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10-14-26 Hour 3 - Jared Bednar/Bo going thru it right now (maybe), Keys to the Game/Embrace the small markets · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: is the Jared Bednar Avalanche Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 4: We're joined as we are every Wednesday by the head
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  Speaker 4: coach of the Avalanche, Jared Bednar. Coach, congrats on the win.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, doing good. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Get enough sleep? Think the boys are going to be
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  Speaker 4: ready to go this back-to-back?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the thing is, if they're not, then likely Dallas
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  Speaker 3: isn't either. You know what I mean? So it's like...
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  Speaker 3: This is one of those ones where you're catching a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a break from the back-to-back. You're also
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  Speaker 3: playing another tired team instead of having one resting waiting
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, I know the back-to-backs are neat. They offer a
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  Speaker 2: different feel, almost a playoff series feel. I get that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's Dallas, and these teams do not like one another.
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  Speaker 5: Would you have.
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  Speaker 2: Preferred that you play Dallas with some time off between games,
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  Speaker 2: or does it even matter to you?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think it matters. You're going to get
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  Speaker 3: X amount of back-to-backs in the season. And like I
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  Speaker 3: just kind of mentioned, it's like if we would have
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  Speaker 3: went to Dallas and this was scheduled back-to-back, we'd be
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  Speaker 3: getting arrested teams sitting here waiting on us. And so
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  Speaker 3: for me, I'd rather play the team twice in a
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  Speaker 3: row and look at them, make some adjustments and see
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  Speaker 3: how the guys implement some of the things that you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about. And yeah, like last night's games, freshen your head.
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  Speaker 3: That was a hard fought game, the most physical game
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  Speaker 3: of the year so far and most demanding, I would say. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and now we're getting ready to go again. But they're
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  Speaker 3: in the exact same boat, you know. Like, they jumped
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  Speaker 3: on a plane after the game and flew here and
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  Speaker 3: slept here, and everyone will head to the rink at
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  Speaker 3: the same time to play again. So it's just a
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  Speaker 3: more level playing field, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 5: I sat on the couch with my teeth in my
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  Speaker 5: mouth last night doing nothing. I'm watching.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I got.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, these guys, they at 7 to 1 in the morning, Coach,
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  Speaker 5: they ask me questions. I say, well, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: have the coach on in two hours. We can ask him.
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  Speaker 5: So let me ask the questions they want. Defensive zone coverage.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's been iffy at times this season, and
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  Speaker 5: they acknowledged that last night because your goalie had a
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  Speaker 5: great performance. But what do you want to do to
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  Speaker 5: clean that up on a consistent basis? And I know
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  Speaker 5: that you guys will. I know you talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: You go over the film.
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  Speaker 5: But what do you want to do? How do you
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  Speaker 5: want your guys to proceed?
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  Speaker 3: What we're talking about right now is just at least
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  Speaker 3: concepts and building blocks of our D-Zone coverage. We're competitive
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  Speaker 3: in D-Zone coverage right now. We're playing hard. We're closing
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  Speaker 3: plays out. We're moving in the right direction. I can't
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  Speaker 3: say I look at the five games and I don't
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  Speaker 3: like our D-Zone coverage. What we've had is game one,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like the way we defended, but most of
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  Speaker 3: that was off the rush. D-Zone was fine. We dug
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  Speaker 3: in and did a good job defensively for a couple games.
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  Speaker 3: If I look at what we did against Toronto, it
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  Speaker 3: was an awareness thing. Like it's arriving into D zone
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  Speaker 3: coverage when you got to sort out where everyone should
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  Speaker 3: go and stop and then get into your coverage. We
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  Speaker 3: were wandering around and circling around. So it starts with
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  Speaker 3: a simple habit of just getting back in the D
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  Speaker 3: zone in the middle of the ice and stopping and
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  Speaker 3: then a little bit of communication and then you can
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  Speaker 3: start your coverage and do things right. When we get
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  Speaker 3: into D zone coverage organized, We've been competitive and really good.
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  Speaker 3: So if you look to the Toronto game, when you're
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  Speaker 3: not talking, you're not sorting things out, and you're circling
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  Speaker 3: instead of stopping, players just become open through seams. So
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  Speaker 3: it's habits. It's a commitment. It's not from lack of work.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting back there, but then we're just kind of
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  Speaker 3: thinking it's, I don't know, we're just a little bit
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  Speaker 3: too casual at the start of everything. And last night,
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  Speaker 3: loved our coverage all night long. What happened, though, is
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  Speaker 3: when we went back for pucks, we get into a
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  Speaker 3: situation where we have the puck on our stick and
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  Speaker 3: we're thinking breakout. And if we turn that puck over,
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  Speaker 3: then there's a quick strike, right? So that's not D-zone coverage.
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  Speaker 3: That's puck management for me. And one of the best
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  Speaker 3: times in hockey to create a scoring chance, a quality
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  Speaker 3: scoring chance, in my opinion... is on a four check
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  Speaker 3: because it's hard to do, but if you can steal
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  Speaker 3: the puck from the other team, they're all going to
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  Speaker 3: go for a breakout and you're thinking offense. So someone's
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  Speaker 3: likely going to be open. It's like, it's just a
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  Speaker 3: quick reaction play. And that's how we gave up the
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  Speaker 3: bulk of our chances last night.
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  Speaker 4: Jared Bednar with us. All conversations with the coach are
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  Speaker 4: Colorado's hockey team. Um, I don't know, like, it's a
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  Speaker 4: weird situation, a rumor going around. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: you can comment on this, but Dave Haxtell, rumors are,
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  Speaker 4: and talks with Arizona State or something. Is there anything
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  Speaker 4: you can say about that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't at this point. That is true, though.
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  Speaker 3: They reached out to talk to Hack about their position,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, I'm going to have to leave it at
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  Speaker 3: that for right now, and then we'll just see where
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  Speaker 3: it goes, and I'll fill you guys in if there's
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  Speaker 3: something to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Blackwood played his best game of the season
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  Speaker 2: last night. He clearly made a couple saves that changed
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  Speaker 2: the pace of the game. Is that what he needed confidence-wise?
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  Speaker 2: Were you ever worried about his confidence?
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  Speaker 3: I was not. No, yeah, I had a good talk
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  Speaker 3: with Blackie, you know, just kind of coming out of
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  Speaker 3: last game, and Like he's been, he's been exceptional. And
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  Speaker 3: I said it in the, in the Toronto game or
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  Speaker 3: after the Toronto game, like I couldn't even fault him
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  Speaker 3: for any of those goals. You know, they're elite shooters,
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  Speaker 3: guys like Nylander, Matthews coming in and, and where we
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  Speaker 3: left those guys open. Um, I talked about the awareness
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  Speaker 3: of where we, which part of the ice we left
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  Speaker 3: those guys open in, in that game. Um, Those were
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  Speaker 3: all grade A chances, and they scored on them. Like
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  Speaker 3: the rest of our team, I also said that to
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  Speaker 3: win that game, we needed to make a play on
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  Speaker 3: the defensive side of it. We needed to make a
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  Speaker 3: play on the offensive side of it. We hit a
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  Speaker 3: couple of posts and crossbars and didn't put the puck
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  Speaker 3: in the net. And Baki would have been one of
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  Speaker 3: those guys could have helped us make a play at
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  Speaker 3: any point in that game with a big save that
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  Speaker 3: kept us in it. But I've really liked him every
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  Speaker 3: day on the ice, practice games, training camp, all of it.
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  Speaker 3: That was like the first little wrinkle night where I thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, usually he might be a little bit better there.
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted to see him respond, and I thought
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  Speaker 3: I agreed with you. In this Dallas game, just because
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  Speaker 3: of the intensity of the game, who you're playing, how
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  Speaker 3: difficult it is to score, you have to make some saves,
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  Speaker 3: and he did. He did. They have a talented group
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  Speaker 3: of forwards over there. They're going to get a chance
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  Speaker 3: or two, the high-quality chances, and when we needed saves,
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  Speaker 3: we were sloppy in the first period. We gave up
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  Speaker 3: more scoring chances in the first and in the second
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  Speaker 3: and more in the second and the third, so we
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  Speaker 3: got better as the game went on. But when we
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  Speaker 3: needed him, especially in the first period, he was outstanding,
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  Speaker 3: and that gave us a chance to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: So great response from him and really from our whole
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  Speaker 3: team when it comes to the defensive side of the game.
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  Speaker 5: I have heard your comments about your superstar center fighting,
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  Speaker 5: and I agree with you. But, Coach, I kind of
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  Speaker 5: like it a lot. I like the fact that he–
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  Speaker 5: He's not going to take anything from anybody. He's at
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  Speaker 5: that point in his career where he's a superstar. He's
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  Speaker 5: a great goal scorer, playmaker, leader, and everything else. And
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  Speaker 5: then he's like, you know what? I'm not taking your crap.
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  Speaker 5: As long as he doesn't get hurt, are we cool
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  Speaker 5: with that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, that's just the way he's wired, you know? So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got two fights and six games. do
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  Speaker 3: the math I don't want that pace to continue I
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  Speaker 3: just think you're running you're running like it's too it's
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  Speaker 3: too risky for us you know like last night okay
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  Speaker 3: we're we're down a man to start the game up
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  Speaker 3: front we got Svetch he's in the penalty box for
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  Speaker 3: 17 minutes um at the time and then and then
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  Speaker 3: we lose Mack like we're running pretty thin there um But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is going to happen. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen at times. And I can't say I'm not okay
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  Speaker 3: with it. I just think we've got to be smart
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  Speaker 3: and we've got to be careful and we've got to
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  Speaker 3: sort of figure it out as we go along. But
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you're just in the heat of the moment and
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  Speaker 3: something happens and It's going to happen. That's just the
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  Speaker 3: way it is. If you're riding the right level of
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  Speaker 3: emotion in a hockey game, sometimes things happen and it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to stop.
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  Speaker 4: Sam Malinsky, he was a big part of what you
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  Speaker 4: guys did last year. I know he played with Cale
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  Speaker 4: being out last night, but it looks like maybe he's
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  Speaker 4: struggling a little bit to start this year. Is that
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  Speaker 4: a confidence thing or what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's possible. It's a little bit of a confidence thing.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just getting going you know and um it's
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  Speaker 3: it's just like sort of building your individual foundation as
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  Speaker 3: to how you have success and putting all the pieces
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  Speaker 3: together um so for sam a lot of it starts
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  Speaker 3: with his skating i think he i think he's getting
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  Speaker 3: a little bit better every game that that's what i
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  Speaker 3: think and so he's putting it together he understands what
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  Speaker 3: his process is, what he needs to do. But now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's got to implement it all at the
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  Speaker 3: same time. And, like, I'm not worried about Sam. I
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  Speaker 3: think Sam's heart's in the right place. He's working hard.
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  Speaker 3: It'll come together. It'll come together for him. And, like,
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  Speaker 3: last night might be, you know, he had a couple
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  Speaker 3: plays where I was like, oh, that wasn't great. But
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  Speaker 3: he also did a lot of really good things to
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  Speaker 3: help us win the hockey game. And playing in our
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  Speaker 3: one-two hole with Taser. So a lot of ice time
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  Speaker 3: against really good players. Playing second power play. So he
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  Speaker 3: did a lot. And I think it'll come around for
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  Speaker 3: him quickly if he just stays with it.
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  Speaker 2: Update on the newest father, Cale McCarr. Congratulations to him
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  Speaker 2: and his wife.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know yet. I haven't heard anything yet this morning.
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  Speaker 3: But I also haven't checked my phone. I just got
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  Speaker 3: out of bed before I called you guys. So it's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be happening. And yeah, so I can't give
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  Speaker 3: any information on that either. Maybe I'll have it for
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  Speaker 3: Connor at pregame.
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  Speaker 5: All right, cool. Coach, we haven't really ever talked about this.
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  Speaker 5: How about, I mean, you've got some pretty good rivals
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  Speaker 5: in this league. I mean, Minnesota, obviously, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: guys play the Blues tough in Vegas and Dallas. but
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  Speaker 5: how important is it to have a division rival like
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  Speaker 5: the stars where, you know, there's just, there's just anger
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  Speaker 5: and angst, you know, and you have, maybe it just
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  Speaker 5: means a little bit more. Is that, is that a
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  Speaker 5: good thing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. I think it is. I think it's, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you want to be
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  Speaker 3: playing against teams. The best part about this game is,
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  Speaker 3: is how hard it is to win. And, and, and
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  Speaker 3: having to give it your all to win and lay
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  Speaker 3: it all out there. And you're that against teams that are,
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  Speaker 3: that you see as dangerous, equal to you, you know, and, and,
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  Speaker 3: and it's playoffs wins and losses. When you play a
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  Speaker 3: team that sort of builds a rivalry and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've had some heartbreaking losses against them. So, And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like Minnesota, like if you're facing a team in the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs multiple years, a handful of times in five years,
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  Speaker 3: it's when things start, you know, getting fired up because
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  Speaker 3: both teams, like, they don't want to lose. These guys
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  Speaker 3: are full of pride and full of character, and they
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  Speaker 3: want to win. So, you know, you get hockey, you
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  Speaker 3: get hard-fought hockey, and that's what everyone's looking for, including
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  Speaker 3: the players and coaches.
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  Speaker 4: Um, last thing for you, coach, appreciate the time. I
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  Speaker 4: know that you said you don't really have an update
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  Speaker 4: on this, but I just want to make sure you're aware.
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  Speaker 4: This company allows for three months off for paternity leave.
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  Speaker 4: If kale wants that, does he get it?
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  Speaker 3: It just went through that.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: I said, didn't one of you guys.
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  Speaker 5: Just go through that? The guy who asked the question.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, just so you know, if, if kale does what
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  Speaker 2: Brett did, you won't have him back until the all-star break. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'll try to talk him into, like, July, August, September.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you remember last– he took a month and
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  Speaker 5: a half off, Coach.
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  Speaker 4: It was gone. It was four weeks. It was four weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever.
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  Speaker 5: I was good.
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  Speaker 2: I was good. The crazy thing is your kids hate you.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: That, too. Coach, always appreciate the time. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 4: for the time this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Coach, is that it?
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Thank you, Coach.
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  Speaker 4: All right, see you. Jared Bednar joins us every single Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: Can you– Listen to him talk. Can we just talk
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  Speaker 5: about your coach for a second, Vic? He tells you
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  Speaker 5: everything you need. If you just listen to what he says,
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  Speaker 5: he'll tell you everything you want to know. He's very
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  Speaker 5: honest about things.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 4: Game tonight.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you could learn something from him. Just be
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  Speaker 5: calm and honest and own it. Tune in.
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  Speaker 4: Full coverage tonight, 92.5. Pre-game powered by Ramos Law starts
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  Speaker 2: Mojo Lombardi and Kane and Texters are reminding me right
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  Speaker 2: now if Bo Nix throws for over, what was the number,
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  Speaker 2: 225 or 250?
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  Speaker 4: 225.
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  Speaker 5: 225.
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  Speaker 2: I will indeed, Friday's show, consume a large energy drink.
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  Speaker 2: and turn into Mosier essentially. And spaz, spaz Mosier.
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  Speaker 3: Three.
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  Speaker 4: If you throw us a 300 yards, you're doing crack
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  Speaker 4: on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Remember?
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was meth.
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  Speaker 4: No, well, no crack. I said, I said one, remember
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  Speaker 4: I said one single crack rock is all I need.
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  Speaker 5: Um, I don't know what he's going to do. This
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  Speaker 5: is going to be a defensive battle, I think. Both
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  Speaker 5: these defenses are pretty good, dude.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so hang on a second. We talked to Ian Furness,
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  Speaker 4: who works in Seattle, on 93.3 KJR. He's describing the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 4: and he goes, yeah, got a quarterback we just don't
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  Speaker 4: really trust right now, and the lack of a running
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  Speaker 4: game really doesn't help. Can't really get things going in
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  Speaker 4: the pass game. Defense gives up some yards, but, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they've gotten turnovers, and they've– Don't give up many points.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, are you describing our football team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like they're the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: It really does.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds very similar, Vic. I mean, very similar. What's
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  Speaker 5: the over-under in this game? It is only 40 and
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  Speaker 5: a half.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet.
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  Speaker 5: So people are thinking, yeah, that this is.
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  Speaker 2: What do you expect?
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  Speaker 5: This is going to be a defensive dogfight.
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  Speaker 2: What do you really expect?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, if your quarterback said, I want a new contract,
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  Speaker 4: would you give it to him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not, I don't really know. You're saying all the
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  Speaker 4: things that we say.
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  Speaker 5: It's very, very similar.
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  Speaker 4: Very, you know, the, the Broncos too, like is interesting.
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  Speaker 4: He's pointed out the Seahawks have given up a lot
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  Speaker 4: of points defensively because of what the offense has done
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  Speaker 4: to them, which is turning the ball over.
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  Speaker 5: He said there were last weekend or this past weekend
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: against the Niners, 21 direct points from the offense turning
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: the ball over. And the defense is like, hell, we
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: just held them to a three and out against this
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: vaunted offense. And you're turning the ball over. We got
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: to get our butts back on the field again. But
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: here's what's crazy.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: The Broncos defense has given up almost 350 yards a game.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're closing things down in the red zone.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, they are.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Piece of good news. Riley Moss attended practice yesterday.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Was he limited again or full?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: He was at practice, at least.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: And the other guys have not been at practice. Patrick Sertan.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Sertan and Hufanga are not playing.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: And you got to wonder, you know, their availability in
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: the secondary is going to be a big question mark
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: when you got JSN.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: But if he's the... And this is Ian Furness told us.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold throws the ball to one guy. And go
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: back and look at their numbers. Like, JSN has an
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: 11-catch game. The next guy has, like, two. If you
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: are tasked... That one guy gets open. But here's the thing.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Vance Joseph is really good at what he does. If
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: his responsibility, from what we're being told, is... Eliminate this
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: one guy. And you're going to be in really good shape.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: I think you can do it. Even with a beat-up secondary.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: So, okay.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: But over the years.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: I'm sure Vic defense would say, hey, listen, eliminate Randy
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Moss and you're going to be great. And then Randy
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Moss has 10 catches for 206 yards and three touches.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but Randy Moss had, you know, Chris Carter.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I know, but you know what I'm saying is that
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: this guy, these are just elite guys. They're going to
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: get theirs. You can try to, you can try to
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Vic to eliminate them or shut them down, but they're
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: still going to eat. They're still going to get to
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: the buffet table and eat.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I need to ask you guys, if the Broncos find
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: a way to win Thursday night, And heck it's tomorrow.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: My goodness.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: It's tomorrow.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: You realize that if they win tomorrow night, not today,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: but tomorrow, today, they would be four and two in
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: this first six game stretch that we all anticipated would
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: be three and three is a success, right? We had
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: three and three is a great job. If they're, if
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: they win this game, are we just, what are we?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: What are you?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: If they're four and two and you have reason to
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: complain on Friday, what are you? I, I feel like
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a bad person.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I feel guilty thinking about that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, what are you?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: What is this?
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Guess what? When's the last time the Broncos? Well, no,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: they lost to Jacksonville at home late last year. But
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: they win at home is the point. Like, they win
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: when they play at home. To answer your question, I'm
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: probably a jerk.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: What if they win the same way? What if it's that?
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I want to reemphasize something to people. My tongue. after
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the Chargers game, and like many other games prior to that,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: where they win a football game, but I can't bring
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: myself to be happy, is very simple. I just feel
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: like you could be so much more. You're already a
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: great football team, and you could be more than that
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: if you just hit a few plays offensively a game.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: So style matters to you?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Kind of. And it's not just for style's sake. It's
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: for when you play against San Francisco or you play
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: against a team like that in the postseason, you need
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: to hit some plays.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: This is an ultimate mind-blank. Can I explain to you, Vic?
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: I'm standing for this. Let me put my camera up.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: I'm standing. Can I explain to you what a mind
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: blank this is to me? It's because everything that I
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: see is not sustainable. Or it shouldn't be sustainable. Shouldn't be.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: It actually has been.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: So you're saying to me, what if they win the
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: same way? Well, then they win the same way. But
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: it shouldn't be sustainable. But Seattle is the defending Super
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Bowl champion. I know, but what I'm saying is that
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: the way you're winning should not be... You shouldn't be
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: able to perpetuate that indefinitely, but they do. Brett, I
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: don't know what to do with myself because it should not.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: You can't lose turnover battles and time of possession. You
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: can't be one of 12 on third down and win
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: games perpetually, but they do.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: You're yelling.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I know, so help me.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: It's not just. Help me help myself, please. It's not just.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: It's not just you. It's not just me. It's not
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: just Vic. It's not just the Broncos fan base.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Help me understand.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Listen to Bo from yesterday, and you tell me.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: That's honestly, really, and truly the biggest battle right now
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: is like.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: First of all, just that. That he called it a battle.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: It's a battle between being aggressive and being conservative. Just
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: that word is weird.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: That's honestly, really, and truly the biggest battle right now
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: is like... want to be aggressive, want to be aggressive,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: want to be aggressive. And then you see stats and
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: you're like, well, this team is causing the most turnovers
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: in the league. And then you're like, okay, well, I
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: can't put my team in a situation where I'm turning
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: the football over and putting our defense in a bad spot,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: giving them a short field. And at the end of
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: the day, it's like, who cares? You know, like, why
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: would I go out there worried about throwing an interception?
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Why would I go out there trying to throw every
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: football 50 yards down the field?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Just play the play.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: That is somebody that is standing in front of a
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: microphone with people recording him and asking him questions, but
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: is speaking directly to himself.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: It sounds like he just got out of a session
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: there about how to be better.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And it's fine. It's not an issue if you have
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: to talk yourself through it. But to hear him do
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: it publicly like that, there's a lot of thinking going
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: on upstairs.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Who cares?
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: And you mentioned this. He's doing that. He's got his
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: head coach saying, hey, man, let it rip. He's got
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: his coach saying, I went through and looked at his
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: quotes post-game to see what he was saying. Well, why
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: would Sean Payton do that? Is he trying to find
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: out where his head is? Exactly.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of analysis here.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: A lot of it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Everybody's analyzing and psychoanalyzing.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Well, Vic, because I think that Bo Nix and Sean,
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: and by the way, Sean Payton said it the entire offseason.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: They have to, in their own heart of hearts... You're
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: winning games. You're a 3-2 team. But they have to
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: realize this can't be sustainable. So they're trying to figure
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: out ways to improve, and they're trying to figure out
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: what the hell's really going on.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: We don't have on this show, and it's the only
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: show I can think of, we don't have any ex-pro
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: or college– oh, you're a college athlete, briefly. But no
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: ex-pro athletes on this show. So I can't ask you
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: guys this question, but I can– I can throw this
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: theory out there. We sometimes assume that these dudes, they
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: get to this level and they're so confident and they're so,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: you know, in their right mind all the time. I
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: think we're missing. I think these guys get nervous like
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: anybody else would.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Like when we get nervous over a two foot putt,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, they get nervous and maybe he's going through,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: maybe he's dealing with nerves. Maybe something came up. Maybe
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: there's a something in life, whatever.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: And it's okay.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: It's okay to be human.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: It's okay.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You know? And it feels like he keeps having to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: tell himself that it's going to be all right. The thing, though,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: is I keep walking around here looking at our window.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that guy's a weird looking son of a gun anyway, man.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: That guy's weird looking at our windows.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: The weird thing about this is Bo Nix, when he
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: talks about playing, quote, hero ball, that's what he said
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: in the press conference. He associates hero ball with danger.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: But that's when he's at his best.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Hang on.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I associate hero ball with Bo Nix playing the best,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: the highest level that he can play.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Bo Nix is especial.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: And I just think somebody's got to grab him and
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: just say, it's okay to make a mistake. Like, it's
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: okay to do that.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Remember last year when the season started for the Nuggets
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and Cam Johnson went through it? And he kept going
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: through it, and then he went through it. And I
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: don't know if you remember, he had that post-game session
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: with the media that he let it all out.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Yes, he did.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: That's what Bo's session reminded me of. It reminded me
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: of a player just coming to grips with, I'm in
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: one here.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I'm in one.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And you guys are going to have to show me
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: some grace until I get out of this one.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Would you agree that that is certainly the most he's
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: bared his soul as a player that I've ever heard?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: All right, somebody asked this. Somebody asked this. Vic, could
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: it be that he's a new dad? Can I jump
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: in the truth tree real quick?
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And now we're going to get into psychology. So when
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I was at Channel 4, when I was doing the news,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I had– News guy. Yeah, the news guy. I went
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: through some tough times, and I didn't talk openly about this,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: but I remember I had my first child. This was–
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: 1998 and I had my first kid and then I
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: had my second kid in 2000. So now I'm a
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: father of two young kids and I don't know what
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: hit me.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: My beautiful baby boy.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden I started getting really anxious. I
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: started having some panic attacks on the air, on the air.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I started going through it and I didn't know what
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: was going on. And a lot of it delved back
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: to you're a new father. You have all this responsibility.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: You feel like it's not just you anymore. You've got
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: mouths to feed. And it really hit me hard. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I felt it. I'm not saying this is what he's
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: going through. I'm saying everybody goes through something at some point.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Your sleep's different.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Everybody goes through something at some point. And not until you,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: you know, he is like you saw yesterday. He's telling
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: people what's going on in his mind.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: He's never really done that before.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: No, it's therapeutic.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: You let people know. You let people know. You let
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: people know what's going through your mind.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: You don't hold it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: You don't store it deep inside. When I got cancer,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I told people what was going on.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's therapy.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Right?
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: It's therapeutic to let people know.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: And I think this kid, I call him a kid,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I think he's going through something that it may be
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: football or not football related. Real good kid.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: It's all right.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You know? Make mistakes happen and understand. Acknowledge that they're
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: mistakes and you're going to be fine.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: To say it's a narrative, that's where I disagree with him.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: It's not a narrative. I mean, it's your play.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: It's reality.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You know, run that soundbite again. That's the one that,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the only issue I have is that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: It's the same as when I'm playing really good. I think,
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: you know, playing good and playing bad, it's all, you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: it's a narrative. I think it's honestly kind of something
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: we make up. I don't think, you know, necessarily I'm
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: playing any different than what I'm normally playing. It's just
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: every once in a while a ball will bounce this
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: way or something will happen this way and We'll get
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: a pressure on this look when we had somebody open.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: I had to throw it away, and I wanted to
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: hold on a little bit longer, and the guy was open,
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: and next thing you know, stat line looks different. We're
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: talking about something completely different. So I'm confident in my preparation.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: I'm confident in my coaching, and I'm confident in our
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: offense and the way we're going to structure the game.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: He's trying to justify his play by saying it's the same.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: It's not the same.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Well, it's almost like he feels perhaps, Vic, that people
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: have an agenda. about how they feel about how he's
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: playing or on a week to week basis. I don't
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: think that that, I mean, I hope he doesn't think
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: that because I don't think, at least certainly not from
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: this program, there's no agenda. We just talk about what
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: we see. And so this narrative and so on, it's,
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: It's just how you're playing, bud, and I know you're
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: in one. I know it sucks. I know it does.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: I'm sure he feels a lot of pressure, too. I mean, honestly,
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: the pressure to play good, Brett, to get that next
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: contract and not go to a fifth-year option.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: That's part of it, too.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: It all figures in in some capacity.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: But is.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: His, like, everything is the same? They win on Thursday.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: They're 4-2.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Against really good teams. Like, is his way of saying
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: that like, hey, I'm not losing football games.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: What else do you want? He's saying, look at the numbers,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: look at the record.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Is that what he says by numbers and stats and stuff?
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Is it like, hey, I'm throwing up dubs here, okay?
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Might not look pretty. Certainly I'd love to have the
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: 80-yard bomb, but I'm winning football games.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Drop back, do it to the other team.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: And he probably thinks I'm winning football games largely by
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: not turning the ball over and trusting my defense when
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: I have to.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: But is it sustainable, bro? Well, 14-3. Trip to the AFC.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: This is Vic. I don't want to shout. I don't
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: want to be accused of shouting. But nothing makes sense.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense to me. Looking at the numbers
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: and looking at what my eyeballs see, it doesn't make sense.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: But they're winning. And so you really, you can't complain.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: This is a real sports dichotomy, Brett, that I haven't
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: seen in quite a long time.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: But here's the weird thing. It's not just the people
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: that do our stupid job and just spout off at
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: the mouth. The coach making a shift at offensive coordinator
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: four games into the season told you that too?
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Like, that's the guy in charge of the team that's like, yeah,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: something's got to be done here.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Yet you're winning. Why couldn't he just tell himself what
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: he tells us? Leave Webb calling plays because we're winning.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 30:53
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• 31:01
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• 31:05
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• 31:09
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• 31:34
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• 31:37
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• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Mosher.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Stars score two goals a game. Who they are. Two
• 31:43
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• 31:44
  Speaker 2: What they is.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: What they is. Each team had a power play goal
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: last night, by the way. And the Stars have lived
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: on the power play for an awfully long time. This
• 31:51
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• 31:55
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• 31:57
  Speaker 5: They're in a hotel. Avs got their own beds.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: It's probably going to come down to Scott Wedgwood and
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Casey DeSmith. I like our guy. Get to three goals.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Stay out of the box. Give Wedgie some help and
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: some love. You're going to win. You're going to get
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: back-to-back dubs.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: It'd be nice to sweep the stars this early in
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the season. And you said it best. You asked Coach
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the question. I love the fact that these teams do
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: not like each other.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Love it. Need more of that.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Need more hate.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: This is something, look, man, these head-to-head games early in seasons,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: you kind of brush them off because it's early. This
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: matters in April. Like, this matters towards the standings. You
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: can get a real jump on Dallas right out of
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: the gates for sure. So, again, 6.38 tonight right here
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• 33:15
  Speaker 5: So. Um.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: We were joined by Ian Furness in Seattle earlier, gave
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: a preview of the Seahawks. We were joined by Jared
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Bednar at 9 o'clock. So Bednar did say about the
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Dave Haxtell thing, which this is weird. Like you're in
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: the middle of a season, your assistant coach is going
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: to take possibly a job somewhere else that's in college
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: and not the pro level. But he said basically, yeah,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: he's talking to him, and that's all I can really
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: say because we don't know anything other than that. But, Moshe,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: how many times does a coach leave for another job
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: in the middle of a season? It just seems odd.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, listen, Dave Haxtell's been a head coach in
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: the NHL twice. Coached, I think, USHL, but he was
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: very successful in North Dakota. I don't, I mean, look,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: he gets a chance to, if he does take, I
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: don't know what's going on.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Okay. How would I know what's going on? I didn't
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: ask you that. I just said, wouldn't it be weird
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: if somebody took a job in the middle of a season?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: You know what that sounded like?
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: That was like me trying to start my snowblower.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: It would go and then it shut off.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: That's what that was. That was that answer. It's incredibly unconventional,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: but ASU had a coaching situation pop up that they
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: did not expect. Where the kid, where they were working
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: outdoors in the heat and the kid collapsed and It
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: was a bad thing. Anyway, so it's just a very
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: weird circumstance overall. And I don't know what I don't know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: so don't ask me. Because I ain't telling you.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Just trying to have a casual conversation?
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Some hockey stuff?
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I'm having a day. Actually, I'm having a week.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Having a life.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: This is from a texter. I don't know if you
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: guys ever read texts and if you ever give thought
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: to listener input or suggestions for ideas.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: No.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: You may be very well aware of this already, but
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night the probable starting pitcher for the Tampa Rays
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: is Griffin Jacks. Griffin played four years of baseball at
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Cherry Creek, went on to the Air Force Academy, became
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the first ever Academy graduate to play in the major leagues.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I just thought it might make for an interesting segment.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It's a pretty good hometown story. Thank you for the intel. Skeens,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you hear Air Force, you think of Skeens.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I know, but he played there before leaving. But thank you. Yes,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: we do take suggestions. I appreciate that suggestion.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: On the request line, Tampa did win last night. They
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: got that series knotted up one to one. Isn't it weird?
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: And I hate the.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: I hate to be part of this discussion because I
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: can't stand it. But I think it's the way that
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: things are marketed. Man. Rays and Guardians... It's great baseball.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: It is great baseball.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I didn't know the game was over.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: That's the thing, though, dude. If that was the Yankees
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: playing this, you would have seen a million promos. I'm like,
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think they do themselves favors.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: And I didn't know where the game was.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Can I ask why, though? Why is that? Why in
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: the NFL can Buffalo or can Green Bay have a
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: football team that people care about?
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: It's weird.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Television viewing has become weird.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you guys.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: I turn on my TV. You go to your whatever
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: distribution channel you use, whether it's YouTube TV, Comcast.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Fubo, whatever it is. You go to that channel lineup,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and you say, all right, what's on TV tonight?
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: What's on TV? What do I got?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: And you see what's on, and if it's there, great,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go to this. But sometimes these games
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: are on different platforms, and I don't have that menu yet.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: But that's not what that's about. It's about the way
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: that they market the teams. And I feel bad. You
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: know what's weird about Tampa? Tampa has been consistently one
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: of the best teams in the league for like 15 years.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: They've been damn good.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: More than that, 20 years. And it's just like the
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: MLB does not care about them, that they exist. That's
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: a 98-win baseball team this year. How often have you
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: heard anybody in the MLB talking about the Tampa Bay Rays?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you're hearing a lot about the Dodgers series.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Well, of course. And that's what I'm getting at. I
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: just don't understand why baseball doesn't embrace when smaller market
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: teams do this. This is kind of the point. We're
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: going to have a lockout, guys. We're having a lockout
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: next year in baseball.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: How long do you think it'll last?
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: I doubt it'll go the whole year. I think people
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: will look at their paychecks and be like, I need
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: to get some of those.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: I have it on very, very good authority. The players
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: are digging in.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Most guys dig in and training camp holdouts too. And
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: then they see the fines and the checks not coming
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: their way. And then eventually they break. Like all I'm
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: saying is talk, talk.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: I tell you what, talk to me next October. We
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: have a season.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Hang on though. You're going into a lockout next year.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: What is the lockout about? What are, what are they doing?
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Salary calorie cap.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Why does that matter? So that smaller market teams can
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: hang with the Dodgers and the Mets and the Yankees payrolls.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: In addition to a salary cap, there's going to be
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: a salary floor.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Understood.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: But the point of this is for competitive balance, right?
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: To make sure that the Dodgers can't go get school
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: ball when they're already spending a billion dollars on their roster. Well,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: that's for the little guy to be a bigger player.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: In the thing.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: You have a 98-win baseball team that's been good forever
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: that the MLB just doesn't care about. If your point
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: is to make this more parity and get everybody more even,
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: then treat them evenly.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Give them the same attention. That's where the NFL does
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: a tremendous job. The NFL does it better than any league.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: The Green Bay Packers, think about that for a second.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: And I know they have a history, a Lombardi history there.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: But think about that market.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's take the Titans, Vic. The Titans are terrible.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: If in two years the Titans are a 12-1 football team,
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: they will be marketed as must-watch Sunday night football Titans.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: And whoever.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: They'll do that. The MLB just doesn't. And it's very frustrating.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Why is it frustrating?
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: Screw baseball.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Screw you.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: How about that? I love playoff baseball. I love the
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: intensity of it. I love every pitch means something. I
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: love everything about it. It's just a different game. Did
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: you guys see? Speaking of, I just saw this. ESPN
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: has launched a new channel. It's a YouTube channel called ESPNJV.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: It's a channel for kids that will introduce sports and
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: athletes to the next generation of fans. Mose, you ought
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: to start your day by going to ESPNJV.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: What programming are they having?
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: In the latest episode, there's something called Learn About LeBron James.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Jesus God. You like getting bailed by the kids?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Speaking of how to market.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just throw him out there.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: That's exactly what I'm going to.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, it starts young.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: And it's just basketball.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: But you know what's funny about that?
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: All these targeted campaigns. I don't think I can get
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: more depressed than I am than I just did.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: This is what's funny. The targeted campaigns that they have
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: the kids. And it is like... It's almost offensive to me.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: We're going to brainwash you into liking this.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: Like Nickelodeon games and stuff, okay, fine, that's fun, whatever.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Kiefer and Riker did one of those cartoon things. When
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: I was a kid... I liked sports because I watched
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: the sports.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: When I was a kid?
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: I didn't need SpongeBob to make me like baseball.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: I've never understood it.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: The whole SpongeBob Super Bowl thing, I don't get it.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I interviewed SpongeBob.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Garfield, the cat plays goalie.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: You know what I did when I was 10? I
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: read Sports Illustrated.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so did I. That's what I did.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: I did the same thing.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: I watched sports.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: I said that my mom would take me to the
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: dentist in the dentist's office. I get the Sports Illustrated.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, kid, kid, come watch the game. You want to
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: watch the game?
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Come watch the game.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Why is that hard?
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: I will say this. They had a Sports Illustrated for
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: kids that I got because they had little, like, cards
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: in there.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Your issue today, you got a big problem. You got
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: a big problem. Why is he doing this to us?
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Don't do that off air.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: It's sickening. But it is so true.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I didn't need Bugs Bunny. To make me
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: like football.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if you're watching the Roadrunner, beep, beep.
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: I say that's an interception. Foghorn Leghorn. By the way,
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Foghorn Leghorn, can we give that chicken some props?
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: That guy was great. If I started a team today,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Fred Flintstone would be my left tackle.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: 100%.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: I'd put Flintstone at left tackle.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Who are you guys putting at running back? There's only
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: one right answer.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: The Roadrunner.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: The Roadrunner.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: No.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Who?
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: He's your wide out? He's your wide out.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: For sure your wide out. Scooby-Doo is my dumb right
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: tackle who's always making mistakes.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Can't play the left tackle. Scooby-Doo can't protect the blinds.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Raggy? No. Rolling?
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: My running back is this guy. Oh, yeah.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: How are you going to tackle him? Stop it for
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: a second. Foghorn Leghorn is completely underrated.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: He's the coach, though. He ain't playing.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: 100%. But when he would take that dog up by
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: the tail and whack him with a piece of wood
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: on the butt. It's just a great character, man.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: You know who my diva receiver is?
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: Pepe Le Pew.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Pepe, you can't date the cheerleaders.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Somebody said he's a rooster, you dill hole.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Speedy Gonzalez is probably your spell back, your third down back,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: catch the ball in the backfield, that sort of guy.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: Who's the quarterback? It's Buggs.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Buggs sort of runs the show.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he does. Buggs has it.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Buggs Bunny has everything handled. I got you. Don't worry
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: I'll think about the trick plays Buggs Bunny would come
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: up with.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, what are other positions here? What are they
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: hanging on hand?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I tell you, Charlie Brown won't be my kicker.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: No.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: You know what?
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Maybe Charlie Brown can kick, and he's just never allowed to.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's the case.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, Lucy's the holder?
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Dude, thicker kicker.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Guy cut.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Gone too soon.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, dude, he can't make field goals, and he's
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: blowing it.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: He's gone.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Beavis and Butthead are my guys holding up the signs
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: for the plays on the sideline. Anyway, all right. Fact checker, please.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's Fact Checker.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: Fact Checker.
• 44:11
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• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Hang on, Nelly.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Hang on.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: I think you might be the only one to catch
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: this reference. I think this is too new for you guys.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: My middle linebacker is Johnny Bravo.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm on.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Johnny Bravo is exactly what you think he looks like.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: But he looks like somebody. He's this dude. He just
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: wants chicks and he wants to work out. Johnny Bravo's
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: the guy.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Nelly.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I've got a couple for you today.
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: First of all, the only certainties in life are death, taxes,
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: and Mosher screwing up his live reads because someone.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Got the giggles.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: Listen, it's raining outside, and the guys are mad that
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: I'm clearing my throat. Rocky Mountain Men's Clinic, they're not
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: going to help you with that, okay? But if you
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: have low T, low testosterone, they can help you with that.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: They've got five locations in Colorado to help you. Would
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: you just shut up?
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Steve, Steve.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to be able to get through this
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: because these guys are jerks. We're going to have to
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: do this later.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Hit it.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: How did you not break, like, how did you not
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: power through?
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: It was just a little clearing of the throat.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: Let me give a shout out. I power through every
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: first half hour of every show. You're more professional than me.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: Let me give a shout out to you.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: The first hour of this show, that's why I can't
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: come to studio anymore. The first hour of this show
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: every morning is this.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: Let me give a shout out to Curtis's wife. Curtis says,
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: I'm in the car with my wife and she just said,
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: these guys are getting paid to do this? Shout out
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Curtis's wife. Yeah, Curtis's wife we are. And usually we're
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: better at it than this segment, okay? So don't hold
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: it against us.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: And speaking.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: And I'm sure.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: You don't screw up at your job at all, Curtis's wife.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Well, Curtis's wife, speaking of screw-ups... You.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: Tell me where you work, I'm coming to your job.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: I'm going to watch you screw up.
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: And I'm going to go, you get paid.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: To do this?
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: Well, Mose, you can join her in the fartmouth corner.
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: Brett banished you there earlier, and you did not listen
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: to his request to go to the fartmouth corner, but
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: would you listen to that command if it came from
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: the captain of the avalanche?
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: Jeez, Mose, just go to the fartmouth corner.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: That's funny.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: That's true. Actually, I wouldn't. Just took a squirt.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: Listen to the captain of the Avs next time.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: I always do.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: All right, game 638 puck drop tonight right here on 92.5
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: Stars and Avs. We'll break it down tomorrow along with preview. Broncos, Seahawks,
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Thursday night football. Have a wonderful Wednesday. We'll talk to
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: you tomorrow.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Love you. See you.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: Jeez, Mos. Just go to the fart mouth corner. I'm
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: on my way.