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9-7: Apple Cup, Seahawks and Elise Woodward · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Happy Labor Day. Not just a Monday. A
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day. Headlines are brought to you by Frost Brewed.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I had as cold as the Rockies. 118th
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  Speaker 2: Apple Cup. Wasn't pretty. Wasn't smooth. It was another win
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  Speaker 2: for the Washington Huskies in the long series. They overcame themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Some really unintelligent plays by the Huskies. They beat the
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  Speaker 2: Washington State Cougars and Jessamyn McIntyre's Cougs 24-10. Quarterback Devon Williams,
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  Speaker 2: 329 total yards and two of UW's three touchdowns. His
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  Speaker 2: clinching scramble in a juke of two Cougs on a
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  Speaker 2: third and nine with three minutes left in a 17-10
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  Speaker 2: game was the clinching play. Much, much more on the
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  Speaker 2: Apple Cup from the Huskies and the Cougs' perspective coming up.
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  Speaker 2: including Elyse Woodward at 11 o'clock to talk about her
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  Speaker 2: very first play-by-play.
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  Speaker 3: Now that is a Husky I can like.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the only one for Jessamyn McIntyre, who was on
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  Speaker 2: the opposite sideline last night. This coming weekend, UW hosts
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  Speaker 2: Utah State, which lost at home to Idaho State in
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  Speaker 2: its opener. Washington State is at Kansas State, which won
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  Speaker 2: its opener 71-3.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes me a little nervous, Greg. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: exactly thrilled about seeing that score. I know who they
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  Speaker 3: were playing.
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  Speaker 2: It was Nichols, FCS Nichols.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, except to put up a 70-burger. That means the,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, at least our defense played well.
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  Speaker 2: You know who went into Manhattan, Kansas last year and
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  Speaker 2: won at Kansas State? The Army team, the Pride and Dream,
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  Speaker 2: I very heart and gray.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, do you know them?
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 5: Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Very well. I'm well aware of them, yes. They won
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  Speaker 2: 59-3 this weekend. Also in college football, Big Ten. What
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  Speaker 2: the hell in Ann Arbor? That was just crooked.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that was unbelievable. Did you watch the.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I saw all of it.
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  Speaker 6: It's crooked.
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  Speaker 4: But when they actually showed the replay booth and they
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  Speaker 4: aired the audio, I did it like 17 times.
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  Speaker 3: That's crooked.
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  Speaker 2: That's crooked. Big Ten officials put an extra second that
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  Speaker 2: didn't exist on an apparently secret play clock no one
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  Speaker 2: knows about. But the Big Ten replay officials knew about it,
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  Speaker 2: and they gave Michigan one extra second, and that allowed
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  Speaker 2: the Michigan Wolverines to score a final play touchdown to
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  Speaker 2: beat Western Michigan 13-12. Blatantly shady result, Ann Arbor. Last night,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame smashed Wisconsin at Lambeau Field in Green Bay,
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  Speaker 2: and Mississippi beat Louisville in the end. Seahawks, they got
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  Speaker 2: some issues in their defensive secondary for Wednesday night's NFL
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  Speaker 2: opener against New England at Lumen Field. Signs and what
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  Speaker 2: teammates are saying are pointing to Nicky Manwari not playing.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he hasn't had a full practice since that
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  Speaker 2: arthroscopic ankle surgery in July. And now, fellow starting safety
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  Speaker 2: Ty Okada has a hamstring injury. He did not practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks only have three safeties on the 53-man roster, and
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  Speaker 2: two of them are hurt. Julian Love's the only healthy one.
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  Speaker 2: The Anthony Bell just signed to the practice squad this
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  Speaker 2: past weekend. Could be starting with Julian Love on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's the issue who may be the third cornerback
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  Speaker 2: for Mike McDonald, so we can use Devin Witherspoon inside.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about all this coming up. The Mariners,
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  Speaker 2: they lost three of four to the Athletics over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I was at the yard Saturday night, and it was bad. Booze, booze,
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  Speaker 2: and more booze. More low IQ baseball.
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  Speaker 3: That's not empathy. It's... It's anger.
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  Speaker 2: It's absurdity.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: There are six games out with 18 to play. They're
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  Speaker 2: off today, which means they can't lose. They begin a
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  Speaker 2: three-game series at the Yard in Soto against Texas tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk much more about what I saw at the
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  Speaker 2: Yard Saturday night. Not much of it good. Sounders got
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  Speaker 2: three veteran starters back from injury, including Jordan Morris came back,
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  Speaker 2: Christian Roldan came back, and they still didn't score. No
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  Speaker 2: home draw against the New York Red Bulls. That's now
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  Speaker 2: 11 MLS matches in a row without a win. And
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  Speaker 2: in our high school football opener that we feature on Friday, remember?
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  Speaker 2: Two of the top four Class 4A teams in the state.
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  Speaker 2: Lake Stevens held on late to beat Graham Kapows in 31-26. Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: Bellevue won 14-10 at Kennedy Catholic in another showdown of
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  Speaker 2: top powers in the state. Now on with our Labor
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  Speaker 2: Day show. Happy Labor Day! Those of us who are laboring,
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  Speaker 2: happy Labor Day to you as well. I know.
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  Speaker 3: This is so difficult.
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  Speaker 2: The building is empty. The downtown is empty. Of course.
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  Speaker 4: We got shoved into the workplace, and we're the only
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  Speaker 4: people here.
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  Speaker 2: It took me 12 minutes to go from Roosevelt to
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  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio Studios down on Elliott Bay.
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  Speaker 4: I was 18 minutes from Edmonds, so yeah, I got you.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't have flown here quicker than you could drive
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  Speaker 2: through downtown Seattle today. Greg Bell, Jessamyn McIntyre. We're with
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  Speaker 2: you every weekday, 10 a.m. to noon here on 93.3 KGRFM.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, ma'am. Fresh off the Washington State Cougars sideline yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to call myself fresh right now, but yes.
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  Speaker 2: You are bright and spry. Yeah. How was it? What
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  Speaker 2: was the vibe like in the stadium? Labor Day weekend,
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  Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon, Apple Cup. What was that like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was different, for sure, especially because it was warm.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're going to call it the Apple Cup,
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  Speaker 4: that was a little bit different. But I would say
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  Speaker 4: that I didn't feel like the.
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  Speaker 3: Fans treated it as such.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't necessarily the Apple Cup. It was a rivalry, definitely.
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  Speaker 4: And there were more Cougs there than I think were projected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I could hear them both.
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  Speaker 4: And I was saying off the air that if you
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  Speaker 4: were standing outside the stadium, you wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 4: tell who was winning or what play happened by what
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  Speaker 4: team because the fans were extremely loud. So as much
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  Speaker 4: of purple as you saw in the stands, even if
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  Speaker 4: you didn't see that crimson, they were loud and proud.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the talk was that the Cougars had to return
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  Speaker 2: their allotment, the athletic department's allotment of tickets that Washington
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  Speaker 2: had given them for the game. And my response to
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  Speaker 2: that was, well, a lot of fans are going to
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  Speaker 2: buy on the secondary market, Coug fans, because they live
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle, in the Seattle area. And they're not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: going to buy it from the Washington State Athletic Department,
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  Speaker 2: although they should. But they didn't. And as to your point,
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  Speaker 2: there was some crimson yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yes, and a lot of, you know, familiar faces
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  Speaker 4: on the sideline as well. You know, obviously MK, who
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  Speaker 4: is a crazy person, but in the best way.
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  Speaker 2: Explain to the listeners who might know him.
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  Speaker 4: This is MK, who is Chris Abruz, who played for
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  Speaker 4: the Cougs way back when.
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  Speaker 3: He still looks like he would about to get on
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  Speaker 3: the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he does.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So he was there and he does.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, everything he's done with his career is absolutely
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  Speaker 4: amazing because obviously he played, but then he ended up,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he has a gym, his own place. He's
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  Speaker 4: a pilot. He flies to games on his own. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of bonkers to me, but he's the best kind
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  Speaker 4: of crazy, and that's what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, yeah, he could jersey up and play on the
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  Speaker 3: defensive line right now.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk a lot about the Apple Cup
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  Speaker 2: today because Elyse Woodward is going to join us at
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  Speaker 2: 11 o'clock and tell us what her experience was like
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  Speaker 2: as the first game. It was a full-time voice of
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  Speaker 2: Husky football taking Tony Castricone's place. Tony, of course, left.
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  Speaker 2: to take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers job. So we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk a lot about the Apple Cup from both
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  Speaker 2: sides of it, from Jessamyn, what she saw from the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: from Washington State's perspective. What happened to... At least what
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  Speaker 2: it was like with working with Dave Softy Mahler. Does
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  Speaker 2: she even need a headset? She could probably hear him
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  Speaker 2: from the sideline. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we had some choice words when we were both
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  Speaker 4: going down to the field.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I can't actually say them on radio. So
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  Speaker 3: sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nervous for this show because my wife's listening.
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  Speaker 3: Wendy, hi!
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  Speaker 2: Wendy is listening because she's not working today because it's
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day. Mercifully, she doesn't have to work at Children's Hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Same with Mike.
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  Speaker 2: She was in there Saturday, so she did work this weekend. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous. I'm going to be critiqued by
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  Speaker 2: a speech therapist wife who is going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: my diction.
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  Speaker 3: Get your– oh, hold on.
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  Speaker 4: Because we have something when it comes to that.
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  Speaker 2: We will bring it. No, no, no. This is Jessamyn's creation. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You can explain.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Greg and I both use big words sometimes because
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  Speaker 4: both of us come from a writing background. Greg still
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  Speaker 4: is a writer. And we use, you know, very big
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  Speaker 4: words sometimes. And I think we need to be called
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  Speaker 4: out for it. So I decided to call us out
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  Speaker 4: for us.
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  Speaker 2: So Jessamyn has created this. What did you say it
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  Speaker 2: was from? It was from Kill Bill, but also Austin Powers.
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  Speaker 7: Austin Powers.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a nerd alert.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so the deal is if one of us says something,
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  Speaker 2: she'll press that button and now you'll know what that means.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you use the word like scrappulous or something, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I've never used that one in print or in speaking,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I have either. It just came to
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  Speaker 3: my brain.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good one.
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  Speaker 3: That was a nerd alert for me.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the Seahawks because they've got
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  Speaker 2: some issues in the secondary that Mike McDonald and his
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  Speaker 2: defensive coaching staff are trying to work through on how
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  Speaker 2: they're going to employ their defensive backs. Of course, McDonald
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  Speaker 2: loves to play five and six defensive backs more than
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  Speaker 2: anybody in the league. They were in it almost 70%
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  Speaker 2: of the time last year. But that's because they had
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  Speaker 2: Nick Emanwuri who could do safety slash hybrid linebacker slash
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  Speaker 2: end-of-the-line pass rusher with a hand on the ground defensive end.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't look like they're going to have him. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you why I say that. But it doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: like Emanwuri is going to play Wednesday night based on
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  Speaker 2: what I've seen and heard over the weekend at the
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  Speaker 2: practices in Renton. And now Ty Okada... it's a hamstring issue.
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  Speaker 2: And Jessamyn, he was healthy and practicing full go through
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  Speaker 2: the end of the preseason, which tells me he's gotten
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  Speaker 2: a hamstring injury recently, like in the last week.
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  Speaker 3: Or a recurring situation.
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  Speaker 2: Could be, although I had no evidence during the preseason
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  Speaker 2: to say he was injured at all. He was not
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  Speaker 2: limited at anything that I've seen through August. If it's
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  Speaker 2: a newer hamstring injury, that doesn't pretend well to him
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  Speaker 2: playing on Wednesday night. And I mean, hamstrings just don't
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  Speaker 2: go away. You don't wake up one day and suddenly
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  Speaker 2: it's fine. yeah so the fact that he didn't practice
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  Speaker 2: yesterday the biggest fullest last full day before the game
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  Speaker 2: today they're in a lighter mode I doesn't sound great
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  Speaker 2: now the CR the practice the NFL practice participation report
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  Speaker 2: scheduled for this game in particular this one-off special Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: game is a little different And that the Seahawks will
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  Speaker 2: not have to. Yesterday was the first time they had
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  Speaker 2: to report. Saturday, when they practiced, they did not, which
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  Speaker 2: is why Mike McDonald came into his press conference and said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about injuries. I even said, asked him
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, well, can you characterize how Nick Imanwari has
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  Speaker 2: progressed in his recovery from the start of training camp
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  Speaker 2: to now? And he said, no, not really. I can't
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  Speaker 2: do that. But then Imanwari has since been limited. He
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  Speaker 2: has not practiced fully yet. So we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the ramifications of that and how McDonald likes to
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  Speaker 2: play defense is going to have to change. And it
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  Speaker 2: could include an extra linebacker on the field, as in
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  Speaker 2: three off-ball linebackers, in addition to Derek Hall and Demarcus
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  Speaker 2: Lawrence rushing a passer. That would be different. That's not
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  Speaker 2: how McDonald played it last year. He played it with
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  Speaker 2: more defensive backs in lieu of a third linebacker. He
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  Speaker 2: would have two linebackers on the field. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that's going to happen as much on Wednesday night. I
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  Speaker 2: also don't think it's going to matter. We'll talk about that, too.
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  Speaker 2: Lots to talk about, including Factor Fiction. You know the
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  Speaker 2: return of Factor Fiction.
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  Speaker 3: It's back, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I think the reason we work on Labor Day
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  Speaker 2: is because of Factor Fiction.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we used to do it on the Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: a pick based on the upcoming college or pro game
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  Speaker 2: text in fact, as in you think what I or
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn just said as a prediction will happen. And if
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  Speaker 2: end of the contest, which ends on December 11th, which
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  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken is the day before the Army-Navy game.
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  Speaker 4: It is?
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  Speaker 2: That's the show. It's December 11th that Jessamyn and I
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  Speaker 2: will be doing from Times Square in New York.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll have one more shot for you.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah. And take a wild guess what that pick's
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  Speaker 2: going to be, unless some Chuck or Ian or.
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  Speaker 2: No, I hope not.
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  Speaker 4: No, they would do that just to, like, grab you,
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  Speaker 4: rip you.
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  Speaker 2: and then I turned it off and didn't hear what
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  Speaker 2: his pick at 735 was.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it'll be in the sheet. It'll be in the spreadsheet.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: A reminder, if you're not going to the season opener Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: the sold-out season opener after the Vinod Khosla... Ownership group
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  Speaker 2: is introduced in the morning at Lumen Field. The next
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  Speaker 2: best place to be and watch the Seahawks in New
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  Speaker 2: England on Wednesday night. Join Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM's
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan at the Tulalip Amphitheater at the Tulalip Resort
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  Speaker 2: Casino Wednesday night. It's free to get in. You can
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  Speaker 2: win prizes including Seahawks gear, Husky tickets, perhaps to Utah
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  Speaker 2: State this weekend. Join Ashley and 93.3 KJR for the
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  Speaker 2: season opener watch party free at the Tulalip Amphitheater.
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  Speaker 4: Amphitheater and ashley's a good hang man yes like that's.
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  Speaker 3: Someone that you would be.
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  Speaker 4: Like oh actually yes can i buy you wine yes
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  Speaker 4: she's super fun so i hope i hope that you
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  Speaker 4: all if you're up in that area too because not
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  Speaker 4: everyone can you know drive down and everything if you
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  Speaker 4: just want to go for a fun time and an
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  Speaker 4: entertaining game definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Go 11 35 of course factor fiction 11 30 we'll
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  Speaker 2: dodge text line 49451 That's when you always get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to be a part of the show every day.
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  Speaker 2: The Apple Cup, man, really not smart plays by the Huskies.
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  Speaker 2: Really not. Targeting into the quarterback's helmet when Pinnock was running,
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  Speaker 2: he lost a fumble along the sidelines, and then the
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  Speaker 2: DB just bashes him head-to-head in the helmet. That negated
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  Speaker 2: a turnover the Huskies would have had. Standing over a Coug,
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  Speaker 2: Eddie tackled him, an unsportsmanlike taunting penalty after the Huskies
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  Speaker 2: had stopped the Cougs on a third down in the
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  Speaker 2: second half. Running a dive play by the fullback... The
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  Speaker 2: end of the first half, Jessamyn, we're used to having
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: flashbacks to Lumen Field two years ago when they were
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: at the goal line to end the game. And I thought, well,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: one play Jed Fish is not going to call is
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: a read option play because the Cougs famously stopped that
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: to win the game two years ago here in Seattle.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, I certainly remember.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: So he does the opposite. Jed Fish called a fullback dive.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, probably the least athletic play they could have
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: decided to play there. Don't get speed on the edge.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: I hate giving him a little bit of credit, but
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: also one of the most unexpected.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: True. It was so obvious it was unexpected. Let's run
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: a dive play on the goal line. The last play
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: of the first half, he calls timeout with three seconds left.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: It's a 10-0 game at that point. And if they
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: score a touchdown there, the game's over. A three-score game
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: going into the second half, it's likely over. And he
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: runs a die play to the fullback right at the middle.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: And the Cougs stop it with a really nice defensive stand.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I was watching it from the Seahawks headquarters during the
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: practice yesterday in the media availability. I didn't get the number.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: It was someone flying in off the left edge who
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: came in and just shut the plate I think he
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: was 21 if I'm.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Not mistaken yeah Keith Brown.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you let's give Keith Brown his flowers.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: And he was injured all last year he was just
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: chomping at the bit I mean he was on the
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: sideline every single year and throughout my time I've noticed
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: that injured athletes learn so much by just having to watch,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: and they can't be out there.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I was so excited. He was such a leader on
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: that team.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Sorry to get on a little bit of a crimson
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: and gray soapbox, but during the first quarter, he was
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: rallying the defense.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: He stood on a chair.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: He did not play a snap last year, and I
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: saw him in a sling out at every single game,
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: and he was just out there.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: He was out there, and he was.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: An unexpected leader, I would say, just because he didn't
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: play last year. So anyway, yes, he was all over
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: the field. He had a monster sack, too. He really,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: I don't know. No, it wasn't a sack. It was
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: tackling the running back in the backfield. Anyway, it was
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: just like, I went audibly, oof, you know, when I
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: saw some of those tackles. Anyway, yes, 21 is Keith Brown.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Good for him, Heath Brown. I'm glad you
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: identified him for us.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Thank you. You're welcome.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I thought the Cougs should have gone for the– instead
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: of the kick and make it 17-10. I didn't know
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: how many more times you could expect the Cougs to
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: be down in touchdown zone there with seven minutes left.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: But the new head coach in his first game decided
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: to kick the field goal, which is the percentage play
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: on fourth and four.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Well, and Jack Stevens has been very, very successful as
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: a kicker.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately for the Cougs, the veteran kicker missed his first
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: two kicks, 52, and then.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: The shorter one. Well, technically he made.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: It before the penalty. That was also a killer play
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: for the Cougs. That sucked.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: He could have had a one-score game there in the
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: third quarter. I think it was third quarter. A 10-3
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: game if he had made it. The kick had counted,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: but there was a delay of game penalty that negated it.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Then he missed the re-kick from five yards further back.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Another point in the game that the Cougs could have
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: gotten within one score. Anyway, Washington wins 24-10. I was
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: at the yard Saturday night with my wife and our son,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: and man, the home nine got booed, and they deserved it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Another foul behind 6-0 to the A's and only had
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: two hits through eight innings Saturday night, both by Kyle Raleigh.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: You know, it's really indicative of the season, Jessamyn, that
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: we looked up at the scoreboard and showed Kyle Raleigh hitting. 180,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and we're like, wow, he's really brought up his average
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: lately to. 180. I mean, he did, though. Yes, he did.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: No, I get it. I get what you're saying.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Three at night Saturday. Yeah, three at night.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Especially with the expectations put on him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: From 60 home runs to 180. More low baseball IQ plays.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And again, it was Julio Rodriguez. Mariners down 4-0 Saturday.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: He has a 3-0 count. So what's your job there?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It's an easy baseball rule. Get on base. All the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Mariners need are to collect base runners to try to
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: get back in the game, right? A home run's not
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: going to get you back in the game. A home
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: run is 4-1. So, yeah, I can see if a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: home run puts you in the game or can tie
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: it or get you close. It's 4-0. You need to
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: get on base. And 3-0, you should be taking. You
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: shouldn't need a take sign. High school players know this.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: 3-0 down four runs, you take. What's he do? He
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: goes leaning over the plate and chases a pitch that
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: wasn't even a cookie on 3-0 because this guy was
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: throwing slop. He was throwing 80-mile-an-hour change-ups most of the night.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: That guy for the A's Saturday night was 3-13 with
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: an ERA near 7. He was the worst starting pitcher
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: in the American League, full-time starter. And the Mariners got
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: two hits off of him in eight innings. And part
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: of the reason is for stuff like this. 3-0 down
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: four runs. Julio Rodriguez should not be swimming. He leans
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: over the plate. He weakly rolls it over to third base.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: And the inning ends instead of a base runner with
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: an out.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: That was an unimpressive at bat.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I was sitting there behind section 137, behind third base,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: just going, what is going on here? Does anyone have
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: any accountability or direction or any baseball sense at all?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: He should have been benched for that. Sit down. You're
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: swinging 3-0 down, 4-0, sit down. Then.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Is he giving directions?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: He doesn't need to be.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're right.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: There's no way a Major League Baseball player should not
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: know that you don't take down for nothing.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Let's take Julio into account.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Is he paying attention?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: No. Right.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: He's checked out.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: We've seen several examples.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Of him not paying attention.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Throwing live balls into the stands.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: So maybe he needs some direction.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe his direction he needs is to the bench and
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: just sit there and watch for a while.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Like I just said about injured players, I've watched them
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: come back smarter. And I'm not saying I want him
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: to be injured. But if you are forced to sit,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: you learn a lot.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: And you also sit and go, oh, why am I sitting?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Because I swing 3-0 down 4-0. Then runner at first,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: one out. No, two out. Nobody out. Runner at first,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: nobody out. Josh Naylor hits a screamer on one hop
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: to the second baseman. A really hard shot. The second baseman,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: it's too hard. He bobbles it and then he kicks it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It rolls away. And then he just underhand tosses at
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: the second base for the force out. The shortstop's about
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: to throw it back to the pitcher. But he looks
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: up and sees Naylor's not even halfway down the line.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: And this was like... It took much longer than what
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I just took to describe it. And Naylor's not even
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: halfway down the line. In the shortstop, you could see
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: his body language go, oh. And he throws it to
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: first base for an easy double play. On a ball,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Naylor should have been on the right field foul pole
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: had he been running even a little bit. That's when
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the boos were the loudest Saturday night, when Naylor did
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: not run out that ball.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: The boos, that's tough.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Naylor should have been sitting next to Rodriguez.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: People love this team. And when they start booing.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: You know that we have a pretty empathetic crowd, I
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: would say, around here.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: And there were 40,000 people in the yard because it
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: was Brian Wu bobblehead night. And they were booing. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: we all saw it. And people around us in Section
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: 137 were like.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: What the?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: We couldn't believe it. Because it took like 10 seconds
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: for that play to elapse. And he didn't get close
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to first base. That was just didn't try.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Poor.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: He should have been sitting next to Julio Rodriguez on
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the same bench. I thought at that moment, Jessamyn, when
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Naver didn't run it out, they're trying to get Wilson fired.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh, that would be a weird mutiny.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought. I thought they are playing like
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: they want to get Wilson fired. And then you look
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: in the dugout when you go to a game, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: you probably see it on television, Dan Wilson's body language
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: standing on the top rail, he does not want to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: be there.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I think that this season has exhausted him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: It has. And they don't need to fire him. He's
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: going to quit. He's too much of a man to
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: quit during the season.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: He would never do that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: And he's got a commitment.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Because he comes from a player commitment background. Exactly.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: He's going to commit through the season he's committed to.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: And then he's going to go in to Hollander and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: John Stanton after the season and say, all right, I
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: did what you asked me to do. Never had experience
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: doing this. I took over the job for service. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: did what you asked. I'm done. I got guys that
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: don't run out ground balls. I got guys that swing
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: 3-0 down 4-0. I got guys that throw balls in
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: the stands when there's one out. I'm done. They don't
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: need to fire him. He's going to quit. They are
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: playing like they even want Jerry DiPoto fired.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: He will respectfully resign.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He'll just say, I'm done.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: And get an admin position.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I'll go back to my wife in retirement.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: He was really living the life.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: He was. Yes. He's not now.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: 4-9-4-5. I think he just.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Okay. This is the.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: The weird empathetic part of me because I'm a jerk
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: when it comes to sunshine. No, I just, I don't
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: necessarily speak for every fan, but I would just say
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: that Dan is a.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Very good person.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: And I think he cares so much about not just
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: the team and their success, but he cares about each
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: person in that clubhouse.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: And Dan, Maybe that's to a fault at some point.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I was told that's my greatest strength and my greatest
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: weakness is I care too much.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know why Dan Wilson would spend another day
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: past the end of this season with the Mariners. I don't.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I would be like, I did my job. I've done
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: what you asked me to do. I'm out. I mean,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. The stuff I see on a daily basis,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: this team is, not only is this the most disappointing
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: season in Mariners history, given the expectations, but It might
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: be the most poorly played. Even when they have 100
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: lost seasons, those are usually with kids that are trying
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and they're over their heads. These are veteran players making $ 80, $ 90,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: and $ 200 million in the case of their center fielder
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: doing this. Those dudes need to sit. And Michael Arroyo,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: now that he's caught up, put him in there. Montes,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: put him in there. I don't care. Give him no handedness,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: none of that. Play him. Play the kids. Let the
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: guys who don't run out double play balls, let the
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: guys who swing 3-0 sit. Four, nine, four, five, one.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: It's coming out to text line. You agree or disagree.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: You want him to be more decisive.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And accountable for what he does. There's no accountability because
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: there's no leadership on this team. We're watching, again, the
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: 2026 Mariners as a perfect example of athletic talent lacking leadership.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And that starts from the very top. Up next, let's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: talk to a team about a team that has leadership.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, but they aren't without issues.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: They've got some issues in the secondary, and Mike McDonald
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: might not be able to play defense in the season
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: opener Wednesday against the Patriots like he wants to. That's next.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The fact or fiction, your chance to match which with
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: us and our college and pro picks. I'll just give
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: you a hint. It's college. And those of you who
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: know me know where we're going. We'll do that at 11.35.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: If you listen, you know.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Exactly what it's going to be. But don't text.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: In before Greg gets his pick.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: 11.35.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm going to say, but just be ready.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: That's coming up on 93.3 KJRFM. You know one of
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the great mysteries of this station and this network?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, there are several. I don't know how many we
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: can say.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: One of the great mysteries is the friendship between Dick
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Fane and Jalela in Atlanta.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Let's not get presumptuous over here, okay?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, how did that occur? How did they
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: become friends?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I have friends all over the country.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: How do they stay friends? How is he intimately knowing
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: all of her backgrounds?
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: And maybe they're friends.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: That just makes me laugh every time I hear it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, okay, as someone who has friends that
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: live literally in almost every state of this country, I
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: can say that I would speak the same way about them.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: He's just reading a script.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I think they might intimately know each other, but not intimately.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think they might be friends.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: It just makes me laugh every time. Well, it's not
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: making Mike McDonald laugh down in Renton. I was there
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: all weekend, and his cornerback and safety situation, two positions
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: that he just outmaneuvers offenses and just out schemes them
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: by those positions, thanks to Nicky Manwari and Devin Witherspoon. Well,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: those positions are in some flux, and he's going to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: have to be creative on Wednesday night to be able
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to play defense the way he wants to. Let's just
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: state off the top, if Nicky Manwari doesn't play, and
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: it looks like he's not going to, Ernest Jones yesterday
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: was talking about him. Somebody asked him what Neiman Ward
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: brings to defense. And he said, he's like an alien
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: when he comes back. Until then, until then, until then,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: we're going to play with the guys that are here.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: So he pretty much told you that Nick Neiman Ward
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: is not going to play.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Or he was covering.
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: Maybe.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: It sure sounded. And then it looked like he's not
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: going to play all weekend. limited in practice yesterday. He's
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: yet to have a full practice since the mid-July arthroscopic
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: surgery on his ankle, which suggests he's not going to
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: play week one. So what do they do? Well, again,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: nobody in the NFL played more sub packages of five
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: and six defensive backs last year than Mike McDonald. And voila,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: they led the NFL in fewest points allowed and they
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl. Is he going to be able
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: to do that Wednesday night against the Patriots? Well, to
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: do it, Part of the time, you go three safeties, right? Well,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: they only have three on the active roster, and two
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: of them are hurt. Tai Okada didn't practice yesterday either
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: with a hamstring issue, and you don't just suddenly get
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a hamstring issue and suddenly get healed from those. Those
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: tend to take a while. The fact he wasn't on
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the field in the final full practice of the week,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the fullest full practice of the week, three days, two
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: days before the game, three days before the game, suggests
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: he's not going to play either. That leaves Julian Love
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: as the only healthy safety. Perhaps the Anthony Bell, who
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: they just signed this weekend back after they cut him
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the previous week, I did some digging on Bell, and
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: he was shopping. He was trying to get a job
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: on another team's 53. I talked to his agent, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: he said that they were leaving open the possibility of
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: coming back to the Seahawks practice squad, but that they
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: wanted to, obviously, at his position, he's been in the
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: league now five, six years, he wanted a 53-man spot
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: on another team, and none materialized. So this weekend, he
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: was signed back to the Seahawks, and presto, he might
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: be right in the starting lineup in the NFL opener
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: because of these injuries to Okada and And Eamon Worre,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: they also have on the practice squad Maxon Hook, who
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: played a very good preseason in training camp, the second
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: year veteran from Toledo. They also have, well, they think
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: they have A.J.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Finch.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: But now he may be banged up too the guy
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: who they've had around for a couple years now and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: who came back from reconstructive knee surgery or in early
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: august and was a standout early in camp he's on
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: the practice squad as well whom they don't have of
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: course and who would it be the instant plug-in for
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: even worry would be bud clark The rookie's second-round pick
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: is out for the season with that broken ankle he
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: got in the second preseason game at Tennessee.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: That was a heartbreaker.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Right. So, the bottom line is if they don't have
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: a human warrior in the middle of the field, they
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: want to have Devin Witherspoon in the middle of the field,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: move him into nickel. Well, you need a third cornerback
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: that can play outside to do that, so they can
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: move Witherspoon into nickel. McDonald would much rather blitz Witherspoon
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: from inside and affect more of the game and affect
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the Patriots' run game from nickel than outside corner. But
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: if he doesn't have a trusted third corner, he's kind
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: of hamstrung to do that. He's probably hands are tied
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: in doing that. So what do they do? Is Trevon
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Diggs ready? Well, yesterday I asked Adam Dirty, the defensive coordinator,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and he said Diggs is good on scheme. And he
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: spun up enough that he could play on scheme. And
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: then Brady Henderson of ESPN.com asked him, well, what about
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: his legs under him? He hasn't practiced fully only one
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: week since January because he didn't sign until the last
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: week of the preseason after the Green Bay Packers had
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: cut him in January. And Dirty indicated that he's getting
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: there too. Now, we heard on the Hard Knocks episode
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: last week, the final episode, that Diggs said he thought
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: he would need a couple weeks to be spun up
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: on game plan and his legs under him to be
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: able to play, which to me was why they put
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: him on the practice squad to begin the season rather
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: than the 53. But the way they are in the secondary,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I'd be very surprised if they don't elevate Trevon Diggs
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: from the practice squad to the active roster for the
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: game on Wednesday. Same with DeAnthony Bell. I'm expecting those
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: to be the elevations for the game on Wednesday. And
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: if they don't do that with Diggs at the third corner,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: if they don't think he's quite ready yet, Nehemiah Pritchett
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: is the most obvious one. He's on the 53 currently.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And that's the one who started training camp as the
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: third corner moving Witherspoon inside. But then McDonald didn't like
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: him enough that he started going to Noah Higmanogany in
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: that role. And they didn't like Higmanogany enough that they
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: cut him. He's now with the Cleveland Browns. So the
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: quest for a third cornerback continues. Is Diggs ready or not?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: If he's not ready, they go back to the fallback,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the original plan, Nehemiah Pritchett, who, if he had succeeded,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't have gotten into Diggs and wouldn't have signed
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Terry on Arnold and gone down that rabbit hole at all.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: You see what McDonald's dealing with here. So here's an
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: escape hatch plan. Don't play the extra defensive back. Now,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: they don't want to do that because they'd rather have
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Witherspoon in the middle, but if they can't, they don't
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: think they can trust Pritchett to do that or they
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: don't think Diggs is ready. They could go three-off ball linebackers.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: They'd have Tyrese Knight. I've seen him practice it a
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: lot in training camp. Tyrese Knight and Drake Thomas, the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: starter Thomas last year, took Knight's job as inside weak
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: side linebacker, but have both of those guys on the
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: field at the same time flanking Ernest Jones. That would
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: be a good run-stopping defense if the Patriots were trying
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to counter an extra defensive back by running the ball
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: with Stevenson and those guys. But it might not help
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: in pass defense as much. I talked to Tyrese Knight yesterday,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: and this is what he had to say about his
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: new role, which he thinks is not all that different
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: for him. The three linebackers, it'll get you on the field, obviously,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: but you're doing it more in training camp. What's different?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: What do you like about that?
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's not really no difference to me. It's
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: just like down a little bit to the field more,
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: so more of.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: A passing strength.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: But to me, it's really no different.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of everything the same. So it doesn't
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: really change when you were weak side inside?
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: No, it's just to the field more than to the boundaries.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: How has this gone for you since the end of
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: last season and the camp you had and you showed out? Man,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been a real blessing.
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: I just came back healthy and I just feel like
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: I've been playing the ball that I know I've been
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: playing my whole life. This year, everything just seemed more clear,
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: just slower, just faster for me. So I think that
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: just showed the type of growth I had, the type
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: of training camp I had, including that first piece of
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: the game.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: And it must help that you're in the same scheme
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: now for about three years, right?
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: The same coach who knows you.
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, going into year three with the same
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: defense and everything just started blending.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: In way more.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: I think it just helps me with everything. As long
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: as I learn nothing new, I just got to continue
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: to focus on the basics.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: What have you improved most, would you say, from year
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: one to now?
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: I'd probably say my decisiveness and just getting that confidence
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: just way through the roof. You know, once you got
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: that confidence, you feel like you can do everything. So
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: I think that's just the main thing that's been different
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: with me.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you. That's Tyrese Knight,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: who was the starter as a rookie in 2024 as
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the inside weak side linebacker when they went to two
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: linebackers and five defensive backs. He named six defensive backs
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: at times, like McDonald wants to do. If they can't
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: do that because of personnel shortages, expect Knight and Drake
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Thomas to be on the field at the same time.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And that would be a wrinkle to the Patriots they
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: haven't seen on film. And the openers are all full
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: of surprises. You don't have film. You don't know what
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: they're going to come out with. The Patriots are going
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: to do things, obviously, they didn't do in Super Bowl 60,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: six and a half, seven months ago. And so will
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. And we've talked about how he's going to
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: have different fronts. He's going to have different blitzes. Well,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: this three off-ball linebackers would be different. He'd have essentially
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: five linebackers on the field because you have Derek Hall
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and Demarcus Lawrence as your edge pass rushers coming off
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the edge. And then Drake Thomas and Tyrese Knight, who's
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: had a phenomenal camp. He is back in the coach's
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: good graces. He lost ground last year when he got
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: injured in training camp and Drake Thomas took his job
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: and he never got it back last season. Well, he's
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: getting things back now and he's had such a good
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: training camp and preseason that he may have forced his
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: way into the starting lineup with Thomas and Ernest Jones.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: We'll see. It'll be interesting to see how much they
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: go to three linebackers and not the extra defensive backs.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It would keep Witherspoon out of the nickel spot that
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: McDonald would rather play him in. Honestly, I don't think
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: it's going to matter. I don't think Drake may and
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: the patriots are going to move the ball on the
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: seahawks no matter what alignment.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: They're in yeah my husband disagrees but of course he's
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: just you know from new england he just is yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I thought the same thing in the super bowl i
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: said it before i said they're not this is going
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: to be a boat race and it was the patriots.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: You said that to me right before the game too
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: yes and you're like oh i think they're just gonna
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: crush them uh you said it yeah i think you
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: used that word actually that.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to happen again. I think the
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Seahawks are going to boat race him because I can't
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: see Drake May and the Patriots moving down the field
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: for touchdowns against this team.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I was going to ask, boat race via field goals again?
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: No, that was Sam Darnold's. He still is upset about
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: how he played in the Super Bowl and missing touchdowns.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: But he protected the ball.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: And that's the most important reason why they won. That's
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: the reason they won throughout the postseason. Darnold didn't turn
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: it over. The guy who led the NFL in turnovers
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: last regular season didn't turn it over at all in
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: the postseason. Up next... More side stories to this opener.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Brian Fleury, the new offensive coordinator, has never done this before.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: In fact, he just became an offensive coach a few
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: years ago. He was a defensive coach before this. And
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: now he's the offensive play caller in Week 1, the
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: very first game for the Super Bowl champions. You'll hear
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: from Brian Fleury, the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks, next.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: And Elise Woodward at 11 o'clock to give her perspective
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: from her first time being the voice of the Huskies
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: yesterday in the Apple Cup. Factor Fiction is at 11.35,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: all coming up on 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back, Greg Bell,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Justin McIntyre with you live on 93.3 KJR FM from cloudy, foggy,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: drizzly Seattle.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: That's when the whales come out.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, we could almost see the whales here from my
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: office view right over the Elliott Bay.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: You know, our fearless leader, our boss, told me one time,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: right when I started working with you, too, because normally
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: I'd be right out there working on Ian's show or
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: preparing for Ian's show. And he comes running in and said,
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: there were just two humpbacks coming by.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Why would you tell me that?
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: After it happened?
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: I was very, very upset.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Happy Labor Day to you. Thanks for listening. The Seahawks
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: play in two days. The NFL season opening game, 5-20,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday night at Lumen Field against the New England Patriots.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: It'll be the first game ever for Brian Fleury as
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: an offensive play caller in the league. The new offensive coordinator,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: the former tight ends coach the previous four seasons for
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: the San Francisco 49ers. We talked to him yesterday about
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: this opportunity. He had a funny answer to my question
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: here in a few seconds. You'll hear. My question was,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: who has he been relying on for advice in this
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: new job as a Super Bowl champions play caller? This
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: is Brian Fleury, the new offensive coordinator for the Seahawks.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: You get your first chance.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: To call plays in an NFL game and all that.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: How much are you.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to that? Obviously, I'm really looking forward to it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: I've had more fun out here at practice these last
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: two days than probably any of the last seven years,
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: so I'm excited to continue this journey and get out
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: there for the first time on Thursday.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: What's been fun?
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: Just going into the game plan process with the guys.
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: It's such a great group of guys, and they have
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: so much experience together. They all have great ownership of
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: the offense, and so being able to talk about things
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: and how I see it and how they see it
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: and make sure that it's all synchronized together has been
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: really fun.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: If anyone, Brian, have you sought for advice on physical experience?
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: Unfortunately, the people I would seek advice from aren't really
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: interested in seeing us do well, so.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: not many. What have you seen? This is obviously your
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: first camp working with Sam.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: What have you seen out of him?
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: It's my second camp working with Sam. First as a coordinator,
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: I should say. Yeah, I mean, just his growth over
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: the last three years since I've been with him and
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: his confidence level has increased significantly and his ownership of
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: the offense and his His command over just the room
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: and the group has been really impressive.
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: You told a lot of guys today that communication is
• 39:57
  Speaker 11: super important week one when you're adjusting on the fly.
• 40:00
  Speaker 11: When did you know you were over the hump in
• 40:02
  Speaker 11: making sure that messaging was clear across all phases?
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: Messaging has been clear since I walked in, and that's
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: a credit to Mike and John. We really kind of
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: got over the hump as we got back into training camp,
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: I think.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: It became clear. really clear.
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: We had some growth opportunities in the offseason as they
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: were getting used to how I see things and they
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: were coming from Clint's offense and how they saw things.
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: And then when we got here in training camp is
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: really when we kind of hit the ground running within
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: that first week.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: It used to be in the 80s that speed was
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: about vertical stretch.
• 40:33
  Speaker 12: Now you see it used for stretching the field horizontally
• 40:36
  Speaker 12: as well.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Talk about how those two things work together.
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, obviously you want mixed elements. There's vertical separation, which
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: you can create with speed down the field, but also
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: You know, horizontal could be lateral quickness, like the shorter
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: area moves similar to like a West Welker or something
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: like that. And then there's also the ability just to
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: use the entire width of the field with the same
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: type of speed that.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: You would stretch it vertically with.
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: So, you know, if you're using all 54, 53 and
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: a quarter yards and whatever's left to the end zone,
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: you're doing a great job.
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: Are you going to be down on the field or
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: up in there?
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going to call it from down. I was
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: really pleased with the communication from upstairs. Justin Allen's doing
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: a great job. Tyson Prince is up there too. And
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: the information and Daniel Stern also, the quickness with which they're.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Getting it to me has been outstanding. So I feel
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: very comfortable being on the field. What are the pluses
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: to doing it there?
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: I just like being able to communicate in real time
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: with the players. The way I want to call the
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: game lasts about two series, and then you get into
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: the flow of it and there's adjustments being made. And
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: it gives me an opportunity to preview maybe things on
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: the call sheet that I want to go to next
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: and why. and anticipate just like one little nugget of
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: coaching point that I think might make a difference. It's
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: just easier to communicate that in person face to face
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: when you're dealing in like microseconds. You know, I just
• 41:50
  Speaker 8: like that part of it better.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: You remind us two series.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: What's that? What do you mean the way you want
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: to call a game on the last two?
• 41:56
  Speaker 8: I just mean, I mean, we're dealing with outdated information
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: in terms of what the New England defense is going
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: to look like. And so how they decide to play
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: us will start to take shape within the first two
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: series is what I mean.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: You remind us which preseason games you did it from
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the field.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: I was on the field the first one against Dallas
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: and the third one against Kansas.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: You're a rookie tailback, which you work with him every day,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: but he hasn't played since November. What are you curious
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: about Wednesday night?
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: I'm just excited. I wouldn't say curious. I'm just excited
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: to watch him play. I'm excited to see him get
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: his first touch. I'm excited to see him be able
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: to play in this atmosphere, and I think it's going
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: to be the beginning of a really good career.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: That's Brian Fleury, the new offensive coordinator for the Seahawks,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: the third offensive coordinator in four years, if you count
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Shane Waldron, the end of his tenure, and then it
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: was Ryan Grubb. Then it was Clint Kubiak last year,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: and now a first-time play caller for a Super Bowl champion.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: That's unusual. He was a defensive coach until just seven
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: years ago when he became an offensive assistant for the 49ers.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: His only coordinator job was as a defensive coordinator at
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: I know it well.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: You played against them, I think.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, I did. And they were very good.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: And now he's going to be the play caller for
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: the first time for the Seahawks on Wednesday night. And
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Jadarian Price, we talked about all the questions on offense
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: or on defense. On offense, the Seahawks' questions start with
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: their lead running back. Their new rookie lead running back,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Jadarian Price, has not played since November 29th of last year,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: 10 months ago.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: But that's not his.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: No.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: He was from Notre Dame. And Notre Dame didn't go
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: to a bowl game because they got ticked. They didn't
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: go to a college football playoff. And then the Seahawks
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: decided that none of the starters, including their top rookie
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: and first-round pick, were not going to play at all
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: in the preseason, which is why it is a curiosity
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to me to see what this new rookie running back
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: is going to look like in a game for the
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: first time.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to be fresh.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: When it's real. He should be fresh. I talked about
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: him on Saturday. I talked about how fresh he is. Well,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I've been working pretty hard during training camp as well.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: It's not like he's not working.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he kind of was like, hey, I haven't just
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: been kicking back.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Also, that's some integrity to stay with a program when
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: you know that you're not going to touch grass for
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: a very long time. It's going to be, and I
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: think that speaks to what he has to offer going forward.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: He will be the number one back. George Helani will
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: be with him. And Emmanuel Wilson is back to practice.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: He was full go yesterday. He's had that hamstring that
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: he missed most of August with. He's going to be
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: the short yardage back, it appears. a more thudding, pounding
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: runner than the other two on Wednesday night. Up next,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: back to the Apple Cup, back to Elyse Woodward, who
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: had her debut yesterday. First game as the full-time voice
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: of the Huskies. We're going to get her perspective. What
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  Speaker 2: was her preparation like? Did she over-prepare? Did she not
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: use everything she prepared for? Did she need headsets to
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: even hear Softie Mahler screaming from the sidelines seven levels below?
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  Speaker 2: I say no. You'll hear from Elyse Woodward next. 11.35,
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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Happy Labor Day. Glad you're listening. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: are brought to you by Coors Light. As cold as
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: the rock is. 118th Apple Cup. Wasn't pretty, wasn't smooth.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Another win for the Huskies, though. They overcame themselves in
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: some really unintelligent plays to beat the Washington State Cougars 24-10.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: The Cougs' defense was strong. turning away the Huskies a
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: couple times inside the 10-yard line. DeMond Williams for the Huskies,
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  Speaker 2: 329 total yards and two of Washington's three touchdowns. Clinching
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: scramble and a juke of two Cougs in the open
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  Speaker 2: field on a third and nine with three minutes left
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: in a 17-10 game was the clinching play. Much more
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: in the Apple Cup coming right up in a few
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: minutes with Elyse Woodward. This weekend, UW hosts Utah State,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: which lost its home opener to Idaho State. Washington State
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: is at Kansas State. K-State won its opener 71-3 over
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: FCS Nichols. Also in college football, Big Ten officials put
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: an extra second that didn't exist on an apparently secret
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: clock no one but the Big Ten replay officials knew
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: about to give Michigan a final play touchdown that beat
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Western Michigan 13-12 at the Big House in Ann Arbor.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Blatantly shady result there. Of course, you know, the Big
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Ten doesn't need Michigan losing to Western Michigan, which would
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: end their playoff hopes in week one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, are you speaking a little conspiracy into this? Absolutely.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Because I am.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: That was just ridiculous.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: That was so dumb.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: That was ridiculous. Last night, there's a whole other thing
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: to that. It used to be that when non-conference guys
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: played those money games, they could bring their refereeing crew,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: officiating crews. There would be a MAAC crew on the
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: game in Ann Arbor.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: That's not the case anymore.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Now it's to the point where the big boys will say, nope,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: we're going to have a Big Ten crew, and if
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: you don't want to play us, we'll go find some
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: other directional school to play us. You take your $ 3
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: million payday and you either want it or not.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: I've witnessed it.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be that a MAAC crew would
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: have been on that game. Not anymore. The big boys
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: get to call the shots and have their own refereeing
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: officiating crews. And the Big Ten, of course, is not
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: interested in Michigan not being in the playoff because they
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: lost to Western Michigan. The Seahawks, they got some issues
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: in their defensive secondary for Wednesday night's NFL opener against
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: New England at Lumen Field. Signs and what teammates are
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: saying are pointing to Nick Imanori not playing. And now
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: fellow starting safety Ty Okada has a hamstring injury. He
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: didn't practice yesterday. The team has one healthy safety on
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: the 53-man roster, Julian Love. The Anthony Bell signed back
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: this past weekend after they cut him last week, and
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: the veteran's safety has a chance to be starting with
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Love on Wednesday now. There's also the issue of who
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: may be the third corner that we talked about last
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: segment with Mike McDonald wanting to use Devin Witherspoon inside
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: a nickel. The alternatives are plenty, but there's questions on
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: all of them, including whether Trevon Diggs is ready to
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: go after signing in the last week of the preseason.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: The Mariners lost three of four at home to the Athletics.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Remember that easy schedule that's coming up in September? It's
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: only easy if you beat the teams that are easy.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: All right. Three of four at the yard. They lost
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: to the A's. More low IQ baseball that we talked
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: about at the top of the show. They're six games
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: out with 18 games left. They're off today, so they
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: won't lose. They begin a three-game series at the yard
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: in Soto against Texas tomorrow. The Sounders across the street
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: from where I was in the yard Saturday night were
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: playing at the same time against the New York Red Bulls.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: They had three veteran starters back from injury. According to Jordan,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Morris came back. Christian Roldan came back, and they still
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: didn't score. Nil-no-home draw. against the Red Bulls. That's now
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: 11 MLS matches in a row without a win for
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: the Sounders extending their franchise worst streak. High school football
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: opener that we featured on Friday with the great talk
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: with both coaches. Lake Stevens held off Graham Kapowsin this weekend,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: 31-26 in a showdown of two of the top four
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: teams in the Class 4A in the state. Bellevue won
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: 14-10 at Kennedy Catholic in the other big showdown of
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: state powers this weekend. Friday, we're going to do it again.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Another showdown this weekend, and we're going to reveal the
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Game we're going to do, the coaches we're going to
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: talk to, we're going to do that on Friday. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: 1135 Factor Fiction presented by Lucky Eagle Casino. But right now,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: we're going to the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. where the washington
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: huskies play-by-play announcer the voice of the huskies elise woodward
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: she's fresh off her very first broadcast as a full-time
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: she's done it before in a fill-in role but never
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: full-time and now the voice of the huskies having her
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: first Apple Cup in her first game yesterday, a 24-10
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: win for the Dawgs. Elise Woodward joins us live here
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: on the Beacon Plumbing High. Good morning, ma'am, and congratulations.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: You sounded great yesterday as I was driving home from
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, and it must have been a ton of fun.
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  Speaker 7: Well, thanks, Greg. You're a busy man. You're all over
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: the place. So, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 5: Was just talking to Jessamyn, both of us over there.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: I think it was a closer game than most people thought,
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: but I also think game one, especially with, you know,
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: football is now with so many new faces and new
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: places and and all the things that it often takes
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: time to work out kinks and um but when it's
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: in a rivalry game i think things can get stickier
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: at the end of the season at the beginning of
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: the season whatever it is i think you can have
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: a grinded out football game but uh yeah the huskies
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: got what they came for and that was a win.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: How was it for you did you have fun was
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: it nerve-wracking was it comfortable what was.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: It I don't think anybody would describe that game as comfortable.
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: No, it wasn't. But it was fun.
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: It was a lot more fun when the Huskies put
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. But I think
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: there was a lot of nervous energy in the stadium because, look,
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: you just don't know in a game one of the
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: season what to expect. And it's a feeling out process. So, yeah,
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: I think it was nerve-wracking until the fourth quarter for
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: the fans, for sure. As for the broadcast, I thought...
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: You know, there's things just like the Huskies. There's things
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: to clean up. There's things to do better. But overall,
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: I thought it was good.
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: So, yeah, I had a great time.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: Cam is awesome. Softie is crazy and perfect. And so
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: we had a really good time.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Well, take us a little bit behind the curtain, Elise.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: What is the preparation like? I know a ton of
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: studying on depth charts and notes. Did you find yourself overprepared, underprepared?
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Did you get everything that you wanted to get to?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Did you get all the information you had researched and studied?
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Did you get to it? Was it– and what would
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: you like to improve upon? Because this is a neat
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: little deal to take over an institution like this, and
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: of course it's not going to be exactly as you
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: want it to first come out.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: That's not a little deal, Greg.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: You know, it's funny.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: When I first started doing this so long ago that
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: I don't want to make myself sound like more of
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: a fossil than I already am, but you always over-prepare.
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: There's no question. You have to prepare for– crazy things
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: to happen.
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: You have to prepare for what if this guy on
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: the defense has a game-winning interception. So you're going to
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: go deep on your boards, and a lot of it
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: is completely unnecessary because that never happens. But you never
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: know when you need to go there.
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: So yes, there's absolutely.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: a million things that are prepared that never make the air. Um,
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: and that's good.
• 52:18
  Speaker 7: You have to live with it. Don't try to force
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: things in or anything like that.
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: Um, no, I think, you know, it's all, I always
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: say that with a broadcast, it's so often that you
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: feel like your broadcast mirrors the style of the game.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: So if it's a free flowing offensive, beautiful performance that
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: you get to call eight touchdowns and it's, uh, everybody's
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: cheering and it's crazy in the stadium, um, That sounds
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: like a better broadcast.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Than a 10-7.
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: Grinder where it's like three.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: Yards and the big plays are the little plays. If
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: you hold them to three yards instead of five and
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: then you force third and you get them off the field.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: Some of that stuff is not super beautiful or super exciting,
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: but you got to call them as the game brings
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: to you.
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: You don't get to choose what style and what kind
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: of game it was.
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: So for me, You know, for what we were looking
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: for game one, yeah, I was really pleased with a
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: lot of parts of the broadcast. And, of course, you're
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: always working to get better.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Of course, you know the voice. It's Elise Woodward, the
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: voice of the Huskies, who's joining us here on the
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Beacon Public Hotline a day after her first game and
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: the Huskies' first game of the season. 24-10 win in
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: the Apple Cup. You've done this before, of course. You've
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: done it nationally for Fox and football and college basketball.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: You've done it as a fraternity leave fill-in for Tony.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Castricone on the Huskies broadcast, but was there anything that
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: surprised you or that you weren't ready for?
• 53:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's a good question. Anything surprised me? No, I
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: don't think there was any surprises.
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: You know, I just think, you know, like, like everything,
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: I think, I think the biggest challenge perhaps was that
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: game one, I'm a big believer in watching film and,
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: you know, to see how guys move and to be
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: able to identify as soon as pot, like right as soon,
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: like the way they run or if they have a
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: pink head, you know, pink wristband or if they have
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: a towel or whatever, there's little identifiers because we are
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: very high and very deep at Husky Stadium.
• 54:17
  Speaker 7: So it is very difficult.
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: Like one of the plays is, I thought it was
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: Buda Baker because his body type, the same exact size
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: as Jacob Manu, and Manu had his jersey, was.
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: Kind of like crunkled. So it looked like a zero.
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: And it was a nine. So you've got to really
• 54:30
  Speaker 7: hone in from up there.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: And it was a challenge because for Washington State, they
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: had 50 new players, brand new coaches, brand new staff.
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: So not being able to watch a game of film,
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: and they didn't release a depth chart.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: So it was.
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: You know, just, you got to really roll with the punches.
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: And so there's sometimes a delay in like trying to
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: identify because you literally, it's the first time you've seen this,
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: you know, the starting 22s for Washington State. So, yeah,
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: I don't think it was a surprise. It was just,
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: you know, you really had to, you really had to
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: focus in on who was on the field and the
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: personnel early in this game because nobody knew what it
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: was going to be.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: There's different ways to do it, of course, at least.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Do you play-by-play with binoculars on or do you just
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: consult binoculars between plays?
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely binoculars on. Yeah, I have to.
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: There's two different sports that I have to call with binoculars,
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: and it's football.
• 55:29
  Speaker 7: And it's soccer.
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: Because the field is so big and because.
• 55:33
  Speaker 7: There's so much space to cover.
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: And if you go far side corner, like it's really
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: difficult to see. Luckily, the Rasheed Williams play was right near.
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: It was near side.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: But I couldn't tell that he had stepped on the
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: sideline like that. Even the officials that were there two
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: feet from him couldn't tell until they went to review.
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: But yeah, no, I go binoculars everywhere.
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: The wide angle that it's saved my life.
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: That's for sure.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: Well, Elise, you talk about having to read body language
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: and seeing, you know, even if it comes to a
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: sticker on a helmet, a bracelet a guy's wearing, how
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: much did sideline reporting like teach you about that before
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: you were so many floors upstairs?
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's a totally different vantage point. And
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: neither one of them are perfect. When you're on the sideline,
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: you know this, Jessamyn, like you can't see far side.
• 56:27
  Speaker 7: Corner at all.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: You can't see the whole field.
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: I had to turn and watch a lot of, no,
• 56:31
  Speaker 7: you had to turn.
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: And that's why I think it's fascinating that the coordinators,
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: like Ryan Walters, the coordinator is on the field. And
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: he said, hey, we got iPads. We're down on the field.
• 56:39
  Speaker 5: This is new technology. They have eyes up in the booth.
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: But I think that's fascinating because when you are up top,
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: you're not in there to feel the intensity and the
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: mood and the atmosphere and what you need.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: You are in a booth.
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: And so I think it is fascinating from that, like
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: the different vantage points. You can hear the pads pop.
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: You know when it's a huge stick. You can feel
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: the crowd. I think it's easier to be in tune
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: with momentum inside when you're on the sideline. But you also,
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: when you're down there, if it's a far side pitch,
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: you know far side play you can be completely blocked
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: and then if you're happen to be you know behind
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: the team you're you totally hoops oh my gosh you've
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: got to.
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: Turn around on the scoreboard if you are like behind
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: the offensive line or the defensive line you're yeah i
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: mean i we're not small we're not very short people
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: but we are not that tall um uh yeah five.
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: 5'10 is not nearly tall enough.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: That's all I know.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: Well, it's funny because my dad was a linebackers coach forever,
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: and then he was a defensive coordinator for a very
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: long time as well. And he said once he went
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: to the booth, he was so calm because he could
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: see everything.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: I can imagine.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I'm just wondering if you had that same feeling.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Was it calmer up there?
• 57:59
  Speaker 7: No, and it's... Well, there's no doubt.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: It is....
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: And we have the window open so we can hear.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: I cannot stand to be in a bubble where you
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: can't hear. Some of the booths were like, you have
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: to really fight to get the window up. And to
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: not hear the crowd and to not hear... Even the
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: whistles sometimes, if they're upstairs, it's a lot harder because
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: you're so far away. So, yeah, it is interesting, especially
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: from a coaching perspective. And Ryan Walters is talking about,
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: like I said, he wants to be down there to
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: look into his guys' eyes to.
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: See what they're feeling and really thinking and to get that.
• 58:41
  Speaker 7: You've got to give something up, and.
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: That's like the up-top view. But if you have iPads
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: for them, then it's great. Now, hauling the game, from
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: my perspective, no. There's no chance you can do it
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: on the field.
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: No way.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Elyse brings up a good point. You heard last segment
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: from Brian Fleury, the new offensive coordinator for the Seahawks,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: is that's the reason he's going to be on the field,
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: so he can be with the players and feel the
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: players and directly communicate rather than on the phone with them.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: Elyse Wedward joining us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline a
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: day after she called the Apple Cup win for the
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Washington 24-20. Washington State at Husky Stadium. I got to
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: ask you, did you even.
• 59:13
  Speaker 7: Don't be giving any more points.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Exactly. It was close enough, right? We don't need any
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: more points. I got to ask you, did you even
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: need your headset to hear Dave Softy-Moller down from the
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: sideline or could you hear him seven floors below?
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: And I'm going to be really honest with you guys
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: right now. Like kudos to Safi. I told him, I
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: was like, Safi, you are on at what time are
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: you being on? And he was like having to hustle
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: after the player interviews to do post game. Like I'm
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: telling you, I feel like I'm a hustler and I'm
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: a hard worker and I got to give mad props
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: to Safi. Like the guy is passionate. He is like,
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: there's nowhere he'd rather be. And at one point I
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: was like, after the game, I was like, Softie, like,
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: are you just going to go sit on.
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: The couch right now?
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: And like, you know, maybe meditate.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 7: Or something like you kind of like your.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: Heart rate has got to have been at like 150
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: all day long. And the guy is just, I mean,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: you know, Softie is one of a kind.
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  Speaker 7: That's all I know.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: But he was hustling all over the place. And yeah,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: but I probably didn't need, I didn't need headsets for Softie.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, yeah, I hate to give
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: him credit because we had some words. Yeah, we always do.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: He's like my big little brother, I would say. But
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: I have to give him so much credit because his
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: passion deserves to be on the air. And I'm very
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: happy for the Huskies that it is on that broadcast because.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: He really cares.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: At least, I got to ask you. Oh, there's no question.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I got to ask you. One of the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: things you were great at with Bob Rondo and Tony
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Castricone is providing real-time insight from the field on something
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: that the guys upstairs were talking about. And I know
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: you have a butt in the press to be a
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: part of and interject something. How often did you do
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: that with Softie yesterday? Is that something that by play
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: that you got to get used to or you know
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: it really well from having done it on the other
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: end and you knew when to incorporate him from the
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: field and when it could add value? Oh yeah.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 7: No, I think I'm for sure.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: Look, there's, I believe in the broadcast that I like,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: I agree with that assessment, Greg, that it is a conversation.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 7: About what's really going on.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: It's not, I don't like to say back to you
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 5: and all of the really formal things, because that's just
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: me and my own personality. I like to just like
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: softy and he can take it away. Now we went
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: down to him quite a bit. And so, you know,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: it's almost like it's, There is an audio element to
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: it where if the mic is open down there and
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: it's so loud on the field, his mic can't be
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: open all the time.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 7: They literally have.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: A three-person booth from a technical standpoint. So it is
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: like you got to, and you have to time it out.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: If it is, you know, you look up at the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: play clock and they're going to line of scrimmage, you
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: can't send it down. So there's a lot of different
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: factors in that. But yeah, no, we incorporated Softie and
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: he got in a lot of great stuff. And, you know,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: the only unfortunate part was he had Chris Peterson and
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: we went to break and we couldn't get it back.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: And so it was unfortunate that we couldn't run a
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: interview with Chris Peterson, which was awesome. So that's that's
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: that's one of the regrets that, you know, with timing,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 5: you got to hit the break.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 7: You got to do all those things. Sometimes great stuff
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 7: doesn't make the air.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you sounded wonderful. You were informative. You were enthusiastic.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: And it, of course, means so much to you being
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: a dog yourself. And congratulations. And I'm really glad you
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: came on with us. Thanks for having me. You're welcome.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: It's proud to know you. And I know how hard
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: you've worked for 20 plus years at doing this. All
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: greats to you and keep going. Have a great time.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: Greg, how is that possible when I'm 18 years old?
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: It's not possible at all.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: At least we both started working when we were five.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's what happens. That's right. The 23-year-old voice
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  Speaker 2: of the Huskies, Elyse Woodward, joining us here on 93.8.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: You guys, it is wild because when I said I
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: was on the sideline for 23 years.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: I was like, oh, my God.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: How is that possible?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Jeez.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: It's just like, oh, it's insane.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: You should be proud.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: You should be proud.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, you should be proud.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: I appreciate that.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: I thank you guys.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: It was, it was a blast.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: And you know, just like the Huskies, you go back
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: and you watch film, you listen to stuff and you know,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: week two, we're going to, we're going to be better.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 7: So that's, you know, that's the thing. And got the.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: Coaches show tonight at six o'clock.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: So that should be fun over at Eureka.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: So anybody that wants to come out. You know, Jed's
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: great about that. He really does want to engage the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: fans and have them come out. And so, yeah, I
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: hope to see everybody tonight at 6 o'clock over in
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: U Village at Eureka for the Coaches Show from 6
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: to 7.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Thanks for bringing that up. I forgot to mention that.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Hats off to you. We'll be listening again, Utah State
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: this weekend and the Coaches Show tonight at 6 o'clock
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: here on KJF. Thanks, Elyse. You were great. We'll see
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: you soon.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 7: Thanks, you guys. Appreciate you guys.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: You're welcome. Elyse Woodward, the voice of the Huskies, joining
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: us here on 93.3 KJR FM. That's interesting to hear,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: you know, stuff like that. when to go down to
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: softy from the sidelines and the Chris Peterson interview. Oh,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: we got to go to commercial. And yeah, you'll always
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: over prepare. The few times I've done it just for
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: the state high school championships, high school football championships. We
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: broadcast every December from Husky stadium here on KJR. I've
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: done it with Chris kid a couple of years and
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton last year. And yeah, you over prepare for
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: just what she said for the, just in cases of
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: the fourth string safety, who makes us play on special
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: teams and you know, his background and you've, hats off
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: to her. She sounded great yesterday. Cam Cleland with her,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler with her. They'll be on the broadcast
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: again this coming Saturday for game two of the season
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: for the Washington Huskies against Utah State. And of course,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: as she mentioned, the coaches show tonight with Jed Fish,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: the day after show, 6 p.m. It's going to be
• 1:04:58
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• 1:05:02
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• 1:05:04
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I'm currently a Sooner dad. And it was on
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma plays Michigan this weekend in Ann Arbor, presumably maybe
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: with a split crew or SEC crew instead of the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Big Ten crew. I would think Oklahoma could get to
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: negotiate that. We talked earlier, one of the things overlooked
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: about that Michigan fiasco with Western Michigan was the fact
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: that Western Michigan didn't get to bring the Mid-American Conference
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: officials to that game. It used to be that when
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: the little boys played a payday game, let's face it,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: that's what this is, they get millions of dollars to
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: play in Michigan Stadium.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: That's been pretty transparent, I think.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but usually you get to bring your officials from
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: your conference to that game. The road officials, the road
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: conference team, I've seen many times mid-American conference officials at
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Ohio Stadium when Akron or somebody's playing Ohio State, and
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: not this time.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Well, that was extremely apparent.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, everyone knows now that the Big Ten was officiating
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: that Michigan-Western-Michigan game. That just gives you an indication of
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: the big boys now get to call the shots. Hey,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: we'll write you a $ 3 million check to play us
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: in Ann Arbor with 110,000 people, but we're going to
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: have our officials there.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, our wink-wink officials.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And again, it was in the Big Ten's best
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: interest to make sure there was an extra second on
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: that clock so that Michigan wasn't eliminated in week one
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: I'm still so tuned up about that.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: Because let's face it, if Michigan loses to Western Michigan,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: they could beat Ohio State. They could go to the
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: Big Ten championship game and still not make the playoffs
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: for that loss. A home loss to Western Michigan in
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: week one.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: Western Michigan deserved that win.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Of course they did. They won. They held Michigan to
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: seven points over 60 minutes. But the game was 60
• 1:07:57
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• 1:08:12
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• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: why Cairo has to talk about them, but this is KJR.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: No need to spend time on things that do not matter.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: The 503 said, I agree with everything you just said
• 1:08:26
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• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: Sick of the lack of accountability. I've seen all 50
• 1:08:34
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• 1:08:38
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• 1:08:42
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• 1:09:06
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• 1:09:18
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• 1:09:21
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• 1:09:25
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• 1:09:27
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  Speaker 2: All right. The music gives it away. College football music.
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  Speaker 3: I think you gave it away forever.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: I would be remiss. I would be ignorant. And I
• 1:11:25
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• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: me for months what my first factor pick was going
• 1:11:30
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• 1:11:32
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• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: most wins two years ago when I had this show.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: I had the most wins at the station, but I
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: didn't get the trophy for being the best picker because
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Anders picked, like, six games and got four of them right,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: and they counted them for 66%.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: They did it by percentage. They did a percentage.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: I had, like, 30-some wins, and he had six. Of course,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: he picked a lot fewer games than I did. But
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: I rode the army mule to do that, winning the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: most games. picks on the station two years ago so
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: why not go back to what I'm tried and true
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  Speaker 2: the Rockbound Highland home the Army team the pride and
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: dream of every heart and gray they host South Florida
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: at Mikey Stadium in West Point a newly renovated Mikey
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: Stadium I might add that looks great Army's coming up
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: a 59-3 win over Bryant of lower division Bryant where
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: they had 648 total yards a school record 569 yards
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: rushing for Army on Saturday that's good scheduling in week
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: one What was South Florida doing? Well, they were home
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: against Florida International, which sounds like a language school. It's
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: in Miami. And they won only 19-9. The total number
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: of points in Army South Florida is set by Vegas
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Insiders and the Consensus of Vegas at 48.5 total points.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: I don't see Army and South Florida combining for 48 points.
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  Speaker 2: If you agree with me... to take the under on
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  Speaker 2: 48.5 of Army in South Florida, text FACT to 49451.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll have another one at 235 with Ian Furness.
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  Speaker 2: But Army, South Florida, the under. Total number of points
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: fewer than 48.5. Army's favored by 3.5. I stayed away
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: from that. It's gone up from 1.5 to 3.5. South
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Florida is in the, if I'm still remembering correctly, the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: American conference, the same conference that Army is in. So
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: this is a league game, if I'm not mistaken. I
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: don't think South Florida's moved from that conference. They're in Tampa,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: by the way, if you don't know who the USF Bulls.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Once again, Army, South Florida, total number of points fewer
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: than 48 and a half. Yep, Army in the under.
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• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: Well, well, well, well. What shall I do?
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: You go true to your roots at Washington State heading
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: to Kansas State?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: No, I do not do that. I only go NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Because she works in college football. She doesn't do that.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 4: I know I technically could and it probably wouldn't affect me,
• 1:14:18
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• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: Dierks is working on Labor Day. 253 Dierks asks, when
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  Speaker 2: a Seahawks player has a serious injury that requires surgery,
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  Speaker 2: do the Seahawks have their own surgeons on staff?
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  Speaker 3: There's more than a few people who have asked that question.
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  Speaker 2: Or do they go to a regular hospital like you
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  Speaker 2: and I? Well, they don't go to a regular hospital.
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  Speaker 2: They almost all, not always, but almost always, a team
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  Speaker 2: physician does the surgery. A team physician orthopedic surgeon is Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Ed Calfane, who does most of the operation, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the operation. But if they're tricky... If there's something
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  Speaker 2: that is a specialist that's known in that field, they
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  Speaker 2: will send Seahawks players to Los Angeles or to Birmingham, Alabama,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: and Frank Jobe, for instance, an elbow injury, or he's
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  Speaker 2: more of baseball fame. But there are doctors in, there's
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  Speaker 2: a hand specialist, for instance, in Los Angeles that the
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  Speaker 2: day after the NFC championship game, in the NFC championship
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  Speaker 2: game last January, Jake Bobo broke his hand. And he
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  Speaker 2: went straight to the next morning to Los Angeles, got
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  Speaker 2: his hand surgery and had a pin inserted in his hand,
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  Speaker 2: and he played the Super Bowl with a pin in
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  Speaker 2: his hand that a specialist in Los Angeles did for him.
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  Speaker 2: So it is not uncommon for them to go outside
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  Speaker 2: the team to have surgeries that aren't within the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: medical staff. But there are multiple surgeons in positions on
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  Speaker 2: the staff.
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  Speaker 4: But they are not forced to fill out some FMLA
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  Speaker 4: or anything.
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  Speaker 3: They're covered. Right.
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  Speaker 2: There's an insurance policy based on their contract. But the
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  Speaker 2: collective bargaining agreement with the Players Association does allow a
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  Speaker 2: second opinion that the player can go seek outside of
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  Speaker 2: his team, and that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Who was the wide receiver that went to Sweden for treatment?
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  Speaker 2: Sidney Rice. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That's who I was thinking of.
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  Speaker 2: For the blood platelet spinning.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Cliff Lee was here with the Mariners in the early
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  Speaker 2: 2000s and did the same thing. That's become much more
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  Speaker 2: commonplace than it used to be. You used to have
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  Speaker 2: to go out of the country to do it, like
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  Speaker 2: Sidney Rice did. But now it's done in, there's a
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  Speaker 2: place in Walnut Creek that's well-known that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks players have gone to to do it. Cam Chancellor
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  Speaker 2: was doing it. So how it works is it goes
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  Speaker 2: into a centrifuge, you draw someone's blood, and you spin
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  Speaker 2: it in a centrifuge, and then it concentrates the platelets,
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  Speaker 2: and then you inject that concentrated platelet back in, platelet blood,
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  Speaker 2: back into the injured area, directly into it. If you
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  Speaker 2: have a knee issue, they inject that blood right back
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  Speaker 2: into your knee, And it's supposed to accelerate, because of
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  Speaker 2: the additional platelets that you spun in a centrifuge, it
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  Speaker 2: accelerates the healing powers of platelets. That's what the procedure
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  Speaker 2: is supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not funding this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's been some debate in the medical community. I'm
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  Speaker 2: speaking a little bit out of turn.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a doctor either.
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  Speaker 2: But I've covered so many of athletes that have done
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  Speaker 2: this that I've investigated it. There has been FDA pushback
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  Speaker 2: on whether this is truly effective or not. And there
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  Speaker 2: are some people who don't think this really works. But
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: the results, when it does work, has shown that it's
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  Speaker 2: really quick turnaround time, which is why athletes like to
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  Speaker 2: do it. So that is still a prevalent treatment, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Good question.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're good here.
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  Speaker 2: 253 says accountability is the easy part of baseball. Awareness
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: and hustle, which obviously the M's are missing. Also, with
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: the up and down pitching and lack of hitting, that
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: equals doomsday. And there's one thing I wanted to read
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: from the 206. Dear John and Jerry, meaning John Stanton
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  Speaker 2: and Jerry DiPoto, I will gladly give up hot dogs
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: from heaven, bobblehead nights, sing-along firework shows, bark in the park,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: and Humpty the Salmon being one for his career in
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: the Salmon Derby for playoff baseball. That was well said.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: All those gimmicks right into one sentence.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that he... Who was it?
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  Speaker 4: The 206... What was the area?
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  Speaker 3: 206.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the 206... It's completely wrong, but I
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  Speaker 4: also don't blame them for having fun.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, they attracted a different crowd than is the
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  Speaker 2: ones that are ticked off about the baseball, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And Furness is here. He's wearing Coug gear. Must be
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  Speaker 2: proud of his boys yesterday who held the Huskies. 17
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  Speaker 2: with 10 points for most of the game, and then
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: 17 until the very end. He will join us next
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  Speaker 2: to tell us what's on his show. If you missed
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  Speaker 2: our Fact or Fiction pick, again, Army, South Florida, total
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  Speaker 2: number of points fewer than 48.5. Take the under of 48.5,
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  Speaker 2: Army and South Florida, the under. Text FACT to 49451
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  Speaker 2: or FICTION to 49451. Ian will have another one at 235,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll hear from him next on 93.3 KJRFM. On
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  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJR FM. Hi, welcome back. Happy Labor Day to you.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Hopefully you're not working. We're happy to
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  Speaker 2: work for you and talk factor fiction and football and
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: the Mariners and Elyse Woodward. If you missed our talk
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: with the voice of the Huskies about the Apple Cup yesterday,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: go to 933KGR. com, The Greg Bell Show, or the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: Download that for free on 933KGR. Cougar proud. I'm bracketed
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: by Cougars at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still wearing it.
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  Speaker 2: You're kind of a Coug. You paid for it. I did.
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  Speaker 2: There's tens of thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 6: You were invested in it.
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  Speaker 2: I had my WSU hat on yesterday at Seahawk headquarters.
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  Speaker 6: Attaboy.
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  Speaker 2: Good job. Anne Furness joining us, the mayor of Maple Valley.
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  Speaker 2: How'd you feel? Are you encouraged by your Cougs?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. That defensive stand, they had two defensive stands inside
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: the 10-yard line.
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  Speaker 12: I felt like defense has been a massive issue the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 12: last couple of years there. And so, yeah, I thought
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  Speaker 12: it was a good start. I thought it was a
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 12: good start for, I mean, listen, the whole moral victory thing,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 12: I know most people get upset about that. We had
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 12: a first-time head coach, first-time play caller as an offensive coordinator,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 12: brand-new roster, going against the 17th-ranked team in the country,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 12: in their building, hard place to play, and a returning quarterback.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 12: who some may think is a Heisman candidate. Experience on,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 12: not just experience on their defense. I mean, McLaughlin, I
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 12: feel like he's been there for a zillion years. Manu,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 12: same thing.
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  Speaker 6: Like, they've got dudes, and our guys hung around. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I thought that was good.
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  Speaker 2: That was good. That was just weird. September, whatever. It
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: is weird to watch an Apple Cup in 75-degree sun.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: It's weird. Yeah, it's strange. It's so weird. But we
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  Speaker 2: move on. How do you feel about Pinnock, your quarterback?
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Not good. Not good.
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  Speaker 9: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: Not since the days of Kevin Lapina. Have I seen
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  Speaker 6: something like that?
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  Speaker 2: I thought they might go to– I thought he might
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  Speaker 2: go to the backup because it was– what? The starter
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  Speaker 2: one decided until very late in fall camp.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I don't know.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, we'll do our Cougar thing coming up later
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  Speaker 12: this week with Alex and MK.
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  Speaker 6: I think, tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: MK was a beast on the sidelines, by the way.
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  Speaker 6: He's always a beast. He's a treat.
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  Speaker 12: But I kind of think that in that situation– You're
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  Speaker 12: not going to put a guy– you're not going to throw– now,
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  Speaker 12: I mean, Duggar's played some football for them.
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  Speaker 6: Is it Ebel? How do you say it? What's the
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: other guy's name? Ebelchen or whatever?
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  Speaker 2: Ebelchen.
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  Speaker 6: The other guy is a freshman, a redshirt freshman, so
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  Speaker 6: to speak.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 12: Actually, they don't call it redshirt freshman anymore. Second year.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 12: He's a second-year player. Second-year freshman.
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  Speaker 2: Which is weird.
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  Speaker 6: There's dudes playing college football seven years.
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  Speaker 12: I say seven years, like the Hatchet Boys, don't they?
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 6: Like, they're seven years. Like, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 12: Anyway, that stuff aside, I can see why they didn't
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  Speaker 12: go to make the switch, but he ain't it. I
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  Speaker 12: think that's pretty apparent.
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  Speaker 6: He ain't it.
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  Speaker 9: Really?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's too small. Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: And if you're small, you better be really fast. He's
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  Speaker 12: okay running the ball. And he doesn't have a big arm. So,
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  Speaker 12: I'm trying to figure out what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 6: But, Away we go. So, yeah. No, I was encouraged, though.
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  Speaker 6: Very encouraged.
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  Speaker 2: Defense looked great.
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  Speaker 12: Trent Bray, we'll enjoy him while we can as our
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 12: D coordinator because someone's going to hire him. He's not
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 12: going to be head coach probably again, the former Oregon
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  Speaker 12: State coach. Boy, he's a good defensive coordinator, and we've always.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 6: Known that, so. Yeah, it was good.
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  Speaker 2: Now they go to Manhattan, Kansas. The Cougs do where
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Kansas State went 71-3 on Nichols.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I saw that. They didn't mess around in that game.
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  Speaker 12: That wasn't like some of these teams. Rutgers losing. God,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 12: what an embarrassment that is for Rutgers. Oh, Big Ten.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 12: Big Ten had enough embarrassment this weekend, that's for sure. Man,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 12: you're right about that. A fabricated win. How was your
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 12: Saturday at Mariners? Did you have fun?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I had fun because I was with my wife
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: and son, but man. Man, Naylor not running out of
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: ground balls. So you were there. How bad were the boots?
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: Not bad. I've heard it worse. But they were definitely present,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: and they were loudest when Naylor didn't run out that
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: double play ball.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, people are starting to see that stuff, right?
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: If you're losing the hot dogs from heaven crowd.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 6: Ooh, that's bad.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: It must be bad. What do you got today?
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  Speaker 12: We're going to check in with our Molly Whoppers at
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 12: 1 o'clock, Nathan and Chris. So we'll do that coming
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 12: up here in about an hour's time. And then Mike
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 12: Sandel returns on Mondays this year for his weekly visit
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 12: from the Athletic. Actually, the big thing I want to
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 12: get to Mike is just the whole change in the
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 12: Hall of Fame process.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And hopefully he's still involved.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: I was going to ask because they've cut down on
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: not someone from every city anymore.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, so we'll talk to Mike about that. And does
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 12: it change anything for the Seahawks?
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 6: I.e.
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  Speaker 12: Mike Holmgren at the top of the list, but others
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 12: as well. So we'll talk about that. Get ready for
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 12: week one, which is in 40. This is the day
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 12: before the day before, apparently. That's crazy. Friday, Wednesday opener.
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  Speaker 12: Thanks for listening on Labor Day. Appreciate Greg Bell and
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 12: Jessamyn McIntyre. We'll be with you again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn will have our Factor Fiction Pick at 1135 tomorrow.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: I'm heading off to Renton to hear from Mike McDonald
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: about his final comments before. Wednesday. They're off tomorrow for
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: media availability. Ian's up next from 12 to 3 on
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM.