountain, make a decision.
- 27:26Speaker 4: I mean, can he also give a postgame press cos yes, yes, yeah.
- 27:31Speaker 1: And maybe it's not a robot. Maybe it's just we
- 27:34Speaker 1: have different coaches. Like a professional wrestler goes out and
- 27:37Speaker 1: argues with the umpire or you know, Barack Obama is
- 27:42Speaker 1: a great order will put politics aside. He can conduct
- 27:46Speaker 1: the postgame perfect.
- 27:48Speaker 4: Everyone would be would leave thinking like I really got
- 27:51Speaker 4: a lot of answers, or did I. At least we
- 27:55Speaker 4: would feel better at me, we'd feel better. We'd feel
- 27:57Speaker 4: like we got answers instead of a recap of the game.
- 27:59Speaker 4: I do think that Dan Wilson went to the Pete
- 28:01Speaker 4: Carroll School of chewing gum, though.
- 28:04Speaker 1: But Pete will throw his gum when he needs to,
- 28:06Speaker 1: and he'll just get a new piece.
- 28:07Speaker 4: I think he left early, Like, I don't think he
- 28:09Speaker 4: finished the whole school. So he got to the part
- 28:12Speaker 4: where you're like, you chew your gum aggressively, but then
- 28:14Speaker 4: what are you supposed to do with it?
- 28:15Speaker 1: Yeah, when you've got to make a point to the official,
- 28:17Speaker 1: that's when Pete would cost the gum and somebody would
- 28:23Speaker 1: want it to get hit in the eye or something
- 28:25Speaker 1: like that. Dan's just I just take Dan's gum away
- 28:29Speaker 1: from him. I just don't like the look. Finally, Elle
- 28:32Speaker 1: is for later, dude. I talked about Mitch Garver yesterday.
- 28:37Speaker 1: We really didn't get to Rob Rethschneider yesterday. Look, I
- 28:41Speaker 1: don't have a problem still at this moment. As bad
- 28:45Speaker 1: as ref Sninder was for the Mariners here on August sixth,
- 28:48Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, three games under five hundred, two and
- 28:50Speaker 1: a half games out of first place, despite having the
- 28:52Speaker 1: most talented roster in the division, I still don't have
- 28:55Speaker 1: a problem with Jerry signing Rob Rethschneinder. I just am
- 28:59Speaker 1: not going to be that way. I thought it was
- 29:03Speaker 1: a good idea, not a great idea. I thought it
- 29:05Speaker 1: was a fine idea in the moment. So I'm not
- 29:08Speaker 1: gonna crush the front office for taking a look at
- 29:12Speaker 1: numbers and seeing that this is somebody who has a
- 29:16Speaker 1: niche skill that could help this team win baseball games
- 29:20Speaker 1: this year. But once again, just like with Pollock and
- 29:23Speaker 1: Garver and Wong, they've been a disaster. They have just
- 29:27Speaker 1: been a disaster, and so had it gone on any further,
- 29:30Speaker 1: that's when my criticism eeks into the conversation. I get it.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Most people feel like, hey, you're the general manager, you
- 29:37Speaker 1: should foresee that coming. Every general manager makes good moves,
- 29:42Speaker 1: bad moves. Sometimes they pay off more than what the
- 29:46Speaker 1: general manager thought that that was going to pay off,
- 29:48Speaker 1: and sometimes you make a good move and it doesn't
- 29:51Speaker 1: work out. That's how I judge. That makes me different,
- 29:55Speaker 1: I guess than a lot of people out there, but
- 29:57Speaker 1: that's how I judge. I don't think it was a
- 29:59Speaker 1: bad decision into sign Rob Refsnyder. I think it turned
- 30:03Speaker 1: out to be really bad. And had it gone any
- 30:06Speaker 1: further with two activations award acquisition and Donovan coming off
- 30:10Speaker 1: the aisle, had we kept him on the roster, then
- 30:13Speaker 1: I would have started criticizing it. You got to cut
- 30:15Speaker 1: your losses now, man enough, We've given him enough time
- 30:18Speaker 1: to prove whether or not he can fulfill this role
- 30:20Speaker 1: that you're paying him seven million dollars to fulfill. He
- 30:23Speaker 1: can't do it. And the fact that he's beating himself
- 30:26Speaker 1: up internally, just like Garver did when he got here,
- 30:29Speaker 1: shows you he's not coming out of this. And so
- 30:32Speaker 1: I know Rob Refsnyder really wanted to come through for
- 30:35Speaker 1: all of you, and I know that Jerry and Justin
- 30:38Speaker 1: thought this was a really good move, and a lot
- 30:40Speaker 1: of people agree with this. At the time, it didn't
- 30:43Speaker 1: work out and it was time to let him go.
- 30:46Speaker 1: And it really is a mystery why they can't find
- 30:49Speaker 1: a veteran right handed hitter who crushes lefties his entire
- 30:53Speaker 1: career basically, and when they get here are awful, not
- 30:57Speaker 1: only just mediocre, just awful. But it happened to get
- 31:00Speaker 1: this year with Rob.
- 31:00Speaker 4: Yeah, I have no problem with them signing him because
- 31:02Speaker 4: I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to read into
- 31:04Speaker 4: the future and know that that's gonna happen.
- 31:06Speaker 1: But I do think they held on to him too latter.
- 31:09Speaker 1: I think rid of him earlier. All right, coming up next,
- 31:13Speaker 1: uh something starting today. Something's happening here and we're gonna
- 31:18Speaker 1: discuss it for the next segment and a half on
- 31:20Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 31:23Speaker 4: Hallucin Engins, I can't even say Hallosen and the Gins.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Not you, and I know we're pretty straight laced. Well,
- 31:31Speaker 1: good morning to you all. It is Chuck and Ashley
- 31:34Speaker 1: with you and uh yeah, no white powder through these nostrils,
- 31:37Speaker 1: not on this radio program. I want to let you
- 31:40Speaker 1: know that George Darow Good and the Destroyers I think
- 31:44Speaker 1: they've probably dabbled.
- 31:46Speaker 4: I'm gonna go out on a limb.
- 31:49Speaker 1: They're performing tonight out there at the old Talala Resort Casino.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Actually the new and fantastic and fabulous and wonderful to
- 31:56Speaker 1: Lela Resort Casino. Tonight's the night. Tonight's the night, Hot
- 31:59Speaker 1: damn to night. Are you excited. I'll be doing a
- 32:02Speaker 1: little prefunk show out there, not a show, but just
- 32:05Speaker 1: a gathering gathering point the Circle Bar at the Telala
- 32:08Speaker 1: Resort Casino from five to seven. Are gonna give away prizes,
- 32:10Speaker 1: but more than anything, we're just gonna hang out, so
- 32:13Speaker 1: you might as well get there early. I'm gonna get
- 32:16Speaker 1: there early. I'm gonna wake up from my nap. Head
- 32:18Speaker 1: on up there, get there and you know, get a
- 32:21Speaker 1: little dinner in me, then do our circle bar gathering,
- 32:24Speaker 1: then go to the show. So George thorough Good and
- 32:27Speaker 1: the Destroyers tonight, I don't know. I think maybe tickets
- 32:30Speaker 1: are still available. I'm sure they, so you can try
- 32:32Speaker 1: to grab a few from Ticketmaster. But if you're heading
- 32:35Speaker 1: out to the show, I'll see a five o'clock to
- 32:38Speaker 1: seven o'clock at the Tulalap Resort Casino the Circle bar
- 32:42Speaker 1: out there. Just come by say hello. Maybe you win
- 32:44Speaker 1: a prize out of it. We shall see today Husky's
- 32:47Speaker 1: camp starts. I really considered kicking around the idea of
- 32:51Speaker 1: this being our lead story here today since Husky's camp's
- 32:54Speaker 1: getting underway, but it was such an interesting baseball game
- 32:59Speaker 1: that's kind of all away the headlines here today. And
- 33:01Speaker 1: we're certainly not done talking about the Mariners on the program.
- 33:05Speaker 1: At least Woodward's going to join us at eight o'clock.
- 33:07Speaker 1: So the new voice of the Huskies. We can't wait
- 33:10Speaker 1: to congratulate her and also get her insights as we
- 33:13Speaker 1: get camp started here. But yeah, certainly this is a
- 33:19Speaker 1: season in which there's this sort of fingers crossed hope.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Not necessarily, Yeah, it's going to happen, but this there's
- 33:29Speaker 1: no reason the college football Playoff shouldn't be the goal
- 33:33Speaker 1: this year. Sort Of feeling to the upcoming Huskies season,
- 33:38Speaker 1: I'm not sure I feel like that's in the cards
- 33:41Speaker 1: for this year. They're ranked nineteenth in the Coach's Poll.
- 33:45Speaker 1: I think they were ranked seventeenth in my magazine that
- 33:48Speaker 1: I bought, So they're going to be somewhere between fifteen
- 33:50Speaker 1: and twenty five to get the season. So there's some
- 33:53Speaker 1: respect being shown to this team. And you know, if
- 33:56Speaker 1: you're nineteen, that's probably a prediction of eight nine wins
- 34:00Speaker 1: on the air nine wins might get you into the
- 34:02Speaker 1: college football Playoff. The only thing that keeps me from
- 34:06Speaker 1: feeling like, oh, like that's that's gonna happen this year
- 34:13Speaker 1: is in the Jedfish era, in the Big Ten Conference era,
- 34:17Speaker 1: where have been the performances against the best teams. I mean,
- 34:22Speaker 1: you're gonna have to beat one of those giants, and
- 34:26Speaker 1: I don't know if you've come close to doing it
- 34:28Speaker 1: just yet, and I don't know if you are so
- 34:32Speaker 1: good and so complete as a roster, and of course
- 34:35Speaker 1: you never know. I mean, things can change. You watch
- 34:37Speaker 1: them play the first four weeks and maybe they're blowing
- 34:39Speaker 1: people out seventy to nothing, and we change our mind.
- 34:43Speaker 1: But you also, when you're in that seven to nine
- 34:49Speaker 1: win range team, that also sort of suggests that you're
- 34:53Speaker 1: vulnerable to that team beating you that shouldn't beat you.
- 34:57Speaker 1: That also puts you in that category. So there are
- 35:01Speaker 1: a couple of things like I don't know if you
- 35:03Speaker 1: can just put w's behind every single Big Ten game
- 35:07Speaker 1: that isn't Michigan, Ohio State and others, And then you
- 35:12Speaker 1: do have to get that big win against an Oregon
- 35:16Speaker 1: or somebody eventually in order for you to be a
- 35:19Speaker 1: college football playoff team, and right now, I just don't
- 35:23Speaker 1: see a team in the last couple of years that's
- 35:26Speaker 1: even knocked on that door. And Demand Williams has really
- 35:30Speaker 1: struggled in those games and he's still your quarterback. So
- 35:34Speaker 1: I'm I'm falling short of making that prediction for them
- 35:39Speaker 1: this year. I sort of suspect it's another eight and
- 35:42Speaker 1: four type season and probably closer to seven and six
- 35:46Speaker 1: than I am to nine and three, which I know
- 35:48Speaker 1: doesn't go over well. But I do know there's a
- 35:52Speaker 1: young foundation that's being built. They got a good recruiting class,
- 35:55Speaker 1: couple of them in a row, and maybe we're gonna
- 35:58Speaker 1: and maybe it's on its move. Maybe it's on its
- 36:00Speaker 1: way under Jedfish too getting there, But man, I don't
- 36:04Speaker 1: know if I think it's going to happen this year.
- 36:06Speaker 4: Yeah, just I mean, the first four games, you better
- 36:09Speaker 4: win those if you want to have any chance, because
- 36:11Speaker 4: that's the Apple Cup, Utah State, Eastern Washington, and Minnesota.
- 36:15Speaker 1: But after that, yeah, I don't.
- 36:17Speaker 4: Maybe it's partly that I don't know enough about the
- 36:19Speaker 4: big tent still to know where we fit, but I
- 36:23Speaker 4: would I mean, I watched us get drubbed by Iowa
- 36:25Speaker 4: last year.
- 36:26Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would think that that's not an elite.
- 36:29Speaker 1: But they're good. They're always good.
- 36:30Speaker 4: And that's the thing is, that's where I would measure it, because, yeah,
- 36:33Speaker 4: do I expect that we're going to go in and there,
- 36:35Speaker 4: that Indiana is gonna come here and we're going to
- 36:37Speaker 4: crush them.
- 36:38Speaker 6: No.
- 36:38Speaker 4: Could we make it a good game, yes, But it's
- 36:40Speaker 4: those those teams that are just below the elite that
- 36:44Speaker 4: I don't know how if we even match up against them.
- 36:47Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think that you can just put a
- 36:48Speaker 1: w BO. No, not at all, and then we just
- 36:51Speaker 1: gotta I just don't think that there's been enough fight
- 36:55Speaker 1: shown against the elite to say that your college football
- 37:00Speaker 1: playoff ready. Yeah, but that'd be really hard. That's the
- 37:03Speaker 1: thing about college sports though, that I mean, it's a
- 37:06Speaker 1: lot more overturned than ever before. And so maybe you
- 37:11Speaker 1: do have the right combination of players. Maybe the freshmen
- 37:14Speaker 1: are ready to perform as more than just freshmen. Maybe
- 37:17Speaker 1: they are ready to not just contribute, but potentially star.
- 37:21Speaker 1: I'd about to see it. But you're going to have
- 37:22Speaker 1: to have some of that, yes, in order for you know,
- 37:26Speaker 1: my opinion to change on it, but we'll get Alisa
- 37:29Speaker 1: Woodward's thoughts on it coming up next. Sports Radio ninety
- 37:32Speaker 1: three point three kJ A r f M