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10-27 H4: Rick Neuheisel Joins, New Judge & Breaking News · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: As part of our continuing in-depth college football coverage, it's
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Speaker 1: time for our weekly visit with college football analyst and
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Speaker 1: former head coach Rick Neuheisel. Brought to you by Taco
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Speaker 2: Oh, every Tuesday, thanks to Taco Time, the chance to
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Speaker 2: chat with Rick Neuheisel. former UW head coach and currently
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Speaker 2: with CBS Sports as pretty much their top dog when
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Speaker 2: it comes to college football, and he joins us to
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Speaker 2: share his brilliance, his insight with us every single week.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Coach.
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Speaker 3: How you doing, my friend? Doing great. All is well?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all is well, all is well. And after a
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Speaker 2: bye week.
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Speaker 3: Seahawks looked pretty good this last weekend, didn't they?
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Speaker 2: What do you think of that, huh? Oh.
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Speaker 3: Holy smokes, that's what we call defense. When Mahomes doesn't
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Speaker 3: make it to the red zone, that's unique brand of ball.
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Speaker 2: When Mahomes is looking at the end of the galaxy like,
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Speaker 2: what am I facing? Yeah. You've done something. You've achieved something. But, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that was impressive on Sunday night. And, of course, we
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Speaker 2: had a weekend without Huskies football heading to Lincoln this weekend.
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Speaker 2: What is it like? Take us through. Those of us
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Speaker 2: that have never been to Lincoln, Nebraska, never experienced what
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Speaker 2: that is like. Tell us what it's like to go
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Speaker 2: play a football game in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's important that you're asking me, Because
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Speaker 3: I went there and it was a haunted house. Those
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Speaker 3: who have been there since 2016 have experienced a much
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Speaker 3: friendlier atmosphere than when I was there. The folks there
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Speaker 3: are incredibly gracious, incredibly kind. They wish you well on
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Speaker 3: your way home. They're the kind of folks that will
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Speaker 3: make you cookies for the trip home. But they want
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Speaker 3: to bludgeon you. They've been it's been a sellout there
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Speaker 3: since the early 60s. I was born in 61. I
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Speaker 3: think the sellout streak started in 63. So that's 64
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Speaker 3: years ago.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: Or 63 years ago. And it's just an incredible, incredible
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Speaker 3: atmosphere to play in. Go Big Red is part of
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Speaker 3: the deal, part of the, you know, the thread of
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Speaker 3: every elementary school, every high school in the state. And
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Speaker 3: it's the place to be, Lincoln, Nebraska, when there's a
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Speaker 3: home game. And yet, for whatever reason, they haven't won
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Speaker 3: a game against a ranked opponent in 31 straight tries.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 3: 31 straight tries. And you're talking about a team that
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Speaker 3: was the national champ, I think, three of the four
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Speaker 3: years that I was the head coach at Colorado.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: So an amazing history, and they're just trying to get
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Speaker 3: it brought back. And this year's version of Nebraska is
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Speaker 3: pretty good. This Anthony Calandria, their quarterback who came over
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Speaker 3: from UNLV, having been at Virginia before that, is pretty good.
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Speaker 3: He's a runaround type of guy. Their defense has been salty.
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Speaker 3: The last two weeks, they've had near misses. They lost
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Speaker 3: with 30 seconds left in Eugene, and they lost to
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Speaker 3: Indiana with a chance to win the game late as well.
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Speaker 3: So this is again, another opportunity for them to play
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Speaker 3: a really good team and Washington's going to have to
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Speaker 3: play really well to get it done in Lincoln.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy your snickerdoodles. I made them from scratch and I
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Speaker 2: hope that you can eat them without your teeth.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And you can trust them. They'll be delicious. But usually
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Speaker 3: you're licking your wounds and in need of some substance, sustenance.
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Speaker 3: No question.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're made with sugar and your own blood. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they'll be delicious. You'll enjoy those on the ride home.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the decision Jed Fish is confronting this week.
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Speaker 2: I think that 97 out of 100 Husky fans would
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Speaker 2: say it's a no-brainer. Elijah Brown should start at quarterback
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Speaker 2: this week. You said Elijah Brown should start at quarterback
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Speaker 2: this week. Softy comes on our show, says Elijah Brown
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Speaker 2: should start at quarterback week. But there's something in my
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Speaker 2: gut that says he's going to start DeMond Williams Jr.
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Speaker 2: What do you think?
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Speaker 3: Well, Jed goes to all the practices, right? So we're
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Speaker 3: going to trust Jed. He wants to win. He's got
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Speaker 3: no motivation other than to win. But to me, unless...
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Speaker 3: Devon Williams has figured it out and showing that in practice,
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Speaker 3: how to play more like Elijah Brown, then Elijah Brown
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Speaker 3: should be the quarterback. The one thing you know about
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Speaker 3: Elijah Brown, he knows how to play like Elijah Brown
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Speaker 3: and gets the ball out of his hand and so forth.
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Speaker 3: You do sacrifice a little bit in athleticism, but sometimes
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Speaker 3: that athleticism, at least in the first portion of this season,
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Speaker 3: was a detriment. More often than not, worked to the
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Speaker 3: detriment of the Washington offense than to an advantage, because
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Speaker 3: the ball wasn't getting out on time. You were taxing
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Speaker 3: the offensive lineman, and while he's a great athlete, he
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Speaker 3: was also getting sacked, and the sack fumble was the
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Speaker 3: reason you lost on the road to SC, or you
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Speaker 3: were talking about bigger uh, aspirations for the season's end.
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Speaker 3: So to me, Elijah Brown, as long as he's continuing
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Speaker 3: to get better and improving and get the ball out
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Speaker 3: of his hands should be the quarterback.
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Speaker 2: Reg new ISIL is with us, uh, talking some college
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Speaker 2: football and big picture in college football, man. We've had
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Speaker 2: a lot of controversial officiating here in the last few weeks. And, and,
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Speaker 2: and soon we're going to start showing those college football rankings, uh,
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Speaker 2: without fail, fans, they want this, they want that, and
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Speaker 2: at the end of the year, if there are two
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Speaker 2: teams on the board that have the same record and
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Speaker 2: they pretty much boil it down to who has the
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Speaker 2: better record or not. And I don't think it should
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Speaker 2: be that way. I think that we should, if we're
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Speaker 2: going to have a committee, consider all of the factors
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Speaker 2: that go into a college football season. So I want
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Speaker 2: to ask you, I think the better team won out
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Speaker 2: of BYU and Notre Dame that Saturday in Provo. I
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Speaker 2: think the better team won in UCF over BYU this
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Speaker 2: past Saturday. But I don't think that the better team
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Speaker 2: won in Alabama and Georgia this I think a call
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Speaker 2: determined the outcome of that, and I don't think the
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Speaker 2: better team that day won between Miami and Florida State.
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Speaker 2: I think bad officiating cost Florida State that victory. So
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Speaker 2: I'm asking you, long way of asking you, how much
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Speaker 2: should these controversial games and some of this controversial officiating
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Speaker 2: factor into the committee's decisions when they choose the precious
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Speaker 2: 12 teams to make the tournament?
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Speaker 3: Listen, what I just heard there was that you have
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Speaker 3: your opinion, and that's what the committee was designed to
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Speaker 3: produce was 13 different opinions. And then you put it
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Speaker 3: into a formula, you mix it all up, and you
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Speaker 3: come out with your 12 teams with all those different opinions.
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Speaker 3: My hope is that everybody will have a strong opinion
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Speaker 3: in the committee room and stand on what they believe
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Speaker 3: is right, hopefully taking all this in. What is difficult
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Speaker 3: to believe, given the jobs that these folks have, is
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Speaker 3: that they're seeing the games like you and I are
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Speaker 3: seeing them. They've got schools that they're affiliated with that
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Speaker 3: that's who they're watching. And if they're not watching at all,
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Speaker 3: now they're just subject to wins and losses, which is
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Speaker 3: ultimately what this has produced over the years. Very few
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Speaker 3: times have we taken a team with a worse record
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Speaker 3: and leaving somebody out with the exception of Florida State.
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Speaker 3: And that was because Alabama won the SEC that particular year.
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Speaker 3: And because Alabama won the SEC, you had to put
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Speaker 3: them in. And yet Texas had the same record and
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Speaker 3: beat Alabama. So now you had to put them in.
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Speaker 3: You didn't have room for Florida State. So you just said, well,
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Speaker 3: Jordan Travis got hurt, so you guys are out. And
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Speaker 3: it was an easy deal because the ACC wasn't considered
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Speaker 3: to be as strong a conference as the SEC. And
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Speaker 3: I think that was before Texas actually got in. But
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Speaker 3: Texas was the bigger brand. So... At day's end, what
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Speaker 3: we're seeing there are a lot of people that have
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Speaker 3: commercial interest in the game of college football. And so
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Speaker 3: we're going to get those kind of teams. Eventually, I'd
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Speaker 3: like to see us get to automatic qualifiers when we
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Speaker 3: get this all figured out economically and from a schedule
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Speaker 3: standpoint where people just can't pad their schedules with wins.
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Speaker 3: I think that's going to happen. I think that's why
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Speaker 3: Greg Sankey agreed to the 2014 playoff idea, because I
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Speaker 3: think once that thing gets inked, the next thing will
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Speaker 3: be we'll see a big scheduling alliance between the Big
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Speaker 3: Ten and the SEC that will produce more money, which
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Speaker 3: is how he'll get his money back from having lost
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Speaker 3: the SEC championship game.
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Speaker 2: Are you enjoying the parody of college football, this newfound parody?
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Speaker 2: I mean, here we are, not even to Halloween. and
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Speaker 2: the number two-ranked team in the country already has a
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Speaker 2: loss this year. There are only three undefeated teams left
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Speaker 2: in college football from the Power Five conferences, and we're
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Speaker 2: not even to Halloween at this point. This is just
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Speaker 2: rare territory, and it speaks to more parity than we're
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Speaker 2: used to seeing in college football. Are you liking it,
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Speaker 2: and what do you chalk it up to?
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Speaker 3: In 2011, Alabama and LSU played for the national championship,
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Speaker 3: and it was fantastic. a rock fight. I mean, Alabama
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Speaker 3: won the game, but it was that the two had
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Speaker 3: played earlier in the year. And I think the final
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Speaker 3: was nine to six. Right. And they played in a
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Speaker 3: kind of a boring snoozer where Alabama won and Saban
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Speaker 3: got himself another championship in today's top 25, Indiana. Now
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Speaker 3: just imagine your 2011 self was listening to the future
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Speaker 3: of the college football game. And I was giving you
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Speaker 3: the top 25 and telling you that Indiana was number four.
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Speaker 3: that Utah was number six, that UCLA was number seven,
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Speaker 3: that BYU was number eight, that Kentucky was number nine,
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Speaker 3: that Texas Tech was 13, that Wake Forest was 14,
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Speaker 3: that Houston was 18, SMU 19, Boise 20, Northwestern 21.
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Speaker 3: Arizona 22, Missouri 23, Oklahoma State 24, and Wisconsin 25.
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Speaker 3: You would sit there and go, that's not possible. And
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Speaker 3: yet that's where we are, and I'm here for it.
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Speaker 3: I love it. I just want it to be more
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Speaker 3: bundled in some common sense business plan so we're not
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Speaker 3: continuing to lean on the fans to supply the money
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Speaker 3: for the players. There's enough in the television industry to
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Speaker 3: get this done if we do it correctly and go
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Speaker 3: to the marketplaces, one, and get this thing solved. If
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Speaker 3: the suits in the room can figure that out, I
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Speaker 3: love that all these teams are getting a chance at
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Speaker 3: chasing the title.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's phenomenal. I think that is perfectly put.
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Speaker 2: Really interesting stuff from Rick Neuheisel here this morning. Our
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Speaker 2: Tuesday conversation brought to you by... taco time all right
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Speaker 2: well let's talk about the schedule uh that is upcoming
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Speaker 2: this week and um uh they're always interesting i mean
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Speaker 2: every week so damn interesting because of the upheaval that
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Speaker 2: we've had especially in the last couple of weeks not
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Speaker 2: as many top 25 uh matches on the board this
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Speaker 2: week but we can start with one of them and
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Speaker 2: that is georgia versus florida The old cocktail party, which
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Speaker 2: they'll no longer call a cocktail party. Florida's been hot
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Speaker 2: and cold this year. Georgia, I mean, they haven't exactly
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Speaker 2: been dominant. So what spills out at the cocktail party
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Speaker 2: this year?
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Speaker 3: It will be interesting. The game is played in Atlanta
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Speaker 3: this year, which is kind of a second home for Georgia.
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Speaker 3: It's being played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. It depends on what
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Speaker 3: Florida team shows up. Florida looked horrible against Missouri, looked
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Speaker 3: horrible in that loss. They looked horrible against South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: And yet they came to Austin, Texas and played their
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Speaker 3: tails off. Well, their quarterback that day was Tramell Jones.
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Speaker 3: Aaron Filo was down. So we don't know which quarterback's
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Speaker 3: going to play. I would guess that it's going to
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Speaker 3: be Jones. He's more versatile, provides a little bit more
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Speaker 3: of an athlete playing quarterback. And after seeing Byron Brown
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Speaker 3: for Auburn against Georgia run for over 100 yards, I
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Speaker 3: think that's the way John Sumrall will lean. Georgia is
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Speaker 3: coming off a loss. You can only imagine how physical
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Speaker 3: those practices have been after losing to Auburn. Gunnar Stockton
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Speaker 3: knows he can't turn it over. I think it sets
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Speaker 3: up for a whale of a game, but I'm going
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Speaker 3: to lean Georgia in the game.
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Speaker 2: Who will hold whose hair at the end of the
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Speaker 2: cocktail party? That's the big question there.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: 22 Arizona, you mentioned them as kind of fresh blood
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Speaker 2: on the rankings board. Meanwhile, Texas Tech's coming off its
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Speaker 2: first loss. We don't know a lot about Arizona, except
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Speaker 2: that they have a quarterback that's been there, it feels like,
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Speaker 2: for 19 and a half years. So what's going to
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Speaker 2: go down between Arizona and Texas Tech on Saturday?
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Speaker 3: So a couple of backstories on these two teams. Let's
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Speaker 3: start with Texas Tech. Cody Campbell, I guess, put out
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Speaker 3: a tweet after they lost to Cincinnati last week, which
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Speaker 3: is their first loss of the season, that it was
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Speaker 3: unacceptable and that they had to be more accountable and
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Speaker 3: you just can't lose on the road to Cincinnati. And
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Speaker 3: the somebody in the press, some young producer, you know,
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Speaker 3: reposted the tweet and said, just let us fix this
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Speaker 3: thing and so forth. And Cody Campbell now wants him barred.
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Speaker 3: Nobody's to talk to this radio station. No one's to
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Speaker 3: talk to this guy. Apparently, Cody Campbell didn't read the
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Speaker 3: First Amendment of the Constitution. He wants it all suppressed
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Speaker 3: and done. And so we got that going on in Lubbock. Yeah. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: Brent Brennan, the head coach of Arizona, who's a buddy
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Speaker 3: of mine. Matter of fact, I coached him at UCLA
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Speaker 3: when he was a wide receiver. He was a G.A.
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Speaker 3: for me when I was at Washington. He's a great
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Speaker 3: young coach doing a great job. I say young and
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Speaker 3: he's got gray hair and he looks old on the sideline.
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Speaker 3: I promise you he's still young. He just bought 300
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Speaker 3: shots for Arizona fans in a bar after their Iowa
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Speaker 3: State win. Yeah. So that's the matchup we have. So
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Speaker 3: I'm all for Arizona in this matchup. I'm thinking that
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Speaker 3: Papita and company, but the key to this is their defense.
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Speaker 3: First of all, Texas Tech isn't the same defense they
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Speaker 3: were a year ago, and I can promise you Arizona
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Speaker 3: under Danny Gonzalez is playing great D. I'm picking Arizona
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Speaker 3: in this game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, 300 shots. We've got just an entire board of
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Speaker 2: hair holding. Papita for everybody. Papita for everybody. Can Cincinnati
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Speaker 2: knock off undefeated Utah?
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Speaker 3: You know, Nippert Stadium is a kind of cool place
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Speaker 3: to play. It's not a big place, I think somewhere
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Speaker 3: in the 35,000 range, but they get excited. And, you know,
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Speaker 3: the Brendan Sorsby thing was part of that narrative last week,
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Speaker 3: and they're playing Texas Tech. So they got juiced up
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Speaker 3: to get ready to play and got it done. Now
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Speaker 3: they get Utah, second time, an undefeated team in two weeks,
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Speaker 3: an undefeated team. It could be another field storm. I'm
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Speaker 3: going to go with Utah in this game, but I
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Speaker 3: think it's going to be into the fourth quarter, and
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Speaker 3: it's going to require everything out of Devin Dampier and company.
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Speaker 2: Northwestern, Oregon. How did Northwestern get so good? How did
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Speaker 2: Oregon get so bad?
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Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. When Jerry and I, my son is
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Speaker 3: the quarterback coach at Northwestern, when we looked at this schedule,
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Speaker 3: I said, Jerry, you've got to find a way to
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Speaker 3: get six wins because you're going on the road to Indiana,
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Speaker 3: you're going on the road to Oregon, and you're going
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Speaker 3: on the road to Ohio State. Those don't look like wins.
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Speaker 3: Those look like haunted mansions. So you've got to find
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Speaker 3: six other wins somewhere. Well, now this game looks completely different. Oregon,
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Speaker 3: we've just heard Dante Moore is not going to play
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Speaker 3: anymore this year. Not surprising. Oregon looks mortal. And they've
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Speaker 3: changed their offensive coordinator, which means it will probably be
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Speaker 3: a little simpler plan for the young quarterbacks to operate.
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Speaker 3: Northwestern is playing well. Aiden Childs, their quarterback, is having
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Speaker 3: a banner year, having transferred from Michigan State. But before that, Chuck,
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Speaker 3: he was at Oregon State with Jonathan Smith. So he
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Speaker 3: knows this Oregon-Oregon State rivalry well. He'll know exactly what
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Speaker 3: he's walking into. Yeah, I'm taking Northwestern. I'm doing it
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Speaker 3: a little with, you know, some trepidation because I know
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Speaker 3: how tough Oregon is. And, you know, they're on the
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Speaker 3: mat right now. And I know Dan Lanning is trying.
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Speaker 2: To get him off.
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Speaker 3: But Chip Kelly will have something to say about it.
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Speaker 3: And he knows Eugene pretty well as well.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. A lot of ties here I
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Speaker 2: hadn't even put together, but yeah, that's an obvious one.
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Speaker 2: All right, Tom, let me close with Ohio State versus USC.
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Speaker 2: How much does Ohio State change without Julian San, and
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Speaker 2: how lost is USC despite a 6-2 record?
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Speaker 3: So this game is a wildly interesting one, right?
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Speaker 2: You've got....
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Speaker 3: The USC side of it, where they're looking, is Lincoln
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Speaker 3: Riley our guy? And as a matter of fact, there
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Speaker 3: are a lot of people saying that Dave Aranda got
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Speaker 3: fired early at Baylor so that they can jump in
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Speaker 3: the Lincoln Riley sweepstakes and try to lure him back
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Speaker 3: to Texas, which is his home state, because they think
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Speaker 3: there may be some other schools in Texas looking for
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Speaker 3: a head coach. and try to create a package where
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Speaker 3: Lincoln gets some of the money from SC, but also
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Speaker 3: gets a new deal at the new spot because SC
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Speaker 3: is so close to pulling the trigger. SC had minus
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Speaker 3: rushing yardage on the road at Wisconsin. That can't happen. Remember, Lincoln,
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Speaker 3: when he was at Oklahoma, had over 3,000 yards each
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Speaker 3: of those You know, Heisman campaign seasons when Baker Mayfield
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Speaker 3: and Kyler Murray and Jalen Hurts was close to winning it.
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Speaker 3: All those guys had 3000 rushing yards. He had minus
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Speaker 3: yards at Wisconsin. That can't happen. And here comes Ohio State.
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Speaker 3: But on the other side, Ohio State, who's factoring in
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Speaker 3: the national championship conversation, has to break in a brand
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Speaker 3: new quarterback. And I'll tell you, in this day and age,
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Speaker 3: no one has second stringers anymore, Chuck. Everybody's got first
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Speaker 3: stringers and third stringers. The second stringers all transferred. Lincoln Keenholz,
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Speaker 3: who would have been the second stringer, is now the
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Speaker 3: quarterback at Louisville. So here comes either Tabian St. Clair,
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Speaker 3: who was a five-star recruit, but got beat out by
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Speaker 3: this guy, Luke Fahey, who's from Mission Viejo, going back
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Speaker 3: to Southern California. And How much of the offense is
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Speaker 3: going to be available? The good news for Ohio State
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Speaker 3: is they had a bye. But this one's wildly interesting
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Speaker 3: to see not only the narrative about USC and Lincoln Riley,
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Speaker 3: but also the narrative about can Ohio State still play?
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Speaker 3: for the big prizes?
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Great stuff today.
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Speaker 3: I'm taking the Buckeyes. I'm taking the Buckeyes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. They've got something. They've got something at quarterback. I
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Speaker 2: know that. Maybe not as good, but they've got something there.
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Speaker 2: All right. Let's close with your taco time pick of
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Speaker 2: the week. Have we covered it already, or are you
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Speaker 2: going to go outside the box?
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Speaker 3: I'm going outside the box. I'm going with, listen, I
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Speaker 3: love Indiana and I love Kurt Cignetti and the church
20:17
Speaker 3: of Cignetti is still packed to the gills. Hard to
20:21
Speaker 3: get a seat in that parish. But I'm telling you,
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Speaker 3: they're vulnerable offensively in Minnesota. We all saw Minnesota there
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Speaker 3: in Seattle. They're pretty tough defensively. Pretty dang tough. they're
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Speaker 3: getting 20-some-odd points in this game, 20-and-a-half. And I don't
20:40
Speaker 3: know that Indiana's going to score 20. So I like
20:44
Speaker 3: Indiana to win the game, but I'll take the points,
20:46
Speaker 3: give me the Golden Gophers on the road.
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Speaker 2: I like that. I might steal that for Fact or
20:51
Speaker 2: Fiction later this week. All right, sir, thank you very much.
20:54
Speaker 2: Awesome as always. Have a great Saturday, and we'll talk
20:57
Speaker 2: to you again next Tuesday. Thanks, Chuck.
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Speaker 3: I look forward to it. Go Dawgs.
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Speaker 2: All right, Rick Neuheisel joining us right here on the
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Speaker 2: radio program. Coming up next, you all remember the old judge, right? Well,
21:07
Speaker 2: wait till you get a load of the new judge.
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Speaker 4: We talked about this after the show yesterday, too. You know,
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Speaker 4: there are three or four other teams that could be
21:22
Speaker 4: in the discussion. I think that the Seahawks are one
21:25
Speaker 4: of the teams that But I wouldn't be mad if
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Speaker 4: someone stated that the Buffalo Bills are the better football team,
21:31
Speaker 4: especially looking at the win-loss record. The San Francisco 49ers, granted,
21:34
Speaker 4: they did lose to who? The Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: So I would argue that, okay, the Seahawks are one
21:41
Speaker 4: of those top teams in the league.
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Speaker 2: Are they the best team?
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Speaker 5: Seahawks fans would say yes. Other fan base would say no, so....
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Speaker 2: He's already weighing in. He doesn't want to hear my opinion. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I thought.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Look, I don't think they've been playing the
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Speaker 2: best through seven games, but if you're sleeping on them
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Speaker 2: in Buffalo, I'm sorry here to tell you after what
22:07
Speaker 2: we watched on Sunday night, you can't match this team. No,
22:11
Speaker 2: they are the best team in the National Football League
22:14
Speaker 2: right now. Okay, sorry.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 5: Premature gavelry.
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Speaker 2: That's what happens when you have a new judge. When
22:20
Speaker 2: they're not experienced and grizzled, you end up premature gavelating.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: It's a condition, actually. Did you call the finisher early?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I did, actually.
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Speaker 5: He came to finish it.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 5: The Seahawks are the best team in the NFL right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah!
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Speaker 6: If you were to play a game this weekend, any team,
22:43
Speaker 6: if it was a playoff situation, I would think the
22:46
Speaker 6: most likely team to win any sort of situation, any
22:49
Speaker 6: sort of game, would be the Seattle Seahawks at this
22:50
Speaker 6: point in time.
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Speaker 2: All right. There you go. The judge has spoken. Next one.
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Speaker 2: Pro sports is filled with copycats. And I want the
23:01
Speaker 2: Mariners to copycat how the Brewers play baseball. Get it?
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Speaker 4: I guess why not? But at the same time, they
23:09
Speaker 4: have a formula that has worked. It just hasn't got
23:13
Speaker 4: them the World Series yet. So at this point, what
23:16
Speaker 4: else can they do?
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Speaker 2: Well, they can stick to their guns. There are a
23:20
Speaker 2: lot of different things that they could do, but I
23:22
Speaker 2: want them to play that way. And it doesn't mean
23:24
Speaker 2: that you can automatically become the Brewers the next season,
23:28
Speaker 2: but man, the pressure that they put on the opposing team. Now, granted,
23:33
Speaker 2: they're hot right now, so it looks great. It's more
23:35
Speaker 2: than just philosophy. They're executing. But that pressure that they
23:40
Speaker 2: put on opposing, putting the ball in play, getting your
23:43
Speaker 2: bloops with your line drives... getting your singles with your
23:47
Speaker 2: doubles and homers, their ability to take an extra base
23:52
Speaker 2: from first and third, the lack of rigidness that it's
23:56
Speaker 2: okay to bunt every once in a while. It's okay
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Speaker 2: to just move a runner every once in a while
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Speaker 2: and not play for the three-run inning. And guess what?
24:04
Speaker 2: You might get an eight-run inning. I want them to
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Speaker 2: study this and copy a lot of what the Milwaukee
24:11
Speaker 2: Brewers do. All right, the judge is weighing in.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the last statement there is definitely what
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Speaker 6: I agree with. I think you can't just model your
24:20
Speaker 6: entire team to be the exact same as the Brewers.
24:22
Speaker 6: They just have a different ballpark. They have a different
24:25
Speaker 6: set of players that they play with. But there are
24:27
Speaker 6: definitely many of the aspects of what the Brewers do
24:30
Speaker 6: that the Mariners should be studying and adding to their team.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'd love to see it. It can't happen overnight.
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Speaker 6: Biggest thing is defense for me. That's what I notice
24:38
Speaker 6: with them every single time.
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Speaker 2: Defense, yeah. Good point, Judge. And I'm so tired of
24:43
Speaker 2: just striking out 11 and a half times a game.
24:46
Speaker 2: Really sick of it. All right, next one. Bachelor parties,
24:51
Speaker 2: something that Anders Hurst attended here recently. They simply have
24:55
Speaker 2: to include some level of naked mischief. Absolutely. There's no
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Speaker 2: doubt about it.
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Speaker 4: I am someone that frequently visits tip clubs in different states.
25:05
Speaker 4: And when I went to a bachelor party, we didn't
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Speaker 4: see enough of nudity. We went to another one, and
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Speaker 4: it was full nudity.
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Speaker 2: Okay?
25:12
Speaker 4: So there's levels to this. So I am 100% on board.
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Speaker 2: Okay. I actually disagree with this.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
25:20
Speaker 2: You know, I've never understood like, hey, let me pick
25:23
Speaker 2: the night before that I marry someone for the rest
25:26
Speaker 2: of my life to disrespect her. I mean, don't get
25:32
Speaker 2: me wrong. I've spent my fair share. I lived in
25:34
Speaker 2: Vegas in my 20s, for goodness sake. I know my
25:37
Speaker 2: way around a strip club or two. Story time with Chuck.
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Speaker 2: But I never really understood, like, no, I got to
25:43
Speaker 2: get this, like, one more thing in. Because there are
25:47
Speaker 2: some people, for a long time, it was even more
25:50
Speaker 2: than just going to see them naked. It was like,
25:52
Speaker 2: you got to do this because you'll never be with
25:54
Speaker 2: another woman again. I've just never understood that philosophy. I
25:57
Speaker 2: think young people like Anders and his friends, I think
26:00
Speaker 2: they got the right of it. Go have some cigars,
26:03
Speaker 2: eat something that's not good for you, do what you
26:05
Speaker 2: love to do, and maybe you can look at yourself
26:08
Speaker 2: in the mirror in the morning when you face your woman.
26:11
Speaker 2: There it is.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 6: I do think there is an opportunity for some mischief,
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Speaker 6: as you pointed out, but it doesn't have to be.
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Speaker 6: Not every single bachelor party has to be. It's up
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Speaker 6: to the bachelor what he.
26:26
Speaker 5: Wants to do.
26:26
Speaker 6: It feels like it's kind of the last opportunity of
26:29
Speaker 6: him as a single, not single, but just unmarried man
26:32
Speaker 6: tied down.
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Speaker 5: So whatever that looks like to you, that's what you
26:35
Speaker 5: should be doing.
26:36
Speaker 2: Right?
26:37
Speaker 6: So I think that's what a bachelor party is. Sometimes
26:40
Speaker 6: it is what.
26:40
Speaker 5: You were mentioning.
26:41
Speaker 2: Sometimes.
26:42
Speaker 5: Every time.
26:43
Speaker 3: For you, maybe.
26:44
Speaker 5: My friends know better.
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Speaker 4: You bring me to your bachelor party, there better be strippers.
26:49
Speaker 2: All righty.
26:50
Speaker 5: All righty.
26:50
Speaker 2: I want to hear some stories. You've got a real
26:54
Speaker 2: strong point of view there, kid. But the new judge
26:57
Speaker 2: has spoken.
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Speaker 5: Last one.
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Speaker 2: Yep. You can only have one at your Halloween bonfire.
27:04
Speaker 2: You can only have one of them. You can either
27:05
Speaker 2: have hot dogs or you can have dessert. You can
27:08
Speaker 2: have s'mores. Hot dogs or s'mores? Are you kidding me? S'mores, baby.
27:12
Speaker 2: Going s'mores. We are disagreeing on everything today. I love
27:15
Speaker 2: a good dog.
27:15
Speaker 5: Is it a Seattle dog?
27:16
Speaker 2: I'm going hot dogs. I just love a good hot
27:20
Speaker 2: dog on a stick, frankly. You like a wiener. Yeah.
27:23
Speaker 3: Jeez.
27:25
Speaker 2: A good wiener. You know what? Yeah. You know what?
27:28
Speaker 2: Maybe I should go to a strip club after that comment.
27:31
Speaker 2: Just to set myself right.
27:32
Speaker 3: All right. All right.
27:34
Speaker 2: All right.
27:35
Speaker 5: Let's... Order.
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Speaker 2: Order in my court.
27:37
Speaker 5: Order in my court.
27:38
Speaker 2: You want to go after the show? Let's do a chat.
27:40
Speaker 2: Order in my court. We'll go to Kitten's. Yeah, yeah.
27:43
Speaker 2: Why not? They don't have any s'mores.
27:44
Speaker 3: There, I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 5: I love myself a good wiener, so hot dogs is
27:50
Speaker 5: the way to go for me.
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Speaker 3: Hot dogs!
27:51
Speaker 2: We do.
27:52
Speaker 5: Guys, we have breaking news.
27:54
Speaker 2: What's that?
27:54
Speaker 5: Play the breaking news sounder.
27:55
Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
27:56
Speaker 5: The Seahawks have traded for Quentin Nelson.
27:58
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
27:59
Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 6: It's the very end of our show. We'll come back
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Speaker 6: and react to it, I think.
28:02
Speaker 2: All right. We'll do that. You think? We have to.
28:05
Speaker 2: All right. Breaking news. Seahawks have added Quentin Nelson before
28:09
Speaker 2: the trading. I knew that. I said it just a
28:12
Speaker 2: week ago. That's the kind of move John's going to make.
28:14
Speaker 2: It's not going to be for a running back. Oh,
28:16
Speaker 2: this is crazy. We'll talk about it next on KJR.
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Speaker 3: All right.
28:23
Speaker 2: Now I can do this properly. Major trade. Seahawks have
28:31
Speaker 2: gotten the trade deadline humming now. And it is not
28:35
Speaker 2: for a running back. They have acquired Quentin Nelson from
28:39
Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a third rounder in
28:44
Speaker 2: 2027 and a fifth rounder in 2028. Nelson will be
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Speaker 2: a free agent at year's end. He is 30 years
28:53
Speaker 2: of age, I do believe. He is certainly going to
28:56
Speaker 2: explore the market, or so you would think. But in
28:59
Speaker 2: the meantime, in the meantime, John Schneider has just added
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Speaker 2: a left guard who, out of 77 guards ranked by PFF, is,
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Speaker 2: number one, the best guard in the National Football League.
29:14
Speaker 2: And if you're like, well, this was a fluky year. No, no, no.
29:19
Speaker 2: Nine years in the league, nine-time Pro Bowler, six-time All-Pro.
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Speaker 2: That's first team. That's best guard. That's not Pro Bowl voting.
29:29
Speaker 2: That's not fans. That is the real deal. That's the
29:32
Speaker 2: stuff that really matters to players is being named all pro.
29:37
Speaker 2: And his grade on PFF this year is 89.2. To
29:43
Speaker 2: put that into perspective, JSN's grade against the Kansas City Chiefs,
29:49
Speaker 2: think about what a great game he played, was 90.1. So,
29:53
Speaker 2: in other words, PFF is saying Quentin Nelson, on average,
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Speaker 2: plays that well at left guard as JSN played on
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Speaker 2: Sunday night.
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Speaker 5: That's insane.
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Speaker 2: So, this is the edition by John Schneider. I said
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Speaker 2: this last week. I'm like, he's not going to go
30:09
Speaker 2: for a running back. It's going to be somebody like
30:11
Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson. And he adds Quentin Nelson. Even though it
30:14
Speaker 2: doesn't look like we've got room in our offensive line,
30:16
Speaker 2: we have a starting five, right? And they just played
30:18
Speaker 2: their best game together as a group. But obviously, Nelson's
30:24
Speaker 2: going to fit in there somewhere. And Anders, I mean,
30:27
Speaker 2: I think it's malpractice. Somebody that accomplished doesn't get to
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Speaker 2: play the position that he's accomplished at. He's got to
30:35
Speaker 2: be your left guard, which means Gray Zabel's moving somewhere
30:38
Speaker 2: else on the offensive line.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know that you have to think about the
30:41
Speaker 6: shuffling that you do. I think you'll have a few
30:44
Speaker 6: weeks to kind of figure it out because Charles Cross
30:47
Speaker 6: seems to be, you know, his injury popped up over
30:50
Speaker 6: the weekend. So maybe Zabel is kind of the fill
30:52
Speaker 6: in left tackle for now while you kind of start
30:55
Speaker 6: to figure that out. But then there's questions, you know,
30:58
Speaker 6: I know Anthony Bradford just came back and we were like, man,
31:00
Speaker 6: we were missing this and he looked like he made
31:02
Speaker 6: a big difference. But all of last year, everyone's complaining
31:04
Speaker 6: about him.
31:05
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:05
Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 6: Abe Lucas hasn't had a great start to this year,
31:08
Speaker 6: so maybe there's some thought about right tackle.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
31:10
Speaker 6: I don't know where this goes. Maybe you think about center.
31:13
Speaker 6: Gray Zabel played a lot of center at the Senior
31:15
Speaker 6: Bowl and kind of played all over the offensive line,
31:18
Speaker 6: which one of the reasons the Seahawks drafted him in
31:20
Speaker 6: the first round. There's so many places they can go,
31:22
Speaker 6: but it's only a good thing for the Seahawks because
31:24
Speaker 6: they just got the best guard in the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: Well, it is a good time to point out just
31:29
Speaker 2: what you mentioned, that Gray Zabel, let's go back to
31:32
Speaker 2: when he was drafted. Let's go back to the combine.
31:34
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the process. that led to him
31:37
Speaker 2: being drafted, and one of the things about him that
31:41
Speaker 2: was heralded was the versatility. This is somebody that I
31:45
Speaker 2: think played left tackle and right tackle while in college,
31:50
Speaker 2: and then towards the end of his career was playing
31:52
Speaker 2: center and he entered, I mean, I can go back.
31:55
Speaker 2: I know it because I'm father draft miss. I can
31:58
Speaker 2: go back to the draft miss catalog where we put
32:01
Speaker 2: him in the center category because that's what they were
32:04
Speaker 2: talking about in the pre-draft process. That's when they got
32:08
Speaker 2: to the combine. That's where they were labeling him was
32:11
Speaker 2: at a center at one point. So you really with
32:14
Speaker 2: Zabel might have the opportunity to move him where you
32:19
Speaker 2: feel your weakest is. And if it's Charles Cross for now,
32:24
Speaker 2: even though Josh Jones usually does a pretty good job
32:27
Speaker 2: backing him up at left tackle, but Abe Lucas has
32:30
Speaker 2: had a rougher season than he's had in the past.
32:33
Speaker 2: And then the center has to be a consideration as well.
32:36
Speaker 2: So Zabel's going to be in the starting lineup somewhere.
32:41
Speaker 2: I do wonder, and I guess we'll find out soon enough,
32:44
Speaker 2: but it would be pure speculation on my part as
32:47
Speaker 2: to who's out. to make room for this move. But
32:51
Speaker 2: I think the predominant reaction to that query from those
32:55
Speaker 2: listening would be, who cares? We just added maybe the
32:59
Speaker 2: best offensive lineman and certainly the best interior offensive lineman
33:03
Speaker 2: in the National Football League for a third and fifth
33:06
Speaker 2: round draft pick. And so this feels very Schneider-y to me.
33:12
Speaker 2: When you think he's going to zig, he zags, and
33:15
Speaker 2: no one should ever underestimate his aggression when it comes
33:18
Speaker 2: to this time of the year and his creative process
33:21
Speaker 2: for trying to figure out what makes the Seahawks better.
33:24
Speaker 2: He's amazing at it.
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Speaker 6: This is like, what, the fourth straight year of him
33:28
Speaker 6: making a key addition at the trade deadline?
33:30
Speaker 2: Is it four? It might be more. Sheldon Richardson, Jadavion Clowney. Yeah, yeah.
33:36
Speaker 3: I just.
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Speaker 6: I think the early 2020s and maybe when a couple
33:38
Speaker 6: of years where he kind of stood pat, but yeah,
33:40
Speaker 6: you're right.
33:40
Speaker 2: No, you're usually does it.
33:41
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:41
Speaker 3: You're right.
33:41
Speaker 2: Percy Harvin. Yeah. And he practically does it every year.
33:44
Speaker 2: Rashid Shaheed last year.
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Speaker 5: Ernest Jones, Leonard Williams.
33:47
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:48
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So Leonard Williams. Yeah, I know.
33:53
Speaker 1: All right.
33:54
Speaker 2: Well, we'll hand this off to our Seahawks insider, Greg
33:56
Speaker 2: Bell and to Jessamyn McIntyre. It looks like they got
33:59
Speaker 2: a lead story here for their show today. And here
34:02
Speaker 2: we were talking about s'mores or wieners.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Sports Radio
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