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Ian Furness 10/9 H1: Greg Cosell and Derick Hall Interviews · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: As part of our relentless coverage of the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: This is football!
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  Speaker 1: This is football!
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  Speaker 2: This is a Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday.
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  Speaker 1: This crowd is going nuts!
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  Speaker 2: and ranchers. Beef, it's what's for dinner. It's Football Friday
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  Speaker 2: with Ian Furness on your home for the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight you're home for Husky football against Iowa. 6 o'clock kickoff,
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  Speaker 3: 2 o'clock pregame. We have a short show today. Jackson
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  Speaker 3: is doing double duty. The ladies are off today. Jessamyn's
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  Speaker 3: down in Logan, Utah getting ready to work the Cougar
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  Speaker 3: game against Utah State.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley is taking the.
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  Speaker 3: Day off because she is helping her young daughter Palmer
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  Speaker 3: celebrate her birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Last one before they're in the teens. She's 12.
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  Speaker 3: I believe there's a sleepover at Ashley's house tonight and
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  Speaker 3: Having done that years ago with my daughter, I just wish, well,
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  Speaker 3: mostly I wish Godspeed to Mark, her husband. It's a
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  Speaker 3: good night to go find something else to do, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just take that. That's a pro tip from Ian
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  Speaker 3: to you along the way. So, Jackson, good to have
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  Speaker 3: you with me, buddy. I always like working with you.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? Ian, I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, like I was telling Greg, it's definitely the
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  Speaker 4: slightly earlier wake-up time and commute in from Tacoma.
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  Speaker 1: But, no, it's good to be with you.
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  Speaker 4: And you didn't ask me to get any absurd audio
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  Speaker 4: 20 seconds before the show started.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. Yeah, there's still two hours, bud. Don't worry
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a list here from Softee of what I
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  Speaker 3: should be demanding for you to do, and it's not asking.
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  Speaker 3: It's demanding that I'll get to in a little while. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: as I mentioned to Greg in full transparency, we're at
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  Speaker 3: the Kraken Hockey Network Studios for Road Games.
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  Speaker 1: And you probably get this, too, when you're doing Sounders games.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, well, are you there? Are you here? Where
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  Speaker 1: are you at? Blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: So let me just clarify one more time. When a
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  Speaker 3: Kraken play at home... We are at Climate Pledge Arena.
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  Speaker 3: You can see us there in the rink. We're actually
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  Speaker 3: right next to the Space Dino Lounge, which is open
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  Speaker 3: for everybody. I don't think they've done a great job
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  Speaker 3: telling people that. I say that all the time. Wait,
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  Speaker 3: the Space Dino Lounge, yeah, it's open for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Easy to get to.
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  Speaker 3: You just walk up the little stairs, and it's right there.
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  Speaker 3: And we're right there next to the Toyota deck above
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  Speaker 3: the rink, kind of even with the twins, they call it,
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  Speaker 3: the scoreboards. And so you can see us there during
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  Speaker 3: the games when we're doing our pre- and post-intermission shows.
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  Speaker 3: road games we have to have a studio because wait
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  Speaker 3: for it climb and pledge is busy they have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of events there and also more importantly we don't
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  Speaker 3: have a studio there or a control room and that's
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  Speaker 3: what's needed in television so um you know i i
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  Speaker 3: know they don't like this to publicize this but greg
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  Speaker 3: mentioned it so i'll say it again yeah we're actually
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  Speaker 3: utilizing the big 10 studios uh we have a great
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  Speaker 3: agreement with washington great partnership i should say with washington
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  Speaker 3: and the big 10 network and so they built these
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  Speaker 3: state-of-the-art studios and control rooms out here at uh at
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  Speaker 3: Heck Edmondson, Alaska Airlines Bill Arena, Heck Edmondson Pavilion. So
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  Speaker 3: we're in the old practice court where they remodeled it.
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  Speaker 3: It's the control room is a state-of-the-art, great television play.
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  Speaker 3: Our studio is right behind us. I look over there,
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  Speaker 3: I see Berkeley Cattons and Connor McDavid as they're going
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  Speaker 3: through some testing on a big screen behind me right now.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, there's a lot of purple here, Jackson. Not
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  Speaker 3: going to lie, it's a lot of purple here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, probably a little more today considering what
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  Speaker 4: you have kicking off in Six hours. I mean, I think, Ian,
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  Speaker 4: the important question is, do you, since you're there, do
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  Speaker 4: you have to get close to Softie today?
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to be within your proximity?
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  Speaker 4: Or is he going to be far enough away where
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  Speaker 4: you won't have to deal with the craziness of a
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  Speaker 4: game day Softie?
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  Speaker 3: We are sealed in here with high security in the studios.
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  Speaker 3: He's not allowed to get in here, so we're okay.
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  Speaker 1: Per popular belief, he does not have free reign and
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  Speaker 1: run of this campus or the sports facilities. But it's
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: The control rooms are cool because what they do is,
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  Speaker 3: if you've been out to any games not named football,
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  Speaker 3: whether it be the softball field, the soccer fields, basketball,
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  Speaker 3: what have you. They're dialed into all of those. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the control room right now that's used
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  Speaker 3: for the video boards and stuff at Husky Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. They've done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: And as much as I hate the Big Ten with
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  Speaker 3: what they did to the Pac-12 and everything else, the
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  Speaker 3: Big Ten network does it right. If I want to
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  Speaker 3: look back on time, the worst thing ever about the Pac-12,
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  Speaker 3: among other things, was the Pac-12 network on a lot
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  Speaker 3: of levels. The Big Ten network, they don't spare any expense.
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  Speaker 3: And The only downside with the Big Ten Network is
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  Speaker 3: Yogi Roth is still involved.
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  Speaker 1: So that sucks. But outside of that, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: Are you saying that the Big Ten Network does not
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  Speaker 4: have a Larry Scott in charge of all of their
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  Speaker 4: endeavors when it comes to media?
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  Speaker 3: Based on the equipment and the level of technical aptitude here, no.
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  Speaker 1: There's no Larry Scott. It's a little higher. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a little higher end. It's a little higher end. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting ready for the game tonight, the road trip,
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  Speaker 1: and away we go. Big show coming up.
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  Speaker 3: We only have two hours because 2 o'clock the Honks
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  Speaker 3: will take over from basically about 100 yards from where
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  Speaker 3: I sit right now. They'll take over, get ready for
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  Speaker 3: the Huskies in Iowa tonight. Iowa's starting their backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, so I'm sure they'll get into that
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  Speaker 3: hot and heavy at 2 o'clock. We're going to squeeze
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  Speaker 3: our three-hour Friday show into two hours today. We'll have
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  Speaker 3: Greg Cosell, normal time, 1220, coming up here in just
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  Speaker 3: a few minutes. We'll break down Seahawks 49ers and get
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  Speaker 3: through all that on a Washington State Beef Commission Football Friday.
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  Speaker 1: So that's coming up here in a minute. We had
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  Speaker 1: a great conversation, Jackson, the other day. Me, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it was.
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  Speaker 3: Had a great conversation the other day, I thought, with
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  Speaker 3: Derek Hall. And we've got a little clip that I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to ask you for because it's already cut.
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  Speaker 1: It's ready to go. With D.
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  Speaker 3: Hall talking about the significance of this game and the 49ers,
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  Speaker 3: we'll have a little bit of that coming up at
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  Speaker 3: 1245 in case you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: Just a few minutes of him. 1 o'clock, Rob Rang
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  Speaker 1: is going to stop by.
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  Speaker 3: Normally at 2 o'clock, brought to you by Farrelly's, but
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  Speaker 3: Rob's going to come by at 1 o'clock today. Break
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  Speaker 3: down the college football games, including this one here on
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  Speaker 3: this campus, Washington, Iowa, coming up today. We're also going
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  Speaker 3: to spend some time talking to him about Robert Henry Jr.,
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  Speaker 3: the new running back for the Seahawks, who's going to
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  Speaker 3: wear number 34 this weekend. He was an undrafted free
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  Speaker 3: agent for the University of Texas San Antonio team. Rob
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  Speaker 3: had a fairly early day three grade on him, as
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  Speaker 3: did a lot of people. We talked about him with
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  Speaker 3: Corbin the other day, too. But we'll break it down.
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  Speaker 3: Rob has a lot of information on Robert Henry Jr.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do that at 1 o'clock to give you a
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  Speaker 3: little feel for what the New Seahawks running back is
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  Speaker 3: all about. So that's at 1 o'clock. And then at 1.30,
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  Speaker 3: we'll check in with Danny O'Neill, weekly visit, before we
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  Speaker 3: say goodbye and hand it over to the Honks at
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  Speaker 3: 2 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got a lot going on this afternoon, a
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  Speaker 3: lot coming up here in the next two hours. No
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  Speaker 3: fact or fiction for our show. because we're off the
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  Speaker 3: air at 2, and normally we do it at 2.35. Also,
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  Speaker 3: because Jackson and Dick and Softy aren't doing their normal show,
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  Speaker 3: you guys had your last pick yesterday as well, so
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  Speaker 3: Factor Fiction resumes at 7.35 on Monday with Chuck Anders
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  Speaker 3: and Chris Kidd. I want to do a quick thank you, though, Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: if I can. Last night in a bottle room at
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  Speaker 3: Tap House in Maple Valley, we had our fourth annual
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  Speaker 3: final keg party for the Mayor IPA.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Tap the keg. And I posted a couple pictures on Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: I'll put some more up later. It was an unbelievable turnout.
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  Speaker 3: I want to thank everybody that came out. I met
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  Speaker 3: more of our KJR listeners last night at an event
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  Speaker 3: than I have in any time I can remember in
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  Speaker 3: recent memory.
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  Speaker 1: It was awesome. We had so many of our great
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  Speaker 1: listeners that came out. I can't tell you. I have
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  Speaker 1: my P1, my P1.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that. most
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  Speaker 3: of them, I'm sure, from southeast King County, roughly. But
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  Speaker 3: I met so many people, and I just want to
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  Speaker 3: thank everybody that came out, the support for these three
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  Speaker 3: great charities, Jordan Morris Foundation, Avery Huffman DIPG, and Holinsky's Hope.
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  Speaker 3: And Holinsky's Hope, especially this week, it's Student Athlete Mental
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  Speaker 3: Health Awareness Week. Also, it's World Mental Health Day tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: And so for us to have that support, and we
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  Speaker 3: sold the last few T-shirts and hats that we had
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  Speaker 3: for the Mayor IPA, They're kind of cool this year
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  Speaker 3: done by Georgetown. They're in the cracking colors, which I love.
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  Speaker 3: So we sold the last of the trucker hats and
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  Speaker 3: the t-shirts and the keg when, when they opened tapped
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  Speaker 3: it at six o'clock, there was a mega line, like
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  Speaker 3: a massive line. And, and we drained that thing faster
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  Speaker 3: than ever. There's a six barrel that we brought along
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  Speaker 3: just in case it, there might be a couple of
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  Speaker 3: pints left in that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: They might've sold that out by the time they shut
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  Speaker 3: down last night. So yeah, it was a, A lot
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  Speaker 3: of pints being raised for a very good cause. Shout
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  Speaker 3: out and thank you to Angie and the crew out
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  Speaker 3: there and Dina and everybody at And by they are
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal and they're great supporters, but more than anything, thanks
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  Speaker 3: to all of you that came by yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It was so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, every now and then Jack, you need
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  Speaker 3: a little, little kick in the backside, a little inspiration
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  Speaker 3: with where is humanity at these days. And, and I
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  Speaker 3: got it last night. It was, it was phenomenal. It
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  Speaker 3: really was really cool. And I know you had, you
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  Speaker 3: had a, you had a growler when it first came out.
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  Speaker 3: I saw you swinging to Georgetown that day.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The mayor, the mayor was, was top notch this year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I do find it kind of amazing that,
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't actually know that this was– it's mental,
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  Speaker 4: the health awareness of the month, and then the day
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  Speaker 4: coming up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Stephen A.
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  Speaker 4: Smith picked a really, really good week to do what
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  Speaker 4: you did a couple days ago about Lane Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Real good there, Stephen A. Real good. Just– yeah. It's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I think you guys played it on your show on–
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  Speaker 3: did you hear that? But I– fun with audio. But
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  Speaker 3: I was going to do it. I had Ashley pull it,
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  Speaker 3: and I said, I'm not going to give it the airspace. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: we had the Holinsky family on yesterday. We had Mark
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: and Ryan, father and brother of Tyler Holinsky. We had
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  Speaker 3: them on yesterday to kind of talk about what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: If you watch, watching college football games this weekend, I
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of teams did it last weekend. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's a one-week only thing. But last weekend and coming
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  Speaker 3: up this weekend, you will see a lot of helmets
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  Speaker 3: with the green mental health ribbon sticker on the back
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  Speaker 3: of their helmets. So kind of keep an eye out
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  Speaker 3: for that this weekend. It's a good reminder that the
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  Speaker 3: awareness is the biggest thing with mental health and being
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  Speaker 3: able to be open and talk about it. the stigma
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  Speaker 3: that exists when you have people like Stephen A. Smith,
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  Speaker 3: and frankly, a lot of people. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of places, including, you know, workplaces where people don't
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  Speaker 3: feel comfortable saying, I need some time off. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of employers and bosses that won't acknowledge that.
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  Speaker 3: And mental health is a very real thing. And you'll
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  Speaker 3: see that this weekend. Student Mental Health Awareness Week is
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  Speaker 3: a huge deal. And again, World Mental Health day is tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Look for the green stickers. I know Washington has worn
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  Speaker 3: them in the past. I don't know if them or
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  Speaker 3: Iowa is wearing them tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I do know this.
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  Speaker 3: 200 colleges across the country received the box from the
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  Speaker 3: Holinskis and Holinskis Hope, which we help support. Also, Georgetown
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  Speaker 3: helps support. There's a Georgetown and a Mayor Maple Valley
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  Speaker 3: Open logo on the boxes. Knowing that that's going to
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  Speaker 3: every school in the SEC and the Big Ten and
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  Speaker 3: the Pac-12 and the ACC, along with smaller schools like
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  Speaker 3: my son's, like the PLUs, the Whitworths, the UPSs of
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  Speaker 3: the world, Eastern Washington, what have you, is really cool.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see a lot of the cheerleaders wearing the ribbons
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  Speaker 3: and the hair. And it's just a reminder that you can,
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  Speaker 3: and it is okay, despite SAS and others, it is
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  Speaker 3: okay to say that you're struggling.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: And to ask for help. So for everybody who supported
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  Speaker 3: our cause, golf, beer, what have you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Um, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Fun night last night. And yeah, the beer's gone. That's it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's really gone this time. We do the old, what
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  Speaker 3: we do, Jackson, we do the old trick. Like you
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  Speaker 3: do it at auction.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Who's going to bid on this? It's a
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  Speaker 1: great experience.
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  Speaker 3: You can go, you know, watch a game with the
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  Speaker 3: Husky hogs and then it bids up to like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: five grand.
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  Speaker 1: Like, okay, we'll do one more. So we always have the,
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  Speaker 1: we always have the one more.
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  Speaker 3: Keg and we brought a second small six barrel, which
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  Speaker 3: is a tall skinny ones yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It's done. Over and done.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for coming. So I just thank for everybody. We'll
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  Speaker 3: see you back next year, next August or so.
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  Speaker 1: All right. When we come back, Greg Cosell, 49ers. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about that next.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Egan's weekly visit with NFL Films' Greg Cosell.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, here we go, checking back in with our good
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  Speaker 3: friend Greg Cosell, NFL Films, ESPN Matchup Show, as we
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  Speaker 3: get you set for the Seahawks and the 49ers coming
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  Speaker 3: up on Sunday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Greg, how are you?
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  Speaker 5: Ian, what's happening?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're getting ready for a lot of football here
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, some big football this weekend. We've got the
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  Speaker 3: Huskies playing tonight against Iowa, and then we've got the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks taking on the 49ers, which you and I are
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  Speaker 3: going to discuss here coming up on Sunday. in what
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  Speaker 3: has been an interesting NFL season so far, Greg, in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of ways. Looking around, an 0-4 team goes
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  Speaker 3: and beats Dallas last night in Dallas.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 3: In the Tampa Bay Bucs with a quarterback that's an
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  Speaker 3: undrafted free agent. We've got a lot of weird things
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  Speaker 3: going on, but you know what isn't weird? The power
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  Speaker 3: in the NFC West still resides in Seattle, L.A., and
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco, right?
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  Speaker 5: That is true. That is true. And this is a
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  Speaker 5: big one, a big week coming. Week five. Yeah, week
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  Speaker 5: five matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Let me start. We're going to go through the matchup.
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  Speaker 3: We do every Friday with Greg. We appreciate him joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Let me take a step back. Watching the Seahawks offense
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  Speaker 3: so far, as you have, under Brian Fleury, two games
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  Speaker 3: effectively with Drew Locke, and now a couple games with
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold. What do you see in that? Is it
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  Speaker 3: similar to Kyle Shanahan? Is it similar to Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 3: last year? And maybe even evaluate what you see from
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold so far.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's funny because it's Brian Fleury who came
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  Speaker 5: from Kyle Shanahan. And sometimes I feel like I'm watching
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  Speaker 5: plays and I say, that's a 49ers play. So there's
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  Speaker 5: a lot that I think is similar because that's Brian
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  Speaker 5: Fleury's background. And one of the things that I learned
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  Speaker 5: early on from a coach who'd been in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: for years and years and years, he said to me
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  Speaker 5: that coaches coach what they know. And Brian Flory obviously
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  Speaker 5: knows the 49ers system extremely well. I mean, when you
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  Speaker 5: see something like Shahid in the backfield and he runs
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  Speaker 5: 22 yards for a touchdown, you think of Debo Samuel,
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  Speaker 5: which obviously he's back with the Niners. But before he
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: left to play the one year with the Commanders, you
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: saw that a lot with the 49ers. So, you know,
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: I think that there are certain plays I see I
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: say to myself, boy, that really looks like a 49ers play.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, there was a, there was one this week,
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: another one this week where I, I think it was
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: a screen to Wilson where he was untouched until he
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: reached the five yard line on his, I think it's
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: on his touchdown. And that, that to me, that was
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: a well-designed screen concept into the boundary. It had Shaheed
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: motion to the field to expand the defense. It looked
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: like a 49ers play to me. So, You know, the
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: main issue with the Seahawks offense right now is that
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: they can't run the ball with any kind of consistency.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: And obviously that's important. And that's not something they've been
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: able to do. Price is now on injured reserve. Is
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Charbonnet due to play this week?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: No, he won't play this week.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: My guess is, and with the short week at Denver
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: next Thursday, my guess is we won't see him for
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: a couple more weeks.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: That'd be my guess. Yeah.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: So basically, it's Wilson and Helani.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Is that it?
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: And then they signed Robert Henry Jr. off the Commander's
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Practice squad. He was an undrafted free agent out of UTSA.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: So they've got him on the roster as well now,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: and he's expected to suit up.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Well, he will.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: They've had to put him on the 53, man, so
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: he'll be there. And he's, I guess, a guy that
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: gives him a little bit more juice. He talked about
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: it yesterday, Greg, that what are his strengths. He talked
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: about running the wide zone and things like that.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: And maybe.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: maybe that's something that, cause they don't get that out
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: of Wilson, right? They can't do what they wanted to do.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: No, he's not, he's not that kind of bad. I mean,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: he's a solid NFL back and obviously not someone who, um,
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: should probably be a starter, you know, and carry the
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: way he's been, but you know, that's who it is
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: right now. Um, but, uh, yeah, I don't know much
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: about Henry. I did not do him coming out.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: So, uh, he was undrafted. I didn't expect you to. Yeah.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: So I don't, I don't really know much about him. Um, So,
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: but if that's his game, I mean, that's something that they're,
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: that they're lacking right now. Clearly.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Let me go back to what you said about Shahid
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: in the backfield. And I'm fascinated by that because, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: any football fan remembers what would it have been two, three,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: four years ago when we saw a heavy use of
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Debo Samuel in that backfield for Kyle Shanahan. You know,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Rashid Shahid is not built like Debo Samuel. He's Debo's
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: far thicker, bigger.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Bigger body.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: But is it, That aside, is that something you think
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: that will maybe– that could be utilized more with Shahid's
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: skill set?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, I've been surprised, to be honest. And, again,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: you know me. It's not a coach thing. But I've
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: been surprised, quite frankly, that Shahid has not become a
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: bigger factor in the pass game. But, clearly, they can
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: use him that way. Now, again, you're not going to
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: do that 10 or 12 times a game. But, you know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: they got inside the 30 because I think it was
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: a 28-yard touchdown. And he did it and then he
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: tried it again and he only gained, I don't know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: four or five yards. But is that something they could
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: do more of? Certainly. You know, they're looking for some
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: explosiveness in a normal formation look, because obviously that's not
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: a play. It's not a jet sweep. It's not a reverse.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: It's not a play out of the ordinary. They just
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: put him in the backfield and they give him the ball.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: So could they do more of it?
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Sure. Can you look at when you're watching Sam Darnold
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: on tape, similar to last year, different, anything you see
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: that jumps out at you with Sam Darnold, the way
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: he's played the first couple games?
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I get asked that a
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: lot about quarterbacks, and I have a pretty pat answer
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: for that, Ian. I don't think the quarterbacks change. You know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: every game is different. Every week is a different game.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Personnel's different. Games play out differently. I don't think Sam
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Darnold is any different today than he was last week
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: or the week before. But games play out differently. If
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: you can't run the ball, then the quarterback has a
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: little bigger burden in a given week. And then your
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: O-line has a bigger burden. And everything changes about the game.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: The quarterback himself doesn't change. The game changes. And that
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: impacts the quarterback in the way people watch the game.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: but the quarterback himself doesn't change. Sam Darnold is not different.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: It's just that right now they don't have a run game,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: and that's a big deal. The teams that can't run
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: the ball, the burden on the quarterback is just too great.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: There's very, very few quarterbacks in the league, if any.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Some might say Mahomes or Josh Allen. That's fine, but
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: the point is, You can't play in this league if
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: you expect your quarterback every week to be the reason
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: you win. That's too hard.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Well, let's look at the 49ers defense we're going to
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: see this week.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: A little bit different than the last time they saw
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: each other in the playoffs in the sense of there
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: is a Fred Warner back.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: There's still no Bosa. He's out this week.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: But having that linebacker tandem for Kyle Shanahan's team for
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: the 49ers, that's a steep test always against anybody.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So let's look.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold, and we'll see what happens with the run game.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Jackson Smith and James against Fred Warner and company on
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: that 49ers defense, which is number three in the league
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: right now in terms of points per game. They're averaging
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: only giving up about 16 per game.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Raheem Morris is doing a really good job, and
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: he's very opponent-specific. For instance, last week against the Broncos,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: who have a really hard time. I guess Seattle plays
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: the Broncos next week on Thursday. But the Broncos, through
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: the first part of the season, have really had a
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: hard time dealing with pressure. Bo Nix's numbers are awful
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: versus pressure. And of course, it's not all Bo Nix.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: So what did Raheem Morris do? He upped his pressure frequency.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And it was really, really effective. Now, whether he does
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: that this week, I certainly can't answer that question.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: But the point is, is he's put together game plans
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: that are very specific to the opponent. Fred Warner is
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: the best linebacker in football. I don't think anybody would
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: really argue with that. And they're getting a lot of
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: solid play from a rotational D-line because obviously Bosa is
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: out and they're playing a lot of players that are
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: not household names, I'm sure, for a lot of people,
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: but they play a lot of guys and they're good.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: And this is a team that is, they can be
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: very aggressive. They'll stunt. They'll do some things that they
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: try to impact your ability to block, both mentally and physically.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: So it'll be interesting. I think their safeties have actually
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: played really well. Jair Brown, I think, has played well.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Then they play Siegel, Marcus Siegel, and they bring in Mustafa,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: and he plays at times. So I think their safeties
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: have played really well. They've got a really good slot
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: corner in Stout. Upton Stout's a very good player.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And we'll see what Seattle does in terms of the
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: receivers because the workload so far, as you know, has
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: been really heavily skewed, probably rightfully so, to the defending
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: NFL Offensive Player of the Year, a guy by the
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: name of Jackson Smith and Jigba.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: But after that, the drop-off is significant. You mentioned it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: You were a little surprised.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I think all of us are that we're not seeing
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: more of Rashid Shaheed in the past game. Torrey Horton
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: did get a touchdown last week. He's finally healthy. That's
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: been a huge part of his problem so far, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Cooper Cup is Cooper Cup. And the tight ends haven't
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: done much at all. I'm a little surprised by that,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: the lack of use of my tight ends.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think the past game has probably been
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: a little out of sync. And again, there could be
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: so many factors involved with that. I mean, look, I'm
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: obviously watching the tape, but I can't do the kind
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: of research a team could do. Is it very possible
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: that they're facing more long yardage situations? Don't forget, everything
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: changes with play calling if it's second and four as
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: opposed to second and eight, or if it's third and
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: three as opposed to third and eight. I'm not doing
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: all that. Obviously, I can't do all that. I'm one person.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Teams can do all that because they've got 25 people.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: So it's very possible. That's why I said about Darnold,
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: he's not different, but I think the games are different.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: And that just changes the way he plays. But one
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: thing about the 49ers, they're not really a cover one defense.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: They're not really a man defense. They've been through four games,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: a zone-based coverage defense. They kind of mix single high
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: and two high looks quite a bit. But you're not
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: likely to get a lot of man coverage.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Greg Cosell joining us, brought to you by the EQC.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the other side of the ball.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I'm sure when you're watching the tape of this 49ers offense,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you've watched a lot. I can't even imagine how many
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: hours of Kyle Shanahan offense tape you've watched over the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: last couple decades or so, but it's a lot. You've
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: watched a lot of tape, period. It's been a long
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: time since you've watched a team go four games without
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: giving up a quarterback sack.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Pretty remarkable.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know what's been interesting is when you
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: look back at last year's games, and this is a
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: new year, so I'm just going to make a quick point,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: is I thought last year, particularly in the final two games,
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: I thought that it was just a physical beatdown by
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks versus the Niners. I thought it was that
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: that game was much more physical than tactical, those two games.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: I would not expect it to be that way this time.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's just– I guess that would be an opinion,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: but I would not expect that. It'll be interesting to
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: see with the Niners because they will not have Juszczyk.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: And even though he's not a statistics player, he's an
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: important player in their offense because, first of all, they
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: run about 40%, 21 personnel, meaning he's on the field 40%
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: or so of their snaps. I don't know what they're
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: going to do. Obviously, Kyle Shanahan's not going to make
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: a public announcement as to what he's going to do.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: So I don't know if they feel they have a
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: player who can fill that role, or are they going
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: to go more 11 personnel? Are they going to play
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: more with two tight ends? We won't know the answer
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: to that until they start the game. But I will
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: say this. I think having Debo Samuel back, and by
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: the way, he looks very, very good. Now they have
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: two guys in McCaffrey and Debo that are movable chess
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: pieces within their offense. Both guys can be used with
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: a lot of motion, pre-snap movement concepts. And, you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: obviously Mike McDonald knows that. And I'm curious to see
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: how he handles that. Sometimes you can just line up
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: and play and play your rules. And, you know, you're
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: not going to start communicating and doing a lot of
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: things because, hey, if you communicate and one guy gets
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: it wrong, you know, sometimes big plays can happen. So
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: I'm curious to see how Mike McDonald handles that. This
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: is a team that plays a lot out of a
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: two-shell look. So if you have a two-shell look, normally
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: your coverage is balanced, and you don't necessarily need to
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: start making changes. It's when you play single high and
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: you have that extra player down that you need to
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: make adjustments when there's motion, more so than when you're
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: balanced with a two-high-shell look. So we'll see how it works,
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: but Debo's still hard to tackle. Guys have been bouncing
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: off him when he has the ball, and McCaffrey– In
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: a sense, the nice thing for the Niners in these
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: games is they are not overworking McCaffrey at this point
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: in the season. I mean, last year he had over
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: 400 touches. He's not even close to being in that
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: mode this year, which is good for them that they
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: can be 4-0 and he's not going to be worn out.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: The second back, Kalen Black, the rookie from Indiana, he's
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: a really tough physical runner. He's the kind of back,
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Kalen Black, that if it's blocked for three, he can
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: get you seven. And those kinds of backs are really,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: really important.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Debo's interesting.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: It's the old Mark Twain, like the reports of my
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: demise are greatly exaggerated, right?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Right, right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Like Debo was like a year ago. Nobody would have
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: told you Debo's. And that seems to be the focus.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Well, we did catch 72 balls with the commanders last year.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: It's just that they weren't a good team. So we
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: kind of got lost in the shuffle. But it's not
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: as if he didn't do anything.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: But he looks good, black, as you mentioned, McCaffrey. That's
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: where the strength is for this team, right? With Stribling out,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: with Pierce all out for the season, Evans has kind
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: of been banged up a little bit. uh, Kittle and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the two running backs and Debo, that's, that's their skill, right?
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: You're going to get the Evans-Jobe matchup because Evans is
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: their boundary X, Job's the boundary corner for Seattle, and
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: he's a very good player, but every once in a while,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: he'll get beat. You know, that's safe. It's the NFL.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Corners get beat, you know, it's, it's the way it works,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: but that's a matchup to look at. Um, you know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: that will happen in the game, Evans versus Job, one-on-one. Um,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: and as we know, uh, Purdy is better than ever,
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: believe it or not. Uh, a friend of mine, um,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: who works for NextGen, sent me a whole bunch of
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: stats about Purdy throwing the ball between the numbers. It's
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: the best he's ever been. So, you know, he is really,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: really good doing that. Obviously, the Seahawks will know that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: And they know that that's a major foundation of the
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: 49ers pass game. And, you know, you have to defend
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: that because Purdy's going to throw, you know, Purdy in
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: his own way. And by the way, I'm so tired
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: of the word system quarterback, but Purdy in his own
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: way has a little bit of a gunslinger attitude. He's
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: going to turn it loose now. He is not afraid
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: to make tough throws into tight windows.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: He also must just get rid of it really well.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I know he can scramble a little bit and everything else,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: but you and I have talked for years about offensive
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: line play and what plays into a sack, and there's
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: a lot of different elements. But one of the things
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: is the quarterback certainly can help himself by getting rid
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: of the ball, and it feels like he's– he's a
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: different quarterback than Matt Stafford for sure. But I think
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: that's always what makes Stafford good, right? Is that the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: ball gets out of his hands quickly.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Purdy is an on-time quarterback. And, you know, if you
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: listen to Tom Brady do games and he's knows how
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: to play the quarterback position better than I do. He
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: always talks about sacks being more a quarterback stat than
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: an O-line stat. And when you have an on-time quarterback,
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: he helps the O-line tremendously. And Purdy's a little more
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: mobile and athletic than, than you might think. I mean,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: he can get out of the pocket. Is he dynamic
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: and explosive? No, but there's kind of a deceptiveness to
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: his movement, you know, that he can make throws, he
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: can run for first downs. But overall, he is an
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: on-time player, and that helps your offensive line.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Seattle gets Ty Okada back this week, Greg, and I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: know this guy you've liked watching. Yeah, I know you've
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: liked watching him play.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Is Love back too? Is Love going to play?
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Love is going to play, and Okada's back. So the
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: first time all year they've had their two deep safeties healthy.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: even where he's going to is, has made himself back
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: into a full-time guy as well. So what does Okada
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: bring to this team?
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I really liked Okada last year. Um, I, first
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: of all, I think he sees it well. I think
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: he's got a quick trigger downhill. Um, they used him
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: at a time at times last year as a blitzer
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: and he was very effective. Um, uh, you know, he's
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: just one of those guys that I think is a
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: little quicker and more dynamic than you might think. Um,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: And I just think he sees the game well. He's
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: a quick trigger reactor. And having Love and Okada back
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: is a big deal because Love is Love. I mean,
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: you know, I've talked to coaches about Love that when
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: he was a free agent on pretty much everybody's board,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: he was the number one ranked safety that everybody wanted. So,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: you know, and obviously Seattle got him. He's a really,
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: really good football player.
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  Speaker 3: The just the, the offensive line for the 49ers, are they,
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  Speaker 3: and I just gave you the whole, we talked about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pretty getting rid of the ball, but the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line, Trent Williams just doesn't seem to age.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's remarkable like what he does.
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  Speaker 3: And, and, I mean, as good as ever, but the
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  Speaker 3: rest of that line, I mean, that's credit to what
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  Speaker 3: they've done up front, too. I mean, yes, Purdy getting
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: through the ball, and yes, there's other factors into play,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: but that offensive line must be playing at a very
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: high level.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think that's still a potential matchup advantage
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: for Seattle in this game, because the interior of that
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  Speaker 5: whole line is you have Connor Colby, who's been the
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: left guard all season. You have Brendel, who's the center,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: who's been there for three, four years, and you've got Pune,
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: who's in his third season. They're solid, but I think
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: that There'll be plays in this game where the de-tackles
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  Speaker 5: of the Seahawks dominate. Now, again, obviously Shanahan probably knows that,
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  Speaker 5: and there'll be plays like that. And you just live
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: with them, and you've got to go to the next play. But,
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: you know, now they have a nice four-man rotation. Now
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: that Riley Mills is a factor. So this is a
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  Speaker 5: really good de-tackle group. But, you know, maybe the best
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: in the league. I can't think of everyone off the
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: top of my head right now. You know, Cincinnati has
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: two really good ones, and Dexter Lawrence and Jonathan Allen.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: That just popped into my head. But Seattle's are really good.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: And there'll be plays where they dominate. But this is
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  Speaker 5: where I think Shanahan and structuring his run game. And
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: believe me, I can't sit here and say what he
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: should do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: He knows way more than I do. But I think
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: structuring his run game will be a really big deal
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  Speaker 5: in this game because they have to have some ability
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: to run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I think, too, as we wrap it up with Greg Cosell,
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  Speaker 3: You know, that defensive line rotation you talked about, Leonard
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Williams has a little bit of an ankle issue, but
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: it looks like he should be good to go.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we saw him jog out to the field
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  Speaker 3: the other day, so we expect him good to go. Mills,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: and we're seeing Murphy play at a really high level, right,
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  Speaker 3: as well as Jaron Reed. I mean, that foursome is
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: pretty good right in the middle is what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 5: It's really good. And Mills is getting, you know, 16,
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: 20 snaps a game. If he had to cut back
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: on Williams' snaps a little bit and play Mills a
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: little more, Williams is a great player, obviously, but I
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: don't think it would be viewed as, oh, we have
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: a weakness there if that was the case, if Mills
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: had to play 10 more snaps and Williams 10 less.
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  Speaker 1: Great stuff as always. This is a big one.
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  Speaker 3: This is as big as it gets in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: This is a big one this weekend for Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: It's a good one, and it's in Seattle, and we'll
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: see how it goes. The Niners have been playing good
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: football this year. Raheem Morris has done a really good
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: job without a true pass rusher since Bosa's been out.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: and he's been able to really manufacture pressure, and I
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: think they're playing well on defense.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you'll be breaking this down on the matchup show?
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this one is part of the show. In fact,
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: it ends the show, which usually means it's our biggest
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: game discussion.
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  Speaker 1: Love it. Great stuff. We'll talk to you next week.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: We'll do a post-Thursday night game if we can next Friday, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: How's that?
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  Speaker 5: We'll see.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. All right.
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  Speaker 5: We'll talk about that.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: That's great, Cosell. We'll take a break, come back with more.
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  Speaker 3: We'll hear from Derek Hall coming up next.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: with the Inferness on your home for the NFL. Sports
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  Speaker 3: And we're back rolling along on this Washington State Beef
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Commission Football Friday. Big game tonight, Washington, Iowa, 2 o'clock. Pre-game,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: 6 o'clock. They'll kick things off at Husky Stadium. And
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: right here on 93.3 KGRFM. Biggest game of the weekend, though,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: all due respect to everything else going on. Well, I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: sure people out in Alabama and Georgia might be big,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: but in the NFL, it has to be the game. Sunday,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: 1 o'clock, 49ers Seahawks. I had Derek Hall over when
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: I was at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Came into
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: our studio. I sat down with him for a great conversation.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: If you missed it, the entire conversation is up on
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the podcast page.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Take a listen. He's a fun guy to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: talk to. Great story.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Talked about his mom and just kind of where he
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: is today and how different he is on and off
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: the field, some of the hard knock stuff. But one
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: of the things I wanted to get out of him,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: and we took a little clip out. Listen, everybody's going
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: to say different things. Is it a big week?
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Is it not? Jackson, you'd agree with me. This is
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a massive thing, right? It's massive, massive. You got it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: That's why Leonard Williams, his injury status is so important
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: to follow because I think you need him.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get that here probably in the next 20
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: minutes or so. But I asked Derek Hall, is it
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: any different this week?
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Nope, none at all.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: Mike came in today, did the same meeting he does
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: every single Wednesday, hit the same pointers that we do
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: every single Wednesday. So, man, we just continue to go
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: with what's important now. After I get done with two,
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: what's important? Get my body prepared to go out and
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: have a great practice. Have a great practice, then come
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: back in, figure out what I can do better, grow
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: from the tape, and then go home, get some rest,
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: lean into tomorrow, and come back and do the same
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: process that we do every single week on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: leading up to that game on Sunday.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: How come Purdy has not been sacked yet? I don't know.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know, man. The guy's elusive. He's a great player.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: Let's start there. You know, he can run. He can
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: make all the throws. You know, he does the pump fake.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: He does the spin it out. He does all the
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: things that make it hard to be able to bring
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: a guy to the ground. So for us, man, up front,
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: it's going to be continue to do what we do best,
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: you know, pass rush, press the pocket, you know, try
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: to limit his throwing lanes in the middle, you know,
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: be able to compress the pocket in the middle, be
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: able to rush off the edge, you know, make sure
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: we're doing everything we can to keep this guy in
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  Speaker 6: the pocket. Then when he does get off the spot,
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: just be relentless in rushing, you know, continue to pursue,
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: continue to plaster on the back end You know, our
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: coverage guys are going to do their thing. We have
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: to be able to hold up our end on the
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: front to just have opportunity to get.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: This guy on the ground. How good is Trent Williams? Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you got to give respect where respect's due.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, obviously, he's been a pro bowler freaking probably
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: almost every year of his career, all-pro player, still playing
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: the game at a very high level, be able to
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: do all the things. So we got our work cut
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: out for us, and I'm damn sure looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: I'll wrap it up with this. This is the obligatory
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: fan question, but what– and I'll go back. You were
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: here in 2023. Correct. Pete's last year. And that's when
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I was still covering this team full-time. I remember thinking
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: that's the first time in forever, that December game in 2023,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: where I felt like, wow, Lumen Field isn't what it
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: used to be. They had a ton of fans here.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: It just was weird. Then Pittsburgh a couple weeks later,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: things have flipped back. The fans are back at Lumen.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Not that they left necessarily, but they're not selling their
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: tickets anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: That's what Seattle does. You guys go to Arizona, it's
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: a home game, right? It feels like that every game
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: we go to, man.
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  Speaker 6: Every game we go on the road, the 12 show
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  Speaker 6: up and they show out.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: So that's amazing, man.
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  Speaker 6: We have the best fans in the world, and just
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: the way they continue to show up for it is special.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I'll just let you say to them, what kind of
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: difference can Lumen Field and the 12s make this weekend
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: against Brock Purdy and that team?
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  Speaker 6: Huge difference, huge difference, man. Bring the juice, bring the noise,
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: continue to be loud, continue to do what you best, 12s.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, they got that 12 name for a reason, man.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: It's like a 12th player on the field. They bring
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: the juice. They bring the energy. And obviously, you know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: we have to create negative plays and do things on
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: the defensive side of the ball. And, you know, ultimately
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: all three phases of the game include special teams, be
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: able to feed them plays, you know, get them loud,
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: get them rocking. But, man, once we do, continue to
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: bring the juice, and we're looking forward to seeing you
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: all there.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Good stuff there from Derek Hall. Yeah, I think the
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: fans will make a difference on Sunday. There was a time, Jackson,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: not too long ago, Lumen Field lost a little bit
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: of its magic, lost a little bit of its luster.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's back.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see on Sunday. There will be 49er fans here.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Make no mistake. They will be here. But it won't
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: be like in December of 2023 when they literally took
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: the stadium over.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: So it'll be good. Great atmosphere. All right. We'll take
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: a break. We'll come back.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Let's learn a little bit more about the new running
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: back for the Seahawks, Robert Henry Jr.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: undrafted free agent, UTSA.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: He is a guy that Rob Rank talked about a
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: lot in our pre-draft conversations and process. Rob joins us
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: to talk about that and the big games this weekend,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: including Iowa-Washington in college football next.