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Best of Chuck and Buck 10-27 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let's get a sound Rick.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, folks.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's sometime.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning class leads and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 5: Beholding sixty one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former high
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  Speaker 5: school basketball stand up?
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  Speaker 3: What the hell does that meeting? Don't jumped any conclusions,
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  Speaker 3: not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 5: Hard to believe we could once send a fastball to
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  Speaker 5: Pluto back.
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  Speaker 6: I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
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  Speaker 6: openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped tex athlete.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 5: Five seven guard and a former college water polo and
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  Speaker 5: national champion.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of useless crap up here.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
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  Speaker 5: Ashley Ryan. Buck to you by to latok Casino Resort
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  Speaker 5: and Quill see the Greek Draft Kings sports book where
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  Speaker 5: the action never stopped.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Welcome into the radio show. It is
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  Speaker 3: a Monday. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend out there.
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  Speaker 3: We get things started here at six o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: We take you till ten o'clock in the morning. And
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  Speaker 3: when I say we, I'm talking about Ashley Ryan, I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 3: We welcome you into our radio program and into our
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  Speaker 3: hearts here on this Monday of the week of Halloween,
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  Speaker 3: as we get things cracking here bright and early, dark
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  Speaker 3: and early here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning
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  Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM Hodgepodge of things
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  Speaker 3: to discuss today. We'll be all over the board breaking
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  Speaker 3: down all different kinds of sports here with all sorts
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  Speaker 3: of guests on today's radio program, but it always starts
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  Speaker 3: with the three of us, and here on a Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I want to ask everybody's weekend went. But
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  Speaker 3: Bucky went to the big comedy show once. We got
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  Speaker 3: to see our guy, Dustin Nickerson.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it turns out good career choice on his party,
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  Speaker 6: Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: And then for a forty one year old up and
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  Speaker 6: coming comedian, dude's funny? Is he funny? Really really funny?
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  Speaker 6: You would have loved it? I mean, because these he
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  Speaker 6: writes some jokes that are You got to think about
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  Speaker 6: it for a second.
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  Speaker 2: You wait a minute, he just did.
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  Speaker 6: He just tie that to that joke grenades? Uh huh, yeah, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was really good.
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  Speaker 6: And and then we he invited us to come up
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  Speaker 6: and hang out for a few before now it was
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  Speaker 6: it was I don't know, I don't know what. We
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  Speaker 6: were supposed to sit down and then someone was going
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  Speaker 6: to take us up there. We didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so he picked you out of the crowd and
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to have sex with you.
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  Speaker 2: No, oh, well, term you didn't go that.
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  Speaker 4: What were you wearing a shirt?
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  Speaker 2: I had sequence on?
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  Speaker 4: I was.
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  Speaker 6: I was a little bit flashy, makes sense, you know.
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  Speaker 6: I like to be noticed. So no, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it's possible. Yeah, man, what you said is true.
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  Speaker 6: I heard stories, you know, rock stars and whatnot. And
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  Speaker 6: now that I think about it, he doesn't look at
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  Speaker 6: me a little different, you know. It was kind of
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  Speaker 6: like a little squinty. My eyes are a pier guy.
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  Speaker 4: So was he licking his lips a lot?
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  Speaker 2: He did that too. I was like, are you allow
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  Speaker 2: cool j or something?
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand it from an already open bottle?
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  Speaker 4: Was he doing this with his hands a lot? Like
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  Speaker 4: like his hands mustard twist.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you guys mentioned all of those keys were there.
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  Speaker 4: He missed all the signs, right I did.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well you're welcome, Dustin. But no, it was well anyway,
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  Speaker 6: So we went up there. But it was like, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, five hundred steps to the up of this
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  Speaker 6: building of the Neptune Theater. I didn't even know that
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  Speaker 6: it was that tall and steep steps. I'm just thinking myself,
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  Speaker 6: like you or might die on your way down these myself,
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  Speaker 6: I might. I'm like, well, this is not good. But anyway,
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  Speaker 6: hung out for a little while and then went down
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  Speaker 6: and watched the show.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was a really really good show, very good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like I told you guys in the text, turns
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  Speaker 6: out he made a very good career choice because he
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  Speaker 6: is funny.
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  Speaker 3: Did he single you out for being in the crowd?
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  Speaker 3: He didn't know, Oh, A little surprised by Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: was in the back.
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  Speaker 4: I was embarrassed.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I was in the back near the bar, so
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  Speaker 6: kind of under and over. I wasn't whare the lights
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  Speaker 6: that would shine and you could see the people in
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  Speaker 6: the crowd.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't see me, Oh okay, I was you were incognito.
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  Speaker 3: Usually people recognize you and say something. Yeah, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: little surprised that the comedian who hung out with you
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  Speaker 3: tried to seduce you in one way or another. Right,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't then try to follow up with a joke
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  Speaker 3: at your expense or and then a follow up about it.
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  Speaker 3: I love that guy, Yeah, that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Again, I don't know if he just didn't see me, right,
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  Speaker 6: it would be weird to then left.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, showed up show.
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  Speaker 3: Free game and a drink, and the mouth took out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really want to watch.
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  Speaker 4: It makes sense.
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  Speaker 6: I don't really think you're funny, but no, I I
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  Speaker 6: I was surprised there was one he made one him
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  Speaker 6: being a Husky a lum. He he was talking about
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  Speaker 6: the huskies, and then he had a little slight remark
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  Speaker 6: at the ducks, and I thought maybe he would be
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  Speaker 6: like a take that buck, just something, but he didn't
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  Speaker 6: even he didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, it was fine.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that I was tucked back, nestled up against
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  Speaker 2: the bar.
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  Speaker 7: Also, probably didn't want to draw attention to you because
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  Speaker 7: he was trying to keep you for himself.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably what it was.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he didn't want you to take attention away from him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that too.
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  Speaker 6: And my sequence skirt that I had on was it
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  Speaker 6: was it was snazzy, No, it was skilled.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, skilt skill gilt, one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Plaid sequence.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well you you rode home with skilt combination
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  Speaker 3: of skirt guilt. Yeah yeah, well good. Well, I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: that you went. I'm glad that you represented the program.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we've gotten to know him, we are kind
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  Speaker 3: of on air friends. I suppose you're friends with him.
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  Speaker 3: Now you probably crossed over into Ashley territory.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to my world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm glad that, but I mean, he just
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  Speaker 3: things have been really busy around here, picked a wrong
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  Speaker 3: time to do his little do his little comedy act.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well he did. It was funny here. He brought
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  Speaker 2: that up.
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  Speaker 6: He's like, you just realized that that this would have
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  Speaker 6: been game three or something of the of the World
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  Speaker 6: Series two of the World Series, and people were like,
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  Speaker 6: you're a Mariner fan, how dare you? And he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: how dare I planned something a year in advance and
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  Speaker 6: not think, wait a minute, late October, I'm sure then
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  Speaker 6: will be in the World Series again. Good jokes, good content,
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  Speaker 6: good time.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: He was at the UB game Saturday. I saw him
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  Speaker 3: posting a lot of photos, So yeah, he was. He
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  Speaker 3: was on the field. I guess he's got connections. Well
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  Speaker 3: he's a little weird.
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  Speaker 6: Well apparently it's growing, probably because it came on our show.
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  Speaker 3: He actually is a little bit worried.
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  Speaker 6: Because he was in the maybe it was in Chun's
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  Speaker 6: office or his booth or somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, I think that.
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  Speaker 6: They maybe think I'm rich, Like I'm going to donate.
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  Speaker 6: I don't not, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: He thought it was kind of funny. He's like, I
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  Speaker 2: think that they think that there's something they can get
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  Speaker 2: out of me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not paying for a strong safety. There's no way
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: He said he might do.
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  Speaker 6: He said he might be able to take care of
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  Speaker 6: Warree volleyball player, not a striker, Yeah no.
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  Speaker 4: No defensive or somebody who's playing on the bench.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a good backup cetter. All right, well, good,
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad that you went. I'm glad you had some
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  Speaker 3: fun with that. And uh, I guess you know, next
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  Speaker 3: time he comes in town, Ashley and I will.
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  Speaker 4: Go yep, he's coming to Evert in the spring. I
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  Speaker 4: already looked it up.
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait you dub Meantime, they did win the game
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  Speaker 3: that Dustin Nickerson attended, whether he donated to nil Coffers
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  Speaker 3: or not, forty two twenty five winners over Illinois, and
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  Speaker 3: it was pretty close at in the first half. Kind
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  Speaker 3: of back and forth the first half, but the Dogs
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  Speaker 3: pull away in the second half. And I mean that's
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  Speaker 3: a twenty third ranked team in the country. I mean
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  Speaker 3: they're no longer ranked now. You know, by the time
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  Speaker 3: you get to actual end of the season, how big
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  Speaker 3: of a win will that look like? If Washington really
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  Speaker 3: does have playoffs on the mind, which right now they've
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  Speaker 3: got a bit of a fa favorable schedule. We were
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  Speaker 3: already two thirds of the way through this thing, and
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  Speaker 3: we know that Oregon is looming, and then they've got
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a favorable schedule from here until Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, there's still a shot to make the playoff,
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  Speaker 3: but beyond playoff, just I think that Jedfish was sort
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  Speaker 3: of a need of that signature victory. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if this is it necessarily, but I'll say this, it
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  Speaker 3: would have looked a lot worse. Had he not pulled
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  Speaker 3: this off, I think it would have been a lot worse,
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  Speaker 3: perhaps than it does. Look great in the eyes of
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  Speaker 3: national analysts that review this. And yet you handled a
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  Speaker 3: solid team pretty convincingly, pulled away from them in the
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  Speaker 3: second half, and once again your skill players, particularly Williams
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  Speaker 3: and Boston, were on just this full display on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know. I don't know if this registers,
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  Speaker 3: as you know, Jedfish's crown achievement at you Dub, but
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  Speaker 3: it certainly was a different win than past wins.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's the biggest win.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it is a ranked opponent, even though they
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  Speaker 6: won't be you know, probably this time tomorrow or whenever
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  Speaker 6: the new rankings come out. I'm sure that they'll drop
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  Speaker 6: out of the twenty top twenty.
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  Speaker 3: They're out, They're out, and they're out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And so I mean, I don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 6: It's not the same obviously, if you were to think, man,
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  Speaker 6: what if you went to the Big House last week
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  Speaker 6: and beat a Michigan team, or what if you'd obviously
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  Speaker 6: upset the number one team or even made that game
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more competitive for the entirety of the game.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's a it's a step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 6: It's probably the biggest win so far. I mean, you'd
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  Speaker 6: beat a ranked opponent. It was at home, and I
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  Speaker 6: know that a lot more credit is given if you
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  Speaker 6: go on the road and beat somebody good. I think
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  Speaker 6: it's it's a step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I mean right now, if you're you dub you're hoping
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  Speaker 6: you run the table to Oregon, Oregon runs the table
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  Speaker 6: to you, and you get ups at them, and then
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  Speaker 6: you probably that in and of itself might get.
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  Speaker 2: You in there. I mean that if you can beat Oregon, Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You go ten and two and you beat Oregon as
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  Speaker 3: the last piece of your puzzle, yeah, I think you're in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be a big hit.
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  Speaker 6: So if nothing more, maybe it's not that signature when
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  Speaker 6: that you're looking for, you know, as a one and
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  Speaker 6: a half year in head coach, but it's it sets
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  Speaker 6: the table for that win in a month or so
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  Speaker 6: from now.
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  Speaker 4: I think two. Had you had a better showing at
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  Speaker 4: Michigan last.
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  Speaker 3: Week, then now you're really talking.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, just a better showing, not not even saying that
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  Speaker 7: you win, but that you kept it close. And then
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  Speaker 7: you came home and beat Illinois because I mean they
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  Speaker 7: didn't see you know, the second half, they didn't seem
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  Speaker 7: to struggle with them at all. And then I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: you're now You've put yourself in a really good position.
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  Speaker 7: So I think the problem is that you've still got
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  Speaker 7: that Michigan bad taste in people's mouths, and that's kind
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  Speaker 7: of a struggle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, Illinois is a solid team, okay,
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  Speaker 3: and you know they weren't going to necessarily go out
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  Speaker 3: there and beat themselves. And so I think the encouraging
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  Speaker 3: things is some of the things that this team has
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  Speaker 3: been struggling with with including starting quickly. They've had a
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  Speaker 3: really hard time, even though even the game that demand
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  Speaker 3: Williams going up against the Mariners and the playoffs and
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  Speaker 3: so so many people were had their eyeballs on Mariners
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  Speaker 3: Tigers that night, even that night that he put up
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  Speaker 3: four hundred passing yards and one hundred and thirty rushing
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  Speaker 3: yards and four touchdowns combined. They got off to a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a slow start. They really didn't get cooking
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  Speaker 3: until the second quarter. Well, you score on your first
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  Speaker 3: drive against Illinois, and and you score late in the
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  Speaker 3: first half, as well when Illinois had taken the lead.
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  Speaker 3: And then you come out in the second half and
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  Speaker 3: you established the same thing you established the offense. Jonah
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  Speaker 3: Coleman had a great drive to start that second half,
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  Speaker 3: and then you end up with a seventeen point win.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of the areas where you had been
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  Speaker 3: sort of deficient, a lot of the areas that uw
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  Speaker 3: fans were hoping that they'd see some improvement, we got
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  Speaker 3: that on Saturday, and in impressive fashion, and so so
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  Speaker 3: nice work by Jedfish and the group. Forty two to
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  Speaker 3: twenty five is the final score, and it shapes up
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  Speaker 3: with at Wisconsin and they're just having a hell of
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  Speaker 3: a time playing football these days. Home to Purdue, which
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  Speaker 3: you know in your pocket schedule you've probably already written
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  Speaker 3: w down there, and then at UCLA, which certainly has
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  Speaker 3: woken up here as of late, but they got ran
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  Speaker 3: off the field by Indiana that seem's legit. And then
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  Speaker 3: and then you've got Oregon, so yes, you can. You
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  Speaker 3: are allowed to entertain thoughts. The possibilities of making the
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  Speaker 3: playoff ten and two would get you in. Running the
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  Speaker 3: table would get you in. I truly believe that, and
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  Speaker 3: even though right now, I don't think that you would
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  Speaker 3: project you Dubbed to beat Oregon in a game. This
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  Speaker 3: might be a step in the right direction, And a
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  Speaker 3: month from now, this team could very well be playing
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  Speaker 3: better football. A month from now, this team might wax U,
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  Speaker 3: C l A, and and we might see we might
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  Speaker 3: have a different narrative that surrounds the Washington Huskies. We
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  Speaker 3: might not be talking about a team that has the
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  Speaker 3: potential to get tripped up by any one of those
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  Speaker 3: three teams. We might be talking about a team that
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  Speaker 3: is just on fire right now. Demon Williams has a
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  Speaker 3: full year of experience under his belt this time around
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  Speaker 3: when he faces Oregon, and and Oregon hasn't been as
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  Speaker 3: dominant as what they've been projected to be this year.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean it's there, it's still you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: still something that a lot of work you got. You
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: gotta be almost perfect. Well, you do have to be
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  Speaker 3: perfect to win loss wise the rest of the way,
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  Speaker 3: but two thirds of the way and through the season
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  Speaker 3: ranked twenty seventh in America, finally coming off a win
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  Speaker 3: over a top twenty five team, a udub fan can
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  Speaker 3: wake up this morning and think there's a chance we
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  Speaker 3: got a shot at it.
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  Speaker 6: I think that the you know, I mean the offense
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  Speaker 6: early on, I thought that maybe was a bit premature
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  Speaker 6: when people were starting to talk about, well, look at
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  Speaker 6: all the you know, number one ranked offense, and I
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  Speaker 6: get it that at that point in time they were,
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  Speaker 6: But I just don't put much into the rankings period,
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  Speaker 6: not your rankings of your offense, or the rankings of
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  Speaker 6: what people where they put you if you're in the
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  Speaker 6: top twenty five, and where are you, and how that
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  Speaker 6: whole thing works. But I think that the way in
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  Speaker 6: which they did it yesterday, I mean coming out of
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  Speaker 6: the first half, where it still was a ballgame, and
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  Speaker 6: yet Jed Fish had said, well, well, I mean we scored,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a touchdown on every possession except for one, right,
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: three out of four we had touchdowns, and basically in
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  Speaker 6: the second half, I think they scored on everyone except
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  Speaker 6: for the final drive where they were just running the clock.
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  Speaker 6: And yet it wasn't a ton of you didn't get
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  Speaker 6: a ton of possessions, I mean, three or four possessions
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  Speaker 6: was It was kind of a game that was flying by.
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  Speaker 6: So to me, I think that because of how volatile
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  Speaker 6: the emotions of young college players are that if they
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  Speaker 6: roll Wisconsin and roll Perdue and then have their first
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  Speaker 6: test to some degree, which we've seen a Jekyll and
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  Speaker 6: Hyde when it comes to UCLA, but you end up
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  Speaker 6: rolling that one or just winning a big game there,
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  Speaker 6: They're going to be crazy confident at that point in
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  Speaker 6: time going into that game, a home game against Oregon,
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  Speaker 6: and if Oregon didn't I mean, I'll just tell you,
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  Speaker 6: as a dude that watches every single play that they've done,
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  Speaker 6: if they don't come out and execute, they can still lose.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: They can lose to you dub most certainly they can
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: lose to teams that are less than you dub And
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: so yeah, there's I think there's good reason.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: For hope at this point. If you're a Husky fan.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it is.
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: I think part of the problem. I was actually texting
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: with our friend Dustin Nickerson about.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: The Huskies bringing a full circle.
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah exactly, and just we were talking about, like, how
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: is our confidence with this team?
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: How are we feeling?
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: And I think part of the issue, unfortunately for the Huskies,
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: is that the Mariners just sucks so much, like out
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: of me in life, and so I was like, going
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: into this game this week.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, they.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: Need to win, but how excited am I about the
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: game or how into it am I? And so they
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: need almost to kind of work extra hard to get
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: me back into being excited about it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: And that's not even their own fault. Yeah, well no,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: yeah exactly. So I just feel bad.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Well, there were certainly some things to be entertained by
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: on Saturday, there's no question about it, and the Dogs
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: do improve to six and two on the season. We'll
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: talk more about it later on in the show. Also,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the big story in college football is something that we'll
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: discuss throughout our program together as well. Let's find out
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: what is on tap?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Chucking what's on to what's on?
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: All right? Forty two twenty five Husky's over the Alni
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: on Saturday. They are on by this week, so before
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: they get to the final four games, they'll have a
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: week off. Meanwhile, Coog's twenty eight seven winners over Toledo.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Dick Thane called that one, so did Coach new Isle
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: with us on Tuesday. Coogs ran away with it. Coach
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Rodgers has really started to you know, you're you're starting
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: to feel the effects of what good coach He just
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: might be because Toledo was favored in that game and
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: the Coogs just steamrolled him. And now they faced the
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Oregon State Beavers in the Pac twelve Championship this Saturday
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: at four point thirty. So yeah, really exciting. That's early
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: on to be playing a championship, but it is on this.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: The second or third time they played this season.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Mike sixth Okay, Brian Killy Killy Kelly was dismissed at
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: LSU late last night. The rumors that he had a
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: talk with the athletic directors started Sunday afternoon maybe, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: then by the evening, since the story had such legs,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: the news came that Brian Kelly was in fact let go.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: So this is a big topic here today. We will
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: discuss it today at eight o'clock. LSU eight fifty four
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: million dollars just to get rid of a pretty good coach.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I mean it's not like they were zero to seven.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, full accent, but pretty good.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a pretty good coach, but they and they hadn't
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: really had a bad year with Brian Kelly, which is
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: usually how you get fired. But today's college football world
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: is just a different world that we're living in right now.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that later on in the show. National
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Football League. Even though the Seahawks were on by they
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: played anyway.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Scamps, tricksters just wanted to go out and see what
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: they could do.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, couldn't give us a a day outside. Beautiful day
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: here in Washington yesterday not so much of No, we
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: had to stay in and watch football. Jets won their
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: first game of the year. The Baltimore Ravens won without
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson yesterday, and so all of a sudden, people
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: like Ravens. Watch out for the Ravens in the division.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: They just might come back. Yes, that's always been the case.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: And the Texans won over San Francisco. So thanks for
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: the favor of High five Houston. We'll cover all of
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: it with cold turkey sandwich aboard of scores in about
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: ten minutes from now. Sounders play a playoff match tonight
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: in Minnesota against the Minnesota United. It's a best of
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: three in the first round. They change it as the
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: tournament goes on, but tonight's game one at six o'clock.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Jackson Felts will join us today at eight thirty four
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a preview. The Kraken have had back to back nice
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: wins here in the early part of the season, including
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: a Saturday victory over the Edmonton Oilers. There'll be in
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: action again tomorrow at home against Montreal at seven thirty.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: World Series Game number three tonight at five o'clock. Ryan
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Heay a special appearance today at nine o'clock talk Mariners
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: off season and also a little bit about the World Series.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: The series is even at one game apiece that shifts
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to Los Angeles this evening. Max Schurzer versus Tyler glasnow
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: is your pitching matchup. So we got a lot to
• 21:29
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  Speaker 5: At number one on your car radio pre sid and
• 22:08
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• 22:11
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• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Go out of the shotgun with Coleman on his right hand.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: There's a snap.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Looks into the flat. Now he's gonna throw it to
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: the ends.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Of wide open des Roebuck cut it again, waiting.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: On the signal. Was he in bounced? Two arms up?
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: Touchdown Washington. Touchdown number two for true freshman taz Roebuck.
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: Demon Williams goes under center Jonath Foeman deep in the
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: back that they'll throw it backwards to Denzel body.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Don't bos to the ends.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: And wide open Jonah Coleman touchdown Washington. They drew up
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: the beauty and how about the arm on Denzel Boston.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Williams takes a snap hand off Joanna coming off to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: the right, makes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: A man miss Juf touch gets to the right.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Pilon did to.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Get in waiting for the signal, two arms up, touchdown
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: Washington snap. Demon looking left, looks over the middle, staying
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: cool at the w down.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: He's gonna go.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Hang on forty five forty twenty five thirty Devon has.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: A first down?
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: Does he buss off a.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Tuckler spends inside the twenty demand, Williams says, get off
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: me and rolls into the red zone.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: As the Huskies have first and ten boot they got
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: to the right.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Williams on the run speed to the ads fires hand zone.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Tod did he hold on jes touchdown? Denzel Boston? What
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: a game for Denzel Boston, My goodness, ten catches over
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: in fifty yards, receiving a touchdown catch also through a
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: touchdown pass. Of all the guys on this team, he's
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the one the NFL scouts are drooling over. He's the
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: one that's going to be in the first round of
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: the NFL Draft this year, even though he doesn't get
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: as much attention as our quarterback or Jonah Coleman at
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: running back, but he put it on full display on
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Saturday at the expense of Illinois. Man, when you beat
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: a powerhouse like that one, the just year after year,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: one hundred years, just a steady train of mediocrity.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean, I wonder where you're gonna land.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: It intimidating, especially when it's raining, and you never know
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: because they, you know, whatever element that Illinois just seems
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: to fight through it, fight through it and come on
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: the other side.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Being okay, yeah, just average. Yeah, yeah, they just just
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: bring on all comers. Guy, it doesn't matter whatever, whatever.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: However much the deck is stacked against them, they will
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: come out very mediocre.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I grew up with it. I know all
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: about it. H it's Chuck, it's buckets. Ashley here on
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: this Monday morning. The Dogs went over Illinois forty two
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: to twenty five. On Saturday, they moved to six and
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: two on the season. They are currently ranked twenty eighth
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: in the Associated Press, which officially makes them unranked at
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: this stage. But the pathway a bit clear. Should have
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: three winnable games before Oregon, and so yes, you are
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: allowed this morning to think about a path toward the
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: college football playoff. And that's where we'll start with our
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Frostbrewed Corps. Frostbrewed Corps. Like Choose Chill headlines, it is
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: a Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to Monday Night football.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Tonight at five fifteen pm, it will be the Washington
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Commanders taking on the Kansas City Chiefs to wrap up
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: a week that did not feature the Seahawks, who were
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: on by Jets won their first game of the year.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Baltimore won their first game in five weeks, and the
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Texans defeated the San Francisco forty nine Ers to drop
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: the forty nine ers to third place in the NFC West. Tonight,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: the Sounders will start their postseason. They're in Minnesota to
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: take on Minnesota United. They will start that match at
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: six o'clock. Jackson Felts will join us to preview at
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: eight thirty. Cracking back to back nice wins here early
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: in the season, including a Saturday win over Edmonton at home.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: They'll be back in action at Climb a Pledge tomorrow
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: at seven point thirty, and Game three of the World
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Series is going to be tonight. The series shifts to
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles. Max Schurzer will pitch for the Blue Jays
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: BOO Tyler glass Now will pitch for the Dodgers.
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: BOO.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: World Series coverage right here on KJR, brought to you
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: by Seattle's closest no Qualmie Casino and Hotel. Ryan Healy
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: is actually going to join us this morning at nine
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: o'clock to talk some baseball, but right now we talk
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Seahawks football with our Seahawks insider Greg Though. All right,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: what did you do this weekend? What did you do.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: That was adventurous.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Hung out.
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: We just relaxed and hung out. I was telling Ashley
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: it was kind of refreshing. Yeah, been home for a
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: week in the long time.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, rainy weekend, no, Yeah, there really wasn't much of
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: an opportunity to go outside. You just had to watch
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: the leaves get wet.
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we were going to go do some mountain biking adventure,
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: and the weather so we'll just stay home and look nice.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you needed to reset. I mean, you've been working hard.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: You've been covering two sports for goodness sake here as
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: of late. Well, the Seahawks don't play this week, but
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: they got a little bit of help from the Houston Texans.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: I know it's very dangerous to kind of compare games,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: but you know, the Seahawks most recently had a pretty
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: easy time with Houston. Meanwhile, Houston sort of blew the
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: doors off of San Francisco. So in the big picture,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: as this team's trying to win the division, how much
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: how much respect do we give the Texans knocking off
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: the forty nine ers yesterday?
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: Well, first of all, those are now the first place Seahawks,
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: don't you know. Yeah, I've heard two of the forty
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: nine ers lost yesterday. Look, the last two times the
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: forty nine Ers haven't made the playoffs in the decade,
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: it's because they were just decimated by injuries in those seasons,
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: and they're racked by injuries again. Rock Party's not in.
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: Fred Warner has been heard. Nick Bosta didn't play yesterday.
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: We're talking to best players on the team, some of
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: the best players in the league. Christian McCaffrey is back
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: from injury, as is George Kittle. They had a touchdown yesterday.
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: You know, George Kittle last week didn't have a catch
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: for the first time in his career with Mac Jones
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: as his quarterback, and the Mac Jones magic seems to
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: have run out, at least it did in Houston. The
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: most glaring thing to me was Houston. I watched some
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: of that game. Houston ran up four hundred and seventy
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: I think it was four seventy four to seventy two
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: something like that total yards on San Francisco's defense. And
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: when I saw Houston's defense offense and c. J. Stott,
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: they didn't look like a juggernt at all. Against Seattle.
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: They were sputtering. They couldn't run the ball, they couldn't
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: convert on third downs. The Seahawks really neutralized them compared
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: to what San Francisco did. But again, the forty nine
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: Ers are a shell of their full team and teams
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: are taking advantage of them because of it. So the
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: Seahawks are in first place play virtue of a better
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: division record. So far, it's early one and one in
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: the division and then Rams are zero to one. Both
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: of them have lost the forty nine Ers so far,
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: and of course the Seahawks haven't played the Rams yet.
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: Later this month, a couple weeks, the Seahawks will be
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: down in Inglewood. It's still really early and there's still
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: time for brock, Purty and Warner and those that get
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: healthy again. But the Seahawks need to take advantage of this.
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: That's the way seasons go and division titles. You can
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: win them. You can't win them in October November, but
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: you could sure lose them or lose a chance to
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: win them. So the Seahawks need to keep doing what
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: they have been doing, which is their defense keeping them
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: in most games except Tampa Bay, and then their offense
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: taking advantage in most times of their passing opportunities, and
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: now they're going to get three defensive starters back. It
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: appears Sunday Night. Ed Washington, Devin Witherspoon, Julian Love, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: Derek Hall all expected to play. All expected to practice
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: this week and play on Sunday Night.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: Ge the I mean, you go into a bye week
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: sitting in good position. I think maybe it's you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: hasn't been a perfect season, but still been pretty during
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: good Like you said, you find yourself in first place
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: after the way in which the other team's played out,
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: And so I mean, I think that this is about
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: the time of the season that I'm, like, might start
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: feeling good about how I was, how I think about
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: a team. So I mean that this defense is legit.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: You talk about the difference between what you watched in
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: the Houston Texans what they did to a decimated forty
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: nine ers team versus what we just watched them not
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: do or in being capable of doing against the Seahawks.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: I think that's legit. I think it has been the
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: entire time. I think anybody that was thinking that is right.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: And yet when it comes to the offense and the
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: running is what we're watching in the run game, even
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: though there's room for improvement, is that kind of who
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: they are where there's going to be scuffles regardless of
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: how much they can try to improve it. It's probably
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: not going to be maybe as good as I thought
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: it could be at the beginning of the season.
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: Well, they's sure going to try, Bucky. It is who
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: they are right now. It's not who they want to be.
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: It's not who they're designed to be on offense, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: so they're going to keep running. They run it more
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: than anybody in the NFL. Yet they're gaining the third
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: fewist yards in the NFL, thirtieth yards per carry. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: they'll keep running even when the results aren't there. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: think Klinkubiak has proven that, and we talked about that
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: even before the season started. At would likely be the case.
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: So they're going to give it such ample opportunities that
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: there's a chance that law of averages says they will
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: run the ball better just because they're going to run
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: it so much. They're not going to stop. They are
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: going to continue to design their offense around running the ball,
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: play action passes off of it. They are convinced their
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: line coaches and their offensive designers are convinced this offensive
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: line needs to have a running game to slow down
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: opposing pass rushers, and I fully believe that is the case.
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: I don't think you can just wing it forty five
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: times with Sam Donald and expect to have the same
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: results that they've had so far. One of the reasons
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: Donald is leading the league in yards per pass attempt
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: is because they're running the ball so much. They're facing
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: a lot of stack boxes safeties coming down near the
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: line of scrimmage, and a lot of those Smith and
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: Jigba plays over the top are because there's one fewer
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: guy back in the back defending. It's simple math that
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: when they see a stack box, they're throwing over the
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: top of it. And running into stack boxes in the
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: NFL is usually not a great result, and that's usually
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: what's happened to the Seahawks run game. We'd look at
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: Zach Sharbone a fewish yards per attempt because most of
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: the time he's got four dudes starreing at him as
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: soon as he grabs a ball. Doesn't matter who the
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: running back is, you're gonna have a tough time sledding
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: against that. The push on the offensive line has been
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: the most disappointing thing we saw in the preseason reminder
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: that preseasons don't always mean a lot. We saw them
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: pushing and opening huge holes, and they haven't done that
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: consistently at all. I've said it before, They've really only
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: had one half of one game where they played offensively
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: like they want to, and that's at Pittsburgh, the only
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: one hundred yard rushing day of the season for Kenneth Walker.
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: But they will keep trying. It's their identity, it's their design,
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: it's how they've built the roster, how they built the
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: offensive line, and they have to do it and that probably,
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: if the first seven games are an indication, that's probably
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: going to lead to some more very frustrating games if
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: fans watching them just run into a brick wall literally.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider. Of course,
• 33:24
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• 33:28
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• 33:33
  Speaker 3: National Football League. Injuries are part of it all, and
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I'm sure there were some temptations to rush back Devin
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Witherspoon and Julian Love throughout these first few weeks, But
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: here you sit five and two first place. As we've
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: pointed out, Witherspoon hasn't played since San Francisco. For goodness sake,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Witherspoon and Love obviously haven't played together since San Francisco.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: So to resist that temptation to rush them back and
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: pee in such good position and coming off a bye
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: what kind of rejuvenation, what kind of a spark could
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Witherspoon in Love's return provide for Mike McDonald on Sunday Night.
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a big deal. And the guy who might
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: benefit the most is Nick even Worry because he can
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: now play how Mike McDonald designed him and drafted him
• 34:24
  Speaker 10: to play and expected him to play. It's gonna really
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: be I asked last week. Okay, it looks like Withersmon's
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: gonna play. First of all, just to be clear, Witherspon
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: did come back for the Week four at Arizona. He
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: re injured his knee in that game, and so they
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: haven't been a whole since the fifth play of the
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: season when Nick Even Worry went out in Week one.
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: But they were trying to get Witherspoon back. It wasn't like,
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: let's just shelve you through the bye week, right, right.
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: He was consistently getting tested, retested, leaving the team to
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: go get all kinds of tests and work done on
• 34:57
  Speaker 10: that mcl bruise, and it wasn't responding, but they did
• 35:03
  Speaker 10: try it. They didn't just just worked out this way
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: that the bye week is now maximizing his rest for it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: But I think Emon Worry is the guy that's going
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: to really benefit and therefore the defense is going to
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: really benefit. Memon Worrey has quickly become maybe the surest
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: tackler on the defense, and he's got a lot of
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: opportunities to do it because of where they're playing them.
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: When they play him in that slot alley position and
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: teams throw quickly to get rid of the ball before
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: the pass rush, that guy in the slot corner, the
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: inside slot safety position has to tackle in the open
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: field or else you're dead because there's nobody behind you
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: and you're gonna get You're gonna lose fifteen twenty yards
• 35:39
  Speaker 10: before your fellow defensive backs run him down. Well, even
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: Worri has been dropping dudes as soon as they catch passes,
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: and that turns five yard passes into five yard games
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: instead of fifteen yard games. And that's the difference between
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: punting and first downs, which becomes a difference between no
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: points and points. That's how important Nick emon Worry is.
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: Last week, I said, Okay, now Witherspoon's coming back, coach
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: Mike McDonald, what's that mean for who your nickel's going
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: to be. Because when Witherspoon has been on the field course,
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: he's been the nickel on third downs and they bring
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: an extra cornerback usually onto the field to play three
• 36:14
  Speaker 10: corners in the nickel. And he said, that's an interesting
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: problem to have. Meaning to me, Nick even Worey is
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: gonna stay where he's been because of how good he's been.
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: I would expect Witherspoon and Joe Josh job to be
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: the outside corners, and I would think Nick Rick reek
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: Woollen will be the odd man out in that, and
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: that they'll go with three safeties with love back and
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: Nick even Worry as the nickel. I'm expecting that in
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: Washington on Sunday that gives them a better run defender,
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: a stouter, bigger run defender near the line of scrimmage.
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: If Washington wants to counter with runs against nickel, and
• 36:51
  Speaker 10: it gives them their shorest tackler in the open field
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: against receivers leem and worry, even though he's only played
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: a couple full games because of that injury, and Week
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: one really has been exactly maybe even more than they
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: thought he would be right away, Jay.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: One of the brighter spots on the season up to
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: this point has been Jackson Smith and Jig. Obviously Sam
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: Darnold getting him the ball too. But uh, do you
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: think there's a chance that they're going to go in
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: the avenue of we got to get others incorporated into
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: this a little bit more, or might as well just
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: double down. He seems really difficult to cover and he
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: catches everything that gets near him. I mean, are they
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: gonna just say we don't need to spread it around necessarily.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: We got a guy that's leading the world right now.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: We're just gonna continue that trend here, Muggy.
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: I think Chuck and I talked about this last week.
• 37:38
  Speaker 10: I think what's gonna happen is they're gonna say they
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: need to spread it around. They're gonna make play calls
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: that design more Cooper Cup, more of a j Barner,
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: more of Tory Horton, who has been opened down the field.
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: Ashe has pointed out in our round table. They're going
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: to design it that way to want more balance so
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: that teams can't defend one receiver. But I think when
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: the pushes is coming to shove, the guy who actually
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: has to throw the ball under pressure and get it
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: out before the rush comes is thrown a number eleven
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: because he trusts that he's going to get open under
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: any and all coverage situation. So far he has so
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: they can design and say all they want. But when
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: Donald's got a three hundred pound guy in his face,
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: he's thrown a number eleven crossing the middle of the
• 38:20
  Speaker 10: end zone for a touchdown and a dunk over the goalpost.
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: It doesn't matter what the play design is. It doesn't
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: matter what they've said. On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, when the
• 38:29
  Speaker 10: quarterback is about to get hit, he's thrown at to
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: Smith and Jigba. So so far, that's what's happened. Clint
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: Kubiak has not had game plans that fourteen targets go
• 38:38
  Speaker 10: to Smith and Jigba and three to Cooper Cup. He's
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: called many more plays with Cup as the primary receiver,
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: and Donald has thrown backside third redthrows to Smith and Jigba,
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: he's thrown on the fourth and one play against Houston.
• 38:53
  Speaker 10: Instead of the two yard out to the tight end
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: at every quarterback in the league throws, he throws an
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: eighteen yard out to Smith and Jigba, the lower percentage play.
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: In Donald's mind, that's the better option right now. So
• 39:05
  Speaker 10: I think until some teams designed a coverage that completely
• 39:11
  Speaker 10: tilts the field of Smith Jigba and leaves dudes just
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: running Scott free down the middle like Cup and Horton,
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: I think it's going to continue. There's no reason for
• 39:20
  Speaker 10: Donald not to throw it to number eleven right now,
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: the way he's beating every coverage.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I woke up this morning feeling good about one thing.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: If Luke Wilson and Chris Carson and Red Bryant want
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: to make a return to the National Football League, we
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: know they're going to the Raiders. So how about Lockett
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: and Pete and Gino reuniting over the weekend.
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: You know you got to give Pete Carroll credit for
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: his loyal don't you. I mean when he sends guys
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: out the door, and he didn't send Locket out the door.
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: Of course he wasn't the coach then, But when guys
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: departs Seattle, or in this case, he departed Seattle. He
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: maintains the relaationships.
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: He sees him at off season things, he sees them
• 40:04
  Speaker 11: at combines, and he goes up and hugs him and
• 40:07
  Speaker 11: loves them and slaps on the back and laughs about
• 40:10
  Speaker 11: the times they had. There are no bridges burned, I'm
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: including with Russell Wilson, nobody.
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: That's how who Pete Carroll is. And it pays oftentimes
• 40:20
  Speaker 10: like this. I'm glad Tyler Hawkin has a job. I'm
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: glad someone had signed him, and I'm glad it's a
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: guy that he really likes in the doors and then
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: brought him up in the NFL and drafted him. Uh
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: good for Tyler Hawckett. But yeah, it does speak to
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: Pete Carroll. Not only is he loyal, he puts a
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: lot of work into relationships that we'll see if it
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: actually pays off. But it certainly keeps guys close in
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: wanting to play with Pete Carroll. And we know Gino
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: Smith loves them.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe Earl and Pete have a little work to do,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but everybody else seems to be on board,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
• 40:53
  Speaker 10: All right, Greg, Yeah, that's that's a unique situe. Hairyl
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: Thomas departure.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Is a unique situation.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: But yeah, alright, man, Well we'll talk to you tomorrow,
• 41:04
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• 41:43
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  Speaker 3: are some hot teams in the professional football world, but
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• 41:54
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• 41:58
  Speaker 3: through a number of different tops topics, and today we
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: are to the letters to the letter you U is
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: for underpaid. Suddenly, cal Raleigh, after getting his massive contract
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: extension looks grossly underpaid at this point, an average of
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: seventeen and a half million dollars over the course of
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: his contract. That's the average salary. The big money really
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: doesn't even kick in for a couple of years. Meanwhile,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: they're going to be given Logan Gilbert a contract extension
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: this offseason that's probably gonna make him paid more than
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: his buddy Cal Raley, even though Cal's coming off a
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: historic season. Hell Randy a Rose Arena and arbitration this
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: year is probably going to make a higher salary than
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Cal's average salary over the course of his contract. What
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: do you think I mean? Usually, when a guy signs
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: a deal, he's signed a deal, and it doesn't matter
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: if the team came out on top. Great, if the
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: player came out on top, dems the breaks. There was
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: one exception. Salvador Perez, early in his career, signed an
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: early content tracked extension with Kansas City and the Royals
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: got about halfway through it and they're like, this just
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: isn't even fair for what this guy's contributing to this
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: team right now, and so they ripped it up and
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: now Salvador and the Royals have one of the great
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: relationships in all of professional sports. What do you think
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: should the Mariners do a solid and just say, you
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: know what, cow, We're gonna give you ten extra million
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: over this contract, rip it up and give him something.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Don't even negotiate it. You're just gonna give him a
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: little bit extra this offseason because suddenly he seems that
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: much more valuable than he was at the time of
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: his signature.
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised if at some point over the
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: next five years, maybe six years.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Of ty for a guy making seventeen Yeah, I don't
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: think he's going to care.
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: To be honest, I really don't think he's going I
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: don't think he looks at where he's at in the
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: on the on the rankings of who makes the most
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: on this team, Logan makes more than well, I think
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: that they'll just be like, well, fine, now you pick
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: up the tab, right, You're making five million more year
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: than I am, so you pick up the tab every time.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's it.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: And I think that, honestly, it would probably that's what
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: it would be. I'd be willing to bet you that
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: this year when they went out to dinner like Cayle
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: get it dude, I got the letter. Yeah, you're getting
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: all of them. You make seventeen million this year, I'm
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: making seven. You're getting it. And then it's like, okay, okay, Walter,
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: when you make more than me, you're getting all of
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: them and I for what it's worth. That is kind
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: of the way that it typically goes. And and I
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: think that I think I don't think cow will care
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: that's said. I mean, he ends up continuing down the
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: path that he's on right now. I wouldn't be surprised
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: if they with two three years left on the deal
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: deal kind of say hey, we want you to be
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: here until you're forty. You know what I mean, you're
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: gonna end up dh in your last five years. Maybe,
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: But let's just go ahead and sign this bad boy
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: and basically give him a raise or an extension type
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: of a thing.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: An extension extension.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: See, that's what I wouldn't do. I would rather give
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: it something now. I don't want to pay him when
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: he's not the same guy, especially this organization. I'm not
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: going to pay him more when he's over the hill.
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying, I don't think I'm not going to
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: cal Rawley is a guy that I have a feeling's
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: going to be able to leave Seattle whenever he damn
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: will feels like it. And I think he's going to
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: be just fine as a guy, even when he's thirty four,
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: thirty five, thirty six and he's maybe not as good
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: behind the dish anymore. And you say, dude, just you
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: play first for a couple of years, right, you just
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: dh and then yes, you're gonna go straight from probably
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: being our catcher to being our manager. I think he's
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: going to be able to drop bombs until he's thirty seven,
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: thirty eight years old, So I'm not worried about it.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: I would I would end up seeing them. I could
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: see them signing him through twenty thirty five at some
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: point in time.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: All Right vs Four VIP Julio Rodriguez got the VIP treatment.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: First time we'd seen him since the season came to
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: a close. He shows up at a Cracking game. He
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: really does immerse himself in the other sports. He goes
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: to U dub games, he goes to cracking games, and
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he goes to Seahawks games as well. But
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: he got a bit of a standing ovation during the
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: cracking game, so and he seemed a little bit touched
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: by it. He seemed a little caught off guard by it.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: But man, these are Cal and Julio are locked up
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: for the next decade. Basically, this is the foundation, and
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: obviously most people are just fine with that.
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't be. I guess
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: to each their own. I suppose you can have whatever opinion.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: I can't wait to see what this dude ends up being,
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: because while I think some of his criticism is ridiculous,
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: you know, calling him you know, you know, Jay Fraud,
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: that's silly. He's He's on track to like a Hall
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: of Fame career at this point, and yet he still
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: has not figured out how to hit coming out of
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: spring training for a couple months. And so I'm just
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: excited to see. I think that there still is a
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: lot of that iceberg that we can't see just yet
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: as far as how what this guy's potential is. But yeah,
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: I'm about as pumped as I could possibly be having
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: a couple of position players that are as young as
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: him and Cal, that think the way that they do,
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: that loves Seattle the way that they do, that genuinely
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: care about us as fans the way that I think
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: that they do. Yeah, I think we're sitting up in
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: a really good position starting with those two dudes.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I love it when players show up for other teams games,
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: and Julio might be the number one guy at that. Yeah,
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Cole goes to games. Yeah, and I think it went
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: to a U dub game with with Julio the other day.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: That was like a thing that they set up though
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: with the Mariners and you w Yeah.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: But Naylor's obviously a huge cracking fan. I mean he's
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Canadian for good news sake, So not a big surprise
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: that he's gonna Yeah, yeah, for sure. But I love it.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: And Julio might be the king of it. And he
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: really just when he says I love it in Seattle, man,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: you believe it because he goes out there and uh
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: puts his face out there everywhere. So it's awesome, great
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: to see, great to see, no doubt about it. And man,
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I am very excited. And if second half Julio and
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: first half Julio ever get together in the cage, m
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: and second half Julio can give him a few tips. Yeah, yeah,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: imagine yeah, just imagine what we.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Gotesome The conversation would be really interesting.
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: Between now and then, I'm between here and spring Train.
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna learn hypnotism. I'm gonna do something. He's an
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: walk back, but you're getting leapye. And then before we leave,
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: he's gonna think it's July.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring it. I'm gonna invite them both to
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: a dinner and introduce them to my new friend.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Full season Julio. Yeah, the best.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna give him a pen and paper and
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: just job a lot of things down hate all right.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Coming up next the college football world. I mean, we've
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: entered a brave new world when it comes to college football.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure how it's going to adjust and change
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: and shift here for the next few years. Here's another
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: thing that I didn't really see coming, and it's now
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: just part of our lives. How college football's new world
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: is affecting coaches. Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: six o'clock the start time. Minnesota is the location and
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: the guy we trust more than anybody else in America
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: to talk about the sounders with us. Our own Jackson Feltz,
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: joins us here on the radio program Good Morning, Sir,
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Good morning. Good to be with y'all. How are you
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: feeling today?
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Nervous?
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 49:46
  Speaker 12: It's a playoff time, baby, it's this is the time
• 49:50
  Speaker 12: we wait for all year in Sunderland. And it's a
• 49:54
  Speaker 12: very very good team we're facing in Minnesota.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, tell us about the opponent. So why
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: would the minnesot United make you feel nervous about this series?
• 50:03
  Speaker 12: They're a weird team, is probably the best way to
• 50:07
  Speaker 12: say it. They're a very very good defensive team. They're
• 50:11
  Speaker 12: actually worse than Seattle offensively. They're the four seed in
• 50:14
  Speaker 12: the West or the five seed in the West in
• 50:16
  Speaker 12: this first round, best.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Of three series.
• 50:19
  Speaker 12: They're a weird team because they basically run a style
• 50:22
  Speaker 12: under a thirty three year old head coach that they're
• 50:25
  Speaker 12: They're head coach Eric Ramsey is my age Chuck, and
• 50:30
  Speaker 12: he runs a system that basically says, we're just gonna
• 50:33
  Speaker 12: sit back defensively, account for you to make a mistake,
• 50:37
  Speaker 12: which MLS teams you know, sometimes do occasionally, and when
• 50:42
  Speaker 12: you make a mistake, we're going to capitalize on that mistake.
• 50:44
  Speaker 12: We're going to get you on the other end, and
• 50:47
  Speaker 12: we're going to take advantage of set pieces and basically
• 50:49
  Speaker 12: just you know, count on you all making mistakes and
• 50:53
  Speaker 12: you know credit. This guy is Eric Ramsey is a
• 50:56
  Speaker 12: former assistant with Manchester United in England.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: He basically probably.
• 51:01
  Speaker 12: Looked at the Major League Soccer quality and system and said,
• 51:04
  Speaker 12: I know they're going to make mistakes.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Let's capitalize on that.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: And it's worked all right, Well, then give me Jackson,
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: give me a number, Give me the name number of
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: a dude that we that if I'm watching tonight, when
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: I'm watching tonight, that I'm like, that guy better be
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: marked the entire time.
• 51:21
  Speaker 12: I think we look at one thing and that's going
• 51:23
  Speaker 12: to be the set pieces when Minnesota gets corner kicks,
• 51:26
  Speaker 12: when they get free kicks, and those balls are going
• 51:28
  Speaker 12: into the box, and there's a couple guys. Joaquin Prrera
• 51:32
  Speaker 12: is somebody who scored on us in the game at
• 51:34
  Speaker 12: Minnesota just a couple of months ago. He's one of
• 51:37
  Speaker 12: the ones that'll take those free kicks. Six goals, eleven
• 51:40
  Speaker 12: assists on the year. He leads their team in a
• 51:42
  Speaker 12: system he can send a ball in with those set
• 51:45
  Speaker 12: pieces and get to one of those big bodies, and
• 51:48
  Speaker 12: there are a lot of big bodies who can send
• 51:49
  Speaker 12: them in you have Anthony Markanich, who's a defender who
• 51:53
  Speaker 12: has nine goals this year, very very good on set pieces.
• 51:57
  Speaker 12: Michael Boxall is one of their defenders, very good on
• 51:59
  Speaker 12: set pieces. And it's those guys when they send those
• 52:03
  Speaker 12: balls in for set pieces that we have to mark them.
• 52:06
  Speaker 12: Jackson Reagan, Yeamart Gomez Androti are center backs. They have
• 52:10
  Speaker 12: to be on their game and they have to be
• 52:12
  Speaker 12: kind of honestly perfect because Minnesota is a Historically they
• 52:17
  Speaker 12: are better scoring on set pieces than pretty much according
• 52:21
  Speaker 12: to my data, and that goes back pretty far, they're
• 52:24
  Speaker 12: the best team in MLS history when it comes to
• 52:26
  Speaker 12: scoring on set pieces in terms of how often they
• 52:29
  Speaker 12: get them and how often they score on them.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Jackson Feltz is with us. Join him this evening five
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: thirty pre match six pm kickoff on nine to fifty AMS.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: The Sounders get started with their postseason against Minnesota. At Minnesota,
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Let's talk a little more about our guys, the good guys.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Considering sort of the ups and downs this season and
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: a couple of the big injuries that this team had
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: to deal with this year, is it safe to say
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: the Christian roll Done may have had his best season
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: as a Sounder that at age thirty he might actually
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: be getting better.
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: I think you got You're You're onto something there, Chuck.
• 53:08
  Speaker 12: I think because of everything else, the Sounders have lost
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: in certain moments where you have Albert Rusnak out for
• 53:15
  Speaker 12: a while, you have Jordan Morris out for a very
• 53:18
  Speaker 12: long while, you have Pedro de la Vega who's been
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: in and out and now injured again. He fractured his
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: padella in the last game of the regular season, so
• 53:27
  Speaker 12: he's out for six months, and everybody's been out here
• 53:31
  Speaker 12: and there, and Christian's just kind of been the iron man,
• 53:33
  Speaker 12: uh and and looking at what he's done over the
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: course of the year, it's not the statistics. He's not,
• 53:39
  Speaker 12: you know, racking up a whole bunch of stats, but
• 53:41
  Speaker 12: it's just what he's meant to the team on both
• 53:44
  Speaker 12: ends of the field. And then you look at what
• 53:46
  Speaker 12: he did with the United States national team. You know,
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: I frankly think that based on what he did over
• 53:52
  Speaker 12: the last month, he may have locked up a spot
• 53:55
  Speaker 12: on the national team for the World Cup. In a
• 53:58
  Speaker 12: a in a World Cup where the United States is
• 54:00
  Speaker 12: going to be playing a game in Seattle, and it's
• 54:02
  Speaker 12: the middle game of those three games. I said on
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: Sounders Weekly last week, if I was a betting man,
• 54:07
  Speaker 12: I would put money down that Christian Roldon starts in
• 54:10
  Speaker 12: Seattle for the United States in the World Cup next year.
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: Oh wow, Well, Jordan Morris is back, right, I mean,
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: a bad season as far as the injuries go. So
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: what do you expecting out of a guy like him,
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: even though he hasn't gotten logged a whole bunch of
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: minutes this year?
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, Bucky, exactly.
• 54:28
  Speaker 12: It's been a tough year for him because of these injuries,
• 54:31
  Speaker 12: and it's just kind of been a one after another.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: And the shoulder thing.
• 54:34
  Speaker 12: Is such a freak injury where a shoulder injury of
• 54:37
  Speaker 12: all things pops up and keeps him out for a
• 54:40
  Speaker 12: couple of months.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: But now he is back, and he was kind.
• 54:43
  Speaker 12: Of playing I would honestly say without much confidence going
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: into a couple weeks ago. He scores in the final
• 54:50
  Speaker 12: game of the regular season, and you do see sort
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: of his reaction to the goal very much was all right,
• 54:56
  Speaker 12: the monkey's off the back, the weights off. And now
• 54:59
  Speaker 12: you hope that going into this playoff game he looks
• 55:02
  Speaker 12: like the classic Jordan Morris because I mean, they're gonna
• 55:05
  Speaker 12: need him. This Minnesota team is so good defensively, He's
• 55:08
  Speaker 12: going to have to get creative with his runs. He's
• 55:10
  Speaker 12: gonna have to, honestly just keep making runs. And I
• 55:13
  Speaker 12: know Jordan deals with type one diabetes. He obviously, you know,
• 55:17
  Speaker 12: it just works his ass off out there, and he's
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: going to have to recycle runs, keep making runs, run, run, run,
• 55:23
  Speaker 12: And I want you know, if there's one thing the
• 55:25
  Speaker 12: Sounders need out of this game in order to score,
• 55:28
  Speaker 12: it's probably Jordan Morris to be tired as hell at
• 55:31
  Speaker 12: the end of this game, because he just has kept
• 55:33
  Speaker 12: running and kept forcing the Minnesota backline into tough situations
• 55:37
  Speaker 12: the entire game.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Thirty three year old Jackson felts our guests right here
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: on Checking Buck in the morning if you want to
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: follow him on Twitter. Doo so at Jackson on radio.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: And look as the found fan base that have this
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: is a championship organization, they like their championships. The organization
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: wants to talk about what's it going to take to
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: win the whole damn thing. I mean, I'm reading that
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: Philadelphia might be unbeatable and I also have MESSI for
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: an entire postseason that everybody's gonna have to deal with.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: So how do the Sounders compare in terms of being
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: able to take the whole damn thing.
• 56:13
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think, even before talking about the Eastern Conference,
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: which is pretty good this year, the Western Conference is
• 56:20
  Speaker 12: also pretty good this year.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I do like how the bracket sets up for Seattle.
• 56:24
  Speaker 12: It's Minnesota in the first round, it's likely San Diego
• 56:27
  Speaker 12: in the second round. And San Diego is an expansion
• 56:30
  Speaker 12: team who's had an amazing first year, but they aren't
• 56:33
  Speaker 12: playoff tested like the Sounders are playoff tested, and they're
• 56:36
  Speaker 12: dealing with a couple of big injuries as well, So
• 56:39
  Speaker 12: you know, frankly, if it's Sounders san Diego, I like
• 56:42
  Speaker 12: the matchup there. Sounders actually beat San Diego earlier this year.
• 56:46
  Speaker 12: And then in the West Final you'd be facing either
• 56:49
  Speaker 12: Vancouver or LAFC, and that is where I think the
• 56:53
  Speaker 12: major major challenge. Frankly, even with MLS Cup, I think
• 56:56
  Speaker 12: the major challenge would come with Vancouver or LAFC. LAFC
• 57:00
  Speaker 12: brought in this guy named Sun from Tottenham in England
• 57:04
  Speaker 12: earlier this year, and.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: He's a spectacular player.
• 57:07
  Speaker 12: He's basically made LAFC nearly unbeatable on the offensive end.
• 57:11
  Speaker 12: Vancouver has had their greatest season ever. They finished second
• 57:15
  Speaker 12: in the Western Conference. They brought in some weapons. Either
• 57:18
  Speaker 12: of those teams in a one off West Final would
• 57:21
  Speaker 12: be very, very difficult to get past for Seattle. But
• 57:25
  Speaker 12: then if you somehow did, You're right, Chuck, it's Philadelphia.
• 57:28
  Speaker 12: It's Miami on the other side, and yes, Sounders beat Miami.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: They're out for something to play for for sure.
• 57:35
  Speaker 12: Philadelphia is an incredible defensive team, even better than Minnesota,
• 57:39
  Speaker 12: only thirty five goals allowed in thirty four games, so
• 57:44
  Speaker 12: that would be an enormous challenge. But from my eyes
• 57:47
  Speaker 12: right now, it's just LAFC or Vancouver in a West
• 57:50
  Speaker 12: Final theoretically would be about as hard of a West
• 57:54
  Speaker 12: Final as we would ever have.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: The nervous Jackson Felts woke up this morning chewing on
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: glass to get ready to get tough for this postseason run,
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: which begins tonight. Anything else I need to mention five
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: point thirty pre match six o'clock kickoff, anything else that
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: we need to pump up for Jackson this evening.
• 58:12
  Speaker 12: Yeah, no, it's listen, guys, it's playoff time. And Brian
• 58:15
  Speaker 12: Schmitzer if there's one thing he does better than anything else.
• 58:19
  Speaker 12: It's getting guys ready to play playoff soccer. This team,
• 58:23
  Speaker 12: when they're not injured, they generally fight for championships. Last
• 58:27
  Speaker 12: year we came out of nowhere to make the Western
• 58:29
  Speaker 12: Conference championship. Yes, this team is dealing with a big
• 58:32
  Speaker 12: injury to Pedro, but I think it all comes back
• 58:35
  Speaker 12: to Brian Schmitzer and he gets these boys ready. And
• 58:38
  Speaker 12: if there's one reason the Sounders would get to an
• 58:41
  Speaker 12: MLS Cup, it would be him.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. Enjoy it all and we appreciate you
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: joining us.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you, everybody appreciate it.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: There is Jackson Belts joining us right here on Chuck
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: and Buck in the morning. Sounders start at six o'clock
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: tonight against Minnesota United coming up next. There's another major
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: event this week and it has to be discussed. Sports
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Radio ninety three point three kh A r F M. Well,
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: during the postseason, we had Ryan Heally as a special
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: former Mariner analyst for us throughout the entire playoff, and
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: as we were signing off with them a week ago,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: the people were like no more more more Heally true, Yeah,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: And so we're like, well, let's give him more Healy then,
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: so joining us here this morning on the program, Former
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Mariner Ryan Heally is back with us on Chuck and Buck.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, Good morning man. Did you guys miss me?
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: We did? Really did Yeaphuck?
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: You don't you like right now?
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I missed you.
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: You're a little jealous every time you see with your
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: full head of hair, your perfect teeth and whatnot.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Face made for radio?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: That's me.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: Do you got anything playing for Halloween this weekend? I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: don't even know. Do you have children? We haven't had
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: a personal private conversation, just been all marriners.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: I got two young ones.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 13: I got a three year old little girl and then
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 13: I have a year and a half with a little boy.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 13: My daughter got to pick the theme this year. Anyone
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 13: out there that knows what super kitties is, that's what
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 13: my family's going to be dressed up as. And if
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 13: you don't know what that is, tune in Friday evening
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 13: to see what my story on my Instagram looks like.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: By the way, funny story about that. I don't really
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: know what super kitties are, but my daughter. I have
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: a four year old daughter, so she knows what they
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: are now. She has a hard time pronouncing kiddies. Okay,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: it's super like too many teas. There's a tea in
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: the beginning, there's a tea, a couple of teas in
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: the middle.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: So I'm having a hard time digitalizing what that word is,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: A fuck you.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think I can say it.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know you can spell it. Suddenly I have
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: a thinking about past girlfriends. I wish would have gone
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: as that for Halloween. It was.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Super It's good.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: That would have been I wish those would have been
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: shown up a couple of years ago. All right, well
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: here we go. Ryan Heally is with us here this morning,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: and yeah, it's it's been a week and we we've
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: had a week to sort of get over at all.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: What do you what are the players do you think
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: going through a week later after such a near miss
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: in getting to the World Series, It's.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 13: Got to be a bag of mixed emotions, Like, obviously
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 13: the loss is devastating. You could see the emotions in
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 13: their face post game after that Game seven. You gotta
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 13: imagine that coming home for the first week, it's it's
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 13: trying to just be where your two feet are. So
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 13: how do I get present in my family? How do
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 13: I really enjoy the people that I haven't seen a
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 13: long time, How I get off my feet rest a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 13: little bit. But I know that you probably have those
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 13: those moments that pop up in your head, and it's
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 13: probably very specific for the individual for whatever they feel
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 13: like they could have done better. Yeah, you know, the
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 13: managers feel the same way. The gm s feel in
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 13: the same way. But everyone's processing right now and they're
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 13: getting towards the end of you know, the devastation of it,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 13: like it ever goes away fully. But once they start
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 13: preparing for next year, they feel a little bit better.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously, And yet I mean, the the baseball mentality
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: is one where you kind of have to have a
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: short memory. And yet when the season's over, it's not
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 6: like I have to have a special or short memory
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: because I got to move on.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: I got another game the next day.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: So how long does something like this linger for the
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: dudes in the clubhouse versus obviously the way in which
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 6: they approach normal you know, scheduled baseball, where you got
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: to get out there and go grind the next day.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 13: I'd never been this far in the playoffs. My assumption
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 13: is that this will be felt in spring training next year.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 13: I had some conversations with a few Mariners minor leaguers
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 13: actually last last week in the facility that I train
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 13: out of, and just the fact that these questions are
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 13: going to be asked all through spring training next year,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 13: Like these are not going away. In every decision they
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 13: make this off season, with free agent acquisitions, trades they make,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 13: it's going to be compared to the team that they
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 13: just had just because of how well they did.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to get into some of that stuff,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: but still just a couple more like recap questions. Dan Wilson,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: Fangrafts just did a review of his managerial performance and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: I think they gave him an average of like a
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: SE but they gave him an f an F in
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: his pitching decisions that he made during the course of
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. I'm sure you're not being that hard on
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson, But does the manager have a few things
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: to improve on by next year, assuming that we get back.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: To the playoffs.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 13: If you ask them that question, I'm sure he would
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 13: say yes, just because he's an accountable leader and he
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 13: understands that the results of the decisions you make are
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 13: going to determine how everyone views them, and unfortunately the
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 13: last decision he made of bringing Bizarre to win is
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 13: under an absolute microscope. And I listened to his post
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 13: pre Pros game press conferences about it, and you can
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 13: hear the tone of his voice of that's been our
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 13: guy in pinches all year. It didn't work out this time,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 13: and unfortunately he's gonna have to wear this on the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 13: chin for the entire offseason and also spring training of
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 13: where was Brash, where was Muonios? What were you thinking?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 13: And you got to Poto backing them up in the media,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 13: which is always nice. The factory unified from kind of
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 13: the top down there. I can't give him an f though,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 13: because I feel like the most the playoffs he did
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 13: a really good job navigating that bullpen, the high leverage arms,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 13: the matchups. Maybe a little bit of a quick trigger
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 13: with some of his starting pitchers, but I understand why
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 13: you do that, because every game has high leverage, so
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 13: you have to go to the guys that helped get
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 13: you there. And also, the starting pitching wasn't what they
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 13: were in twenty four this whole season, so he was
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 13: gonna go those bullpen guys that were hot, and that's
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 13: what he did all the way throughout.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, moving into you know
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: this part of the of the year, obviously kind of
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: licking our wounds a little bit after getting ejected, but
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: then you kind of move quickly into Okay, what do
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: they need to do to make it that that get
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 6: those extra nine outs and get to a World Series
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: next year? For me, and I'm not gonna speak for
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: anybody else. I think Chuck and Ashly on the same page.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: You get Josh Naylor and yet he's a Boris guy.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, what do you think odds are that did
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 6: did Naylor enjoy his time in Seattle enough? Do you
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: think that he made a good enough connection with his
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: teammates in this town that he might come back? Or
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 6: is this gonna flat out be the highest bidder's going
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: to get him.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: I don't think bor Or Naylor is a Boris?
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: Is he not?
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know?
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 13: He says, I s so that maybe gives us a
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 13: little bit of benefit of doubt. But I was just
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 13: going through there's a great article on the Athletic talking
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 13: about the top fifty free agents out there with the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 13: projected contracts for be or could be, and then also
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 13: thinking through the Mariners and what they've done in the
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 13: open market with free agents before. And you know, they're
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 13: projecting Josh Naylor to get a four year, ninety million
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 13: dollar contract and then Suarez a three year, seventy two
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 13: million art contract. I think one of those two is
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 13: really really manageable, and if I'm going to prioritize one,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 13: I would selfishly go after Naylor because I think the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 13: type of player and hitter he was from what we're
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 13: seeing be successful in playoffs is what we need. And also,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 13: you know, he struggled the first half of that Alds series.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 13: You guys remember that, We're like, where's Naylor? What's he doing? O?
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 13: We had a kid?
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, he rakes again. Never mind, We're okay.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 13: Like that was the process of a Mariner's fans with
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 13: Josh Naylor, and then he was our best hitter throughout
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 13: the course of the playoffs outside of the one and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 13: only the cal Rawly. So that's the guy that I'm
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 13: putting at the top of my list. If I can
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 13: anchor down first base with his bat, his back to
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 13: bald skills and also his power production, I'm be really happy.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 13: But I'm curious how they navigate the trade market, because
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 13: that's where the Mariners get really really busy, whether it's
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 13: offseason or in season.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I'm just trying to warn people right
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: off the bat, don't expect too many additions. I think
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: they're going to try to handle things in house where
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: they can, and that includes not just the decision between
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: Naylor and Suarez, because I think you're absolutely right to me,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: that's a no brainer that you bring back Naylor. If
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: those are the two price tags, I think it's a
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: bigger question to go Sworez or Polonco, and I actually
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: think Ryan, get your opinion on it, I think they
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: would prioritize Polonco over Sworez as well.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 13: I agree with that statement, especially with what he did,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 13: the bounce back year he had. I'm curious what the
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 13: price tag on him is going to be. This article
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 13: has him projected to sign a two year, twenty six
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 13: million dollar contract.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: I think that's doable for the Mariners.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 13: So we can get both of those players back for
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 13: one hundred and fifteen to one twenty million dollars combined,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 13: that would be amazing. I know that Ben Williamson was
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 13: up as well. If you're talking about in house solutions
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 13: for third base. I'm not sure what your guys' opinions
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 13: on him are. I haven't seen him play enough, but
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 13: I know that the Mariners traded Tyler Locklear in that
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 13: Suarez deal to the d Back, so they lost one
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 13: of their first base prospects and Naylor needs to be
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 13: a priority. But they still have Williamson. And the power
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 13: production doesn't get me really excited. But I was on
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 13: Them Network Radio last week and Ryan Spilboard was talking
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 13: about how great of a defender he was and how
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 13: solid he would be for that side of the diamond.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 13: But I would need to see a little more power
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 13: production from my third base bat, especially when you're losing
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 13: a replacing with the guy just hit fifty.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting you bring that up because you know
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: the fickle fan like I want this, and then you
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: get this, You're like, well I want that. I mean, so,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Toronto Blue Jays, what did we hear the entire series
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: about Toronto Blue Jays? What a great job they did
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: one through nine putting the ball in play. Ben Williamson
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: doesn't hit for power, but he plays great defense and
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: he does put the ball in play, And even though
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: it's not doubles, triples, and homers. I mean, if he's
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: hitting down in the order and he makes cheap compared
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: to the seventy two million dollars figure that you threw
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: out there, I would almost guarantee Ryan that Ben Williamson's
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: the third baseman. I'm not saying Ben Williamson will be
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: our third baseman, but if that's the price tag on
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: ginoswar is, if he doesn't come way down from that,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: I'll almost guarantee that Ben Williamson will be the third
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: baseman next year over Gino. I would second that as well.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 13: And I think your point there was well articulated at
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 13: the Blue Jays formula. How many guys that they have
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 13: that were just lifer in the minor leagues and they
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 13: got up to the big leagues and they just did
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 13: the same thing it did in the minor leagues that
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 13: wasn't sexy, And now all of a sudden, when you
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 13: get nine guys that do it really, really well, it's beautiful.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 13: And Clement, you're talking about Lucas like, you're talking about
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 13: guys that can just grind out at bats. And if
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 13: that's what Williamson develops into a little bit more. But
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 13: we saw decent sample size. He almost had three hundred
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 13: plate appearances this year. Obviously, the on base percentage I
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 13: think will get better. The slug being three to ten
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 13: for me is doesn't get me super excited, at least
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 13: for a quarter field position. But I do know that
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 13: power develops at different stages for each individual player, and
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 13: at times I've seen guys develop the power even.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: More in the major leagues. Why.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 13: I don't have an exact reason for you, but if
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 13: that's something that can progress, that'd be amazing. But we
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 13: also know the ballpark that he's playing in, and if
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 13: you're not a power hitter stepping into that ballpark, it's
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 13: really hard to develop into one.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not going to be easy. But at the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 6: same time, he did after they send him down, after
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: they got Geno human down there actually and put up
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm almost a nine hundred, I want to
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 6: say fifty ops, he'd end up pitting my five homers
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: and fifty a b's. I wouldn't be surprised if he
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: ends up developing into having more power, because I get
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 6: one and two hundred, one bomb and two hundred played
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: appearances up in the big leagues. But he's not going
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: to be a fifty home run guy, but I mean
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 6: it's zero chance. I just think that it's fine to
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: kind of have a guy that puts the ball in
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 6: play and grinds out AB's. I think that is if
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: I had to narrow down to what I think one
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: reason why we didn't get to the World Series and
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 6: the Toronto Blue Jays did, I think they were better
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: at that they were better having tough abes.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you another thing that goes with it.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: I mean they've already announced as an organization that will
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: probably start next year at the payroll we ended at,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: which is a bump forward. That's I mean, because they
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: added payroll at the trading deadline. I think after their
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: success that they had this year, and they didn't do
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: a lot last offseason to add to this team, and
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: I think they have fewer holes this offseason than they
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: had last offseason, and then the success that they had.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: I mean they also, I think Ryan want to be
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: in a position that, hey, yeah, if we went with
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: Williamson and we start with him at third base, that
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean that if we got to the trading deadline,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: we wouldn't recognize that as a potential place that needs
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: to be upgraded, and then we get aggressive again at
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: the trading deadline like they have three of the last
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: four years. I think that's something that Mariner fans should
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: expect to have happened. Quite frankly. If anybody's expecting some big,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: spendy off season, we're gonna add Tucker, and we're gonna
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: add Bregman, and we're gonna you know, we're gonna sign,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: We're gonna trade for show.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 13: Uh.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: If you're expecting that big offseason, it's probably I think
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: you're gonna be left one team quite severely. Frankly, I'm
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: with you there.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 13: We have to look at the history of how the
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 13: Manners have orchestrated their their rosters, and they've now had
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 13: a proof of concept was success of it of winning
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 13: the AL West and making it to Game seven of
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 13: the CS series, Like they they know their formula has validation.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 13: I've heard the Potos say this multiple times in his
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 13: in his conferences press conferences. It's like, we trust our process.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 13: We think our process is really good. I do think
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 13: that this is an opportunity to audit everything within your
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 13: system compared to what some of the teams look like,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 13: and they're gonna be watching that World Series closer than
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 13: they would have years past, with a different set of
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 13: lenses of the world's doubting this Blue Jays team, Like
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 13: they thought the Dodgers wanna go a four game sweep
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 13: and they were done zoned And they showed up in
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 13: game one and did what they did the entire alcs
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 13: And I wasn't shocked, Like, I've just watched these guys
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 13: seven games straight conduct professional bat up professional bat and
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 13: then they faced a really great picture and they did
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 13: the same thing. So how do we get guys in
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 13: our lineup that can have professional bats? And where can
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 13: we allocate some funds? But they're not going to go
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 13: spend a couple hundred million dollars in the free agent market.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: That's not how they work.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 13: They trade for guys, they make sure they fit there,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 13: they like Seattle, they like the they fit the camaraderie
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 13: round there.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: And then we extend them. That's that's been their formula.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: So why would that change now?
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, heally, is there a philosophy when you were here
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: that was in this kind of the mode, the new
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: school mode that is a lot more swing and miss.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 6: It's tougher to have grinder. AB's against the velocity that
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 6: people are seeing. So it's there. There's been a time
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 6: where we've seen more of the home run, strikeout, walk,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: that's your outcomes. And and yet I want to know
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 6: if you had a sense of what the organization's philosophy was,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: because I think a couple of years ago they tried
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: to make an adjustment like we're not bringing to Oscar back,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: we're not bringing Gino Suarez back because we want to
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: put the ball in play more, Whereas maybe that sounded
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: like that wasn't a priority for us in years previous.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: It was that a did this or organization switch from
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 6: something maybe back when you played, or even up to
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 6: the last couple of years, where they're thinking more of
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 6: going back to kind of some mode school. We're gonna
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 6: have some role player guys that put the ball in
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: play more often.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 13: You heard that last year when they made the coaching
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 13: changes and they brought Edgar Martinez back, and then they
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 13: brought the new hitting coach this year in and that
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 13: was the whole conversation. Was the approach, the execution approach,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 13: the consistency of it, understanding how we can win in
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 13: our ballpark. We're not going to lead the league in
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 13: home runs, even though they almost did. But that wasn't
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 13: their strategy going into it. I think they just ended
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 13: up having a few players that were having those type
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 13: of years and they said send it. Let's go, like,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 13: if this is what you want to do, this is
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 13: what we can do, let's let's win some ballgames doing that.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 13: There was always a consistency of conversation when I was there, though,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 13: of commanding the strike zone, and whether it was your
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 13: a swing swinger for the fences, or it was a
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 13: contact play, move a runner over, it was still it
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 13: was still commanding the strike zone. It's very consistent on
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 13: the pitching side as well. They always talked about strike one.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 13: There were specific counts that they really wanted us to
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 13: win on the offensive side. Obviously the even counts, the
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 13: one to one counts, the two to two, the three
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 13: two counts. They really wanted us to win those counts.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 13: So if we had to gear down a little bit
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 13: in those to win them, so be it. But there's
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 13: also understanding your role like that. When I was there,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 13: we had the Nelson Cruises, we had the Robinson Canoes,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 13: the Gene Seguras the Kyle Seegers. We had a lot
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 13: of guys that had different profiles of hit her and
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 13: they really wanted those guys to maximize what that opportunity was.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 13: Like it was Jean Jane the hit machine, and Robbie
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 13: Canoe is gonna spray doubles and then Nelson Cruz gonna
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 13: hit homers, and Kyle Seger is going to clean up
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 13: whatever was less from there hitting doubles and homers.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: Like that's just which is the formula?
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 13: Like you knew who you were as a player, and
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 13: it was more so dominate that profile instead of Now
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 13: it seems like they're trying to integrate more of a
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 13: team wide approach, and that's at least what we saw
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 13: the Blue Jays do and do it to absolute perfection.
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  Speaker 3: So far series, even at one game apiece, how long
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  Speaker 3: does this thing last? In your opinion, who comes out
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  Speaker 3: on top? And why? I hope for seven games.
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  Speaker 13: That's since I really haven't been a Diehart fan of
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  Speaker 13: the first time I was in it heavy, I always
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  Speaker 13: rooted for seven games. I just love the pressure, I
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  Speaker 13: love the back and forth. So I wont seven games.
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  Speaker 13: And man, if the Dodgers pitching staff does what they've done,
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  Speaker 13: like Gossman's the best I saw him throw, I feel
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  Speaker 13: like he didn't throw that well in the CS series.
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  Speaker 13: I also, most life i've seen in his fastball, young,
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  Speaker 13: motive pitches like that. I don't see them have it shot.
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  Speaker 13: It really is gonna come down to a lot of
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  Speaker 13: the key factors that we saw in that CS series.
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  Speaker 13: Who is sures are gonna be? Who is Biab gonna be?
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  Speaker 13: Because we know what the Dodgers starting pitching is gonna be.
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  Speaker 13: But I don't think the Dodgers' offense is clicking on
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  Speaker 13: all cylinders yet. So my prediction is Dodgers and seven.
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers and seven. Yeah, I don't even think it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: last seven. Really, it's gonna go back to Canada. Oh
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  Speaker 3: you think there's gonna win all three and then win
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  Speaker 3: all three in La Just in this you just want
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  Speaker 3: it to be over. I might, Yes, for the first
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  Speaker 3: time in my life, I'm like, am I even gonna watch?
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  Speaker 1: And I did?
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  Speaker 3: I did watch Friday night, and I did watch Saturday
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  Speaker 3: and Toronto. You know, you're right. They did the things
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: that they did to us and against good pitching in
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  Speaker 3: the in the previous series. But I do think the
• 1:17:49
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  Speaker 3: perhaps the most dangerous thing on the planet. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: chip away too.
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  Speaker 13: They like manufactured a run with two outs in Game
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  Speaker 13: two where you're like, oh wow, this is gonna be
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  Speaker 13: a cruising inning for him, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's a that's one run.
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  Speaker 13: They just kind of did that to you a couple times,
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  Speaker 13: where they score runs so quickly, like how did that happen?
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  Speaker 13: So I see that happening and then once they get
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  Speaker 3: Need to score early to quiet that Dodger crowd. Yeah
• 1:18:20
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  Speaker 9: on the show.
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  Speaker 6: Also, yeah, I wouldn't even know how to go about
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 6: signing up for it, let alone, would I ever qualify
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  Speaker 6: for it? If they wanted to do a bloopers reel,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 6: they would have me on the first episode.
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  Speaker 9: San It's all about It's all about casting sometimes, Bucky.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 9: I think if you get past the first test and
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 9: have your zoom audition with them, they take one look
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 9: at that beard and they say that guy.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Is on the show.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: That's our guy, right.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: They ask all about fishing, baseball, campfires, whiskey.
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  Speaker 2: I got a chance.
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  Speaker 3: My children, My children know those. If you do, I'm
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: in Aaron Levine's gonna be on Jeopardy tonight. So tonight
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: he's going to be on Jeopardy. How awesome is this
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: for you?
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  Speaker 10: Man?
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 9: Well, to have an opportunity to go on a completely
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 9: different channel in Seattle, I mean, that's that's kind of crazy,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 9: beyond Como Fortnite. No, I got to thank my bosses
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 9: at Fox thirteen for allowing me to do that.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: It's been a dream of mine for a long time.
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  Speaker 9: But you mentioned it being a hobby. I was a
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 9: competitive golf for my entire life and I stopped playing
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 9: golf about six seven years ago. Competitively, well not competitively.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: I just wasn't very good at it.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 9: First of all, I had an eye condition also that
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 9: provided prevented me from being on a golf course. So
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 9: I needed to fill that competitive hole in some way,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 9: shape or form. And who knew it was going to
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 9: be trivia, But believe it or not, when I play
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 9: in a trivia match, I get the same adrenaline rush
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 9: as I would before teeing off for a big round
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 9: of golf.
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  Speaker 6: Well, okay, I mean yeah, that's crazy to me, because
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 6: I would just be nervous as all get out that
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: I'm going to know no answers, not one single answer,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: and yet give the people just a little bit of
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: an idea of we talk about these flash cards that
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 6: you'll bust out, you'll have I don't know, a stack
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 6: maybe five six inches tall that you just go through
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: has questions and answers. But how many flash cards do
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: you have?
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 9: I might have to send out a picture of this Eventually.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 9: I have about twenty eight to thirty shoe boxes full
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 9: of index cards that I have written out over the
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 9: course of the last six and a half years. Started
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 9: with me just making cards for top fifty operas, Top
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 9: fifty paintings, top fifty books of the nineteen hundreds and whatever,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 9: and just to give myself a solid foundation, and ever
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 9: since then, it's been making a card for anything I
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: don't know, either on Jeopardy or any of the trivia
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 9: matches that I'm in, and it has slowly grown into
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 9: this mountain of index cards. The funny part is I'm
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 9: sort of this old school guy that has physical cards,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 9: while everybody else in the trivia world has these apps
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 9: that they just kind of swipe on their phones, going
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 9: one after the other, so you never know if they're
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 9: actually studying or not. I, on the other hand, have
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 9: these big boxes that I bring with me everywhere I go.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: Everywhere he goes. Aaron Levine is with us, of course,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: from Fox thirteen. Tonight he'll be on Como. He will
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: be appearing on Jeopardy at ten thirty this evening after
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: Monday night football, and so he makes his debut on Jeopardy.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 3: So is there like a guide to getting there? I mean,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: do you know what it takes to get on Jeopardy?
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: Take us through that entire process of wanting to be
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: on it, and then how difficult it is to actually
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: get on the show.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 9: So it's funny, I was. I'm competing in trivia regularly
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 9: against people who have been in trivia bowls, trivia quiz
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 9: bowl throughout their high school careers and stuff. I always
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 9: wanted to be on Jeopardy growing up, but watching it
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 9: with my parents, like as a teenager at the dinner
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 9: table every night. But then I stopped going. I didn't
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 9: go to any trivia nights like at bars for the
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 9: next you know, through college. In the next fifteen years.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 9: When I turned thirty, seven, I watched an episode of Jeopardy,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 9: and I just set a long term goal of saying, hey,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 9: by the time I turned forty in three years, I
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 9: want to feel comfortable enough to take the online Jeopardy test,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 9: And by the time I turned thirty nine, I felt
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 9: comfortable enough to do so. So it's been sort of
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 9: the six and a half year process of starting to study.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 9: Took that first online Jeopardy test.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: You have to pass that one.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 9: Then they give you a second fifty question test that
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 9: is procter to make sure that you're not cheating, and
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 9: then if you pass that, then eventually, hopefully you will
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 9: get an online audition. Once you have the audition with
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 9: the show, you are automatically placed into a contestant pool
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 9: for the next two years. So I was in the
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 9: contestant pool for the first time in July of twenty
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 9: twenty one. I spent thirty seven consecutive months in the
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 9: contestant pool without getting it called the show.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: It expired last August.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 9: I took the test again, went through the whole process again,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 9: had my Zoom audition believe it or not, in spring
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 9: training in Arizona, and was back in the contestant pool.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 9: Since February and got the call in the late July
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 9: take the show last month, and ever since then, it's
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 9: been one big blur with the Mariners in the playoffs,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 9: going to Detroit and Toronto twice, and coincidentally, had they
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 9: won Game seven my airgate tonight would have been the
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 9: first day that the Mariners ever hosted a World Series game.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 9: So that's my one big regret. It would have been
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 9: an all time coincidence. But unfortunately, hopefully they'll get that
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 9: there soon.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 6: All right, Well, I mean getting you do a lot
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 6: of these shows, or not shows necessarily, but you go
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 6: to events and kind of nerd out a little bit
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 6: doing a bunch of trivia stuff. You and I have
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 6: spoken about this many times before and after doing you know,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 6: postgame shows or in press boxes and whatnot. So what
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 6: was the biggest eye opener of doing the biggest one?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 6: Because this has got to be to some degree like
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: the like the super Bowl of trivia.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's no question, and it's It's interesting though, because
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 9: the World Quizzing Championships in the trivia world are considered
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: the top of the top, and then you go to
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 9: various events like there's a Sporkle con we were in Detroit,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 9: and that was the second time for playoffs. That was
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 9: the second time I was in Detroit because I had
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 9: just been there a year prior for this annual convention
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 9: called Sporkle Con and I've been at the Trivia Nationals.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 4: In New Orleans earlier this year.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 9: Jeopardy is by far the highest profile where you start
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 9: hearing from your former teachers from high school and people
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 9: you haven't talked to in twenty years. But in the
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 9: trivia world itself, there are there are incredibly talented trivia
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 9: players that everybody knows about in that circle that consistently
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 9: dominate those those realms. It's like when you're playing competitive
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 9: golf and you feel like you're a pretty decent golfer
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 9: going out and shooting US seventy three, seventy four, and
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 9: know once you get out there that you're going to
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 9: get lapped by some dude that shoots sixty three or
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 9: sixty four on a regular basis.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: Make sure you ask everything in a question, Oh well, yeah,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: get that done. Crazy is a big deal, that's right.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 9: And the one thing, by the way, the one thing
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 9: people don't see when you're watching from home, is how
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 9: huge a factor the buzzer is you're not allowed to
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 9: buzz in until a guy off stage activates the buzzer
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 9: when Ken Jennings is done reading the clue, And so
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 9: if you don't time it correctly or if you buzz
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 9: in too quickly, you're actually locked out for a quarter
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 9: of a second, which could be the difference between you
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 9: getting in and you're not getting in. And psychologically that's
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 9: a big deal because imagine knowing six correct answers in
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 9: a row but not being able to get in on
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 9: the buzzer, but then getting in on the seventh and
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 9: getting it wrong. Then you're sitting here with six hundred
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 9: negative six hundred negative eight hundred dollars and you knew
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 9: six out of the first seven answers, but you were
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 9: just never able to get in.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: Wow, gotta have a strong buzzer gate.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: And it happened so fast. Yeah, it's it's tough, Altuve
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: or somebody maybe for a pointer.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly how to cheat Jeopardy. That would have been
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: a good tip for you. Okay, So I remember when
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: Cliff Claven and Cheers wanted to get on Jeopardy for
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: like years and then he finally got on and he
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: showed up at the set and it was like Bucky
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: was joking about earlier. It was like beer, Boston Sports.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: It was like every category was like his X areas
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: of expertise, and he dominated round one, and then in
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 3: round number two it normalized an fell apart. So what
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: are your one or two areas of expertise that you
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: were hoping to get when you game on the scene.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 9: I was hoping for anything from history to geography. I
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 9: actually feel fairly good in I shouldn't say opera, but
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: like some of the classical arts types categories, there is
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 9: almost a sense of satisfaction at times where and I
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 9: can say this if there was sports on the board
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 9: that I didn't necessarily gravitate towards sports, because I was
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 9: playing against the stereotype of oh, this is a sports guy,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 9: He's going to go straight to the sports questions. I
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 9: felt like I could handle other things. The one area
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 9: that I am very bad at is wordplay. I'm horrible
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 9: at anagrams. My mind thinks in a very linear fashion.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 9: So if you say crossword clues A because it starts
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 9: with A, I'm fine. But if you say that A
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 9: is the exact middle of the answer, my brain does
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 9: not work. So that was the area that I was
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 9: most concerned about going on the show.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: All right, all right, well you get you, you be
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: successful of us. We'll watch tonight, make sure that you
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: know we approve, and then you can step up to
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: the big leagues and play beat Bucky way these weeks.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: Good luck with that.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm looking forward to that for sure.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: I bet you are. I bet you are.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: Where you gonna have a party tonight? You have like,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: what do you got tonight? What do you got going?
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: How are you you got a viewing schedule? What are
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: you doing?
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 9: I've got an eight and a half year old that's
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 9: really excited to stay up till eleven o'clock to watch
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 9: this episode. I didn't exactly you know, it's not exactly
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 9: in my favor to have a ten thirty at night
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 9: on a weekday episode, but.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 10: It is what it is.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 9: Everybody gets to watch the World Series and then or
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 9: Monday night football and then tune in later tonight at I'm.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: Thirty, okay, ten thirty.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 10: It is.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, we're excited for you. I mean watching you
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: go through your flash cards for years and here you
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: are right on the doorstep of seeing yourself on Jeopardy.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: So awesome.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: Congrats man, Thanks Black guys, thanks so much for the support.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: All Right, Aaron Levine joining us right here on the
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: checker box is not gonna er. It's not gonna rate
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: well in Toronto. No, yeah, he's not gonna get huge
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: ratings tonight there. But uh, but that's exciting for him.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. You've been hearing about this for a while now.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: I got a buddy, one of my best friends in
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: the world, and he's been wanting to get on Jeopardy
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: as entire adult life, and it just hasn't happened for him.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he hasn't pursued it as aggressively as what
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: Aaron is.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, yeah, there's a lot that's gone into it.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 6: He showed me a couple of pictures like incognito like
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 6: pictures about he couldn't quite he wasn't supposed to announce
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: that he was, but he was gonna wait until after
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 6: the Mariner's situation was done.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: But just getting on there. The first thing, you're gonna
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: laugh when you see how he wrote his name.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. And he also
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: knows the result, by the way, Yeah, and can't hell,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: anybody I know.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: We don't know if he's on more than one night.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. We don't know if he won.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know, if he embarrassed himself, embarrassed Seattle.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: We don't know.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna doubt that so he can be crazy.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: One last thing coming your way next. Sports Radio ninety
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