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Chuck in the Morning 9/9 H4: Hugh Millen's X's and O's, Admittedly Bold Predictions and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Opening night. The National Football League season will be kicked
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  Speaker 1: off by the world champions tonight at home. The Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks get ready for the New England Patriots, and we
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  Speaker 1: will be getting you ready to get ready for the
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  Speaker 1: start of the football season all day long right here
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  Speaker 1: as you get ready for your favorite team to start
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  Speaker 1: defending its crown in your favorite sport.
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  Speaker 2: I like that you said we're going to get you
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  Speaker 2: ready to get ready.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're not ready by now, come on, people.
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  Speaker 4: Get there.
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  Speaker 1: We've got time to get them there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but get there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're running out. There's no doubt. And I know
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  Speaker 1: what people are thinking. Well, I can't get ready until
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  Speaker 1: I hear Hugh talk on opening day.
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  Speaker 3: That's what a lot of people are thinking.
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  Speaker 1: So it's game day. It's time for our QB1 to
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  Speaker 1: join us for his X's and O's segment here on
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  Speaker 1: a Wednesday. Happy football season, Hugh. Ah, great to be
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  Speaker 1: with you. Fun times. It's going to be electric tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be in a tux tonight. Michelle will
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  Speaker 1: be in an evening gown. You two look great together.
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  Speaker 1: You really do.
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  Speaker 4: I've already got my corsage on. You know, it's in
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  Speaker 4: the refrigerator waiting to pin it on her.
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  Speaker 1: I love your old school. Why did the corsage have
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  Speaker 1: to go away after the prom?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure if I've used that word in the
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  Speaker 4: last 40 years, but somehow I dug it out.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, what stands out to you most? What's
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  Speaker 1: first on your mind here on the opening night of
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League season as you get ready for
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks Patriots?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I hope that there's no complacency. You know, the Patriots.
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  Speaker 4: They went 9-0 in the regular season and then won
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  Speaker 4: a game on the road, 10-0 on the road last year.
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  Speaker 4: They made some change. I think there's a dismissive nature
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  Speaker 4: about Drake May. And I understand it because we saw
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  Speaker 4: all those games in the playoffs. But In the regular season,
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  Speaker 4: he was second in the MVP. His passer rating, the
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  Speaker 4: following stats, he was number one in the NFL in
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  Speaker 4: all of the passer rating, adjusted net yards attempt, explosive
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  Speaker 4: play rate. That's the percentage of plays to get 20
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  Speaker 4: yards or more. EPA per drop back, expected points.
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  Speaker 2: Added.
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  Speaker 4: That's the new sabermetricians. Love that. He was number one
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  Speaker 4: and 20% above number two, who was Matthew Stafford. Again,
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  Speaker 4: these are new expected completion percentage. I don't know who
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  Speaker 4: the hell decides what they expected, but his 9% difference
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  Speaker 4: was number one. And he rushed for 450 yards. So
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  Speaker 4: this guy was a beast in the regular season. Now,
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs, passer rating. Now, what I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: give you is the ranking of what he did in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, where he would have ranked in the regular
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  Speaker 4: season out of 64 qualifying quarterbacks who threw 20 or more.
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  Speaker 4: His passer rating, he went from first to 41st. uh,
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  Speaker 4: net yards attempt first to 46, uh, EPA, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: first to 56. So yeah, he, he, he dissolved in the, uh,
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs, you know, those weather weather related for
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  Speaker 4: most of those, obviously not the Superbowl, but, uh, you know, here,
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  Speaker 4: here's a guy that, that, uh, He's thought to be
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  Speaker 4: one of the young upcoming quarterbacks. He adds A.J. Brown,
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  Speaker 4: six seasons of 1,000 yards or more, 2022 Offensive Player
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  Speaker 4: of the Year at 1,496 yards, adds Romeo Dobbs at
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  Speaker 4: number two. I'm not going to get really excited about him,
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  Speaker 4: but I think that we didn't see the best of
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  Speaker 4: the Patriots, and And we'll see. We'll see if the
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  Speaker 4: Patriots of 2025 regular season show up tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think maybe a Seahawks fan might overlook him.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe a Seahawks analyst in town might overlook him.
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  Speaker 1: But Mike McDonald's not going to overlook him.
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  Speaker 2: Hugh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, not at all. You know, and look, the
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  Speaker 4: domination was real. I mean, through three quarters, Drake May
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  Speaker 4: was 8-18 for 60 yards. The Patriots offense, 39 plays,
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  Speaker 4: 78 yards. Now, we don't even need a calculator for that.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly two yards per play. They had eight punts
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  Speaker 4: and eight completions. The domination was real. They let history
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  Speaker 4: slide through their fingers in the fourth quarter, but I understand.
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  Speaker 4: We saw a really bad Patriot team, and the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: made them.
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  Speaker 1: Look that way. No question about it. But Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: And they've added A.J. Brown, too, to their offense, and
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are down a safety. They're down potentially Nicky Manwari.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's got to be the concerning matchup here
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  Speaker 1: in this game is a banged-up secondary going up against
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  Speaker 1: a new and improved receiving core with a runner-up for
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  Speaker 1: the MVP award at quarterback. I mean, that's the matchup tonight,
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  Speaker 1: is it not? Yeah, and you start with Nick Emanwuri.
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  Speaker 1: He was a strong side-to-outside linebacker. And just consider the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: how they want to play defense. They were number one
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL in terms of sub-rate, meaning nickel or dime.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you look at dime with six DBs,
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  Speaker 1: in the first eight games, they were two and a
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  Speaker 1: half plays per game. From thereafter, they averaged 18 plays
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  Speaker 1: per game. with a high in the super bowl of
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  Speaker 1: 36 plays of dime. And because the, the Seahawks play
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  Speaker 1: with a heavy box rate of 31st second to last,
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  Speaker 1: they they're playing with both their safeties back. This is,
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing about this defense. Not only did they
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  Speaker 1: play with light personnel. Now, even worry was the X
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  Speaker 1: factor because he's considered by the NFL as a safety
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  Speaker 1: and He played as a linebacker. But they played with the.
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  Speaker 4: Coverages, the cover four, the cover six, where you got
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  Speaker 4: four rolling to cover two. I'm deciding how much X's
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  Speaker 4: and O's I want to get in there. But the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks were number one in the NFL in a coverage
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  Speaker 4: called cover six, where they take a corner and roll
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  Speaker 4: them to one side, put a safety over the top.
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  Speaker 4: But on the other side, you play with the corner
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  Speaker 4: off and the safety to that side. Anyways, it's a
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  Speaker 4: two-high structure, and the Seahawks were, again, number one in that.
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  Speaker 4: And so in those coverages, particularly when they play the
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  Speaker 4: cover four, when they played all those dime defenses, they're
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  Speaker 4: underneath coverage. You had Ernest Jones in the middle, second-team all-pro.
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  Speaker 4: And then you had Witherspoon would go to the field-side
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  Speaker 4: flat defender, and Eamon Worry as the boundary flat defender.
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  Speaker 4: in dime, and Eamon Worry is the field-side flat defender
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  Speaker 4: in nickel generally. Those are freaky athletes in a scheme
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  Speaker 4: that's asking a lot of the players in that position
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  Speaker 4: because there's not a safety down to help you in
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  Speaker 4: the shallow zones. The safeties are back in the deeper zones.
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  Speaker 4: And so to have that type of athleticism, that kind
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  Speaker 4: of length in the person of Eamon Worry, getting past
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  Speaker 4: breakups against– Justin Jefferson against Puka Nakua against some of
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  Speaker 4: the best receivers and tight ends in the game. So
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  Speaker 4: that versatility just is unmatched. So we'll see. That's a
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  Speaker 4: big part of this. Do they have Tyrese Knight play
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  Speaker 4: in the base? Again, the Seahawks were at or near
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  Speaker 4: the bottom in terms of their use of base. But
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  Speaker 4: if they want to use Tyrese Knight, Uh, would he
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  Speaker 4: be an Eman, Eman worry replacement? He had played a
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  Speaker 4: weak side. Yeah, it's possible.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if, because, because the, the Patriots they've, they,
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  Speaker 4: they brought in a fullback, they've drafted tight ends. Um,
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  Speaker 4: they may want to go heavy on Seattle and, and
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  Speaker 4: test Seattle in that regard. And, uh, and, and so
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  Speaker 4: Seattle may feel compelled to, to, okay. The person of
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  Speaker 4: Eamon Warrie, he was so versatile. Now you're going to
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  Speaker 4: see more substitutions. And by the way, the Patriots offense
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  Speaker 4: a year ago, dead last in terms of the no huddle, 2.4%
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  Speaker 4: no huddle. So Mike McDonald's going to have some time
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  Speaker 4: to look and say, okay, match on personnel to, to, uh,
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  Speaker 4: to what he views as the offensive personnel and the
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  Speaker 4: down and distance. So that may be more base with
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  Speaker 4: Tyrese Knight. But who's going to play the Sam backer?
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  Speaker 4: Both Tyrese Knight and Drake Thomas were weak side linebackers.
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  Speaker 4: So if you put Tyrese Knight on the field with
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  Speaker 4: Jones and Thomas, then is Knight the strong side backer?
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  Speaker 4: That's fine. He's got the athleticism. He doesn't have even
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  Speaker 4: more athleticism because nobody does. But he would be playing
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  Speaker 4: Sam backer for the first time. in his career, at
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  Speaker 4: least for the Seahawks, of any significant note. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's a big Part of tonight's game plan is how
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  Speaker 4: do you adjust for him and worry?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, no doubt. X's and O's with Hugh Millen here
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  Speaker 1: on game night, game day, as we get ready for
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  Speaker 1: the season to start this evening at Lumen Field. Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: versus New England Patriots, a rematch of the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: On the offensive side of the thing, you've said throughout
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, we're just not going to know about Brian
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  Speaker 1: Flory until we get some examples of his play conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And you've also been a little concerned, maybe more than
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  Speaker 1: a little, about the running game and the running backs
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  Speaker 1: that we have in our running back room. What are
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  Speaker 1: you more suspicious of at this stage as we get
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  Speaker 1: ready to play tonight? Flory and the offensive play calls
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  Speaker 1: are running backs.
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  Speaker 4: God, there's so much to talk about here. Okay, so
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  Speaker 4: let's just... Let's talk about why Seattle was successful, the
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  Speaker 4: changes they made. The year before in 2024 with Grubb,
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  Speaker 4: they were 11 personnel, 78%. That was number three in
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  Speaker 4: the league. They dropped to 28th in the league. The
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  Speaker 4: 12 personnel with two tight ends in Grubb's year, they
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  Speaker 4: were 30th, exactly 30th in expected points added per play,
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  Speaker 4: yards per play, and success rate. 30th, so third to
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  Speaker 4: last in 12 personnel. Last year, they went from 30th
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  Speaker 4: to second in EPA, 30th to first in yards per play,
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  Speaker 4: and 30th to third in success. So the use of
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  Speaker 4: two tight ends, the two backs, the year before with Grubb,
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  Speaker 4: 25th in the NFL at just one point, 7%. They
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  Speaker 4: jumped to 24%. Play-action use. They went from 28th to 8th.
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  Speaker 4: And their EPA, listen to these stats in play-action, how
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  Speaker 4: much better they got in play. EPA, they went from
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  Speaker 4: 31st in the league to 6th. Yards per attempt, 31st
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  Speaker 4: to 1st.
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  Speaker 1: And success, 26th to 8th.
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  Speaker 4: And then finally, motion. They motioned a lot more. They
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  Speaker 4: had been 25th in motion. They jumped to 14th. When
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  Speaker 4: they went in motion, yards per play, they found a
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  Speaker 4: way to get defenses on their heels. They went from
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  Speaker 4: 26th to 6th in yards per play when the use
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  Speaker 4: of motion. So there's a lot of things that Clint
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  Speaker 4: Kubiak brought. Now, the– You have to understand there was
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  Speaker 4: two different Seahawks in the regular season, Weeks 1 through 10.
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  Speaker 4: The Seahawks were number one in the NFL in the
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  Speaker 4: following statistics in the passing game. Yards per attempt, net
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  Speaker 4: yards per attempt, yards per dropback, and explosive play rate.
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  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold just chucking it. Weeks 11 through 18, they
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  Speaker 4: ranked 11th through 17th in those stats. I'm not going
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  Speaker 4: to go through all of them. But then they cranked
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  Speaker 4: it back up in the playoffs. The passing game, yards
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  Speaker 4: per dropback in the playoffs were second. Yards per attempt
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  Speaker 4: were third. So they kind of regained what they had
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  Speaker 4: had at the beginning. And then yards per carry, they
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  Speaker 4: had been through weeks 1 through 10, and this is
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  Speaker 4: the running game. They were 29th. They jumped to eighth.
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  Speaker 4: EPA per rush, they were 30th. They jumped to 14th.
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  Speaker 4: So a big jump in the running game, which brings
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  Speaker 4: me to this. Oh, and here's a thought. JSN, his 36.2%
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  Speaker 4: target share was highest in the NFL, but in weeks
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  Speaker 4: one through 12, he was at 40% target. He dropped
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  Speaker 4: to 32%. His receiving yards went from 119 to 74.
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  Speaker 4: So there was a tail off with JSN, despite the
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  Speaker 4: fact that he was the offensive player of the year.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the running game. Big concern, right? But here's
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  Speaker 4: an interesting part about this. You saw in hard knocks
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  Speaker 4: where Mike McDonald says, who are we? We keep squeezing
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  Speaker 4: you like a boa constrictor, okay? And that's his vision.
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  Speaker 4: The Seahawks were in net points. How they outscored their
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  Speaker 4: point is they were number one in the NFL in
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  Speaker 4: the first quarter. They were number two by halftime. Through
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  Speaker 4: three quarters, they were number one.
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  Speaker 1: Got me? Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: In quarters one through three in their running game, their
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  Speaker 4: success rate, they were sixth. But because they had these leads,
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  Speaker 4: their success rate in the fourth quarter, predictably, fell to
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  Speaker 4: 29th because everybody knows they're going to run the ball.
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  Speaker 4: That's okay. You're just trying to salt the game. You're
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  Speaker 4: more concerned about the clock and field position, right? So
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  Speaker 4: that skews some of the statistics. You lose Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 4: Here's some concerns about Jadarian Price. If you go back
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  Speaker 4: to a year ago, very similar drafts with the running backs.
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  Speaker 4: You had Ashton Janney in the top 10, and then
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  Speaker 4: you had Amarian Hampton out of North Carolina. He goes
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  Speaker 4: to the Chargers. Just like this year, you had a
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  Speaker 4: top 10 guy in Jeremiah Love, and then Price was
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  Speaker 4: the second guy late in the first round. So his
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  Speaker 4: counterpart from a year before, Amarian Hampton, he had 27
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  Speaker 4: carries per game at North Carolina. Price had under 10.
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  Speaker 1: 9.6.
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  Speaker 4: That's counting rushes and catches. So he's the only quarterback
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  Speaker 4: in the first round ever to have every season under
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  Speaker 4: 125 carries per year. So the workload, because he backed
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  Speaker 4: up Jeremiah Love, we just haven't seen it. And he's
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  Speaker 4: relatively thin. He showed up at the combine 10 pounds
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  Speaker 4: lighter than his listed weight at Notre Dame. And to Ible,
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  Speaker 4: we talked in the summer, Chuck, that that just eyeballing his,
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  Speaker 4: his legs look more like a receiver. So here's a guy, um,
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  Speaker 4: that now here's the good news. Saban matricians, if you
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  Speaker 4: like this, his force missed tackle rate at Notre Dame, 26.9%.
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  Speaker 4: That's number one in all, uh, in the draft class.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: He makes guys miss. We have questions about his durability.
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  Speaker 4: They're legitimate. Um, based on the numbers I said, But
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  Speaker 4: he's an electric guy. He had four fumbles, which was
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  Speaker 4: number three in the class. So tonight, he's got to
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  Speaker 4: first and foremost, he's got to hang on to the football.
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  Speaker 4: And then we'll just see if he can be a
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  Speaker 4: dynamic playmaker. You know, his college tape would suggest he
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  Speaker 4: will be, but it's a big night for him.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Uh, well, um, it's a big night, uh,
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  Speaker 1: for you as well, because, uh, you got film study now, um,
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  Speaker 1: for the first time this, uh, national football league season. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't make predictions. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: ask you one. I know you too well to ask
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  Speaker 1: for that, but kind of what is your expectation tonight
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  Speaker 1: as this team gives us the first taste of 2026
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks football?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think it's going to be a blowout
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  Speaker 4: like the Seahawks. Um, uh, I certainly think there's a
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  Speaker 4: chance that could happen. I'll be pleasantly surprised. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be far more competitive. There's an interesting–
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  Speaker 4: Josh McDaniels, the guy has six Super Bowl rings. Every
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl ring that Tom Brady has with the Patriots,
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  Speaker 4: McDonald has the same ring. Excuse me, McDaniels has the
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  Speaker 4: same ring. So the degree to which Mike McDonald dunked
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  Speaker 4: on Josh McDaniels, a six-time Super Bowl play caller– uh, uh,
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  Speaker 4: winning play. Uh, I, I just, that, that, that shocks
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  Speaker 4: me and are, are the Patriots going to be that feeble?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if he's a competitor, McDaniels, this had to
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  Speaker 4: have sat with him all freaking winter and spring, right?
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  Speaker 4: The degree to which he got embarrassed in that Superbowl.
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  Speaker 4: So what kind of wrinkles do they have? Uh, we
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  Speaker 4: see the personnel group and so that's going to be
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  Speaker 4: another fun matchup as well. But I, I think it'll
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  Speaker 4: be competitive. I think, I think the Seahawks win the
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  Speaker 4: game and you know what, without even worry. And with that,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't even get to tie Okada in the back
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  Speaker 4: end of the safeties, but you, you know, there's going to, the,
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  Speaker 4: the 12th man is going to have to carry through
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  Speaker 4: and make up for a couple of those injuries.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to show up.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're going to have a good night. They're
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  Speaker 4: going to show up and show out.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we're going to break it all down tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: There he is. Our QB1 with X's and O's here
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: on this specialty Wednesday opening night edition of X's and
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  Speaker 1: O's with our QB1. And yes, we will have Monday
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  Speaker 1: morning quarterback on a Thursday. That's never happened before. And
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  Speaker 1: so he will be with us tomorrow from 8 to 9.20.
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  Speaker 1: We have a special guest making his debut for 2026
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow at 9.30. But during the season, he will be
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  Speaker 1: with us for the full two hours of Mondays when
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  Speaker 1: we typically run Monday morning quarterback. Imagine that. So that's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: kind of the breakdown. And so tomorrow, make sure you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: tune in. You'll hear Greg Bell at 7.05. You're going
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to have Hugh at 8 o'clock with a Monday morning
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: quarterback to recap the game. All right, coming up next,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I do this every single year. I make admittedly, admittedly
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: bold predictions. Like, I'm going to go really far. Like,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: odds are they're going to be really wrong. But I'm
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: going to try and nail something, and you're going to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: have to follow me on this little roadmap because it's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: going to be all in the NFC West. Sports Radio
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJR FM. Well, for those of you going to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: tonight's game, have a ball. I will see you there
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: in some capacity. And you won't know who I am,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: but we'll pass. I'll see you probably urinating in an alley. Oh, yeah. Anyway,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: go Hawks.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: So, yes, see you out there tonight. Should be crazy.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I am going to do, even though there's not much
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: left to the season, I am going to do the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Mariners day and then over to the Seahawks tonight, spend
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a little time at the broadcasting table. They're at Jimmy's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: with the fellas. And so it's going to be a big, big,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: another momentous Seattle sports day, which we do so well
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: here in this city. If you don't want to be
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: a part of that, if you can't be a part
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: of that, but you want to be a part of something,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Your idea is I don't want to just watch it
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: at home. And, you know, the bar, not really my scene.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: What about being out at the Tulalip Resort Casino out
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of the amphitheater?
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I think that's a great idea.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: For a party hosted by Ashley Ryan with prizes and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: other 12s who are glad to see you, who love
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to gamble. Well, you're all going to be in one
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: little area tonight to take in. There's a watch party.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Tonight at Tulalip Resort Casino, and Ashley will guide you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: through all the fun.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, I've got tickets to Smashing Pumpkins. I've got
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Seahawks t-shirts and hoodies and Husky tickets. Oh, and an
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: autographed Cooper Cup helmet.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Bud Light decided to throw that in there for a
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: prize for us tonight.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: That's so bad.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's going to be some pretty awesome things to
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: give away, so I think people want to go.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Do you think Smashing Pumpkins named themselves so
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: that around Halloween we would always think of them?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I think that was part of the strategy there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: They were like, what could we do? Because it's probably
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: their favorite holiday.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: You can't not think about Smashing Pumpkins if you grew
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: up around that time. So once a year, you're thinking
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: about pumpkins, and the next thing you know, you're singing
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a Smashing Pumpkins song, and then probably buying some tickets
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and stuff.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: You're not wrong. You're not wrong.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Probably a master strategy once upon a time. All right. Well,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: let's get to it. Our admittedly bold NFL preseason predictions
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: for 2026. And I'm going to stay inside the NFC
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: West for the most part. And so I'm going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: take you on a little journey. Here's kind of what
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I am seeing for this upcoming season. Jeremiah Love's going
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to be really good for the Arizona Cardinals. Their top
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: draft pick, what was he, fourth overall out of Notre Dame.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: But he's going to be used so... so much less
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: than you think he should be used because you have
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: him in your fantasy league. And it's going to infuriate
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you that Tyler Algier and James Conner keep getting touchdown,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: keep getting carries and keep being used at the goal
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: line and so on and so forth. It's going to
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: be infuriating for you. But the reason that I think
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: this is going to happen is I think the writing's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: kind of on the wall for the Arizona Cardinals. They
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: told Jacoby Brissett, here's your chance to be a starting
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the National Football League because we want Trey
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: McBride happy. But we really don't care how many games
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: we win this year. I don't know if you've seen it,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: but we're in the toughest division in the entire sport.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it might not be their year.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: We are looking for our next quarterback, and we would
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like to find that in the draft next year. And
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: if everybody could do us a solid, we'd like to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: be good in a lot of areas. We would like
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: to show progress in a lot of areas under our
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: first-year head coach, but we'd rather not rack up a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: lot of wins.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It's fair.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: So let's stay in that top 10 at least. And
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: so I don't know if Jeremiah Love, under those circumstances—
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I certainly don't think they're going to use him a lot.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: They're definitely not going to overuse him. I think they're
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: going to underuse him this year and hopefully go like
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: 5-12 and show some progress in a lot of other areas.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And then I think they're going to take Jaden Maiava,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the quarterback out of USC, who might end up being
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the No. 1 pick, by the way, based on what
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I saw in Week No. 1. That dude can throw
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a football. And he's 6'4, and he's 230, and can run.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not small. He's very skilled. Oh, my gosh.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: All this Arch Manning talk and Julian Sand. And it's like,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Dante Moore. I think people are sleeping on Jaden Maiava.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He might end up being the No. 1 pick in
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the draft.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Well, it'll be fun to see.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. All right, so that's what I think
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: is going to happen with the Arizona Cardinals. San Francisco 49ers,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I am predicting... They finally are going to collapse. Now,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: if you've paid attention to this show, you're like, hey, Bozo,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you said that last year. I did.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I did as well.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said that last year. And I just, look,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I have respect for that organization and the winning that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: they've done. I do not. Under Kyle Shanahan. I think
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan should have won Coach of the Year. That's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: with Mike McDonald in the league, and he didn't even
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: win it. I thought Kyle Shanahan should have won coach
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of the year a year ago. To win 12 games
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: when you had as many injuries to as many star
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: players as you had to deal with? Remarkable. I just
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: don't think he can do that again. I think I
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: was just a year premature in my prediction of not
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: necessarily a collapse, but certainly the writings on the wall
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: kind of season for the 49ers. Actually, I think the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: same veteran players who keep getting injured year after year
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: are going to get injured again this season. I think
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Bosa will play a handful of games, and Warner will
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: play a handful of games, and McCaffrey will play a few.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: He'll play half the season, and Kittle will probably miss
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a handful of games himself. But it's going to be
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the same guys that get hurt, and I think the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: writing's going to be on the wall at the end
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: of the year. I think they're going to go 7-10
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: this year. I really do. And that is way underscoring
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: what other people's expectations. And then I think operation sell-off
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: begins with all of those veteran players who can't stay
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: healthy for them. But if we can move them one
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: piece at a time to other teams, then they are
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: only rolling the dice on one guy at a time.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: So I think that's the future, the immediate future. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: San Francisco 49ers, I don't look at them as a threat.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I just don't.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I can't dispute it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I picked them to go under their NFL total over
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: under wins yesterday. And I did it last year, but
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: this year I feel more confident and am hoping and
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: praying harder.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Hoping.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: But they've given us no reason to believe they can
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: stay healthy.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: So why should we?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I said this earlier, so I'm not going to spend
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of time on it. As for the Rams,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I believe they are as advertised. I think they are
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that good. And I think they're going to have a
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: 13-1 record on Christmas Day. Yeah. when they lose to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the 12-2 Seahawks. And then they're going to think they're
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: going to get their revenge in the last week of
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the regular season, and they are going to lose again.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: And I don't say that out of, oh my gosh,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I can't believe this guy in 11 years has turned
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: into such a homer. I think that Mike McDonald is
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: going to have a better football team this year. And
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: maybe the record won't indicate it because of strength of schedule.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And maybe you don't win the Super Bowl. Maybe you don't.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: That's a really difficult thing to do. I'm not sure
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I am predicting them to win the Super Bowl this year,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: despite the gaudy record that I'm sharing with you now
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: at 15-2 this year. What I'm saying is, does anybody
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: really think that the Giants were better than Tom Brady's Patriots?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Because they weren't. I know they beat them twice in
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, but they were not the better team.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: So strange things happen, crazy things happen, especially in a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: one-and-done tournament. But I think this offensive line's going to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: be better. I think Sam Darnold's going to be better.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I think the defense grows another level under Mike McDonald.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I think that was the plan all along. It's the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: reason why the Rams are going so far to improve
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: themselves is because they know that the Seahawks are going
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to be better this season than they were last season,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and we got to get out ahead of that. So
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm expecting huge seasons for both of those teams, and
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I'm expecting that the Seahawks, by end of year with
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: a younger team, And maybe a deeper team is going
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to be the better team when they finally face each
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: other on Christmas Day. It's going to be glorious. Three
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: months from now.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Go all season or almost all season, build up both resumes,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: and then have an epic matchup that you can unwrap
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: on Christmas Day.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: There you go. Finally, and this is the twist on
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: it all, the Dallas Cowboys are going to have a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: good season this year. They've done some good things. You know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is not one of the better GMs in football,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: but he's not a buffoon either. I mean, he usually
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: puts some competitive teams out on the football. Does he not?
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're never, never irrelevant. The Dallas Cowboys are
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: never irrelevant.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: And they're never going to be.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I guess even if they were terrible, they'd be irrelevant.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to put together a good season.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I also think he's an old man. So when he
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: says we've got room to make a really big trade
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: this year, I think he means it because he's running
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: out of time to win this championship. I think he's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: going to trade for T.J. Watt during the course of
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the season because the Pittsburgh Steelers are not going to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: be very good. They're another team that's going to have
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: to finally acknowledge the writing on the wall. But I
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: still think they're going to finish second to Philadelphia with
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: an 11-5 record. And I think they're going to lose
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: in the wildcard round to the Detroit Lions. And I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: think Jerry Jones is not going to be able to
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: handle that. And I think he's going to blame his
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: head coach, who he admittedly chose somebody that he could
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: sort of manipulate in Brian Schottenheimer. But I also think, Jerry,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: he's getting to that age and he's starting to act like,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time left. He's finally
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: starting to act that way. I think he's going to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: come after our head coach in the offseason with everything
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that he has.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Gross.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And I think the Coastless are going to lock up
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: our head coach to a 10-year, $ 300 million contract. They're
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: going to blow away the current $ 20 million, I think
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: it's $ 22 million, to the highest paid head coach in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the National Football League. They're going to blow that away
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: so that Mike McDonald's here for the next decade. Okay.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Phew.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: And then the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones are going
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to turn their attention to a team that I've already
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: covered that went 7-10 this year under a really good
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: head coach that maybe should have won Coach of the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Year last year in the NFL. And that team, which
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: has seen the writing on the wall and has started
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: to sell off its players piece by piece, are going
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to trade Kyle Shanahan to the Dallas Cowboys. Wow.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: That is an admittedly bold prediction.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And he will sign a five-year, $ 160 million deal. Not
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: as long, but even more money so that Jerry doesn't
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: lose out on a second big fish that he will
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: go after in the offseason. And he will be the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. There you go.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: There is the season this year in the NFC West.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm fine if Kyle Shanahan leaves the division.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Don't care about that. Bye.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: You must admit. really bold predictions.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Really bold predictions you took us on a journey as
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: you said you promised you and you delivered maybe.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're in your car on yeah stupid bold i'll
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: give you that they're bold but dumb yeah you didn't.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Say bold and smart.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: He just said i just said bold admittedly it's in
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the title admittedly bold predictions yes okay so uh yes
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: i i warned you in advance but uh There you go.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: There's a yarn. See, I just spun a yarn for you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I do see that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: A football yarn for you.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: I got a lot to think about in that.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's all going to come true. Every single
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: aspect of it. I hope it does. I think I'm
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: going to nail it. All right. Coming up next. Now,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: that's how you do bold predictions, Smalls. Did you hear
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: their segment this morning? It was horrible. Oh. They did
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: like five predictions. Oh, and none of them were horrible.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And they were all like, I think the Giants... will
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: play in New Jersey this year.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, that's quite a prediction. Very bold.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: That's not what she said, but it was kind of
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: like that. All right, one last thing to close out
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: our show. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. All right, one
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: last thing to close out our show here on this
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: game day. Hopefully we did our job in getting you
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: ready for tonight's opener. I think we did.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, we did.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I think we did. A lot of Seahawks talk here today.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: A lot of Patriots talk here today. A lot of big,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: bold predictions made here today. And so here we go.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: We ride off. into the 2026 campaign. Greg Bell's going
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to be joining you at the top of the hour
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: with his program live from Jimmy's on First. And I
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: think the rest of our shows are from Jimmy's today.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And that'll take you all the way up to kickoff.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: So don't need to change your dial. All right, Ashley,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: what's your one last thing here on this game day?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of texts this morning even before
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: our show started.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: So we've talked about two other things. stupid things on
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: the shows that were before us.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: One of them, though, on the one on our station
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: before we started, Brady Quinn says the Seahawks are going
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: to miss the playoffs and go 9-8.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: So that's his bold prediction. But it got me thinking,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I didn't get to make my prediction. Oh. And Brady,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: they're not missing the playoffs.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: We're going 13-3.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: 13-3.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: We play 17.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: 13-4.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, 13-4.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, nope, that's not right.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: 13-4.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: That's when Dick Fane's 13-4 call, yeah.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: 14-3, 13-4.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go 13-4.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: That might be the case. It is a tougher schedule.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: You never know about injuries. I think that there is
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a world. To me, this conversation about can you be
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a better team, you can be a better team without
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: having a better season. You could be a better team
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: from beginning to end, But because of a tougher schedule
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and because the Rams might keep you from the division
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and because who knows what might happen in the NFL
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: playoffs in a one-and-done tournament, yeah, you might fall short
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of the goals that you reached a year ago, but
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: there's still a world out there where you were a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: better football team. that year. And I think that could happen.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I think they could be a better team and maybe
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: fall even short of 13-4.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they could, but I don't see it happening.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: You don't see 9-8 happening either?
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I don't see 9-8 happening.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Brady. That's the thing about that show featuring two pros.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: They don't really follow the football that much.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: No, but they do sure like to talk about it
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: and other things that aren't sports.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: They follow college football. Yeah. They do follow the college football. Um,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: all right. Well, I'm going to close my one last
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: thing out with this. Um, I need some help. Okay.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: With what? Well, it's a little bit of a fantasy
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: football dilemma, but also a moral dilemma. So I did
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  Speaker 1: end up drafting Drake May and I do believe in
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Drake May. Apparently Anders doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently Hugh does.
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  Speaker 3: Andrews only believes in the Giants, though.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, which is so weird. Okay, so Andrews doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like Drake May. Hugh does like Drake May. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: who I feel better about.
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  Speaker 3: The baseball guy, Andrews.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So, yes, I do like Drake May, and I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: planning on drafting him, but he lasted until, I think,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the eighth round, and Dave Richard told me, don't take
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: your quarterback until there's somebody on the board that you
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: don't really like at that point. Then go get your quarterback.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: So that's what I did. So I took Drake May
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  Speaker 1: in the eighth round. And I also took Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: in the 10th because I wanted a really good backup
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  Speaker 1: as well. And I think he's going to have a
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: really good season this year. And I don't think he's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: going to Do some extended handoff, let's protect Patrick kind
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: of thing on opening night. I think that's exactly what
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: they want the Denver Broncos to believe. And I think
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is going to come out slinging it on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: I really do. But he is facing the Denver Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: And they have very good defense.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Very good defense. And Drake May is facing Denver. the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Now on its face, I would start Drake
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: May because I drafted him to be my starter, but
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I'm also going to the game tonight and I don't
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: want to spend one ounce of my time sitting there
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: kind of hoping Drake May does something for my fantasy team.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: That's fair.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So what would you do? Like this is fantasy football.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I really do want the better guy. And I think
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: maybe Drake is slightly the better guy, but I don't
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: hate the idea of starting Patrick Mahomes on Monday night
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  Speaker 1: at home against the Broncos.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Is there any chance he doesn't play on Monday?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I guess a very slight. He's not questionable. Andy Reid
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: said yesterday he's going to start unless something happens between
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: now and then. That's what he said yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I doubt they're going to allow anything to happen
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: to him.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: He's going to play. He's going to play, and I
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: think he's going to play aggressively. I don't think they're
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: going to do some soft thing. Then there you go.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: If you feel confident in that, I'd go with Patrick
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Mahomes if you don't want to have to worry about
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: fantasy football at all tonight. I enjoy going to the
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: game and then watching the fantasy aspect of it or
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: watching the game, but I get it.
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  Speaker 1: That's just it. I'm going to make this right now
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: and then click it and forget it. So I want
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to make this decision before we are off the air,
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes or May.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, the going to the game tonight and facing
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks is factoring into my decision.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do something here right now. Okay.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I'd rather you just.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: I named, I've named each of these, but you don't
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: know what I've named them. I have a Coke can
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: and a fork.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Pick one. Pick one?
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: Coke can or fork? Let's go fork.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: That's May.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, geez.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Coke can, Mahomes. It sounded more like Mahomes.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: There you go. I'd rather you just tell me who
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: you think I should start.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you should start Drake May. You do?
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: But I didn't want you to. You said you didn't
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: want to go tonight and think about fantasy football.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'm not going to even tell anybody
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: who I'm going to pick. Oh, I can't wait for that.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: But I am going to pick... You don't care. I do.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell's coming next. Have a great day, everyone. If
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: you're out there, maybe I'll run into you. It's going
• 38:40
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• 38:44
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• 38:47
  Speaker 1: everything for you. We'll have Greg. We'll have Hugh. We'll
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: have Mike Sando on the show tomorrow. It's going to
• 38:52
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