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Chuck in the Morning 9/3 H3: It's Showdown time! Demond & Darnold & ABCs of the Mariners · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: We're going to keep on drafting for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: our lives because it's one of the true joys in life.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: For a long time, Ashley, you are committed to it.
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  Speaker 1: I know that. We've made a contract in blood.
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  Speaker 2: I think I was sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but it still counts. I've checked with my attorneys. Fair.
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  Speaker 1: So we roll into the eight o'clock hour. The showdown
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  Speaker 1: trophy is now what we battle for. And let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: we really are just battling for bragging rights. But the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the old green jacket drafts and the showdown
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  Speaker 1: drafts is that we're going to be incorporating other experts
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  Speaker 1: and other fields that are on these very airwaves throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of the next year in our drafts. And
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  Speaker 1: we are also going to be including a listener team
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  Speaker 1: as well. Every draft that we do, a listener will
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  Speaker 1: be represented on the show. We do have our contestant,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, is on the line for us, correct?
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: We also have Anders Hurst, who is on the phone
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  Speaker 1: with us today. He's going to be drafting again. Our
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  Speaker 1: second straight day doing a draft, and today we are
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  Speaker 1: previewing the Big Ten Conference, and we do it with
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  Speaker 1: a fantasy football draft. So while both of our other
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  Speaker 1: contestants are on the line listening, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: through the rules, and there aren't many. It's a PPR league.
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  Speaker 1: You only have four players on your roster. You draft
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, a running back, a wide receiver, and a
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  Speaker 1: flex position player, which is running back, wide receiver, or
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  Speaker 1: tight end player. The only difference to the rules is
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  Speaker 1: that I do add on two extra points to your
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  Speaker 1: score that week. If your quarterback throws for more than
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  Speaker 1: 300 yards, you're running back more than 100. Your wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver receives for more than 100 yards. But that's some
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  Speaker 1: technical stuff that I only bring out so that nobody
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  Speaker 1: complains one week into the score results. So that's one
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  Speaker 1: thing that we do. And then the other little twist
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  Speaker 1: to this is when you draft, you cannot draft two players.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot at any point this year on your roster
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  Speaker 1: have two players from the same college team within the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Conference. So that's the only other trick to it.
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  Speaker 1: And with that, let's go ahead and welcome our contestants.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring Anders back on first. Hello, Anders.
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  Speaker 4: Good to be back.
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  Speaker 5: You can never have too much drafting.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. Great point. Nice job, Anders. Good answer. Number
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  Speaker 1: one pick. Kiss up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the ultimate number one pick right there. That's the
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  Speaker 1: John Elway number one picks right there.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: And let's meet our contestant as well. It is Eric.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: We have Eric with us as well.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Eric. Hey, thanks for having me, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being with us. Do you fancy yourself
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  Speaker 1: a college football expert?
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  Speaker 4: Expert, no. That's a broad stretch. But do I know
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  Speaker 4: who's going to score a lot of points? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good. How good a chance do you think
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  Speaker 1: you're going to fare against three titans like Ashley Anders
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  Speaker 1: and myself?
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  Speaker 4: Fair to Midland, I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think you got a good shot. I think you
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  Speaker 1: got a good shot at it. That's what I'm gathering here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Eric. Well, thank you, man. We're excited to
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  Speaker 1: have you. And by the way, Jeff drafted for us
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at 8 o'clock when we did our national draft,
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  Speaker 1: and he knocked it out of the ballpark. So no
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  Speaker 1: pressure on you.
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  Speaker 2: No pressure at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we want you to be entertaining, informative. And competitive.
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  Speaker 5: And not beat us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and finish second to third.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the goal. That's the goal here. All right, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: we need a draft order. What do we got?
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. I got the number one pick.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: You got the number two pick.
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  Speaker 1: That's better than yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Eric got the number three pick. And Anders got the
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  Speaker 3: number four pick.
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  Speaker 1: That feels a lot more balanced than normally our randomizer does.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 3: I know, because I was like, Oh, because Anders had
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  Speaker 3: number one yesterday, right?
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  Speaker 2: So there you go. And you had last. So there
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  Speaker 2: you go. It does balance it out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not entirely. I would have had the number one pick. Well, no.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a lot more balanced than it normally is.
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  Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I would have rather had the number one overall pick today,
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. Even Anders can complain.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: The guy with a number one pick on his team.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right, too, by the way. All right, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: you've got the number one selection. It's a fantasy football
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  Speaker 1: draft from the Big Ten Conference. We're all going to
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  Speaker 1: have all-star teams, but Ashley will tell you, she's done
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  Speaker 1: this every year with us, that this is trickier than
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  Speaker 1: you think it is. because you've got to figure out
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  Speaker 1: in bye weeks whether I'm going to let somebody go
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  Speaker 1: or take a zero that week. Injuries play a factor.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot tougher than what it feels like on
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  Speaker 1: the surface. So, Ashley, show them how it's done. Who
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  Speaker 1: are you going to take with the No. 1 overall selection?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man, I am going to hmm and ha over, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That would have been the No.
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  Speaker 3: 1 pick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not going to hmm and ha much over that one.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, the wide receiver out of Ohio State. Eric
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  Speaker 1: was hoping to... Get him in the third round, I think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Realistic expectations.
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  Speaker 4: Holding that for my last pick.
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  Speaker 2: Hoping he'd just fly under the radar.
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  Speaker 1: He's just phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: I think I forgot about him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he might have been the best player in
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  Speaker 1: college football last year. I think he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the best player in college football this year. I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine that a quarterback will be taken in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: draft next year, number one overall. But if ever there
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  Speaker 1: was a wide receiver who looked like a number one
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  Speaker 1: overall pick, it's this guy. He'll have some competition. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're going to score like 40, 50
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  Speaker 1: points a game a lot. And so he might be
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  Speaker 1: on the bench. He might get Mario Bailey'd in his
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  Speaker 1: final year and only play two and a half quarters
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  Speaker 1: some games. We shall see. But that would have been
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  Speaker 1: my number one selection right there as well. Sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it would have been everybody's. Anders, is that who you
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  Speaker 1: would have taken?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Hammer without a doubt.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I got the next selection and truth of the matter
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  Speaker 1: is like the quarterback position. I mean, it's the deepest.
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  Speaker 1: If you wait till the fourth round, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get a good quarterback. But because we're putting together all-star teams,
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  Speaker 1: you really do try to seek like, where do I
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  Speaker 1: have a gap? Where do I feel like I have,
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  Speaker 1: if I get a player that nobody else can match
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  Speaker 1: that player's numbers at that position. And for me, That
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  Speaker 1: happens right here in Seattle at the quarterback position. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to take, for the second year in a row,
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  Speaker 1: DeMond Williams Jr. with the No. 2 selection in the draft. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: was that a disagree wow from Anders?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a little surprised, mainly because I think there's
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  Speaker 5: three good options here at quarterback. Now, DeMar Williams would
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  Speaker 5: be my first quarterback taken.
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  Speaker 1: There are five.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But in my head, there's a gap between the first
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  Speaker 5: three and then maybe a little bit after that. So
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  Speaker 5: I kind of go by little tiers like we do
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  Speaker 5: with the quarterback tier list with– uh, with Mike Sandoe. But, um, yeah, I, I,
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  Speaker 5: I would have waited for quarterback. So I, I hopefully
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  Speaker 5: this plays out in my favor going forward and I
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  Speaker 5: may get my number two overall selection. Number four.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you will, but I have a feeling that there's
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  Speaker 1: a gap between one and two, uh, here at the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position. Eric, are you a UW fan? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: did I maybe break your heart there with that selection?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know your background here.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm a lifelong Seattle guy. One of the rare ones. Okay. Um,
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  Speaker 4: Grew up being a UW fan. Okay, so you did
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  Speaker 4: grow up. For me, I just don't know if he's
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  Speaker 4: going to hit the bonuses like you want him to. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to hit the 300 passing and
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  Speaker 1: 100-yard rushing bonus every week. That's what I think, Eric.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Eric, you've got the third selection overall, first round.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here's the foundation piece for your all-star team.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you going with?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to take the quarterback that we know
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  Speaker 4: is on the team that's going to run up the
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  Speaker 4: score every week for style points and give me Dante Moore.
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  Speaker 1: Going to go Dante Moore. How about that? All right,
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  Speaker 1: so look at that. This is a guy that's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a competitor. I am a UW fan. I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in Seattle, but I'm going to take a disgusting
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  Speaker 1: duck with my first round selection.
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  Speaker 4: I am playing honorary Bucky today, so there you go.
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  Speaker 2: He'll appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: Better you than me, I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a big man to play Bucky, so good luck, Eric.
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  Speaker 4: I got him like three-quarters of the way covered.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Anders, you've got back-to-back selections, and obviously you
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  Speaker 1: weren't going to take a quarterback, so you're not brokenhearted here.
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  Speaker 1: So where are you going to go with your picks?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I get my second overall pick here, and it's
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  Speaker 5: Darius Taylor out of Minnesota. Mainly... because I want to
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  Speaker 5: save my other hammer teams for other positions. And I
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  Speaker 5: think while he is my number one running back, the
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  Speaker 5: main thing that gives him the value in this position
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  Speaker 5: is that there's no one else from Minnesota that I
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  Speaker 5: want on my team. So he's going to be fed
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  Speaker 5: the ball a bunch. He's like kind of supposed to
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  Speaker 5: be their guy. That's going to just be relied upon
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  Speaker 5: to give them any type of scoring this year. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm taking Darius Taylor, their running back, out of Minnesota
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  Speaker 5: was my first round selection.
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  Speaker 1: You know why you can believe this? That I think
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  Speaker 1: that that's great logic because I've used the exact same
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  Speaker 1: logic on the exact same player two years in a row.
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  Speaker 2: How'd it work out for you?
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  Speaker 4: Horribly.
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  Speaker 1: He is hurt all the time. He plays half the
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  Speaker 1: time and Minnesota never updates its injury information. so you
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  Speaker 1: end up taking three zeroes in the year because you
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  Speaker 1: didn't know he wasn't going to play. So, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: great logic, and yet it's failed me two years in
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  Speaker 1: a row. So just to warn you, that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: getting in Darius Taylor. All right, who are you going
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  Speaker 1: to take with your next selection?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm taking Jaden Maiava, the quarterback from USC. Those
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  Speaker 5: are my top three QBs, DeMond Williams, Dante Moore, Jaden Maiava,
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  Speaker 5: and I think there's a little bit of a gap
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  Speaker 5: after that, so I want to make sure I get
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  Speaker 5: one of those three guys. He looked good in his
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  Speaker 5: first game against, what, San Jose State. I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 5: USC gets some big scores going forward, and he will
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  Speaker 5: be the big part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley, you're going to get a really good quarterback with
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  Speaker 1: your last pick because all the quarterbacks have been taken.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really surprised by this. I thought everybody would wait
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on the quarterbacks, and I was going
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  Speaker 1: to do something out of the ordinary, but they're now
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  Speaker 1: all gone. Of course, you can't take Julian Sayen.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, that's all right. I'm just saying I'm fine with it.
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  Speaker 1: You're just saying. All right, Eric, back to you. You've
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  Speaker 1: already got your disgusting duck. You can't take another, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to suffer that.
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  Speaker 4: Thank God.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so where are you going to go in round two?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go with Charlie Becker, the wide receiver
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  Speaker 4: from Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: Dang it.
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  Speaker 1: Ouch. That hurt. That hurt me a lot. That hurt
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  Speaker 1: me in my pants. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Dang it, dang it, dang it.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry about that. That was unintentional.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my headsets fell off, and I... bent back in
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  Speaker 1: my chair and my pants just clipped me uh so
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah you literally just hurt me in my pants
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  Speaker 1: right there um charlie.
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  Speaker 4: Becker intentional promise.
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  Speaker 1: Uh i think he's sensational oh my gosh do i
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  Speaker 1: think charlie becker is good Now they've brought in this
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  Speaker 1: Nick Marsh guy as well in Indiana, and they've got
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  Speaker 1: another guy, a young player named Chandler. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how much they're going to spread the ball around
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  Speaker 1: the field, but man, did Charlie Becker play some lights
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  Speaker 1: out football last year for the Indiana Hoosiers. And I
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  Speaker 1: think people are sleeping on him in their draft projections.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to be an excellent NFL receiver too.
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  Speaker 1: So nice pick by Eric. Thanks a lot, Ashley, for
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  Speaker 1: screening such a good person into our league.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry for doing what you asked me to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: My apologies. It will not happen again.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I've got my next selection. I'm going to take the
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  Speaker 1: number one running back on my board. It is a.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Do I want to do that now
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  Speaker 1: that I say that? Yes, I do. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and take Antoine Raymond. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: overthink this.
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  Speaker 2: I really hope you would. I wish you would have
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  Speaker 2: overthought it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to take Antoine Raymond, the running back
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  Speaker 1: out of Rutgers. For some reason, people are really high
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  Speaker 1: on these Rutgers skill position players this year, even though
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  Speaker 1: nobody's high on Rutgers. Weird.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Don't let me win a game in the trenches, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of teams in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten Conference this year that are going to implement
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  Speaker 1: multiple running backs. Not just two, but three running backs
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  Speaker 1: a game. I think the Huskies might end up doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So to get somebody that is undoubtedly going to be
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  Speaker 1: the bell cow of one of these teams and somebody
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  Speaker 1: that already has a proven track record for producing seems
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  Speaker 1: to me like the safest choice here. He was my
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  Speaker 1: number one running back on my board, so I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to take Antoine Raymond, and I'm going to delight in
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it has hurt Ashley's feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you've got back-to-back picks here. Get me back
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I can get you back, because
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  Speaker 3: one of them you couldn't take anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to take Desmond Roebuck.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to grab a flex position there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Desmond Roebuck. You just didn't want to risk
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  Speaker 1: not getting the second-best Husky on the board.
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  Speaker 3: Yes exactly thank you for that yes uh and then
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  Speaker 3: this is where it's tricky because i really was hoping
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  Speaker 3: that i was going to be able to get.
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  Speaker 2: Antoine raymond and i'm sorry about it yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So now i'm uh are you though he's not even
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  Speaker 3: remotely he's not even remotely sorry um so i'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: go with we can't go there i'm gonna go king miller.
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  Speaker 1: King miller yeah oh man that is wow He's one
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  Speaker 1: of those that I think is going to share. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even sure if he'll start, but I think he's
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  Speaker 1: the better one of the two. Wayman Jordan, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: is number one on the depth chart.
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  Speaker 3: I know, but I can't say his name without laughing
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  Speaker 3: at Wayman because that was the character's name in a
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  Speaker 3: show I watched.
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  Speaker 1: I think Soft had gotten a Wayman one time, and
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  Speaker 1: it drove him.
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  Speaker 2: To the wrong part of the town.
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  Speaker 1: I think it did, to the wrong part of the town.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't let him get stuff out of the trunk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's interesting. I mean, King Miller, I think,
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  Speaker 1: might be the better running back, and he did get
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  Speaker 1: more carries in their opener. Of course, that was against
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  Speaker 1: San Jose State, so we shall see. Eric, you were
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  Speaker 1: kind of making some noises back there. What did you
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  Speaker 1: think of this pick?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting grab for what is presumed to be a timeshare
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  Speaker 4: running back. Um, hope the goal line works out well
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  Speaker 4: for you, I guess. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have to see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I got the next selection. I really do
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  Speaker 1: want to take a running back here. Um, but I
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: got to play the game a little bit and I
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: think I'm going to go ahead and take, no, I'm not.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: I am.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take that back. And this time I'm
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: going to stick with it. I'm going to go with
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: another running back here. Give me, michigan running back jordan
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: marshall here i'll go ahead and take the receiver that
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: is left over to me uh in the fourth round
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: so i my flex will be jordan marshall running back
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: out of michigan uh who um made a pretty good
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: impact a year ago and he looks to be like
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: the guy justice haynes transferred out of the program to
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: georgia tech for goodness sake uh so that jordan marshall
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: The writing was on the wall for Haynes with Marshall
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: taking over. So that's going to be my pick, the Wolverine,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: with the third-round selection. All right, Eric, you are up next.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: You've got Charlie Becker. Broke my heart. You've got Dante Moore.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: You need a running back for sure, but you also
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: need your flex position. What do you want to do here?
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to go back to my youth here.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: You can't take Corey Dillon. Corey Dillon is not available here.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, give me Bo Jackson.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: How do you not take Bo Jackson?
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: I would have taken him if I didn't have Jeremiah Smith.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: How do you not take a running back named Bo Jackson?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: And it does sound like he is definitively the number
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: one guy. I mean, Ohio State, you always have to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: worry because they have seven guys in their stable and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: who knows who's going to emerge next. from that group,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: but it sounds like he is definitively on the number
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: one depth chart right now. Yeah. And his name is
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Bo Jackson.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he seems to have separated himself from, I think
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: his name is Isaiah White was the other guy that
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: was in consideration, but yeah. Yeah. Number one for them.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Bo knows football and Eric knows himself, Bo. All right.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Anders has back-to-back selections here, so you get to finish
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: out your roster first. Anders, who do you want to take?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: You do need a wide receiver with one of these
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: two picks.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I do, yes.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: And I'm going to take Nick Marsh, the other Indiana
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: wide receiver. He talked about the transfer over. He's getting
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: a lot of hype. I think this is a pretty
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: safe floor. They're going to feed him quite a bit.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: He's a big guy. And with my He's over from
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Michigan State. I had him last year. Yeah, they couldn't
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: unlock him there where Indiana probably will with Kurt Cignetti
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: calling the plays.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, very excited for this one. And I'm trying to
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: decide which Oregon pass catcher I want for my flex
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: if I want to go– Uh, I'll probably play the
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: safe bet and go to Corey and more here. So
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: I have two wide receivers on my roster and, uh,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: I'll take the other more from Oregon, um, that the
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: first more will be throwing to.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: More and more.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Um, well, I mean, he's, I mean, he played a
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: lot as a freshman a year ago and he put up, uh,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: he put up decent numbers, but as a freshman, really
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: good numbers. And apparently they're going to showcase them a
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: lot more. Apparently a very big, big play threat for
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the oregon ducks but then again that's the problem with
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: oregon having done this a few times is a lot
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: of them yeah they play five running backs and they
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: play 17 wide receivers and um and i mean dante
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: moore is going to play every snap uh but who
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: who knows who's actually going to put up big numbers
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: because they do spread it to so many different guys
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: uh all right eric your last selection in the draft
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and you have a flex open so you've got a
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: lot of versatility.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah Yeah, I don't believe he's been taken. He's going
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to take Kamar Moulton out of the running back from Iowa.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm hearing great stuff about him, but I'm
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: also hearing great stuff about this L.J. Phillips who backs
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: him up. And so I think maybe you could run
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: into a carry-share program there with Iowa. But there are
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that think Kamari Moulton is going
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: to be special this season. So I certainly think it's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: going to be well worth the gamble. Hey, that's a
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: heck of a team right there, Eric.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: With a team that runs the ball like Iowa does,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it's not my biggest concern.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Well, way to shut me up, Eric.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, sorry.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, way to fire back.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: I hurt you in the pants and I shut you
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: up today. You're never allowed back. Don't be sorry.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: You're never allowed back.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: This is just the kind of drafter I need, somebody
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that hurts me in my pants and shuts me up
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: uh all right i'm gonna take with my last pick
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: i decided uh that i'd kind of like to roll
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the dice on this guy usc always has some flashy
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: receiver was mckay lemon last year And it sounds like
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Tanook Hines is going to be their Mekhi Lemon this year. Now,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: he did not play in the opening week because of
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: an injury. I'm going to just roll the dice that
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: they were just facing San Jose State, and so why
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: risk it? They cruised. I also am losing a game,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: by the way.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: So am I.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so is Anders. Anybody that takes a USC Trojan,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you're only going to get 11 games out of them.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So I'm also losing a game by doing this. But
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go ahead and take Tanook Hines, and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to trust that he's the new Makai Lemon
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: for the Trojans this year. All right, Ashley, last selection
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: is yours.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, this I feel like is a pretty easy
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: decision and actually was my second quarterback I wouldn't have
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: wanted anyway.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to take Josh Hoover from Indiana, please.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a fantastic pick.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I got a wow from Anders.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And a fantastic from me. Yeah, that was very opposite.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: I'm curious why you think that's the second best quarterback
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: on the board.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: He was just who I had my second favorite. Because
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I think, first off, Indiana's offense is excellent. And I
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: think if you look at what happened last year, and.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: He was actually the.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: If you looked at the Big Ten quarterbacks last year,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: he would have ranked fifth.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: The fourth best was Fernando Mendoza.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: So.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I think it's a fantastic thing.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: And I wasn't going to go Julian Sam because I
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: wanted Jeremiah Smith.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, we spent this entire year last year when
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Kidd won our college football season. And he took Fernando
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Mendoza in the fourth round. And I'm like, who? Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, I knew who he was, but like, really?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: But it was still a shock, yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was still a shock. And then all of
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a sudden, Fernando Mendoza beats us all. I think Indiana
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: is just that special. So I think that's a great pick.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And if it doesn't work, you've got other quarterbacks that
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you can go to as the season goes along. All right,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: here are the teams. Ashley's team to start the season.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith, wide receiver out of Ohio State. Desmond Roebuck,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the new Mario Bailey at Washington, wide receiver as well,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: or flex. King Miller, the running back out of USC.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And Josh Hoover, the quarterback, the new quarterback at Indiana.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Chuck's team, quarterback DeMond Williams Jr., Antoine Raymond, the running
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: back out of Rutgers, Jordan Marshall, the running back out
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: of Michigan, and Tanook Hines, the wide receiver out of USC. Eric,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: our listener competitor, he's going with a team of Dante
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Moore at quarterback, Charlie Becker, the wide receiver out of Indiana,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Bo Jackson, the running back out of Ohio State, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Kamari Moulton. running back out of Iowa, and Anders' team,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Darius Taylor out of Minnesota, the running back, Jaden Maiva,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the quarterback out of USC, Nick Marsh, wide receiver, Indiana,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and DeCorean Moore, wide receiver out of Oregon. Seems like
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a really balanced group. Should be a hell of a competition. Eric,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you were fantastic. Thank you, sir. We appreciate it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. Sorry for any damage I did.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's all right. It's all right. How do you feel
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: about your team?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: You know, I drafted it. I've got to be happy
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: with it, right? Okay. All right.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate you. Thank you very much, and we'll
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: keep in touch with you throughout the season.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: All right. You guys have a good one. All right.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: There he is, Eric, joining us on the program. He
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't know the thorough weekly updates that I give for
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten Fantasy League, but he's about ready to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: find out. Yeah, he is. Anders, thank you. We'll talk
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to you soon.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Appreciate you guys. More drafting.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Let's go. Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh. There's a guy after my own heart right there.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next on the radio program, it's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: time to talk. And I already had this planned, so
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: don't accuse me of just talking about somebody that I drafted.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I want to talk about Desmond and Darnold, Seattle's
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks this year. It's next on KJR. Oh, I like
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the new listener-infused showdown. Really worked out well. They've set
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a really high bar of those two.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: It really does add something.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does add something to it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And I did, by the way, hurt myself in my
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: pants because if you saw it on YouTube when he
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: made the Becker pick, I went, ah, and I went
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: back like that. And then my headsets came off the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: back of my head and I went to grab them
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: so that I didn't lose them. And in doing so,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I caught a seam. Oh, man.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: You did hurt yourself in the pants.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And I think I drafted pretty well under the circumstances.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I think I hung in there.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of you.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Showed a lot of grit.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I am proud of you. Not a lot of people
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: could have forged ahead like you did.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Cal Raleigh didn't even play yesterday, but look what I did.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Look what you accomplished.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Brendan Donovan's still on the IL, and yet I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: caught a seam and kept drafting. Yeah. One of us
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: is a warrior. I know that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: That's the truth.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: That I know. That's the conclusion I've drawn.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go for a brand-new football season,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and it's feeling like pretty exciting when we know the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are going to be at least really good, whether
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: or not they're able to repeat being the best, we'll
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: see how the season unfolds. It's also feeling like, I mean,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Softee took the over way over for the Huskies in
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: our earlier conversation. He's predicting 10-2. That will put you
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: in the playoff this year. So certainly here in Seattle,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: there's a nice fever for the football teams. They're getting
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: ready to start their season's. and a lot of it
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: does have to do with our quarterbacks, and I think
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Desmond and Darnold are going to give us a really
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: interesting campaign this year, and for just completely different reasons.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: You know, Desmond with all of that talent in the world,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: but is he the leader? Darnold with all that leadership
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: in the world, but can he repeat what he did
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a year ago because he hasn't always performed throughout his
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: NFL career, and the national guys are still doubting him
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to this point. And so that's what we start with.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It's quite the dynamic at quarterback that we face here
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: in Seattle. And I'm confident with both of them. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: think the Desmond Williams Jr. that I interviewed a couple
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago at Huskies camp seemed to me like
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: he's got it figured out a little bit. And that
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was really a maturation moment for him, having that controversy,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: having that moment where he sort of had to humble
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: himself in front of his teammates. I saw a guy
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: that has put on some really good weight. I mean,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: he's a small guy to play quarterback, but he just
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: looked more mature and he sounded more mature and he
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: carried himself as being more mature. And I think that
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: some of those things that bothered Desmond are last year
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that we saw. And you almost forget, he only started
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: at the tail end of his freshman season. He really
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: only had one full season of college football. And so
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: if he hadn't quite mastered when to run, when to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: stay in the pocket, maybe that's understandable for a 19-year-old
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: second-year quarterback, first-year starting quarterback. But if he can And
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you're never going to master it, I suppose. But if
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: he can get that feel for when to run, when
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to stay in the pocket and throw, when to just
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: exhibit escapability to extend the play, that's a fine line.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: And when I asked that question to Desmond the other day,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Jed Fish was sitting there nodding, like, you know. Because
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Jed was at the table, too. And he was nodding like,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: this is what we're working on. You know this. This
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: is what we've been working on. And this is going
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to unlock you. If he can figure out when that
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: time is to use his legs and when that time
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: is to stay in the pocket or to extend the play,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and there's three different versions of it, I think we're
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: going to see a great version of him. That's why
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I took him second overall in our draft. I think
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: we're going to see Desmond Williams Jr. lead this team
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in rushing, and I think we're going to see a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: far more mature leader and passer than what we've seen
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the last couple years.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do have a lot of hope for how
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: DeMond will look this year. I think, you know, watching
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: last year, there were a lot of frustrations, especially in
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: the big games, and then to add in the offseason
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: issues with the LSU thing, I mean, I wasn't having
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: very high hopes for him coming into this year. It
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: was kind of a bit of a downer, and I
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: think he's handled... things since then perfectly, right? He hasn't
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: been out and about and kind of... He just took
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: the time to fix things with his team, and that's
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: really all that he needed to do. He didn't need
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: to be out making statements to fans and doing things
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: like that, because my concern wasn't, well, how am I
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: going to cheer for you? It was, how are your
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: teammates going to feel, and how are your coaches going
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: to feel about what just happened, and how's that going.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: To play out? And it seems like it is.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: totally in the past and they are focused just on
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: the mon williams what he's going to bring this year
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: and then on top of that you you know you
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: add in the fact that you've got a much improved
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: offensive line and yeah i have high hopes for him
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah uh well i think he's going to have a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a really good year and then you talk about sam
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: um and i realize the national guys are going to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: keep this discourse alive i think we knew that even
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: after the super bowl we We joked about it a
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: little bit, but we knew it was going to continue
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and it has. And now we get, you know, now
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: we're getting game manager comparisons, which is ridiculous. This was
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: one of the most aggressive throwers in the National Football
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: League last year. We had a top five offense in
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the National Football League last year. He threw for over
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: 4,000 yards. And as Hugh Millen has so expertly detailed
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: for you, and I agree with him, I perfectly agree
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: with him. I'm not worried about a high interception total
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: when you are doing damage downfield. They probably go hand
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: in hand. So, I mean, do you think the Packers
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: were ever considering Brett Favre not an elite quarterback? He
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: made mistakes all the time. So did John Elway. And
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: that comes with the territory when you're aggressive. And I
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: want my quarterback to be aggressive. I want my quarterback
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to throw the ball down the field. So go ahead. Again,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I feel this way about the team. I feel this
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: way about Sam. Go ahead and doubt him again. Go ahead.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I don't care. You just sound ignorant. I think that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: there's still a ceiling for him to reach that he
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: hasn't even reached before. Keep in mind, he just had
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: his first full confirming season as an NFL quarterback. He
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: just didn't put up numbers. He's now had two great
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: receivers in Jefferson and JSN, but he's used them both
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: excellently to the point that Jefferson bemoaned not having Sam
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Darnold all season long a year ago. And JSN raised
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the flag on Sam early in the process. So he
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: knows how to use a No. 1 wide receiver. That's
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: how I view that. He knows how to use a No.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: 1 wide receiver. And I think that you also have
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: somebody that has... answered all the questions for the first
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: time in his NFL career, I think we could see
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: an even better version of Sam Darnold in 2026.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: That's what I expect. I expect to see a better version.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that he wasn't good, because he
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: really was, and I enjoyed watching him.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: But I think.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Even those decisions that he makes, he's got more time
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: to have earned a rapport with JSN. He's got more
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: time with Cooper Cup. I mean, I just think that
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: it's going to be humming. I just think this offense
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  Speaker 3: is going to look so great and And I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: I love that people doubt.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Keep doubting.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. I mean, the last thing I want is
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  Speaker 2: people to be like, okay, you know what?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: We were wrong.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold is the greatest quarterback. No, I don't want
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to overhype. I'd much rather have, let's just, yeah, overlook.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. New offensive coordinator. Yeah, that's a thing. That's
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a thing. But he had a new offensive coordinator last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It was his first year with Kubiak. No Ken Walker. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but people, do you not remember outside of Seattle that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Ken Walker wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire last season?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they committed to the run. They're going to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: commit to the run this year. That's going to be
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the heat they're going to take off of Sam Darnold's back.
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  Speaker 1: But he performed well without a great running game. A
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: committed running game, but not a great running game a
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: year ago. So, yeah, I think he's going to be terrific.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: And I just realized I wrote down Desmond. Have I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: been saying Desmond?
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: You did, but I just.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Let it go.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Well, you shouldn't.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Well, no, but then, I mean, because we all knew
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: who you were talking about.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I took DeMond Williams in my draft.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you drafted him 20 minutes ago and said DeMond Williams,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: and I.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Know you know his name.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I wrote Desmond.
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  Speaker 2: And you were on a good train of thought. I
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: didn't want to interrupt.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I wrote down Desmond, but I
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: was just reading Desmond. My writing. But yes, obviously Demond
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and does Narnold.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: All right. ABC's The DM's next on KJR. And hopefully
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: that year lasts beyond the regular season. There's a chance.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I hope it does.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: There's a chance, I'm saying. That's right. I'm just saying
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: there's a chance.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: There is a chance.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: We left off with a letter S yesterday. S is
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: for Savior. If there is a chance, Randy Orozarena has
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: proven to be this team's savior.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Been its most consistent player this entire year. The one
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: knock against Randy Orozarena his entire career is whether or
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: not he's invested as a team player. And yet when
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: it's mattered most, who has not only played the best,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: but played with the most fire and the most spirit,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it's Randy Orozarena. He just has just dominated this series
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: against the Boston Red Sox. I mean, he has saved
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: some of his best baseball here where it mattered most.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: And even yesterday, because he's a limited defensive player, he
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: does not have a good arm. I might even categorize
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: it as a bad arm. And he is not exactly
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: great at the flight of the ball either. At tracking
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the flight of a baseball. But yesterday, clunky as it was,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: he made a huge catch and then smashed his face
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: against the ground. And he also threw out a base
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: runner yesterday, even though it wasn't the best throw in
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the world. It was a great tag by Pareda, by
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the way. But he's even doing it on the defensive
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: side of the ball. So, yeah, Randy's had his issues
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: in the past, and I don't know if he wakes
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: up today and decides, I'm not going to try as
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: hard today. I don't know. I don't know how he operates.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, that brain is something to study. But lately
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and throughout... Most of the year, Randy Orozarena has proven
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to be the savior of this baseball team. I would
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: have never guessed it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't have either.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: And I mean, I think a lot of Mariners fans
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: are just like, okay, well, once this season ends, obviously
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: he's gone because we don't need him.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: And, you know, I would think harder about that. offensively,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: he's been excellent.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if that's because he knows he
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: might leave and he wants to make sure he can
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: get a lot of money somewhere else.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's some of that, for sure. Especially showing off
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: in front of Boston. It's supposed to be a bidding
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: war between the Yankees and Red Sox, which we won't win.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. But I don't know. I'm happy with what
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: he's been doing right now. That's for sure.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: No doubt.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: T is for Terminators. I have decided that I think
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: this team's more like the Terminator than Orcs.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, so it's official.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I threw that out earlier in the show. Are
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: we just orcs where we seem to be easily killed
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: by hobbits, for goodness sake, even though we have the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: size advantage, the numbers advantage, the viciousness advantage? It just
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: seems like those orcs were just the worst fighters in
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Middle Earth. They were just terrible at it. They just
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: kept getting plucked off one after another by inferior fighters.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: And yet they still almost won the war. So I'm
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: going to dismiss it. We're not orcs. That's not who
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: we are. We're the Terminators that doesn't matter how bad
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: it looks, right now we're just that metal arm pulling
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: its way across that warehouse floor with all that fire around,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: coming for Sarah Connor.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Okay. You know?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I think that's what we are. I think
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: that's a better way of looking at it. We are
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the Terminators' severed arm. That's what the Mariners.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Are right now.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: And I've at least seen that part of Terminators, so
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I can acknowledge and say, yeah, I can see that.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Whereas these orc things you keep talking about, I'm pretty
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: sure I saw Lord of the.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Rings, and still I don't remember this.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't stand out to me.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Then you didn't watch it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Well, I saw the second one in a theater, but
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I did fall asleep.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, jeez.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Uh, finally and quickly, um, I have no choice. You
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: is for unaware. Uh, Julio, once again, unaware, it made
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: another dumb play, uh, yesterday. And the worst part about
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: this is the Dom can zone on the very previous
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: at bat showed him how it's supposed to be done.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Like you can't get tagged out. You have to like
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: sacrifice yourself at third base to avoid, because if you
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: try to run by now you've introduced the double play possibility.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Dom just did it right one play before, and then
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Julio runs right into the tag, and you get a
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: double play to end the inning, and you squander your
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: opportunity with two men on base. So I'm going to
• 37:26
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