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10-12 H1: What's On Tap & NFL Officiating · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, great morning to you all, and welcome into the
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  Speaker 1: radio show that is Chuck in the Morning. Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJR FM. Great Monday to you all. Hope you
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  Speaker 1: had a good weekend out there enjoying some lovely fall
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  Speaker 1: weather while you watched your football teams fail. All of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much. If you're listening and you follow a football
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  Speaker 1: team in town, it did not win.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you with us here on this Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Kidd is here. It's good seeing Christopher Kidd every
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  Speaker 1: Monday to start my week now. Same with Anders Hurst,
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  Speaker 1: who's here. We got to do a little hangout on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday together. Oh, we're closer than ever.
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  Speaker 2: And my name is.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Powell, it's good to have you with us. You
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  Speaker 1: looked at me like, yeah, we really are. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, kid. That's the first time in
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  Speaker 1: my entire life that I felt like grandpa. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: As I met Anders and his family for breakfast, we
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  Speaker 1: stayed the night at Tulalip Resort Casino, of course, not
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  Speaker 1: me with his family. But yes, to do our show
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. And then we're we're always starving when the
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  Speaker 1: show's over. So I'm like, well, let me take you
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  Speaker 1: to breakfast. And then all of a sudden I've got husband,
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  Speaker 1: wife and baby in the stroller moving up. And I
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  Speaker 1: told Anders as we're checking in. There's not one person
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  Speaker 1: here at this restaurant that doesn't think I'm your father
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  Speaker 1: and that's my grandson.
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  Speaker 2: Not a single one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I told him a couple times, like, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I could see the resemblance in some ways. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there would be occasions where if I was out with Ian,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my previous showmate, there would be– Missed corrections
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  Speaker 3: as to who he was in relation to me, and
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  Speaker 3: nothing other than a co-worker. But I think this one,
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  Speaker 3: even more so, because we have a very similar length beard,
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  Speaker 3: similar build.
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  Speaker 2: It does kind of pass. It was happening.
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  Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. And I knew, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even going to fight it. If somebody asks,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to go with it. Yeah, screw it. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Meet the apple of my eye. meet my lovely daughter-in-law.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the double chip off the old block, if
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  Speaker 1: there ever was one. Austin, say hello to the good man.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't even going to fight it. We were just
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  Speaker 1: going to go with it yesterday, or Friday, I should say.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, great to have you with us here today.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot to discuss today. We have to
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  Speaker 1: laugh or else we'll cry because we don't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great things to talk about. in terms of football,
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  Speaker 1: and yet that's all we're going to discuss here for
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  Speaker 1: the next four hours as the Seahawks lose to the
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco 49ers yesterday by a final score of 32-29.
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  Speaker 1: You know who's on the way, Greg Bell at 7.05.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Hugh Millen at 8 o'clock with some Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning quarterback and much, much more. But, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a loss, and now you also run the risk
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  Speaker 1: of a few days from now The Denver Broncos on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday night on a short week. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of the thought, but a three and three start,
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  Speaker 1: certainly not what I envisioned, but it can't be ruled
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  Speaker 1: out for a couple of reasons. One, Denver's good. Two,
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  Speaker 1: it's a short week. Anything can happen in a short week.
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  Speaker 1: And three, you know, Mike McDonald told you in the
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  Speaker 1: press conference yesterday, it's just like the team's playing well
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of areas, but they're not doing those
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  Speaker 1: complimentary things that that they did to become a champion
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  Speaker 1: a year ago. And frankly, Anders, I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 1: tough loss and certainly have to give San Francisco credit.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, I think that they're overachieving and being coached
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  Speaker 1: well and Purdy keeps improving and his composure keeps improving
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  Speaker 1: and they keep overcoming obstacles like injury after injury. Even
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  Speaker 1: in mid-game, they overcame injuries as well. So you have
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  Speaker 1: to give San Francisco, credit for that. But I honestly
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  Speaker 1: feel no different, even down two and a half games
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  Speaker 1: now in the division, than I did at the start
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  Speaker 1: of last season when the Seahawks lost narrowly to the
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  Speaker 1: 49ers in a game where I walked away from thinking
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  Speaker 1: the better team lost. The better team, man, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to suffer all of those incidents of brainlessness. By
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season, we're going to shore things up.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be more injured because they can't help themselves. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: this thing will start to make sense again. This thing
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  Speaker 1: will average out for the Hawks, and I still think
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  Speaker 1: by the end of the season, San Francisco's not going
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  Speaker 1: to win the NFC West. I mean, you gave them
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  Speaker 1: 21 points. They had touchdown drives of 18 yards, 11 yards,
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  Speaker 1: and zero yards because for whatever reason, we decided to
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  Speaker 1: run George Helani out of the end zone at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the first half. And it resulted in seven points.
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  Speaker 1: We lost by three. So, I mean, credit to you.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks did a lot of things to cost them
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  Speaker 1: that victory yesterday. And we do have to tip our
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  Speaker 1: cap to San Francisco. They play hard. They overcome obstacles.
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  Speaker 1: They're well coached. Purdy's keeps getting better. But I feel
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  Speaker 1: the exact same way this year as I did a
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  Speaker 1: year ago after that opening season loss yesterday. And that
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  Speaker 1: is that the better team did not win this game.
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  Speaker 1: And when we meet again, I think there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a completely different story that we'll tell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked all last week about the San Francisco
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  Speaker 3: 49ers are playing better football right now. But I think
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  Speaker 3: in the long term, the Seahawks are the better football team.
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  Speaker 3: And I still think the better team on the day
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  Speaker 3: won the game. The Niners played better yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Yardage was pretty similar.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: Time of possession was dead even.
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  Speaker 3: If you throw in the mistakes, which should be counted,
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  Speaker 3: it's not like, oh, we shouldn't just count that. So
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  Speaker 3: that way the Niners deserve to win that game. But
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. I think the Seahawks, by the
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  Speaker 3: end of the season, will be in a better position
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I also agree.
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  Speaker 3: There is actually a lot of similarities between the week
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  Speaker 3: one game last week or last year to yesterday. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of people picking on one particular cornerback. Yesterday was
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  Speaker 3: Josh Jobe. Reek Wolin was the one, of course, in
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  Speaker 3: week one of 2025. So there's a lot of similarities there.
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  Speaker 3: A chance at the end of the game to win it,
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  Speaker 3: even with all the mistakes that you had. Tie it
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  Speaker 3: or win it, I should say. So there definitely was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of similarities. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: you're 3-2, just like you were in 2025 in your
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  Speaker 3: first five games. And you ended up winning the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: So there shouldn't be any panic in this team, in
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  Speaker 3: this fan base. Of course, there will be just because
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  Speaker 3: that's the reality of it. San Francisco is now five
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  Speaker 3: and oh, you're three and two. You lost a tiebreak game,
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  Speaker 3: division game, all that stuff. There's tons to break down.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to it. But I just think in general,
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  Speaker 3: on the whole. This is the first time I've started
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  Speaker 3: to really, really kind of have question marks about, okay,
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  Speaker 3: is this the norm? We keep saying we can't keep
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  Speaker 3: making these mistakes, whether it's penalties or turnovers. But now
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  Speaker 3: it's starting to become like, oh, is this just what
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  Speaker 3: we do now? Because this is now like three of
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  Speaker 3: four games that we've had some sort of massive shooting
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  Speaker 3: ourselves in the foot.
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  Speaker 1: But they've all been different. If it was the same
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  Speaker 1: thing over... I mean, in Washington, it was... For some reason,
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  Speaker 1: the commanders kept scoring touchdowns. I mean, they didn't exactly
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  Speaker 1: have a great game against the Seahawks' defense, but when
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  Speaker 1: they did go on a drive, they scored a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: which was just so uncharacteristic of the Seahawks' defense to
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  Speaker 1: allow that, especially to a backup quarterback like they played
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  Speaker 1: in Washington. And then against the Chargers, which was a win,
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  Speaker 1: It was extracurricular after the whistle that allowed them back
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  Speaker 1: into the game. And that got shored up, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: That got cleaned up yesterday. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco was trying to goad the Seahawks all game
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  Speaker 1: long into some extracurricular activity, and there was one team
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  Speaker 1: that kept its head, and yet you still end up
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  Speaker 1: losing the game. And then in this particular case, it
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  Speaker 1: was giving the ball away. And we're certainly going to
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  Speaker 1: spend some time taking Sam Darnold on. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get a free pass because he won a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl a year ago, but he's got to play better.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when is the last time you ever saw
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  Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback throw interceptions on his first pass two
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  Speaker 1: weeks in a row? I mean, you can't, can't start
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  Speaker 1: a game that way. And so Sam did not play
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  Speaker 1: well and he deserves four hours of criticism today as
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  Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. I mean, he did some good things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that he was horrible. He did some
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  Speaker 1: good things, but he did not play well enough. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy didn't play all that well until the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And so this game, though, came down to our third
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  Speaker 1: and fourth string running backs fumbling the football at Horrible times.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe I give Emmanuel Wilson, who churned out 61
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  Speaker 1: yards in the game, at least gave us something of
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  Speaker 1: a win. a running game yesterday. I mean, Fred Warner
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  Speaker 1: came in and punched the ball out of his hands.
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  Speaker 2: Not much you can do to stop that.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't hold on to that football. I couldn't hold on.
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  Speaker 1: The two of us together couldn't hold on to that football. No,
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  Speaker 1: we could not. Helanis, on the other hand.
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  Speaker 2: Both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, all three of them, really. Inexcusable, the way that
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  Speaker 1: he was carrying the football. Tom Brady was forewarning us,
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  Speaker 1: why is George Helani carrying the football that way? And
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  Speaker 1: then sure enough, he drops a ball, and then he
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  Speaker 1: fumbles on the goal line in the worst position possible.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I say three is because it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the last time that he carried the ball that Carelessly
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  Speaker 1: and like a loaf of bread. I mean, you are
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  Speaker 1: a third, fourth string running back in this league at best.
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  Speaker 1: And the only reason you stay in this league, George,
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  Speaker 1: is because you don't do stupid things that cost your
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  Speaker 1: team the game. If you're going to be a utility player,
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  Speaker 1: That means you can't boot the ball when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: second base or shortstop or third base. It means you
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  Speaker 1: can't get picked off when you're a pinch runner. It
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  Speaker 1: means you can't miss getting the bunt down when you're
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  Speaker 1: brought off the bench to get the bunt down. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we saw out of George Helani and certainly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Hugh's coming up here at eight o'clock. Not
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  Speaker 1: one of Hugh's favorite players, George Helani. But yesterday, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I wrote in the margins of my scorekeeping, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see this guy get another carry.
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  Speaker 1: I don't either. And it wasn't just the fumble at
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  Speaker 1: the goal line. It's the way that he was carrying
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  Speaker 1: the ball before the fumble at the goal line. And
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  Speaker 1: then it was the way he was carrying the ball
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  Speaker 1: after he'd fumbled in a critical situation. He didn't like
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  Speaker 1: correct the, the way that he was holding onto the
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  Speaker 1: football for the rest of the game. And Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: was asked about it afterwards. Why didn't you bench him?
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  Speaker 1: Like you did Jadarian Price. He said, I have two
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  Speaker 1: running backs. He even said, what am I going to
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  Speaker 1: carry the football? Like I had to, I had to
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  Speaker 1: stick with him. I'm down running backs. I have to
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  Speaker 1: stick with them in that situation, which says to me,
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  Speaker 1: the moment the opportunity presents itself, George Helani, we'll not
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  Speaker 1: get another carry with the Seahawks. It's just, we're not
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  Speaker 1: there yet, Anders. Jadarian Price is on the IR. He
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  Speaker 1: can't come back for a few weeks. Coach said yesterday
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  Speaker 1: after the game, if you think Zach Charbonnet is going
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  Speaker 1: to be here to rescue the team on Thursday, he's
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  Speaker 1: probably not going to play on Thursday. He's probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to be ready for that, which means he almost
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  Speaker 1: has to be ready for the following week. But we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to live with this combo forever. Another
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  Speaker 1: four or five days, it looks like. But shame on
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  Speaker 1: George Helani for not self-autocorrecting the way that he was
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  Speaker 1: holding on to the football. And frankly, shame on Brian
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  Speaker 1: Fleury and Mike McDonald for having him in the game
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  Speaker 1: at your own four-yard line when all you need to
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  Speaker 1: do is just get into the locker room without doing
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  Speaker 1: something catastrophic. And instead, we got catastrophe. authored by George Helani.
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  Speaker 1: And he wasn't the only one at fault on that play.
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  Speaker 1: The right guard got absolutely abused on that play, which
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  Speaker 1: set the whole thing in motion. But the number one
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  Speaker 1: priority in that moment, number one, without any question, do
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  Speaker 1: not turn the ball over right here. If nothing else...
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  Speaker 1: fall on the ground. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Just don't turn the ball over. Safety would have been better.
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  Speaker 3: Like seriously, not even joking. Well, you're right. Obviously five
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  Speaker 3: points better.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and Hugh actually asked Mike McDonald, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what was your thought process behind trying to run a
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  Speaker 3: play there instead of just kneeling it down? And Mike
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  Speaker 3: McDonald mentioned that, you know, we're always trying to be aggressive. Um,
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  Speaker 3: There was, what, 20 seconds left when they got the
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  Speaker 3: ball back? Something like that. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was 13. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, even less. 13.
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  Speaker 1: But they had three timeouts. So there was a chance
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to punt out of your own end zone.
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  Speaker 1: So they didn't kneel the ball. But I think I
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  Speaker 1: still would have knelt the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I think I would have, too.
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  Speaker 3: Because I don't even know if San Francisco would have
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  Speaker 3: used their timeouts. I don't think they would have. I
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  Speaker 3: think they were kind of resigned to, okay, let's get
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  Speaker 3: into halftime with a lead.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And instead, we're going to run a play, a stretch.
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  Speaker 2: To your fourth string running back.
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  Speaker 1: With our fourth string running back behind our third string
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  Speaker 1: right guard. I mean, that is careless coaching right there.
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  Speaker 1: That is. And when's the last time that we spent
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  Speaker 1: the first segment criticizing Seahawks coaching? It's been a while.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's a couple other instances where that
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  Speaker 3: can also be said on the other side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just a lot of weird things happening
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  Speaker 3: to this team.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. But four turnovers in the game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's your game. Yeah. I mean, you can analyze everything
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  Speaker 1: all you want. There's your game. You commit. Not only
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  Speaker 1: did you commit four turnovers and they committed three, but
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  Speaker 1: three of those four turnovers on a extremely short field
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  Speaker 1: that directly led to 21 points in a game you
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  Speaker 1: lost by three and still had a chance to your
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  Speaker 1: point to win late in the contest. If JSN catches
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  Speaker 1: a ball, he catches 99 times out of 100. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: And Cooper Cup, if we had a different angle on
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  Speaker 1: the out-of-bounds play, I think maybe we out of a
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  Speaker 1: first down there as well. Because does Cooper Cup ever
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  Speaker 1: error in that? Never. No. He's not the receiver, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that he used to be. You can criticize his speed,
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  Speaker 1: but the intelligence, like where do I need to get
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  Speaker 1: with this ball in this moment? Cooper Cup doesn't screw
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  Speaker 1: that up. But it was close enough. I get why
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  Speaker 1: they didn't overturn it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. I get why they didn't overturn it. But remember
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  Speaker 3: what Gene Steratore always says. If you have a question
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  Speaker 3: in your mind whether he made the play, he made
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  Speaker 3: the play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, that should have been the call on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be the guy to say that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you. I'm not going to be
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  Speaker 2: the guy that says the ref screwed us.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: We got a couple calls, too. There was some stuff
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  Speaker 2: going on both ways.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, like, dang, I
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  Speaker 3: would have loved to see the players– decide this game
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  Speaker 3: and not the referee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah and and way myers was playing yesterday myers
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  Speaker 1: is back yeah he's back he was perfect yesterday um
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  Speaker 1: pritchett was terrific yesterday byron murphy had a as if
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  Speaker 1: he needed one a breakout game yeah right keep saying
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  Speaker 1: that but it keeps getting better well yeah exactly um
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  Speaker 1: so there were some good things too that we'll cover
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  Speaker 1: and then i think the One other thing that has
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  Speaker 1: to be mentioned before we get to what's on tap
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  Speaker 1: is the Mike Evans factor. Greg Cosell, I remember it
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  Speaker 1: vividly on Ian's show when they signed Mike Evans and
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  Speaker 1: he was just over the top. What a perfect addition
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  Speaker 1: Mike Evans was to the San Francisco 49ers. And I've
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  Speaker 1: always liked Mike Evans. Mike Evans is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. I've always liked Mike Evans. But
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  Speaker 1: he is older. And my thought was, okay, that's a
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  Speaker 1: nice addition. but that's not going to change the NFC West.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to like win this 49ers, the NFC West.
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  Speaker 1: And he has been the perfect addition for them. And yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you could argue he was the difference in
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  Speaker 1: the game. And I thought it was a very fair question,
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  Speaker 1: even though Mike did not treat it as such. Mike
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  Speaker 1: dismissed it and kind of looked at the reporter, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't recognize the voice of the reporter there. And
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: pretty much gave him the what a dumb question face. Yeah. Like,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: why did you not consider swapping out Job for somebody
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: else that could actually cover Mike Evans? I thought that's
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: a very fair question. Very valid. Now, maybe I'm not
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: seeing anything. Maybe Hugh Millen will correct me. Greg Bell
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: might correct me a little bit later on in the show.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: We'll certainly talk about it. But I get it. You
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: sacrifice one thing to handle another. But Mike Evans was
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the only player beating us yesterday. And in the fourth quarter,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: he was humiliating us yesterday. And it's not like Josh
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Jobe wasn't in position to make plays. It was just
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Evans was taller and stronger yesterday. and was blocking him
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: out of perfect passes thrown to him by Brock Purdy.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And I know one guy that wouldn't have allowed that
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to happen. His name is Nicky Manwari. And I know
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: that he serves another functional role, huge role, and he
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: takes out Kittle potentially and McCaffrey potentially as well. But
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: when one dude is beating us just because he's taller
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and longer than our cornerback, and that's the only reason,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think it sounds insane to replace him with
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: your tallest, longest defensive back in the fourth quarter. So
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: we'll get into it a little bit later on in
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the show, but I didn't think that was an insane idea.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Not at all.
• 19:22
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• 19:49
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• 19:52
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• 19:54
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• 19:56
  Speaker 1: that standpoint, we were all on the edge of our seats.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: But I don't know if it was the I don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: know if it was the best game I've ever seen.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I'll say that.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Not the cleanest.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: We'll put it that way. Yeah, there were some ugly,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: ugly moments. Greg Bell will join us to talk about
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it at 7.05. Hugh Millen will be with us Monday morning.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Quarterback today from 8 to 9.40. Hawks have a short
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: week this week and are at risk of starting the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: season at 3-3. They'll be in Denver Thursday night to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: take on the Broncos. Tonight, great Monday night football matchup.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: The Bills are at the Rams tonight. We'll go through
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: your NFL scoreboard here at the bottom of the hour
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: with a little bit of wins and tough ones for you.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Cardinals traded Marvin Harrison Jr. to the Houston Texans yesterday.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You had to cut your losses on that one. I
• 20:42
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• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Second round pick? Second rounder and a seventh rounder, I think.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Or a sixth rounder. Second and a sixth for Harrison
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and a seventh rounder in that trade yesterday. Hopefully we'll
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: have some time to... talk further about that. Huskies crushed
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Friday night by the Iowa Hawkeyes performance that certainly Jed
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Fish and the program will want to just forget about.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: It was a one-sided affair at home against the Iowa Hawkeyes, 41-24.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And I know Demond Williams is the focus and Jed
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Fish is the focus, but the defense was atrocious on
• 21:22
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• 21:25
  Speaker 1: The three and three dogs will play again on Friday
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: night this week. They'll be at Purdue. College football, Texas
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: fell to Oklahoma in a stunner. Georgia's now the new
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: number one team in America. Oregon also lost over the weekend,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and they have fallen out of the top 25. What
• 21:43
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• 21:46
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• 21:50
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• 21:53
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• 21:56
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• 22:00
  Speaker 1: The Kraken have started the season at 4-2. Sounders are
• 22:04
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• 22:10
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• 22:14
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• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the league championship series. What a game last night in Milwaukee.
• 22:22
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• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in game number one by a final score of 2-1.
• 22:29
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• 22:32
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• 22:36
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• 22:53
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• 23:23
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, great morning to you all. Greg Bell
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: is going to be joining us at 7.05, our Seahawks insider. And,
• 23:29
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• 23:31
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• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And now we're going to steal another two hours out
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  Speaker 1: of his life to talk about this Seahawks 49ers game. uh, yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: want to spend much time on this topic here today,
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  Speaker 1: but officiating once again was a big topic. college football weekend,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: NFL weekend, and there are going to be a lot
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: of interesting things to discuss with Gene Steratore yesterday. Look,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I think that Cooper Cup probably got that first down,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and yet because they didn't have the angle that you're
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: looking for, I wasn't surprised that they didn't overturn it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: There were plenty of chances for the Seahawks to win
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: this game yesterday, and even though I think that the
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  Speaker 1: Hawks got the raw end of the deal on that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I kind of had the exact same feeling that Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald expressed afterwards. Like, what do you want me to do?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: They made the call. They didn't have enough to overturn it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: That's just how the game ended. So I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: as huge a problem with it as I did with
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: some other things that I saw over the weekend from
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the officials. But I think what you said earlier, had
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that gone the Seahawks way, I don't think they would
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: have overturned it either. And so, you know, I think
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: we are at least playing overtime football. if that call
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: swings the Hawks' direction.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's worth pointing out that the guy who
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: made the call on the field that was so sure
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: of himself when he made it, too, it's like, man, he.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Didn't see it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: If you look at the replay, it's the referee on
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: the sideline that's getting trampled over by the 49er player,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: and he didn't see it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: He comes up and says, first down 49ers. He was
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: so sure of himself. A full yard short.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I know. And there's no way it was a full
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: yard short.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: No, it was, if anything, like half an inch or
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: That but yeah I mean I'm not asking them to
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: overturn it it was the same logic that they used
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: when they didn't overturn the Debo Samuel fumble as well
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: a lot of people pointed that out to me but
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: at the same time like man I would I just
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: kept going back to what Gene always would say is
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: like if there's any doubt in your mind that the
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: player made the play he made it and then let
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: replay kind of go back and decide if he did
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: or not yeah I don't.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Know if I don't know if they all feel the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: way Gene does or if that's Gene's personal philosophy, but
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I would like Gene to speak to the group.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I would too. Yes, I like that philosophy better.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yes. Absolutely. Give them the benefit of the doubt
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that they made the play, and then if you can
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: see something overturn it, then you see something that overturned it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: But I thought it was the wrong call. I mean,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: maybe the other shows today are going to spend time
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: howling at the moon. You certainly had more than enough
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: opportunities to win this football game. It's not the reason
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: you lost. And both your feet are all shot up
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: with how many times that you fired off rounds directly
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: into them. And that's the reason that you lost this game.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You still had a chance to tie it, and I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: think you did get screwed on the last call of
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's worth pointing out that the Niners had
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: a couple calls go against them, too. The offensive pass interference,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: which set them back, which you don't remember because then
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the rest of the drive was Mike Evans just absolutely
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: bullying Josh Jobe.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And then what was the other one?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, the intentional grounding call on Brock Purdy. Just not intentional.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: He had a receiver literally right there.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I actually think they got that right.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You think so?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: That happened in the Jacksonville-Philadelphia game. There's a new rule there. Interesting.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Where even if you do have somebody in the area,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: they still have to have a chance to catch the...
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Right now, I don't have the right words in front
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of me, but I just saw that play the game
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: before in which... They explained that it's no longer just
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: because you have someone in the same zip code doesn't
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: mean that you get away from that. They still have
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to make an effort for something like that, that they've
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: changed or adjusted. It made more sense to me when
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I saw it. in the Eagles game. And then I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: saw it twice in one day and, and it must
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: be the new rule. That must be the way that
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: they're doing it now. And then I do want to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: mention this though, before we get to the break, there
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: were two games yesterday that I put front and center
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and that just goes back. And this is my biggest
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: problem with officiating. You, you really do make the game unwatchable.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if, Players are really committing that
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: many fouls. Or if we do have a group of
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: officials that have just decided we've got to get more involved.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: But football is great. The only way that it can
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: become unwatchable is when you stop it every play to
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: announce some sort of foul. There were over 200 yards
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: again in the penalties in the Patriots game. And even
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: in the Jacksonville game, one team got penalized for over
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: 100 yards. How can that happen repeatedly unless you're over-officiating? Or,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: if that's not the case, then we have done a
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: poor job preparing our players for what the rules are
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: something's happened yeah because either you let some stuff go
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and they got used to playing a certain way and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: now you're cracking down on it um something has there's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a flaw in the mechanism and there are just way
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: too many of these games that are being played right
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: now in the National Football League. All right, Greg Bell's next,
• 30:02
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