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10-19: NFC West, AJ Barner rocks and Softy · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, headlines are brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light,
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  Speaker 2: as cold as the Rockies. CX didn't play yesterday, the
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  Speaker 2: Rams did. I don't know if you know, the Rams
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  Speaker 2: aren't going undefeated this year. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: heard that.
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  Speaker 3: I heard a little fact. What I heard was a
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  Speaker 3: little fact.
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  Speaker 4: Greg, and I really liked it.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you for those who supported my decision in
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  Speaker 3: choosing that.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn the Genius picked exactly what happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to use that moniker.
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  Speaker 2: Jessica the Genius.
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  Speaker 4: Jessica?
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn the Genius.
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  Speaker 4: Who the hell is that?
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn the Genius. Excuse me. Picking that the Cardinals beating
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  Speaker 2: the Rams yesterday. 18-16, the Rams offense in arrears. To
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  Speaker 2: say the least. And now all of a sudden the
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  Speaker 2: Rams are two and four. The best team money ever bought.
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  Speaker 2: The best team that won the Super Bowl in May
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  Speaker 2: and June and July.
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  Speaker 4: And should have, quote unquote. Oh, hey, guys. Mr. McVay,
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  Speaker 4: how are we?
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  Speaker 2: Two and four for the Rams.
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: Some seasons have started out that way.
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  Speaker 3: I remember the Seahawks going back-to-back Super Bowls, the second one,
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  Speaker 3: of which we will not talk about the results, but
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  Speaker 3: they started out, I think, 2-5 that season.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks, of course, 3-3. The San Francisco 49ers are 5-0.
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  Speaker 2: They play tonight on Monday Night Football. 5-15 against the
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  Speaker 2: one-win command. Of course, the one win the Commanders have
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  Speaker 2: against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, even my favorite people, I'm like, not
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  Speaker 4: my favorite game.
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  Speaker 2: 5-15 from Santa Clara tonight right here on 93.3 KJFM.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Softy-Muller and Dick Fane will take you up to
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  Speaker 2: 5-15 Monday Night Football kickoff from the Emerald Queen Casino
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  Speaker 2: from 3 until 5-15. Elsewhere around the NFL yesterday, Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers tied Peyton Manning for the third most touchdown passes
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  Speaker 2: by a quarterback in NFL history. He had two late
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  Speaker 2: in the game. The Steelers rallied from 13 down to
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  Speaker 2: beat the one-win Buccaneers in Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, maybe that ayahuasca trip does something for people.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he never 100% said that he did that.
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  Speaker 3: He did a darkness retreat.
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker and the Chiefs are still unbeaten. 5-0 after
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  Speaker 2: beating the winless now 0-6 Chargers 22-6 yesterday in Arrowhead.
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  Speaker 2: Another 120-plus yard day for Kenneth Walker. And Walker the call.
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  Speaker 7: Finds the game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there he goes. Galloping. Chased by Steele.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: That was, of course, the great Kevin Harlan, friend of
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  Speaker 2: the show on CBS Sports yesterday, broadcasting from Arrowhead Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: 5-0 Chiefs are coming to Seattle Sunday night in football
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  Speaker 2: against the 3-3 Seattle Seahawks, who had the weekend off
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  Speaker 2: because they lost Thursday night.
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  Speaker 4: Three prime times in a row.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Eagles lost their fourth straight game, fall to 2-4. Carolina
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  Speaker 2: beat them in Philadelphia. All kinds of problems in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 2: including this morning news that Jalen Hurts is out for
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  Speaker 2: the season at quarterback because of blood clots in both lungs.
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  Speaker 4: That's very dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bad news.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For more ways than one. Browns are 4-2 in a
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  Speaker 2: three-way tie for first in the AFC North. They beat
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  Speaker 2: the 4-2 Ravens. The Packers went to 4-2 by beating
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  Speaker 2: the bad, bad 2-4 Cowboys last night. Bills are 5-1,
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  Speaker 2: beat the Raiders. The Cougar X Raiders now 3-3 after
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  Speaker 2: starting 3-0. And again, the unbeaten 49ers play at home
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  Speaker 2: tonight against the one-win Commanders. 5-15 right here on 93.3
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  Speaker 2: KJR FM. Also this morning, by the way, it's Tanner
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  Speaker 2: McKee is now the quarterback. Who's that? 2023 late-round pick
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  Speaker 2: from Stanford has made three career starts, including yesterday in
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles' loss. He's now the Eagles' new starting quarterback
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  Speaker 2: with Jalen Hurts out for the season because of blood
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  Speaker 2: clots in both lungs.
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  Speaker 4: I hope he's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's... Two and four Colts fired general manager Chris
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  Speaker 2: Ballard a day after they blew a 13-point halftime lead
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  Speaker 2: to the Loli Titans. That's bad when you start firing
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  Speaker 2: your GM in October before the deadline. They're already planning
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  Speaker 2: for the draft next year. The Colts, remember they started
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  Speaker 2: eight and two last year. They lost seven in a
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  Speaker 2: row to end last season, and now they're two and four. Man,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Ballard out. Washington Huskies won their first big-time game
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  Speaker 2: in four tries over the weekend Friday night at Purdue.
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  Speaker 2: Has the Elijah Brown era started a quarterback on Montlake?
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams didn't play. And Elijah Brown in his first
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  Speaker 2: Washington start leads them to their first Big Ten win.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Dave Softy tomorrow at 11 o'clock. He
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  Speaker 2: was in West Lafayette, Indiana, of course, on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: of the Huskies broadcast here on KJR. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback situation for the Huskies. How about for the Cougs?
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn was down in Corvallis.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, an Eshelman era.
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  Speaker 2: Boat race in the first half. And then Eshelman came
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  Speaker 2: back and got the Cougs to 30 points. It was
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  Speaker 2: like a month's worth up to that point. You think
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  Speaker 2: they stick with him now?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, too. Washington State's new quarterback, Owen Eshelman,
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  Speaker 2: redshirt freshman, his first career start, 32 of 48 at
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  Speaker 2: Oregon State, and he had no running game at all
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  Speaker 2: to support him. 289 yards, two touchdowns, an interception, and
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  Speaker 2: three sacks.
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  Speaker 4: That interception didn't count.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 4: That was with under 30 seconds left in the game.
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  Speaker 2: That's just a stat.
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  Speaker 4: That's just like a stat, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I watched that game. Washington State is now 0-3 in
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  Speaker 2: last place in the new Pac-12. They play 21st-ranked Boise
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  Speaker 2: State Thursday, 3 p.m. Saturday at Martin Stadium. Jessamyn will
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  Speaker 2: be there for the Cougs on the radio network. Five
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  Speaker 2: of the eight top-ranked teams in college football lost this
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  Speaker 2: past weekend. Auburn won at number one, Georgia. As we
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  Speaker 2: nailed for you on Factor Fiction, eighth-ranked BYU stayed unbeaten
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  Speaker 2: by upsetting number two, Notre Dame. Ten-and-a-half-point underdog. Glad you
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  Speaker 2: took the points there. Tennessee dominated number six, Alabama. Bama's
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  Speaker 2: lost consecutive games in the same season for the first
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  Speaker 2: time in 13 years. And, man, are they all over
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Grubb and Tuscaloosa.
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  Speaker 3: Whew.
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  Speaker 2: They're unearthing old Mike McDonald clips talking about an unnamed
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  Speaker 2: assistant coach, and they all say, well, this was Ryan Grubb.
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  Speaker 2: They are all over Ryan Grubb and Tuscaloosa right now.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, everyone needs a target, right? That's how this goes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know how it works in the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: You lose a couple games in a row, and everybody's
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  Speaker 2: in danger of losing a job. Alabama lost two in
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  Speaker 2: a row. And Army team, pride and dream, every heart
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  Speaker 2: and gray, 56-24. over Florida Atlantic. Another win on our
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  Speaker 2: Fact or Fiction. We were 4-1 last week.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I'm still batting.
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  Speaker 3: 500.
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  Speaker 4: That works. I facted on my Arizona pick. I fictioned
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  Speaker 4: on my Bills pick.
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  Speaker 2: Oregon wide receiver Evan Stewart arrested early Sunday in a
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  Speaker 2: charge of driving under the influence of intoxicants in Springfield, Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: just outside of Eugene after Oregon beat... Never asking, Eugene.
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  Speaker 2: The Kraken lost two games in Florida this weekend at
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  Speaker 2: the Lightning and then at the Panthers to finish their
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  Speaker 2: road trip 3-2. They host the Detroit Red Wings at
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  Speaker 2: Climate Pledge Arena tomorrow night. MLB playoffs. The Rays won
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  Speaker 2: both games in Cleveland this weekend. They lead the American
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  Speaker 2: League Championships three games to two. Game six is today
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  Speaker 2: in St. Petersburg. They have to win one of the
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  Speaker 2: next two at home to advance to the World Series
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  Speaker 2: against the Milwaukee Brewers. In high school football, defending Washington
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  Speaker 2: State 3A champion O'Day beat Eastside Catholic from our showcase
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  Speaker 2: game of the weekend. What a barn burner down in Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: Puyallup beat Sumner 36-34, and the entire cities for both
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  Speaker 2: towns were out at that game. That was wild. Now
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  Speaker 2: on with the Monday show. Countdown is on.
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  Speaker 1: As we count you down to tonight's game at 515.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, good morning. Thanks for joining in. Thanks for listening
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  Speaker 2: to the show. Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre with you.
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  Speaker 2: It's always long headlines on Monday before all that happened
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much, because especially when this show ends, there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot that happens on Friday night, too.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And Friday afternoon. Yes. A lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: happening in the sports world since we last spoke to
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  Speaker 2: you on Friday morning. Right as we spoke Friday morning,
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald saying that, yes, Sam Donald's going to remain
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback. We're going to dive into a little more
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  Speaker 2: about that, including why they made that choice. And it
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  Speaker 2: was interesting to me, anyway, that Mike McDonald was jumping
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  Speaker 2: right all over that. The first opportunity he had to
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  Speaker 2: speak publicly Friday morning, the day after the two more
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  Speaker 2: interceptions for Darnold and loss in Denver. There was a
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  Speaker 2: purpose there. There was for sure a purpose. The players
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  Speaker 2: had the weekend off, Saturday, Sunday. They're back to work
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  Speaker 2: today on the field. They call it a bonus Monday
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  Speaker 2: practice because usually they don't practice the day after a
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  Speaker 2: Sunday game. Of course, they didn't have a game yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: So they'll practice today. They get their mandatory Tuesday off.
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  Speaker 2: The collective bargaining agreement calls for Tuesdays off for the
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  Speaker 2: players between Sunday games. And then Wednesday, full go, full
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  Speaker 2: regular swing for the Sunday night game against the 5-0 Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to talk a lot this week, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure more than just today, about Kenneth Walker and his
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  Speaker 2: return to prominence in the NFL as the leading rusher
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL right now. 665 yards. Jessamyn, that is
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  Speaker 2: the most rushing yards a player has ever had in
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  Speaker 2: his first five games with a new team.
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  Speaker 3: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: In NFL history. They are using him a lot. I mean, 74%
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  Speaker 2: of the snaps again yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: How sustainable is that, though?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that was the dice roll the Seahawks made. And
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  Speaker 2: last year, they did the job share with Joe Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 2: As a former Indians slugger when I was a kid
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  Speaker 2: growing up in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Zach Charbonnet, the reason he got more snaps, actually got
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  Speaker 2: more snaps, 48% to 43% or 44% for Walker during
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  Speaker 2: the regular season, was because of the issue of the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks not believing that Walker could get through a 17-game season.
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  Speaker 2: This time last year, they were managing Walker through a
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  Speaker 2: foot injury that he had in August of his final
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I distinctly remember talking to Mike McDonald in Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay in the team hotel. And we were just talking.
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  Speaker 2: And we weren't interviewing. The recorders weren't going. But he
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  Speaker 2: expressed concern about Walker's foot and how long he could
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  Speaker 2: sustain playing on that foot. And they basically governed him
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  Speaker 2: through the regular season. And then they had to release
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  Speaker 2: the governor immediately. During the playoffs, of course, after Charbonnet
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  Speaker 2: got hurt in the division round, and we all, and
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  Speaker 2: the Chiefs sure saw what happened after that, once Walker
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  Speaker 2: had the full reign, by then he was fully healthy.
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  Speaker 2: The foot injury was in the past. It was January.
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  Speaker 2: And he went nuts. In the division round, the NFC
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  Speaker 2: Championship game, and most of all in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: in front of 200 million people watching. And that's how
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  Speaker 2: he got $ 14 million. Chuck Powell this morning on his
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  Speaker 2: morning show, I'm on 7 a.m. every day with him.
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  Speaker 2: He was asking me this morning again about the Kenneth
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  Speaker 2: Walker situation, and We revisited again why the Seahawks did
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  Speaker 2: not re-sign him. There will be a narrative all week, Jessamyn,
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  Speaker 2: that the Seahawks chose to re-sign Rashid Shahid over him.
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  Speaker 2: That's not true.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's a this and that thing.
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  Speaker 6: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Two different situations completely. It was not an either-or. They
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  Speaker 2: did not decide to keep Shahid for $ 17 million a
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  Speaker 2: year in lieu of letting Walker leave for $ 14 million
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  Speaker 2: a year. to Kansas City, what actually happened was, as
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about, a value proposition that the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: made long ago at running back. And they said that
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  Speaker 2: running back, because they're so injured, because you can't count
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  Speaker 2: on them to have complete seasons, we philosophically as a
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  Speaker 2: franchise are not going to devote free agent big bucks
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  Speaker 2: dollars to a running back. We're just not. And you
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  Speaker 2: can go all the way back to the end of
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  Speaker 2: Marshawn Lynch's tenure here when they drafted Chris Carson. And
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  Speaker 2: then they drafted Kenneth Walker. In the year after they
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  Speaker 2: drafted Kenneth Walker, in the same round, second round, they
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  Speaker 2: drafted Zach Charbonnet. Go all the way back to Thomas Rawls,
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  Speaker 2: your buddy from Muckleshoot Casino.
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  Speaker 4: I love Thomas. We had a great time on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Rawls worked because he was at a minimum salary
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  Speaker 2: as an undrafted rookie free agent and exploded onto the
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  Speaker 2: scene as a starting running back. Chris Carson, rookie deal.
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker, rookie deal. Zach Charbonnet's rookie deal is ending.
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  Speaker 2: This is what they do.
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  Speaker 4: It's the economics of football.
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  Speaker 6: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: They spend their money where they don't believe a guy's
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  Speaker 2: going to get hurt the next week. And look what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Jadarian Price, their first-round pick to be the next Chris Carson,
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  Speaker 2: next Kenneth Walker, next Charbonnet in the line of running
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  Speaker 2: backs they've chosen to replace starters, he gets hurt in
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  Speaker 2: his first month of the NFL. So you can look
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  Speaker 2: at it in two ways. One, wow, did they make
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  Speaker 2: a mistake because look how Kenneth Walker's rolling. Or two...
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  Speaker 2: Like Jessamyn just pointed out, at what point does Kenneth
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  Speaker 2: Walker break? And Kansas City's not worried about that, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: Even if he doesn't get hurt, the effort level, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: there's a breakdown that can happen to the body when
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  Speaker 3: it goes through everything that he's going through. It's amazing
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  Speaker 3: when we see these running backs be able to sustain
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  Speaker 3: an entire season with that much production, but it's unlikely.
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  Speaker 3: And even if he doesn't get hurt, there's going to
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  Speaker 3: be fatigue at some point.
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  Speaker 2: That is why the Seahawks did what they did, not
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  Speaker 2: because of Rashid Shaheed. They had enough cash and cap
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  Speaker 2: space to sign them both, and they chose philosophically to
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  Speaker 2: go with a rookie running back on a rookie salary.
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  Speaker 2: That has backfired because Jadarian Price first fumbled and then
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  Speaker 2: got hurt. Actually got hurt first, and then he fumbled
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  Speaker 2: because he got hurt in the Arizona game week two
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  Speaker 2: and re-injured it in practice before the week four game
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  Speaker 2: against the Chargers. But that was a philosophical decision, and
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  Speaker 2: it's biting the Seahawks hard right now, and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be reminded of it all day, every day until—
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night and probably through Sunday night against Kansas City. Now,
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  Speaker 2: with Walker coming in here, the NFL leading rusher, what's
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  Speaker 2: very interesting, to say the least, about this game Sunday
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  Speaker 2: night is the Seahawks have not allowed a 100-yard rusher
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  Speaker 2: in like two and a half years. They have the
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  Speaker 2: longest streak in the NFL of consecutive games without allowing
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  Speaker 2: a 100-yard rusher. And here comes Kenneth Walker leading the league,
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  Speaker 2: averaging 100, what is it, 665 divided by 5. So
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  Speaker 2: he's averaging 110, 115-plus yards. This is going to be interesting,
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  Speaker 2: to say the least. You would think if any team
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, very few teams in the NFL have
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  Speaker 2: a head coach as intricately involved in the defense and
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  Speaker 2: the play calling and the decision making as Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: with the Seattle Seahawks, and no team in the NFL
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  Speaker 2: knows Walker better than the Seahawks do. Now, of course,
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  Speaker 2: McDonald only had him for two years, but you would
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  Speaker 2: think if anybody in the league knows how to stop
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker or what his weaknesses are, it's this one.
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  Speaker 3: He literally coached against him in practice every single day.
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  Speaker 2: Every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So that is going to be so interesting. There's no
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  Speaker 2: escaping that that is the story of the week here
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  Speaker 2: for the Seahawks and Chiefs, obviously. Kenneth Walker's return, a
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  Speaker 2: triumphant one so far for the undefeated Chiefs, while since
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  Speaker 2: he left, the Seahawks have lost as many games in
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  Speaker 2: six weeks as they did the entire 20 weeks of
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  Speaker 2: the last regular season. and postseason. We'll talk a ton
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  Speaker 2: about that all week, including today. The quarterback situations in
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  Speaker 2: our state, we're going to talk about that. Mike McDonald,
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  Speaker 2: why the Seahawks are just going with Sam Donald and
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  Speaker 2: why they set it right away up front on Friday morning.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot more going on than just who starts
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  Speaker 2: Sunday in Kansas City. This decision is really going all
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  Speaker 2: the way out to 2028, what's going on with the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks and Sam Donald right now. We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Did the Elijah Brown era just begin at Washington? DeMond Williams,
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  Speaker 2: did it end? Now, it wasn't that Elijah Brown was
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  Speaker 2: amazing in his first game. He had three interceptions on
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  Speaker 2: top of three touchdowns. But they won on the road
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten, their first Big Ten victory. And
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams sat on the sidelines with a rib injury.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: The Huskies are off this week. Jed Fish is speaking
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  Speaker 2: at 1 o'clock today on Montlake. And then that's it.
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  Speaker 2: There's no more availability anymore. And there's nothing for the
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: media else to talk about other than Elijah Brown and
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Taman Williams. Who's going to start Halloween night at Nebraska?
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: That's the question. And after the game, you'll hear what
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  Speaker 2: he told, Deadfish told Dave Softy Mahler. You'll hear from
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler himself at 11 o'clock. We're going to
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: have him on the show to talk about the quarterback situation. Yeah,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that'll be a very docile and quiet conversation.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, my brother from another mother, from another time era.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: 11 o'clock, you'll hear from Dave Softy-Mauer about the Huskies
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: quarterback situation. 11.30, we'll read back your text. We'll do talkbacks.
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  Speaker 2: It is my pick today. College went well for me. BYU. Army.
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  Speaker 4: That was a good pick.
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  Speaker 2: just was really.
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  Speaker 4: Great to see the Rams lose.
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  Speaker 2: How surprising was that?
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  Speaker 4: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: That was like 12 and a half points, I think.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I chose that one. It was 12 and
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  Speaker 3: a half.
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  Speaker 2: That was nine or 10 points more than you needed
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  Speaker 2: because the Cardinals won by two.
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  Speaker 4: I still thought that the Rams would win, just not
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  Speaker 4: by that much.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, after the Rams... Take a 16-15 lead. I know
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: that the Cardinals had time, but that pass over the middle,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: that was not targeting or helmet-to-helmet contact or any of that. No,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: it wasn't. That is just the NFL.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: These bang-bang plays, you know?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: The NFL and their officiating department is so, so, so
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: hard on these officials for contacts against defenseless receivers. It's
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: all they think about. They'll call it on a run play.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: That's all they think about.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: It's predicated on who is watching on television and the
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  Speaker 3: reaction that they're going to get.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we all know that, right?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: And it's about offense and it's about fantasy football and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: it's about wide receivers and their points and all of
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: that goes into these rules and the emphasis. It does.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Greg, it's for player safety.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Playing Thursday after a Sunday is for
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: player safety, too. Playing on artificial turf is for player safety, too.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Hey, go to London.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Go to Mexico. Go to Australia. Get cut when you're there.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: That, too. Yes, that was not at all the spirit
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: nor the letter of that law. A defenseless receiver.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: No, it wasn't.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: What is Wallace the defender to do there? Is he
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: just to let him run across his face?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: He's already in motion. And also, that's the thing.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I'm friends with former NFL players who came from a
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: different era when this wasn't the case. And I'm friends
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: with current NFL players. This is split seconds.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: We see it in slow motion on television.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: We see it over and over and over, and it
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: looks horrible when you see it. But the horrible thing
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: that we see was not the intent of the player.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: It was to do the job for which they are
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: paid for. And I just don't think that these sort
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: of rules.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yet I think that even because I've been in those
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: replay booths, too, and I see the way they're watching it,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: they're watching it in slow motion. So it looks horrible
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: to them. And sometimes, yeah, 100 percent it's wrong. But
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: these bang bang plays, what is a guy supposed to
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: do when he's already launched himself to do his job?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: A lot of those guys, some have, but a lot
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: of those guys in the booth or in the NFL
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: office in park avenue haven't played defensive football before and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: they don't have a player's thinking of how do i
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: as a defensive player what else can i do here
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: and wallace a defensive backs case for the rams's case
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: yesterday What else is he supposed to do? Let the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: guy run free over the middle of the game on
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the line? He has to close on him. It's his job.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And he avoided the contact to the helmet. He avoided
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: a helmet-to-helmet contact. He actually led with his shoulder there.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And just because the guy fell down, there was a penalty.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And he also caught the pass. So it wasn't as
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: though he dislodged the ball and affected the result of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the play. It was just... That's just one example. There
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: were others in the league, of course. There always are.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: There always are. And I'm an official, and I do
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: it at the high school level, of course, not even
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: close to the NFL. But I absolutely agree how hard
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that job is and how fast and strong and quick
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the decisions are and all that, of course. But I
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: also know the undue pressure that the NFL office places
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: on these officials to make that particular call against a
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: defenseless receiver in all situations. And those guys, their pay is–
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: contingent on listening to the officiating. I mean, their assignments,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: their playoff assignments, their bonuses for getting to be on
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: playoff crews are all determined by their ratings by these
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: guys who are pushing down these edicts from Park Avenue
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: in New York. It's so hard of a job as
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: it is, and then they get layered on top of
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: layered on top of layered of all these rules and
• 21:13
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• 21:16
  Speaker 2: reaction to the weekend. Should DeMond Williams be the starting
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: quarterback for your Washington Huskies when he is healthy, if
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the rib injury heals before they play next season? Next
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: week at Nebraska, where as Elijah Brown showed you enough,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a Big Ten road win, that he should stay. $ 4
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: million in NIL money be damned. The Cougs find the
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: new Coug fans out there. You just find your new
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: quarterback for the next four years. Now, can you keep them?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: That would be another question.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Well, that's another thing, too.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Sorry. After only one game, I bring that up.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: The pressure freshman, and he played so well. I got
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: to meet his parents. I'll tell you about that later.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: He's from Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: They came all the way from Norman, Oklahoma, to see
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  Speaker 3: their son start his first game as a Coug.
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  Speaker 2: We want to hear that story later. Up next, we're
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  Speaker 2: He didn't kick back and sit down. He did something
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• 22:08
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• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Happy Monday. We're in the studio together, and we'll do
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  Speaker 2: that again tomorrow. Then Wednesday, me and Farnessa and I
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  Speaker 2: will be out at Seahawks for the first full practice
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  Speaker 2: day of the week.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: This is like the most I've seen you.
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  Speaker 2: It is. Two days in a row now. Friday, Monday, Tuesday. Yeah. So, yeah,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: it's a lot better in person than on remote through
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  Speaker 2: a wall. But we'll do that Wednesday because that's where
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks will be practicing for their games. Well, we
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: want you there. I'll be doing that and broadcasting. live
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: from there, and then writing for 933kgr. com. If you haven't noticed,
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  Speaker 2: we have a new website. Well, it's the same website,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: but now we have a new Seahawks bent to the website,
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  Speaker 2: and I have stories that I write for 933kgr. com. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: wrote it from Denver. I'll write my daily stories this
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: week leading into the Seahawks-Chiefs game. I'll write the Chiefs
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: game and my reaction on what I heard there. Still
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: learning how to put the video on the.
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  Speaker 4: One step at a time.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I think the facts and your eloquent words are more
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  Speaker 3: important than the video.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: We'll get there.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Eloquent words. Thank you. The Seahawks were off this weekend
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and most of the guys were off just doing whatever
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and taking a mini bye. Not A.J.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Barner.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: He didn't just kick back. Barner spent his Saturday night.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: At the House That Love Built Gala, what is that?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: On Saturday night, it raised $ 1. 5 million for the Ronald
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: McDonald House of Western Washington. And Jessamyn's mouth is agape
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: because this is a really cool, really, really important charity.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of great charities across the Pacific Northwest.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: One of the best ones is the Ronald McDonald House.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I can weigh in on that, but I want you
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: to finish this story first.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Jim Zorn, A.J. Barner, and Steve Rabel auctioned items, including
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: an autographed A.J. Barner Seahawks jersey, a football signed by Barner, Rabel,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: and Zorn, and Barner's My Cause, My Cleats, which Barner
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: had designed to highlight the Ronald McDonald House. For those
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: that don't know, and if you don't know, you're lucky,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: but the Ronald McDonald House is right across the street
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: from Seattle Children's Hospital, where my wife has worked for
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: 20-plus years. And it is a place where families of
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the sick kids in the hospital say, when you go
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to Seattle Children's, sometimes you're there for days. Sometimes the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: child is there for weeks. Sometimes they're there for months.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: And sometimes they're there for years. And that costs a
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: lot of money for a life-threatening situation for your parents,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: mom and dad, who want to be there, or siblings
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: who you don't have the ability to child care for
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: if you want to be with your sick child. They
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: all go to the Ronald McDonald House. Instead of buying
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a hotel room for 35 days or 90 days or,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: heaven forbid, half a year, they stay for free at
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the Ronald McDonald House because of the money that's raised
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: on events like this that A.J. Barner went to on
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Saturday night at the House that Love Built. And you
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: talk about a house that Love Built. I've been in there,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: and it is incredible. The amount of emotional and just
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: plain everyday logistical support that they give those families. Who
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: are in the crisis of their lives. Their young one
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: is across the street in Seattle Children's. And that is
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the worst of the worst that go to Seattle Children's.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, my wife has dealt with cases from China
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: and from Hawaii. And it's serious business. And for that,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Ronald McDonald, I've told AJ Barnard this myself, how meaningful
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: a charity that is. It's somewhat overlooked. Because if you're
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: not in the situation, right, you don't know.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: You don't know.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: But what they do is they take one thing off
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the table, the ridiculous, unbelievable, overwhelming table that parents are
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: going through in this situation.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: They take that one thing. There's all distressors.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: And I've met multiple people through Leukemia and Lymphoma Society,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: now known as Blood Cancer United.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: But when I was with them, they were LLS.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: And having to stay there for six months just to
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: get their kid alive. And then you have to worry
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: about rent and going to the best doctors and everything.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: And what they do here, because we're in such a
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: medically sound city, they... Taking that off their plate. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: met people from so many different states over my years
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: working with them and just taking that one thing, just
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: taking that one thing.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Just don't worry about this.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Worry about your kid. Worry about your family. We got you.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Free lodging, often free meals that are donated from the
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: outside that come in so the families don't have to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: do that. as I said, the most stressful days and
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: weeks and nights of their lives. And then, as Jessamyn said,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: they're taking care of the day-to-day at the Ronald McDonald House.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: If you're out there and you are fortunate enough to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: have money, disposable income, to be able to give to charities,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: you could do a great service to all kinds of
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: families in need by giving to the Ronald McDonald House.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: It is an incredible charity. And it is not just,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: of course, in Seattle. It's across the country and the world.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: And during my time in charity work, I have learned
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: a lot about And, you know, Charity Watchdog, if you
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: want to see how they spend their money, they have
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: a very low overhead.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: They do a very good job.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: This isn't some money grab or anything like that. And
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: they have done so for many, many, many years. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I just want that out there as well.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: And so hats off to A.J. Barnard, Jim Zorn, to
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Steve Rabel, of course, the play-by-play announcer for the Seahawks
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: radio broadcast and former Seahawks receiver himself. But A.J. Barner
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: is a good dude. I mean, he sat down with
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: me when I sat down next to him in the
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: locker room in Denver on Thursday night after their loss.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: He was completely off the record with me just saying
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: he was just asking about my job situation with the
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: News Tribune. And he saw on Twitter that I'd been
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: laid off.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: He paid attention.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: And he asked me about it. And he said, man,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: you're not going anywhere, are you? We need to keep you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I hope you're staying. I hope you're around here. Hey, man, thanks.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: You didn't have to say that.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Unexpected conversations.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: He says, you're one of the good ones. We need
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to keep you around here. So, A.J. Barner, hats off
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to you to spend your night, Saturday night, and raising
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: awareness for the Ronald McDonald House and a great cause.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: $ 1. 5 million raised. That's awesome. If you missed the story,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: that's in one night. The Cairo7. com has the story because
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Monique Minlovin was one of the emcees of the event,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the co-anchor of Channel 7's news here in Seattle. So
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: hats off to all you people because that is a
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: fantastic charity. It's just awesome. The Seahawks, of course, now
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: have a big task on their hands on the field
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: on Sunday night. when they play the undefeated Kenneth Walkers
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: of Kansas City. National pregame shows across the NFL yesterday
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: all talking about whether the Seahawks should be replacing Sam
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Darnold with Drew Lockett, quarterback. Seven interceptions in the last
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: three games. Ten sacks the last two games for Darnold.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Since he returned from that glute injury in week three
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: in Washington, the Seahawks have lost three games. That's as
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: many games, of course, as they lost all last season
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: through 20 weeks of the regular season and the playoffs. Locke,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: by the way, was the NFL's second-rated passer in the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: two games that he played and won while Darnold was injured.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And that, of course, sparked a lot of online and
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: in the bars and barbershop talk around the weekend here
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: in Seattle about making Locke the new quarterback. But Mike
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: McDonald had none of it. This is what he said online.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: just hours after the game ended in Denver, the next morning,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: in fact, he made it a point. It was just telling,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: it was underscoring the context of this. He said it
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: in his first public availability that he could say after
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: coming back from Denver, he didn't want the players to
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: wait the entire weekend and find out and wonder what
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the locker room wondering what they're going to do a quarterback.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, McDonald could have easily said, Oh, we're everyone's competing.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: We're going to evaluate everything that happens all the time.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: He did not say that. He was pretty clear in
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: making sure that his first public message on Friday, so
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: that there's no dispute and there was no question in
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the player's mind all the way up into this week.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: He was pretty clear about what his decision was. And
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: it was about Sam Darnold as our quarterback.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: Mike, on the last interception, what did you see looking
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: back on it? And how would you just describe your performance?
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: confidence level right now and Sam and us also his
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: confidence level because it feels like that's pretty important for
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: that position.
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah I think I think it's a similar answer to
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: what I was what I told Brian was I think
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: there's things that we can all do to help Sam
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: play better football and we trust Sam we believe in
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: him and we feel like we feel like he's definitely
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: part of a solution you know in terms of us
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: playing better football on offense and at quarterback Seahawks style
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: offense that uh we all envisioned.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: When hi mike what you say sam's uh best chance
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: of a solution he's you believe he's part of solution
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: what about sam's game makes him the solution what are
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: the traits that you're now trying to draw of an
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: attack that you're not getting right now.
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: Well i mean you guys have been here over the
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: last two years we just won a world championship with
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: them um We believe in the guy.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: We see him every day.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: We see what he does.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: We see the plays he's been able to make.
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: We see the actual talent.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: All those things.
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: That's where my mind is.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a good reminder from Mike McDonald is he just
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl eight months ago. We're not cutting
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: bait on him yet. And That was what he wanted
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: to say on Friday so that the locker room had
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: no question over the weekend while they didn't do anything
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday that the message was clear. This is
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: our guy. Jessamyn, I think the bigger story here is
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: what is the story with Sam Darnold and the Seahawks
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: beyond his contract ending now? His contract ends after 2027.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: And Drew Locks does too.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Drew Locks ends this year.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: This year.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Correct. And Sam Darnold's ends next year. And of course the- M.O.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: for John Schneider in his 17 years as general manager
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: has been to give new contract extensions going into the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: final years of Guy's deals, and that will be Darnold
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: next year. It will be the third year. When I
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: asked Schneider at the Combine in Indianapolis in March, hey,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: what about Sam Darnold's contract? He just won a Super Bowl.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: He said, well, Greg, this is year two. He hasn't
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: even had year two of his three-year deal. You understand
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: it's a three-year deal, right?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: The implication was clear is that we don't do this
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: until the entering the final year of his contract. Well,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: that's next summer. I am. I have not talked to
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: John Schneider about this. Schneider hasn't talked publicly since summer.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: It's been a little quiet. For a boisterous human.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: We don't get. Well, he's not quiet, but he's quiet
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: with us because we don't get a lot of access
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: to him at Seahawks, but the media and the beat writers.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: But I'm sure that he's got some pause now over.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Do I want to pay– the going
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: rate for him will be $ 50 million or more next year.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, but we've also seen him go elsewhere, and he
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: has not been successful anywhere but here.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Well, he was that one year in Minnesota, 14-3 with
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: 3,500 yards.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, okay. I'm just saying to the point of success.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: He's never won like he has here. But which Sam
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Darnold is he? Is he the one from Minnesota in
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: 2024 and Seattle in 2025? Or is he the one
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: that led the NFL in turnovers last regular season and
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: is leading it this season in only three games, four games?
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: It is a valid question of how much do they
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: want to commit beyond 2027 to a quarterback who continues
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: to lead the league in turnovers?
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Well, when they clearly need to shore up their running
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: back situation.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Well, that would sure help. And That has nothing to
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: do with Sam Darnold, but it has everything to do
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: with Sam Darnold's productivity.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying like where allocation goes.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean– but we see an organizational philosophy that
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: they're not going to spend big bucks, no whammies on
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: running backs. They are going to do that at other positions,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: including quarterback, but not a running back. And that's why
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: they drafted DeJarion Price because now he'd be under rookie deal–
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: rookie contract for three years after this one with a
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: fifth-year option. But Sam Darnold's contract ending next year has
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: a whole different hue now, doesn't it? A month and
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: a half ago, it would have been a no-brainer. They're
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: going to re-sign him for $ 50 million well into the 2030s.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: He's only 29 years old. Let's go. We're set at quarterback.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Now the guy who's won your two starts and been spotless,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the second-ranked passer in the league when he was playing,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Drew Locke, now his contract ends at the end of
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the season. And the guy who you have under contract
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: for next year that you were planning on giving an
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: extension to has seven interceptions in three games. I mean,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: four games, I guess, if you count the Washington game.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: There is for sure pause to say this is not
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: an automatic that it was even in August. And that,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: to me, is the bigger story here. Not who's going
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: to start against Kansas City. But what is this doing
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: to the Seahawks' long-term play? Are we saying, is there
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: anyone that would stand up and say Jalen Milrow is
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: the quarterback of the future here? There's nothing to suggest that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I think Sam's got it. He's just not there right now.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people agree with you. And so far,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks do as well. This will be another test
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: on Sunday night against the unbeaten Chiefs, who aren't just
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: doing it just from Sam Lawton.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: They're due for a big fat L.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Aren't you just because of Kenneth Walker? They have a
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: defense that, well, I know the Chargers are just wayward
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: on offense right now, but they held them to six
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: points yesterday. Mike McDaniel might lose his job as the
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: play caller. Jim Harbaugh wasn't very great about saying, yeah,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: we're all good on offense because they're not. They just
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: scored six points.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: Jim Harbaugh?
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Odd in the media?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: What? Yeah, he made people in L.A. think that Mike
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: McDaniel might not be around long.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: Up next.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Huskies quarterback situation. Is Elijah Brown
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: the man now? What about the $ 4 million in NIL
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: money they spent on DeMond Williams, the guy who was
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: there on the sidelines in West Lafayette, Indiana, Dave Softy
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Mahler with the Huskies in their win over Purdue on
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Friday night? Ask Jed Fish that question. Who's next, a quarterback?
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: You'll hear his answer next, Jed Fish's answer to that next,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: and we'll talk about the Huskies quarterback situation on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 37:32
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• 37:36
  Speaker 2: He's going to go into the open field.
• 37:38
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• 37:41
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• 37:49
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• 37:50
  Speaker 2: KJR FM. That's right, 5-15 tonight. We've got Commanders at
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: 49ers in Santa Clara from Kevin Harlan and Westwood 1.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks could sure use the Commanders doing what the
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Commanders did to them, which is win. They only have
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: one win this season, 1-3-1 the Commanders, and it's against
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks in a 5-0.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Go fighting, Dan Quinns.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: San Francisco team, yeah. An upset tonight would put the
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Seahawks two games behind. The 49ers, not counting the fact
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: that they lost to San Francisco, they do play them
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: again next month in Santa Clara. But it would help
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: to be two games back instead of three. But one
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: can only hope.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: I can't say out loud the texts I said to
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: my friends who work for the Commanders and play for them,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: but I would just say, go get them.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: The Washington Huskies won a Big Ten game on Friday night.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: They went to West Lafayette, Indiana, and beat Purdue. They
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: had a new quarterback doing it, Elijah Brown. This is
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: what it sounded like on KJR from Elyse Woodward, Cam Cleland,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: and Dave Softy-Moller.
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: A shift in formation, heavy on the right side now
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: for Brown, trying to punch it in in a scoreless
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: game here on the road. Short pass right side to Graff, potted,
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: and he rolls into.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: The end zone.
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: Washington, touchdown on the board. They score first here in
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: the first quarter at Purdue. The Huskies have to get
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: to the one-yard line to get a first down.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Bonner, quick toss right side.
• 39:22
  Speaker 10: He's gone to the 10 and into the end zone.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Down the right side, it is Bonner.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: With the catch for the touchdown. His first as a Husky.
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: It is a 25-yard reception for the true.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Freshman, Brian Bonner.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Bonner on the right hip. Brown takes the shotgun snap.
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: Hand off Bonner, and he is into the end zone.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: A Washington touchdown. The crowd booing.
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: The Huskies around us clapping. It is another touchdown here
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: in the first half, 23-17.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Big start for the Huskies and a running game, at
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: least a rushing touchdown from the freshman running back. Yeah,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: that's what they've lacked most of the season. Elijah Brown
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: was 21 of 27 for 302 yards, three touchdowns, did
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: have three interceptions, but they won their first Big Ten
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: game with Brown starting. Brown, of course, the transfer from Stanford.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: This was his first start for Washington, and they scored
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: 24 points against a FBS opponent, football bowl subdivision, meaning
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: the top level, for the first time all year.
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: Hmm.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Williams is on the sideline with a rib injury and
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: six starts, three losses. He's the 105th ranked passer in
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: major college football. But he's getting $ 4 million in NIL money,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: some of which raised by private donors. That is now
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: a factor. It's just like NFL. Wait a minute. Who
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: are you paying? That is a factor here. Because here's
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: the deal. And we're going to talk to Dave Softy-Moller,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: who was in West Lafayette. We're going to talk to
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: him at 11 o'clock. And one of the questions I'm
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: going to ask is how much of a factor is,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: because it is a factor of how much you're paying
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: this guy, because you're going to ask those same donors
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: next year for more money to shake them down for
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: somebody else.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: I had a lot of people reaching out to me
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: with our own situation at Washington State wondering that same thing.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Such as?
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Why wasn't Caden Pinnock benched prior? Because he has an
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: NIL deal and I had people asking me and I'm like,
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know the intricacies of that. I can't tell,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: but people wanted to see him sooner than, or I'm sorry,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: they wanted to see Eshelman sooner than they did in,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: you know, six games. And I didn't look at it
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: that way because I'm always focused on the field. And
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I thought that, Penick had a chance, and we couldn't
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: get the running game going. The offensive line, all returners,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: by the way, they couldn't really protect him. I know
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: he's smaller than Eshelman, but a lot of people wanted
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: to know if that was the situation.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: And I can't speak to it, but it's a question.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: It's totally part of the calculus, because you just asked
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: donors to give money to the starting quarterback, and then
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: you're going to not play him. Those are the same
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: donors you're going to go back to for more money
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: for the next quarterback.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: I feel so bad for coaches in this situation right now.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: I just, I can't stand it.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: A lot of them are leaving.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: I cannot stand it.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: A lot of them are leaving.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Chris Peterson saw the writing on the wall. He was
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: the first one to really see it.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: There were many others like him, but yes, there are coaches,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: mostly old school coaches who've been around a while who
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: are like, I'm out. I don't, Chris Peterson is a
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: good example of that.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: He was the first that was notable like that. Yes.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go there. My whole job being
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: to re-recruit the players I already have on my team
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: and go shake down boosters for more money for a
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: new quarterback if you just ask them for money for
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: $ 4 million for DeMond Williams?
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Coach to coach.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm sorry, I'm very passionate about this.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Now the situation is, when a guy does well unexpectedly
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: off the bench, how do you pay to keep him?
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: If Elijah Brown keeps winning Big Ten games, he needs
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: an NIL deal to stay, or else somebody else will
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: take him. Eshelman, if Eshelman does what he did at
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Oregon State on national television again, then those in the
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Palouse are going to have to start raising money to
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: keep him. After they had raised money to get panic
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: from UC Davis. And it's crazy.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: I can't stand it.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: You can't even enjoy as a college fan. You can't
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: even enjoy a great performance by an Eshelman without a
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Coug fan going, uh-oh, how are we going to keep him?
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: It's literally what I was thinking after the game.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: With justification. Look at Mateer. Mateer has a great season.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: In old college football, you'd be like, wow, the Cougs
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: are set for years at quarterback.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: When Cam Ward was flailing, that question came up as well. Correct.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Because he was the first NIL guy that Wazoo had.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: And so we were like, wait a minute here.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: He's kind of got something here. And why did we
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: not see him? I can't answer that question because I
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to get into this
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: question with Dave Softy Mahler, who was on the sidelines
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: at Purdue. Is Elijah Brown the guy? Now, remember, the
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Huskies have a week off. They're a bye week. And
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: then next week, they go at Nebraska. He asked Jed
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Fish after the game on Friday night at Purdue, who's
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: your quarterback for Nebraska in two weeks? You'll hear the
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: coach's answer to that. And we'll talk to Dave Softy
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Mahler live on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. And we'll talk
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: about this issue and about the NIL money and about
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the donor fatigue. That's next on 93.3 KJRFM. Kudos to
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: our man Dave Softy Mahler for getting right to the
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: chase after the Huskies beat Purdue on Friday night, asking
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: the question that Husky fans want answered right now, even
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: though they don't play this week. Who will be the
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: quarterback when Washington plays Nebraska on Halloween? DeMond Williams makes
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: $ 4 million in NIL money. That's not an insignificant factor here.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: But he's also a 105th-ranked passer in college football through
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: six starts, three of them losses. First three games in
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten were losses with DeMond Williams. He had
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: a rib injury. Enter Elijah Brown, the transfer from Stanford.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Throws three touchdown passes. Did throw three interceptions. Washington gets
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: its first win in the Big Ten and scores 24
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: points against an FBS opponent for the first time all
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: year with Elijah Brown, a quarterback. So Dave Softy Mahler
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: asked the question at all Husky fans. wanted answered you
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: didn't get it answered then dave what do you think
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: is really where they're headed hello sir.
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: I'm pissed off man how dare jed not answer my
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: question in the seconds after a big win over purdue
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: you know uh i'm not surprised he said that and
• 45:49
  Speaker 11: frankly at today's press conference at one o'clock he's going
• 45:52
  Speaker 11: to be asked again who's going to start in nebraska
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: i won't answer today if i were him either no
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: I would just let Nebraska prepare for both guys.
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: Why not? Because you've got two.
• 46:00
  Speaker 11: Quarterbacks that are totally different, right, in style between DeMond
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: Williams and Elijah Brown. I mean, one guy's tall, one
• 46:07
  Speaker 11: guy's short, one guy runs, one guy doesn't. I would
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: let the Cornhuskers, because they've got to buy two, right,
• 46:14
  Speaker 11: this week before they play UW next Saturday. I'd make
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: them get ready for both quarterbacks. So I would not
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: say a damn thing if I'm Jed Fish.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Who do you think actually takes the field Halloween night
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: against Nebraska?
• 46:25
  Speaker 11: I think it's going to be Elijah Brown, to be
• 46:27
  Speaker 11: honest with you.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: I just think he's earned it.
• 46:29
  Speaker 11: I think the offense, you know, my whole thing going
• 46:31
  Speaker 11: into the game on Friday night was, look, I get
• 46:33
  Speaker 11: that it's Purdue. They're 114th in the country in total defense.
• 46:37
  Speaker 11: They're 119th in scoring defense. They're 94th in rushing defense.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Blah, blah, blah.
• 46:42
  Speaker 11: But this offense just needs to look competent, right? I mean,
• 46:46
  Speaker 11: I don't care who you're playing. When you're as bad
• 46:48
  Speaker 11: as they've been, and you mentioned the numbers there, Greg,
• 46:50
  Speaker 11: for DeMond Williams, you know, his ranking across the country.
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: When you're 90th in scoring offense, or excuse me, total
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: offense in college football, when you're 88th in scoring offense
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: in year three for Jed Fish, who's an offensive guy,
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: you just needed to come out and look like you
• 47:06
  Speaker 11: knew what the hell you were doing, right?
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: And I think they at least showed that at times
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: against Purdue.
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: Had some interceptions, obviously, but, you know, that's a guy
• 47:13
  Speaker 11: making his first start at UW on the road in
• 47:15
  Speaker 11: a fairly... Hostile environment. I don't know if it came
• 47:18
  Speaker 11: across on TV, but the Husky sideline is literally right
• 47:21
  Speaker 11: next to the Purdue student section. And they were yelling
• 47:24
  Speaker 11: stuff and throwing stuff the entire game at that UW sideline, man. So,
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: I mean, it kind of reminded me of one of
• 47:30
  Speaker 11: those crazy gyms in the movie Hoosiers right back in
• 47:32
  Speaker 11: the day from 40 years ago. Just getting the hell
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: out of there and looking like they had a clue
• 47:38
  Speaker 11: as to what they were doing offensively was at least
• 47:40
  Speaker 11: a step in the right direction compared to where they've
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: been the last maybe five or six weeks, huh?
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And that may be as any justification as any
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: for Elijah Brown, our quarterback. By the way, in the
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: last hour, the Big Ten announced their television schedule for
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: that weekend. And Halloween, it'll be 5 p.m. our time,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Washington at Nebraska on the Big Ten Network.
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: Seven o'clock out there. So another get home at two
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning. So whatever.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: I don't miss those.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: So labor of love, pal. Labor of love.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I remember those Tucson trips on a Saturday night game
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: were always fun. Let me ask you something I brought
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: up last segment, which fascinates me. I teach, as you know,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: at the University of Washington, the Athletic Leadership Department. I
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: teach coaches and athletic directors and administrators. And an issue
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: that they are really, really diving into is this NIL
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: money and donor fatigue. And that They just gave $ 4
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: million to DeMond Williams. They had the whole LSU fiasco.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: How much of a factor is that in Jed Fisher?
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: He won't admit it, but Jed Fisher's thinking is, we
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: just shook down donors and gave some of the department's
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: revenues to our starting quarterback. Do I keep him on
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: the bench? And then I got to go back to
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: those same donors and ask for more money for Elijah Brown, perhaps,
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: if he plays well?
• 48:54
  Speaker 11: I guess it just depends on the way it's all
• 48:57
  Speaker 11: set up, right? Like if you can prove to me
• 49:00
  Speaker 11: that somebody out there owns a business, a car dealership, restaurant, whatever,
• 49:05
  Speaker 11: and that guy stepped up and gave money directly to
• 49:09
  Speaker 11: Washington that he wanted earmarked to keep DeMond Williams in Seattle,
• 49:13
  Speaker 11: and that guy's irritated that DeMond's getting benched, and that
• 49:16
  Speaker 11: guy's a whale that you want to get more money
• 49:18
  Speaker 11: out of later on down the road I mean, that
• 49:20
  Speaker 11: could open up some problematic situations, I think, for a
• 49:23
  Speaker 11: college football team. But keep in mind, and if you're
• 49:26
  Speaker 11: a teacher, then you know this, that UW's got $ 20
• 49:29
  Speaker 11: million to spend in-house on athletes. And 15 of that
• 49:33
  Speaker 11: or so, 14 of that's going to football. So that
• 49:35
  Speaker 11: may not necessarily be coming from one individual.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: No, it probably isn't.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 11: It's only a problem when emotions get in the way, right?
• 49:43
  Speaker 11: Like if this is just money from the House settlement
• 49:45
  Speaker 11: that's coming straight from Washington– and the $ 4 million was
• 49:49
  Speaker 11: pulled from that to pay DeMond Williams, and he's making,
• 49:51
  Speaker 11: you know, half a million bucks or whatever it is
• 49:54
  Speaker 11: in change from some NIL deal somewhere else.
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: Okay, fine.
• 49:57
  Speaker 11: But if you start allowing individual donors to dictate who
• 50:01
  Speaker 11: they want their money spent on and how much playing
• 50:03
  Speaker 11: time these guys want to get, and if you especially
• 50:05
  Speaker 11: need these guys down the road to pony up more cash, then, yeah,
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: that could be an issue. I mean, to me, look, Greg,
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: I'll just say this. If I'm a Husky fan and
• 50:14
  Speaker 11: I'm paying money for DeMond Williams specifically, I'm not going
• 50:17
  Speaker 11: to tell Jet Fish you're playing him because I'm paying him.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: I'm still telling him play the best guy. End of story. Right.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: And my understanding of most NIL deals is that they're
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: not earmarked for specific players. They just go into a
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: pool of money.
• 50:29
  Speaker 11: Well, the NIL, I mean, what was NIL supposed to
• 50:33
  Speaker 11: be all about? NIL was supposed to be about, I'm
• 50:36
  Speaker 11: hiring you to endorse a product for me.
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: End of story. I mean, the house money is money
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: that the schools are paying athletes to play for the school.
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: That's it. Period.
• 50:45
  Speaker 11: There's no commercial endorsement, you know, attached to that to
• 50:49
  Speaker 11: taco time or you know, Beery and Toyota or, you know, whatever.
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: This is money that's on the payroll. It's on the
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: salary cap. It's in the budget to pay guys.
• 50:57
  Speaker 11: So, to me, it's a sunk cost at this point,
• 50:59
  Speaker 11: and I would really hope that that would not make
• 51:01
  Speaker 11: a difference whatsoever in Jed Fish's decision. Whatever gives him
• 51:05
  Speaker 11: a best chance to beat Nebraska, because this is a
• 51:07
  Speaker 11: different animal now. I mean, they went to Purdue and
• 51:09
  Speaker 11: they faced the 94th best rushing defense in college football,
• 51:13
  Speaker 11: and they had a great day on the ground. Well,
• 51:15
  Speaker 11: Nebraska's 23rd. They went to Purdue and they played the
• 51:18
  Speaker 11: 114th best total defense in the country. And they put
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: up 38 points. Well, now Nebraska's 11th, right? So this
• 51:25
  Speaker 11: is a totally different animal defensively what they'll see on
• 51:28
  Speaker 11: next Saturday in Lincoln.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: What else encouraged you about the– you mentioned the running game.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: We talked about Elijah Brown. What else encouraged you about
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: that win?
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: The fact that Feme Ijeboy went for a buck 95
• 51:38
  Speaker 11: on Minnesota and went for 19 yards on us.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: That was pretty cool to see.
• 51:42
  Speaker 11: I think we can look back for now, and this
• 51:45
  Speaker 11: may change against Nebraska.
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: It may change against Penn State. Who knows?
• 51:49
  Speaker 11: And we can look at that Iowa game and just
• 51:51
  Speaker 11: circle it with like big red Sharpie ink and just
• 51:56
  Speaker 11: say that's an outlier. That's a sore thumb. That never
• 51:59
  Speaker 11: happened against UW last year. It really never happened against
• 52:02
  Speaker 11: UW even when Steve Belichick was here. That's an outlier, right?
• 52:06
  Speaker 11: That is an absolute sore thumb type of game for UW.
• 52:10
  Speaker 11: What happened that night?
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: I mean, you know, they got pretty good running backs
• 52:13
  Speaker 11: in Iowa.
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: Their defensive and offensive line were shoving us around in
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: that game. But the longer this goes without that happening again.
• 52:21
  Speaker 11: you can go back and look at the Iowa game
• 52:23
  Speaker 11: and say that was kind of a freak thing that
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: happened against Iowa. But I think when you get a
• 52:27
  Speaker 11: guy like Ejaboy, who was the Big Ten Offensive Player
• 52:30
  Speaker 11: of the Week, and he ran for 195 yards, and
• 52:33
  Speaker 11: then he comes back the next Friday and goes for
• 52:34
  Speaker 11: 19 yards. I mean, Purdue ran for 300, Greg, on
• 52:38
  Speaker 11: the Gophers two weeks ago, and they ran for 95,
• 52:41
  Speaker 11: whatever it was, on UW. So that, to me, was
• 52:44
  Speaker 11: pretty cool to see that defense bounce back after that
• 52:46
  Speaker 11: train wreck against the Hawkeyes.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: The Tacoma Dodge Tech sign, 49451, two different– Texters, our
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: friend Keith from the 253 and another 253. Yeah, your boy.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Somehow Jed will get both quarterbacks on the field for sure.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: And the other 253 says have split quarterbacks like they
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: run at Utah could be extremely effective.
• 53:02
  Speaker 11: I just don't think there's any reason to do any
• 53:04
  Speaker 11: of that right now.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, why would you not just roll with Elijah Brown?
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: He put up 38 points.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:09
  Speaker 11: I mean, he had a career high in passing yards,
• 53:11
  Speaker 11: matches a career high in touchdowns. The offense looked functional.
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: It looked like there was some flow there to the offense.
• 53:17
  Speaker 11: Guys were getting involved. You're running the ball. You had
• 53:20
  Speaker 11: a threat of a passing attack that really kind of
• 53:22
  Speaker 11: opened up the run game a little bit against Purdue.
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: And he threw from the pocket, too. He threw from
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: the pocket.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Which is what has been DeMond Williams' problem, right?
• 53:29
  Speaker 11: He looks like a serviceable guy. You watch Elijah Brown throw,
• 53:32
  Speaker 11: and the guy looks like a legit arm in college football.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, if you want to put DeMond Williams at
• 53:38
  Speaker 11: tailback and then the slot or whatever and run some
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: Jet sweeps, I guess fine. But, I mean, there's no
• 53:43
  Speaker 11: need to play both of them right now. And he
• 53:45
  Speaker 11: might do that. I mean, Jet may not be able
• 53:46
  Speaker 11: to help himself, honestly, in this game against Nebraska. He
• 53:50
  Speaker 11: may go out there and put number one out there
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: with number seven. But I just think, you know, we
• 53:54
  Speaker 11: went into the game, at least for me, telling myself
• 53:57
  Speaker 11: Elijah Brown's got a chance to win the job.
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: And I think he won the job on Friday.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler, who was in West Lafayette, Indiana. By
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: the way... your first time there, I assumed?
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: Yes, first time there. There's nothing there.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: There is nothing there.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: Period.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: It is flat and nothing there.
• 54:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah, we actually stayed in Indianapolis on Thursday night, and
• 54:15
  Speaker 11: then we drove in on Friday afternoon, so we watched
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: the Seahawks game at a bar in Indy with a
• 54:20
  Speaker 11: bunch of Seahawks fans that were also Dawg fans that
• 54:22
  Speaker 11: were there, but it's funny, man, there's a lot of
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: backwater places in the Big Ten. I mean, I know
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: there's a couple in the Pac-12, Oregon State, Wazoo, whatever,
• 54:29
  Speaker 11: but Getting to West Lafayette is kind of a pain
• 54:31
  Speaker 11: in the ass. Getting to Lansing is kind of a
• 54:33
  Speaker 11: pain in the ass. Getting to Penn State, definitely a
• 54:35
  Speaker 11: pain in the ass. So it's not all fun and games, man,
• 54:38
  Speaker 11: with these Big Ten locations.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that.
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: Well, Kansas State was lovely.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Manhattan, a little apple. Tell me what time you got home.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: The game ended at what, like 1130? Yes.
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: I walked.
• 54:49
  Speaker 11: I will check my text messages to my wife on
• 54:52
  Speaker 11: Saturday morning. I walked into the house at 4.55 a.m.
• 54:55
  Speaker 11: There you go.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: It was good.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: Like I said, labor of love, man.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. Those night games, road games, I'd miss Tucson.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I wasn't coming from West Lafayette, Indiana, though. That's a
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: good one.
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you about the Seahawks. And, yeah, where
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: do we start? But we start with the quarterback, of course.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Do you understand why Mike McDonald came out as he
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: did so unequivocally that Sam Donald's the guy on Friday?
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: And you think that's the right move?
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: Totally. Totally.
• 55:26
  Speaker 11: Because I think if you bench Sam Darnold, I think
• 55:29
  Speaker 11: you're going to Drew Locke for the rest of the year,
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: if not for a while. I mean, you're not going
• 55:33
  Speaker 11: to flip-flop. I mean, this isn't high school football.
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: It's not college. It's ridiculous.
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: I mean, if you bench Sam Darnold for Drew Locke,
• 55:40
  Speaker 11: you've got to allow Drew Locke to pick up some momentum.
• 55:43
  Speaker 11: You've got to allow Drew Locke to get some steam going.
• 55:45
  Speaker 11: You've got to allow the offense to get some comfort
• 55:47
  Speaker 11: with him. So I just think you better be damn careful, man,
• 55:50
  Speaker 11: if you make that move with Sam because it feels
• 55:52
  Speaker 11: like if you make the move with Sam, you might
• 55:54
  Speaker 11: be making the move with Sam forever, if not at
• 55:56
  Speaker 11: least for a large majority of this season, meaning if
• 56:00
  Speaker 11: things just go totally south and totally haywire down the
• 56:03
  Speaker 11: road with Drew Locke, you could then maybe go back
• 56:05
  Speaker 11: to Sam Darnold. But there's nothing worse to me. then
• 56:08
  Speaker 11: a head coach who can't make up his mind and
• 56:10
  Speaker 11: flip-flops back and forth between quarterbacks. So I think Sam
• 56:14
  Speaker 11: Darnold's earned it. I mean, the guy won the damn
• 56:17
  Speaker 11: Super Bowl for crying out loud. He was money against
• 56:19
  Speaker 11: the Rams in the NFC Championship, and they got no
• 56:22
  Speaker 11: running game to speak of whatsoever. Their offensive line looks
• 56:25
  Speaker 11: like they're not progressing but regressing from where they were
• 56:29
  Speaker 11: a year ago. I think that's kind of the biggest
• 56:31
  Speaker 11: surprise for me in some ways, Greg, is that offensive line. Like,
• 56:34
  Speaker 11: I really thought, you know, going from last year to
• 56:36
  Speaker 11: this year, bringing everybody back for the first time since
• 56:38
  Speaker 11: 04 to 05, that they'd be dominant.
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: And they're not dominant at all.
• 56:43
  Speaker 11: I mean, how many times did Darnold get popped in
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: that game?
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: 17 times.
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: That's ridiculous. And how many times did Bo Nix get hit?
• 56:51
  Speaker 6: Not even nearly as much, right?
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: No, not at all.
• 56:52
  Speaker 11: In that game on Thursday. So, I just, again, you
• 56:55
  Speaker 11: better be damn sure. Before you make that move that
• 56:59
  Speaker 11: you've lost Sam Darnold and that Darnold's not going to
• 57:02
  Speaker 11: climb out of this before you make that call. Because
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: when you do make it, you're probably making it for
• 57:06
  Speaker 11: the rest.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: Of the year.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: And here's the thing. Now you have a Darnold decision
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: this time next year. Actually, more like next summer when
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: his contract's ending. Correct. And I think that's the bigger
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: issue here is they've got a decision to make on
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: who their quarterback is beyond. He's only 29.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe they aren't paying $ 50 million a year anymore.
• 57:24
  Speaker 11: You might even have a decision in March of this
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: coming season. I mean, they extended Witherspoon and JSN with
• 57:31
  Speaker 11: two years left. I know one of the years was
• 57:34
  Speaker 11: the fifth-year deal, right?
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: That's right, the fifth-year option.
• 57:36
  Speaker 11: But they don't like to wait and make a quarterback
• 57:39
  Speaker 11: go into a free agent year without any kind of
• 57:42
  Speaker 11: idea what his future is going to look like. Yeah,
• 57:44
  Speaker 11: they're probably seven, six months away from maybe having to
• 57:48
  Speaker 11: make some kind of a decision on Sam. So I'd
• 57:51
  Speaker 11: play him for now, but obviously there's a breaking point.
• 57:54
  Speaker 11: He goes out and looks terrible again against Kansas City
• 57:56
  Speaker 11: and throws four more interceptions. Then we've got to have
• 57:59
  Speaker 11: a conversation about who's going to start that Bears game.
• 58:02
  Speaker 11: But I'd give him at least one more start, man.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: How about you? I think he's going to start for
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: the remainder of the season. Come hell or high water,
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: I really do. And that's because of the decision they
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: have to make in the next spring. Now you've got
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: a shorter show today because we've got Commanders 49ers tonight
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: from EQC. What do you got going on there?
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: That's a big one, right? We're all Commanders fans. Do
• 58:21
  Speaker 11: you agree with me that at this point, if you're
• 58:23
  Speaker 11: a Niner fan, it would be a bit of a
• 58:25
  Speaker 11: choke job to not win the division?
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Three-game lead.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: Ten to go after tonight.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: Because they're going to be 6-0. They'll win tonight, right?
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: We want them to choke?
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: Yes, that's why I'm bringing it up.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: It would be an absolute choke job.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, especially on the Rams. There's a name for it.
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: There's a name for it, Jess, but I'm not going
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: to mention it.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: I don't do dare.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: I know exactly what you're saying.
• 58:47
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that would be a huge choke job by them
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: to not win the West, man, after the start they've
• 58:55
  Speaker 11: gotten off to. And we'll talk to Hugh about that.
• 58:58
  Speaker 11: We'll get Hugh's thoughts on the Darnold-Locke thing. We'll get
• 59:00
  Speaker 11: his thoughts on, obviously, Elijah Brown versus DeMond Williams and Did.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: You guys see this Jalen Hurts story that just came out?
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: We talked about it.
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: What the hell are the Eagles doing?
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you get blood clots in your lungs,
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: that has to do with the heart and all kinds
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: of stuff going on there.
• 59:15
  Speaker 11: Right, but the angle is that apparently they told him
• 59:19
  Speaker 11: not to sleep.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Did you see that? No, I don't know that part
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: And so before their game over the weekend, he was
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: up for 36 hours.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: There are certain things when it comes.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: With pulmonary things, and he should just not have been playing.
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: Exactly. They told him, don't sleep.
• 59:37
  Speaker 11: It's too dangerous to sleep with your blood clots, so
• 59:40
  Speaker 11: they keep him up on purpose. Remember in, what was
• 59:43
  Speaker 11: the movie with Malcolm McDowell? Jess may not know, but
• 59:46
  Speaker 11: you're old enough like me, Greg, to remember. when they
• 59:48
  Speaker 11: were pulling his eyes open. Oh, it was, God, what
• 59:51
  Speaker 11: the hell was.
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: The name of the movie?
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're so good at this usually.
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: With Malcolm McDowell. Come on, somebody will text in. Somebody knows.
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: Somebody knows. A Clockwork Orange.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: A Clockwork Orange.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: A Clockwork Orange. Oh, gosh, the torture movie?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 11: And they were pulling his eyes open on purpose.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: Remember that, to keep him open?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: That's like what the Eagles were doing to Darnold, or
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: to Hertz. And then they went, and then they told
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: him to go out and start a football game. I mean,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: people should be fired over there for that. That's crazy.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: That's very medically unsound.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: Unbelievable.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: When at all costs. That's crazy.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: No, that's really bad. And that's really not good advice.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: My mother had a pulmonary embolism and was completely taken
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: care of in a very different way.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Did they play? Where was their game this last weekend,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: by the way?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: They were home.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: They were home.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: They lost it to the Panthers.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 11: Tom Pelissero is saying that he was in the hospital
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: until 4 a.m.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: And did not sleep because sleep was a risk.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 11: Despite being up for roughly 36 hours, he played the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 11: entire game against Jacksonville.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: And they played him.
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  Speaker 6: That is unbelievable, man. Anyway, we'll talk to Hugh about that.
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  Speaker 11: I know that Hugh has been up for 36 hours,
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That Jacksonville game was at Jacksonville, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: This past weekend they were home.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. We'll hear from, what, 3 until 5.15?
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  Speaker 11: 3 until 5 or so at the Emerald Queen before
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you. Dave Softy Mahler on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline
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  Speaker 2: giving us the rundown of what went down in Purdue
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  Speaker 2: on Friday when he thinks Elijah Brown earned his right
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams with much more of a running thread. Elijah
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  Speaker 2: Brown in the little I watched of the Purdue game
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  Speaker 2: looked very good out of the pocket, which has been
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams' biggest problem. It's still bugging me as a— if
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  Speaker 2: I'm following the Huskies, hoping they win— That they had
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams at USC with the game on the line,
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  Speaker 2: the final two plays, third and fourth down, passing from
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know exactly where it's for them, but
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Brown looks much more. He's taller. You can see
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: over the line and across the middle. And he looks
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: much more like a pocket passer, which allows you to
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: play much more of the offense. And Dave Softy Mahler
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  Speaker 2: just telling us he thinks Elijah Brown's going to start
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: for Washington in their next game, October 31st. If you
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  Speaker 5: Barner for what he did for the Ronald McDonald post.
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  Speaker 7: Cut to crap with Sam Darnold. He's our starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: The problem is, and I'll be Captain Obvious here, we
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  Speaker 7: need to have a better offensive line protecting the man
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  Speaker 7: you go.
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  Speaker 3: See how, fans, you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't need old.
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  Speaker 1: Let him pass.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like he was at, like, 30,000 feet with
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: There's some truth to the offensive line being subpar performance
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  Speaker 2: compared to last year. A lot of people pointing fingers
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  Speaker 2: the running backs that Clint Kubiak had last year. Same
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  Speaker 2: offensive line with different running backs. That is a factor
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  Speaker 2: as well. They don't have their number one draft pick
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: that was supposed to be Kenneth Walker's replacement. He's on
• 1:05:26
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  Speaker 2: And we don't know definitively when Jadarian Price is coming
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  Speaker 2: back for sure yet.
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  Speaker 4: No, we do not.
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  Speaker 2: He has the upper rib injuries, what his GM has
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're hoping that this nine days in between games
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  Speaker 2: which is pretty cool. It's the House That Love Built gala.
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  Speaker 2: That was here locally for $ 1.
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  Speaker 2: He included in the auction items were the Ronald McDonald
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, should we clarify a little bit about that? You know,
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  Speaker 3: I have been at many, many, many football games. They
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  Speaker 2: Jim from the 253, friend of the station. Darnold's problem,
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  Speaker 2: Going to stay there. Went 3-0 last week in college.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State and Indiana were the under easily. 19-15 was
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  Speaker 2: A guy stepping out of bounds. Did you see that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wide open on a fourth down. Touchdown pass, but he
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  Speaker 2: his first step was landing out of bounds.
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  Speaker 6: Just barely.
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  Speaker 2: And Ohio State wins 19-15 in a game they mostly
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  Speaker 4: The fighting Ryan days.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. They won at Indiana. They'll probably meet each other
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten title game, it would appear. Army
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  Speaker 2: would land two and a half points over Florida Atlantic
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  Speaker 2: and just crushed them. 56-24, a big win for the
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Black Knights at West Point. And then BYU beating Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: They were getting ten and a half points, and they
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  Speaker 2: won outright in Provo. Number eight beat number two. Those
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  Speaker 2: were our three wins in college football last week. So,
• 1:10:08
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  Speaker 2: On Brave Old Army Team. They're playing on Friday, a
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  Speaker 2: I picked this game before a couple years ago when
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• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: and I don't know why. Give me Army. Give me
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got a brace for that.
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  Speaker 2: the goal line call, I came running as a sideline
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: official and made a call. It was ending on a final.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great game. But the night before I
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• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: their homecoming, they played Redmond, Chris Carson's team. I saw
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  Speaker 2: He went off the field and in pregame, and then
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  Speaker 2: they got beat 70-21, so I didn't talk to Matthew.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a barn burner for sure.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: But during the game, they have a very robust junior
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  Speaker 2: junior ROTC students from Liberty High School, and they were
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: telling me that they do push-ups after they score. I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: we did that at West Point, too. Well, I'm going
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: to chide the Liberty folks. They're all Navy guys. They
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  Speaker 2: all want to go to the Navy. I talked to
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  Speaker 2: chided him on what a poor decision that is, as
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  Speaker 2: But Liberty scored 70 points. They only did push-ups. The
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  Speaker 2: number of push-ups they did equaled the points just scored.
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  Speaker 2: So they just kept doing seven push-ups at a time. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen mascots almost die.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to do 70. Yeah, you do. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to do 63. You've got to do 50.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes the cheerleaders help them, too.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen it.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: But they only did the amount just scored.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: I came over and said, you've got to do 21.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: I said, you've got to do 28. That's what we did.
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  Speaker 2: We were doing push-ups as many points as we had.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: We did it on the stands. We did it on
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  Speaker 2: the field. I do it with my daughter at the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: army Navy games. We've gone to a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: And they were just doing it seven at a time.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: So I had to say, that's a very Navy way
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: to do it. Instead of doing it Army style, where
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: you would just do the cumulative points each time.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: Man, I'm going to have to get Keenan Reynolds back
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: in with you.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, Keenan Reynolds. The only Seahawk I did not like,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: personally did not like, was Keenan Reynolds.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: He's like the best dude.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: He and I did not get along. He would haze me.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Because he's Navy. He's a Naval Academy graduate. He was
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: the first Naval Academy graduate to play for Army. You know,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: Army has a West Point guy on their team right now.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Charlo is on the practice squad, was on the
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: practice squad, but he made his Seahawks debut in Denver.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: He was on the kickoff team and the punt team.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I've talked to him all the time because we just
• 1:14:00
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• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: sweatshirts and different units from the Army, hoodies and stuff,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: and we talk. And he's thrilled to be here and
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  Speaker 2: the military community from here. He was so popular in Buffalo.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: where he came from. He was with the Bills for
• 1:14:13
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• 1:14:16
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• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: man at my wedding, who's a Bills season ticket holder, was,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: loves that guy, Jimmy Charlo. He's number 46. He's on
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. He's the second West Point graduate to play
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: behind John Rattigan for the Seahawks. You remember John Rattigan?
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: I sure do. So that's Army, plus one and a
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  Speaker 2: half at Tulsa. So yeah, I had to give the
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: Navy a kids the junior navy kids some gruff that
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: they should have been doing i mean i would have
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: been damn near 500 push-ups or more because they had
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: to do 21 and 28 and 35 then 42 then
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: 49 and 56 but they just kept doing seven at
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: a time well hats off to liberty high school for
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: having a vibrant junior rotc program hats down for them
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: to not take them to point them.
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  Speaker 3: To west point okay Well, that is your recruiting segment
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• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: point that Jed Fish is able to use more of
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: the playbook with Elijah Brown than he is with DeMond Williams.
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  Speaker 2: And that gets to the point of the drop back passing.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: And DeMond Williams shorter, sometimes not being able to see
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  Speaker 2: over the line. That's an interesting point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the same thing was said about Caden Pinnock as
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: opposed to Owen Eshelman.
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  Speaker 2: How tall is Eshelman?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: 6'4? 6'3. 6'3. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to tell the story about being Nashville's parents?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, really quick, because we do have to take a
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: quick break before Ian.
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  Speaker 4: But I climbed all the way up there. You know,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: Opponents Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Reaser Stadium in Corvallis.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: So in the Opponents.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: Stadiums, they don't exactly put you on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I just want to do this.
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  Speaker 5: Screw it.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: And I just.
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  Speaker 3: Walked all the way up in between the first and
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: second quarter. I timed it out where I could get
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: up there. And Jack Stevens, our kicker's family, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Know who it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was two women in his family. I think grandmother
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: and mother were sitting next to the Eshelmans. I got
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: to meet them, Ryan and Abby. And they came all
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: the way from Norman, Oklahoma, just to see their baby start.
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  Speaker 4: And I just, with all of.
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  Speaker 3: The NIL stuff that we had talked about earlier and everything,
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  Speaker 3: the family aspect of college football is what I got
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: to experience by talking to them.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool.
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  Speaker 4: And I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: They must have been impressed you walked all the way
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: up there to see them.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: They're like, you came all the way up here?
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, well, we're in a commercial break right now. So, yep,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: I did. And hustled my, took us up there, got
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: my steps in and got to meet them.
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  Speaker 4: And it was really cool.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: And that's what I take from the sanctity of college
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: football is the family aspect.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: So, yes. That's great. Good on you, Jessamyn.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: 425, real quick. Are you guys going to preview the NBA? Yeah,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: we'll do it real quick. There'll be too many games.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: There'll be load management. Stars won't play, and teams will
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: be ticked, and all the best teams will rest all
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: their guys until the playoffs when it matters. That's your
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: NBA preview for the 26-27 season. Up next, Ian Furness.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Tell us what he's got on his show on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre, now joined by Ian Furness,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: the mayor of Maple Valley, who watched the dawning of
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: a new Cougs quarterback. I didn't really watch it. And now? Well,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: we had a hockey game going on. Oh, that's right.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: I had one eye on it. So, the Kraken end
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: their road trip with two losses in Florida against the
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: two best teams. 3-1-1 road trip. Sorry. That's a big
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: deal in hockey. It is. I've misstated that a few
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: times now. That's a big deal. A point and an
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: overtime loss.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 8: And not all overtime loss points are the same. If
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 8: that came in Detroit or Philadelphia, you'd be like, eh,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 8: that's not good.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: That was in Tampa Bay. Two times it came back
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: in that game, so that was a good game. So
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: that's a very successful road trip. Really successful. Really.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 8: And, I mean, they've played seven of nine games on
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 8: the road to start the season, and they're above.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: 500, so. And now they come home to Detroit, who
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: they just beat last Friday, and now they're playing them tomorrow.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and then it gets tougher because you've got Utah
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: and Minnesota after that, so.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: And then Toronto is somewhere. Toronto next Wednesday, yeah. So
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: that's a four-game homestand?
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 8: Yes, and then they go one road game in Calgary,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: and then they come back home after that.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: So a good stretch of home games. Tomorrow, remember, is
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: Kraken Ticket Tuesday. Every hour, you're going to hear a
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: sounder and a chance to win two tickets to a
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: Kraken game.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: So what stood out to you most about this sports
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: weekend with the Huskies? I mean, the Seahawks not playing. Well,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: I think what happened, carnage in college football. Yeah.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 8: First time in, was it 30 years or something, that
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 8: one and two have lost and five of the top
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 8: seven teams have lost in the country. You know, that's
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 8: just insane. Yeah, that's... What happened, another... clock fiasco. Big
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 8: 12 officials this time screwed up at BYU. Should have
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 8: been a second left for Notre Dame. I mean, you
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 8: could argue about the pass interference, too. So that took place.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 8: So more controversy. Instead of enjoying an incredible upset, there's
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 8: talk about that. But that college Saturday was nuts. I mean,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 8: I had one eye on the Cougs when we were
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 8: watching the hockey game. So I did watch a little bit.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: Eshelman was good.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 8: Just I got, we have, we'll get to them tomorrow
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 8: when we have Alex and MK on, because there's a
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 8: lot of questions about the coaching staff for sure. And
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 8: I don't want to, I don't want to go down
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 8: the road of having another coach, another new coach, but
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 8: my God, like Kirby, have a little fire.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: Have, do, do something.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: And then your evaluation, the quarterback position is just pathetic, obviously.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 8: Because there's no doubt this guy's better than the other dude.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 8: Like there's just no doubt.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Not even close. Why didn't you start him before? A
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: hundred percent. NIL money coming to play there?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: Probably the same thing that's going to happen at Washington.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: Right, with Elijah Brown. I mean, it's... The lead to
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: Greg Woods' story in the spokesman review from the game
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: story in Corvallis was the emotions and the flatline demeanor
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: of Kirby Moore. That was interesting that the beat writer
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: who's there every day noticed what you're just talking about.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: I just, it's a lot of questions there.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 8: The NFL yesterday was awesome with, you know, the fact
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 8: that the Rams lost again, thank God.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Two and four! I know, I know. And they lose
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: to Arizona at home. Like, Really? Yeah, that's bad. And
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: only scored 16 points. And Arizona didn't score a touchdown.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: Six field goals beat you. The 49ers, David Softy-Mohan and
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: I were talking about this, that would be a massive
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: choke job if they don't win the West now with
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: the 49ers three games up on the Seahawks with a
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: win in hand and four games if they win tonight,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: which they're going to beat the Commanders. Yes, yes. So
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: they're going to be four games up on the Rams
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: with a win in hand. I know. Yeah. Are the
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: Seahawks playing for the wild card now? I said that
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: on Friday. In mid-October?
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 8: I said that Friday. That was my Friday show. Yes.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 8: They're not playing for the division.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think so either.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 8: I mean, I chuckle when people still throw out the
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 8: it's early stuff. You just have to do the math.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 8: When are the 49ers going to lose until they see
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 8: Seattle or the Rams again? They're not, is the answer.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 8: And they're not going to kick one like the Rams did.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Probably not. The Rams injuries come into play.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 8: I mean, the Rams don't have the 49ers don't have
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 8: the special teams issues at the 49 that the Rams do.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 8: And I mean, I think, yeah, I, that's still a,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 8: still a stunning loss though by the Rams.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: It's just a stunning loss. I know that miles Garrett's
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: not playing. I get that.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 8: But man, how do you lose that particular game? Cause
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 8: they're having the same conversation. I mean, even more so
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 8: than Seattle with four losses.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. They're there.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 8: They're it's, You are 100% right now, if you're Seattle
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 8: and the Rams, playing for a wild card spot.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: Who are the 49ers going to lose to? They play
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: Washington tonight. They go at Atlanta next week. Then they
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: have their bye. Then they go Raiders, Cowboys, Minnesota. The
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: international game, if I'm not mistaken. Oh, Mexico City. They're
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: playing Minnesota and Mexico City. And then the Seahawks on
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving weekend down in Santa Clara. Washington, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Dallas, Minnesota.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Who are they going to lose to? They're not.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: So.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: The only times the Seahawks have ever made the Super
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: Bowl is after they've won the division at home playoff games.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 8: We could certainly talk about the fact that for Seattle,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 8: the bigger issue right now is just the fact that
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 8: they can't run or score, and the quarterback's having issues.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 8: The only thing that's good is just look at the NFC. Carolina, Giants, Packers, Bears,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 8: Lions all have two losses. Minnesota, San Francisco undefeated. They're
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 8: probably both going to win their respective divisions. Green Bay
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 8: is starting to come on a little bit. That's a
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 8: little bit worrisome. So you start wondering, who are the
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 8: three wildcard teams? Well, probably not coming out of the
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 8: NFC East.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: And definitely not coming out of the NFC South. Right.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 8: So you're battling with the Rams and Green Bay, right?
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 8: Or Green Bay and Chicago, if the Vikings keep going.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: I can't see the Vikings. They're barely scoring.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: 109 points for them. What do you got today?
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 8: We'll check in Hugh Millen, Hardcore Football, 1 o'clock. We'll
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 8: kind of go broader view today with the Seahawks, quarterbacks,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 8: all that fun stuff.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Like future quarterbacks? No, no, no, no, no. What are
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: they going to do next year?
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 8: Well, that's a future us problem. We'll talk about that
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 8: weeks down the road.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: Hopefully not.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 8: We'll get to that with Hugh. We've got Mike Sando
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 8: at 2 p.m. today, and then we'll just kind of
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 8: revisit the weekend that was in the first hour. Get
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 8: some thoughts from folks, 49451, talkbacks and all that.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: And he's got Factor Fiction at 235. Anne Furness will
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: be on from 12 until 3. Dave Softy, Mahler, and
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: Dick Fane will take you from the Emerald Creek Casino,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: take you right up to Monday Night Football here on
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM. We have the Commanders at the 49ers at 515.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: Jessamyn McIntyre, Greg Bell will do it again tomorrow at
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: 10 to noon on 93.3 KJRFM.