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Best of Ian Furness 9/17 · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: the franchise, and a lot to discuss. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: that a little bit later on as well, but It
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  Speaker 2: is a 12-20 on a Thursday. Thursday night football later tonight,
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  Speaker 2: including a team that our next guest actually saw up
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  Speaker 2: close and personal last week joining us. Ross Tucker is
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  Speaker 2: the host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, NFL Color
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  Speaker 2: Analyst for both CBS and Westwood One. You can follow
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  Speaker 2: him on social media at RossTuckerNFL. And Ross is brought
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  Speaker 2: we're working on the forklift we talked about last week
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  Speaker 2: at Northwest Handling Systems.
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  Speaker 1: We're working on getting you that forklift for your house.
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say, I'm glad you brought
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  Speaker 3: it up, because I love Northwest Handling Systems, but... You know,
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  Speaker 3: when I order a forklift, I expect it to be
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  Speaker 3: like DoorDash. I expect it to be like at my house,
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  Speaker 3: you know, within 15 minutes. No, I'm just kidding. Love
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  Speaker 3: the sponsorship. Love talking with you. And, yes, I still–
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  Speaker 3: they got to give me a heads up, though, because
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  Speaker 3: they have to deliver it. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 3: want them to deliver it while my wife is there
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  Speaker 3: or just have her come home from work and see
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  Speaker 3: it there in the front yard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably. My guess is you need to be there
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  Speaker 1: to accept it. That would be my guess. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as a guy that's been.
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  Speaker 2: Married for 33 years, I let the boss lady know
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  Speaker 2: as little as possible sometimes, especially for things like that,
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  Speaker 2: fun toys.
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  Speaker 1: Like a forklift.
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  Speaker 2: All right. You're on the Thursday night game tonight. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that in just a couple seconds for Westwood 1.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have that game for you here on 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 2: Week one of the NFL season is in the books.
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  Speaker 2: And this is always, you know, and I think I
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  Speaker 2: laugh because every Monday in the NFL, Ross, as you
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  Speaker 2: well know, you do the daily podcast. Every Monday is
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  Speaker 2: overreaction Monday across the NFL. Week one, no more so
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  Speaker 2: than week one in the NFL. So instead of asking
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  Speaker 2: you about overreaction, what were your biggest takeaways? What were
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  Speaker 2: the things that just jumped out to Ross Tucker from
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  Speaker 2: week one of the NFL season?
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  Speaker 3: Well, certainly how many points were scored. Because I did
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  Speaker 3: not expect that. In the opener, you guys against the Patriots,
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks, 13-10. And then even the next night, the
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  Speaker 3: Rams only scored seven points. So I really was not
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  Speaker 3: expecting it to be as high scoring in so many
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  Speaker 3: games as it was. I mean, 59-37? For the Bears
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  Speaker 3: and the Panthers, even my game, 36-31, Bills-Texans, I certainly
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  Speaker 3: was not expecting that at all. So it was a stunner,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, that there were that many points scored. Typically,
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  Speaker 3: that's not the case in Week 1, but I think
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  Speaker 3: with 21 new offensive coordinators... I think that there were
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  Speaker 3: just so many unknowns with what to expect from a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teams. There was just no real good way
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  Speaker 3: to scout a lot of those guys because most of
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  Speaker 3: them hadn't even ever called an offense before.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go in chronological order. Let's just start
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  Speaker 2: with the Seattle game. We talked to you. A little
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  Speaker 2: bit last week, they got, and I'm not even talking
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  Speaker 2: about the game last week, they got through that game.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see Drew Locke again this week. They'll see an
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  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals team coming up this week that I think
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  Speaker 2: we'd all agree maybe had one of the biggest surprises
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  Speaker 2: of the weekend, right, Ross? A 26-14 win over the Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: The Chargers feel like, I used to bring this up
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  Speaker 2: all the time in the old Pac-12, Ross. It always felt,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, I have to go back to the Pac-10 days.
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  Speaker 2: The Cal Bears, Berkeley Bears, especially with Jeff Tedford was there.
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  Speaker 2: He had the one upset over Pete Carroll in USC.
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  Speaker 2: everyone would fall in love with Cal every year, and
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  Speaker 2: then Cal would just disappoint, and they'd have the odd upset,
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  Speaker 2: like they'd knock off Oregon or Washington or somebody, but.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 2: Then, I feel like the Chargers are that same team.
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  Speaker 2: We always have these high expectations for the Chargers, no
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  Speaker 2: matter who the coach is, who's there, and then they
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  Speaker 2: don't live up to those, whether it's the playoffs or
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  Speaker 2: getting beat 26-14 by the Cardinals. That really jumped off
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  Speaker 2: the page of me. I don't know if it says
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  Speaker 2: more about the Cardinals or more about the Chargers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well... I was just asked on another radio interview
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  Speaker 3: which one I thought it was, and I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: let me tell you after this Sunday. Give me another
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  Speaker 3: week's sample size, and then I'll have a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: idea of which one I think is which. And I
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  Speaker 3: will say this. There are going to be a number
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  Speaker 3: of results this weekend that are going to shock us
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  Speaker 3: based on what we think we know from week one.
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  Speaker 3: Because week one is just that. It's just one week,
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  Speaker 3: and really because of the fact that it's the first
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  Speaker 3: game and there's so many new players and new schemes
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  Speaker 3: that it almost like is a unique entity unto itself.
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  Speaker 3: And I know people say week one's a liar, and
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of truth to that. So
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  Speaker 3: I think, I don't think the Chargers are as bad
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  Speaker 3: as they were, my guess is. aren't as good as
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  Speaker 3: they look in that game. That goes the same, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, for Chiefs Broncos Monday night and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of these games, quite frankly. Rams, Niners. So I think
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  Speaker 3: things will begin to normalize a little bit more here
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  Speaker 3: in Week 2 with some of these results.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about the Rams, 49ers for a second.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll lean on you as a former player. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the easy thing is to say the Rams just They
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  Speaker 2: just made a mistake by trying to be the smartest
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  Speaker 2: guys in the room and fly down 24 hours before
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  Speaker 2: the game or whatever they did to have their body clocks.
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  Speaker 2: And then the other side could be, hey, look at
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers. They're as dangerous. If healthy, they're dangerous. Is
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  Speaker 2: there a concern? And just lean on you for the body.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're flying all across. You've got two games
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  Speaker 2: this week. You're in Buffalo and then Jags-Broncos, I think,
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday. So you're flying all over the place. You're
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  Speaker 2: not a player anymore, but you were. How much do
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  Speaker 2: you think fatigue played into that game?
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  Speaker 3: Really, really tough to say. You know, I know this.
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  Speaker 3: The Rams have a lot of smart people working for them.
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  Speaker 3: And they put a lot of time into this discussion
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  Speaker 3: and decision. And so I guess I kind of lean
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  Speaker 3: and say that it doesn't have as much to do
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  Speaker 3: with that as people want to make it out to be.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think the Niners got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys back from injury like Fred Warner and Nick Bosa
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  Speaker 3: that had been chomping at the bit to get out there.
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  Speaker 3: I think we forget how good they are when they're healthy. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Rams, obviously, Myles Garrett wasn't 100%. He
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  Speaker 3: did nothing and just had surgery and went on IR.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Donald didn't play. And I also think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Niners got sick of everybody telling them how good
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  Speaker 3: the Rams are. You know, the Niners got sick of
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  Speaker 3: everybody just handing the Rams the Super Bowl. Oh, they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be 17-0. And it just looked to me like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a cliche, but the Niners looked like
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  Speaker 3: they had the chip on their shoulder. They looked like
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  Speaker 3: they were sick of hearing about the Rams, and they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to go out there and do something about it. And, boy,
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  Speaker 3: did they ever.
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  Speaker 2: You had the– Ross Tucker joining us, sponsored by Northwest
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  Speaker 2: Handling Systems. You had the Bills, Texas, last week on CBS.
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  Speaker 3: 36-31 Bills.
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  Speaker 2: And– Again, we're making assumptions, but I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: safe assumption that Texans have a great defense. What you
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  Speaker 2: saw up close, and you're going to see Buffalo tonight.
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  Speaker 2: What a great Thursday night game, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo-Detroit. You're going to see them again tonight. Was Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: that good offensively?
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  Speaker 3: You know, they were, but I would also say it
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  Speaker 3: was uncharacteristic of... Houston's defense, a lot of the things
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  Speaker 3: that happened in that game. I was pretty surprised by
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the things that went down in that
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  Speaker 3: game and would not expect that to be happening week
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  Speaker 3: in and week out with the Texans. Their defense is awesome,
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  Speaker 3: and it's been awesome. So the Bills had a great plan.
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  Speaker 3: They did a terrific job of making sure that the
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  Speaker 3: edge rushers for the Texans never really got going. So
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  Speaker 3: then the guys in the secondary had to cover longer
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  Speaker 3: than they're used to covering. And the result was they
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  Speaker 3: weren't able to do it. You know, they got torched.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think that's going to be the case
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  Speaker 3: moving forward with the Texans, but I think the Bills
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  Speaker 3: got them at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to hear you on the call tonight. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned a second ago, what a great, Thursday night,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what the rest of this,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't looked ahead to the rest of the Thursday
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  Speaker 2: games this year, but to go from Rams 49ers, which
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  Speaker 2: obviously wasn't a great game when it was all said
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  Speaker 2: and done, it was a dominant effort by the 49ers,
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  Speaker 2: but go from that to detroit a 31 30 winner
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  Speaker 2: over the saints holding on for that win and then
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  Speaker 2: the bills opening up their new stadium against detroit i
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  Speaker 2: i can't think of much better many better matchups in
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  Speaker 2: week two man let's let's talk about your game tonight
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  Speaker 2: and and what you're looking.
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  Speaker 3: At Well, I'm so excited. I mean, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: out of the five teams I played for, my favorite
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  Speaker 3: team to play for was the Buffalo Bills. Just thoroughly
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  Speaker 3: enjoyed it. Love the people up here. So to be
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  Speaker 3: able to be here for them opening a new stadium
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  Speaker 3: is super special. You know, I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 3: really big deal. The ticket prices are out of control
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  Speaker 3: and they're treating this like the Super Bowl. It's... It's really,
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  Speaker 3: really cool that I'm going to be able to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of it. And when these teams played two
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  Speaker 3: years ago, the final score was 48-42. I mean, these teams,
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  Speaker 3: and I wouldn't be surprised. I don't know if we'll
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  Speaker 3: get to 48-42, but I'm certainly expecting there to be
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  Speaker 3: a lot of points in this game just because the
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  Speaker 3: built defense did not look great against Stroud and the Texans.
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  Speaker 3: They're kind of getting used to their new D coordinator
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  Speaker 3: and Jim Leonard. Meanwhile, the Lions, Tyler Shuck tore them
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  Speaker 3: up in the second half and overtime of that game.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's another shootout. I'd be surprised if
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  Speaker 3: it's not. I just don't know with the two injured
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  Speaker 3: offensive linemen if the Lions can really keep pace.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: I had the opportunity for years to travel with the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks working for the Fox affiliate here. It's the only
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  Speaker 2: stadium I didn't get to. The only city the year
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  Speaker 2: we would have gone would have been the COVID year,
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  Speaker 2: so we didn't travel.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm disappointed I get to the old stadium.
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  Speaker 2: I'm disappointed I get to that area just to see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I think we all, every NFL team, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's be honest, outside of the Chargers and the Rams,
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  Speaker 2: and the Cardinals, I guess I'll end there, most cities
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  Speaker 2: feel like they've got the best fan bases in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly we feel that way here in Seattle. You mentioned Buffalo, though.
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  Speaker 2: Just what do the Bills mean to that market? What
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  Speaker 2: do they mean to that town?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, geez. It's hard to describe. It's sort of like
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  Speaker 3: their identity and their relevance. You know, when I played here,
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  Speaker 3: it was really interesting because people were just so appreciative
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  Speaker 3: that they had a team that no one was ever
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  Speaker 3: going to get mad at you even if things weren't
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  Speaker 3: going well. I mean, I can remember being in New
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  Speaker 3: York City and a guy come up to me and saying,
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  Speaker 3: I'm from Buffalo and I'm sure you guys hate it
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  Speaker 3: and don't like being there, but it means a lot
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  Speaker 3: to us. I'm like, dude, I love it. What are
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  Speaker 3: you talking about? I love playing for the Bills. So
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  Speaker 3: they just, it's a unique combination of them recognizing that
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  Speaker 3: perhaps it's not, you know, in a lot of people's minds,
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  Speaker 3: the most desirable place to live, but yet, it's what
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  Speaker 3: puts Buffalo on the map. If Buffalo didn't have the Bills,
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  Speaker 3: people probably wouldn't talk about Buffalo very often.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the stadium itself, I mean, I know there
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  Speaker 2: was some stuff about seats obstructed, and I think they've
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  Speaker 2: hopefully cleared up any confusion. It felt like more confusion,
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  Speaker 2: but just to have them in that market, in today's world,
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  Speaker 2: get that state-of-the-art stadium's cool, should be a fun one
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  Speaker 2: tonight to check out. Ross Tucker joining us for a
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  Speaker 2: couple more minutes here as we preview week two of
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  Speaker 2: the National Football League season. Seattle goes to Arizona. I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that a moment ago. Drew Locke will get the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback start. When you were playing on the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we were asked this yesterday. I was
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  Speaker 2: out at the facility, Ross, and we were talking to
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  Speaker 2: different guys about it. Cooper Cupp was one of them about, hey,
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  Speaker 2: how different is it? Cadence, everything you do, the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: everything he's got to do with the line, how different
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  Speaker 2: is it for the rest of the players? One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that Cooper Cupp said I thought was amazing,
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  Speaker 2: and I think people that cover it every day see it,
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  Speaker 2: you know this, The backup quarterback doesn't throw to the
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  Speaker 2: number one receivers at all during the regular season. And
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Cupps said yesterday to us, he said, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: saw like 10 passes for last year, 10 reps, I
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  Speaker 2: should say, 10 reps from Drew Locke all year. So
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  Speaker 2: it's like a new quarterback for him as well. What
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  Speaker 2: do you expect and what should the expectations be for
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  Speaker 2: a Drew Locke quarterback team for the next week or
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  Speaker 2: maybe even two?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the good news is he's been working with them, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: this whole week. And I thought Drew acquitted himself very
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  Speaker 3: well in that game last week. And You know, for
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  Speaker 3: Schneider to get him for $ 5 million for two years,
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  Speaker 3: that feels like a lot of value. I mean, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of backup quarterbacks make, you know, the good ones
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  Speaker 3: make $ 5 to $ 7 million. So to get a guy
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  Speaker 3: with his pedigree and physical ability yet experience like Locke
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  Speaker 3: at that price seems like a heck of a job
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  Speaker 3: by Schneider. And he went out and got him a
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  Speaker 3: win already that no one would have expected coming from
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  Speaker 3: behind against Schneider. the AFC champ. So he's kind of
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  Speaker 3: already paid them back, you know, for this year. That's
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  Speaker 3: for sure. It's super impressive.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the Jaguars and the Broncos on Sunday. I'll
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  Speaker 2: wrap it up with that. That's a hell of a game, too.
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  Speaker 2: Jags looked good in their first game. Broncos, we just
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  Speaker 2: talked about, did not. What are you looking for in
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  Speaker 2: that game? Let me actually phrase it this way. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about elite defenses. The Texans' defense got lit up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. The Broncos' defense we thought was elite.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was just a, hey, Ken Walker's really good.
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  Speaker 2: Remember what you had here in Seattle? And Pat Mahomes
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  Speaker 2: is still good as well. Kansas City offense, or maybe
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  Speaker 2: a red flag or something for what the Broncos have
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  Speaker 2: on the defense, and they're going to get tested by
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  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence and company this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that game... It's going to prove to
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  Speaker 3: be an aberration. I'm a believer in the Broncos, but
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs deserve a ton of credit for coming out
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  Speaker 3: and running the ball like that. I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: anybody was really expecting them to do that. It was super,
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  Speaker 3: super impressive that they did that. I mean, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of crazy to think here they are in a situation
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  Speaker 3: where you have A guy like Kenneth Walker, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: where Mahomes, if he has a running game like that,
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  Speaker 3: that would be huge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be scary. I do love what
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  Speaker 1: you do.
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  Speaker 2: For people that don't follow you on Twitter and follow along,
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  Speaker 2: the press box meals around the league. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite things that you do, to be honest with you, Ross.
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  Speaker 2: I love that thing. Now, we've got a whole new
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  Speaker 2: one tonight, though, right? What are your expectations in Buffalo?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, interestingly, the Bills might be the only team
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  Speaker 3: in the league that I'm aware of that goes ahead
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  Speaker 3: and actually sends you the menu ahead of time. So
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  Speaker 3: with them sending you the menu ahead of time, I
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  Speaker 3: have a pretty good idea what to expect, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: really fired up about it. Yeah, I mean... I can
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  Speaker 3: even look at it and read it to you. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what's weird is they sent a lunch and dinner menu.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really sure. Maybe lunch is before the game
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  Speaker 3: and dinner is halftime, but we're looking at dinner rolls,
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  Speaker 3: sweet Italian sausage, herb-grilled chicken breast, pasta vodka, eggplant parm,
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  Speaker 3: crispy seasoned potato wedges, broccoli gratin, I mark chicken wings,
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  Speaker 3: of course, and... they have soft serve ice cream with toppings,
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  Speaker 3: with toppings, which is huge.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Ashley, how's that sound? You hungry yet?
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Yes, please.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, please. I like that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: It's making my protein bar sound less and less appealing.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, very much so. Although I'm sitting in a
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: sports bar at the, at the hockey rink here, the
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: 32 bars. So I'll be taken care of as I
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: get hungry. Listen, I thought I liked that idea. They'll
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: send it out before. And you know, I was such
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: a good company man working for Fox back in the day,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: a Fox 13 here, Ross. I, I just went in
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: there blind every time and said, we'll blow off the $ 35,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: $ 40 breakfast at the hotel, save the company some money.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And there were times you're very disappointed some places you went.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Never here in Seattle, by the way. They do the
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Omelette Bar. I think you've probably had that here before.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: They do a great job. Julie Barber does a great
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: job here with the Omelette Bar. But there are places, Detroit,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at you, very disappointing. So that sounds like
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: you've reached a new pinnacle there tonight.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm fired up. I mean, I've been told that
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: it's good, so I'm looking forward to.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: It for sure.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, have a great call tonight. We'll be listening here.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: We'll have the game right here on KJR, so we'll
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: hear your voice later on tonight, 5.15 Pacific Time kickoff.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: And for all you guys, ex-Bills and others there, thoroughly
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: enjoy what's well-deserved, that brand-new state-of-the-art stadium, and we'll look
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: for a great game tonight.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Ross, we'll talk to you next week. Tell folks, by
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the way, about the podcast and what you've got going on.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks so much, Ian. I appreciate it. Looking forward
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: to it. Always just check me out on social media
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: at Ross Tucker NFL. I'll do a video if you
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: want to see what that press box food in Buffalo
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: looks like. Plus, really, some of the other stuff that's
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: going on. in the stadium, launch of a new stadium, really,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: really a cool thing. So at Ross Tucker NFL on
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: social media, and of course the Ross Tucker Football Podcast
• 19:34
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• 19:37
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• 19:40
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• 19:42
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• 19:52
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• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Thank you sounds great thank you there you.
• 19:56
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• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Hour number one.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Getting ready for, let's see, we've only got left. We've
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: got Eno Saris talking baseball coming up in the 1
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour. We've got Vince Dunn coming up in the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock hour as well. And then Funston at 2 p.m.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Right here on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Edo Saris is going to talk to us coming up
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: at 1.30. Our baseball guy from The Athletic and the
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Rates and Barrels podcast.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with Edo. A lot to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: discuss with him today. I'm going to ask him about
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson. I'm going to ask him about Kate.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Anderson.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Does he have number one stuff? Edo's got that whole
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: stuff plus stat metric he uses.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you, two months ago, everyone would have said
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: yeah before he got here.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: But he's a kid in the major for the first time.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: But does he have the stuff to be a one?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: It's not even so much the results. So I'll ask
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: him about that coming up because it is time to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: look ahead with our baseball.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Team, like it or not.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Sad.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Kraken finishing up. They just finished their second on-ice
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: session of the day, so they're done on ice doing
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: some off-ice stuff. We're hoping to hear from Lane Lambert
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: today at some point popping up here, Kraken coach, once
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: he gets through all of his obligations for the Kraken.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, I have some new leadership here for
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the Kraken. They announced the other day that some new
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: captains and alternate captains have been named, and I caught
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: up with one of those players, an original member of
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the Kraken, earlier today.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: All right, year six of the Seattle Kraken. We're here
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: at the 32 Bar and Grill.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Day one of training camp, year six of the Kraken,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: and year six for one of the original members of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: the Kraken, number 29, Vince Dunn, is sitting down with
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: me right now as we get things going this season.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: How are you? I'm great, man. Thank you. Good to
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: see you.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Good to have you here, and good to be back
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: in Seattle. Can you wrap your arms around that, what
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: six years has gone by? I mean, you were one
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: of the original guys coming here way back when and
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: how things have changed, but here we are six years later.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: It's kind of amazing.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's flown by, and I think what they've done here,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: creating such a dominant franchise that's just done so well,
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: bringing the community together, I think that's something that we've
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: really harped on is we're all in this together, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: it's been really cool to be a part of right
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: from the start. It grew really fast, and you start
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: to see more and more cracking gear being worn around
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the community, more people talking about hockey, having their kids
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: start to skate and learn hockey, just those things that's
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: so new to me. Being Canadian, everyone plays hockey, so
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: to be able to teach it, to be able to
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: see the diversity that it's created around here, it's really
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: cool to see that everyone's been a really big.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Part of it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been fun watching it. I mean, for someone
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: like me, I grew up in Seattle, grew up a
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: hockey fan. My parents are Canadian, so, I mean, Hockey
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Night Canada was a religion for us, but not having
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: a team here, and then I moved away, came back,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and this is home to get an NHL team is,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: for so many of us, awesome. But there's a lot
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: to discuss hockey-wise. Let me first start with the cool
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: thing that was announced yesterday. You are one of the
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: alternate captains now, part of the leadership group. You and
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Brandon Montour, both wearing A's this season along with Maddie
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: and Adam, and obviously Jordan Eberle is the captain.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: What did that mean to you?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Means everything to me. I wear the jersey with pride
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: every single day and as a person I tend to
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: think I'm wearing the jersey at all times just when
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: I'm out in the community or things like that. I
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: try to display myself as a good person especially for
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: the younger generation not just within the locker room but
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: the kids that you see learning to skate or the
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: people that follow along on TV or through the radio
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: or whatever it might be. I take a lot of
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: pride in being a leader. Obviously the The A means
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: a lot to me to have it on the jersey,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: but I think just the group we have together as
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: a leadership group is very important, and it's not just
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: the guys with the letters for us. It's going to
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: take all of us to lead this team the right way,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: and it started today and day one at camp.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You know, Vince, one of the things in our market, again, still,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: it's a relatively new hockey market. We're six years in,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: even with the junior teams and everything else. It's really
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of people still learning the game. One of
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the things I've tried to explain over the years is
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that in hockey... that means something more than other sports.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Like you'll see in football, you'll see guys in the NFL,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: they'll have a C on their jersey, and they just
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: all see like three or four guys. The guys that
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: walk out for the coin toss at midfield, sometimes they
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: change every week. In baseball, it means next to nothing
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: to be a quote-unquote captain or part of the leadership group.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And NBA, I don't think it even matters at all.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: In hockey, it means something. What does it mean?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Whether you're playing youth hockey or juniors or college or
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: what have you, or all the way to the pros,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Why do you think it's so important to have that letter?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: What does it mean? What does it symbolize?
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Well, for me, I think hockey is such a team sport.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: And I think having a leadership group that can hold
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: guys accountable and keep everyone together and achieving the same
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: goal or trying to achieve the same goal, it's really important.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: And it's not meaning that whatever they say is right.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: There's going to be room to converse. And we want
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: to be open for the younger guys or the people
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: who may not be wearing letters to speak to.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: We're all an open book.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: And I think that's really important to to be able
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: to communicate back and forth within the team and to
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: obviously lead by example and, um, to be the guys
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: that maybe when things are a little sticky, they can
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: lean on us to, to try to guide them the
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: right way. So, um, back to the team thing, like
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: a lot of sports, you can maybe get away with
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: a couple of dominant players or, you know, I'm not
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: too familiar with football quite yet being Canadian, but I,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: you know, you kind of see like, okay, there's the
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: O line team, there's the D team I'm watching. Um,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: the games at the stadiums, and they're completely split on
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: the field, right? You've got the guys in the locker room.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: We're all one.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: And on the bench, we're all one. We're all feeding
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: off each other's energy. And if the D-line and the O-line,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: as a hockey team, they're working together. But if one's slipping,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: it really affects the overall progress. There's just no way
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: of winning if one's not pulling their weight. So for me,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I see it as an opportunity. If those guys are
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: keeping everyone in line and everyone's able to work together,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: then usually success follows.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is very different. Vince Dunn joining us right now.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in football, like, we're asking guys at, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks camp and practice yesterday, like, defensive guys, hey,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: what do you think about when Sam Darnold goes down,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: your starting quarterback, and what can Drew Locke do?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And these guys are like, I don't know. I'm not
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: even in that meeting, right?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: We're all in the same meetings most of the time.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So we're all one as a team. So it's a
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: very different dynamic. And I think I talked to Monty
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: at the end of the year about the same thing, about, hey, like,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I felt like just watching, those of us watching, we're
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: not in the locker room, but watching, it's like there's
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: guys on this team, you being Monty, you being Vince Dunn,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: that seem to be leaders and ready for that next step.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: And I asked him about that, and he said, I
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: want to be. I want to have a letter because
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I can talk, but it gives you a little bit
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: more juice, especially with the young guys.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Do you believe that? Yeah, for sure.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: I've always wanted it, and I think now that I
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: have it, uh, I demand more of myself to even more.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: And I want to push myself to, to be better
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: and to be, to learn. I still have so much
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: to learn too. So it's not like I'm at the
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: top of the tree and now I'm kind of in
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: my own kind of world. Now at the top being
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: a leader, um, I'm still in it with the team
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: and I don't want to create that separation. And that
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: should never be like that in the locker room. You know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: we're all as one, uh, we all have voices to share,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: whether you're, two games in in your career, 500 games in,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Ebs at 1,000, Lars at 1,000. So, you know, we're
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: all in it together. And I think when you have
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: an open book like that dynamic, I think that makes
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: the team just so much stronger.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Ian Furness, Vince Dunn with me right now at the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: 32 Barn Grill. Day one of training camp for the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Kraken right here on your home for the Kraken 93.3
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: KJR FM. First game of the preseason is coming up
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: on Saturday, both on the radio here on KJR and
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: also we'll have it on the TV side on the
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Kraken Hockey Network too on the KHN as well.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: So we get things going.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Vince, I mentioned I grew up here in Seattle, and
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I grew up a hockey fan in Seattle, which was
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: kind of a rarity, but mostly because of my parents,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and then did the travel. I did the tour, the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: media tour that a lot of you can relate as
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a hockey player. I ended up going to working in
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Tri-Cities in junior and in the American Hockey League and
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Salt Lake and different places doing play-by-play, and I've always
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: had great pride for this city. We're not perfect by
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: any means, but I love this city, and it's my home,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: and I'll be honest with you, it pissed me off
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: this summer. watching our town and the organization that I
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: also work for get trashed by people. And, you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: mostly national media. You know, it's like we were like,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: for some reason, Seattle's like an easy target. Jason Robertson
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: didn't want to go to a lot of places, but
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: that became a Seattle thing. You just mentioned the pride
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: you have for Seattle and for the Kraken and wearing
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: that jersey. What was going through your mind when you're
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: hearing people say, oh, nobody wants to come to Seattle
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: and they don't want to play here. And I look
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: down here in this phenomenal facility in CPA. What was
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: going through your mind as a guy that's been here
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: since day one?
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Well, for me, I've loved every moment of my time here.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: I hope to finish my career here. And I think
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: the news and the noise all about that, I think
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: it's very easy to create a situation out of something
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: that never really was something, like you said. There was
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: a lot of no's to a lot of teams, but
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: I think just we're an easy team to pick on,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: I guess. There's not a lot of noise. I don't
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: know why it is, but there's a lot of noise
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: with other teams, you know, they're bouncing off article after article,
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: you know, this situation, you know, there's, there's so much
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: more media focused around other teams. And then when it
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: comes to us, probably on the little bit of a
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: lighter side. So, whatever they can kind of grab onto,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: they're going to. And for the summer, for the most part,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: it was Bobby and then went completely quiet. And then
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: they focused on the whole free agency thing that, however,
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: in their eyes didn't go well. That probably was never
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: going to happen in the first place.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Is it motivation at all for you guys in that room? Yeah,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: for sure. Kind of us against the world type of thing?
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, of course. I think we're so happy with our team,
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: and we know we can improve within ourselves and to
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: be better. We have a lot of pride in the
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: locker room, and everyone is very happy here. Everyone enjoys
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: coming back here.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: You can see if you're around, we were all back
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: very early before training camp, so I'm sure if.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: It was a bad place to be, that wouldn't be
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: such the case.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I did a show here a couple weeks ago, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: it was packed.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, full team, basically. three weeks before camp.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: What does that tell you about the team and the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: attitude coming into the season?
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: I love the commitment. I think it's very easy to
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: fail and to come back and just kind of weep
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: around and kind of go through the motions, but it's
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: quite the opposite actually. I see a very motivated team,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: a very fit team. Day one was pretty great here
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: around training camp. I know it's a really different dynamic
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: and very confusing for all of us to piece this
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: together with such a short training camp. So I think
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: just whatever we've done over the summer and the excitement
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: and the energy we brought into the locker room has
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: been off to a great start.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: What do you think happened last year after the break?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, and I, I do like, I'll laugh again.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Like people want to trash the team. It's like, this
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: is a playoff team. And then things didn't go so
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: well in the final few weeks of the season. It
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: wasn't like it was a whole season catastrophe. What do
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: you think happened?
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Like we were a playoff team and a serious playoff
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: team at the break. Call it a fluke, call it
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: whatever you want, but we were really happy with our
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: game and where it was at. And I think that
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: just comes with a little bit of a maturity level
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: and I think for the most part, the second half
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: of the season was not losing games to getting pushed
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: out by other teams because we were unable to compete
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: with them, but kind of beating ourselves up. Special teams? Yeah,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: special teams. Finding ways to lose games that were very achievable.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: And that's kind of been a weird little situation with
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: our team. We beat teams that people will probably count
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: us out right from the start. And then when the
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: odds are more in our favor are in our favor
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: we kind of come up short a lot of those
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: games so that's a maturity thing for me and that's
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: a mentality especially being ready at the start of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: games we come out flat a little bit and we
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: got to find a way to change that and to
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: make sure that cpa is a place in advantage for
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: us we got the best fans in the league right
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: now um they're super loud and the dynamic of the
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: arena feels a little weird i'm sure for some teams
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: just the shape of it and all so that should
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: be quite to our advantage every single night.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Last thing for vince dunn uh what would you give,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: give fans a little insight when you've been skating here
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, when you've seen guys come back,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: who were maybe some of the young guys that popped
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: to you and said, Hey, I can, you were that
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: young guy back in the, you know, 2017, 2018 season,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: many years ago, right. That probably stepped into St. Louis
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: and people go, wow, like Vince Dunn took that next
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: step in the off season. Do you see that from
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: any of the young guys and who.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: Day one was pretty simple. Um, I think when a
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: lot of the younger guys start to get to town,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: you're kind of split off. So I haven't seen a
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: lot of them. Um, super excited to see Reed, um,
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: see his game a little bit.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: And, um, other than that on TV this year, unfortunately, um,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: so how's Berkeley look?
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: So I guess we'll just feed off the young guys
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: from last year, Berkeley or some of the newer faces.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: That's probably an easier way for me to, yeah.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Berkeley or Oscar guys.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Um, looks great.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Burke looks fast, strong, um, really nice to see, uh,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Curtis Douglas, um, in person.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Um, We don't really see eye to eye. He's quite
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: up there. For people to know, Curtis Douglas is, what, 6'8?
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: True heavyweight.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: But can play. Yeah.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: And that's been kind of cool to see, you know,
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: the old school mentality. You know, a guy fights, he
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: can't play. There's no way you can play in this
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: league if you can only fight. And you have to
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: be able to play.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: He's got great hands and he's got a great personality.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: You probably would never pick that he wants to fight
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: a lot of the time when talking to him. He's
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: very soft, very... happy and and very.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: All smile so um that's kind of a cool energy
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: to see you gotta like this yeah yeah like like
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: for a long time it's like well 29 is gonna
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: have to go answer the bell or something like.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: That sure i love it um so that's been cool
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: to see um and all the guys that were um
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: up and down or kind of around at the end
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: of last year that everyone looks great so um i'm
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: excited to see the new pieces like i said it
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: was kind of a weird practice today just kind of
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: get into it for everyone and um the dynamic of
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: the skates before camp started were kind of split off
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: so Yeah, I'm excited to see everyone.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Listen, congratulations. Did you have a good offseason? Great offseason.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Lots of golf.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: What's the handicap down to?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Somehow a five. The gin system's rigged. Okay, so you're
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: telling me that it should be higher or more? Because
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: you're the guy that cheeses strokes.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I'm just getting abused.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: No, you're cheesing strokes from guys. Who's the worst offender
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of that?
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to say.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not a rat. Is it Flurry? No, he's good. McMahon?
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to say who it is.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it. You tell me off
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the record.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I got taken to the woodshed yesterday in our weekly thing,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: so I'm not happy.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I feel your pain. Vince, we'll do this again. Again, congratulations.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: The A is well-deserved.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: One of the fan favorites here in Seattle.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Appreciate that.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Welcome back for year six. Great to be back. Thank you.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Vince Dunn joining us a little bit earlier right after
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: practice in between workouts and everything else that they're doing today.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: If anybody's a golfer out there, you know everyone thinks
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: the gym system's rigged for different reasons.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't hate it if my handicap was a five.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: I'll tell you that.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: So I would gladly give guys strokes if mine was there.
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: If I was like, yes, I am that much better
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: than you.
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: Here you go.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I've progressively gone up this year. I blame it on
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: bad knees and bad back. Progressively gone up. I do
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: know that golf is, I mean, golf for hockey players, period,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: is a huge deal. And I think back to the
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: end of the season, one of the things that, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I should have asked Vince this, that one of the
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: things that they did at the end of the year,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: was they had a big golf outing. I think it
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: went to Gamble Sands. And a bunch of the guys did.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: And I remember that Cale Fleury was the defenseman. He
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: kind of organized it. But a big part of it
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: was to recruit Bobby McMahon. He was a pending free agent.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: And they said, we're bringing McMahon up there. We're going
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: to recruit him. We're going to hot box the guy.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Put him in the corner. Let's go. We've got to re-sign.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And it worked. It worked. He re-signed.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: That was their one big thing of the offseason, I guess,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: in some ways. But, yeah, I love the handicap system.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Coming up in just a few minutes, you know, Saris
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: is going to join us. And I had somebody text
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: me the other day and say, hey, what the hell
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: are we doing? Like, we're doing too much baseball. I
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: always like that. You're doing too much hockey. You're doing
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: too much baseball. You're doing too much college football. I'll
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: be honest with you. Yes, the NFL is king. I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: can't do 24-7 NFL. I've got to take a break.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you like this. I was done.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I needed two days off from the NFL this week.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: I was like, I needed a rest, but then I
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: did find myself on Wednesday being like, oh, so there's
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: no football?
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: There's no football. And unless you're just totally jonesing to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: watch the Mariners, which.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: I still had them on. I just love to punish myself.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: That's what we do. Luckily, I had golf last night,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: so I did not have to watch them. And so
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: that was fine. But yeah, no, I think.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit more about the baseball team
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: in a second with Eno Saris. And like I said,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I want to get his thoughts on Just some overall things.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: We'll ask a little bit about the manager. I'm going
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: to ask about roster construction, too. He knows that stuff
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: really well. He joins us every week. I think, you know,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: the Ken Rosenthal story today that insinuated that Jerry is staying,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: which means probably Justin is staying, but everyone else is gone,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: like coaches and manager. I don't think that would be
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: a surprise. And I think if we're being honest, we
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be surprised at all if that's all that happens.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: And the damn thing will just be, is he going
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: to step down on his own Or are they, you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll be a, quote, mutual decision. You know
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: where it won't be a mutual decision is when they
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: replace the entire coaching staff.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: That won't be a mutual decision. And, you know, I mean,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys you probably have to look at. Seitzer,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: you know, the main hitting coach. We fired third string
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: hitting coach earlier this year.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: That was good. But kept Seitzer, and Edgar's not going anywhere.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: He'll just be stepping back, I'm sure.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: The problem is that we fired the third string hitting coach,
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: and the hitting actually did get better.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: It's just the pitching got worse.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Pete Woodward, ladies and gentlemen.
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, and I love him.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: No, I don't want him to go anywhere.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Everyone likes him. And people like Perry Hill. Perry Hill
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: gets a lot of credit for being this defensive infield guru.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Do you see anything in the defense and the infield
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: that makes you think that that's been a good thing
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: so far?
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: Not so far.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Not so far.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Eno Saris coming up. Hoping to hear
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: from Lane Lambert as well this hour. And then Brandon Funston,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock, 93.3 KGRFM. Rates and Barrels podcast, The Athletic
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: as well, joining us, weekly visit. Big thanks to our
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: friends at Georgetown Brewing. We're looking across here at the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: 32 Bar and Grill. Where we're at today, I see
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: a little Bodhisattva tap handle. Fantastic beer, my favorite, that's
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: out there all the time.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Hello, sir. How are you?
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: I'm doing great.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: How about you?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're licking our wounds in Seattle right
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: now with the local Major League Baseball team, so we're
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: licking our wounds.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I think it's... It's all right.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: It's... It's interesting because I think there's a dynamic here.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Every time they squeeze out a win, you know, they're like, well,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: it's just the math doesn't math though, does it?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're the wild cards for sure done. There's
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: no way they're going to do that.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: And you're five and a half behind the Rangers and
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: the Astros with nine to go. I don't know how
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the math can math out.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Do you?
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, supposedly by the playoff odds, they have,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: what is this now, a 0.5% chance to make the playoffs.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: We on Rates and Barrels did something that we call
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: closing the tab. which means basically the autopsy on a team.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: We did the Mariners today.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Sorry. Well, I mean, the reality is this.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: If you can't beat the A's and the Angels, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: that's what's happened the last 10 days, if you can't
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: get those wins, Major League Baseball handed them a schedule, right?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: And you can't get that, that just tells me they're done.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: And they've And they maybe are thinking they're done in
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: that clubhouse, too.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and, you know, we.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Listen, there's still a great core here, and there are
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: obviously some questions. We've talked about, like, the home-away splits
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: on the pitchers and the strikeout rate. We talked about
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Cal and Julio struggling all year. But, you know, there's
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: only two teams in baseball that saw their... that saw
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: three players... missed their projections by more than 20 points
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: of WRC +. It's like OPS +. And one is
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: the Phillies, and the other is the Mariners, with Colt
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: and Julio and Cal all missing by more than 20 points.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: And Cal and Julio are the engines that make this go.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: They're going to miss some names, but there's a lot
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: of this core returning. There's a lot of good stuff.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Cole Young, finding Cole Young was good. Dominic Canzone is
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: coming to his own, like, There's a lot of good
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: stuff going on. And I don't know if this is
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: any solace to you, but me and DVR, we did
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: pick the Mariners to win the division next year.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Well, and hopefully we have a next year that starts in,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know, March or April. But we'll cross that bridge,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: you know, when we get to it along the way.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: You know, Sarah's joining us here. You know, let me,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to come back to the future in a second.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask about the present. And this is
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: a world that we live in with social media, as
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: you well know, that You know, it's about results, it's
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: about the present, it's about the immediacy, and it's about
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: instant overreaction oftentimes. Cade Anderson is a guy we've been
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: waiting on for, you know, I guess it would have
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: been about 14 months before he got here, and all
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: the excitement, all the hope, you look down there, you
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: see what he's doing in AA, and you're like, ah,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: can't wait until Cade comes up here. The results, you know,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: have been so-so in terms of the numbers, in the
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: basic numbers, in terms of ERA and the wins and
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. But what I'm worried about, not worried about,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: what I'm wondering about is because you look at the
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: deeper numbers, the stuff plus, and you can kind of
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: explain that again, and everything around a pitcher. What does
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: all that tell you about what Cade Anderson is and
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: what he can still be?
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: I think the big thing is that the fastball wasn't
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: as dominant, not as dominant in the major leagues. And
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: that's something that stuff plus catchers by looking at arm angle, movement, velocity,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: and all those things. And, you know, it just says
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: that this is not like, you know, Peyton Tolley has
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: a dominant fastball. It's 97 miles an hour, surprising movement
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: given his arm angle. You know, Chris Sale has a
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: dominant fastball. These are, those are dominant fastballs. So Kate Anderson,
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: you know, In the minor leagues, he had a good
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: fastball that he could command. He had great secondaries that
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: he could command. He had a wide arsenal, and he
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: just looked so polished that against inferior competition, he totally
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: carved them up. That transition to the big leagues is
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: so hard because in the big leagues, if you have
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: a big arsenal and you can command it, you can
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: be okay. But if you want to be better than okay,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: you have to find the dominant thing that you do,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: and you have to kind of extrapolate that out. And
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: I do think his changeup is his best pitch, and
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: it's a very good pitch. And I think his command
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: is the second best aspect of him. So I tried
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: to look at other young lefties across the league that
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: have below-average fastballs, and have good location and have good change-ups.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: And the list is interesting. Parker Messick is on this list.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Parker Messick is going to be the runner-up in the
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year, and he's had a great season
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: for Cleveland. Noah Cameron for the Royals is on this list.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: He doesn't throw as hard as Kate Anderson, so he
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: could be better than Noah Cameron. Connor Prelitz for the
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Twins is on this list. He's been very up and down,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: but he does something similar, something that I think Kate
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Anderson can do, which is He throws a lot of
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: his breaking balls to set up his fastball and uses
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: breaking balls to lefties and righties. But his changeup is
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: not as good as Cade's. And then somebody who's a
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: little bit older and more established that kind of fits
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: this is Mackenzie Gore. But I would say that Cade
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Anderson has much better command than Mackenzie Gore. The group,
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: as a group, has a four ERA for the season.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: And that may not be super exciting, but it is
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: a I think a way to kind of think that
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: Karrison is going to belong. He's going to be in
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: the big leagues and he's a top five. He's a,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: he's a top five starter in any arsenal. Like he's like,
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, in terms of like, you know, in a,
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: in a team's rotation right now, he's probably like a
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: four or five. But there's a couple of different avenues
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: for him to come forward, which is to maybe improve
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: the breaking balls so that he can really pitch backwards
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: and Maybe throw a second type of fastball, throw a
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: cutter or a sinker on top of that and confuse
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: people with multiple types of fastballs. And this is the
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: hardest thing to do, and this is why this stuff matters.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: The hardest thing to do is to change your fastball,
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: is to change the, you know, you could maybe add
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: some ticks, but you'd expect he's done the weighted balls,
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: he's done the beefing up. If he was going to
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: add velo, he would have done it already. And so,
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: you know, if he comes back next year and he's
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: throwing 95 in spring, that should turn a lot of heads.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: If he's throwing a cutter or sinker in spring and
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: everyone likes it, that should turn some heads. You know,
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: but he just doesn't get a ton of ride out
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: of that fastball. And so it plays down a little bit.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: And that's been where the initial disappointment may have come from.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: But that's not something you can't overcome. My list proves it.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: You know, thank you. You know, Sarah's joining us. I
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: want to just reference back to something we talked about
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: early in the year. You brought this up by talking
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: to some of the Mariner pitchers and we've heard them
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: talk about it as well. There's a lot of collaboration
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: on that, that starting staff, right? Like there's a lot of,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: you know, guys are working with each other and Hey,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: try this. And I, you can kind of expand on
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: it more, but as you're going through that and talking, well,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: does he have a cutter next year? That this is
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: an organization or a staff that that's probably a perfect for, right?
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: He has that opportunity because he has the resources and
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: the other guys on the staff to help him develop
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: those things, right?
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, yes and no. The reason I want to
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: throw no in there is that those guys are really
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: nerdy when it comes to pitch movements and track man
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: and all that. My favorite thing in the world is
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: to be in spring training with the Seattle Mariners starting pitchers.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, Ryan Divish makes fun of me for it,
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: but I come every spring. Seattle's the first place I go,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: and I just sit there and talk with all of
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: the starting pitchers about what's their new pitch this year,
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: what have they done in the offseason, what are they
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: looking at, and they all cross-talk. They all talk about,
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: you know, I learned this from him, and I really
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: liked his splitter last year, so I'm going to try
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: and take that from him. And, you know, Kate has
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: come up and said that he doesn't really look at
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: those numbers like that. I don't know if it'll rub
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: off on him and he'll just get there eventually. But
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: there is a little bit of a mentor waiting for him,
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: which is Logan Gilbert, who he came up, he got
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: destroyed his first year. You know, he was bad.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Logan Gilbert did a few things where he changed his
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: arsenal completely, but he also changed his composure on the
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: mound and, like, you know, created that alter ego and,
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: you know, did all sorts of things. So, like, if
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Cades needs to be more of a bulldog, you know,
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Logan can talk to him about that. Logan's arm angle
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: is probably the closest to Cades as well. And I
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: know the righty-lefty, but, you know, arm angle is everything. Like,
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know that Cade Anderson can learn a lot
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: from Brian Woob. Because Wu's arm angle is like 30
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: degrees different. But Logan Gilbert's more over the top. And
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: I know that Logan Gilbert has a dominant fastball, but
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: Gilbert has switched from a changeup to a splitter and back.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: He's through both a changeup and a splitter this year.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: He's changed his breaking ball a million times over. So
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: that's what I would love to see is Cade talking
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: to Logan Gilbert.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: You know, great stuff as always, my friend.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Next week, maybe it'll be a 1.5% chance, and we
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: can get to that point.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: In the meantime.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: tell folks about the rates and barrels podcast.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah like i said we we uh did the mariners
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: today if you want to give us give us a
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: listen we talked about what went wrong this year um
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: and uh what we like about them going forward we
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: also ranked the playoff bullpens um And I think there
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: was particularly an interesting discussion about the park and what
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: it means on hitting and pitching sides and what we
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: might do with the pitching staff going forward if we
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: were coaching them. So we had a lot of fun
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: with that.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: You're the best, man. I'll talk to you next Thursday.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Eno. Thank you.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: That's Eno Saris from the Athletic Rates and Barrels podcast
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: joining us.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: And, Ashley, we're pivoting here, if you're good with that.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: I don't like to keep this guy waiting.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: No.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: He's got to. He's got a look, and I'm telling
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: you right now, the look, you don't want to see
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: the look.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: No.
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: You don't want to see the look.
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: I know exactly what you're talking about.
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: I can picture it. We saw it too much last year.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: We did see it too much last year.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Lane Lambert is the head coach of the Kraken, sitting
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: down with us right now, finishing day one of training camp,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: day one of practice.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 50:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah, no, I thought it was a successful day for sure.
• 50:30
  Speaker 10: You probably saw that look last year more towards the
• 50:32
  Speaker 10: end of the year than the beginning of the year,
• 50:34
  Speaker 10: but certainly... I thought day one was a success. The
• 50:39
  Speaker 10: guys have prepared. There was some good compete. It's a
• 50:46
  Speaker 10: building block. Obviously, day one is always an exciting day.
• 50:50
  Speaker 10: Get the nerves out, this and that. With the short
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: training camp that we have, game in two weeks, regular season,
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: I think we've hit the ground running. but certainly you
• 51:04
  Speaker 10: can't build Rome in two weeks kind of thing. But
• 51:08
  Speaker 10: it's nice to have a first year under the belt
• 51:12
  Speaker 10: with our coaching staff and with most.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Of our players.
• 51:17
  Speaker 10: And so we have a pretty good idea of what,
• 51:20
  Speaker 10: or they have a pretty good idea of what I expect.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my producer Ashley gives me that look, the end
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: of the year look you just referenced. I get that
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: pretty much daily.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: She cracks the hard whip hot. Lane Lambert is here
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: with us. So the training camp, I was actually, the
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: show before me is Greg Bell. He's the Seahawk beat
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: writer for the Tacoma News Tribune.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: And he was asking me about.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: He's like, wait a second, there's a preseason game in
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: two days and two weeks from now? Because we just,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: all of us on the station, we just came out
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: of a month and a half of training camp for
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: the NFL. Like they start in mid-July. They don't play
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: a preseason game until mid-August. And then, I mean, it's forever, right?
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: with the 84 game schedule, the short and preseason, how
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: much of a challenge and how different is it from,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: let's go back to your playing days to the last
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: three or four or five years.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: How different is it right now?
• 52:11
  Speaker 10: Back to my playing days. See, we, we, we had
• 52:14
  Speaker 10: two ice sessions a day and they probably lasted about
• 52:17
  Speaker 10: an hour and a half to two hours per session.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: That's been collectively bargained out. I do believe.
• 52:20
  Speaker 10: Well, it was certainly was collectively bargained out, but that
• 52:23
  Speaker 10: was eons ago.
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: So, um, you know, this, this training camp, it's not.
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: Completely unfamiliar territory for me because it reminds me of
• 52:35
  Speaker 10: the bubble training camp. So when we went back and
• 52:38
  Speaker 10: everybody went into the bubble to play in the playoffs,
• 52:41
  Speaker 10: it was a 10-day training camp. What it does for
• 52:46
  Speaker 10: us is, you know, you have to be very, very
• 52:50
  Speaker 10: careful of trying to kind of cram everything in and
• 52:55
  Speaker 10: you don't want to have players feeling robotic about trying
• 52:59
  Speaker 10: to you know figure out oh gee should i be
• 53:02
  Speaker 10: here or should i be there right having had last
• 53:05
  Speaker 10: year you know there shouldn't be a lot of that
• 53:07
  Speaker 10: but we you know we did make some changes that
• 53:10
  Speaker 10: we believe will help our hockey team become a better
• 53:13
  Speaker 10: hockey team with our systems a couple things and um
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: you know so we have to dial those in but
• 53:18
  Speaker 10: you you have to let them play And you have
• 53:22
  Speaker 10: to let them compete right now. There's a different level
• 53:24
  Speaker 10: of compete today than they had when they were here
• 53:27
  Speaker 10: skating for the last couple of weeks on their own.
• 53:31
  Speaker 10: And you have to let them play and you have
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: to let them compete a little bit more in the
• 53:36
  Speaker 10: short and training camp and not try and cram too
• 53:39
  Speaker 10: much in. Let them be hockey players.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: A lot of it, Lane Lambert joining me, one of
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: the things that kind of jumped out is that, and
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I've heard this from a lot of people, and you know, again,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: I'll reference other sports. We hear this in Every year
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: in football, college and pro, we hear about baseball. Everyone's
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: coming into their best shape of their life and all
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: these things.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: It's a cliche in sports.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: But in hockey, you have to come into shape because
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: you hit the ground running for two days and then
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: you're playing a game. And what I did understand from
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: all reports, and actually I just did a show here
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago, you've had a hell of a
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: turnout of guys that maybe back in the past would
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: have still been on a golf course or a lake somewhere,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: have been here at the KCI working out.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: What did that tell you about this group?
• 54:19
  Speaker 10: Well, it tells me that the group wasn't happy with
• 54:21
  Speaker 10: the way the season ended last year. And they've had
• 54:27
  Speaker 10: enough time off. And I think that our leadership group
• 54:32
  Speaker 10: that we have encouraged guys to come back, encouraged guys
• 54:36
  Speaker 10: to come back early so that we can give ourselves...
• 54:40
  Speaker 10: I don't know what other teams are doing. It doesn't
• 54:42
  Speaker 10: matter to me. But I can pretty much believe that
• 54:49
  Speaker 10: On August 24th, we had more guys in town than
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: most other hockey teams in this league. Now, that gave
• 54:59
  Speaker 10: them the opportunity to have some really solid practices. We
• 55:04
  Speaker 10: can't go on the ice during those times, but have
• 55:06
  Speaker 10: some solid practices and things like that. But again, nothing
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: is quite the same as some of the competitive drills
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: that we had out there today with the coaches on
• 55:15
  Speaker 10: the ice.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: So that's good.
• 55:16
  Speaker 10: But they've prepared themselves, and what it says to me
• 55:20
  Speaker 10: you know, as there's a commitment level and a little
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: bit of an irritation for, you know, how it finished
• 55:25
  Speaker 10: last year.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: I looked down at one point down below, and I saw,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: I think it was one of the first two guys
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: to go out and kind of the corner drill on
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: the wall, Hayden and Montour, and they went at it.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Which kind of sets the tone, right? Like, you need
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: guys like that to set the tone. It kind of
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: felt like I saw that a lot today.
• 55:41
  Speaker 10: 100%, yeah. No, and I think, you know, I mean,
• 55:47
  Speaker 10: John Hayden's a guy, he's a He's just a quality,
• 55:50
  Speaker 10: quality character individual. And, you know, Monty, you know, he's
• 55:56
  Speaker 10: been a part of the leader of this hockey team
• 55:59
  Speaker 10: since he got here. You know, he's going to wear
• 56:02
  Speaker 10: an A and rotate an A. You know, he's taken
• 56:06
  Speaker 10: his leadership skills to another level. I don't think that
• 56:09
  Speaker 10: he wasn't in the past, but, you know, it's good
• 56:12
  Speaker 10: to see these guys get out there and compete with
• 56:14
  Speaker 10: each other. And they know that in order for our
• 56:19
  Speaker 10: team to get better, they have to compete with each
• 56:22
  Speaker 10: other to make each other better.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Lane, I just.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: For this team to take that next step, and I
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: had Vince Dunn on earlier, and I think one of
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: the things that's forgotten sometimes when the entire country and
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: the national media across the country is bashing this organization,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: I think one of the things that's forgotten, you guys.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: Were a playoff team up until the last few weeks.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: You had, and it was the same core of guys.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: And.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: but for this team to take that next step without
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: big free agency in this league anymore with no movement
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: clauses and all those things that happen, young guys have
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: to take that next step. I'll throw a couple of
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: names at you because I've, I've just, what you see
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: and what we hear, Berkeley cat, what do you see
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: from him early for compared to last year?
• 57:01
  Speaker 10: Uh, I wouldn't say I, I would, I would hesitate
• 57:05
  Speaker 10: to use the word completely different, but he's, you know,
• 57:10
  Speaker 10: the decision was made last year. Um, To keep him
• 57:14
  Speaker 10: and have him play against men, practice against men on
• 57:18
  Speaker 10: a daily basis. And with the intention that he was
• 57:24
  Speaker 10: going to be much better this year coming to training
• 57:27
  Speaker 10: camp than if he would have got sent back to
• 57:28
  Speaker 10: junior last year. It's night and day for me right now.
• 57:33
  Speaker 10: It was a great decision. Berkeley, you could argue that
• 57:37
  Speaker 10: Berkeley is... Probably the best player or one of the
• 57:41
  Speaker 10: best players at seeing the ice and making plays. So
• 57:46
  Speaker 10: I think, you know, obviously he's still, it's his second year.
• 57:50
  Speaker 10: He's obviously young, whatever. But, you know, the sky's going
• 57:53
  Speaker 10: to be the limit for this guy. I see so
• 57:54
  Speaker 10: much potential for this young man.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: I'll wrap it up with this. What do you, and
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: we'll do this again as training camp in the preseason,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: which lasts like for a.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Second, continues. What do you want to see this weekend?
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: from guys. And actually, let me open this up. I
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: know you're not going to give me a specific answer.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Are there roster spots to be won over the next
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: week and a half?
• 58:16
  Speaker 10: There's always roster spots to be won. I think the
• 58:20
  Speaker 10: way that you build a culture in an organization is
• 58:26
  Speaker 10: you open up competition and whoever's the best player place.
• 58:34
  Speaker 10: And it's sometimes difficult in professional sports, um, you know,
• 58:37
  Speaker 10: with different things, contracts and whatnot, but there's always spots
• 58:41
  Speaker 10: to be won. I would never, ever, uh, say there isn't,
• 58:45
  Speaker 10: you know, uh, if you look at where our hockey
• 58:48
  Speaker 10: team started last year to where our hockey team ended,
• 58:51
  Speaker 10: Ben Myers was on our team. Jacob Melanson was on
• 58:53
  Speaker 10: our team. Uh, you know, I, I, I like to
• 58:57
  Speaker 10: go with, uh, if you earn it, you get it
• 58:59
  Speaker 10: and you deserve it. Um, As far as this weekend goes,
• 59:04
  Speaker 10: we're going to play a couple of younger lineups. There's
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: only four exhibition games. too, which is wild. And then,
• 59:11
  Speaker 10: you know, if you've played a certain amount of games
• 59:13
  Speaker 10: in the National Hockey League, you can only play two. So,
• 59:17
  Speaker 10: you know, it's going to be interesting coming out of
• 59:18
  Speaker 10: the gate. But, you know, what we're looking for is
• 59:22
  Speaker 10: we're looking for guys to, you know, take a step, compete,
• 59:26
  Speaker 10: and showcase themselves. I don't want anybody to do anything
• 59:29
  Speaker 10: that's out of character. Just play their game.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 59:34
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• 59:36
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• 59:39
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• 1:00:52
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  Speaker 8: I'm doing good. I'm not sitting in the middle of
• 1:00:57
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• 1:01:00
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• 1:01:03
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• 1:01:04
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• 1:01:05
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• 1:01:07
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• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: Does a great job. She probably will, like every other producer,
• 1:01:12
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• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: No, I'm just going to try to use listener suggestions
• 1:01:17
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• 1:01:20
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• 1:01:22
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• 1:01:23
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• 1:01:24
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• 1:01:27
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• 1:01:29
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• 1:01:31
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• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: We have just a great group of people that call
• 1:01:35
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• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:40
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• 1:01:43
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• 1:01:46
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• 1:01:50
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• 1:01:51
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• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Our guy Mike is on with Brandon Funston.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Hi, Mike.
• 1:02:01
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• 1:02:03
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• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Where is Mike? Let's try this. I'm nervous about today
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden. I know.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, week two is all right. Let's try Ricky
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: and Tacoma. We'll go back to Mike if we can
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: in a second.
• 1:02:18
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• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: I have no idea what is happening.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: They're all there.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 8: Hold on.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: I'm going to try something.
• 1:02:29
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• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: You try something. You try something. All right.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: Funston, while we do try something. uh and she does
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: do that let me let me ask you a quick
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: question actually a yell in my ear when you get
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: stuff figured out there after the first week this is
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: an interesting question who are some sleepers that are only
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: rostered in 50 of the leagues that you would pick
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: up who's out there that that just kind of is
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: i like the term sleeper funson who's out there that
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: you're kind of glancing at yeah.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 8: Let's see so devon vele got a bunch of uh
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 8: he's a receiver with the saints they they play at
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 8: an insane pace and until jordan tyson's back he's going
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 8: to be you know somebody that's going to be regularly
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 8: in the mix um there he had a nice he
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: showed up pretty well um you know jalen coker was
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: 60 percent on so he was close i mean he's
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: looking like the go-to guy some people are arguing right
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: now that he'll be the number one guy over tat
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 8: mcmillan there uh I liked Caleb Douglas in Miami. You know,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: if you watch the tape on him, he was wide
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 8: open for most everything. And I think that might just
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 8: be the way the teams, the defenses play Miami is
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: just like contain the edges, concentrate on, on HN and
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 8: Malik Willis and their, you know, potential to run or to,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 8: you know, for them to throw the short area past
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 8: to HN. But like, it seems like it's opening up
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 8: some spots for the wide receiver. So Caleb Douglas is,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 8: is pretty interesting. You know, Romeo Dobbs was a popular
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: waiver target this week. To me, my problem with him
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 8: is he's not an alpha. He's not a chain mover.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 8: He's not the kind of guy that goes and sticks
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: the 10-yard route and moves the chain. And we saw
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: that against Seattle. They brought him in to play off A.J.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 8: Brown and kind of be that 50-50 ball guy. So
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: I'm a little bit dubious. I'm a little bit dubious
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 8: about that Patriots passing game right now, to be honest.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: All right, let's try it again. Mike in Edmonds. Let's
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: see if we can get Mike on. Mike, you there?
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 9: I'm here.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Can you hear me? We've got success, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: We have success. Mike in Edmonds. First up, fire away, buddy.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: What do you.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: Got?
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 7: Well, first, welcome aboard, Ashley.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 9: Thank you. So I need full PPR. I need two
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 9: of these four guys, Mike Evans, Matthew Golden, Luther Burden
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 9: III for Amarian Hampton, and thanks.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Mike.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 8: Probably going to go with Amarian Hampton just for the
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 8: touchdown upside there, and I'm going to go with Mike Evans.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: He had, you know, the Rams defense, the secondary stuff,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 8: he showed out pretty well. It looks like he's clearly
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 8: going to be the guy. They lost dribbling, so it
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: even makes him even more of a go-to guy, and
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 8: he got Miami this week. So I like all those options,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: and Golden sort of strives jumped up and was kind
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 8: of a nice week one surprise as well. He saw
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 8: a ton of targets, but I think I feel very
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 8: like those two guys are going to be very safe.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: For you, at least a really good chance for them
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: both to score a touchdown. By the way, I just
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: got a funny text from Quinn. Remember when Mike and
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: Edmonds was a touchdown only league? Those were the days.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 8: I kind of just answered it like he was still
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 8: a touchdown only league. I just gave him the guys
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: I felt like are going to be the best chance
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 8: to score.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: This is how it works, Ash. We always go in
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: this order. It's an amazing group. We check in with
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: Ricky in Tacoma.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Hi, Ricky. How are you?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: How's it going, ladies and gentlemen?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: We're good, buddy. We're good. What do you got? What
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: do you got going on?
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and welcome aboard, Ashley.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 12: All right, yeah, as far as me scoring standard or
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 12: half-point PPR, it doesn't matter too much for me, Brandon,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 12: but I got these three quarterbacks in the mix of
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: all six leagues. So I got Drake May, Trevor Lawrence,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 12: and Jackson Dart. How would you rank them this week?
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 12: Because I'm confused which one.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah, probably in reverse order of what you just said.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 8: Like I just said, Drake May, I just don't know.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 8: I mean, I think it's going to be a pretty
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 8: conservative passing game. I kind of expect Hunter Henry might
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 8: be the guy that becomes his go-to main guy. But
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 8: he's going to have to run a lot for, I think,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 8: him to really post big fantasy numbers. But the Trevor
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: Lawrence thing, going into Denver after the beating they just
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: took last week, I'm a little bit worried about about
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 8: that Denver defense with Trevor Lawrence. But I have him second,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: and I would go Jackson Dart first. He looked really good.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: He's running, but he's running smartly. You know, the Rams,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 8: they're not full on the front line yet with Miles
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: Garrett out and Aaron Donald not there. So give me
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 8: Jackson Dart.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: All right. Love it.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: This is also– I'll give Ashley kind of the heads up.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: We go from really one extreme to another with our
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: second and third calls. Brandon, would you agree with me
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: with that? Ricky's always upbeat, right? Just always fired up.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Things are good. He might be 0-5 in fantasy, although
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: he's got like nine teams, so he's always probably got
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: one team that's good. Next up, we've got a little
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: bit different tone normally. We'll see how week one went.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Rob in Burien.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: You're next up. What's up, Rob?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 7: Who the hell knows David Montgomery still in this league?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: Jesus. Good first week going against David Montgomery there, Rob?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: No, terrible.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 7: He got 28 on me. Ruined every damn thing.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, what the heck?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: All right, what do you got for us this week, man?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 7: Okay, I need three of these guys. George Pickens, Luther
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 7: Burden III, Parker Washington, or Sam Laporta.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: So three of the four?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Three of those four.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Three of the four. What do you think, Funston? Who
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: do you get right?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I go with all the receivers just
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 8: for the upside. I like Sam Laporta to have.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: A good game.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, probably Parker. Parker Washington is the one
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 8: that worries me, but he had 19 points or more
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 8: in PPR leagues in five straight games if you count
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 8: the playoffs last year. He's just on a roll as
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 8: a go-to guy there, so I don't think you can
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 8: see him. Probably came down to Burden and Laporta for me,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: but I just love the upside for the Chicago Bears this.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Week, so. I think I want Burden out there.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to bang through as many of these as
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: we can. We next head up to Sultan, Washington. Steven
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: in Sultan, the first of our Sultan two-step every week.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Hi, Steven.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: Can I fill the towel in like the Mariners season now, please?
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: Yes. What do you got, buddy? What do you got?
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 7: Super flex league.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: I lost Darnold and Murray last week, so now I
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: get to pick up somebody between these three great choices
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: Locke which I'm favoring Malik Willis or Geno Smith.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 8: I actually don't have Locke ranked higher than Malik Willis
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 8: I just the rushing upside it's going to be 30
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: to you know 50 or more rushing yards every week
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 8: and I think he's a threat to get you 60
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 8: or 70 some weeks as well. He's just that much
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 8: of a threat as a runner.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: It helps.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 8: So I'm going to go ahead and say Malik Willis
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 8: over Drew Locke and Geno Smith. I have Geno and
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 8: Drew Locke back-to-back, but I have Malik Willis a few spots.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Ahead of him. God, the Geno Smith horror show.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: My God.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: We stay in Sultan. Derek in Sultan. You're up next. Hi, Derek.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: I'm live in traffic right now as we speak.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Shocking. Shocking development.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: What do you got? I love it.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: That's the real Sultan two-step.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 9: So I need one of these two, and I'm wondering
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 9: which one I should start this week and which one
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 9: I should rely on the rest of the season.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: Between Jaden Daniels or Drake May.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean... I mean, I don't know what that means.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, they're good enough that when A.J. Brown comes
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 8: back that you sort of can go back and forth
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 8: from week to week with either one of them. I'm
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 8: definitely going Jaden Daniels this week. I think it's going
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 8: to be a matchup against Dallas. I actually have him
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 8: as my number four quarterback this week. Got the threat
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 8: of the run. And, yeah, so I don't know if
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 8: that was like should I then get rid of Drake May.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 8: It's a tough time to get rid of him because
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 8: you're basically selling him low or cutting him low. But
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 8: I never like to have two quarterbacks that good on
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 8: the same roster because it becomes a weekly nightmare trying
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 8: to decide who to play.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to get about three more in here, Ashley,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: just so you know. Let's start first with Aaron in Vancouver.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: What's up, Aaron?
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 7: Hey, what's up, guys? Just driving my UPS truck, trying
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 7: to get some fantasy answers.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: Two of the three I need.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: I got Chase Brown, Roma Dunve, Cam Scadaboo.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Two of the three.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 8: Is it a PPR league?
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 7: It is a one-half point PPR.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 8: Give me the certainty of the running backs. Rome could
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 8: have a big day. I really like the matchup against Minnesota,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 8: but I feel like both of your running backs have
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 8: a good chance to score. I asked if it was
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 8: a PPR because Sagatabo had a lot of points through
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 8: the air last year. He did not get targeted in
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 8: week one, which was a little bit surprising, but Like
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 8: I said, Chase Brown, Cam Scadable, guaranteed touches, pretty decent
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 8: shot at a touchdown.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: I would follow those odds.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: Beautiful.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: We're going to get a couple more in. Chris Emburian,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: you're up next. Hey, Chris.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 7: Good afternoon, gentlemen.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: My apologies for missing last week.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 7: I was home over.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: No worries.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: I am desperately in need of a tight end, full-point PPR.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 12: These are my four options.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: Harold Fannin Jr., Mark Andrews, Jake Ferguson.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 12: Or the local favorite, Kate Odden.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I have Kate Odden not in the mix there,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 8: but I'm trying to look through. You said Mark Andrews?
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: Or did you not?
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 8: Okay, I think I have Mark Andrews of your guys.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 8: I have him the highest, just because I'd be surprised
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 8: right now if Zay Flowers plays. He's got the hammy injury,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 8: and they are down. They lost their other rookie receiver,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 8: Jacoby Lane, so Mark Andrews could be in play as
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 8: a heavy target this week. I think it's a good
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 8: week to pick up a tight end. There's a bunch
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: of tight ends I like. David Njoku's out there. If
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 8: Ladd McConkie doesn't play, he put up some late fourth
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 8: quarter numbers with McConkie out. He becomes very interesting as
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: well in case he's floating out there. But I actually
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 8: have Andrews one spot ahead of even him.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: Love it. Okay.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: Kyle in the claw. Enum scratch, we call it. What's up, Kyle?
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, what's up?
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: How's Funston and Ian doing today?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: We're good, man.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: We're good.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: How about you?
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 8: No complaints.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 7: Oh, not too bad.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: Not too bad. Nice sunny day. You, Ash, is doing
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: an awesome job.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 7: But I got one question, full PPR.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: I need two.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 7: DJ Moore, Chris John, Judkins, and Pickens.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 8: And is this a PPR?
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: I need two.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going to go DJ Moore for sure. I
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 8: love him this week. I thought he had a tough
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 8: matchup last week.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 7: I saw him last week, and that was horrible.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he was great. And now you get Detroit Lions.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 8: I think it's the highest Vegas total of 55 in
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: that game. It's the highest game of the week. And
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: he just looks like he's settling in like Stephon Diggs
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 8: back when he was there a couple years ago. Then
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 8: it comes down to Pickens and Judkins. If it's PPR,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 8: I'm going to go Pickens.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Those I didn't get to on the phones, my apologies.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: That's 100% on me. We were out here at Kraken.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: We were a little late getting in, so that's on me.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: We'll get as many calls in as we can next week,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: so thanks for calling in. We won't get all the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: phone calls in. Ashley, if you've got a little music,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: you can hit me. I'm going to start with the
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: very first text that came in today. Funston, we had
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: a bullseye.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: We had a 12-0-0-0-0. We had a bullseye. So hopefully
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: the 425s tuned back in are still listening.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: Here you go.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Schultz, Pitts, or Henry, tight end, premium, full PPR.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mentioned I like Henry with A.J. Brown out.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 8: I think he might lead this team. So I would
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 8: go him. My one caveat, honestly, is Michael Penix is
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 8: practicing full today. He might actually get plugged back into
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 8: the Atlanta lineup. That might actually swing me towards Kyle
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 8: Pitts because they were a pretty good connection last year.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 8: But as it stands right now, give me Hunter Henry.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: We have six that came in one second after 12.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: Six.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: People are crazy. Third and 11 is 1-0. That's our
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: buddy Keith. Half point PPR. Marshawn Lloyd, Tony Pollard, Travion
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Henderson need one.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 8: I think Marshawn Lloyd is the way to go there.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 5: He.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 8: He kind of split with Chris Brooks early, but towards
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 8: the end of that game, they were just feeding Lloyd
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 8: more and more, and I kind of feel like that's
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 8: where the momentum's going, that he'll get a bigger workload
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 8: this week. So give me Marshawn Lloyd.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: One second after PPR, choose one for my flex. Bucky Irving,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: Christian Watson, or Terry McLaurin?
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 8: How many?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: Do you see one?
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: Irving, Watson, or Scary Terry.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 8: I don't know how you can say Christian Watson. I
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 8: think you've got to go Christian Watson. Bucky Irving would
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 8: be my second choice, but Watson looked really good last week.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: Scary.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Terry's a nightmare. Michael says, Herbert, Knicks, or Mahomes need two.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Must be a super flex.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think Mahomes is going to have a nice
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 8: week this week against Indianapolis.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: So it's just Herbert or Knicks, right? Which one of
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: those two?
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm down on both of them this week, but
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 8: I think Knicks has a tougher matchup, so give me Herbert.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Jordan Love, Drake May, or Baker Mayfield, PPR League?
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 8: I think I have... Jordan Love, one spot ahead of
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 8: Baker Mayfield for the win there against the Jets. It's
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 8: like the way his combo of receivers. He wasn't very accurate, honestly,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 8: last week, but it didn't really seem to matter. But
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 8: they're throwing the ball a lot more with.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs out.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, we're going to get to a couple
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: of the two seconds after the national, I'll have you
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: get three or four of the ones that have come
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: in recently.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: How's that? Okay.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: Uh, let's see. Next one.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: Still two seconds afterwards. Uh, full PPR need to waddle
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Debo Parker, Washington or Travis ATN.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 8: Uh, I would go ATN and, uh, Parker Washington.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Uh, from the four to five Jordan Anderson, uh, Addison
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: or Kenny Gainwell.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 8: Um, I guess because of the matchup, it's Cleveland. They
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  Speaker 8: could be ahead in that one. It could be a
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  Speaker 8: little bit of gain while action. I just watched all
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  Speaker 8: of the Minnesota game, and you wouldn't know Addison was
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  Speaker 8: out in the field for most of it. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I'm kind of waiting to see him have a connection
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  Speaker 8: with Carson Wentz before I want to climb on board.
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  Speaker 1: Last one for me, Flex. Matt Stafford or Caleb Williams?
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Caleb Williams, I have number three. Going against Minnesota,
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  Speaker 8: I believe they give it the most– They give the
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  Speaker 8: most fancy points to wide receivers, but they were a
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  Speaker 8: team that was getting thrown on last week, and Caleb
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  Speaker 8: Williams was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Ashley, give me three or four that just
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  Speaker 1: came in in the last half hour or whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to do. Fire away.
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  Speaker 6: From Daniel, need two for PPR. Rasheed Rice, Xavier Worthy,
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  Speaker 6: or Denzel Boston?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rasheed Rice.
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  Speaker 8: He didn't have a great first game, but he's still
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  Speaker 8: their number one option.
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  Speaker 1: He was invisible in that first game, right?
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  Speaker 8: He really was. It'll be a little better matchup for
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  Speaker 8: him this week.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 6: I saw a lot of this one. Is it worth
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  Speaker 6: it to keep Sam Darnold, or should I drop him?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, he was probably like quarterback 23-ish, you know,
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  Speaker 8: just coming into the season fully healthy. I mean, you
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  Speaker 8: don't certainly have to keep him unless it's a super
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  Speaker 8: flex league. If it's a super flex league, I'd figure
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  Speaker 8: out a way to keep him.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, just real quick, I'd interject being at
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  Speaker 2: practice yesterday. He was throwing. When we came out and
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  Speaker 2: the media was allowed to come out there and he
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  Speaker 2: saw that we were coming out, he immediately went back inside,
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  Speaker 2: but he was throwing. It is definitely not long-term. Definitely
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  Speaker 2: not long-term. But I think the bigger key is what
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  Speaker 2: you said. He was 23rd coming into the season, right?
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  Speaker 2: So it depends on what you have.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what else?
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  Speaker 6: All right, last one here from the 206. Dobbins or
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  Speaker 6: Dowdell and Sutton or Shakir?
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  Speaker 8: So they need one of each of those. Okay, Dobbins
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  Speaker 8: over Dowdell. And R.J. Harvey is a little banged up,
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  Speaker 8: so he could get a little bit more run. And
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  Speaker 8: then uh give me give me court and sutton over
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  Speaker 8: shakir okay.
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  Speaker 2: How about that look at that ash see this is
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  Speaker 2: how we do it this is i'm going to tell
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  Speaker 2: you actually this is honestly this might be the most
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  Speaker 2: stressful segment we do during the.
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  Speaker 6: Week well it doesn't help when all of a sudden
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  Speaker 6: all the audio on the phones doesn't work even though
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  Speaker 6: they're all there i could talk to them all they
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  Speaker 6: were all there they could hear you guys i'm like.
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  Speaker 2: What is going on And I say stressful. It's only
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  Speaker 2: I think the first time Jessamyn did it, she's like,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell is going on here? You've got these
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  Speaker 8: I feel like for the last three years, we've been
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