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9-4: Farhan Lalji, Seahawks news, Mariners? And High School sports! · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 2: from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, happy Labor Day weekend, Friday. Oh, what?
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  Speaker 3: We don't have to work on Monday?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 2: You do.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: We all do. Headlines are ready by Frost Booth, Coors Light,
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  Speaker 2: Choose Chill, Colt as the Rockies. That too. The Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: Do we laugh or cry? 18 times.
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  Speaker 3: Can we both? I laugh, cry sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Laugh, cry maybe. That might be the Mariners season. Laugh
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  Speaker 2: and cry. More crying than laughing. 18 times they struck
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  Speaker 2: out last night against the Lillias. They lost a 3-1
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  Speaker 2: lead early. Kate Anderson was not dominant, and the M's
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  Speaker 2: lost the game. 7-4 to begin a homestand against the
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  Speaker 2: AL West. They can't be giving away games, and they did.
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  Speaker 2: Trash cans won. Mariners are now nine games under.
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  Speaker 6: 500.
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  Speaker 2: Six games out of first place. Maybe we shouldn't even
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  Speaker 2: mention the standings. If you're nine games out of under. 500,
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  Speaker 2: just forget about first place.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, let's.
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  Speaker 2: 21 games left.
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  Speaker 3: Let's focus on the positive.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: The positive is the season will end.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Greg, that's sad.
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  Speaker 7: This season is driving me nuts.
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  Speaker 6: And I know I'm not the only one.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the Mariner fans out there agree.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Heaven have pity on all of you.
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  Speaker 3: But the passion still exists.
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  Speaker 2: Jesslyn's really checking out the passion versus apathy meter. And
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  Speaker 2: it's right on the edge.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Game two of the four-game series against the Athletics tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert starts with the M's. Another fireworks sing-along night,
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  Speaker 2: so there'll be 45,000 in the yard. George Kirby starts
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow night. I think it's bobblehead night for Brian Wu.
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  Speaker 2: So there'll be another 40-plus thousand tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, those are Funko Pop, and they're super cute.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a Funko Pop or a bobblehead?
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  Speaker 3: I saw Funko. I might be wrong.
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  Speaker 7: Brian Wu starts on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Munoz was the Funko. I think Brian might be the bobble.
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  Speaker 4: See?
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  Speaker 2: This is why the Mariners are not where they need
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  Speaker 2: to be. It's fun! The accent's on the wrong syllable.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks return to practice after a three-day break. Five
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  Speaker 2: days until the NFL opener against New England at Lumen Field.
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  Speaker 2: Nicky Manwari practiced. The short time I was able to
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  Speaker 2: watch it, he was stretching and doing stuff on his own.
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  Speaker 2: Warming up mostly separate from his teammates. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: iffy if he plays Wednesday. Sweeping changes of the Pro
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  Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame selection process this morning in the
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  Speaker 2: wake of the fiasco last year that Bill Belichick failed
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  Speaker 2: to get in. Everyone up in arms that Bill Belichick
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  Speaker 2: didn't get in. Meanwhile, Mike Holmgren should have been in
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  Speaker 2: a decade ago.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you!
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  Speaker 3: Michael Scott.
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  Speaker 7: No more senior category.
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  Speaker 2: The Board of Electors selectors will be reduced from 50
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  Speaker 2: to 28. 25 members of the selection committee will be
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  Speaker 2: voting members in three alternates. There will no longer be
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  Speaker 2: one selector from each of the home markets of the
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  Speaker 2: 32 NFL teams. Mike Sando was the one here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Phenomenal edit, I would say.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Predecessor of mine at the News Tribune as well. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: one person who's not on the selection committee are going
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  Speaker 2: to present all the candidates each year. We'll see if
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  Speaker 2: this right's the wrong and Mike Holmgren not being in
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  Speaker 2: the hall. Criticized WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engbert. She's out. She's
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  Speaker 2: retiring at the end of this league season. She's been
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  Speaker 2: criticized by star players for being negligent and that the
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  Speaker 2: league has the worst leadership in the world. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: it'll get better than that without Kathy.
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  Speaker 8: The world?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the world.
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  Speaker 3: That's a little hyperbolic, but.
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  Speaker 7: Nafisa Collier of Minnesota said that last year.
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  Speaker 2: The Sounders, tomorrow they host the New York Red Bulls,
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  Speaker 2: 5.30 p.m. at Lumen Field. Now on with the Friday show.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good one. Good morning. Happy Friday. Happy Labor
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  Speaker 2: Day weekend.
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  Speaker 7: Jessamyn McInnes is already dancing to Mark Morrison.
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  Speaker 3: How could I not?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Ensign Sarah Bell appreciates that. I got one
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  Speaker 2: week till I'm seeing Sarah Bell.
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  Speaker 3: In the most beautiful place.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. I get to go to Hawaii. I'm very
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  Speaker 2: excited for the Seahawks opener because the next morning I'm.
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  Speaker 7: Flying to Hawaii with my wife to see our daughter.
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  Speaker 5: What a beautiful way to spend the beginning of September.
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  Speaker 2: Man, that's going to be great.
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  Speaker 3: If you do not see whales, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 3: very mad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question because there's been storms galore
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  Speaker 2: through Hawaii lately and a lot of unusually severe storms
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of rain. I know there's monsoon season there,
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  Speaker 2: but my daughter was saying this is a little abnormal.
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  Speaker 3: Is she good?
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  Speaker 4: She good. She good.
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  Speaker 2: But when it does storm, they have to batten down
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  Speaker 2: hatches and report to the boat and get ready for
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  Speaker 2: emergency ops in the Coast Guard. You know, as soon
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  Speaker 2: as it gets the storm is when they start heading out.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone comes in and the Coast Guard goes out. That's
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  Speaker 2: a famous saying of the Coast Guard. On the show today,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to debut something. We're going to continue through
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  Speaker 2: November into December. The debut of our High School Football
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  Speaker 2: Friday feature. It's going to be cool, man. I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: about this. I really want to trumpet, especially the coaches
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  Speaker 2: who give so much of their time to high school
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  Speaker 2: athletics to further young men and women and to give
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  Speaker 2: their opportunities to further their education and their athletics, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: in college. So we're going to talk to the head
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  Speaker 2: coaches of the game of the state tonight. It's No.
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  Speaker 2: 3 against No. 4 in Class 4A. Graham Kapowson is
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  Speaker 2: heading up to Lake Stevens tonight. And we're talking to
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  Speaker 2: both coaches, Jeff Logan of Graham Kapowson. You'll hear from
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  Speaker 2: him at 11 o'clock. And right after that, you'll hear
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  Speaker 2: from Tom Try. He's the head coach of Lake Stevens,
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  Speaker 2: a multi-time state championship winning coach in his own right.
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  Speaker 2: You'll hear from both of them at 11 o'clock. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to do this every week, every Friday. We have
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  Speaker 2: a whole list of games and coaches we want to
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  Speaker 2: talk to and players we want to highlight. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: I was just going to say, in the world of
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  Speaker 5: how we are talking about sports changing so much and
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  Speaker 5: how it has become a little too professionalized at younger ages.
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  Speaker 3: This feature means a lot to me.
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  Speaker 5: My father started, obviously, high school coaching before he ended
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  Speaker 5: up going into college. And it is just so great
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  Speaker 5: to hear from these guys because you do it for
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  Speaker 5: the love of the game. You do it for the
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  Speaker 5: love of those who you are bringing up into the sport.
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  Speaker 5: And Those are people I want to hear from.
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  Speaker 2: Me too. They do it. You're exactly right, Jessamyn. They
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  Speaker 2: do it with almost no pay. I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a couple thousand dollars to do 60 hours a week
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  Speaker 2: of work. And a lot of them teach in the
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  Speaker 2: schools that they coach at, which is a whole nother
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  Speaker 2: level of development and interest in time. It's great. And
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  Speaker 2: there's time. There's room. I know this is a pro
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  Speaker 2: sports town. It's a Washington Huskies town. But there's room
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  Speaker 2: for this, and there's room to highlight those who do this.
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  Speaker 5: I think we have a lot of listeners who actually
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  Speaker 5: care a lot. That's why I love this market. We're
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  Speaker 5: a big market. I mean, if you want to get
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  Speaker 5: in to pull the curtain aside, we are a top
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  Speaker 5: 13 market in this country.
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  Speaker 3: And people in this one, in Seattle, and.
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  Speaker 5: Our surrounding areas who are listening care a They care
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  Speaker 5: about youth sports. And I think that this station has
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  Speaker 5: done an amazing job over the years of continuing to
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  Speaker 5: put them in the limelight.
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  Speaker 2: Not only is it Lake Stevens, Graham Kapowson and I,
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  Speaker 2: there's a texter, 360, Jason, who is always asking me
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  Speaker 2: to trumpet this and James, excuse me, 360. And he's
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  Speaker 2: exactly right. He said, hey, can you please give some
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  Speaker 2: respect or love to the longest running high school rivalry
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  Speaker 2: game this side of the Mississippi River? It started in 1906,
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  Speaker 2: Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
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  Speaker 3: I did not know that.
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  Speaker 2: They play each other every year since 1906, man. We're
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  Speaker 2: in 2026. And tonight, the Myrtle Street Rivalry is the
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  Speaker 2: 121st meeting down in Aberdeen. I mean, I've been down there.
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  Speaker 2: I scheduled a game and played down there, and the
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  Speaker 2: stadium is a gem. I scheduled a baseball game just
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  Speaker 2: to play in the stadium down there. It's a wooden stadium.
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  Speaker 2: built with a war effort and bonds back in the
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  Speaker 2: World War I era. It's cool. It's a really neat setting.
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  Speaker 2: And tonight, Aberdeen and Hoquiam are playing out on the coast,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't want to lose track of that. So
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  Speaker 2: thank you, James.
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  Speaker 4: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: That is yet another. This is what our sports and
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  Speaker 2: tableau across the fall and Friday nights are across the country.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in Ohio where I played in front
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  Speaker 2: of 12,000 fans in a town that had 20,000 people
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  Speaker 2: in it. I played in front of 30, 35,000 people
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  Speaker 2: at Ohio state's horseshoe and Ohio stadium for the state
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  Speaker 2: championship game two years in a row. Yeah. I, I,
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  Speaker 2: I hats off to all of you men and women
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  Speaker 2: who coach, who teach and coach, who spend all the
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  Speaker 2: time and time and time to develop young women and men.
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  Speaker 2: And it's character building and it's all of that. It's,
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot that goes into high school and youth sports,
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  Speaker 2: and we have been bagging it a lot and talking
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  Speaker 2: about the specialization and the money and soccer, how this
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  Speaker 2: country's backwards with that, and baseball and the travel teams. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: high school football, those guys are at its core. That's
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  Speaker 2: where it started.
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  Speaker 5: And another point I wanted to make, but people think that,
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  Speaker 5: let's say, you're pros.
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  Speaker 3: Coaching is very, very a special skill.
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  Speaker 5: You don't just become a professional athlete and get to
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  Speaker 5: be a coach. There's a select few who have done it.
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  Speaker 5: We've seen Deion Sanders, and that's a whole other thing.
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  Speaker 5: But you start from the bottom all over again, even
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  Speaker 5: if you're a multimillionaire. You can't just go into it.
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  Speaker 5: And I like that. coaching has stayed that way for
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  Speaker 5: the majority of it. And that you have to learn again.
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  Speaker 5: And you're learning and teaching at the same time. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's a very special skill. And I'm really excited
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  Speaker 5: that we're doing this.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do a great job of that as a
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  Speaker 2: high school baseball coach. Learning and evolving.
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  Speaker 8: I was.
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  Speaker 2: a little bit stuck in my ways, to be honest
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  Speaker 2: with you. And I needed to be better at that.
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  Speaker 3: Greg, you're a West Point crutch. That doesn't shock me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, I guess that stereotype fits.
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  Speaker 2: But I needed to be better at that. And these
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  Speaker 2: men and women who coach today and the challenges of
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  Speaker 2: just keeping kids on the field, a lot of kids
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  Speaker 2: don't want to do it anymore. Or they want to
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  Speaker 2: have other things that are pulling them away or social
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  Speaker 2: media or their friends hanging out.
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  Speaker 7: It's just different than it used to be.
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  Speaker 2: And Maybe it's always been like that with kids, but
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  Speaker 2: there's a special place in my heart for high school coaches,
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  Speaker 2: youth sports coaches, the time they spend.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's eons.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible the amount of time. I used to get
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  Speaker 2: on a bus at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, go up,
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  Speaker 2: play a doubleheader down in Vancouver somewhere. We'd play Columbia River.
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  Speaker 2: We'd come back about midnight or 1 a.m. You're on
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  Speaker 2: a yellow school bus, and you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It And I wouldn't trade that for anything. We had
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  Speaker 2: a blast. It was great.
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  Speaker 3: There's someone keeping you safe the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And teaching you.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And coaching you.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 10: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, that's hats off again to all you coaches
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  Speaker 2: out there and parents too. I mean, you get up
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  Speaker 2: and you get up all hours to practice.
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  Speaker 3: They are dedicated as heck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. We're going to talk to Farhan Lalji, TSN
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  Speaker 2: Canada's NFL guy, a friend of ours, popular in the
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  Speaker 2: text line. He'll be back today. He's going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Seahawks opener. He's going to be there Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 2: He's also going to be in Kansas City at Arrowhead
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  Speaker 2: Stadium for the first Monday night game of the season.
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  Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos at the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night. 1045,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to hear from the newest Seahawks quarterback, cornerback
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  Speaker 2: with a C, Avery Smith. In the unusual way he
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  Speaker 2: got to the Seahawks last weekend and why he's surprised
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  Speaker 2: to be here, it's unique. His story is a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think the People want to know because that's
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  Speaker 5: not a name that rolls off of anyone's top of mind.
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  Speaker 2: Avery Smith is from Toledo, the University of Toledo. He's
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  Speaker 2: an undrafted rookie free agent. And the Seahawks just traded
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  Speaker 2: a sixth round draft pick. John Schneider traded a sixth
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  Speaker 2: round draft pick to get an undrafted rookie free agent.
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  Speaker 2: You know how rare it is to trade for a
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  Speaker 2: rookie free agent before he's even played his first NFL game,
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  Speaker 2: before he's even had a first week in the NFL
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  Speaker 2: regular season? That's rare. It's rare. And Avery Smith knows it.
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  Speaker 2: He talked about that when I asked him yesterday about
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  Speaker 2: his surprise of being traded.
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  Speaker 7: That's what he talked about. You'll hear from him at 1045.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine being wanted by a Super Bowl winning champion.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. In this defense. Exactly. And it shows how Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald is not satisfied with the third quarter cornerbacks he
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  Speaker 2: has tried. Think about it. They had no egg monogamy.
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  Speaker 2: They cut him. The Cleveland Browns have since signed him.
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  Speaker 2: They had Nehemiah Pritchett, the third-year unproven draft pick from
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  Speaker 2: a few years ago. He's still on the roster. But
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  Speaker 2: if he was in their plans, they'd start a training
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  Speaker 2: camp with him. And since that training camp began, they
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  Speaker 2: have signed Teron Arnold, who's facing eight felonies. They have
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  Speaker 2: signed Trevon Diggs, who hasn't played a full season since 2022.
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  Speaker 2: And they have traded a draft pick next year, a
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  Speaker 2: sixth-round pick, for an undrafted rookie free agent. That's how
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  Speaker 2: much they're looking for a third corner.
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  Speaker 5: I think if there's any way, I know that Pete
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  Speaker 5: Carroll used to churn the roster so hard, but if
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  Speaker 5: there's any way to describe what Mike McDonald's strategy is,
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  Speaker 5: it's churning the defensive backfield.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially a corner. And again, he wants to have
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  Speaker 2: a third corner he can trust so he can move
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  Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon inside. And now Avery Smith played, he told me,
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  Speaker 2: played 75% of the preseason for the Chargers in nickel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's here to play nickel. I really do.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're right about the spoon move.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Devin. I know for a fact. McDonald has
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  Speaker 2: talked about wanting Witherspoon inside because he affects the game
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  Speaker 2: more directly there, and he can blitz him more, and
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  Speaker 2: he has a more direct path to quarterback. He can
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  Speaker 2: guard more receivers. He can make more plays on the
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  Speaker 2: ball across the middle, and he can be in on
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  Speaker 2: the run game because at 180 pounds, he tackles like
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  Speaker 2: he's 230. McDonald wants to play Witherspoon and nickel, but
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  Speaker 2: he can only do that if he has a third
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  Speaker 2: corner he can trust. He had one, well, he had
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  Speaker 2: one he could mostly trust in Rick Woolen. He would
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  Speaker 2: do things that would just drive McDonald crazy, like the
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  Speaker 2: NFC title game taunting up and down the sidelines of
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  Speaker 2: the Rams after a third down stop that cost him
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  Speaker 2: points and almost a Super Bowl berth. But since letting
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  Speaker 2: Woolen go to Philadelphia for $ 12 million in one year,
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  Speaker 2: they're on a search. They didn't like Pritchett enough because
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  Speaker 2: they started putting Noah Ibnaghani in. They didn't like Ibnaghani enough.
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  Speaker 2: They cut him.
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  Speaker 3: I was a little surprised by that.
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  Speaker 2: I was too. And the Browns picked him up on
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  Speaker 2: the active roster, so he's not coming back to the
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  Speaker 2: practice squad. And now they're trading for an undrafted rookie,
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  Speaker 2: Avery Smith, that he is really on a search. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the hope now is that Diggs can ramp up enough,
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  Speaker 2: Javon Diggs can ramp up enough to be that guy.
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  Speaker 2: And eventually, the plan longer term is to tear on
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  Speaker 2: Arnold to get out of his legal situation in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: if you call it situation.
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  Speaker 4: Is a loaded word there.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have a third corner you can trust,
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  Speaker 2: and he would only be 23 years old in the
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  Speaker 2: case of Arnold. But McDonald in the near term is
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  Speaker 2: really rooting for Trevon Diggs to speed up and get going.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the practice squad right now. So that's the
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: third cornerback situation for the Seahawks.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: I am very glad that he cleared, by the way.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: I did not think that he.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: No, well, he was an unrestricted free agent because of
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: his service time, so he wasn't subject to waivers. Oh,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: he wasn't. And that was the whole deal. That was
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: the reason why they did it. is really they bought
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: two spots. They could keep Pritchett and keep Diggs because
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: he didn't have to go through waivers.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Man, there's so much legalese.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bunch of red tape.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I'm glad that Diggs is still in the system. I
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: will just say that.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: And he could have left. He could have gone unrestricted
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: if someone had offered him a 53 spot. But you
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: saw the episode on Hard Knocks, Mike McDonald bringing him
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: into the office going, you know what our deal is, right?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: This is our plan for you. You understand what we're
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: trying to do. We want to bring you to the
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: practice squad so we'll buy you some more time to
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: get ready for the season and blah, blah, blah.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: That transparency.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's just Hard Knocks being behind
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: the scenes, but the transparency that I've seen with this
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: team is kind of second to none.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it works. I mean, some teams are like this,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: but Cooper Cupp was explaining that not every team is
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: like this in the NFL, and he implied the Rams
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: weren't like this.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: And we're not privy to it. We don't get to
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: see it. We're one of 32 markets that has one.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: And I have just seen the way that John Schneider
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: and Mike McDonald operate, previously Pete Carroll, and I feel
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: like there's a lot more transparency than I've seen in
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: professional sports.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: It's usually more transactional and pretty cold.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: It is a business.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: So I respect that as well. I just appreciate the
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: human touch.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: At 1130, we'll be back. Speaking of human touch, you
• 17:13
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• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Chime in.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Give me your voices.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: She wants your voices, and she'll play them back at
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: 1130 on the talk box.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: If you're driving, please use Siri.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I guess you could do that.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: No, just don't touch your phone while you're driving. That's
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: all I was saying.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: This segment brought to you by the Washington State Department
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: of Transportation.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: And then also at 1130, your text on the 49451
• 17:35
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• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Thanks already for the one for Hoke, William, and Aberdeen
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: also tonight.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of excitement about the high school segment.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see that. That's great. Up next, my
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: buddy Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada. We're going to talk NFL
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: all around the league. The Browns quarterback situation. How long
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: is Kirk Cousins going to be the Raiders' number one guy?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Way more to talk about in the NFL next on
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back. First big football weekend of the season,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend. High school football started last night. I refereed, officiated,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I was a side wing official for Ballard beating Lincoln
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: of Seattle 23-6. Then the NFL season gets going next Wednesday. Seahawks-Patriots.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: And then college football in between. A lot of college
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: football this weekend since the NFL isn't going on. I've
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: got Sunday games. I know Notre Dame's playing on Sunday.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss is playing. Yeah, there's a lot going on
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: this weekend in college football, high school football. Also going
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: on this weekend, Jessamyn, I'm dating myself. You may not
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: know this reference. Culture Club and Boy George are playing
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: a show at the Washington State Fair. At least I
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: saw that. Am I making that up? How are they
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: still a band? That was like 1985, right?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Culture Club. The club in New York City is actually
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: super fun.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Do you know the band Culture Club? Boy George was
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the front.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: There's a concert, apparently.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: And that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: Is that the Washington State Fair in Monroe?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: That's a rumor. I'd have to check that out. I
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: think I got an email on there. Yeah, tonight. Boy
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: George Culture Club.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: In New York City. Super fun. And it is just
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: 80s round the table.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: But the band. from England is Culture Club.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Very well aware of that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: It outdated me a little bit because I just like
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: to relive the 80s.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: That's when I grew up.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I got a release just now. This is Do
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the Puyallup with Boy George and Culture Club with special
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: guest Wang Chung. Is this like 1987? That's crazy. Tonight,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: September 4th in Puyallup, 7.30 p.m., Boy George and Culture Club.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Come on, 49451.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: In Puyallup? Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I might have to take a road trip.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah. 49451.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: Our next guest might know.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, far on.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Boy George and Culture Club.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Have you ever been to Culture Club, the club, or
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: any of Boy George's stuff?
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: I have no idea. I can't say I've been to
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: a concert. Come on, come on, come on, come on,
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: come on. Yes!
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: Yes!
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I was going to do it, but I didn't want
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to give it away. Yes! There you go.
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: I know the song, the big song, and a couple others,
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: but I can't say I've ever been to a club
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: named after him or gone to one of his concerts.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: So there you go. Farhan never disappoints. Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: our NFL guy from up in B.C. coming down to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: join us on Wednesday at the Opener of the Seahawks
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and the Patriots. Last week, if I'm not mistaken, we
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: were out at Renton together watching practice. You threw in
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: kind of a line that said, I think the Patriots
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: aren't even going to make the playoffs. Am I right
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: about that? And why do you say that?
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: You're going to miss the playoffs?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I thought you said that. The Patriots aren't going to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. Yes.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I absolutely said that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: I think they're totally going to miss the ball. Look
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: at their record. It was completely inflated. You look at
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: the roster this year, the challenges that are on there,
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: particularly on the ball, and they're ridiculously fit. Like, I
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: don't know who they're for this team when they're healthy.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Let alone you lose a guy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: And now you've kind of, you've lost your third offensive tackle.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: They just traded for a guy, even though they drafted
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: a guy in the first round, apparently he's not good
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: enough to kind of be part of that top three mix.
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: You know, like how much will, how much will AJ
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: Brown and Romeo Dobbs make that offense better? You know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: no Trevion Henderson, or sorry, there's a chance Trevion Henderson
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: doesn't play this week. But when I just look at
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: the roster, I just see a lot of holes, particularly
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: in the draft.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get him back.
• 22:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Maybe a little lost connection.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Linden, Linden, Washington.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I'll get him back.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of country in Linden, Washington. He's on,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I know he's traveling, so we'll get him back.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: He told me that last week. And I remember after
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: we talked and he drove away and I was like,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, I didn't really press him a little
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: more for details on why he thinks the Patriots are
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: going to face plant. So I'm about to ask Farhan.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Then this is probably okay.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Farhan.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: So this is probably a blowout on Wednesday. The Seahawks win. No, it's, Oh,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: he switched on trying to connect.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: We're just, yeah.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: And believe you me, I'm the first person who wants
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: to hear about Patriots failure.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Spoken like a Long Islander, of course. A Jets fan,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: of course. But yeah, Farhan was talking to me last
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: week about this and about how they are a paper
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: tiger in his mind with the schedule they had last year.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: And you know how the NFL works. If you're a
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: last place team, you get a very favorable schedule the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: following year. That's how parity is in the league. If
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: you get our first place team, you get a tough
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: schedule and the Seahawks have one of the tougher ones,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: not to mention the Seahawks play in a tough, tough,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: tougher division than the Patriots do. The Patriots, of course,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: have the Jets and they have the Dolphins. Some people
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: think the Dolphins might only win one or two games
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and will be in a race for the new franchise
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: quarterback of next year's draft. But yeah, it struck me
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: last week when I was talking to Farhan, I was like,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, he's talking about the Patriots' Let's explore
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: that a little more. So where we left off, Farhan,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: before we left you, was you talking about how the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Patriots really don't have anything in terms of depth.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: So you think Wednesday night's going to be a walk
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: for the Seahawks?
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: Well, I don't see how the Seahawks lose this game
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: unless the Seahawks make a bunch of self-inflicted errors. When
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: I look at New England, I'm just trying to find
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: where their improvements are, right? And they want Drake May
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: to get to the next level. Obviously, A.J.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Brown's going to be there.
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: I'm getting Romeo Dobbs is going to help, but on
• 24:11
  Speaker 11: the defensive side, like this is a team that's going
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: to totally try to rely on their backend to allow
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: their front seven, to try to make some things happen.
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: So you look at how this team finished last year
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: and their blitz rate. went to like fifth. I think
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: they finished the season with the fifth highest blitz rate
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: in the league because they just couldn't get pressure with four.
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: And I don't know what improvements they've made and they've
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: got injuries there. So I like, when I look at their,
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: their trench play, I don't see the improvements and I
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: don't know that they've done enough to improve this roster.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Foreign allows you to TSN Canada, joining us in the
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: beacon plumbing hotline, talking NFL. He's going to be at
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Lumen field with me Wednesday for the Seahawks Patriots NFL
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: kickoff game. Then he's going to be in Kansas city
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: for the Monday night game at Arrowhead stadium of Denver
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: at Kansas city. Staying in the AFC, the Browns quarterback situation,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I neglected to ask you that on the air last week,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: but is this Deshaun Watson because they're paying him $ 200
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: million and they have to?
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: Or what do you think is going on here?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Is Shutter Sanders really going to be the starter this year? Eventually,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the optics of all this in Cleveland is just terrible.
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: It is, especially when you look at how the relationship
• 25:17
  Speaker 11: with Deshaun Watson and the fans has become, right? And,
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: you know, when he made those statements early on where
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: he was criticizing the fans for him and then talking
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: about the fact that he has no regrets in terms
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: of what he did, pretty tone-deaf comment.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: He walked it back a little bit.
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: But I'm not convinced that they believe in Sanders, right?
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: I mean, if they really felt Sanders was the guy,
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: and quite frankly, if Sanders showed that he was the guy,
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: and maybe he showed he was a little better than Watson,
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: but he hasn't shown himself to be... you know, you
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: look at him in the preseason or whatever he's played
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: and say, yeah, yeah, this is the franchise guy. So
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: I think they're just still in a holding pattern. And
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: if they're trying to get value out of Deshaun Watson,
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: I guess they can, you know, next year they can
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: move them and it's not as onerous. So like, I,
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: I don't think they're comfortable with anything. And then there's
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: Dylan Gabriel just sitting in the midst.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Of all of that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: So it's a bizarre situation.
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: And I, I think they've, you know, they're trying not
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: to box them.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: To be fair, Farhan is working on a story in
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: a place with very poor service. So, yeah, we'll see
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: if we can get him back. I'll work on that
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I thought it was the Canadian tariff controversy going on here.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: That's entirely possible. It's entirely possible.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got you halfway. We got you back.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: And thus, he is gone once again. Anyway.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: um i'm here now.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: There we go i thought robert craft might have swooped
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: in on your phone there.
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: No guy like i saw some i'm dropping my son
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: off i dropped my son off at a prep school
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: and we were supposed to be gone and all of
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: a sudden my wife had this idea that look we
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: got to clean up get a bunch of stuff moved
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: in while he's still in class thought we weren't going
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: to do this till sunday so like and i think
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: at these schools they like to like cut off your
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: cell phone if you're a kid you don't want to
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: have a phone on during class time So I'm sitting
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: here on one bar around 90 degree temperatures trying to
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: find a clear spot so we can talk.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Farhan's son.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: We do appreciate your sacrifice.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Quarterback now in Virginia. All right, let's stay on quarterbacks.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins named Clint Kubiak's starter in Las Vegas. Do
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: you think this is a whole season deal, Farhan? Do
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you think Mendoza's going to be a starter? Obviously, eventually,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: but this year?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: And I think we, once again, are dealing with technical difficulties.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: So if you missed it earlier this week, Clint Kubiak,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the new coach and former offensive coordinator for the Seahawks, naming,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: it took him all preseason. Everyone in Las Vegas that
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I talked to around the Raiders knew it was going
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: to be Kirk Cousins, but he waited until this week
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to announce that. And Fernando Mendoza, of course, is the
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: number one overall pick, the national champion quarterback from Indiana.
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: The history in the NFL of quarterbacks, rookie quarterbacks, even
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: top number one picks, playing right away is not good.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: John Elway and even before that, there's a reason why
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you get picked first overall because the team you're going
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: to is terrible. So in that sense, why bring the
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: kid out and lose games right away to start his career?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: And that's part of the reason that they got Kirk
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Cousins in the first place from Atlanta after, of course,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the Falcons gave up on him with Michael Penix Jr.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Arriving.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: But Suffice to say that I don't know if it's
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: a redshirt year, and Farhan, while you're joining us in
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: TSN Canada again, what I was trying to get to is, Farhan,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's necessarily an entire redshirt year for Mendoza,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: or do you see Kirk Cousins starting the entire season
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas?
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: No, I think there's going to be a window here
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: where Mendoza plays. It could be a number of reasons
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: that takes him there. You know, Kirk Cousins has earned
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: the opportunity. He was better in the preseason. His body
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: of work is good. Unbelievable that he's starting on opening
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: day for a fourth different team. But when you look
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: at Mendoza, I think they want to ease him in.
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: I think Kirk Cousins, at some point given his age,
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: he could get hurt. When you consider that offensive line,
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: he could get hurt. When you consider those offensive pieces.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: With the Raiders.
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: they could just struggle enough to the point where they say,
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: why not? Let's just get a head start on next
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: year with four or five games left in the season
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: and let Mendoza play at that point. So there's a
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: number of circumstances that could take them in that direction.
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: But I think it's only a matter of time before
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: Mendoza plays.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you there too. All right. The
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: big news here, of course, is Aaron Donald and the Rams.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: And now the Rams already won the Super Bowl in
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: early September. But how much can we expect, Farhan, that
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Donald plays? Are we talking like 20 snaps? Is he
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: a rotational guy? Is he going to just be a
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: pass rusher inside? And where do you think that evolution
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: will go from where Donald will be able to play?
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know if he's playing in Australia
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: next week.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: To when the Seahawks play the Rams for the first
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: time on Christmas night, and do you think maybe by
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: then it could be the old Aaron Donald of 60-plus
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: snaps a game, or that's unrealistic?
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: No, I think it could be realistic at that time
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: of year. I think they'd be crazy to try to
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: do more than that with him now, and I think
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: that they won't try to do more than that with
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: him now. I think he's going to be a 20-snap-a-game
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: guy for the first two months of the.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Season, and they'll ramp that up.
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: But I think it really is going to come down
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: to performance, because if he shows by the end of
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: the first month, for example, that he can handle more
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  Speaker 11: and that he's as impactful and that he's as disruptive,
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: they're going to just increase that because it's just too
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: valuable not to, right? And there may be some games
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: along the way where they just don't feel the need
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: to do that because the mismatch is so large. But
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: certainly I believe their goal is to get them to
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: be a 60 snap guy, 55 snap guy by the
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: time they get to Christmas day. And, you know, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: it's so funny when you, when you talk about these
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  Speaker 11: two teams and, It's so difficult to handicap what it's
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: going to look like now because they're both going to
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: look so different at Christmas Day. There's just going to
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: be injuries along the way.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows?
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  Speaker 11: John Schneider and Sean McVay and Les Snead and their crew,
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: they're not going to let the grass grow under their feet.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: They're going to.
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: be aggressively trying to improve their rosters when the time
• 31:08
  Speaker 11: comes like wouldn't shock me if all of a sudden
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: Seattle were to add a running back in the next
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: couple of days here wouldn't shock me you know well
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: like what they've done in the secondary in terms of
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: attempting to get better at corner hasn't surprised me because
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: that's just where they are in their competitive cycle they
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: want to get better today so you know you're to
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: me I think these two teams could look significantly different
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: in Christmas and Aaron Donald could be playing a lot
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: or he just could get banged up himself given his
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: age and maybe they tried to push him too much
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: early and he might not for those two games.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that you see this as a two-team race
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: for how banged up the 49ers are and the problems
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: they have. Do you think, do you buy into what
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: everyone's saying, that the Rams are actually ahead of the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: even though the Seahawks are the defending champs?
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  Speaker 11: Well, when you look at the improvements that have been made, right,
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  Speaker 11: I mean, when you finish the season last year for
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  Speaker 11: the Rams, you need defense. They needed pass for a shelf,
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  Speaker 11: and they addressed both of those in a big way.
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  Speaker 11: I don't understand why people are calling this the super
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: team and making.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Them the favorites. They should. We got him just enough
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: to tick off the Seattle fan base. Which is so perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Now we got you.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, so when you look at who's improved more, the
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  Speaker 11: Rams have improved more, and they've improved in the areas.
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  Speaker 11: Against the Seahawks, right? You can take a Trent McDuffie
• 32:32
  Speaker 11: and move him inside and try to mitigate the damage
• 32:34
  Speaker 11: JSN can do to you, right? Like they've been really
• 32:36
  Speaker 11: targeted with where they wanted to improve. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 11: get why, but I also think Seattle's continuity and culture
• 32:43
  Speaker 11: and all of those things are also going to be
• 32:45
  Speaker 11: a real factor, like just one year and the buy-in
• 32:50
  Speaker 11: that he's got from around that team, which, which hard
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: knocks has certainly shown it. I, I think both teams
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: have gotten better. I think on the field, it's hard.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: All right, Farhan.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you. I'll let you get back to being
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: a dad. Tell your wife I'm sorry. I'll let you
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: get back to moving duties in Virginia. And we'll talk
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: to you next week, man. Thanks a lot. Farhan Lalji
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: of TSN Canada. Maybe he was in Saskatchewan and was
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: not telling us. Up in the Yukon.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: He made a valiant effort several times. And we do
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: appreciate that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And we think.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Hey, he's being a dad. He's in the middle of something.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: And taking his time. And his wife's going, you're doing what?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: You're on a phone?
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  Speaker 6: What?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: No. Move this desk.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: It does make sense that they would have a cell block,
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: a cell phone block, I mean, at a prep school, though.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: I think that's what he was saying, is that they're
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: moving his son into a prep school and that the
• 33:53
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• 33:56
  Speaker 5: that they're not attached to their screens.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: That's wild, too, isn't it? How about just make a
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: rule that you're not allowed to have your phones in
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: class and collect a phone?
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: It's a state rule.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: So I bought my niece a burner because she's nine
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: years old, for instance. And, you know, she might want
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: to talk to auntie about some girl's stuff.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: And I got a burner and it's a state law
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't have a phone when I went
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: to school.
• 34:26
  Speaker 15: Imagine that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: When you needed a ride, you had to go to
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: a pay phone.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: We just showed up.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: And if you had to wait, you had to wait.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, I did the whole we out of baby, it's
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: a boy thing on a collect call.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: My practice is done. Come pick me up.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: And don't accept the call.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: We did all that. People are right now going, what
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: are you talking about? Yeah, that used to.
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  Speaker 10: Be a thing.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I hear you on the text line, 49451, time to
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: get up. This is terrible. This is gross. Come on, man.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: We tried.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: We gave it our best.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Come on, man. Let him be a dad. I've been there.
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  Speaker 2: I've been there. I've been there with Chuck. I've been
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: there with Softie. I've been with Ian. I'm in the
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: middle of a soccer game. I'm in the middle of
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: a toll road in the middle of Ohio. Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Pasadena. The worst. All the satellites for everything that happens
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  Speaker 5: Are placed on a hill right outside the Rose Bowl.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: And I made it work somehow. And so did Farhan.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Thanks to Farhan. Thanks to you for listening. He's got
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: great stuff, and that just happened to break up a
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: few times.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I did like him pooping on the Patriots.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, and he also says that the Rams have, deservedly so,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: are considered the favorites.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not happy with that assessment.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, he's joining the rest of the chorus of the
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: NFL media. Next, the new Seahawks cornerback. He will not
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: break up because I was standing right next to him
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: when he talked, so this will be a much more
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: dependable conversation, we believe. Avery Smith.
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  Speaker 3: I have it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: It's fine.
• 35:58
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  Speaker 2: Please no more comments about Farhan's self-reception.
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  Speaker 2: That is legend.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And legend has it. Avery Smith is the newest Seahawks cornerback.
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  Speaker 26: What was that like for you getting the call and
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  Speaker 10: Coming out this way getting traded?
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Surprising, but.
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  Speaker 27: Can't say I wasn't mad at anything. I was excited,
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  Speaker 27: you know, to be a Seahawk. So, yeah, that's kind
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  Speaker 27: of where I'm at right now.
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  Speaker 4: What did you, you talked about the preseason you had.
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  Speaker 4: How did you feel like the preseason was for you? Yeah, good.
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  Speaker 27: I'm a hard critic on myself, so stuff I've seen
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  Speaker 4: What was it.
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• 45:11
  Speaker 27: Yeah, I made a joke today, call it the Toledo Seahawks. But,
• 45:14
  Speaker 27: I mean, Toledo, we got good DBs and good players,
• 45:16
  Speaker 27: so just kind of get in the league and do that.
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  Speaker 6: Was it a kind of reunion to see some of
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: those guys here?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it was great to see Dre and Maxson.
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  Speaker 4: What do you say, too, about this opportunity here?
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: Obviously, this group is dealing with injuries and safety.
• 45:29
  Speaker 27: Yeah, just winning culture, you know, winning the Super Bowl
• 45:33
  Speaker 27: last year. I wasn't here for that, so trying to
• 45:36
  Speaker 27: repeat and do that this year. But just the culture,
• 45:38
  Speaker 27: the energy, the defense, of course, aggressively. So just coming
• 45:42
  Speaker 27: in and trying to help whichever way I can.
• 45:44
  Speaker 26: Did you see Seahawks scouts on campus in Toledo or
• 45:47
  Speaker 26: it was all pre-draft stuff?
• 45:50
  Speaker 10: I'm not sure. I really don't remember, yeah.
• 45:53
  Speaker 26: How much inside-outside have you played the Knicks?
• 45:56
  Speaker 10: I played pretty much in college.
• 45:58
  Speaker 27: I played pretty much all outside. And preseason, I was
• 46:01
  Speaker 27: like probably 75% Knicks, so I could play both.
• 46:04
  Speaker 26: Did the Seahawks tell you anything specific about where they
• 46:06
  Speaker 26: want to use you?
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Just.
• 46:08
  Speaker 10: Really learning the playbook is where I'm at right now.
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  Speaker 26: Not knowing it's an easy playbook.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: How do you feel like you're doing just getting caught
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: up in this defense?
• 46:15
  Speaker 10: Yeah, pretty good. I feel like I'm doing good.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: You said you were surprised.
• 46:22
  Speaker 26: Were you surprised that you weren't on the Chargers roster?
• 46:25
  Speaker 26: Surprised it was the Seahawks?
• 46:26
  Speaker 18: What was surprising?
• 46:27
  Speaker 27: Yeah, I just, I mean, I follow football and I
• 46:29
  Speaker 27: haven't really heard of an undrafted free agent getting traded
• 46:32
  Speaker 27: before the regular season.
• 46:33
  Speaker 10: So that is what surprised me.
• 46:36
  Speaker 26: I mean, is that another team that wanted to go
• 46:38
  Speaker 26: out and get you and trade a pick for you?
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Did that tell you something?
• 46:40
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 46:40
  Speaker 27: Awesome tells me, like, how much they wanted me, and
• 46:43
  Speaker 27: they seen something, so just trying to come here and produce.
• 46:46
  Speaker 26: Did they talk to you pre-draft at all?
• 46:49
  Speaker 10: I'm not sure. I really don't remember.
• 46:51
  Speaker 27: I'm pretty sure I've had a couple meetings with area
• 46:53
  Speaker 27: scouts and stuff like that, but nothing off the top
• 46:55
  Speaker 27: of my head.
• 46:56
  Speaker 26: Were you expecting to get drafted, or were you surprised
• 46:58
  Speaker 26: you didn't?
• 46:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I was surprised.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Avery Smith, a new cornerback, and you heard him say it.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: I follow football, and I've never heard of an undrafted
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: rookie free agent getting traded for before his first regular
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: season week in the league.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: In Mike McDonald, we trust these days.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: They scouted him at Toledo. You heard him say Maxson
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: and Andre Fuller, a cornerback. Rookie cornerback drafted out of
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Toledo by the Seahawks, and Maxson Hook is a second-year
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: free agent from Toledo at safety. Both of them are
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: on the practice squad. Avery Smith's on the 53-man roster.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: They traded for him. He'll get a chance, too, at
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: third corner. Now, you heard him say he was a
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: college outside cornerback, and that's where I think the Seahawks
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: have him envisioned so they can move Witherspoon inside. In
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: the meantime, they're trying to get Trevon Diggs spun up.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: On the practice squad, not no. I don't know if
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: he's going to be able to play Wednesday. I'm sort
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: of doubting that or else they probably kept him on
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: the 53 if they thought that. So he's on the
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: practice squad. And there's a text line question. Avery Smith
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: was not a free agent. He was on the 90-man
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: roster for the Chargers. They were about to waive him
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: and ask him to go to the practice squad. But
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: instead of doing that, the Seahawks basically, because they were
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: 32nd in the waiver wire because they won the Super
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Bowl last year, they had the last pick. Everyone else
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: had a chance to claim Avery Smith. So they jumped
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: the line by trading for him. That's what they did.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: That's what Snyder, instead of losing him to waivers to
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: some other team, if the Chargers tried to put him
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: on the practice squad, the Seahawks traded for him. And
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: that's how much they wanted him, and they didn't want
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: to lose him to another team on waivers. So that
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: explains why they ended up trading rather than trying to
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: put a waiver claim in on him if he tried
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: to go to the practice squad. Up next, our debut
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: of our High School Football Friday weekly feature, the game
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: of the week this week, the best game in the state,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: number three against number four in Class 3A. Graham Kapowson
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: is heading up tonight to Lake Stevens. We'll talk next
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: to Graham Kapowson head coach Jeff Logan, and right after him,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Lake Stevens head coach Tom
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Try on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: Now, from the Star Rentals Sports Desk, your 93.3 KGB.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: FM Sports Headlines.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Good morning, happy Friday, happy Labor Day weekend, happy High
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: School Football Feature Friday. We'll get to that in a
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: second after headlines brought to you by Frostbude, Coors Light,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: cold as the Rockies, the Mariners.
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: We can all exhale.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Struck out 18 times. Well, maybe not.
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: Better than crying.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Struck out 18 times against the Lily A's last night
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: and lost 7-4. Nine games under.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: 500.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Six games out of first place. 21 games remain. Game
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: two of the four-game series against the Athletics tonight. Logan
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Gilbert starts on the mound. Fireworks sing-along night. George Kirby
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night on Brian Wu bobblehead night before Brian Wu
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: starts on Sunday. So there'll be 45,000 in the yard
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: and the owners are all cool. It's all good.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Hey, I have fun there, Greg.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I know you do.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: I attend a lot of games.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: You're not alone. You and 43,000 of your friends are.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Oh my God, I have so many friends.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks return to practice after a three-day break. Five
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: days until the NFL opener against New England at Lumen Field.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Nicky Manwari practiced, though in the short time I was
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: able to watch, he was stretching and warming up mostly
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: separate from his teammates. I think it's iffy that he
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: plays on Wednesday. We'll see. The first injury report practice
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: participation report of the season will come out tomorrow because
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: they practice Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Off Tuesday, game Wednesday.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Sweeping changes to the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: process in the wake of the fiasco last year of
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Bill Belichick and Mike Holmgren failing to get voted in.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: No more senior category. Board of selectors will be reduced
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: from 50 to 28. There will be no longer a
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: selector from each of the home markets of the 32
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: NFL teams. Instead, one person who's not on the committee
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: will present all the candidates We'll see if this right's
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the wrong of Coach Holmgren.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Get him in!
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: Get in there.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Finally. Criticized WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engbert is stepping down after
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: the end of this league season. She's been called negligent
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: by some stars in the league. She's done after this year.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Sounders tomorrow hosted New York Red Bulls. 5.30 p.m. at
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Lumen Field. 5 o'clock pregame with Jackson Feltz in a pregame.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Leads right into our broadcast.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Do you think he'll be genuine Jackson or furious Phelps?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I think he's still furious Phelps.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: They're winless in nine MLS matches. They had an eight-game
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: losing streak and then a tie.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: They're not having a good run. Anyways.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: I go south to Graham Kapowson High School, one of
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the state powers in Class 4A football. Coach Jeff Logan,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: kind enough to take time out of a game day
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: to join us here on 93.3 KJRFM. Coach Logan, I
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: was a high school baseball coach, and scheduling was always
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: a challenge for me of how much early in the
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: season I wanted my guys to face. The pros and cons,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: the pluses and minuses of having a state semifinal rematch
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: against Lake Stevens week one for your guys.
• 52:16
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think obviously the pros of it are you
• 52:18
  Speaker 13: get to– the proof's been in the pudding a little
• 52:20
  Speaker 13: bit in the last couple years with some of the
• 52:22
  Speaker 13: teams that have had a lot of success at the
• 52:24
  Speaker 13: state level and ultimately won them with Sumner going back-to-back
• 52:27
  Speaker 13: and a Lake Stevens a couple years ago, and they
• 52:29
  Speaker 13: won it. They went down and played West Lynn. I
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: think there's something to be said to really test yourself,
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: not only for the good to kind of see and
• 52:37
  Speaker 13: really confirm do you think where your team is at,
• 52:40
  Speaker 13: but to also kind of find some places where you
• 52:42
  Speaker 13: need to improve and continue to work on it. It's
• 52:44
  Speaker 13: eye-opening for the kids as well. When they get to
• 52:46
  Speaker 13: play good competition, they get to kind of match up
• 52:49
  Speaker 13: and see exactly where they fit and where they see and,
• 52:51
  Speaker 13: you know, where we need to work on some deficiencies.
• 52:54
  Speaker 13: The cons of it obviously is, you know, like one
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: of the things we're doing this year is we're going
• 52:59
  Speaker 13: up to Lake Stevens week one. Week two, we're going
• 53:02
  Speaker 13: all the way over to the Tri-Cities to play Richland.
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: And then week three, we're going down to play Central
• 53:06
  Speaker 13: Catholic south of Portland. So we're we've got a bit
• 53:08
  Speaker 13: of travel next year. It'll be nice because we're hosting
• 53:11
  Speaker 13: them all, but you're also looking at you haven't had
• 53:15
  Speaker 13: the ability to create a season's worth of depth and
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: experience and really no different than most of the teams
• 53:21
  Speaker 13: around the area in the state. Now it's, these freshmen
• 53:24
  Speaker 13: and sophomores are ready to play football at a varsity
• 53:27
  Speaker 13: level a lot earlier than they usually were. And so
• 53:29
  Speaker 13: they don't have those, you know, eight to 12 weeks
• 53:31
  Speaker 13: under their belt. Like when we play Lake Stevens last year,
• 53:34
  Speaker 13: week 13, Keanu Corpus is a 13 week starter for us.
• 53:38
  Speaker 13: And so he.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Has that under his belt.
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: So now some of these young guys coming in, you know,
• 53:42
  Speaker 13: they don't get that experience or that season's worth of
• 53:45
  Speaker 13: practice and kind of get into the flow of things.
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: So Definitely a lot of good, and there's some things
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: that you kind of, I guess, would be the cons
• 53:52
  Speaker 13: of it. But ultimately, it's what our kids want. They
• 53:55
  Speaker 13: want to play good competition, and Lake Stevens is cream
• 53:58
  Speaker 13: of the crop.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Coach, how much does the state RPI system and the
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: way they seed and choose playoff teams really encourage you guys,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: programs like this, to go find the best games?
• 54:11
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 54:12
  Speaker 13: I see, I mean, I, I see the RPI stuff
• 54:14
  Speaker 13: all the time and I, I truth, I'm not on
• 54:16
  Speaker 13: the seating committee, so I don't really know how much
• 54:18
  Speaker 13: that goes in and takes an effect into, um, you know, the,
• 54:22
  Speaker 13: the people that are on that committee and what they
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: value it as. But I think that in my opinion,
• 54:28
  Speaker 13: a close loss against a really, really good team is
• 54:31
  Speaker 13: going to speak more value to what your team is, um,
• 54:34
  Speaker 13: and how good they really are, as opposed to trying
• 54:36
  Speaker 13: to find some games that may not be extremely competitive. And, um,
• 54:41
  Speaker 13: The people that are on those committees, they're coaches, they're
• 54:43
  Speaker 13: athletic directors, and so they've seen the historic success of
• 54:47
  Speaker 13: teams like Lake Stevens and Richland. And so those are
• 54:49
  Speaker 13: kind of some of the key sticking points that we
• 54:51
  Speaker 13: wanted to look at in selecting some non-conference games, not
• 54:55
  Speaker 13: only to challenge ourselves, but to ultimately prove that, hey,
• 55:00
  Speaker 13: we're right there at the top with everybody else, that
• 55:02
  Speaker 13: that's where we really think we are.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: This is Jeff Logan, the head coach of Graham Kapowsin
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: High School, who's heading tonight. up to Lake Stevens in
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: a showdown, three versus four in Class 4A to kick
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: off the Washington State high school football season. Coach, you
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: mentioned how players, freshman, sophomores now, are varsity ready in
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: the training they get offseason and around the clock training.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: And you have a quarterback, A.J. Tuoviavi, who has, if
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, started games as a freshman in your program.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: What is a three-year quarterback starter? What does that allow
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: you to do offensively, leadership-wise in the locker room, just
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: the advantage of that?
• 55:38
  Speaker 13: Yeah, and he did. He started as a 14-year-old kid
• 55:43
  Speaker 13: over against O'Day at the Seattle Memorial Stadium week one.
• 55:47
  Speaker 13: We lost a heartbreaker in that one. But the growth
• 55:49
  Speaker 13: and maturity and really just kind of the way that
• 55:52
  Speaker 13: AJ's been able to corral and be pretty charismatic with
• 55:56
  Speaker 13: our kids. So offensively speaking, from a quarterback standpoint, scheme wise,
• 56:01
  Speaker 13: we're able to kind of get in and out of
• 56:03
  Speaker 13: some of the schemes that we think fit AJ really well.
• 56:05
  Speaker 13: We think he pushes the ball down the field really well.
• 56:08
  Speaker 13: He's got a ton of arm talent. He's got a very,
• 56:10
  Speaker 13: very accurate, a lot of arm strength. And so it
• 56:14
  Speaker 13: allows us to get to some of those deeper level
• 56:15
  Speaker 13: concepts and then really kind of mix it up. We
• 56:17
  Speaker 13: can switch release some different things. We can motion in
• 56:19
  Speaker 13: and out of things. And so it's not kind of
• 56:22
  Speaker 13: line up and play. It's allow him to create mismatches
• 56:26
  Speaker 13: and our receivers to create some mismatches with motion and
• 56:30
  Speaker 13: different alignments. And so that part of it has allowed
• 56:33
  Speaker 13: us to elaborate off of what we would consider kind
• 56:36
  Speaker 13: of our base scheme. And then you've got some receivers, too,
• 56:40
  Speaker 13: that have been around him for a long time. So really,
• 56:41
  Speaker 13: it's allowed us to become more multiple without having to overcomplicate.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: The things we do.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Case Betts, one of those receivers, a senior receiver for
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Graham Kapowson High School. Jeff, if I could ask you
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: a big, I'm sorry on a game day to do this,
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: but a big 30,000-foot, big-picture view of The college football
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: recruiting and now NIL and transfer portal and guys coming
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: back for 50 NFL players for heaven's sakes are coming
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: back to the colleges. What messaging now do you give
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: kids like AJ or case or guys who want to
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: play and have aspiration and can play college football yet?
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: Some doors slam on these kids because guys transfer port
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: college coaches would rather play guys who are 22, 23
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: years old with experience in college. rather than play high
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: school senior recruits. Is that changed?
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: Is that dynamic changed? Or does the cream eventually rise
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: to the top?
• 57:33
  Speaker 13: I think the cream will always rise to the top.
• 57:37
  Speaker 13: I've probably got a bit of a different point of
• 57:39
  Speaker 13: view of it, just because I've only kind of been
• 57:42
  Speaker 13: the point of our recruiting at GK for five years.
• 57:46
  Speaker 13: I think ultimately what it's done is it's created some
• 57:48
  Speaker 13: conversation amongst not only myself, but our players and their families.
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: It's finding.
• 57:53
  Speaker 13: it used to be like, find a good fit for you.
• 57:55
  Speaker 13: Where can you develop? And I think that that's still
• 57:58
  Speaker 13: extremely important, but with the new five for five rule,
• 58:02
  Speaker 13: you know, going into a school with the intent to
• 58:05
  Speaker 13: red shirt and develop, you're kind of, you, you, it's
• 58:08
  Speaker 13: almost like you fall behind the curve a little bit.
• 58:10
  Speaker 13: And so what I've kind of talked to our kids
• 58:12
  Speaker 13: is like, yes, you want to find a place that
• 58:14
  Speaker 13: you feel home. You feel extremely comfortable. The coaching staff
• 58:17
  Speaker 13: wants to continue and care about your development as a player,
• 58:20
  Speaker 13: but find somewhere that you're going to be successful. And, and,
• 58:23
  Speaker 13: it might not necessarily be just shooting for the top star.
• 58:27
  Speaker 13: If you've got an ability to play and get some
• 58:29
  Speaker 13: meaningful reps and playing time and compete for a starting
• 58:32
  Speaker 13: spot right away, even if that is at an SCS
• 58:35
  Speaker 13: or a Division II or an NAIA or DIII level,
• 58:37
  Speaker 13: those are conversations we have now, I think, more than
• 58:40
  Speaker 13: we've ever had with kids in the past. Because you
• 58:43
  Speaker 13: don't have the luxury, like you said, with NFL guys
• 58:46
  Speaker 13: coming out of training camp and going back to college
• 58:49
  Speaker 13: and fourth and fifth. I think the sixth year seniors
• 58:52
  Speaker 13: are about weeded out, but those guys are coming in
• 58:55
  Speaker 13: and taking what would have been a redshirt sophomore's place
• 58:57
  Speaker 13: because they're experienced. Like you said, they're 23, they're 24,
• 59:00
  Speaker 13: they're not 20 years old. They've proven to be able
• 59:03
  Speaker 13: to do it. And so a lot of it is
• 59:05
  Speaker 13: you know, finding a good fit, finding somewhere that you
• 59:07
  Speaker 13: can find success early as an athlete that feels like home.
• 59:11
  Speaker 13: And then, you know, if you truly do have aspirations
• 59:14
  Speaker 13: to do bigger things and that's kind of, you know,
• 59:16
  Speaker 13: you feel like you've got that theoretical chip on your shoulder,
• 59:19
  Speaker 13: then that's always an option for you down the road.
• 59:21
  Speaker 13: But let's get our feet wet and find success early
• 59:24
  Speaker 13: with a really good fit at a good program.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Coach Jeff Logan, thank you. Thank you for what you
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: do in serving our youth in sports and giving them
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: a great opportunity as young men into college. And thanks
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: for taking the time out on a big, big game
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: day to join us. Best of luck tonight and all
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season.
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you too, Greg.
• 59:43
  Speaker 13: I want to make sure to always say thanks to
• 59:44
  Speaker 13: you guys because without you guys and coverage of high
• 59:46
  Speaker 13: school sports, it would just be the parents. And, you know,
• 59:49
  Speaker 13: I think it's really important for these kids to see.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: Their names and see the coverage.
• 59:53
  Speaker 13: And you guys do a really good job of that.
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: So I want to make sure to say thank you to.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: You guys as well. Appreciate that, Jeff. Now we go
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: to the opposite sideline. Lake Stevens State Championship winning coach
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Tom Try. He's kind enough to join us on a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: game day, too, from Lake Stevens High School, the site
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: of tonight's showdown with Graham Kapowsin High School, a rematch
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: of the 4A state semifinal game from last winter. Coach,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: thanks for joining us on a game day. And I'm
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: going to ask you the same question that I asked
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Coach Jeff Logan at GK. The pros and cons of
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: scheduling a game like this against the top four team
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: in the state, a state semifinal rematch week one, And
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: not only that, but you're also playing Bothell next week
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: and Puyallup in week three.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 7: The pros and cons of scheduling that soon?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I appreciate the question. I would start with
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: the pros. I think it does a great.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: Job of allowing us as a team and a program
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: to find out what our strengths and weaknesses are so
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: that we can work on those weaknesses and or strengths
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: for the rest of the season before the playoffs start.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: You find out you get real game experience with some
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: of your younger guys. Your veterans have to step up
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: and be great leaders. Like I said, you're playing the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 8: best of the best with Graham Kapowson and Bothell Week
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 8: 2 and Puyallup, who I think is ranked number one
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: in the state right now.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: Week 3.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: So the pros are just– it's an early test, and
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: you find out, hey, what do we need to work
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 8: on to get better so that if and when we
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: see these types of teams again in Week 12, 13,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: and 14– We've been there. We've had that game type experience.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 8: We've seen the adversity and we adjust, adapt and try
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  Speaker 8: to get better. I think the cons, you know, do
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  Speaker 8: you get banged up playing those good teams?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 8: But right before you start playing your conference schedule, because
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: those teams are physical and football is a violent game.
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  Speaker 8: And so you want to make sure you're protecting your
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  Speaker 8: kids and trying to build and instill confidence in your guys.
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  Speaker 8: And that can be tough if you're struggling and you
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 8: lose some of those games. That being said, I still
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 8: think the benefits outweigh the negatives.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, how much does the state's RPI system for playoff
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: selection and playoff seeding play into how you schedule, or
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: is that a secondary concern for you?
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  Speaker 8: Quite honestly, I don't even look at the RPI, where
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 8: we're rated or where anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Else is rated.
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  Speaker 8: I'd much prefer to watch... film on our opponents, listen
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  Speaker 8: to other coaches from around the state who talk about
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  Speaker 8: seeing these teams at team camps and spring camps and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 8: the seven-on-sevens and the five-on-fives and things like that. And
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 8: I think that gives you a pretty realistic perspective. Like,
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  Speaker 8: I know GK is one of the best teams in
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  Speaker 8: the state. I don't have to look at the RPI
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  Speaker 8: to say, oh, yeah, we're playing, whether they're two or
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 8: three or whatever they might be. Same with Puyallup, same
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  Speaker 8: with Bothell. You know, we see each other at coaches clinics.
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  Speaker 8: Quite honestly, that's where a lot of these games get
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  Speaker 8: scheduled anymore. You know, we see whether it's at the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 8: Washington coaches clinic or the Glacier clinic, wherever it might be.
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  Speaker 8: And we start, hey, you guys want to play each
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  Speaker 8: other in this next two year cycle? I think that's
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  Speaker 8: how we picked up at least two or three of
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 8: our non-league games this year was just talking with other
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: coaches and finding out who some of the best teams
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: are and going out and trying to schedule games with
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: those teams.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to bring it up again, but overtime loss
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  Speaker 2: in the state championship game at Husky Stadium last December
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  Speaker 2: to Sumner, which you've won it a couple times as well.
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  Speaker 2: How much, for the seniors especially, how much did that
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: loss shape everything you did in the offseason, the training,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: the weight training, the conditioning?
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  Speaker 7: What kind of a motivator was that?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's still a sour taste in the mouth. The
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 8: way we lost that game gives Summer all the credit.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 8: They made one more play than we did in overtime
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: and found a way to get us. But it certainly
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: made our team and our program hungry, right? Our kids
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: have worked really hard in the offseason all the way
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 8: from January on up through August in the weight room
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: and speed agility sessions. you know, our motto this year
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 8: is unfinished business, right? We want to go find a
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: way to get back and go win that state championship.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 8: And we felt like we were just a couple of
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: plays short last year in Sumner.
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  Speaker 4: And even though we found a way to beat them
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: week one.
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  Speaker 8: At our place, they came back and got us when
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: it counted most in the state championship. And in some ways,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: I guess that it does make me more hungry. It
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 8: makes our kids more hungry. We want to be just
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 8: excited to continue to get better and find ways to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 8: improve so that that doesn't happen to us again.
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  Speaker 2: You have a senior quarterback, Blake Moser, coach. It has
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: to be an asset to have a senior quarterback in
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: an unfinished business-type season. Tell us a little bit about him.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: I understand he's committed to Iowa State, but a wide
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: receiver athlete commit, even though he plays quarterback for you,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: which speaks to his athleticism. And was it the Washington
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: State previous coaching staff that got on him before they
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: went to Iowa State that's got him in Iowa State?
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 7: Or how did he get interested there?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of questions there. Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 8: Starting with Blake and his character, I just have been
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: so incredibly impressed by just his leadership abilities. He's a
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: field general for us as a quarterback. His feet, his
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 8: arm strength, his accuracy, his quick knowledge of being able
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 8: to diagnose coverages and blitz packages that Other teams are
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: trying to present to us. We've had a lot of
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 8: really good quarterbacks like Stevens and Blake Grates right up
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 8: there with all of them.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: He can be with his feet. He can be with
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: his arm.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 8: That being said, he's now going to go play college
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 8: football as a wide receiver slot athlete type kid, right?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: Which just shows you that he's not afraid to take risks.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 8: I mean, he had several offers, big sky type offers,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 8: even maybe a Pac-12 type offers as quarterback. And yet
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 8: he chose to go to Iowa State this summer and
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 8: worked out for them at one of their camps and
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 8: impressed the coaches over there so much that they recruited
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 8: him as a wide receiver. And yes, we did have
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 8: a connection to the Washington State coaches, a couple of
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 8: them before they took off for Iowa State.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: So that did help with that process.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, the magnitude of this game this early, do you
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: talk to the kids about the state playoffs last year
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: and the semifinal win over GK? Does it speak for
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: itself from a coaching standpoint? How do you address the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: opponent and the magnitude of a game week one like this?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, another great question.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: I think for us, we talk about it's not about them,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 8: it's about us, meaning we need to focus on what
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: we control. We don't know what plays Graham Kapowski are
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 8: going to run on offense or defense or what scheme
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 8: they're going to bring, but we know what we're going
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 8: to do. So if we can execute in practice at
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 8: a high level and then transform that into game-type atmosphere,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 8: especially against a team like Graham Kapowski, that's going to
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 8: give us an opportunity to be successful. And so, you know,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 8: we don't have to stress it in practice. The kids
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 8: already know that GK is one of the best teams
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 8: in the state, and they know that they're hungry because
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 8: we found a way to beat them in the semifinals
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 8: last year, right? So they know that it's a big game,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 8: and we've kind of created a rivalry with Graham just
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 8: because we've played them so many times the past five, six,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: seven years. So we know them really well. They know
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 8: us really well. It's really going to come down to
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 8: which team executes the best tonight.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Coach, Tom Tribe, Lake Stevens High School, talking to us
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: from Lake Stevens High School where he's a teacher as well.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you on behalf of
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: all of us in the Pacific Northwest and the Puget
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Sound community for what you do. I know the work
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: that goes into that. I know the time and then
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: being a teacher on top of it. Thank you for
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: serving our young men and women, giving them a chance
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: to graduate beyond high school and become young adults. And
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: thanks for everything you do and good luck on the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: season and tonight. Thank you, sir.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: I appreciate that. And I'm going to say thank you
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 8: to you as well. Thank you for helping to cover
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 8: high school sports. Our kids work so hard in the offseason,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 8: and it's great to have an avenue for them to
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 8: be recognized, whether it's on TV or on radio or
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 8: just any type of media. I think our kids have
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 8: earned that, and I just appreciate that you guys do
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 8: that for the high school kids in the state of Washington.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Coach Tom Chai, Lake Stevens. a legend
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: up there already won a couple of state championships and
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: trying to get it back for unfinished business this year,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: but they play Graham Kapowson tonight in week one in
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: our game of the week, our weekly high school feature
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: here on 93.3 KJR FM. And you know, that's, why
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: we do it. We give the platform to these coaches
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: who can highlight their players, their student-athletes, and as he said,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: they deserve it. And it's sometimes lost in this market, frankly,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: as Jessamyn said, the 13th biggest media market in the country,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: which is dominated by pro sports and the Seahawks, the
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl champions, and a Big Ten team in our backyard.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 7: At University of Washington.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: But these kids put in a ton of time and
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: so do the coaches to mold them into young men
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: and women to become young adults.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: Our future leaders.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, our future leaders. So it's great. I mean, when
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: I officiate, I sometimes wear a West Point cap or
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: a pullover to the game for the sole purpose of
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: someone coming up to me and asking me about it.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Last night, a Ballard coach asked me about it and
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: asked me about hey can you talk to a couple
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: kids on our team that are interested in going to
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: a service academy and that's all that's that's great and
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: that's why we do it that's why we wanted to
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: have this weekly feature to highlight those young men and
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: women girls and boys before they become college and what
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: they're doing at high school so thanks to take the
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: time on a game day that's a big ask i
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: know for coach tom try and coach jeff logan to
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: join us we'll do it every week we'll have another
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: big game next week and we'll reveal the schedule as
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: it goes along but uh We'll try to get around
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: the sound of two. And I got it. Hoquiam Aberdeen.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: I got it. Olympic Stadium tonight. 121st meeting. We are aware.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: Up next, your chance to be a part of the show. 49451.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: We have a couple of talkbacks. We'll play back next
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 28: Hey, Rodney here.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: What's going on?
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 28: I'm getting no respect getting on the air. Tell you what,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 28: no respect. It's Rodney Manners here. I mean, Dangerfield. I
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 28: get confused because that's what the Manners are on the field.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: Dangerous.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 28: And not in a good way, know what I mean?
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 28: I'll tell you what, good thing they got Naylor on
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 28: the team because these guys are getting hammered.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: They get no respect. They should get no respect. I
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: should get some respect though. Hey!
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 15: Hey there, Greg and Jess Mahler here checking in for
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 15: the Apple.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 6: Cup weekend, baby.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: Purple and gold raining down. Cougs don't have a freaking.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 8: Chance, man.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 15: I'll tell you what, you've got to be freaking kidding me.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 28: They think they have a chance at our stadium.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: It's going to be.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 13: Nothing but purple and gold.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 8: Jed Fish, I went to school there.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 29: Even though I didn't, I'll still be on the sideline
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 29: chiming in. Dogs by 50, baby.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: Happy Apple Cup, man.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 12: Oh, Jess, Greg, don't forget the two-time star. They champion
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 12: Sumner Spartans. They are traveling to Eagle, Idaho to take
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 12: on Eagle, the Idaho State Champions 5A this weekend. Thank
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 12: you for all you do.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: I'm going to pause because we have a lot more.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 5: But those ones were banner talkbacks.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: You had too many. You can't reap what you sowed.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 29: I wanted to call in and give a shout out
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 29: to my guy G Bell for his service in the
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 29: military and also always acknowledging service members and using his
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 29: platform to speak.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: Highly on that note. Also touching on high school sports.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 29: I also want to give a shout out to Jets,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 29: the best damn.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: Producer in the morning. Got much love for you guys.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 15: And as one more thing, Greg, I will always stand
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 15: by you with.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 29: Toblodo is the problem.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: We have a couple lawnmower ones.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 26: Hoagwim.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: The oldest football rivalry in the state of Washington.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 12: Go Bobcats.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: That was pretty short and sweet.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: That's got to be James. 360 James.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: We have another lawnmower.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 30: Little-known Northwest baseball history. Bill Murray actually played minor league
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 30: baseball in Hoagwim. for a very short time because his
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 30: friend owned the team. That was just before he left
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 30: to go.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: Be on Saturday Night Live.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: If you missed that, he said that Bill Murray once
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: played minor league baseball for the Class A team that
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: was out at Grays Harbor at Hoquiam's Olympic Stadium before
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: he became a Saturday Night Live, right.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: Before he became Saturday Night Live.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: I fact-checked that, and it was right before he did
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: the movie Meatballs.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, and then he went.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: On to SNL fame and various other fames. But yes,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 5: he's correct.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: He did play. I think it was Grays Harbor.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: Grays Harbor used to be a minor league team out there.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: If you don't know.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: It was in 1978, so it predated my time out
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: here and my life.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, he is correct.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: He is correct.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 15: Hey, Chuck Powell with the Morning Show. I just want
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 15: to chime in. It is not Jerry's fault. If you
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 15: heard my rant this morning, it's about coworkers and other people.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 15: I think Jerry's doing a wonderful job. I think it's
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 15: good that we embrace analytics 24-7, no feel for the game.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 15: I think it's good that it clearly comes from Jerry
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 15: in the front office, the analytics approach. But let's blame
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 15: Dan Wilson. I love Jerry DePoto. He is the greatest
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 15: president in the history of baseball.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's bad at his job.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: I do. He's good at pitchers. But his job is
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: to be a leader right now. The entire organization lacks leadership.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: Isn't Dan Wilson's job to be the leader?
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 7: Dan Wilson's job is to do whatever Jerry DiPoto tells
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 7: him to do.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: So then it is his job, yes.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 7: That's why he's a manager with zero experience.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: I just went full circle on that one. That's why he's... Yeah.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: Jerry DiPoto pulls the strings and Dan Wilson reacts. I...
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: I'm with Larry Stone the other day saying that Dan
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: Wilson's just going to say, ah, I'm done. I don't
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: need this.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: It wouldn't shock me. It wouldn't knock my socks off.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: But I do think he has a love for the
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 5: game and a love for the players that comes.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: From more of a player standpoint.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: And he was just kind of vaulted into that.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: Of course. Yeah.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: They put a rocket on his back and.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: Just said, go. He had never managed anything. He managed
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: a girls' softball team, a relative's softball team.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: And that was just being a dad.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on. There's a reason that Scott Service
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: and Dan Wilson both each did not have any managerial
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: experience at any level before Jerry DiPoto had him be manager.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: I do like your theory.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: There's a common thread.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: That's 11 years.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 5: No. No.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: The defense is wrong. You missed.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: It earlier this week.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: I think your case holds water.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 7: My cousin Vinny, if you missed it this week, go
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 7: to the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: I think it was, what, Monday or Tuesday we went
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: through that?
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: It wasn't yesterday.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: The stuff about, there's a couple questions about the Seahawks.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 7: Let's get to those. Rod, 206.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: Will Mike McDonald's game plan change or stay the same
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: since the Hawks played New England the last game? Absolutely
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: will change. The entire league studied that Super Bowl game
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: tape and the Seahawks' 20 games last season. McDonald has
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: yings to the yangs, the zigs to the zags. He
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: knows that the entire league is going to be coming
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: for what McDonald did last season. Nickel blitzes, Witherspoon from
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: the inside, what Eamon Worry was doing when Eamon Worry
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: gets healthy again. I can tell you this. He's got
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: different fronts. He's got different blitzes. I'm not going to
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: get into the details of it, but they're different. There's
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: players that are playing in different spots, moving up and
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: down the defensive line. I think Byron Murphy's going to
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: have more of an opportunity outside than he has yet
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: combined in his first two seasons.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: How excited are you for his season?
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 7: Because I am.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's primed to cash in huge this time next year,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: and he knows it. And, yeah, they're going to move
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: him maybe even as a five technique outside shoulder of
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: the guard, become guard and tackle, where he's been mostly
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: inside the guard here the first two seasons and still
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: got seven sacks last year doing that. But Leonard Williams
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: may be getting used in different ways. Now they have
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: Dante Fowler Jr. as another pass rush option. It all
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: does hinge on Nick Emanwarie. He really makes Mike McDonald's
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: multiplicity multiple. And when he's not there, they are limited.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: So we'll see if he plays week one. As I said,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: that seems iffy.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: But they want him at his best.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: So they're 100% not going to rush him.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: No. 17-game season. Exactly. 425, what's your take on the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: impact of hard knocks? We were worried we would lose
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: some of our strategic advantages. Or was it a positive?
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: Being an outsider, just a fan, it seems like it
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: worked out well. It did work out well. I think
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks ended up embracing that they wanted to show
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: their culture to the NFL and kind of say, look
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: what we do. They didn't show all. And they kept
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: some things under wraps. And I know there were some
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: things they vetoed and kept out. But I think overall,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: they said this can be a promotional recruiting video for
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: future free agents and say, well, I'd love to play
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: in Seattle. I'd like to do that.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: So just check out the bald eagles.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were stars of the show, weren't they?
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: They always are.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 5: Even the people who have worked there for ages will go,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 5: did you see?
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: There's four today. There's five today.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Two, five, three. The only variable that gives the Pats
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: a chance in my mind is that it's the first
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: game of the year.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 7: Fluky things happen in week one.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 7: Also, tackling tends to be very poor in week one
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 7: and two.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: Because you haven't been hit. You haven't hit anybody. It
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: just makes sense.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: They haven't played a game. The starters, you're going to
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: see Wednesday night, have not played a game since February the.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 7: 8th, Super Bowl 60. Have not tackled anyone since then.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's being in shape and then there's being hit
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: in shape.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: They were not tackled. I've said this many times and
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: I've reported it. They do not tackle in training camp.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: No one gets brought to ground.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 6: Nobody.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: Even when they do tackling drills, they do it with pads,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: and they have landing pads, and they just don't do it.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: And none of the starters played anything in the preseason.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: Wednesday night will be the first time they tackle and
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: have been tackled since February the 8th in Super Bowl 60.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: Well, regardless of athletic acumen.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 5: it is difficult to do something your body's not used to.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, I had a really good friend, Liz Matthews,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: and she.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 5: Told me, you know, Liz standing is a shape being
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 5: out of training camp, right? You just have to see
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 5: him being on the sidelines as I do.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: You're just standing.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 5: And I'm not a very good sit still person, Greg,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: if you hadn't noticed.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: Um, okay. Yeah.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: I can't sit still very often.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: Um, You have to stand still.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 5: Yesterday, I was working the clubhouse, and I was holding up,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 5: what is this phone weigh? Five ounces, probably, to record
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 5: dugout stuff.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 31: It becomes a little shaky, but I could, you know,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 31: I used to be able to deadlift 200 pounds and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 31: it's whatever your body is used to and you're doing
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 31: something different is my point.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: That's going to get a reaction on the text line.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Deadlifting 200 pounds just to let you know.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 5: I was so good at deadlifting. Squats and deadlifts were
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 5: my jam. Hand cleans, not so much.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: Squats have never been... I've always hurt my back squatting.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: And I think I've hurt my back in the summer squatting.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: Did you have proper form, Greg?
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: Of course not.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: No, you did not.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 7: My wife, Dudley Do-Right wife, has perfect form.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: I could see that. When he looks like she would.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 7: She's killer on squats.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: I got accused of not being white in the locker room.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: Or in the weight room, I mean. Yes, by a
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: basketball player.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: 206. Last Hard Knocks had a big emphasis on the
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: ready squat and how they were a part of the team.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: Did the Ready Squad receive Super Bowl rings last year? Yes,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: they did. In fact, even players who weren't on the
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: team at the end of the season. D'Anthony Bell was
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: on the Carolina Panthers at the end of the season.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: He got a Super Bowl ring. Yes, they did. They
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: made sure of that. So it was 70-plus players got
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl rings for last season.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 14: Jody, Jody, Jody.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of that.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. 253, awesome stuff with the high school coaches. Gives
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: me goosebumps and brings back memories.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 7: That's cool.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 15: Aw.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: 253, wish I had high school coaches like that. Both
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: seem so legit.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: I love hearing that feedback.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was cool. I mean, they both had those coaches.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking about two of the best coaches
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: in the West Coast. But yeah, they were representative of
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: the student-athlete experience, their programs, the bigger picture. You heard
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: Jeff Logan talk about families and their talks about playing
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: college football these days.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: I'm very excited for this feature.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: It's good stuff. We've got another one next week, next Friday.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: I'll reveal next week the game. We have a lined
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: up of games. I want to shout out to Daniel Bean.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: He's helping me with coordinating all of this and making
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: sure we pull it off. Up next, the mayor of
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: Maple Valley, Ian Furness. I think he's in studio with
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: me today. Has he had some brewery?
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: No, he's actually on remote. He is at Snoqualmie Casino.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, of course.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: He's at Snoqualmie Casino for the first full football weekend
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: of the season. Anne will join us next.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: I might drive there right now.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: No, I have work to do.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: Anne's next. Welcome back. Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre with you
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: on 93.3 KJRFM. We've talked to Farhan Lalji, at least
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: in bits and pieces, as he was moving his kid
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: into a dorm.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: He made it work.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Prep school in Virginia. Talk about the NFL. We talked
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: to Graham Kapowson High School coach Jeff Logan. Lake Stevens
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: High School coach Tom Try before their showdown tonight in
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: Lake Stevens. Oh, man.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: That's a game. Let's go.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Week one, huh? They don't mess around, man.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 6: That'll be good. It's a Lake Stevens, too, right?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: It is at Lake Stevens High School tonight, yes.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 6: Great.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 32: That is one of the best places in the state
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 32: on a Friday night to watch a high school football game.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: I've never been, and now you're making me want to go.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 6: It is phenomenal. Their stadium is... Yeah, it's cool. It's
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 6: really cool.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 32: I mean, you feel like you're walking into something a
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 32: lot bigger than a high school game. You know, I
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 32: heard you talking about this earlier, Greg. And I love
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 32: the fact you guys are doing this on Fridays. I
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 32: think it's awesome. We had Todd Millis on yesterday.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 6: I heard it. Yeah, we do a little bit on
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 6: our show, too.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 32: And the station as a whole, since I got here
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 32: 20 years ago, has always done that. We're doing varsity
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 32: football live again, Fane, on Fridays, I think. So I
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 32: love that. And I think it's an underrated state for
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 32: high school football. And I think you'd agree. Like, I
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 32: looked last night around a bunch of the Thursday games
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 32: that were taking place, some packed houses. I know we
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 32: had that out of Maple Valley at Maxwell Stadium for
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 32: the Tahoma Eastlake game.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 6: It was literally sold out. Like, you could not.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 32: They were throwing people away. Yeah, and that's a few
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 32: thousand people.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: It's just great.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 32: Great high school around here. Great high school football around here.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 32: How was your game? How was Greg Bell the official?
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 4: It went well.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 7: It was 23-6.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Ballard beat Lincoln of Seattle at Northwest Athletic Center at Ingram. Yeah,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: it was a few penalties, but we tried to without
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: throwing a lot of flags for week one.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 6: Nobody yelling at you too hard or anything?
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: No, I get along great with Clay.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: You let them play?
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: I was on Lincoln's sidelines. I do let them play.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: The last thing he said to me on the way
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: out the door, remember, let them play. He always says
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: that to me. Is he taught?
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 6: What is he talking about?
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 32: Listen, I've seen a lot of Ma's officiated basketball games.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 6: Let him play is not in his vocabulary.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 6: That right now. Ma's, if you're listening.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: He's the show. Oh, he.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 6: Talks to the kid.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 6: He's like, yeah. Ask my kid. He'll tell you. He
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: walked to the gym. There's five fouls on him before
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 6: he even stepped on the floor.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: Well, that could have been more about you than him.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 32: No, Ma's. Yeah, that's probably part of it. No, I'll say, like,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 32: Maz does a really good job, all joking aside. And
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 32: I've watched a lot of his games. Rod Marr does
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 32: an incredible– Rod Marr is one of the best officials,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 32: high school basketball officials in the state. People want to
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 32: know who Rod– Rod's the Seahawks photographer. You probably saw
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 32: him at the end of Hard Knocks. He was in that–
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 32: not the end, the last episode when they were eating
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 32: the chicken. He was a guy with a camera.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: He was a longtime Seattle Times photographer, award-winning one.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's– He's a hell of an official, man.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: You know, he gypped me out of a three in
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: a charity basketball game. He gypped me, and Graz actually
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 5: fought him into legitimizing it.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: You launched a three and hit it?
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 6: That's one more three than Angel Reese has hit all year.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: She and I could fight and then be really good
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: friends after.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: So the last ten minutes on this show, Ian, we've
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: learned that Jessamyn can, used to be able to deadlift
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: 200 pounds and hits three-pointers. Okay. Yeah. Which is more surprising?
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: I maxed out squatting at 205.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 6: Which is more surprising?
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: The text line says you're flirting with us, by the way,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: when you say you're deadlifting 200.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: Well, come find me.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: She's married. She's off-limits. Sorry.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 32: I would say more impressive probably would be the three.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: I agree with you.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 6: Because she wasn't a basketball player. She was a volleyball player.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: Excuse me. I was a hooper.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, then maybe it's a 200.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 5: No, but for my skills, like deadlifting, it's a skill
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: you work on, right?
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 5: And, you know, you have to have the back core strength,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 5: and it's hammies. Squatting was harder for me, and then
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: hang cleaning was the toughest.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 32: I think everything just hurt when I was thinking about
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 32: trying to do that right now.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 6: My ripe old age. But what was your max out
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 6: at squats?
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 6: I grew up in the 80s, Jess. We had dumbbells
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 6: and nobody knew how much they were.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: That sounds a little more fun.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: You're out at the casino. I won't ask you what
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: bets you've placed already, but tell me what you got
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: going on today.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 32: We've got a busy show. It's a Friday show. The
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 32: return of Greg Cosell. Excited for that.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. All right.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: We'll probably use Greg because they expanded the show. So
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 6: last year, Greg.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 32: Was at 1-ish or 1-20, right, Jess? This year, Greg's
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 32: going to join us in the noon hour.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: Greg can be a floater, yeah.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 32: Yeah, Greg's going to be in the 12-20 segment today.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 32: We'll really kind of hit hard Seahawks, just kind of
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 32: general stuff since we're a few days away from the game.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 32: We'll talk Patriots as well. We'll get to that with Greg.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 32: Nobody does the film study better than him. That's coming
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 32: up 12-20. Danny O'Neill, 1-20 today, and then Rob Rang
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 32: will preview the college football weekend. Danny and I will
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 32: talk a little Apple Cup, obviously, too. So that's a
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 32: busy show from the Snoqualmie Hotel and Casino today.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: And the best thing we just did in the last
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: 10 minutes is we didn't say the word Mariners.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: Why'd you do it, man?
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: On the football.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: No, on the football.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 7: Ian's up next. Enjoy Apple Cup weekend, sir.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: Enjoy Apple Cup weekend, ma'am, on the sidelines of Washington
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: State's broadcast on sunday ma'am miss.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 7: I was born sir and ma'am. I know that's become outdated.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: I know it's become outdated. Yes, if you missed it,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: if you don't know already, the Apple Cup broadcasts live
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: on the home of the Huskies, 93.3 KJRFM on Sunday,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: 9 a.m. pregame, 1 p.m. kickoff with Elyse Woodward, Cam Cleland,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: and yes, Dave Softymo on the sidelines. Have a great weekend.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: I'll be out at Seahawks practices all week. We'll talk
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: about it on Monday on 93.3 KJRFM.