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9-30 H4: Cam Cleeland Joins, Al Kininsky Drops By & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: Love Cam. Love our conversations with Cam.
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  Speaker 3: If you would indulge me 30 seconds just to finish
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  Speaker 3: up something from Anders and I's previous conversation. I think
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  Speaker 3: this will clarify it. Baseball has always used basic math.
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  Speaker 3: It has always used to try to find an advantage.
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  Speaker 3: What analytics is, and I hope this clears it up.
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  Speaker 3: Analytics is deeper math that might reveal a clearer truth.
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  Speaker 3: Basic math might not tell the whole story. Analytics is
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  Speaker 3: deeper math to try to reveal what might be a
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  Speaker 3: better truth. But obviously, we don't want to just run
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  Speaker 3: our baseball teams on math. So you have to use it,
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  Speaker 3: and yet you still have to use it. your own guile,
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  Speaker 3: your own gut, your own baseball instincts, your own observations.
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  Speaker 3: That guy might be tired. That guy doesn't have it today.
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  Speaker 3: You still have to use that. You still have to
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  Speaker 3: have that personnel guy that can make those decisions.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk to Cam Cleland, our Huskies voice, voice of
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  Speaker 3: the dogs, joining us every Wednesday at this time.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, sir.
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  Speaker 5: How are.
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  Speaker 6: You?
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  Speaker 7: Now you got me all intrigued in the depth of
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  Speaker 7: your analytics conversation.
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  Speaker 5: My gosh.
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  Speaker 3: How much do you like analytics in your lovable football sport?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think there's a place for it. I think
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  Speaker 7: there's certainly a place for it. But there's also, like
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  Speaker 7: you just said, I think analytics make a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 7: I think the two-point chart, I think going for it
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  Speaker 7: in certain situations, I think all of that stuff matters
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  Speaker 7: in sports. But I'm with you on this. Eventually, you
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  Speaker 7: just got to have instinct. You have to know. You
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  Speaker 7: have to know if my guy is better than your guy.
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  Speaker 7: There's no analytic that can measure that. There isn't. I
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  Speaker 7: think there's a place for it, but I don't rely
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  Speaker 7: on it. It's not my end-all, see-all. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald might be the best example going in sports
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  Speaker 3: because you know that he uses numbers.
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  Speaker 2: He's a nerd. He's an admitted nerd.
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  Speaker 3: He just pours over the numbers and tries to find
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  Speaker 3: every advantage he could possibly find.
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  Speaker 2: But on game day.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's going to make decisions that he feel
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  Speaker 3: right now this is what we need to do. I
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  Speaker 3: think Mike McDonald's a shining example of how to use
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  Speaker 3: analytics without going overboard.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 7: I very much agree with that. Also, there's talent. There's
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  Speaker 7: other things.
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  Speaker 5: Talent just is better.
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  Speaker 7: When I'm better than you and I really want to
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  Speaker 7: be better than you, there's not a math nerd in
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  Speaker 7: the world that will tell me that I can compete.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't work that way. My guy's better than your guy.
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  Speaker 7: I think there certainly is. There's an in-depth world to it.
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  Speaker 7: I'm fascinated with it. I love the analytics of of
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  Speaker 7: it on, of especially in football and baseball. I have my,
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  Speaker 7: that's a whole nother conversation with this, with baseball is done.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know there's a stat out there that suggests that
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  Speaker 3: I could stop you at the.
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  Speaker 2: Goal line cam. I just don't know. There's also a stat.
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  Speaker 7: There's also a minor stat that might happen when your
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  Speaker 7: spine is broken.
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  Speaker 5: That was when I was in a good day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cam Cleland is with us.
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  Speaker 5: Not to say I would want that to happen. I
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  Speaker 5: would never want violence. No, football is not a violent sport, right?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Cam Cleland threatening harm right here on Sports Radio 93.3
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  Speaker 2: Our weekly harm update from Cam Cleland. All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Washington Huskies.
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  Speaker 3: Where on the Richter scale of bad losses did that
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  Speaker 3: register for you on Saturday?
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  Speaker 7: Well, after I had time to marinate in it and
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  Speaker 7: watch the game again and go back and look at
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  Speaker 7: some of the things that happened and watch what Minnesota did,
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  Speaker 7: now that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm able to settle and.
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  Speaker 7: Go through, I think it's unfortunate that you lost, but
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  Speaker 7: you literally got beat.
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  Speaker 5: In every phase. So I.
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  Speaker 7: I look at it like this. I think that there's
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  Speaker 7: certainly improvement that needs to be made. There's situations that
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  Speaker 7: need to get better. There are position groups that have
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  Speaker 7: to improve because they are young. But look, Minnesota was older.
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  Speaker 7: They were better prepared. Their game plan was efficient. They
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  Speaker 7: executed in certain situations that were better. So this is
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  Speaker 7: where I'm at with this Husky football team right now.
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  Speaker 7: And we're seeing it a little bit more starting to
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  Speaker 7: rear its ugly head as youth inexperience and young players
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  Speaker 7: trying to get better injuries in certain situations and right
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  Speaker 7: now i mean i see a real tough.
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  Speaker 5: Kid in devon williams i see a kid that's.
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  Speaker 7: That is playing his butt off and doing everything he
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  Speaker 7: can to try to keep this team in games and
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  Speaker 7: and fight for it and i saw a defense that
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  Speaker 7: settled in really really well in the second half yeah
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  Speaker 7: they gave up a few but I don't know if
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  Speaker 7: I could tell you that Minnesota is a top team
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  Speaker 7: in the Big Ten, but they certainly are more experienced
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  Speaker 7: than us, and they played like it.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to DeMond, I mean, man, I know
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  Speaker 3: he didn't play a good game, but how many variables
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  Speaker 3: work against him?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Already small in stature. He's going to have trouble seeing
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  Speaker 3: over a line, and then the line doesn't protect him,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have no running game. to try to
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  Speaker 3: slow the defense down on the other side. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he takes some blame in the way that the team's
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  Speaker 3: been playing so far, but I think I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: put him way down the.
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  Speaker 2: List of those that I'm going to.
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  Speaker 7: Dole out blame. Yeah, I think, well, there's 22 guys.
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  Speaker 7: There's coaching staff. There's a lot of players. I don't
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  Speaker 7: like to blame one person. I certainly don't like to
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  Speaker 7: throw things on quarterbacks. That drives me insane when you
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  Speaker 7: can watch a film and everyone just defaults to the
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  Speaker 7: easiest guy to blame is a quarterback, which is 100%
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  Speaker 7: inaccurate in these situations. I mean, the ball that he
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  Speaker 7: ended up scrambling to be able to throw to Barron,
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  Speaker 7: it was a flies-up ball to be able to get
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  Speaker 7: that touchdown, but it was a jailbreak blitz in the middle.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, he created that on his own, and Barron
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  Speaker 7: made a heck of a catch. Some of the situations
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  Speaker 7: that he's in, stature is a big deal. You saw
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  Speaker 7: their quarterback at 6'5. They game-planned a way to get
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  Speaker 7: the ball out of his hands quickly. I thought we
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  Speaker 7: could blitz him and create a ton of pressure. We
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  Speaker 7: couldn't because the ball was out of his hands too quick.
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  Speaker 7: So excellent by Minnesota to be able to get that
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  Speaker 7: executed quickly. We don't have a running game, guys. I
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  Speaker 7: hate to break it to you. Kurt Cignetti said it
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  Speaker 7: very well in the NSF football coaching, but when they
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  Speaker 7: brought in their new quarterbacks, his best friend is a
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  Speaker 7: great defense and a running game, which is 100% true.
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  Speaker 7: Great defense and a running game changes everything. It puts
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  Speaker 7: everything on notice. So you watch games in college football.
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  Speaker 7: The best running football teams are the teams that are
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  Speaker 7: having the most success, and play action is off of that.
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  Speaker 7: DeMond cannot do it all. He needs, he needs guys
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  Speaker 7: to get better. It starts with the group up front,
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  Speaker 7: starts with the offensive line. It starts with running backs,
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  Speaker 7: becoming more confident. It starts with the coaches and everything,
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  Speaker 7: putting together a game plan. They trust and they believe
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  Speaker 7: all that's part of it. And these guys, I'm not
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  Speaker 7: saying anything that's, that's, revolutionary here these they all get
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  Speaker 7: it they're practicing they're putting they're doing everything they can
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  Speaker 7: coach fish is calling every play he calls he believes
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  Speaker 7: can work and it could it just has to be
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  Speaker 7: executed yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I i get why cody green hasn't hit the ground
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  Speaker 3: running he's a true freshman playing left tackle at major
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  Speaker 3: college football in the big 10 conference but I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you what, even without him really clicking just yet, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't realize they would miss him as much as they did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just felt like there was a giant
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  Speaker 3: hole left without him on the football field.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see it that way?
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  Speaker 7: You mean Cody as in playing at left tackle?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When he was out this week, it just looked like
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  Speaker 3: there was no help up front for DeMond. When he
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  Speaker 3: had to move John to left, he had to slide
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  Speaker 3: John to left, and then all of a sudden it
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  Speaker 3: created such a hole at left guard where Mills.
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  Speaker 2: Is typically terrific. It just really created a mess out there.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it just is– you know, if you slide John
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  Speaker 7: over to left tackle, that means you've got to move
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  Speaker 7: Garen over to left guard. And then you put Champ
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  Speaker 7: at right guard, and you still have Drew on the
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  Speaker 7: right side. So everybody's in those– that seems to be
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  Speaker 7: the rotation right now. It's those five, six, seven guys
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  Speaker 7: are the ones that are playing. Those are the guys
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  Speaker 7: that are getting all the reps, and they're trying to
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  Speaker 7: find that– I don't want to say continuity, but they're
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  Speaker 7: trying to find the best groups and they're rotating well.
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  Speaker 5: But teams know. They know. It's a blueprint now for us.
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  Speaker 7: And you're going to get blitzed up front because if
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  Speaker 7: you blitz through the A gaps and the B gap,
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  Speaker 7: which is the left and right of the center, you
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  Speaker 7: create pressure.
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  Speaker 5: On Demond Williams.
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  Speaker 7: And that also squeezes the pocket from front to back.
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  Speaker 7: And if you squeeze the pocket on a 5'10 quarterback,
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  Speaker 7: 5'11 quarterback, his vision is extremely limited. It no longer
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  Speaker 7: becomes a horseshoe. You know, everybody always looks at the
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  Speaker 7: horseshoe of how you secure pockets and visual. So that
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  Speaker 7: means Demond has to escape. There were some moments in
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  Speaker 7: the games where he lost his visual and then his
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  Speaker 7: eyes go down and then he has to move. Guys
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  Speaker 7: are open a little bit, but he's got to get
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  Speaker 7: out of there because visually he can't see a throwing
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  Speaker 7: lane and can't get down the field because there's pressure.
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  Speaker 7: So that's in it. How do you stop that? Well,
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  Speaker 7: you got to run on first down. You got to
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  Speaker 7: run it on second down. And now you're in second
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  Speaker 7: and three. Now teams won't blitz you at second and
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  Speaker 7: three or in third and three.
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  Speaker 5: You won't do it.
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  Speaker 7: They're too stupid to do it, but we're in a
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  Speaker 7: different scenario right now where we're on edges and pass protection.
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  Speaker 5: We're on edges as an offensive line in some of
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  Speaker 5: the run games.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, and so it just puts a lot of, it
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  Speaker 7: just puts a lot of squeeze on, on inexperience right now.
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  Speaker 5: And that's, that was, that was quite obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when you move one guy and you have
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  Speaker 3: to correct, you know, move another guy to replace him,
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  Speaker 3: it kind of diminishes the whole thing. It just is
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  Speaker 3: like a, It's an avalanche effect, and that's how it
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  Speaker 3: kind of felt to me anyway. Cam Cleland is with us.
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  Speaker 3: Former Husky tied in his segment brought to you by
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  Speaker 3: Warrior Entry Law every single week. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to spend– I never want to spend just an
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  Speaker 3: entire conversation criticizing this football team because there was a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things to laud. I really like what I've
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  Speaker 3: seen out of Chris Lawson. I mean, Desmond Roebuck had
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  Speaker 3: a fantastic game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: And, man, I like the fire.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, maybe in film study you might point out
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  Speaker 3: to me that Jaron Jones made a couple of overaggressive mistakes,
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  Speaker 3: but I like the way that he.
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  Speaker 2: Plays for a freshman.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a physical defensive back, and he flashed
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  Speaker 3: to me as well. Did anybody flash to you? Any
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on those three guys?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I like what Jaron's done, and this
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  Speaker 7: is the thing. You had a couple situations. Dylan's been
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  Speaker 7: playing really well on the other side. He's just a sophomore.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, he has the most experience there. Yeah, Jaron
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  Speaker 7: Jones is coming in as a freshman. You still don't
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  Speaker 7: have your veteran side. Elias Johnson had to come in
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  Speaker 7: and do some backup role.
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  Speaker 5: He's number 26. He came in.
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  Speaker 7: So they're trying to find that secondary. We're still– The
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  Speaker 7: one thing that I noticed on defense was just a
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  Speaker 7: few missed tackles in certain situations from the sure guys
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  Speaker 7: from the linebacker position.
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  Speaker 5: That was kind of an anomaly.
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  Speaker 7: For me a little bit, not knowing that some of
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  Speaker 7: those open tackles and cutbacks were missed. But, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the defense in that first– they came out the second
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  Speaker 7: half and went three and out, three and out, three
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  Speaker 7: and punt. That's good enough to put your offense in
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  Speaker 7: situations and just– You were trying to go the long
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  Speaker 7: way a couple times, but there are certain players that
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  Speaker 7: you're starting to see them defensively. They're getting better. Our defense, guys, look, Chuck,
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  Speaker 7: our defense is good enough to keep us in these
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  Speaker 7: football games right now. We just have to have some
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  Speaker 7: confidence in offense. Look, you're going to go on the
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  Speaker 7: road to USC, and this is not– I don't think
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  Speaker 7: this is something when you say it just– Whoever, whoever
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  Speaker 7: this game for both programs could be the turning point
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  Speaker 7: for the entire season.
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  Speaker 5: I think how it goes.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, if we, Washington goes down and beats USC,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's, that's catastrophic to USC. And if USC
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  Speaker 7: beats us, I don't know which way we go, but
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  Speaker 7: it sure makes the road looking down with Iowa coming
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  Speaker 7: into town on the road with Nebraska. And then you're
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  Speaker 7: just fighting uphill and you're ending the season with two
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  Speaker 7: top 10 teams, probably, but, Yeah, this is a difficult year,
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  Speaker 7: but that's the part of winning games on the road.
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  Speaker 1: But L.A.
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  Speaker 7: Is a big deal to go down to SC, and
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  Speaker 7: they're reeling. They're frustrated. Oregon put a smack on them
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  Speaker 7: with a backup quarterback that really.
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  Speaker 5: Is a starter.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, with 33 starts, that's incredible. But to here
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  Speaker 7: nor there. SC wants this football game, and certainly we're
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  Speaker 7: going to go on the road and not going to
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  Speaker 7: back down from them, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: As a football man, what was your reaction to the
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  Speaker 3: Dante Moore hit? and the USC reaction and the coaches'
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  Speaker 3: handling of that situation during and after the game?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good question.
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  Speaker 7: Well, football is a violent game. I'm never going to
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  Speaker 7: make excuses for certain hits. I thought the hit was brutal.
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  Speaker 7: And look, I'm a father of a quarterback, so I
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  Speaker 7: have these conversations with him all the time, and I
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  Speaker 7: talk about how I hate the give-up slide. And I'm
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  Speaker 7: not saying this is Dante. Let me preface this. Dante
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  Speaker 7: did what he was supposed to do. That hit was ruthless,
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  Speaker 7: and he deserved to be suspended, and I didn't like it.
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  Speaker 7: But from the side of a football player and the
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  Speaker 7: side of defense, and I don't ever trust a defensive
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  Speaker 7: player to have my best interest at heart.
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  Speaker 5: Does that make sense, Chuck? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't expect him to go, ooh, maybe I
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  Speaker 7: should just take it easy. No, no, I've never done that.
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  Speaker 7: And in the quarterback position– I've told, and I'm not
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  Speaker 7: going to sit here and tell you I'm the elite
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  Speaker 7: coach of quarterback play, but when I'm going down the field,
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  Speaker 7: I'm going head first or I'm going down in the
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  Speaker 7: ground because everyone says protect the head. I've just seen
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  Speaker 7: too many shots on give up plays and stupid plays
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  Speaker 7: where we're defenders. I just don't trust it. And it was,
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  Speaker 7: it was awful. And so if Dante dives forward, he
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  Speaker 7: doesn't take that shot, but this is it's hindsight is 2020.
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  Speaker 7: You're supposed to be able to say the quarterback is protected.
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  Speaker 7: And that was scary. And I don't like the thought
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  Speaker 7: of it, but everybody signs up when you put.
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  Speaker 5: That helmet on.
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  Speaker 7: I'm telling you from my perspective, Chuck, every time I
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  Speaker 7: put that helmet on, I knew that I was going out.
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  Speaker 5: There to get hurt. But I never played that way,
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  Speaker 5: but you just know it. And it's scary. It's a
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  Speaker 5: little bit frustrating, but.
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  Speaker 7: That's kind of why you play. You play for that
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  Speaker 7: intensity and that violence and that competition. That's why we
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  Speaker 7: love it. But you still have to be intelligent and
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  Speaker 7: smart and safe with it and follow the rules at
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  Speaker 7: the same time. It's a hard thing to manage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you might snap my spine, but I still want
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  Speaker 3: to try to stop you at the one-yard line.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I mean, it's your job to get in
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  Speaker 7: my way, right? I mean, but physics is going to
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  Speaker 7: win sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What about the back end of that?
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  Speaker 3: You know, the reaction by the USC players and then
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  Speaker 3: how Riley and Lanning handled everything.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, if you're talking about from the players, look,
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  Speaker 7: I just I can't speak for other players. I can't
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  Speaker 7: speak for those guys and how they talk. I just
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: know I would. I just can't even imagine not being
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: one of my guys or something along that. I don't
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: ever want to see an ambulance out ever. And I
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: would never celebrate someone's injury ever.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Me. I can't speak for them.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: That's your own personal, you know, you have to go
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: to bed at night if that's your, if you think
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: you're cool because you injured somebody. I would never feel
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: that way ever at all. And from Lincoln, should he
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: be suspended longer? Again, that's not my call. I'm not
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: going to make those decisions. That's why I'm sitting on
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: a phone in my office and not one.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: Of the big guys.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: I know if that was in the NFL hit, that's
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: a serious issue. That's a big, big fine. But, again,
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: this is a scary, violent game. And you don't want
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: to see ever those kind of guys get hurt like that.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: It's terrifying. All right.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about USC. What's it going to take
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: to be? And what have you seen from the Trojans
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: that the Huskies are just going to have to handle?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, we're going to be 3-2 at the end of
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: the weekend.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Well, I think you're just going to have to keep
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: up with them. You're going to have to find a
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: way to absolutely... I don't know if Coach Fish wants it.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: He's not listening to me. He'd care less what I say.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: But I find a lot of success right now in tempo,
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: and I find a lot of success in spread, and
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: I find a lot of success in ball out of
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: hands quickly with DeMond. I think that you're going to
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: have to score to keep up with SCD. They're emotional,
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: and I don't know how much they've tanked or Lincoln
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: Riley and the naysayers down there and all that stuff
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: about yada, yada, yada and listening to the extracurricular garbage
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: that goes on. The SC is an extremely emotional place.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: They're full of a lot of drama. It's always been
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: that way. They're going to come out with a lot
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: of fire. They're going to want to win this game.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: They're going to want to score 50, 60 points. That's
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: their mindset. You're going to have to score to keep
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: up with them. This is going to have to be
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: the best offensive output this Husky team can do, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: maybe they will. And I don't know defensively, can we
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: hold them under 30 to 35 points?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Potentially.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: We're going to need some turnovers. You need them to
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: make some bad mistakes. Last time I was down at SC,
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: I saw an absolute monster shootout in 2023 between Caleb
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Williams and Michael Penix, and that was a scoring fest
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: of points. I don't know if we see it at
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: that level, but I sure hope we get a good
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: football game.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: And that freshman they've got, as I trust you as
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: an expert of tight ends, that tight end that they
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: have is.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Going to be special. He's a freshman right now. He's
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: already very good.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: He is very good. I mean, we got a good one, too.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: I mean, I like what Barron's done so far. He's
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: just been a great blocker and a great tough guy.
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: But this Bowman kid, boy, that's a very talented young man.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Very.
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: You are a very talented young man yourself. We appreciate
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: your insight, your analysis, your time every single week. So
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: thank you, sir. Enjoy the game, and we'll catch up
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: with you again soon.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: My pleasure, Chuck. Talk to you.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Cam Cleland, former Husky tight end, voice of the dogs,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: joining us here every Wednesday at 9 o'clock to talk
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: some Huskies football. Huskies taking on USC in Los Angeles
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: this Saturday, trying to avoid a two-game losing streak. Cam
• 19:49
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• 19:52
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• 20:02
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• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Battle tested. All right, coming up next, Al Koniski is
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: going to join us. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Oh, so
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: you're telling me we've got a hockey season underway, huh?
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Is that what you're giving me? Is that what you're
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: telling me, Andrew? Is that what you're informing me? Is
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: that what this note says that you just handed me?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: It's happening.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: It's happening?
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: The hockey season is upon us.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Does that mean that we get the chance to talk
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: to Al Koniski every week again?
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: I hope it does, really.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: I like Al.
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: I love Al.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Big Al.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Even though he told me he was going to host
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: me to a great barbecue soiree this summer... You know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: his reputation is well known as a barbecue pit master.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And yet I think.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Maybe my invitation got lost in the mail or something
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: because I still have not tried Al Koniski's spare ribs
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: to this day.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, that hurts.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: What?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Am I inaccurate?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: To be fair, I did not do spare ribs this summer,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: so that hasn't happened yet. So I'm still unclear.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: What did you dine on? What did you feast on?
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: Let me guess.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Koniski brisket. Or konisket.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I did some brisket.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Yep, konisket.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I like the brisket. It's a 20-pound piece of meat
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: that can last months if you store it properly. So
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: it can also be shared with your friends. And I
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: do owe you some briskets. I'll put that on my
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: to-do list.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: You don't owe it to me, but I just really
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: want some.
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: That's all.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: So just trying to put pressure on you.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Let the record show.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let the record show. Al Kaneski, color analyst for
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: your Seattle Kraken. The season started tomorrow in Calgary, as
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I like to call it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Apparently, I've learned I'm one of the few that do. But, yes,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: we start a.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Brand-new hockey season, and Al has been kind enough. He's
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: going to be joining us again every Wednesday at 930
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: throughout the hockey season, and we are excited about that.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: We love talking to Al. So how excited are you
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to get this thing cranked up tomorrow?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so excited. Listen, the preseason was shorter this year,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: four games instead of six. Camp was shorter this year.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I like it. I like the abbreviated start. Now it
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: means the players have to be more ready to go,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: and I think they are. But I like it because
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: all that means to me is we get to game
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: one a lot faster, and I think we've all had
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: it circled on our calendar since the schedule came out
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: and you know, Thursday night, we kick it off.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: So, Al, we're going into the season. Obviously, there's a
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: lot of talk about the kind of national analyst expectation
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: for this team. But internally, for someone who's there at
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: practice all the time, calling all these games, where do
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: you lie on your expectations for the Kraken going into
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: the season?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Anders, the way I look at it
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: is there are– some things that have to go right
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: for the crack. And I could probably list off, you know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: six to 10, but the three that I, I really
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: like is they've got to get disciplined defensive hockey because that,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: because that, that equals wins for this team that equals
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: wins in the lane Lambert, uh, structure of the game that,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: that he implements. And it starts between the pipes. So, uh,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Joey DeCord and Philip Grubauer have to get back to
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: a 1A, 1B level where it doesn't really matter who's
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: going on any given night. They're going to put in
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: a performance that's going to keep the game at three
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: goals against or less. They're going to put you in
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: a position to, at worst, maybe you're tied in the
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: third period looking for that winning goal. They can't give
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: up four, five, and six goals in a game because
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: that's not the structure of this team. That's not the
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: style of this team. Having said that, I think the
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: opposite is also true. They need to be able to
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: score more goals as well. How do they do that?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: They brought in Mackie Samaskiewicz. She's on the IR right now.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: He got hurt in one of the preseason games. But
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: hopefully it's short term. And I think when he's back,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: he will add to that stat column. He's a talented young,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: young kid. He can put the puck in the net,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: likes to shoot, likes to play a little physical as well,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: which I think is why maybe he got hurt in
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: the preseason. But he's won a cup with the Panthers and,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: you know, he knows how to win. So I'm looking
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: forward to seeing what impact he has on the offense.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: That would be my second part to, you know, how
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the Kraken make the playoffs this year. And then I
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: think the third one is the thing that we heard
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: all summer long, which is the talk about Shane Wright,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: whether he was leaving the crack and whether he wasn't. Listen,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping that Shane Wright has a bounce back year.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: 12 goals, 15 assists in 74 games last year. I
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: know he's not happy with that. He needs to be
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: well north of 20 goals. I want to see him
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: do that. I don't want to see him leave the Kraken.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: If that is the outcome, fine, but I'd rather see
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: him have success here in Seattle. I think also Berkeley
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Caton has to take that next step as well. He
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: had seven goals last year in 66 games. I'd like
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: to see him start sniffing at 15, 20 goals this season.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: And then the third part of that bigger contributions list
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: is from Bobby McMahon. You know, you saw him last
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: year put in 10 goals in the 18 games we
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: had him for. I'm looking forward to seeing Bobby McMahon
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: for an 84-game schedule. I hope he can continue at
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: that rate.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe I misinterpreted things. I wouldn't be alone. I thought
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: that this audit that the Kraken were.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Going to do this offseason was going to result in
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: a lot more change to the roster than it actually did.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: So since it didn't result in a lot of change, Al,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: what is it from the inside that you know that
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: they're counting on as an organization why the same team,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: in essence, is going to be better this hockey season?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think when it comes to these audits, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: don't necessarily get a publicized report that says these were
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: the recommendations and these are the things we're doing. Having
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: said that, there were some changes in the offseason. They
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: brought in Patrick Alton to the front office to work
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: with Jason Botterill as an assistant GM. You know, he's
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: got a deep Rolodex and a lot of experience. Some
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: new coaches came in. Jess Campbell went out. Players left
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the organization. So those are just the things that we
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: saw in the offseason. But I think in terms of
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: you know, internal procedures. I don't think a lot of
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: that got publicized very much. I think we're not going
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to necessarily even notice it as much, but, um, I'm
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: hearing and seeing that they're looking forward to seeing what
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: impact these changes they have made have on the outcome
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: for this season. Some you saw, some you didn't, but
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: there were definitely some changes made from the audit.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: What about our goalie tandem? I think a lot of
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: people can look at what Grubauer did in a bounce-back
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: year last year and really see the full body of
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: work of someone like Joey Decord. Where are the expectations
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: live for, I think, one of the more important position
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: groups that this Kraken want to succeed this year?
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, what I'd love to see, Andrews, is
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: I'd love to see Puck Grubauer continue on that path.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: He recaptured that 1A status last year. He was definitely
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: the better goaltender over 82 games. I'd like to see
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: him hold on to that. But having said that, I'd
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: like to see Joey Decord challenge for it as well.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Other than Joey Decord's first year where he only played
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: five games with the Kraken and last year, he's had
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: a save percentage above 900. And so last year at 8-9-7,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he's disappointed with that, especially on a defense-first
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: mentality hockey team. I think I'd like to see him
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: get that back up into the low 900s. 9-1-6 was
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: his high in the 23-24 season. So if he can
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: do that, if Philip Gribauer can hold on to how
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: he played last year and continue moving forward with that
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: same level, I think you've got the basis for a
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: team that can win a lot of hockey games, 3-1, 4-2, 3-2, etc.,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: where they just make it so difficult for the opposition
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: to get into the offensive zone, to crack it into
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: the ice, to score goals, that they're able to keep
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: those goals against down. And then when they do get chances,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: maybe it's on their power plays, you've got Philip Grubauer
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: and Joey Decord closing the door.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Well, as part of our annual opening day specialty show
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: that we'll be doing tomorrow, Kraken specialty show, we always
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: do our Kraken fantasy draft. And Anders and Chris aren't listening.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: So give me a sleeper pick. Give me a guy
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: on this roster that's going to be a lot better
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: than what people realize that I and I alone can
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: take in the draft because there's no way Anders and
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Kidd would do that to you and I.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Al, we have a secret to tell and share.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Well, to do that, I'm going to, I'm going to,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to look at, at top lines or
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: top pairing because those are, those are the obvious ones.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I'm going to look at that middle six forward group
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: and maybe that, that, that middle pairing defensive group. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: would say on the, on the middle six forward group,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: I think Berkeley captain is going to have a big
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: step forward this year. Right now he's playing with Shane
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Wright and Ryan Winterton and, and, The three kids, if
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: you will, look pretty good so far. And the thing
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: about having Ryan Wincherton on that line is he's probably
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: the fastest skater of the other two. And when you
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: have a fast skater on your line, guess what it does?
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: It pushes you.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: To go faster. So I think Katton Wright will become
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: faster skaters. And with Katton in the middle there, he's
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: going to see a lot of offense. So I see
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: a big step forward for him this year. On the
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: blue line, Um, we saw a lot of it in, in, uh,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: preseason and it's obvious for me, Brandon Montour loves scoring goals.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: He loves jumping into the play, but that pairing of
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: him and Riker Evans, Riker Evans is also an offensively
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: minded defenseman. Um, but I think Montour is a little
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: bit higher. So I'd go Montour on the blue line and,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: and Berkeley captain up front.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Do you know the lines by the way?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, I asked Eberle an hour ago and he's
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: too much of a kiss ass, but of the coach
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: to reveal any of the secrets apparently. So do you
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: know them? Would you share them or is that under
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: lock and key for tomorrow? I.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: I know, I know them as of the last time
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I saw them.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Meaning they didn't skate yesterday. So I didn't see them yesterday.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: And the last time they skated these lines, I just
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: went through with you. That's what I saw. Will that
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: change for tomorrow's game? Absolutely could. Um, but right now
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: they've got Everly skating with Stevenson in the middle and
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Bobby McMahon on the wing.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Finally, somebody with answers.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's awesome.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Uh, all right.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, did you step up your wardrobe
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: game for the start of the season? Cause you know,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: your partner did, he had probably, probably bought 38 suits
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: in the off season.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think I came in a little too
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: hot in the preseason. I kept getting comments that, hey,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: it's only preseason, Al. What's with the flowers on the
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: lapel and stuff? What's going on here?
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I might have to rethink my game for the big
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: home opener on Sunday versus Calgary at 5 p.m.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Next year, overalls in the preseason and save all your
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: great stuff for the start of the year.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: That's my advice.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Save all my Don Cherry suits for the regular season.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Your Cherry specials.
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Have a great year.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: We're so excited to hear you and Everett again on
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: the call starting tomorrow and having you on our show
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: every week here in the morning. So appreciate your time
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: this morning. Have a great time in Calgary, and we'll talk.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: To you next week.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: All right, boys.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Al Koneski joining us here.
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  Speaker 3: Color analyst for your Seattle crack and he and Everett
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  Speaker 3: back together starting tomorrow night. Well, they've already been back
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: together in the preseason, but first game tomorrow, 6.30 start time.
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  Speaker 3: And make sure you tune in for the pregame with
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  Speaker 3: the great Mike Benton as well. Also want to let
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  Speaker 3: you know, speaking of greatness, a lot of people for
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  Speaker 3: years have asked.
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  Speaker 2: About Hugh Millen.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I'd really like Hugh Millen to do like a
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  Speaker 3: video session. I mean, It's one thing on radio to
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  Speaker 3: hear him break things down like few people can break
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  Speaker 3: them down. But man, what could he do with a
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: telestrator or a video board? Well, we're going to make
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  Speaker 3: that happen next Thursday at five o'clock at Tulalip Resort Casino.
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  Speaker 3: We're inviting everybody out.
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  Speaker 2: For a little Hugh Millen chalk talk.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to break down some film, analyze it for you.
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  Speaker 2: So you can finally put.
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  Speaker 3: A visual with all the audio that you've been hearing
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  Speaker 3: over the years and Maybe he'll give you a clearer
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  Speaker 3: understanding of exactly what Hugh's been talking about when he
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: brings out his popsicle sticks and his dialogue clock or
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: analog clock and everything else that he discusses here on
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: radio to try to paint a picture for you. He'll
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  Speaker 3: actually have pictures to show you. So this is going
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: to be next week. It's going to be Thursday from
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  Speaker 3: 5 to 7. And then we're going to do our
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: morning show from Tulalip Resort Casino the following Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Morning as well.
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  Speaker 3: So a little time at Tulalip for all of us
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  Speaker 3: when everything you want is there at your fingertips, everythingtulalip.com.
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  Speaker 3: So it's open to everybody, but it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: limited seating. There's going to be reserved seating that we're
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: going to provide here on the airwaves. And so we're
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: going to be doing that systematically over the course of
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the next few days leading up till next Thursday. So
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: be listening for your opportunity to either call in or
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  Speaker 3: text in or however you're prompted to try to reserve
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  Speaker 3: a seat for this special Hugh Millen Chalk Talk session
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  Speaker 3: next Thursday at Tulalip Resort Casino. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: it could happen at any time. You could be prompted
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: to call in and try to reserve your spot. Meantime,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to close out our radio show. We'll do
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  Speaker 3: it next with one last thing on KJR. All right,
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  Speaker 3: Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre coming up at the top
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  Speaker 3: of the hour, which means our time with you today
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  Speaker 3: is nearly at an end.
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  Speaker 2: We go around the room for one last thing. Anders,
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  Speaker 2: what do you have today?
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  Speaker 8: For the soccer world. I know this is my... It's
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  Speaker 8: two days in a row.
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  Speaker 5: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, it is, actually.
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  Speaker 8: Not that I'm counting. Well, you know, it's one last thing,
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  Speaker 8: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's anything or anywhere you want to go.
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  Speaker 8: It is the international break. So the U.S.
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  Speaker 9: Men's national team played yesterday for the first time since
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  Speaker 9: the World Cup. They beat Chile 4-2. But the story
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  Speaker 9: is kind of the new face of U.S. soccer, at
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: least in the future. His name's Kevin Sullivan. He turned
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  Speaker 9: 17 two days ago and he got called up to
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  Speaker 9: the national team. He just got named MLS player of
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  Speaker 9: the month at age 17. And most of the month
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  Speaker 9: he was 16 before that. So this guy is the
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  Speaker 9: real deal. He had a really good run that almost
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  Speaker 9: led to an assist during the game yesterday against Chile.
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  Speaker 9: So I just wanted to give a quick shout out.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 9: World Cup's over and we're not really thinking about it
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  Speaker 9: right now, but there's still a lot of positivity. He'll
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  Speaker 9: definitely be in the next World Cup. I would think
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  Speaker 9: there's a really good possibility. Unless something unforeseen happens. That
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  Speaker 9: is three and a half years from now.
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  Speaker 3: Is Chile an Argentina rival or anything?
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  Speaker 8: Big time, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 8: Big time, yes.
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  Speaker 9: Especially because during the mid-2010s, Chile was really good.
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  Speaker 8: And so was Argentina, obviously.
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  Speaker 5: And they.
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  Speaker 9: played in a lot of South American Cup finals and
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  Speaker 9: stuff like that. So yeah, big time rival.
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  Speaker 2: So if Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Hurst saw a Chilean in the line before her, she
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  Speaker 3: might just pull her hair.
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  Speaker 9: Well, and especially because she's from Mendoza in Argentina, which
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  Speaker 9: is right along the Andes Mountains. So it's literally just
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  Speaker 9: along the border to Chile.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder how Santiago is these days. All right, Christopher Kidd,
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  Speaker 3: what's your one last thing? Well, the NBA has had
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  Speaker 3: their pressers.
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  Speaker 2: It's underway.
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  Speaker 6: Every team is doing it, has done it. And one
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  Speaker 6: nugget I've figured and saw was LeBron looks like he's
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: actually bald.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking... He's been bald since he was 19.
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  Speaker 8: But the problem is he just kept the hair.
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  Speaker 2: He kept trying, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: It just wasn't a good look.
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  Speaker 2: And then I watched.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, he tried everything.
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  Speaker 3: He sprayed, implants, he tried it all.
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  Speaker 6: And I think he has entered the LaThanos mode where
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  Speaker 6: he's bald and he's looking to avenge and get that
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  Speaker 6: fifth ring.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 6: LeFanos, I think he's arrived. You like Philly this year?
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  Speaker 2: LeFanos.
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  Speaker 6: I do, but we'll see. They're all old and hurt,
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  Speaker 6: so Embiid doesn't have knees. They're deep, though, which they've
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: not been deep before. They have not, so I'm excited.
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  Speaker 6: But more than anything, it's just LeBron. I think he
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: accepted his fate. You don't have any hair.
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  Speaker 4: Let it go.
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  Speaker 2: It's been about time. Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: It's like 12 years overdue.
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  Speaker 9: Have you seen the meme of the time frame from
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  Speaker 9: his hairline?
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  Speaker 8: Where 2004, 2012, and then.
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  Speaker 9: It's him wearing literally the headband like this.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 8: So it's like on the back of his head.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: So I think he's embraced it and realized, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 6: my time.
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  Speaker 8: So funny.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to close with this. This is pretty juicy,
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  Speaker 2: by the way.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to have people talking all day long
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  Speaker 3: on Sports Talk Radio. So Tyreek Hill just tweeted out
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  Speaker 3: within the last hour, I think I'm ready for some
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  Speaker 3: cold weather.
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  Speaker 2: And it has everybody going nuts.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Tyreek apparently is healthy. Once he got healthy, you knew
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  Speaker 3: there were going to be interested parties. And now every
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: northern team thinks that they are the team Tyreek Hill's
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  Speaker 3: going to choose.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we kind of have cold weather up here.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think that's a possibility?
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  Speaker 8: Mike McDonald would never.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so either.
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  Speaker 8: Would you want him? That's a great question. We can
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: save that for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: He would.
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  Speaker 2: He would.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, whoever gets him, there's going to be some
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: excitement generated. Because if he is recovered from that major injury,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, the quickest, fastest guy in the league has
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  Speaker 3: just been added in the middle of a season. With skill,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: by the way. He's got skill, too.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Rams are going to call first. No, it's a cold
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: weather city. Cold weather city?
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  Speaker 8: They're going to throw all the money in the water.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Buffalo. Oh, my gosh. If you want
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  Speaker 2: me to guess, I think it's Buffalo.
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  Speaker 8: That would be insane. Just a scramble.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, Tyreek's open. There you go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Right? That would be fun. That would be fun to watch.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Green Bay? Green Bay thinks it's them. I was going
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: to say Green Bay. And it's like, are you kidding me?
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: You haven't even figured out this Josh Jacobs thing. So
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: you're going to be hamstrung by a possible domestic abuser
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: to sign a true admitted domestic abuser?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, Green Bay, you're not getting Tyreek Hill. But Buffalo,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Minnesota with Jefferson?
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  Speaker 4: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't trust Kyler.
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  Speaker 8: But continue.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Tease. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for joining us. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Greg and
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  Speaker 2: Jess next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.