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Best of Ian Furness 10/22 · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: here's ian with ross tucker.
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  Speaker 2: Busiest man in the NFL right now, Ross Tucker. Ross
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  Speaker 3: How are you? I'm doing terrific, Ian. How about yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Ready for a little football starting tonight. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: your game tonight in a second. We've got issues here
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle, Ross. We've got issues with 3-3 Seahawks team.
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  Speaker 2: Two losses last week. I say two because in the
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  Speaker 2: course of five days it happened. You had a Thursday
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  Speaker 2: game and a Sunday game. But looking back, Sam Donalds
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  Speaker 2: throwing interceptions. The offense can't run the football. Ross, what's
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  Speaker 2: going on with our team out here, the defending champs?
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  Speaker 3: Well, a lot.
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  Speaker 5: It's primarily on the offensive side of the ball. I
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  Speaker 5: think let's start with this. And you guys have probably
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  Speaker 5: been talking about it all week. It's not the same offense.
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  Speaker 5: And Darnold's not the same quarterback when they can't run it.
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  Speaker 5: I saw where Charbonnet just got activated.
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  Speaker 3: That should certainly help.
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  Speaker 5: Because, I don't know, did he throw 50 sometimes last
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  Speaker 5: Thursday night?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe at least 40 sometimes? I mean, that is not
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  Speaker 3: what you're looking for. That's just not really what he is.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he probably knows it.
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  Speaker 5: And I think Brian Flory knows it, and I'm very
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  Speaker 5: confident that that's not what Mike McDonald wants at all.
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  Speaker 5: So you get Charbonnet back, you figure out a way
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  Speaker 5: to stay committed to the run game, and you put
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  Speaker 5: Darnold in more advantageous passing situations when he is throwing
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  Speaker 5: the ball, whether that's first and 10 play action. What
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  Speaker 5: you don't want is you don't want to being a
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  Speaker 5: lot of obvious passing downs. That's just not his strength.
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  Speaker 5: In fairness, to have gone against some really good defenses
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  Speaker 5: the last couple weeks. I mean, the Broncos can play.
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  Speaker 5: The Niners can play. We realize that. Chiefs defense is
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  Speaker 5: pretty darn good as well. Just feels like a really,
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  Speaker 5: really big game on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, he did throw 51 passes in
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  Speaker 2: that game. He also has had a 46-pass game this
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  Speaker 2: year as well, has Darnold. In today's NFL, does anybody
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  Speaker 2: want to throw it more than 30, like low 30s
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  Speaker 2: per game? We live in a world, obviously, of college football,
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  Speaker 2: and we see high rates in college football. The clock
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  Speaker 2: stops a little bit more. It's a different game. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if there's any NFL teams, Ross, that want
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  Speaker 2: to throw it that many times.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they want to.
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  Speaker 5: I think there are certain guys that, if they do,
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  Speaker 5: can still have a lot of success. And that's Josh
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  Speaker 5: Allen and Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes, etc.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of.
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  Speaker 5: The other quarterbacks, the more they throw, the worse it
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  Speaker 5: probably is. I mean, Bo Nix is certainly in that category.
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of them are in that category,
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  Speaker 5: which is the ironic thing because.
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  Speaker 5: The Bills run it very well, and the Chiefs run
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  Speaker 5: it really, really well with Kenneth Walker, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: we'll get to. So you have to sort of appreciate
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  Speaker 5: the irony that these teams that probably could have their
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  Speaker 5: quarterback throwing it a lot are running it very effectively.
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  Speaker 3: So they don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: Ross Tucker joining us. Thanks to Northwest Handling Systems. Everything
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  Speaker 2: or give them a call, 425-255-0500. Yeah, before we get
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  Speaker 2: to Walker, yes, there is a– Zach Charbonnet got activated
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  Speaker 2: today off the PUP list. Elijah Arroyo, the second-year tight end,
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  Speaker 2: is on injured reserve, probably done for the season. Ross,
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  Speaker 2: as an offensive lineman, you know this better than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Not all running backs are created the same, and especially
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  Speaker 2: depending on what you want to run. Seattle wants to
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  Speaker 2: run that wide zone, right? And they don't have guys
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  Speaker 2: right now with Helani and Wilson that can run that.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it might be safe to say that's
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  Speaker 2: really probably not Zach Charbonnet's strength either, but he is
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  Speaker 2: a better back than the other two guys. So what
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  Speaker 2: are realistic expectations for Seahawks fans when they see Charbonnet
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  Speaker 2: take the field, especially considering the scheme and everything else?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a good question because, you know, first game back,
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  Speaker 5: He's been out a while. I wouldn't expect, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a miracle. I wouldn't expect, you know, some huge breakout game.
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  Speaker 5: But even if he can just make a couple plays
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  Speaker 5: more than the other guys were, just make a couple
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  Speaker 5: more guys miss or get a few extra yards. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I see this with Philadelphia. There's a big difference between
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  Speaker 5: when they had Saquon Barkley running and the guys they've
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  Speaker 5: had running the last couple weeks. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 5: Charbonnet is safe on Barkley.
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  Speaker 3: He's not.
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  Speaker 5: But he certainly is better than Wilson Helani and should
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  Speaker 5: be able to make, as long as he's 100% or
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  Speaker 5: close to it, should be able to make some plays
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  Speaker 5: that those guys are probably just not really able to make.
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  Speaker 2: Not all running backs are created the same. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of them look good, right, when you're running the cone
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  Speaker 2: drill at the combine and you're running the 40 and
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  Speaker 2: you're testing and all that. But I always think there's
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  Speaker 2: a speed element, right, Ross? And there's also just the
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  Speaker 2: vision and the understanding and the feel. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff goes in that running back position, right?
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the one thing that would also concern
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  Speaker 5: me a little bit about Charbonnet is– Part of it
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  Speaker 5: is just the timing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm sure he'll have fresh legs.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, he's been rehabbing and they wouldn't have activated him
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  Speaker 5: unless they really thought, you know, he was ready to
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  Speaker 5: go and help them. So I think I feel pretty
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  Speaker 5: good about from a health standpoint. But man, he has
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  Speaker 5: not really seen the speed that he's going to see
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  Speaker 5: Sunday night and how fast everything sort of unfolds in
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  Speaker 5: front of him. And so it would be He's going
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  Speaker 5: to have that balance between a little bit of rustiness
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  Speaker 5: with that part of it, but then also the fresh
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  Speaker 5: legs and the burst. He's going to have one run
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  Speaker 5: where you're like, wow, did.
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  Speaker 3: You see his burst?
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  Speaker 5: And another run where he runs right into the back
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  Speaker 5: of an offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Walker, he has had four games this season over
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  Speaker 2: 100 yards. And when I say over, not even flirting
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  Speaker 2: with close to 100. 128, 177, a 70-yard game when
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  Speaker 2: they handled Miami rather easily. 117 and 173 for context. Ross,
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  Speaker 2: a year ago in Seattle, he had two 100-yard games
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  Speaker 2: all year. One of them came early. The other one
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  Speaker 2: came very late. One was 100 yards on the button.
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  Speaker 2: The other was 105 with a 55-yard run in there.
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  Speaker 2: I bring that up for context because, as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 2: NFL fans, Seahawks fans included, not always the most rational.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we get a little edgy, overreact, and fired up,
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  Speaker 2: and they see all those numbers. I'd also point out
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  Speaker 2: they never used Walker like that here in Seattle. They
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  Speaker 2: just never used him like that. But here he comes
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  Speaker 2: rolling in. What kind of difference has he made for
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  Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs?
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  Speaker 3: It's been unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, I was on some other station today. And I
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  Speaker 5: was talking about this and I just can't remember another
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  Speaker 5: situation where a guy has had this much of an
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  Speaker 5: impact on two franchises in the first six weeks of
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  Speaker 5: a season.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the Seahawks look.
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  Speaker 5: Like, and part of it's who, you know, the fact
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  Speaker 5: that price is hurt and Charbonnet wasn't available, but still
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  Speaker 5: you look at the contrast between the Seahawks running game
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  Speaker 5: so far this year and And then the Chiefs running
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  Speaker 5: game so far this year. I mean, you're talking about
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people think he's a very reasonable MVP
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  Speaker 5: candidate to this point. He is the single biggest reason
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  Speaker 5: why the Chiefs are 5-0. Conversely, on the other side,
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: Really struggling to run it.
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  Speaker 5: And, I mean, the guy was just a super MVP
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  Speaker 5: for the Seahawks, as everybody listening knows. And I thought
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  Speaker 5: it was reasonable for them to move on for the
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  Speaker 5: reasons why they did. But, wow. I'm confident NBC might
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  Speaker 5: talk about this a little bit on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha ha! At nauseam, Ross. It's going to drive
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks fans that aren't at the game nuts watching it,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the reality. So now you go, all right,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the number one total defense in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: the number one total offense in the NFL, head-to-head. We
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  Speaker 2: saw that in a Super Bowl years ago with Peyton
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  Speaker 2: Manning and the Denver Broncos. It worked out well for
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  Speaker 2: the Legion of Boom and the Seahawks team. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about what we're going to see on Sunday. You've watched that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, we spent some time, consternation that is
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  Speaker 2: going on in this town over the Seahawks offense. Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: defense still doing its job. Unfortunately, all too often been
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  Speaker 2: faced with short fields, with turnovers and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see? Does that still look like the
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  Speaker 2: same Seahawks defense you saw last year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very good.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they're quite what they were during
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  Speaker 5: the postseason run, but they're still very good. I think
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  Speaker 5: Mike McDonald's pretty darn good at realizing what makes the
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  Speaker 5: other team tick. and right now what makes them tick
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  Speaker 5: is Kenneth Walker so I would imagine he will have
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  Speaker 5: a pretty good plan and certainly Byron Murphy and Leonard
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  Speaker 5: Williams and those guys I would imagine they will be
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  Speaker 5: up for the challenge on Sunday night you know they
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  Speaker 5: have a really good feel for his truly unique running
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  Speaker 5: style There just aren't many people that run like him
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  Speaker 5: in terms of going, let's be honest, places where the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Is not supposed to go.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's sort of his burst and his
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  Speaker 5: ability or unique decision-making, let's call it, is part of
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  Speaker 5: what makes him special, but can also really get him
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  Speaker 5: in trouble a la.
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  Speaker 3: Barry Sanders if you're ready for it.
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  Speaker 5: So there's certainly the potential for there to be a
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  Speaker 5: lot of negative yardage runs as well.
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  Speaker 2: We'll move on to the rest of the NFL in
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  Speaker 2: a second. One final thing. You do this every week.
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  Speaker 2: You talk to coaches every week. This week you're talking
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  Speaker 2: to probably four, five, six, depending on coordinators, coaches with
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  Speaker 2: the two games you're doing. What separates Andy Reid from everybody?
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  Speaker 2: What's his brilliance? What is it about Andy?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple things.
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  Speaker 5: One I would say is that the players genuinely really
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  Speaker 5: like him and really like playing for him. And the
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  Speaker 5: craziest thing, if you go during all his time in
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  Speaker 5: Philly and all his time in Kansas City, I can't
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  Speaker 5: remember a single player saying bad things about him. And
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  Speaker 5: these are guys that he cut or traded or they
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't give a new contract to.
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  Speaker 3: It really is remarkable.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he just has a really, really.
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  Speaker 3: Good way about him that the guy's really appreciate.
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  Speaker 5: It resonates with them, and it's a big reason why
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  Speaker 5: he's had the success that he's had.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Thursday Night Football tonight here in Seattle. We're
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  Speaker 2: rooting hard for the Patriots. Words that we never thought
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  Speaker 2: we'd say before, but we're rooting hard for the Patriots
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  Speaker 2: because it's... looking more and more with the 49ers doing
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing, that wildcard berth might be in order
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  Speaker 2: for the defending champs here. Because it's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: NFC West and the NFC North as far as the wildcard.
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  Speaker 2: I think we can count out probably the NFC East,
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  Speaker 2: and it looks like Carolina's going to walk away with
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  Speaker 2: the South when it's all said and done. So what
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  Speaker 2: are we looking at tonight? You've got Drake May, who
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  Speaker 2: was awful early, better lately. Caleb Williams is back. Pretty
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  Speaker 2: good matchup for you tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a great game. It really
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  Speaker 3: should be.
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  Speaker 5: The issue, I think, for the Patriots is they've already
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  Speaker 5: ruled out both starting offensive guards. So they basically have
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  Speaker 5: now lost their top four guards this year. So they'll
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  Speaker 5: be starting guards five and six on a short week.
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  Speaker 3: That is usually not a.
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  Speaker 5: Formula for success at all. So I think that's certainly
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  Speaker 5: something to keep an eye on and something that I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to be keeping an eye on, and I really
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  Speaker 5: think that's going to end up being an issue for them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the Bears are playing better defensively.
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  Speaker 5: Williams looked awesome against Atlanta in his first game back.
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  Speaker 3: Patriots have been really good. Patriots defense has been outstanding.
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  Speaker 5: This would be a super impressive win if they were
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  Speaker 5: able to get a first Bears home game.
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  Speaker 3: Since Mike Ditka passed.
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  Speaker 5: It is the single most expensive ticket of the season
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  Speaker 5: so far.
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  Speaker 3: Should be an epic, epic game.
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  Speaker 2: Are they doing some stuff for Coach Ditka then, I assume,
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  Speaker 2: and the emotions that would probably bring about will be massive,
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  Speaker 2: I would think, in that building?
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine they are. I have not heard as
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  Speaker 3: of yet.
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  Speaker 5: Usually when I get to the stadium, they'll tell me
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  Speaker 5: about a moment of silence or whatever they're going to do,
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  Speaker 5: but I'd be stunned if they're not doing something. I
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  Speaker 5: know they're giving away a mustache to everybody that comes in.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. That would be a cool atmosphere. Minnesota in
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  Speaker 2: that same NFC North. You've got the Minnesota Vikings coming
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  Speaker 2: up this Sunday as well against the Colts. You've looked
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  Speaker 2: enough at Minnesota so far.
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  Speaker 4: 5-0.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a legit 5-0?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it is.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, obviously their offense is still struggling,
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  Speaker 5: but part of that is they really haven't had all
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  Speaker 5: their guys together at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's less than a quarter.
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  Speaker 5: That they've had Addison, Hawkinson, you know, Kyler Murray, Justin Jefferson, Jones.
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  Speaker 3: All at the same time.
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  Speaker 5: And it sounds like, based on the practice report yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: that they're going to have all those guys together this week,
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  Speaker 5: which is gigantic and could go a long, long way
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  Speaker 5: towards them having success offensively.
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  Speaker 3: And then the defense is just outrageous. I mean, the defense.
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  Speaker 5: It's really, really cool, too, because it's not like it's
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of first-round picks.
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  Speaker 3: Or even highly paid guys.
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  Speaker 5: It's really just a collection of guys that the D coordinator,
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  Speaker 5: Brian Flores, really believes in.
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  Speaker 3: And because of that, they've had a lot of success.
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  Speaker 2: Should be a good one for both games you got
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. Before I let you go, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: all the things that Ross Tucker has. Tell about the
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  Speaker 2: podcast specifically, because I know it's a nice little short
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  Speaker 2: form for NFL fans, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, it's six days a week, Monday
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  Speaker 5: through Saturday, and it's only about 26, 27 minutes. So
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  Speaker 5: if you want to know what's going on with the NFL,
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  Speaker 5: really and nationally in a short way, it's called the
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  Speaker 5: Ross Tucker Football Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Monday, I'll recap all the games. Tuesday, power rankings. Wednesday, picks.
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  Speaker 5: And then Thursday and Friday is Greg Cosell, and he
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  Speaker 5: is fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: And then Saturday, sit down. Of course, if you like.
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  Speaker 5: making games more interesting. You can listen to the even
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  Speaker 5: money betting podcast for NFL or the college draft podcast
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  Speaker 5: for college and follow me on social media at Ross
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  Speaker 5: Tucker NFL. We'll see what the bears have in the
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  Speaker 5: press box tonight for their press box.
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  Speaker 2: I was just going to ask you, I've, I've, I've
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  Speaker 2: only been to sold. I guess I've been a soldier
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  Speaker 2: field twice to cover games. And I don't, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say this. It doesn't stick out in any way.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to assume it average maybe, but you
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  Speaker 2: will get an update from you next week on that.
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  Speaker 2: So if I believe right, Minnesota was good. And, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, Greg Cosell is on with us every Friday, too.
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  Speaker 2: He is special, man. We love Greg. I don't know, Ross,
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  Speaker 2: if he tells you this. All he tells us is, quote,
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  Speaker 2: I can only tell you what the film says. I
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  Speaker 2: can only tell you what the film says.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. His favorite line.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll look forward to talking to you next week.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great call tonight and on Sunday, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: hear you over on our 950 on the AM dial
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  Speaker 2: tonight here on KJR AM. So we'll hear that game
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  Speaker 2: at 515 Pacific Time tonight with you on the call.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds great. Thank you so much, Ian.
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  Speaker 2: Ross Tucker joining us here as he does every... I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to get my days mixed up, Ash. I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's Thursday Night Football. I should probably know that.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: I thought it was Friday earlier.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Well, that's tomorrow. It'll be tomorrow. Anyway, we've got Thursday
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Night Football tonight over on 950 Kraken here on 93.3 KGRFM.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Co-sell with us tomorrow. By the way, 1 o'clock today
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: is our guy Brandon Funston.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: 1 o'clock.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: What time do you open up the phones?
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: I'm going to open them the same when we go
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: to break before 1 o'clock.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: So right around 1254, that's when you call in at 206-286-9595.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Not a second before.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: No, because I have them locked right now.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Locked.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: I won't even see your calls.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: People are like, I can't get through. I know, because
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: they're locked.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: On purpose.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: So when we say open up the phone lines, that
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: actually is a thing.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: They are closed right now. Closed for business.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Phone lines are closed. We'll open them up coming up
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: at 1 o'clock. with our guy, Brandon Funston. We'll wrap
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: up our number one next.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: It's time for Ian's weekly visit with.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: The Athletics' Brandon Funston.
• 18:09
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• 18:12
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• 18:24
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• 18:28
  Speaker 2: He's got it!
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Touchdown!
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: As mentioned earlier, the normal Funston's, uh, he's a world traveler.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: So with him being on the road, we wanted to
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: get it on. Cause last week we had one segment
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: texts only. It was at noon, the noon hour, whatever
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: hell was Ashley, right. Or something like that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: So one 30, it was like 10 minutes.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: It was just not good this week.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: It's one.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: We'll get back to normalcy next week with Funston. How
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: are you, my friend?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, back to normalcy would be nice. It's actually two
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: hours later for me than normal, sitting here in the
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Newark airport. But I'm doing well. How are you guys doing?
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: We're good.
• 19:03
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• 19:05
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• 19:07
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• 19:09
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• 19:12
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• 19:16
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• 19:19
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• 19:23
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• 19:28
  Speaker 2: you need one of those, you're good. At the other end,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the Macro Dose IPA, how about this one? A little
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: lower in IPA, 3.2 ABV. That's a true session IPA.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: You can pick those up in the tap room right
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: now at Georgetown Brewing. All right, Funston, here we go.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: We got phone calls galore. By the way, we had
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: one bullseye, and we had another 12, I believe, that
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: were within a couple seconds. at noon today. So good
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: job by everybody out there. Unfortunately, we have four that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: came in at 59.58, 59.58, 59.57. That is not going
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: to be good enough. If you don't hear your one
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: called and texting at 49451, maybe Ashley will get to
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: you at the end. No Mike and no Ricky with
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: this early start. Guess who's hitting leadoff today, ladies and gentlemen?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Top of the order, Rob Imburian. Fire away, Robby.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Is this what winning feels like?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Who goes first place? My goodness.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I can't believe what we're hearing. Wait a second. Funston
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: at one.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Uncharted territory.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Funston at one. No Mike in Edmonds. No Ricky in Tacoma.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And Rob and Buren, can you confirm you're in first place?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: What a world.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: This might be three in a row.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: They don't ask how. They don't ask why. They just
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: say what's the score.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: What do you got for Funston first place, Rob?
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: All righty.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Now, I hope he's back.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Is it Lamar Jackson or Jordan Love? Please. Yeah, Matt,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: you know what? I might just, since Lamar Jackson's been
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: dealing with the ankle injury, and even if he did play,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: you'd be a little bit concerned if he had to
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: set that back. Like, I have Jordan Love. I have
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Jordan Love number one this week. He's going against the
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Detroit Lions, and he's just hucking the ball downfield at will.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: So I love the setup. I'm just going to, if
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: I were you, I'd play it safe and go Jordan Love.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: All right. Nice job, Rob. First place, Rob in Burien. Man,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Funston. What a world. Opens up a line, 206-286-9595.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: All right. Next up, we go to Stephen Sultan. Is
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: that right, Ash? Stephen Sultan.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: That's correct.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Fire away, Steve.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: What do you got?
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Well, besides injuries and buys that kill my running back,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: so I need a miracle one.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: We got Justin Hill, Bambolaitis Helani, Kendra Miller, or Zoggin Knight. Ooh. Yeah.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Are you talking about Bam Knight? Zoggin Knight and the Cardinals.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah. You're talking, yeah. Bam night. You know what?
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go with Kendra Miller here. Camara is
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: probably going to play, but he's banged up. Kendra kind
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: of took the lead role in that backfield last week.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: So you're right.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: It's not, it's not a get rich group, but of
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: that crew, I'm going to go Kendra.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Beautiful.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: That's Steve in Sultan 206, 286, 95, 95. And we're,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I'll just tell people a little bit of a challenge
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: for Ashley in there as we navigate the phone lines today.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Next up, we go to Derek Insulton. What's up, Derek?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: What's up, guys?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I'm struggling this week.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Kendra Miller is my RB1.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I need an RB2. Okay. Oh, boy. Yeah, yeah. So,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: full PPR, I need either Dylan Sampson, Tyler Algier, or
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Bam Knight.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I had Bam Knight pretty close to
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Kendra Miller in that last call. I almost leaned that way,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: but I'm like one or two spots behind on Bam Knight.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: So I think you go with Bam and Kendra there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: All right, perfect. That's our Salton two-step is done. Let's
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: go with Chris in Burien. Hey, Chris, what's up?
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Good afternoon. Let's keep the theme going with these running backs.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I've got quite a few.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: So let's just give me the best two.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Full point, PPR.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Quinshawn Judkins, Jordan Mason, Josh Jacobs, Keandre Miller. That's about it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Best two?
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Best two.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Best two. I'm assuming you follow this all the way
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: up to Sunday and you get the good health report.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I'm probably going Quinshawn Judkins and Josh Jacobs. I mean,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Green Bay... Green Bay can use a little bit of
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: life in that backfield. I don't think they're going to
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: hold back too much on Jacobs if he's cleared. So
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: those are my two leads right there. And, yeah, Mason's
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: coming back from injury as well. He's kind of right
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: there with Kansas. A lot of this stuff you just
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: have to follow all the way to Sunday. But I'll
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: go with Judkins and get the other guy already.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Jacobs. Jacobs. Josh Jacobs.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Jacobs. Thank you.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: That's perfect.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: All right. That would be Chris Imburian. Next up, we
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: go to Scott in Marysville. Scott, you're on with Funston.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Fire away.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Do you like Joe Burrow or Matthew Stafford?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Good question.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Nice and easy. We like that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually have Stafford up a little bit higher
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: than Burrow going against the Raiders. I have him number five.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I have Burrow number eight. So both good plays, but
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I'm leading Matt Stafford right now.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Beautiful.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Perfect.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, that was Scott in Marysville. Next up, we go
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Jay and Kenmore, I believe. Is that right, Ash? Jay
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: and Kenmore. Yep, that's correct. Fire away, Jay.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: All right, so this is your choice. Do you want
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: a running back.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Question or a quarterback question?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, I like that. Dealer's choice.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: We've got a bunch of running backs. Why don't we
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: go with the quarterback one?
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: Okay, so I have to choose between my hometown favorite
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: here in Seattle, Sam Donald, or C.J.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Stroud.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this one's not close. I mean, Casey's got a
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: good defense. Darnold's been a little bit rough lately, but
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: I just see a Stroud's been absolutely on fire. He's
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: kind of getting back to what he looked like as
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: a rookie. And you've got the Giants. I love that
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: matchup as well. So just the way they're playing and
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: the matchup favors them, you're definitely going to go with C.J. Stroud.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Okay. Next up, by the way, 206-286-9595. We'll try to
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: squeeze a couple more calls in.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: 206-286-9595.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: A couple more. We'll try it again. We've got a
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: ton of texts. Next up, we've got Kyle and Enum Claw.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: What's up, Kyle?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: What's up? How's my eye?
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: How's the double up, boys? Fun stand fairness.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: We're doing well, buddy.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: How's the claw? How's Enum Scratch treating you today?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, beautiful day. Beautiful day today.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Love it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Okay, I got Matthew Golden.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Is he going to play? And Barkley.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the... Sounds like both have a really good chance
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: to play. Matthew Golden, for sure. LeFleur's been downplaying that
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: injury and saying it's not serious. So I have Golden
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: and Christian Watson both kind of right on the borderline
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: top 10 plays this week. And Barkley would be kind
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: of also a borderline top 10 running back play if
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: he goes out there and sounds like. He's been practicing,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: so it sounds like he's trending in the right direction.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Good matchup against Dallas. Beautiful.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Kyle. That would be Kyle in Enumclaw. Let's do this.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: We'll squeeze one more in 206-286-9595. We've got one more call.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: We've got a ton of texts today, as we always do. Ashley,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: who do we have there?
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Let's just find out who this is.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: All right. Hi.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: You're on with Funston. Who is this?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: This is Yessi from Los Angeles.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: All right. Fire away. What do you got? I love
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: you listening on the iHearty. Matt, probably, too. That's even better.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I'm a first-time caller, so thank you for taking my call.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I need a half-point PPR for my flex position. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: need one. Ramondre Stevenson or Jameson Williams? Or Jameson Williams?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I love the Detroit-Green Bay game. I just think they're
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: going to set to put up a ton of points.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Awesome.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Looking at the New England Patriots backfield, it sounds like
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: with Corey Kiner, the way he's been playing, they're going
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: to split the workload three ways, which is never good
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: for fantasy. So you're definitely, in my mind, going to
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: go Jameson Williams. Love it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Call us again. Thank you for listening on the app.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: We appreciate that. Funston, you're a big deal, Funston. You've
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: got people calling in on the iHeartRadio app from Los Angeles, California.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: How about that? Love it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good stuff.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: I lied.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: We'll get one more call in. Are we doing the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: same thing, Ashley?
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, this is fun.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: All right. Hey, who's this? You're on with Funston.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Hey, this is Mike in Linwood.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: What's up, Mike? Hey, say hi to Mike in Edmonds
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: if you see him up there north of the, in
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the Snohomish County, will you?
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Tell him he's missing out.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's missing out. All right, what do you got, Mike?
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: I've got three receivers for two spots.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Luther Burton, Michael Wilson, and Devontae Smith.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: All right. Yeah, this one could be, this one could be,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: the decision could be made for you if Devontae Smith
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: doesn't play. He wasn't seen at practice today, but... If
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: he does play, I mean, I think he was targeted
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: 14 times last week with McKee and a quarterback, which
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: he'll still be there. So you definitely go Smith if
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: he plays. And I would go with Luther Burden, who's
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: been kind of the preferred receiving weapon for Caleb Williams
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: as Roma Dunzey has been landing on cut lists in
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: fantasy this week. So, yeah, things are turning rough for Roma.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Hold up. What?
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: What? What?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah. We have one of our writers who tries to,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: you know, tries to throw names out there that are
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: not no duh. And he had, he had Roma Doomsday
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: as a cut. Another one of our guys is like, it's,
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: it's justified, you know, if you're in, if you're in
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: a shallower league. So, yeah, I mean, it's been, been
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: hard times for Rome here.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, the Roma Doomsday experience is very unpleasant.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: He is not dropping a Doomsday.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: It is really.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, we got another call.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Hold on.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Are we going to one more call? Are you going
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: to do that?
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: You want to do that?
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: All right. We have to. All right. You're on with Funston.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Who is this?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: You're on with Funston.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Who is this?
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: This is mike and edmunds there we go that's why
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: i was wondering i thought we were done with phone
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: calls but that's you.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Get this he's in he's in second leadoff spot yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly you get the final say what do you
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: got mike fire away we couldn't go two weeks without
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: hearing from you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Is this your normal time now?
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: We just, Funston's traveling. He's in an airport in Newark
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: right now. So that's all.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: All right. Okay.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks for taking me. Full PPR. I need one
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: of these guys, Luther Burden, Ollie Gordon, or Josh Jacobs.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: And thank you.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: You bet.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Mike.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Full PPR. I'm probably going to go, gosh darn. Probably
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: going to go Josh Jacobs and Luther Byrne. And I
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: actually think these guys are all very close. Ollie Gordon
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: surprised me with how good he's looked, but he's... been
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: one of the more luckier running backs when you look
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: at the advanced metrics. They show that he shouldn't be
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: quite as good as he's been. So I have him
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: just slightly behind the other two in a full PPR.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Beautiful. Love it.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Now hit the music, Ash. We got it. We got Mike.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: We just missed Ricky. We'll get Ricky on next week. Well,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go more than two weeks without
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: having Ricky on, but we'll get hit the music. We'll
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: get the text 49451 on the Tacoma Dutch text line.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: As mentioned, there were a handful that came in too early.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: This is a bullseye, by the way. Jamie from Allen.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: We love when you put your names on there.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: It's so much more fun that way.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Jamie from Allen. Need a quarterback. C.J. Stroud or that
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams guy?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I've been talking about how good Stroud's look, but
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Caleb Williams bring in a little bit of the rushing
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: factor as well. I have him just a hair ahead
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: of C.J. Stroud.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Andy from Redmond. Full PPR. Need one for a flex.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy. And he says, I feel dirty even considering
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: this move. But Xavier Worthy, David Montgomery, J.K. Dobbins, T.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Henderson from Denver, and Omari Cooper from New England. Is
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: that not Omari?
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Who is that?
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: That's Cooper Jr.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: New England.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: And Jordan Love. What do you got?
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Jordan Love, how'd he get in there? No, no, you
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: know what?
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I'm reading it out of order. Jeremiah Love. No, no, no,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: you know what? I think it's Jeremiah Love.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: No, you know what?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: The way the text came in is this. Let me
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: read this again. Needs one for a full PPR, one
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: for a flex. Xavier Worthy, David Montgomery, J.K. Dobbins. Let's see.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Henderson from New England, the running back. I can't even
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: say his name. And Cooper, the wide receiver from the
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: New York Jets.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Just needs one of that grip?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Yep, yep.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go J.K. Dobbins, then Worthy and Cooper.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: We're back-to-back, but give me Dobbins, number one.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my fault. Andy, good job.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: My fault.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I can't read today. Aubrey from Ballard checking in. Full
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: PPR need, too. Jeremy Bernard, Trey Tucker, Cortland Sutton, and
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: then Brees Hall or Blake Corum. So he needs... Two
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: of those guys.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Two of the Bernard and Tucker Sutton. I'm going to
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: go Tucker and Bernard. And Bernard saw a ton of
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: targets last week. So voting well for him is trending
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: in the right direction. And what was the next group
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: after that?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Brees Hall or Blake Corum.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of feeling like Brees Hall might end up
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: taking one more week off. If he doesn't, he's going
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: to go back to being the starter. I think Braylon
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Allen will weigh in, but he'll be the lead, and
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Corham's second. So I would go with Brees Hall if
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: he does play.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray or Patrick Mahomes?
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I have Kyler Murray. I can't go Mahomes against the Seahawks. Actually,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks are legit one of the best. Past defenses
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: in the league, they've been holding quarterbacks down in fantasy. So, yeah,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's the right move anyways.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Darren in Fircrest, he says he lives right by the
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Chambers Bay Distilling Company. They have the tasting room there
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: on Bridgeport. Go down there and check it out. Say
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: hi to Alan and those guys. PPR need one. Ted McMillan,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: I think you have to go Malik Navers, even if
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: it's J.J. McCarthy. I mean, he was peppering Navers as well.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Navers is getting as many targets as anybody in the
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: league right now. So there you go, Malik Navers.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: All right, I've got a couple more before Ashley gets
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the latest ones. Funston, another week, another Kyle Pitts question.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: This is from Ryan in Scottsdale. Finally benched him last week,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and then, boom, he gets 20 points. So him or Henry?
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: You broke up on that first part. So who was
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: the first guy?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: He's got Kyle Pitts. Yeah, he's got Kyle Pitts. He
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: benched him. They dropped 20 last week. So does he
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: go with him or Hunter Henry?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have Pitts. I like the way he's looked
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: with Pence the last couple games. So I think you've
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: got to go ahead and ride the hot hand with
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Kyle Pitts there.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Do we feel like Mike Evans is going to play
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: or do you go Concepcion?
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you can wait and find out a
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: little bit closer to game time. But if I'm a
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: betting man, I don't think Mike Evans plays this week.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: And they're going to get Christian Kirk back. So they
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: do have someone to kind of slot in. I mean,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: they're fairly depleted, but they will have a new blood there.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: So I'm guessing Evans doesn't play.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Steve from Camino Island, Matt Stafford, Caleb Williams, or Joe Burrow?
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I go Stafford, Williams, Burrow in that order, but they're
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: all top QB plays this week in my mind.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Last one I've got here that came in before it
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: got to 10 seconds after the hour. These are all
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: single digits after 12 o'clock, which is amazing. Jameson Williams,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Cortland Sutton, Josh Downs, or the tight end Johnson from
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: New England, I think it is. No, or is it
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: tight end Johnson? Anyway, PPR need two. Yeah, need two.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Let's go with that. Jameson Williams, and I think, did
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: you have Josh Downs or was it Cortland Sutton in there?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I had Josh Downs and Cortland Sutton in there.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to go with Josh Downs slightly over Sutton,
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: but I love Jamison Williams with a bulletin for that one,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: but give me Josh Downs slightly for the second one.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: And by that way, that was our buddy Rick from
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Port Orchard. I've got one more that's a trade question,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: but I'll hold that until the end. Ashley, fire away.
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: All right, we've got James from Puyallup, full PPR. Kendra
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: Miller or Kenneth Gainwell? And what is wrong with Gainwell
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: in Tampa Bay? Seems to be way underutilized.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean, I think Bucky Irvin's been, been
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: pretty good there as well. Um, but I'm, yeah. And
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: for that reason, I'm going to go Kendra Miller. I
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: liked the workload bump he had last week and Gainwell
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: has been a little bit less predictable.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: Uh, from the seven, seven, five full PPR need three neighbors, Coker,
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: Devante Smith, Jameson Williams, or burden.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: That is Josh in Chehalis.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Uh, I would, I would come down to the first
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: two for sure. And then it's, uh, I think it's
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Devontae Smith if he plays, and if he doesn't play,
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: then give me Burden for the third. All right.
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: And Daniel and Puyallup, tight end need one. Loveland tonight
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: or Tyler Higby?
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I would probably, I'm going to go ahead and go
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: with Tyler Higby with Devontae Adams out. That's worked out
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: for him. So I give him a little bit of
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: a lead over Loveland.
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: And gosh, from Keith, Standard scoring need one at sideline,
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: Jessamine or Softie.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: One at the sideline.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Doing sideline reporters?
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go Jessamine.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, solid choice, solid choice. All right, I got two
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: more here.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: It seems like I always go against Softie, so I
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: might as well just put a bet.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. It's a really good policy,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to be honest with you. Couldn't have a better policy.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: All right, I got two more for you. One, this
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: is a trade question. Half PPR. Do you like the
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: trade for both sides or one or the other? A.J. Brown,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Jamar Chase, Brees Hall. Four, Malik Neighbors and Jonathan Taylor.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: What do you think? Do you like the trade? Is
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: one getting the better of the other?
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: I can see how it's sort of even, but Brees
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Hall is just kind of like the X Factor. He
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: hasn't been healthy. I don't know that it's going to
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: be like for sure that he's ever just going to
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: get clear of this. So I'm going to go with
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: the Malik neighbors side if I'm making the deal. And
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor, we'll see. He might be on the trading block,
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: but I think he's going to be good no matter
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: where he would land other than Indianapolis. And if he
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: stays there, I'm fine with that, too. All right.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Ian, your favorite KD. Karen Szymanski, Kappa Delta Wazoo, back
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: in the day. I'm telling you right now, the Szymanski sisters,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: they had a good time in Wazoo. They had a
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: really good time in Wazoo. I was usually in the library,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: so I don't know what she's talking about. Anyway, always
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: in the library, always there, once or twice. My team sucks,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: says Karen. Can you ask Brenna if I should start
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks D or Patriots D?
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Ooh, I'm probably going to go with the Patriots defense there.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: More of a, I mean, yeah, I think it's pretty close,
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: but I would gamble more on a mistake by Caleb
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Williams than a mistake by Holmes.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: And Drake May or Bryce Young? Ooh, do you go
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: with a Thursday? You kind of like the Thursday, get
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: something in the bank, don't you?
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I love Drake May the way he's been playing,
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: but also Chicago's defense has been looking pretty sad the
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: last few weeks. So I have Drake May as the
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: play there for sure.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: All right, all right.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: See, now everyone's throwing in the goofy questions.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you only get one goofy question a week.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I like this one because it kind of
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: takes a shot at me, Softie, and Chuck.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Do that.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Do you want to read that one, Ash?
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Okay, sure. This is from Joel.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Full PPR. Need one.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: Ian pronouncing the word tomorrow.
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: Softy doing anything quietly or chuck powell admitting jerry depoto
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: is awful.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Only only need one yeah.
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: Only one and don't take ian and tomorrow away from
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: me i literally.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: Try to put in every.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Update I didn't know that was a thing. Somehow in,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know, close to 15 years, I've never really
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: clocked that. So I'm going to take that just for
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: the curiosity.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Hey, Ian, when's Friday?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: That's tomorrow.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, see, there you go.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: It's the best.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: It's my favorite. Hey, pal!
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: You think Jerry Napoto's not good? I can't even talk
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: to you at this point. All right, we're done. Funston,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: you're the best. Back at the normal time at 2
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: o'clock next week. God, Robin Buren's in first place. You're
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: doing this at 1 o'clock. No Ricky in Tacoma. The
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: world is in upheaval right now, sir.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Upheaval. I know. Unfortunately, normalcy may not work out for Rob,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: but we'll see. We'll see if it's just the year
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: of Rob next week.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I just try to wrap my arms around that. In
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the meantime, people to get their questions answered. How can
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: they do so, sir?
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just go to the athletics and hit the fantasy
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: football pages. There's a bunch of stuff there, a bunch
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: of analysis, breaking down week seven, as well as rankings
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: updated all the way up to pick off.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Great stuff. We'll talk to you next week, my friend.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: Okay. Sounds good.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: That is our guy, Brandon Funston. Good stuff with him.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Back to the normal time next week, 2 o'clock today.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: We're kind enough to– or not we weren't. Steve Palazzolo,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: kind enough to move his schedule around, so he'll join
• 40:56
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• 40:59
  Speaker 2: things NFL 3013. We'll break down Seahawks and Chiefs with
• 41:02
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• 41:20
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• 41:23
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• 41:51
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• 42:03
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Doing great.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: How are we doing?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: We're good. We're good. We get a little stress here
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: in Seattle, Steve, if I'm being honest with you. We
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: got a little stress going on here in Seattle. You know,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, lost one week ago today to the Broncos.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: That didn't feel so good, and now all of a
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: sudden this team is sitting there at 3-3, the defending
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl champions, and oh, by the way, Kansas City's
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: coming to town. Your discussions this week with Sam and
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: others about this team, let's start with I guess the
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: quarterback and Sam Darnold. What are you guys seeing?
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: The turnovers again? It's the same thing. I mean, there's
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: more to it, but obviously the taking care of the ball.
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: I thought it was fascinating coming out of that game
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: last week where Bo Nix was taking a lot of criticism,
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: and it Ryan Fitzpatrick kind of goes viral for saying
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: he's not aggressive enough and embarrassing to the quarterback position
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: because Fitz was an aggressive.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Quarterback, right?
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: And Bo Nix is not right now. And I was
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: kind of half joking. I said, the quarterback that needs to,
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: you know, balance this out and yell at Sam Darnold
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: is Alex Smith. You know, Alex Smith is in the media.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: He needs to go say, Darnold needs.
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: Because Alex Smith was great at that. He was great
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: at avoiding interceptions and didn't take a lot of chances.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: And he just kind of, you know, let the defense
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: do their work and move the ball, but didn't, you know,
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: didn't try to flip the field and, you know, didn't
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: turn the ball over. And I think that's maybe where
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: Darnold needs to go. Like I generally like aggressiveness from quarterbacks.
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: I like, um, obviously putting points on the board and
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: you want to get your playmakers involved and you have
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: jsn but it's almost to the point where seattle's defense
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: remains elite remains so good that the most important thing
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: like i i never i'm never looking for punts from
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: the offense but you might get to a point where
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: it's like all right let's just let the defense do
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: their work and um i think that's where we are
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: with donald's the mistakes adding up and the timing of
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: the mistakes adding up And that's the part that really
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: needs to get cleaned up for Seattle to go back
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: to where they want to go.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: How much of the run game being literally non-existent has
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: kind of hurt Seattle in terms of Sam Darnold's performance
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: and maybe trying to feel like he's got to press
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: it too much?
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: I think there's parts of that. I've seen some data
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: on that. They're seeing fewer heavy boxes. And again, it's
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: worth reminding people what happened last year around this time.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: It wasn't like.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: Ken Walker was sitting here averaging six yards a carry
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: like he is right now. That was not happening last
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: year at this time. What was happening is a whole
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: bunch of games where Seattle ran the ball a lot,
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: not necessarily efficiently on a, you know, say play-by-play basis.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: But you would come out of the game, and I
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: called it the old-school Shanahan-Kubiak game. You know, go back to, like,
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: Matt Schaub's Texans with Arian Foster, and, like, what did
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: the box score look like? And the box score said.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Something like, hey, they ran the ball.
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: Their bell cow ran it 20 to 25 times pretty efficiently.
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: And the quarterback threw it 25, 28, 30 times. Not
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: a ton, but extremely high efficiency, high yards per attempt
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: and everything. And that was Darnold last year, right? He
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: threw the ball 28 times, 30 times, 10 yards a pop.
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: Very efficient. JSN's catching 70% of it, and it was working.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: And there was an element of the volume of the
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: run game. And I go back to Clay Kubiak and
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: that whole Shanahan-Kubiak tree and the structures that they create
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: and the looks that they create. It felt like they
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: were creating the right looks to win your one-on-ones, to
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: get JSN in favorable matchups, to set him up for
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: his breakout season, and And you're just missing some of that, right?
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: You don't have efficiency in the run game, fine, but
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: it's not also being offset with, say, a short passing
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: game that's keeping them on schedule. They're lacking rhythm. There's
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: fewer easy buttons, seemingly, for Sam Darnold, and it does
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: put a little bit more pressure on him, I would say.
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: In other words, I think they need some easy buttons
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: either from the run game or the short pass game,
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: and then that helps to open things up down the
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: field just a little bit more.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Steve Palazzolo joining us. Steve, the the one of the
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: storylines here obviously is is ken walker's it's not just
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: one of them it's actually sam donald's probably thrilled it's
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: the storyline this week sam donald's taking a back seat
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: to ken walker and the seahawks didn't bring him back
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: and you know and all that goes into that there's
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: and there's a lot that goes into that as you
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: well know i mean one of the things and just
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: for those who you know are new to our show
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: or new to the segment with steve we have steve
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: on in the spring too and I would say that
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: it's safe to say one of your favorite things is
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: roster building. You love the offseason. You love the draft,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: but you love the roster building, free agency, all that stuff.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: And I bring this up all the time. Can we
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: even make a judgment yet on the Ken Walker move
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: if we haven't even played an entire season or two
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: yet with the decision not to bring him back? Or
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: is it fair to criticize John Schneider right now?
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: I think you can make a call on the move
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: for Kansas city. And if you're Seattle, you could still say,
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: wait and see, how about, I could, I think you
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: could play both sides. I think you can look at
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: the chiefs and say, okay, we can clearly feel and
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: see the impact in our particular situation, because that's important.
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: Kansas city situation was, uh, We think we have a
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: pretty good offensive line, especially on the interior. We had
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: no explosiveness at the running back position last year. We
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: were very efficient running the ball, but for not a
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: lot of yards. Efficient as in, hey, we stayed on schedule.
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: We got the second and six. We converted third and ones.
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: But they needed some kind of big playability. Okay, Kenneth
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: Walker's a great guy to bring in. We'll get the four,
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: but he'll turn four into 50 a few times. That
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: is exactly how it's played out for Kansas City. That
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: doesn't mean it would have happened exactly as such in Seattle. Obviously,
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: Walker was great down the stretch and everything, but it's
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: not like average six yards of pop here in Seattle,
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: and you just let that walk out the door, right?
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: So we're still working off of small sample sizes. We
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: haven't really seen Denarian price. And so we don't have
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: the other facts, so to speak, from a Seattle perspective.
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: And then the other part of paying running backs is
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: the durability, right? You don't pay running backs long-term because
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: of durability questions that will, you know, will Kenneth Walker
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: be able to do this for three years? Would he
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: have gotten hurt? Would it, you know, would he, would
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: he be playing half the games instead of, you know,
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: a full slate. Those are, those are questions that we
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: won't know until over time. So it's tough to say
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: from Seattle's perspective, okay, it's wrong, of course. But from
• 48:33
  Speaker 7: Kansas city's perspective, you could easily say, Hey, this is
• 48:36
  Speaker 7: what we needed. This is what we needed to kind
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: of get my homes back on track. So I say
• 48:41
  Speaker 7: it's like a win for Kansas city and a TBD
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: so far for Seattle.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: And you brought up a great point. It's not like
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Seattle was using Ken Walker last season to, as Kansas
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: City is this year, and I'll just give you, this
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: just jumps off the page. Last season, the Seahawks had
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: three players go over 100 yards rushing in a game.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Walker twice and Charbonnet. Walker did it against the Steelers
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: on September 14th. He went for 13 for 105. Then
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: he did it against the Rams on December 18th. He
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: ran for exactly 100 yards in that game, Steve, and
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: 55 came on one run. So, And then Charbonnet did
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: it against the Panthers a couple weeks later. For comparison,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: there were 900-yard receiving games by JSN last season. So
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: your point about, hey, this isn't how Seattle was using
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: him and may have used him anyway, is well taken.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Because a year ago right now, it's not like this
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: guy was tearing it up. He had one 100-yard rushing
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: game to this point. It was 105.
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's not like for like, but I said the
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: same thing about Saquon Barkley when he went from the
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: Giants to the Eagles. He goes from averaging 3.9 yards
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: per attempt to about 6.0. in a new situation and
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: the new situation in Philly was one of the best
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: offensive lines, a running quarterback that helped set them up.
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: And so it's not exactly like for like with Kansas city,
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: but like I said, they've got a good interior offensive line.
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: They've got a great offensive mind and Andy Reed, and
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: you have, you know, the best quarterback of the generation
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: that usually is, teams say, we don't want that guy
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: to beat us. We usually say, we don't want Mahomes
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: to beat us.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: We're going to let this team run.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: He went to a situation where he's gone from a
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: career 4.3 yards per attempt in Seattle to now 6.3
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: in Kansas City. First off, it's going to come back
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: down to earth at least a little bit. Secondly, there's
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: no saying that running back production is the least transferable
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: is what we always like to say. It's the most
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: dependent on the running, the situation, the offensive line, the
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: play caller, the quarterback, the weapons on the outside. It
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: doesn't mean that Walker wouldn't have made a major impact here.
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: Maybe he would take some pressure. Maybe he would be
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: this good, but we hadn't seen it for an extended
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: period of time in Seattle. So I think it's tough
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: to say what would have been or what could have been.
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: And I know it's tough to see and everything, but
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: I think it's just in a really good situation in
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: Kansas City, the way it's setting.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Up for him right now.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: It is our good friend, Steve Palazzolo from the 33rd team.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: And continuing on as we cruise on to this weekend
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: coming up with a huge game. I'm going to get
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: to some other stuff, but let me wrap up this. Seattle,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Kansas City, number one offense in the NFL, number one
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: defense in the NFL. How do those usually go, Steve?
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: You know, I think the defense wins out often for
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: Kansas city. I think you could easily look back and say, okay,
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: they beat up on the Broncos in the run game
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: in week one. And then they haven't played a ton
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: of great teams, particularly defenses, the Colts, dolphins, Raiders last
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: week against the chargers. They have not had a difficult
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: schedule to this point. And I think this is the
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: biggest challenge for Kansas city. And so I think that
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: side of the ball is going to be fascinating. I'm
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: looking at Nicky Manwari, those linebackers, if they can help
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: bottle up Kenneth Walker. I'm not saying you want to
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: make Mahomes throw and make Mahomes throw to beat you
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: against the Chiefs. That's not usually a favorable strategy, but...
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: in this season where they have some injuries at receiver
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: and my homes has been in very favorable situations. We'll
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: say this year, that past game has been in very
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: favorable situations because of Walker and having leads and everything.
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: This would be the first time if you, if you
• 52:22
  Speaker 7: make a high volume Kansas city passing attack where Seattle
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: does tend to win over time, that might be the
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: game flow that the Seahawks are looking for. Believe it
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: or not, my home's throwing the ball 45 times and
• 52:34
  Speaker 7: you know, lower percentage type of options here. So I
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: think it's going to be a great matchup. And it
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: really does come down to Kansas City's been on the
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: right side of turnovers. And they've had a bunch of
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: drives start in opposing territory. That's been the story of
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: what has done Seattle in. That's the reason why the
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: defense is like second or third in most efficiency metrics,
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: but ninth in points per game allowed. It's all because
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: of the short field. So it'll all come down to
• 52:59
  Speaker 7: taking care of the ball, the turnovers, and Seattle trying
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: to find some kind of rhythm offensively.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Steve, we get a little stressed out out here, as
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of NFL cities do. There's math in the
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: NFL that usually is pretty simple. That right-hand column, the
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: left-hand column is wins. That right-hand column, if we eliminate ties,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: not giants, and commanders, that right-hand column is everything. And
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: what I mean by that is you can only get
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: to a certain point before it becomes very problematic. How
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: problematic is it? You're at three losses. Hell, let's look
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: at the Rams. They're at four losses. The 49ers are unbeaten.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: How problematic is the division right now? Because on the
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: surface for most of us out here, it does not
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: look too easy.
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, for winning the division, it's going to be
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: a challenge now because the Niners have taken care of
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: business in some tough games. They survived Monday night, almost
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: blew it against Washington. But they haven't slipped up, obviously.
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: So I think division-wise, it's going to be a challenge
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: with the Niners and everything. But as far as the
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: NFC goes, the North, everybody's over.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: 500.
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: Lions, Bears, Packers, and Vikings sitting there undefeated. They'll end
• 54:07
  Speaker 7: up beating each other up at some point. The East
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: looks like an absolute... train wreck right now the giants
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: are in first with three two and the one tie
• 54:16
  Speaker 7: but the cowboys at two and four have the best
• 54:19
  Speaker 7: odds to win the nfc east right now so in
• 54:23
  Speaker 7: in the nfc south is similar right the panthers are
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: sitting here at three and two no one else has
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: more than two wins They're all, you know, two and
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: four Falcons, two and four Saints, one and five Bucs.
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: So getting into the playoffs, the wildcard and everything. Look,
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: Seattle still has all of that right in front of them. Division-wise,
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: sitting there three games behind the Niners, they obviously won
• 54:41
  Speaker 7: that first matchup. It's going to be tough to get
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: back to winning the division, but there's certainly a wide-open
• 54:46
  Speaker 7: wildcard race in an NFC that looks like two of
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: the divisions. are only putting a division winner in and
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: nothing else at this point.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: And that, and we talked about that this week. I'm
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: glad you brought that up because it feels like, okay,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: NFC East, whatever hot pile of garbage comes out of
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: that thing is, is one. And then more than likely,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I think we can all safely say, I mean, there's
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of football left in play. We get that,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: but Carolina seems to be the, the clubhouse leader and
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: easily the class of that division in the South. After that,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: it feels like, okay, division winner North, division winner West,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: so whoever the North is, and then the Niners, and
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: then it's Seattle and the Rams battling with three other teams, right,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: in the NFC North for a wildcard spot, more than likely.
• 55:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's what we're looking at at this point.
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: And the big picture for Seattle is still taking care
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: of things in-house. I keep reiterating the fact that their
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: defense hasn't regressed. It's one of the more– sometimes this happens.
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: You just have this elite defense, and you run into
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: good offenses, and it's really tough over time to just
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: always have an elite defense. I think they're there. I mean,
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: I think they're at this point where you trust that
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: side of the ball. And I think what they need
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: to figure out here, or at least– hope isn't true.
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: Sam Donald will always have that hanging over his head. Hey,
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: he had six or seven years. We didn't do much
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: in the league. He had two great years. Was that
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: fool's gold for two years? Can he bounce back? I
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: think he can. That's what they got to figure out.
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: The map will work itself out, but Seattle has to
• 56:11
  Speaker 7: figure out how to get Donald more comfortable taking care
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: of the ball better, but also keeping that aggressiveness because
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: that's part of what's made him such a productive and
• 56:19
  Speaker 7: winning quarterback the last two years is two things his
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: ability to attack down the field both in Minnesota and
• 56:25
  Speaker 7: Seattle and then the amnesia that quarterbacks need that corners
• 56:30
  Speaker 7: need that pitchers need when things go sour how do
• 56:33
  Speaker 7: you bounce back and I think Donald's done a great
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: job of that over his career and you know these
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: last few weeks may have snowballed a little bit but
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: they got to get them out of it if they
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: can get them out of it I think Seattle is
• 56:43
  Speaker 7: going to be just fine.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah we were out there yesterday I mentioned this uh
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Just watching him come out for practice yesterday, massively relaxed.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: You can't fake some things. He just looked good. He
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: looked like he's– and I think what you said is
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: so true. We've talked about that. You're a leaf pitcher
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: and a closer. You've got to have a short memory.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: You're a cornerback. You've got to have a short memory.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: You're a goalie in hockey. You've got to have a
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: short memory. And if you're a quarterback, you probably have
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: to have that short memory too. That's kind of been
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: one of his strengths, so we'll see if he can
• 57:11
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with the Rams in L.A.? We're enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: Not as much as we should at 3-3 up here.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: But what's going on with the Rams?
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm as confused as Sean McVay is
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: every week at his press conference. I really thought we'd
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: be looking... I probably mentioned this last week. They were
• 58:09
  Speaker 7: supposed to have this five-game stretch that's pretty easy, and
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: I thought they were just going to roll through... beat
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: the Cardinals, the Raiders, the commanders, the Cardinals again, you know,
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: just go through and, you know, then get challenged again.
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: They still have to play Kansas city. They have to
• 58:23
  Speaker 7: play Seattle two out of the last three weeks. And
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: then we get more information on the Rams, but instead
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: I don't think Stafford's playing that well. The weird thing
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: about Stafford, I know he, I know some people are
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: calling them top five QB of all time, which is absurd,
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: but Stafford's really never stacked two good seasons together. You know,
• 58:41
  Speaker 7: they won the Superbowl in 21. He regressed in 22.
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: He was, He was good in 23, but it kind
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: of tapered off. Coming off the MVP season, he was
• 58:52
  Speaker 7: destined to kind of regress a little bit, but it's
• 58:55
  Speaker 7: not great. He's missing some throws, putting the ball in
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: harm's way, fumbling with the game on the line last week.
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: And so Stafford's not playing great. And then when you
• 59:02
  Speaker 7: build a team around a whole bunch of veteran stars,
• 59:05
  Speaker 7: injuries are always going to be a possibility. So you've
• 59:08
  Speaker 7: got Devontae Adams with a hamstring and Kobe Turner's hurt.
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: Not that he's old, but who would afford getting hurt?
• 59:14
  Speaker 7: So now the injuries are adding up. And so it's
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: just a lot of little things adding up, the special
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: teams still being awful. But I think the main driver
• 59:21
  Speaker 7: is a little bit of regression from Stafford that you
• 59:25
  Speaker 7: can account for, but it's been– extreme enough that I
• 59:27
  Speaker 7: think it's probably cost them a couple.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: Games to this point.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Devontae Adams' injury seems to be problematic. I know when
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Puka's on the field, he'll get targeted 20-plus times, or
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: at least he did last game. But even so, one
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: of the reasons you can do that is because, okay,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: it's hard to cover Puka, but then you get this
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: red zone threat, especially a red zone threat in Devontae Adams.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: That seems to be a major loss for them.
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: He's been a red zone cheat code for them. He's
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: such a good fade slant runner. We saw that with
• 59:53
  Speaker 7: Aaron Rogers in green Bay. Once they get inside the five,
• 59:56
  Speaker 7: it is so tough to cover Devante Adams. And that
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: was a big part of Stafford's MVP season, whatever he
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 7: had 48 touchdowns, how many of those were fade slants,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 7: just the red zone work that him and Devante Adams
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: were able to do. So I think that's huge. They're
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: in the market for a receiver. Supposedly you still have
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: miles Garrett injured. I mean, part of building a team
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 7: with that much talent is, If I said, hey, two
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: of your defensive tackles are down, you'd be in trouble. Hey,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 7: they still have Braden Fisk. They still have Aaron Donalds.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: They have enough depth to handle this. So you don't
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: write the Rams off right now, but I think they've
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 7: hit a stretch where they've got some injuries, some inconsistencies,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: some special teams, a lot of things adding up, not
• 1:00:35
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• 1:00:38
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• 1:00:40
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• 1:00:43
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