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10-14-26 Hour 2 - Avs NEEDED a good Blackwood game/Ian Furness of 93.3 KJR in Seattle/Oh, By the Way... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher Lombardi and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: On the Altitude Sports Radio app.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we got another fight.
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  Speaker 2: McKinnon's going to go right by.
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  Speaker 4: Who is that?
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  Speaker 2: It's Ropey Hintz right by McKinnon, right by McKinnon.
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  Speaker 4: And Hintz goes down to the ice like.
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  Speaker 3: A ton of bricks.
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  Speaker 1: Second fight of the year by Nathan McKinnon, and he
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  Speaker 1: gets up bloodied but grinning.
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  Speaker 3: Rupe Henson, his frosted tips.
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  Speaker 2: Will go to the box.
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  Speaker 3: On the stupid abs feed.
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  Speaker 2: I hate these commentators, bro. Yeah, I do too. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, nerd. Does Rupe really have frosted tips? Probably.
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  Speaker 5: That's funny.
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  Speaker 4: So, a couple things. We'll talk to Jared Bednar in
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  Speaker 4: an hour. We have Ian Furness. Seattle radio host is
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  Speaker 4: going to join us in 20 minutes to preview the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 5: I got to get a handle on this guy. Let
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  Speaker 5: me do a little recon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead. We've had him on the show before.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know we have. I need more recon because
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  Speaker 5: I need to stick it to him.
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  Speaker 4: Beyond the fight from McKinnon that we'll get to in
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  Speaker 4: a second, there's one thing that I wanted to see
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  Speaker 4: last night.
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  Speaker 2: And it's exactly what we got. You saw it.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to see Mackenzie Blackwood thrown back out there
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  Speaker 4: in a tough environment against a tough team. forced to
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  Speaker 4: make some saves to keep you in a game, and
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  Speaker 4: he was phenomenal last night. Multiple times, it was horrible
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  Speaker 4: turnover from Sam Malinsky, horrible turnover from Gabe Landeskog, gave
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  Speaker 4: a free rush all the way right in McKenzie's face,
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  Speaker 4: and he stoned him. Like, you wanted to see a
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  Speaker 4: rise in confidence, just not within himself, I think, but.
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  Speaker 2: Within the entire fan base, including me.
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  Speaker 3: Totally agree.
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  Speaker 4: I needed, like, a breath of fresh air, a game
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  Speaker 4: that said, Mackenzie Blackwood was the reason he won the game,
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  Speaker 4: and I think he got it last night.
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  Speaker 6: He was phenomenal. He's exactly why. I mean, that's what
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  Speaker 6: they needed for him, for his confidence, and for the team.
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  Speaker 5: I completely agree. What we're not going to do, with
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  Speaker 5: God as my witness this morning, we're not going to
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  Speaker 5: ride a roller coaster of goaltending the entire season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we will.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just telling you, it's going to happen. It's going
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  Speaker 4: to happen.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: This is, again, Vic, how many classes in psychology did
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  Speaker 5: you take?
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  Speaker 7: 117.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, 117 straight weeks. You're choosing, Brett, you are mentally
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  Speaker 5: choosing to dwell on this and be that guy all
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  Speaker 5: the way through, I guess, next April, May, and June.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose. Unless it gets consistent. He's a good goalie.
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  Speaker 5: Who's going to find it. And he showed it last night.
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  Speaker 5: That's my opinion. Now, if he doesn't, I can guarantee
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  Speaker 5: you the Avs will do something about it.
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  Speaker 6: The other question is, why are these breakdowns happening that's
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  Speaker 6: causing these... He had to save their bacon a couple times.
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  Speaker 6: Why is this happening so often?
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  Speaker 5: That is an ex-Vic. You're going to get your answer
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  Speaker 5: in 54 minutes. All right.
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  Speaker 7: Coach?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, listen. It's clean-uppable.
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  Speaker 7: Is that.
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  Speaker 5: The proper terminology, Brett?
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  Speaker 2: I accept it.
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  Speaker 5: You can clean it up. It's just you can't keep
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  Speaker 5: repeatedly doing these things. You're going to have to get
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  Speaker 5: your head in the game. The legs are there. The
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  Speaker 5: want is there. The brains are not always there. And
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  Speaker 5: I'll say this. Nick Waugh had a play last night
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  Speaker 5: where he completely lost his man. And it's like you
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  Speaker 5: absolutely need to keep your head in the game.
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  Speaker 2: You have to. On top of that, I'll say this.
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  Speaker 2: I'll admit it, Moj.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get what's happening here. I don't know what's
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  Speaker 4: going on in between my ears. I just had a
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  Speaker 4: full season in which both Mackenzie Blackwood and Scott Wedgwood
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  Speaker 4: combined to be the best goaltending tandem in the league.
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  Speaker 4: They led the league in goals against. They were both
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  Speaker 4: like top five. Maybe Mackenzie Blackwood dropped out towards the
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  Speaker 4: end of the year. but they were for the majority
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  Speaker 4: of the season, both top five and save percentage over
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  Speaker 4: the course of the year. And for whatever reason, I'm
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  Speaker 4: still waiting for the other shoe to drop. And I
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  Speaker 4: don't know why. I don't know why my expectation is
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  Speaker 4: McKenzie Blackwood will play just okay instead of good.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he doesn't, he can't be, nobody can be just okay.
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  Speaker 5: And you're going to, and the team's going to be fine.
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  Speaker 5: You need to be good.
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  Speaker 2: But how good do you need to be?
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  Speaker 5: Do you need to be, oh my God, Vezina-worthy good,
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  Speaker 5: or do you just need to be good good?
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  Speaker 2: Right. I think just good good.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we were opining yesterday about the game against the
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  Speaker 5: Maple Leafs where none of the goals were his fault,
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  Speaker 5: but you could have really used a save or two, right? Well,
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  Speaker 5: you got them last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's the difference. You're exactly, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 6: Because there are a couple of those goals like, oh
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  Speaker 6: my God, I can't believe they just hung them out
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  Speaker 6: to dry and he came up with a stop.
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  Speaker 5: We have some Nathan McKinnon. Nelly, do we have some
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  Speaker 5: Nathan McKinnon postgame? We're talking about McKenzie Blackwood. Do you
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  Speaker 5: have that one or do you have the one about
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  Speaker 5: the fight or both? I gave him the one about
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  Speaker 5: the fight. Okay, let's talk about the fight.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: We all grew up in the Maritimes. It's pretty gritty.
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  Speaker 8: I got ran my whole life playing up. I think
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  Speaker 8: it's pretty normal. Most guys from that area are pretty feisty.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's good to do it sometimes. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I might be done for the year, but I guess
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  Speaker 8: you never know. Getting punched is not that fun, but,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, the guys seem to like it, so they'll
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  Speaker 8: do it a couple more times.
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  Speaker 6: All right, so his nose was bloodied, but that's because
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  Speaker 6: his shield hit his nose, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 5: And he got elbowed last week as well, so he
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  Speaker 5: got cut by his shield because he got elbowed, and
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  Speaker 5: so that skin is very thin. It's very.
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  Speaker 2: So I could walk.
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  Speaker 5: Up there with my, Brett, you could walk up there
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  Speaker 5: with your fingernail and poke it, and it would start bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: Growing up in the Maritimes, Nova Scotia? Is that what
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: What is the Maritimes? What does that mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's Newfoundland, Nova Scotia.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they call that region?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry, I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 5: It's the coast, and off the coast of Canada, those
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  Speaker 5: are the Maritime provinces.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, and the last thing he said, he's been run
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  Speaker 6: his whole life.
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  Speaker 2: People just run at him?
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  Speaker 6: Because he's Nate?
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  Speaker 2: Probably. He's a very good player.
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  Speaker 6: Did he do what he did last night because he
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  Speaker 6: thought Nate cheap-shotted him last year?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, he did get hurt last year, but that
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  Speaker 5: was his own fault. No, but they were battling all
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  Speaker 5: game long. If you watch the beginning of that.
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  Speaker 2: Nate was egging him on. 100% he was.
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  Speaker 3: Bam, bam, bam. I dare you. Bam, bam.
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  Speaker 2: I'm there for it.
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  Speaker 7: Bam, bam.
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  Speaker 2: I'm absolutely there for it.
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  Speaker 5: Vic, when you were stuck behind, when you were stuck,
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  Speaker 5: whatever it was, you were stuck behind this morning. I
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  Speaker 5: went through the top scorers in the league.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that. That was great. And you asked
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  Speaker 2: if they're fighters. And very few are. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they just won't. They won't do it.
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  Speaker 5: It's just not in their personality. I mean, maybe they can.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if Conor McDavid can fight because I've
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  Speaker 5: never seen him do it.
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  Speaker 6: I've never seen him get... Like, he's got the same
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  Speaker 6: look on his face all the time. I've never seen him, like, smile.
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  Speaker 2: So does Nate. Nate's angry a lot. Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I like that. I do know that Sidney
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  Speaker 5: Crosby can fight. I've seen him fight. Sidney Crosby has fought.
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  Speaker 5: McKinnon is just a different animal, and I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 5: I absolutely enjoy his anger. As long as he doesn't
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  Speaker 5: get injured... I'm here for it because it's a very
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  Speaker 5: good deterrent. Do you think anybody around the league, I mean, seriously,
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  Speaker 5: guys are tough, right? But if you're going to stand
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  Speaker 5: with Nathan McKinney, you've got to be committed. That's all
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  Speaker 5: there is to it. He was talking about his goalie,
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  Speaker 5: and thank you, Steven. And this is what I said
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  Speaker 5: the other day about the guys in front of him.
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  Speaker 5: You need saves from McKenzie Blackwood, but the guys in
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  Speaker 5: front of him have to be better. Thanks, Steve.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, great.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, he's been great this year. I don't
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  Speaker 8: think he You know, we've hung out with the dry
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  Speaker 8: a little bit. I know not a ton of shots,
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  Speaker 8: but the chances we give up are pretty good looks,
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  Speaker 8: you know, especially last game. So, you know, we need
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  Speaker 8: to do a better job. And tonight he was great,
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  Speaker 8: and I thought we did a better job of clogging
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  Speaker 8: the middle.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so it goes hand in hand. He needs to
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  Speaker 5: make saves, and they need to clean up in front
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  Speaker 5: of him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The defensive zone coverage has to be better. On a
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  Speaker 5: consistent basis, and I'm confident that it will be because
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  Speaker 5: this was the best defensive team in the.
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  Speaker 2: League last year. They led the league in goals for,
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  Speaker 2: and they led the league in goals against.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. That's their M.O. That's who they are as a team.
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  Speaker 5: I'm convinced it'll be cleaned up and be fine.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Texter's writing, and he said he played up,
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  Speaker 4: meaning he got run at because he played against older
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  Speaker 4: guys growing up.
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  Speaker 2: He was used to being the smaller guy that they
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  Speaker 2: tried to pick on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure that's absolutely the case.
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  Speaker 4: Now, with all of that, we'll have Jared Bednar on
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  Speaker 4: at 9 o'clock this morning. I do want to ask
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  Speaker 4: him about Sam Malinsky, who was a healthy scratch the
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  Speaker 4: last game, played because Cale McCart was not in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: It was twins, right?
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: So I would assume that Cale's playing tonight?
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  Speaker 5: I have absolutely no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Is Cale doing the six-week off thing? That's four.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Raj, Raj was in Tahiti for like six months.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's company policy, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what? I would say if I'm Cale,
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  Speaker 5: I'd say I'll see you in the new year. Legally,
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  Speaker 5: I get what? Three months? What does he get?
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  Speaker 2: Six weeks.
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  Speaker 5: It's more than that.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I am owed 18 weeks by this company.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm owed as well. None of this,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you're so lucky that you're younger and you
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  Speaker 5: had babies in this day and age. Because we had
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  Speaker 5: children years ago when you had a kid and the
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  Speaker 5: next day your ass is in the chair working.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Mark had children. He didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: who the father is.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is a granddad's happy hour.
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  Speaker 4: To be fair, my first child, I missed four days.
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  Speaker 2: And I was back. The after in the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I had to come back. Had to.
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  Speaker 4: I meant to bring this up. I believe it was
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  Speaker 4: Walker Bueller.
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  Speaker 2: Mark my words. There will be a day when there's
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  Speaker 2: paternity leave for.
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  Speaker 5: A new pet. I'm telling you right now, I am owed.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to go straight to Joel's office and Kevin's
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  Speaker 5: office after this show, and I'm going to demand three
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  Speaker 5: months off.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee we have a new puppy. I got two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: During the playoffs, during the playoffs, because it's one thing.
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  Speaker 5: Just admit it. You're weak.
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  Speaker 4: Cal misses a regular season game. Jokic missed games last
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  Speaker 4: year to the birth of a child, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 12 weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Walker Bueller missed game one of the NLDS. It was
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  Speaker 4: his scheduled start. He was supposed to pitch the first
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  Speaker 4: game of the NLDS, but he went to the hospital
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  Speaker 4: for the birth of their child.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of that? All right, come again.
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  Speaker 4: Walker Bueller was going to get the first start for
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  Speaker 4: the Padres in game one of the NLDS.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: His wife went into labor. He missed his start to
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  Speaker 4: go to the hospital. What do you think about missing
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  Speaker 4: a playoff?
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  Speaker 5: Probably not the time or place, Michael.
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  Speaker 6: I don't have a problem with you missing a playoff
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  Speaker 6: game because you have a child coming into this world.
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  Speaker 2: That's a one-day thing. For me, it was 13 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: For Philip Rivers. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 4: Philip Rivers would never work. Just get paid by the
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  Speaker 4: state all year.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let's make way.
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  Speaker 4: Ian Furness, radio host up in Seattle, is going to
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  Speaker 4: join us, get a preview of the Seahawks next. All right,
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  Speaker 4: let's head out to the Ramos Law hotline. Car accident,
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: you need Ramos Law. Medical doctor and attorney, RamosLaw.com. We
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  Speaker 4: are joined by Ian Furness, 93.3 KJR, also part of
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  Speaker 4: the Kraken Hockey Network as studio host.
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  Speaker 2: Ian, good to talk to you again.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing? Good morning, gentlemen. How are you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Doing well.
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  Speaker 4: Getting ready for this game tomorrow. And Seahawks defending champs.
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  Speaker 4: They got all this great stuff going for them. But
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  Speaker 4: I do have a question. Since Sam Darnold's come back
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  Speaker 4: from the injury, felt like he's hit a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of the turnover bug.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: A little is an understatement. It's been a struggle for
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  Speaker 3: number 14. He's looking a little bit like Jets Sam
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  Speaker 3: Darnold a little bit right now. Highest interception percentage in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL. A lot of turnovers. Then all of a
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  Speaker 3: sudden you have some questions about what's going on with Darnold.
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  Speaker 3: They've got some other issues. They can't run the football.
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  Speaker 3: You guys know about that. I looked at the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm known for my research and my numbers, and I
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  Speaker 3: looked at those.
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  Speaker 5: You're very well known across the country for all of
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  Speaker 5: your research.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone knows that. I'm known for all those things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's interesting with Sam. There's some issues with
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  Speaker 3: protection at times. But I think when you, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you guys know this with Bo Nix, if
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  Speaker 3: you can't run the football, it puts a lot of
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  Speaker 3: pressure on the quarterback. He's made some bad decisions. There's
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  Speaker 3: been a couple of times when the routes have been sketchy.
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  Speaker 3: And then you got to ask yourself about a first-time
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  Speaker 3: play caller. And again, sounds like something you guys can
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  Speaker 3: relate to, right? In that regard too, with Brian Fleury
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  Speaker 3: here in Seattle. So at three and two, there are
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  Speaker 3: some questions for the defending Super Bowl champions.
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  Speaker 6: Um, are the fans rallying for drew lock over there?
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  Speaker 6: Are the backups popular quarterback?
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  Speaker 5: Let's see.
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  Speaker 3: I had, I had three minutes for the drew lock
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  Speaker 3: question on my window on the bingo card.
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  Speaker 6: He played in Denver. So you knew it was coming. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: I knew it was coming.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and the thing is, is, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Bronco fans probably watched the first couple of games drew
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  Speaker 3: played really well. Uh, got a win at home against
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  Speaker 3: the Patriots. Sam went out after five plays and then
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  Speaker 3: Went down to Arizona, which I guess isn't all that
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  Speaker 3: big of a deal, beating the Cardinals, but did do
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  Speaker 3: that as well. He's played well. Drew's a really popular guy.
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  Speaker 3: Drew's really popular in the locker room, too, and that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of what you start wondering. But so is Sam,
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  Speaker 3: but not quite yet. We haven't quite got that far, Vic.
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  Speaker 3: If they have a problem tomorrow, I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to bring it up. I think it'll become more of
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  Speaker 3: a factor here in Seattle. I think you'll start hearing
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more calls for that, and then Mike
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  Speaker 3: McDonald will shut it down immediately and all that, but
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  Speaker 3: I think the bigger question is what you do down
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  Speaker 3: the road. Because, you know, you've got Darnold and Locke
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  Speaker 3: contracts coming up. And, you know, people are looking at
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  Speaker 3: Darnold and the quarterback money these days. Do you give
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  Speaker 3: them the big money? Again, we're five games in. For Sam,
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  Speaker 3: we're three games into the season because he only played
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  Speaker 3: really those three after getting knocked out in that first one.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: But Drew Locke, I think the bigger question is do
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: you keep Drew Locke, period? You know, I mean, is
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: there going to be a market for this guy? Because
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: we look around the NFL. You know, all joking aside,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: having a backup quarterback is a nice bonus. Like we
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: saw that last year with Mac Jones with the 49ers.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: You know, and Drew is immensely, immensely liked by the players.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Never really got a chance to be the starter when
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: he got here after that trade. I mean, it was
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Geno Smith's job. They just handed it to him. There
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: was never a competition. But, yeah, nothing like a good
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: old quarterback controversy for the defending Super Bowl champions, which
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: could be on the horizon.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: That's so interesting to me because, yeah, they're the defending
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: champions and we're talking about quarterbacks and do you go
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: to somebody else and whatnot? We... Ian, in all honesty,
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: we poo-poo that here because there's, God bless Jared Stidham,
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: but that's not the option. There's no Kirk Cousins behind
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: him or, you know, something like that where you could
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: actually have that sort of discussion. I guess my question
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: goes to then, these teams look very similar because I
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: know Seattle's defense is very good.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: They give up points, but they don't give up.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Very many yards. Their offense is sticking them in what
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: seems to be, you know, inopportune situations. Am I reading
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: that correctly that the defense is still that good?
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: No, you're right on the money. I mean, last week
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: it was 21 points off of turnovers, directly off turnovers.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: One of them was directly into the end zone, right?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: In a fumble by Helani that went into the end zone. So, no,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: the defense has been fine. They give up, you know,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I sometimes feel like they're bored. Like, they look bored
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: against the Chargers. You know, like, that game was a
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: 17-point game. They were blowing them out. The Chargers are awful.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: You guys know that. And They just kind of started
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: going through the motions. I think there's a little bit
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: of a Super Bowl hangover. It's the hardest thing to
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: win back-to-back in sports. It's why it's rarely done. First
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: of all, you play a schedule that they have to
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: play a first-place schedule. That's brutal. I think you guys
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: are playing the same thing right now. The first-place schedule
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: is hard. Then you have a 49ers team which finished third.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: That's the other issue. They're flying right now. They're 5-0.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: You look at their schedule, they're going to be 8-0
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: before too long. So you're playing catch-up and all that,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: but the defense is fine. They're put in bad situations
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: at times. They do give up. They are funny. The
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: only thing I would be concerned with is what happened
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: on Sunday is the final two possessions for the 49ers,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: they gave up a touchdown and a two-point conversion and
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the game-winning field goal. They did give up some yards then,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: but I think at that point, they were so gassed.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: They'd been on the field the entire day. Like you said,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: they were back up like, oh, here's another turnover. Your
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: own 20-yard line type of thing, but They're an elite defense.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: That hasn't changed. The offense is the concern right now.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Ian Furness with us, radio host out in Seattle, 93.3 KJR.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: First of all, I'm blown away because it sounds like
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: we're describing the same teams. It's freaking me out. Secondly,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I know this is going to sound like a stupid question,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: but I'm going to ask this because when Kenneth Walker
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: left to go to KC in the offseason, obviously he's
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: exploded this year as one of the best backs in
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the NFL.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: You guys would have loved to kept them. I assume,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: but it's hard to judge, isn't it? With Charbonnet on
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: the shelf all year and now Jadarian price out.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: It it's, you know, none of us are like the
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: salary cap exists, right? Last I checked, it still exists. And,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: and you have to make, every team has to make
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: those tough decisions. It's an easy thing for people, not
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: you guys, but from the outside looking in saying, Oh,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I can't believe the Seahawks let Ken Walker walk. Well,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: a $ 14 million running back just doesn't fly. Sometimes in
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the NFL, it's reality of it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: You know, I, like, As much as we joked, I'm
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: known for my numbers and stats and everything. None of
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: us know the salary cap. I always laugh when people
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: that cover this league try to pretend like they know
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: what the salary cap is for particular teams. They have
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: no bloody idea. They have none. You know, all these
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: salary cap guys. Listen, they had to re-sign Devin Witherspoon.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: They made a decision on Leonard Williams. They had to
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: re-sign the offensive player of the year in Jackson Smith
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: and Jigba. They had a first-round pick. They figured they
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: could get a running back at some point. They did
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: in Jadarian Price. He's obviously been hurt really since day one.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: We're going back down. These are names that you guys
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: probably won't remember, but we're going back down the CJ
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Procise Rashad Penny Road with a running back here in Seattle.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: And that's no fun because those guys were always hurt.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: But in this case, you know, if Price is healthy,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Charbonnet is not back this week, but maybe I'm guessing
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: he's going to be back for the Kansas City game
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: the next week. So they knew he was coming back.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Like they've been, again, shocking. The team inside the building
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: knew what Charbonnet's progress was, where he was going to be.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: He was a 1B guy last year. Walker never had
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: that type of workload in Seattle, not even close, especially
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: in the red zone. Now he's getting that. in Kansas City.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I really like him. Hopefully he holds up for his sake,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: but they knew what they were doing. It doesn't help
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: the perception, for sure, the fact that you have a
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: bunch of just absolute jags that are running the ball
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: right now with Charbonnet out and Walker doing what he's
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: doing in Kansas City, but they had to make tough
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: decisions and And I think it came down to, frankly,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Devin Witherspoon and Jackson Smith and Jigba with a little
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: bit of Leonard Williams tossed in there, and then Sam
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Donald's contract coming up that they had to make that call.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: I want to take you back, Ian, to a few
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: weeks ago, the comments that Mike McDonald made on that
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: national interview show and how it got back to Sean Payton.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: And Sean's really underplaying the whole thing. He's like, eh,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: no big deal.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: We're fine. I'm just, how the hell did that get out,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: first of all? Was it?
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Did he really get that recording take place and McDonald
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: didn't know that he was being recorded? What did you
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: guys learn from that?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm still trying to learn who the hell Graham
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Benzinger is. That's the first thing I'm trying to figure out.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I have no idea who this dude is. I mean,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I think when Root Sports used to exist, I think
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you guys had it down there for a while too,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: that old regional sports network. He would pop on. There'd
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: be promos during a Mariners game and say, hey, Graham.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: And this guy got everybody. I don't know who this
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: guy is.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: He's a great marketer.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he does a great job with it, and he
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: sits down with guys. And I think in a sense, listen,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of us on this call have
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: done or do TV and have done those types of interviews.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: You sit down, you're setting it up, everyone's mic'd up,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: but you say, hey, you ready?
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: You ready?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's roll. Here we go. They were just having
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: a casual conversation, and he was trying to break the ice. Now,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: naive on his part, certainly. Greasy on Ben Singer's part, 100%.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: A hundred percent.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but why would McDonald even bring that up with
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: a guy he doesn't even know?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's the thing. You have a,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: you know, he's obviously third year in as a head coach.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: When he first came here, you know, the guys in
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Baltimore told us, oh, you're going to have a tough time.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: This guy's awful with the media, doesn't like to talk.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: He's like very short. And I remember sitting down with
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: him the day he got hired. And, you know, he's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: very guarded. He's opened up a lot. He's done a
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: great job with that. There's a good personality there. You
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: saw him in hard knocks. He's kind of, he frankly
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: is a nerd. You know, I mean, that's what he is.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: And he just got caught. the biggest mistake he made,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and this is the thing I can't believe, I don't
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: know how the Broncos, I know the Broncos traditionally, when
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I covered the NFL more on a daily basis, have
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: had one of the better PR staffs in the league,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and I know like Seattle does too, Dave Pearson and
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: his staff are great. They never let anybody do anything
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: without their hands being held, so they kind of went
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: behind the scenes, they had his agent and somebody else,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: and so the Seahawks weren't even involved, because I think
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: if they were, and you had an actual PR person
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: standing there, there's no way that would have got out. Like,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: it would have been, hey, wait a second, we rolling
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: on that? Like, it just It was a miscue on
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: his part. I think Peyton handled it great, obviously. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: think Mike handled it great. The one thing Mike did,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I give him credit for. He came out the next
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: day we had an availability, like two days later, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: he said, hey, that's on me. It's my fault. I've
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: talked to Sean, all those things. I think a lot
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: of people in sports could learn that. In fact, in life,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: could learn, hey, Just take the responsibility, accountability, you know,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: but again, also knowing the mic size. Are we hot
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: right now?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, this is actually private.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I better not say anything about your boss, Shockey, right?
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Ian, this is why I was a little agitated by
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: the whole thing, because stuff like that sets us back
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: in this business. Now, Mike McDonald's not going to do
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: interviews like he did before. You know, now we all
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: get screwed by that stuff.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: It drives me nuts because, you know, in our business,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: whether it's sports radio or television, what have you, Getting
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: those sit-down interviews are key, especially with bigger names. And
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: if nothing else, I think where it sets us back
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: is that what a lot of people don't always understand
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: is there's a lot of stuff said off the air
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: and off the record that gives you a basis for
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: how you frame what you're going to talk about during
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: a day. For 16 years, I traveled with the Seahawks,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and the amount of stuff we got in a hotel
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: bar on a Saturday night before a game, off the record,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: from Schneider, whoever, John Schneider, the GM, was invaluable. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: it stays there. And it stays there. It never leaves.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: But at least it gives you framework for when we're
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: talking like this, and I can tell you, hey, here's
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: what they're thinking. Here's what they were thinking with Richard
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Sherman back then, you know, without it being quoted. And, yeah,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: you lose that ability. And you're right, Vic. It takes
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: us all back. And then it gives everybody– it paints
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: the broad brush everyone's bad in sports media. That's the
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: other thing. You know, like it's like you guys are
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: all this, that. I hate all of that. I think
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: we all hate all of that. And, again, who the
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: hell is Graham Bensinger besides a great marketer? But I
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: would think it's going to hurt him. I think that
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: might be one of those. It might not be Russini-like.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, not like Boom Boom did, but it might
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: be pretty close to being a career killer for a
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: guy that is dependent on long-form interviews.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: It's just crazy that it even got out in the
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: first place. It's just weird. Hey, listen, looking forward to
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: tomorrow night. Ian, it's crazy to me because I look
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: around the league, and it seems like everybody's the walking dead.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, the Broncos are now the walking dead. We
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: just saw the Chargers. They couldn't even– I mean, they
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: filled a practice squad team, half of it anyway. But
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: I look at the Seattle injury report, I'm like, good God.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: They had a lot of guys on there.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Is this real?
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, are they going to be missing guys tomorrow
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: night on the short week, or is this just jump
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: through hoops for the league?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Well, just first of all, short weeks are so bad anyway, right?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: It's nice that you get the back end, but you
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: play a game. And again, I don't want to be
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: the guy in Seattle whining because everyone has to do it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: But you play probably one of your two or three
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: hardest games against the 49ers, physical game. You guys all
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: saw that. And then, oh, by the way, you're going
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to go down and four days later you're going to
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: play in the altitude against a team that played for
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the AFC Championship last year. It seems like the NFL
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: goes out of its way to make sure that teams–
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: that have success, don't have success again, unless, I don't know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: unless it's the Chiefs. They seem to get, you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: but outside of that, no one cares. But I think
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: just I hate injury reports. I don't know about you guys.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: I think they're the biggest crock. You know, people panic
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: on Wednesday and Thursday of a normal week, and he's limited,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: he's this, and all of a sudden, for example, Leonard
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Williams last week was limited for two days, and everyone's, oh,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Leonard Williams isn't going to play. On Friday, the injury
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: report comes out, not even on it. He's ready to go.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: But I think this week, JSN will play. Leonard Williams
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: will play. Charbonnet won't play. I'm trying to think who
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: else is on it right now. Okada's fine. Witherspoon's fine.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I think the guys that have been playing are going
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: to be okay. They're getting healthier. They played a couple
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: games without either one of their safeties in Love or Okada.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: A guy that would have been a big part of
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: their defense. Their second round pick, Bud Clark, broke his leg.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: You guys saw that on Hard Knocks probably in Tennessee.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: That killed them. I mean, that was a brutal injury
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: for them because he was going to be a huge
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: part of their defense. Even Worry is kind of finally
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: back in the fold and he's a big part of
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: what McDonald does. He's kind of that Kyle Hamilton type
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: of player. So, I think they're going to be okay.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: But again, they don't even practice this week. Like, what,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: two walkthroughs and then jump on a plane today? So
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: who knows what these guys are going to be like tomorrow.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Ian Furness with us, 93.3 KJR up in Seattle. Last
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: thing for you, Ian, appreciate your time. I've been noticing
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: as you've been talking that these teams feel very similar
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: in the way that they're being discussed. Let's just see
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: how similar it is because we have a problem right
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: now in Denver when we're trying to figure out Bo
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Nix winning football games but offense not looking good. Is
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: he worthy of $ 55 or $ 60 million? Sam Darnold won
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl. but if he said, Hey, at the
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: end of this year, I'm holding out unless you give
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: me 60 mil, would they do it?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Not 60. No, I think, I think 50 is going
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: to be a problem, honestly, unless he really turns it around.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know. You have to have a quarterback. They
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: feel comfortable with him. The bigger question is we'll bring
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: it all the way back to how comfortable they feel
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: with drew lock.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, they, they have an option there
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: and I, Jalen Milrow's on the roster, but he's a
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: long ways away. He's not the guy. They have two
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: more years to see if he can be the guy.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: And the thing with Sam is, if Sam keeps regressing,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: or let's just say he stays where he is right now,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: and his interception percentage, which is last in the league
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: at 5% per pass, if it's still around the four range,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and we're talking a 20-plus interception rate for the season,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: what's the market going to be? I mean, right. That's,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: that's the other thing.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: It's still take what you get because you ain't going
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: to get nothing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing. Like as desperate as teams are
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: for quarterbacks, you know, when Seattle brought him here, he
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: had that great coming off a great year in Minnesota.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: They brought him here, you know, there weren't a ton
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: of options out there.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Like, so, you know, it's, it's, you know, Minnesota was
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: kicking them to the curb for goodness sakes, you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: at the expense of to, for JJ McCarthy of all things. So,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I think at this stage, it's so early. And I
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: think Bo Nix is the same way. I find Bo fascinating.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Out here in the Northwest, we watched him play at
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Oregon and Auburn before that. And there's times I think, wow,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Bo is it. And then there's other times I go, oh, man.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Welcome to our show every day.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look through the big games at Oregon.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Go through the big games at Oregon and ask yourself,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: is that guy worth $ 50 million? And we're all doing that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: At least Sam has a Super Bowl to his to
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: his resume, although the Super Bowl, he wasn't good. Like,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: he wasn't good in the Super Bowl. Now, he was
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: great against the Rams, finally, in the NFC Championship game.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: The thing with Sam is, and I don't know if
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: this is maybe the difference between Sam and Bo, the
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: thing with Sam is he's robotic in the sense that
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: you kind of equate it to like a goalie in
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: hockey or a cornerback in football or even a closer
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: in baseball. You have to have a short memory. And
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: he really does. Like, it doesn't affect him normally. Like,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: when he's awful, think back to one of that Rams
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: game last year when he was just brutal. And then
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: let him on a game-winning drive, right? And so he
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: has an ability to flush it and not really get
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: bothered like a lot of guys don't. That's kind of
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: his superpower in a sense. sense as well as, I mean,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: he's got all the physical traits, but I don't know.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be interesting. We'll probably have
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: those same conversations you guys are having daily here as
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the year goes on if it continues like it is. And, man,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: if he struggles tomorrow, and again, they can't run the ball. So, like,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: it's going to be on his shoulders. And he only
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: throws to one guy. Understand that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: That one guy's pretty good.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the one guy's pretty much a badass, though.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but unlike the Rams who only throw to one
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: guy and target Puka, the weirdo, sicko, biting women dude,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: unlike the Rams who throw to him 23 times a game,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: they still have Devontae. Yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And Kyron Williams.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: And Kyron and 18 tight ends and everything else that
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: they have there. Seattle's got JSN, the man formerly known
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: as Cooper Cup who has 11 catches this season. And
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: that's it. Like, that's it. They, you know, Torrey Horton,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: we keep waiting for him to explode. The former Colorado
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: state player.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I forgot about that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's finally healthy and he may be something
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: down the road. I mean, he's great red zone guy. Every,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: every catch he makes, every other catch is a touchdown,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: but they only throw to JSN. So you shut down JSN.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Seattle gets in trouble pretty quick.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Ian Furness works up in Seattle, 93.3 KJR, also part
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: of the Kraken Hockey Network.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Ian, always good to talk to you. Thanks for the insight.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and can you tell Shockey not to be such
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: a taskmaster? He made Mosher cry last week in a
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: closed-door meeting.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: It was sad.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the fact that that guy has
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: an office and closes a door is remarkable. The fact
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: you guys are on the air and looking as good
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: as you are is also a minor miracle because, no, Shockey,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: we miss him tremendously up here. how many times do
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: you guys have to buy him lunch? Has he ever
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: pulled the wallet out? And if he did, how many
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: moss films he flew out of that thing?
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: He's turned over a new leaf. He actually brings McDonald's
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: once every six months. It's amazing.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he does.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: Wow, wow.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: The dust gets shaken off the credit card. That's remarkable. Ian, thanks, buddy.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: You be good. Anytime, guys. See you.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Take care.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Ian Furness, 93.3 KJR up in Seattle.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, coming away next. Oh, absolutely nothing
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: to do with all that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Anime, Star Wars, Star Trek.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: The toilet suddenly shattered and collapsed beneath him. Wait, are
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: you still driving that Honda?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, with Mosher Lombardi and Kane.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Pay attention and stop looking at that squirrel.
• 31:57
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• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, stories around sports in the world
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: we feel like you should be aware of.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I'll start.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Jokic, he's partnered with Sprite and Anthony Edwards as their
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: new ambassadors to Sprite.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: It's always a fun one.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Sprite gets like really good basketball player commercials.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: You know, I like a good Sprite. Penny Hardway commercials,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. I like a good Sprite.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: It's really weird to me, Vic. 7-Up used to be
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: the jam.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: It used to be, dude. 7-Up was it.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: And then Sprite, somehow, someway, Sprite, like 30 years ago,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: took over. And 7-Up doesn't even exist anymore.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Was 7-Up Coke and Sprite Pepsi or something?
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but it's weird, man.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: So did you guys see the commercial with him?
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's fantastic.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Well, if you guys haven't heard it, it's him like
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: he's doing a stand-up set.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Here's what it sounds like.
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: How are you guys doing tonight? It's working. Hello?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Anyone want to hear some good jokes?
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: Because I have none.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Anybody play basketball? No?
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Probably not good enough. You guys want to see an
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: impression of someone looking not interested? What do you call
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: a factory that makes okay products?
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: Satisfactory.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Anybody from Serbia? There's only a few of.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Us.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I don't like it. I don't get it.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: I don't get it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: He's just, he's doing a stand-up set and he's drinking
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: a Sprite.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: That's the point, though, is that he's not, he's the Joker,
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: but he's not very funny on the stand. I don't
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: like it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: It's probably too smart for you.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: No, but he used to do those things at Ball
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: Arena on the big board where he did jokes, funny
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: dad jokes.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Those were funny. But it felt awkward.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I'm giving you my real reaction to it. I'm being real.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I'm still drinking Sprite whether you like it or not.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter. Oh, by the way, the Philadelphia Phillies
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: are staying with Don Mattingly.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Did you see that? Everything I heard.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: After the season was, oh, Mattingly is going to be gone.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: He was interim. They're like, no, we'll stick around. We'll
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: give you a couple more years. What's going on with that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: We got a window washer right behind you that I.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Got bothered by. See if you can steal his attention.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: See if you can distract. Turn your computer to him.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Put your belly up on that window. All right, ready?
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: Do it, do it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Put your belly up on there. All right, do it, Moshe.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: We had somebody washing the window. So we have a
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: window washer. Right behind Moshe. Stick it there until he
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: washes it clean.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Stick it there.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: He's shaking his head. He's like, what the hell are
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Leave me alone.
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: But.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: What the hell were you just talking about? Sorry, I'm
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: very distracted.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: Don Mattingly.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, here's the thing. Don Mattingly, he took over because
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: the Phillies were awful. Right, they were. He took over.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: He put a spark in them. Like, he had them
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: playing good baseball, but then at the.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: End of the year, they played terrible baseball. Everything I
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: heard was, man, this guy's gone. They don't want him back.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, no, we're going.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: To keep him. It's just kind of weird the way
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: that worked.
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: I found it to be odd. That's all.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I got one for you. Back to Nikola Jokic.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: He revealed, and I'm not sure who he revealed this to,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: some interview somewhere, his NBA Mount Rushmore. First off, do
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: you think Joker knew what Mount Rushmore was? Did they
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: have to explain what Mount Rushmore?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I think he's been around long enough. He's a pretty
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: smart guy. I know he's smart. I'm just saying it's
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: an American thing.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: If you weren't American, you wouldn't know it, but he's
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: been here long enough.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I think so. So he revealed his four players on
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: And they are?
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: Huh? And they are?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to have you guess. Oh, I would say.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I saw this, so I'm not going to.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Okay, well, then let me take a guess. His four
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: players in Mount Rushmore are LeBron.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Nope, he's not on it. And already Philadelphia is saying, oh, okay,
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: you want to play. LeBron James is not on his
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: Mount Rushmore.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: Is Magic on there? Is Larry Bird on there? No.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: One current player. One current player, and it's not LeBron.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Steph Curry.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: Steph Curry is on his Mount Rushmore. All right, who's
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: the guy he's compared to all the time?
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: He's compared to Hakeem.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: Elijah?
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: No. Who's he compared to?
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Who's the guy whose records he keeps breaking? Oh, Will Chamberlain. Yes,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: he's on the Mount Rushmore.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: Who was Will Chamberlain's, at the time, his biggest rival
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: that got the best of Will?
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Bill Russell. Bill Russell's on it. And the last one's
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. Those are his four. And it's causing a
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: lot of, oh, okay, from the LeBron crowd.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Well, he's got two big guys on there.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I'm actually surprised he actually answered that question, to be honest.
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: So am I.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: He usually never puts anything out there that would cause
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: any distress.
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Everybody good. Everybody was good. That's what I would, yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I have to play something for you. I have not
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: heard this yet. I'm very excited about this. Jerry Jones
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: was on his radio show.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, God.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: On 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. And they just come
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: off a loss where he's down in the table up
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: in the sweet right some like man what is this
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: going to be listen to this.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: Story one of my greatest memories and this is not
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: there you're talking about was uh... after uh... the game
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: against green bay maybe twenty five years ago uh... all
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: of my grandchildren were very small uh... four or five
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: years old and i had a car full of them
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: we've been up to watch green bay in green bay
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: it was so cold And as we left the stadium,
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: we won. As we left the stadium, we were in
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: a long, big car. And I saw this lady headed
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: toward the car. And she comes up beside the car running.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: She's so upset as a Green Bay fan. And she
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: was pretty hefty. And she turns around and pulls it
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: all down and just plants it right up against the window. Yeah.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: So she stuck her large derriere on his window. That's
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: kind of funny.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: That was so worth it. She was hefty. And she
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: pulled her pants down. She pressed it all up on
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the window.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: That's funny.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: And then her skin stuck to the window. It was
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: so cold.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: There's more to it?
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: And when she pulled away, there was just a big print.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: My word.
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: There were about 10 or 11 of us in the car,
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: and we can still see it today.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, hang on a second. What's the size of this car?
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Hold on a second. Follow-up question.
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: How'd you lose to the Bucs, Jerry?
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Like, you just lost to Tampa, who was winless going
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: into that game at home.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, do you guys know who the
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: number one college football team in the world is right now?
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: Georgia.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: It is Georgia.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: How'd you know that?
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: I keep track of things like that.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Because Texas was number one, and they lost, and Georgia
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: was number two, and they beat Alabama.
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: I thought I was going to get you guys.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: This is pretty basic. I mean, this is a sports show.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Number one team loses game.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. is this Jeopardy? And you got
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: us on dead poets.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: I didn't realize that you guys actually paid attention to
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: the rankings.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Listen to this guy.
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: Like, I wouldn't know who's ranked in the top five
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: considering my team's number two.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Like, I wouldn't know that.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: But Moshe, Georgia was number two, and the number one
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: team lost, and then they beat Alabama, and then.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Okay. Never mind.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: All right. Go to the corner. Mouth fart corner. Mouth
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: fart corner. Mouth fart corner.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Our first mouth fart corner.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Go.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: That is an unbelievable... Go in the corner. Mouth fart.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Don't do me any favors. I'm glad to take this
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: segment off.
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: And go.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Stay there for a while.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Go.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go pee. Go ahead. No, you're in
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: the mouth fart corner. No, mouth fart corner. You farted
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: through your mouth. And now you have to sit as
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: it wafts in your nostrils. I'm going potty. Think about
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: what he just said. It's a sports show. Hey, guys.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Watch this. Watch this.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: I'll get them.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Who's the number one rated team in the country right now?
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: The team that was number two and one? Hey, just
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: real quick here. There's a story on Business Insider. Here's
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: the quote from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar. So many AI
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: other researchers how much they believe in AI. These researchers
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: are so convinced that AI is going to find a
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: cure for cancer that they are trying to give themselves
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: that to say this is how much.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I believe in it. That's not true. It's on Business Insider. What?
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: What a ridiculous bet to make. Hey, cutie.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Mouth fart corner mode. Garage door making some crazy noise?
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Don't ignore your garage door. Small problems lead to big problems.
• 41:19
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• 41:22
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