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Chuck in the Morning 9/16 H4: Cam Cleeland, Hawks vs Cards & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Your home for Husky football proudly presents our weekly visit
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  Speaker 1: with the voice of the dogs, Cam Cleland.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah, Purple Ray, let's go!
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  Speaker 1: Now, here's Chuck and Buck with the former Husky tight
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  Speaker 1: end on Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, running a little late here this morning. Our apologies,
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  Speaker 3: I should say, to Cam Cleland for running a little
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  Speaker 3: bit late. We got talking about the Mariners, Cam, and
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  Speaker 3: you know how that can distract you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you mean four minutes, Chuck. I mean, I'm on
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  Speaker 4: such a tight, tight window. Of course we want to
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  Speaker 4: talk about the Mariners.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, once you start bitching and complaining about the Mariners,
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  Speaker 3: you lose track of time, Cam. It's true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just easy to whine a little bit. I understand.
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  Speaker 4: As a lowly Mariner fan since birth, I am right
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  Speaker 4: there with everybody.
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  Speaker 3: You still got some power, by the way. Can you
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  Speaker 3: control the zone? We could use some of your old
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  Speaker 3: UW talents.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, again, 95, no problem. Just keep it
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  Speaker 4: more towards the middle. Whatever. Just hit the.
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  Speaker 3: Ball hard, boys.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I want to see, hit the ball hard somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well, Cam's here to talk some UW football,
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  Speaker 3: and there are certainly things to complain about in this
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  Speaker 3: arena as well. We might as well get to it.
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  Speaker 3: An entire fan base just is really worried that this
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  Speaker 3: offense is not going to get going this year. So
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  Speaker 3: let's start with your concerns to have kind of failed
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  Speaker 3: to put the pedal to the metal in the first
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  Speaker 3: two weeks against lesser than competition. What's getting in the
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  Speaker 3: way of the Huskies offense from singing right now?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I think you get me and people
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  Speaker 4: that listen. I mean, I'm kind of factual. I'm more
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  Speaker 4: about the feelings, things about what can go wrong with
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  Speaker 4: an offense, feelings in football. And I like to see evidence.
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  Speaker 4: I like to use numbers. I like to use things
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  Speaker 4: that an eye test that tell me what I see.
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  Speaker 4: And these are just these are part of a new offense.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll start with it when it comes to youth.
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  Speaker 4: That's a big deal in my perspective. I think you
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  Speaker 4: can hit one-offs sometimes with a lot of younger players,
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  Speaker 4: but in the top end of your offense, you have
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  Speaker 4: to have senior depth. You have to have guys that
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  Speaker 4: have been in these moments and experience. Right now, there's
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  Speaker 4: a few that we're searching for in the skilled position.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't Go without saying, when you lose your top
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  Speaker 4: two running backs in week one, and that's not just catastrophic.
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  Speaker 4: That's just seniors, guys with a ton of experience, bang,
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  Speaker 4: there go your two top running backs. And now you're
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  Speaker 4: playing freshmen. Yeah, you have some older guys, but like
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  Speaker 4: Trey Cooley, he hasn't been healthy in a long time.
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  Speaker 4: So now you're all the way down to who you're
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  Speaker 4: searching for and who's going to be that running game.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a massive believer that if you can run the football,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not talking, we're not talking Nebraska 1995 here.
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  Speaker 4: That's not what we're talking. What we're talking is four
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  Speaker 4: or five yards a pop. We're talking four yard averages
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  Speaker 4: on first down. We're talking play action ability. We're talking
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  Speaker 4: inside the red zone to be able to. run power football,
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  Speaker 4: and that means you're pulling a guard, you have a
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  Speaker 4: tight end, and you can get downhill and you can attack.
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  Speaker 4: That opens up everything. If you see the adjustments of
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  Speaker 4: what's been made, offense-wise, DeMond Williams is excellent on the move.
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  Speaker 4: When I talk about move, I talk about boots, play action.
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  Speaker 4: Pinning one side, that means you're rolling to his right,
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  Speaker 4: rolling to his left. You have drag options from behind
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  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage, and you have shallow crosses on
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  Speaker 4: the top. So movement football is really good right now
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  Speaker 4: with this Husky offense. Pocket football, so I'm talking three-step drop.
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  Speaker 4: Quick game, five-step drop, two slides means the quarterback slides
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  Speaker 4: up into the pocket. That is where we're struggling right now.
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  Speaker 4: And that is because you have a true freshman left tackle.
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  Speaker 4: You have a very good left guard. But then you
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  Speaker 4: have a guy playing center who really is a tackle.
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  Speaker 4: So all pressure coming from the middle is what defenses
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  Speaker 4: are doing. And DeMond can't see, like physically can't see.
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  Speaker 4: It's not the fact that stature-wise it's an issue. It's
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  Speaker 4: that he's getting balls batted down because he doesn't have it.
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  Speaker 4: The pressure is pushing him. And that means you need
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  Speaker 4: two to three yards of a window to be able
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  Speaker 4: to have space. So there's where I see it. If
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  Speaker 4: a team and a program know that you're going up
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  Speaker 4: against on defensive, they do know that your run game
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  Speaker 4: isn't as successful. They can bring middle pressure. And that's
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  Speaker 4: exactly what's happening. And then the consistency of accuracy in
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  Speaker 4: those easy throws and those third down and long, if
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  Speaker 4: you just look throughout the year so far, our third
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  Speaker 4: down efficiency has just not been great. And so no
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  Speaker 4: matter how you look at it, I can go onto
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  Speaker 4: it in detail over and over again. There are some
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  Speaker 4: improvements that I did see offensive wise, but this is
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  Speaker 4: where you need to see the jump. You know, you
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  Speaker 4: need to see the jump this week of what are
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  Speaker 4: they going to do to address it? But again, Chuck,
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  Speaker 4: I just think this comes down to young players have
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  Speaker 4: to get better faster. And that's part of their confidence.
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  Speaker 4: And certainly confidence starts with DeMond. And then from there,
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  Speaker 4: let's see what Coach Fish wants to do. Because they're talented.
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  Speaker 4: But this is also with coaches, too. They have to
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  Speaker 4: make adjustments, and they have to change their offense and
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  Speaker 4: change their philosophy to fit the players that they have.
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  Speaker 4: I know that sounds easy. It's like, oh, yeah, just change. No,
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  Speaker 4: you're not changing. You're just optimizing things to be successful
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  Speaker 4: with who you have as personnel.
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  Speaker 3: I predicted at the beginning of the season that DeMond
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  Speaker 3: would lead the team in rushing. Um, and we had
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  Speaker 3: Rick new eyes along yesterday and he said an interesting thing,
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  Speaker 3: but I want to get your opinion on this. He said, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't have the running back that you can trust,
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  Speaker 3: you have a running quarterback. And maybe he's got to
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  Speaker 3: become the run game for you as well, the designed
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  Speaker 3: run game. And he brought up Tui, Marcus Tui Asasopo,
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  Speaker 3: and how much success they had with him. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: there's a big physical stature difference between Tui and DeMond,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm wondering how you think that would work if
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  Speaker 3: Jed just said, hey, if I don't have a running
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  Speaker 3: back that I trust... right now that maybe he does
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  Speaker 3: come out and let Demond just run the football more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly don't mind that. My first guess would
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  Speaker 4: tell you, do you want to have those kind of
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  Speaker 4: hits and those impacts? Okay, that's more about stability because
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  Speaker 4: once we drop from that position, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: don't have enough information about who the backup guys are.
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  Speaker 4: But look, 41 attempts last game, passing attempts. He had
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  Speaker 4: 11 carries. He leads the team in rushing, and then
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  Speaker 4: he has 41 attempts at passing. That's not– that's the
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  Speaker 4: entire offense is really what we're saying, is that if
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  Speaker 4: you have to control the– and look, every quarterback, there
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  Speaker 4: are certain quarterbacks that can take that load on. You
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  Speaker 4: watch top programs throughout the country. The best teams in
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  Speaker 4: the country right now have guys they can turn around
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  Speaker 4: and hand it off to. I mean, if you watch Texas,
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  Speaker 4: I think we saw Ohio State. I've seen Alabama. They
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  Speaker 4: have guys you can turn around and hand it off to.
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  Speaker 4: If you want your quarterback to carry the ball 15
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  Speaker 4: times a game and throw it 40 times a game,
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  Speaker 4: the guy better be a cyborg and be just willing
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  Speaker 4: to take a lot of impacts and hits and can
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  Speaker 4: he hold up over time. I don't mind the fact
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  Speaker 4: what Coach Neuheisel says. You know, they played a lot
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  Speaker 4: of option football with Marcus. I mean, true optioned. off
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  Speaker 4: the down but their philosophy was was all power football
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  Speaker 4: I mean downhill power football and then play action attack
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  Speaker 4: I still believe and this is my personal judgment coach
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  Speaker 4: fish really likes a little bit of drop back football
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  Speaker 4: middle pocket football uh which is NFL style but maybe
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  Speaker 4: you're right we're on to something here there might be
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  Speaker 4: some adjustments that we we see more designed runs that
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  Speaker 4: allow him to get down the field, but allow him
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  Speaker 4: to get down in space. He doesn't have to take hits,
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  Speaker 4: but he can take some five- and six-yard runs early
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  Speaker 4: and take a load off the pressure of the group.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to just jump on this offensive line
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  Speaker 4: a little bit and say the onus has got to
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  Speaker 4: be on them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Supposed to be the strength, right? That group. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Without them optimizing, and if you saw, I mean, that was–
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  Speaker 4: When Landon can come back, and this is an if,
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  Speaker 4: what happens there, Garen also with his brother at right guard, Champ,
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  Speaker 4: didn't even play on that right guard situation. There's trolls
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  Speaker 4: trying to figure out their rotation and confidence there with
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  Speaker 4: that group. And look, I have a ton of respect
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  Speaker 4: for Cody Green and his ability. He's just still young.
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  Speaker 4: You cannot... You cannot just tell me immediately, I just
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  Speaker 4: jump in and become an All-American freshman at left tackle.
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  Speaker 4: It's just never done. It's never happened. Look, it requires
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  Speaker 4: so much experience and strength and knowledge. Now, he's going
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  Speaker 4: to be very good. It's just you've got to have
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  Speaker 4: some bumps and bruises along the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Even Walter Jones started in junior college, for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 3: Cam Cleland is with us. Voice of the Dogs, of course,
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  Speaker 3: former Husky tight end as well. Warrior. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: his segment is brought to you by Warrior Injury Law. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: for this segment, we just gather all of our warriors together. Cam,
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  Speaker 3: Rob Iddins, myself. That's what this segment is really all about.
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  Speaker 3: It's what we do. All right, so there's a Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten opponent, and it is just Minnesota a couple of weeks. ago,
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  Speaker 3: but that's going to be a better team than you
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  Speaker 3: faced all season long. So there's, I think, this feeling
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  Speaker 3: of urgency, at least among fans. I'll get your opinion
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  Speaker 3: on this. I have to see a great offensive performance
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  Speaker 3: this week to feel good about starting Big Ten play
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  Speaker 3: two weeks from now. How do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think that goes without saying, doesn't it? I
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  Speaker 4: think you're facing an FCS program, and this is not
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  Speaker 4: disrespect to Eastern Washington, which, you know, they've won national championships.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Best has been around football for quite a long time,
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  Speaker 4: knows how to get it. Their talent is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the jumps are quite obvious, but yeah. you're a power
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  Speaker 4: four football team or power five football team. You were
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  Speaker 4: starting in the top 20 as rankings and sometimes preseason rankings.
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  Speaker 4: And we we've seen those adjustments. You have to play
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  Speaker 4: this week. Like we need to see the confidence jump,
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  Speaker 4: not just for, not just for us as fans and
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  Speaker 4: myself or watching this is for them, for their confidence, but, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: what are we going to do? Are we going to
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  Speaker 4: simplify this game plan now? Are we going to score
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  Speaker 4: points early? I'd like to see this team come out
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  Speaker 4: and score on the first drive and score and score.
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  Speaker 4: I really do believe we have one of the best
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  Speaker 4: defenses in the country right now. I think we're talented throughout.
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  Speaker 4: We can stop those teams. And maybe you have to
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  Speaker 4: start to think about winning games really, really ugly. And
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  Speaker 4: that's fine with me, too. But Yeah, confidence for this offense.
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  Speaker 4: And I wish I could tell you it's just as
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  Speaker 4: easy as solutions and plays and execution because every play
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  Speaker 4: a coach designs, it's designed to work. But players have
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  Speaker 4: to execute. The mistakes got better last week, less penalties.
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  Speaker 4: Some of those things were better. He still created turnovers
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  Speaker 4: on defense, but the offense has to get going. And
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  Speaker 4: it starts with Devon Williams. I'm just going to say
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  Speaker 4: it as easy as it gets. It starts with him,
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  Speaker 4: number one in the back, and how he controls the
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  Speaker 4: offense and then executes from there.
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  Speaker 3: It really does. Let's talk about the defense. Let's hand
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  Speaker 3: out a superlative here since everybody is hand-wringing right now
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  Speaker 3: in Seattle about the local college football team. because the
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  Speaker 3: defense has played well. Alex McLaughlin, a year ago, just
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  Speaker 3: kept getting better week after week. By the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year, he might have been the best player on defense,
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  Speaker 3: and he just keeps getting better from this season's game
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  Speaker 3: one to game number two. How good of a player
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  Speaker 3: has Alex McLaughlin turned into in your eyes? No question.
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  Speaker 4: He's my favorite player on defense. I think he's an
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  Speaker 4: All-Big Ten player. If he continues on this trajectory, he
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  Speaker 4: has a chance to be an All-American player. That's how
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  Speaker 4: good he is. He's one of the best tacklers in space.
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  Speaker 4: His nose for the football. leadership also. And now when you're,
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  Speaker 4: when coach Walters asks a strong safety, what does that
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  Speaker 4: mean when you, when you have a prototypical strong safety? Well,
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  Speaker 4: he's got to be able to cover in the back
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  Speaker 4: end at 20 yards and 15 yards, which he's excellent with,
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  Speaker 4: but he also has to play down in the box.
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  Speaker 4: The box is that tackle area, that five yard window
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  Speaker 4: from space to space. And he has to be instinctual
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  Speaker 4: on how to play a linebacker. So the most versatile
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  Speaker 4: player is, right now is Alex McLaughlin. He is, he's
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  Speaker 4: the captain of that group. And what he does is
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  Speaker 4: he plays down in the box and run situations. He
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  Speaker 4: plays depth and cover too. He can play man defense,
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  Speaker 4: but I could show you three clips from that game
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  Speaker 4: where he was at 20 yards and 18 yards on
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  Speaker 4: opposite hash and closed to the left hash and on
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  Speaker 4: an angle with an inside out tackle. I'm like, what
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  Speaker 4: in the world? Or his, his nose for the football,
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  Speaker 4: but his instinctual ability to get to like the hip
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  Speaker 4: and how he gets there. It's, it's big. And then
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  Speaker 4: making interceptions, Johnny on the spot, all that stuff is
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  Speaker 4: you can just see me as an NFL player. I
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  Speaker 4: believe he's an NFL player. I think he just, the
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  Speaker 4: sky's the limit for him right now. He's doing, doing
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  Speaker 4: everything right so far.
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  Speaker 3: What did Eastern Washington mean to you when you were
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  Speaker 3: at Washington? I know when I played high school football
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  Speaker 3: and we would have like close programs to us, we'd
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  Speaker 3: beat them and then we would drive to their town
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  Speaker 3: and try to make out with their girls. Uh, that's
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  Speaker 3: how we used to do it back there on the
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  Speaker 3: mean streets of Brighton, Illinois. And I'm wondering, did you
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  Speaker 3: used to do the same thing to Eastern Washington once
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  Speaker 3: upon a time? You always think about it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's not an easy drive. It's not, it's not, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a comfortable drive. And by the way, I
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  Speaker 4: just left that up to the Cougars. I figured they just,
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  Speaker 4: that was their thing. They, they, they wanted their side
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  Speaker 4: and they keep it on their side. You stay on
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  Speaker 4: our side. And, We'll keep it copacetic here. But no,
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  Speaker 4: I have respect for the FCS, a tremendous amount of
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  Speaker 4: respect for all those programs. Of course, I have boys
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  Speaker 4: that play in the FCS. So I know how good
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  Speaker 4: that Big Sky group is and how talented the Montanas are.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking teams that Eastern's won national championships.
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  Speaker 4: So they've taken teams to the top. uh that are
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  Speaker 4: not let's let's just tell you i i feel this
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  Speaker 4: is that fcs teams at the depth at the top
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  Speaker 4: it can get really close it's just from there on
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  Speaker 4: they don't have the scholarships they don't have the ability
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  Speaker 4: to stack but it's not like they're going to come
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  Speaker 4: in and roll over that's for sure and we've seen
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  Speaker 4: and look i'll go back to my very first broadcast
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  Speaker 4: i'm gonna go all the way back chuck to my
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  Speaker 4: very first broadcast as a husky i saw a montana
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  Speaker 4: team Come in and beat Washington in Husky Stadium, my
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  Speaker 4: very first broadcast. Now, I'm not foreshadowing. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 4: this is a game where you need to take it personal, really,
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  Speaker 4: at Washington. It needs to be a personal. It's still interstate. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: it's not the Cougs, but I'm telling you what, there's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a lot of family and people there
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  Speaker 4: that are Eastern fans, and they're going to say, why
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  Speaker 4: not us? Okay, well, I don't want to be the us. Please,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. All right, man. Awesome stuff. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you. Have fun Saturday with Elise and Softie, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk to you again next week. Wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: All right, there he is, Cam Cleland, joining us here
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  Speaker 3: on the radio program. I do wonder if Cooper Cup
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  Speaker 3: will be in attendance for the game on Saturday. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: good call. Yeah, might as well. Go support your alma
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  Speaker 3: mater out there. But, yes, 4-15 is your kickoff. On Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: it'll be on Montlake, of course, and we've got your
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  Speaker 3: Cam Cleland, Elyse Woodward on the call right here on KJR.
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  Speaker 3: All right, coming up next, I'll get into some hump
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I think that was therapeutic for some people.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was, because as I told Anders,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I feel so incomplete. The conversation is not over,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: and we just ran out of time.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Still meat on the bone.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's tip of the iceberg kind of
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: stuff is all we got into today.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Well, good topic for Stove to continue with.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: That's true. That's true. We'll light the stove here very soon,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: even though I don't think I'm ready to talk about it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Nope, I'm not ready either. Let's be honest.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Just yet. So let's talk about our football team. World
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: champions 1-0 on the season have already been forced into
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: a quarterback change early in the year. Drew Locke's going
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: to be under center against the Arizona Cardinals in Arizona
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: this upcoming week. And I'm not trying to scare anyone,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: alarm anyone, warn anyone. I'm not changing my opinions about
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: what I think. forecasted for the National Football League season
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: this year. I still think the Rams are going to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: be exceptional. I still think the Seahawks are going to
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: be exceptional. I still think the 49ers are going to
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: have a drop-off this year because they can't stay healthy.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: That's the only reason. And I still think the Arizona
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Cardinals are going to have a tough time winning games
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: this season, and I think that's by design. I think
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: they have sort of raised their hand and admitted that
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: they're in a bit of a rebuilding project. That's why
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: they told Jacoby Brissett, it's $ 15 million or nothing, bud.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: We don't care if you're our quarterback. This isn't exactly
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: a year where we're trying to win the Lombardi. So
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: if you want to be our quarterback, Trey McBride would
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: appreciate it. Might help Jeremiah Love's first rookie season, help
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: him to have a better quarterback than what we have
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: without you. But we don't care. You're going to hit
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: the bricks for all we care. And so they didn't
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: even have big expectations. But there are a few things
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: that certainly Mike McDonald's going to use this week and
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: is going to use to... fire up his players to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: make sure that they're not taking any opponent lightly. Not
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: that they would. But number one, you are going with
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: a backup quarterback, Anders. Drew Locke is backup for a reason.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Drew Locke's had plenty of opportunities to show to everyone
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: that I should be a starter in this league and
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: no one's buying it. Not a single person's bought it
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: since he left Denver. And Sam Darnold, on the other hand,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: got his second chance at being a starter, seized it,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: The Vikings stupidly let him go, even though they didn't
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: even believe in the guy they were replacing him with, apparently.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: He lands with the Seahawks and checks everybody. for us
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: and wins the world championship. So this is a drop-off.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: And yeah, Drew Locke's going to get everyday reps this
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: week as the starting quarterback, as the QB1. But guess
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: what else happens? The Arizona Cardinals get a whole week
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: of studying and preparing for Drew Locke and not Sam Darnold.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: So the element of surprise is going to be gone
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: there as well. Well, we didn't prepare for that guy.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: We prepared for that guy. So, I mean, yes, I
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: feel confident we're going to win this game. I feel
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: confident Drew's going to have a solid game this Sunday.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: But it's not like going to Arizona with your starting quarterback,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: and that's a factor.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think the drop-off is more of a
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: compliment to Sam Darnold than an indictment on Drew Locke, right?
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: I don't think that saying that, your backup quarterback is
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: not going to be as good as a starting quarterback
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: who just won the Super Bowl, who I actually think
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: is better than a lot of people still think he
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: is at this point. And Sam Darnold, that is. So
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: that's not a huge thing. The big thing for me,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: I don't think the... surprise factor is a huge deal
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: or the lack thereof so to speak because i think
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: that matters more if you have a completely different style
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: of quarterback which i think drew.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Lock but every quarterback has their tendencies and every quarterback
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: has their weaknesses and yeah even though they're both six
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: foot four inch white guys you know there's enough difference
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: between them that any defensive coordinator is going to say
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: We can take advantage of this this week where we
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: might not have been able to against Sam.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: I agree on the lines of what Greg Bell said
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: earlier today. And that is, I think, of the two
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: teams that have more preparation, the Seahawks in preparing Drew
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Locke and for their own side of things. versus the
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Cardinals going against him, I think you gain more from
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: preparing with Drew Locke than the opponent gains from preparing
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: for Drew Locke.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I agree. I agree with that. But it doesn't mean
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: that it's not a factor.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: No, it's true.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Second thing is, the Cardinals didn't just beat the Chargers, surprisingly,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: in the opening week. They destroyed the Chargers. And again,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Week one is the biggest liar in sports.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Seahawks lost week one last year.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: In the National Football League. So I'm not going to
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: read into it that much. I think the Arizona Cardinals
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: are going to be one of the lesser-than teams in
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: the National Football League and certainly are going to finish
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: last in the NFC West. But in terms of a
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: first impression with a first-year head coach, they put it
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: on the Chargers, who are supposed to be a Super
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Bowl contender this year. I mean, it wasn't just a
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: 12-point win. They ran 72 plays to the Chargers 51.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: They held the ball for 37 and a half minutes
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to the Chargers 22 and a half. That is controlling
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: the ball, controlling the clock, pretty much doing whatever you want.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: They had 393 total yards to LA's 268, 277 passing
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: yards to LA's 187, and they had 35 more rushing
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: yards than what the Chargers had in the contest. And
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: they won by 12 despite having over 50 more penalty
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: yards than what the Chargers had in the contest. They
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: didn't just beat Justin Herbert, Jim Harbaugh, and the Chargers.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: They destroyed them in week one. And if that doesn't
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: get your attention in film study this week, nothing will.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Well, and it's a weird way because I had, like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: not predicted, but at least thought that the Cardinals would
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: have been better than a lot of people were expecting
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: the last few years, and they never really... were that
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: threatening in a loaded NFC West admittedly but now getting
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: rid of Kyler Murray and having just a quarterback who
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: just does his job and controls the ball doesn't try
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: and do too much I think plays into their hands
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: because I think that's an underrated defense as well that
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: can and they showed it last week against what was
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: supposed to be one of the better offenses in the
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: league Supposed to be. Supposed to be, but I don't
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: know how long people need to stop taking the L.A.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Chargers seriously.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I think this is the year that they prove it
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: or don't prove it. And it feels to me like
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Justin Herbert's too Twitter-pated to concentrate on football.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Well, considering he might be a little too concentrated on
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: his fiancée.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, she's ugly.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Did you say Twitter-pated?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Twitter-pated, yeah.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Never heard that one before.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was used in a cartoon at one point.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Twitter-pated or something like that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: I thought that meant like using Twitter too much.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: You two grew up on cartoons. You should know that
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: real well.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Did Elmer Fudd say that?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: No, it wasn't Elmer Fudd. It was like Little Mermaid
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: or something like that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: That's the first time I've heard that term.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Google it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Twitter-pated.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: What cartoon movie was the word Twitter-pated used in? Bambi.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Maybe it was. Is that it? It's a little old
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: for a while. Okay, it was too old.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: That's very old.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I apologize to you. All right, let's talk about Mike LaFleur.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: That's the third cog in all of this. First-year head coach,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: but obviously got his team more ready for the start
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: of the season than the legendary Jim Harbaugh did. Khaki boy.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Certainly.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Didn't coach as well as Mike LaFleur. Didn't have his
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: team ready like Mike LaFleur did. Here's another thing about
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Mike LaFleur. Mike LaFleur's history is both as Kyle Shanahan's
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: right-hand man and Sean McVay's right-hand man.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Most recently, Sean McVay.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Right. And his brother's Matt LaFleur. So think about that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: This is his tutelage. Learning from what many believe are
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: the two best offensive minds in the National Football League,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: and two of the best, two of the five best
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: head coaches in the National Football League. So this is
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: his background. Think about this as well. If there was
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: one team that gave Mike McDonald, actually two, Tampa and
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: the Rams last year, gave Mike McDonald and his defense trouble,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Rams, who did not play well offensively
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: the first time we faced them, out of three, but
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: in the last two, we could not stop Matt Stafford.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: And guess who the offensive coordinator was? Mike LaFleur. So
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: if there is a young head coach that we're going
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: to face this year, not named Sean McVay, that you
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: may have to worry, has Mike McDonald a little bit
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: figured out It might be Mike LaFleur and the Arizona Cardinals. Now,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: they don't have the same horses that he had with
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: the Rams, that's for sure. But I don't think the
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: skills players are the biggest problem with the Arizona Cardinals.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Love might get unleashed a little bit this week.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Trey McBride's the best tight end, arguably, in the National
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Football League. That Michael Wilson's really good. And then if
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison... ever figures it out. He's obviously a talent. So,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's another thing. Not to be worried about. Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Not to, you know, not to think that, oh, gosh, ooh, ooh,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the Arizona House of Horrors, ooh, ooh. We'll be lucky
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: if we come back 1-1, or 2-0, excuse me. We'll
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: be lucky if we come back 2-0. I'm not saying that, but...
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: There should be no taking the Cardinals lightly this Sunday.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I know the Mike McDonald and the Seahawks won't, but
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I'm telling the fans as well, the listeners as well
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: here that take this one seriously because this is not
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: carved in stone.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, every NFL, they say any given Sunday, right?
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: But I think there's enough red flags or at least
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: warning signs that you should, like you said, take this
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: one seriously. I think it just comes down to you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: how much the running game kind of helps Drew Locke
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: on the offensive side. Because like I said, I think
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: this Arizona defense is actually pretty dang underrated. They've been
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: a good unit for a while now, and they obviously
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: shut down. what was, again, supposed to be a really
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: good Chargers offense. So we'll see kind of how that
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: plays out, but I still believe Seahawks are, even with
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: their injuries, this is the other thing. I don't know
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: if Nicky Midwary is going to play. I haven't heard
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: anything about that. I haven't really got an update. I
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: would guess no. Probably not if we haven't heard anything yet,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: but we kind of get the big update today is
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: always Wednesday is the first injury designation day. So we'll
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: kind of figure that out as things go along. But yeah,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a division game on the road. It's
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: always a big one, no matter who you're playing against.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So here we go. We go hunting this weekend.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: It's sort of like Little Mermaid said. Oh, we're going
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: hunting for wabbits. And didn't Little Mermaid say that? Famously.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Pretty sure. Yeah. What was it?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Moana.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I think Little Mermaid.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Was it Little Mermaid? Yeah. I'm pretty sure she did.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Wastedly wabbits. Wabbits. Yeah. Pretty sure that was Mermaid. Ariel, right?
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: How's her name?
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Ariel, if you're asking the crab's name. Oh, Sebastian.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, Sebastian.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Ariel.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: The Jamaican crab.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: The Jamaican crab.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: I didn't know there was such a thing.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: One last thing comes your way next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Thank you. All right, final segment of this Wednesday hump
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: day edition of Chuck in the Mornings. And so we
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: close out the show as we always do with one
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: last thing. As a matter of fact, more so than
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: ever now because Ashley has the rights to booze news.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: That's true. And her attorneys have already reached out to
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: me and said, yes, that will be going with her
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: to the Inferness radio program. Dang it. Dang it. So...
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: unless we can think of another Friday bit to close
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: out the show.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: As long as it involves drinking, I'm fine with it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, there's no reason we can't just drink during one
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: last thing.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: All right, great.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: I'll start doing that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Every day. Yeah, we'll toast everyone's one last thing. I'll
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: toast to that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what we'll do.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: That's a good one last thing. I'll toast to that.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: All right, what do you got, Anders?
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: From the 425, literally the first text that came in
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: our show this morning, I wanted to give him some love.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: It says, can Anders give my son Joey a shout
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: out for actually sleeping through the night? It's been a
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: rough lately. And I wanted to give Joey a shout
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: out because well done. I know how.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Important that is.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Keep it up.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: And I'll throw on to that as we're talking father stuff. Now,
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: my son started crawling for the first time yesterday. So
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: big moment, big moment. Caught it on video and everything.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: My wife was jealous because she was at work. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: was watching him and I just started him. I saw
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: him start scooting a little bit. So I was like, boom.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: And you know what actually got him? I put a
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: beer can in front of him.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: And he crawled to the beer can? Yes. Oh, is
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: that right? Yes, he did.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, I have proof of it.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: That's how my sister started crawling as well. It's a
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: story that my family tells every single time someone comes over. Oh,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: you know, Sophie started crawling when we put a beer
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: can in front of her. And I can say the
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: same thing. It is a Hearst family tradition. So I
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: played into it a little bit. So congratulations, Joey, for
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: sleeping through the night. Because I'm still yet to get
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: to that. Probably a couple times here and there. But congratulations, Joey,
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: and 425. Because I know that when the sun sleeps
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: through the night... That means you get a good night's
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: sleep as well, hopefully.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: It won't be long before he's crawling after beer cans. Yeah,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: that's true. Exactly, exactly.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: So congratulations, Austin, for starting to crawl.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: So well done. Nice job. And was it where there's
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: some tears that she missed it? No, no, no.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: She was just like, dang it, I missed it. Really?
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I'm a little surprised. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like an
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: emotional thing that you don't want to miss.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, it was literally like a couple hours before
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: I saw her, and then we set him up to
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: crawl again.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: So it was like, okay, yeah. So she did get
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: to see it. It wasn't the last time.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: No, no, exactly.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: It's I mean, obviously it's like a thing and I
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: missed it, but like he's going to do it forever.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Hey, honey, I got bad news. I know you're racing
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: home to see Austin crawl, but he's already started walking.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So sorry about it. I just we just decided
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: to knock them both out in the same day.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Let's get rolling.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: You know. He's also figured out how to pop open
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: beer cans. And that's probably premature that he's reached that
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: stage already.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: But anyway, a lot has happened since you've been at work. Yeah,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: after the beer can, it was during the Mariners game.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: And it was after, I believe, Josh Lowe hit the
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: home run. I think he was crawling to the remote
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: to change the channel.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Is that what it was?
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Well, teach him that fast.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Well, anyway, you'll see the next one. You see the
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: next thing.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: You see the next Mariners loss.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: This was just a tough one for you.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Tough one night.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: That's all. All right, Travis, what do you got for
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: one last thing?
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to keep it family related.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Yesterday I asked my kids if they had any butt
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: jokes since we were going with the, you know, Sam
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Darnold butt injury.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: And let me guess. They said, I'm glad you asked.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, they were excited.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Asked.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Went right over his head. I know.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't even notice it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I got something close. Okay. So I'm going to
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: give it to you here.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Knock, knock. Who's there?
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I made up.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I made up who? I know that one.
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  Speaker 2: I was waiting for him to go through it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: That was a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Well done.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Who was that?
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  Speaker 2: My son.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Okay. This is the two-year-old?
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: No, he's eight.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Okay. He made that up?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, five and eight.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: No, I doubt he made it up.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: But he made it up. Okay. That's pretty good if
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: he made that up. It's a classic.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: I've heard it before.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I hadn't heard it.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Really? Yeah.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I was cracking up.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd never heard that one before. And I want
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: to differentiate, by the way, because Anders is already rolling
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: his eyes at all the dad jokes. I want to
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: differentiate because you're going to have to get used to this.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: There's a difference between dad jokes. A dad joke is
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: like that. Yes. That's like a dad joke.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Dad jokes include a lot of puns.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Yes. They do. They are included, but that's more of
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: a dad joke. What I do is wordplay. There's a
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: difference between it. Like Veep. Veep. The entire show is
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: nothing but wordplay. That's what I do. I don't do
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: dad jokes. I mean, maybe I'll slip in a dad joke.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: But I will do that intentionally to laugh at that
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I just told a dad joke. Okay.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Thank you for the clarification.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Because there are like puns and then there are wordplay
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: and then there's one other one that I'm not thinking
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: about right now. But anyway, just as we go forward.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Well done.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to more of them.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't want to just every time I do wordplay,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: like ask. That's just wordplay.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: That's just fun wordplay.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: There are a lot of dad jokes that are wordplays.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: A lot of them.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I guess that's fair. I'm going to close with this.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, we had a big baseball show. I mean,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I just feel so incomplete, so unsatisfied that we didn't
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: get to finish that. And I don't know if we'll
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: ever be done with it, frankly. But there were a
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: lot of big topics about Jerry that we didn't even
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: get into. Yeah. We're going to do that at some point.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: But here you go. For those that really want me
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: to levy a criticism, here's a criticism. What happened to
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: the Mariners sort of dominating the Japanese market? And not
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: necessarily dominating. I realize money's now telling the story. But
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: what happened to our leg up? in that Japanese market.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: We sort of cornered the market, and then since Ichiro,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: now nobody wants to play, they don't want to live
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: in the shadow, or did Ichiro make some declaration in
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Tokyo that no one should play for the Mariners again?
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: That's my team, that's my team. Because we're not getting
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: that guy. And we had a shot at two different guys.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Munataka Morikami, who for whatever reason his value was low,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: and I know he's had a bad second half for
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: the White Sox, but I would argue... Their signing of
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Murakami and the way he set the tone at the
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: beginning of the year is the reason why the White
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Sox are in playoff contention. Totally agree. And we could
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: have used that while Cal was struggling. We could have
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: used that tradeoff. Murakami can carry us in the first
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: half until Cal gets his legs underneath him. And maybe
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Murakami would struggle in the second half like he has
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: for the White Sox.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: To me, it would have been worthwhile to go after him.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Kaz Okamoto is an even greater example. He's having a
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: fantastic year for the Toronto Blue Jays. He's got over
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: 30 home runs this season, and he's another guy. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: wanted both of them. There's a segment. You can pull
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: it from our show. Ashley can find it for us.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I said, I'd take them both, and we didn't end
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: up with either one of them. And they went for
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: cheap this offseason. So what has happened with our relationship
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: with the Japanese player market? Or why are we suddenly
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: not interested? I don't know what the story is, but
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: I think that's a big misstep that you had a
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: chance to get a couple of power hitters on the cheap.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: And for some reason, we weren't even in the bidding.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and throwing Roki Sasaki and then obviously the Shohei situation, too,
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: where the Mariners are famously were second place to the
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Los Angeles Angels at that point. Like, yeah, I think
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: I agree with you. It seems like something's going on there,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: whether it's the Mariners don't value it anymore recently or
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: maybe they just started kind of moving away from that
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: for whatever reason.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know. This will lend to our topic we'll
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: have soon. Like, they scared away from them, I suppose,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: because of swing and miss. And so this organization's trying
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: to get guys to put the ball in play more,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: and yet every year we swing and miss all the time.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we do.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: So we might as well get the best at swing
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: and missing.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but the guys who already do that and then
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: get the most out of the other parts of the game, right?
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: Walking and slugging.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Well, there are going to be three more big-time Japanese
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: imports that are going to come to Major League Baseball.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Two pitchers, one of them possibly a closer, and then
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: a left. handed hitting left fielder i want one of
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: them if not all three of them why not how
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: about that why not i want at least one of
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: those three guys on our team next year all right
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: that'll do it for us thank you very much for
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: joining us uh we appreciate it we'll talk to you
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: again tomorrow at 6 a.m coming up next greg bell
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: is back from the virginia mason athletic center along with
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: jessamine mcintyre it's captain and jess next