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Furness Show 9-11: Greg Cosell, Danny O'Neil, Rob Rang · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM
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  Speaker 2: as the Rockies. NFL last night, 49ers blow out the
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  Speaker 2: Rams in Australia 27-7. More coming up on that. Tua
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  Speaker 2: out for the Falcons. Cooper Rush will start at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Penick still on the sideline. A.J. Brown's going to
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  Speaker 2: go down the injury reserve list. He'll miss at least
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  Speaker 2: four games with that high ankle sprain. And Jeremiah Love
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  Speaker 2: expected to start on Sunday. He had a high ankle
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  Speaker 2: sprain back on October 13th. Elsewhere in sports, how about this?
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  Speaker 2: News were coming out of San Francisco. Kyle Shanahan giving
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  Speaker 2: a contract extension. According to multiple sources, he was under
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  Speaker 2: contract until 2027, but apparently that's been extended even further now.
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  Speaker 2: Coincidence after last night? I think not. Emeka Abuka is
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  Speaker 2: a full goal as well, by the way, for the
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Buccaneers coming up on Sunday. Locally, Huskies hosting
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  Speaker 2: Utah State tomorrow. A game you can hear right here
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  Speaker 2: on 93.3 KJFM. Kickoff is 1230. Pre-game starts at about
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  Speaker 2: 4 or 5 in the morning with the Honks and company.
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  Speaker 2: Elyse Woodward on the call tomorrow for Washington football. Cougs
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  Speaker 2: taking on Kansas State. That's an early game on TNT
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  Speaker 2: at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Do we mention the baseball team? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: why not? Why not? Keep it rolling.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to get her open here anyway.
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  Speaker 2: They're playing tonight at 640 against the Athletics of Sacramento
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  Speaker 2: and Vegas and Oakland, wherever they're from these days. They
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  Speaker 2: did get a win yesterday. Julio Rodriguez, a three-run home run,
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  Speaker 2: the difference in that game for the Mariners after they
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  Speaker 2: had a perfect game tossed at them through the first
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  Speaker 2: five and the third innings before broken up by Cole Young.
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  Speaker 2: But they're still a ways out of the playoffs. We'll
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  Speaker 2: touch base on that with Danny O'Neal. Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
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  Speaker 1: and the 12th man. Brought to you by Seattle's closest
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  Speaker 1: Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: We are indeed brought to you by Snoqualmie Casino Hotel
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  Speaker 2: and I'll add the sports book as well and Hawks
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  Speaker 2: Peak Sports Bar and Grill and that's where I'm at
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  Speaker 2: today as we get you ready for the NFL full
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  Speaker 2: schedule on Sunday and they want me to tell you
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm going to do just that. I'm sitting
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  Speaker 2: here at Hawks Peak. There are 60-plus televisions. Incredible bar,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. Like, both ends, just long. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I will point out to you, 9 a.m. they open
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  Speaker 2: up tomorrow. 9 a.m. they open up on Sunday. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to watch a little NFL football or college football,
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  Speaker 2: this is the place to be. And, of course, when
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  Speaker 2: you're doing that, the sportsbook is right here. Breakfast is
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  Speaker 2: served all day. But the menu will be open tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 2: 9 a.m. If you're coming, especially on Sundays... to watch
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  Speaker 2: the NFL games, get here early. It does fill up. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's enough room, but I would just say get here early.
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  Speaker 2: And the great thing is you will not miss any
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  Speaker 2: of the games, all the action with all the televisions.
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  Speaker 2: It's phenomenal here. Second year they've been open. They opened
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  Speaker 2: up about a year ago right now. We've been up
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  Speaker 2: here a few times. We'll come up here once or
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  Speaker 2: twice a month in the football season and get things going. Andrews,
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  Speaker 2: now that, you know, I'm not going to say anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to leave it at all this. We've got
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  Speaker 2: a big announcement coming up at 245 today. Yep. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to come up here sometime.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. And I have to say one more thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Irregardless of what's happening later. But I did screw up
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  Speaker 3: the open there. I also want to let everyone know
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  Speaker 3: that it's a football Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by the Washington State Beef Commission. So
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  Speaker 3: can I hit the right open so we can get
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  Speaker 3: really started on this first football Friday of the year?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? That's better than me reading what they
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  Speaker 2: gave me, but I'll do that anyway after you do that.
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  Speaker 2: Fire away.
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  Speaker 1: As part of our relentless coverage of the NFL. This
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  Speaker 1: is football.
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  Speaker 2: This is football.
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  Speaker 5: Beef, it's what's for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: It's Football Friday with Ian Furness on your home for
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: Well done, Anders.
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  Speaker 3: See, now it feels right.
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  Speaker 2: It feels right. It does feel right. Short timer. What
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  Speaker 2: the hell are you doing to me? You know what?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, welcome back to our good friends at
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  Speaker 2: the Washington State Beef Commission for the Football Friday. Washington's
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  Speaker 2: Beef Farmers and Ranchers Beef. It's what's for dinner. I
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  Speaker 2: think Jackie Medill is going to be in there with
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  Speaker 2: the Washington State Beef Commission with Softie and Fane later.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Meatball taquitos, I'm told, is the recipe for
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  Speaker 2: this week. I need to know when she's going to
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  Speaker 2: come see us on the afternoon show. That's true. because
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  Speaker 2: I will make sure I'm there and not here at
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  Speaker 2: the Snoqualmie Hotel and Casino. You know, it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those things. Yesterday we had Ross Tucker on our first
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  Speaker 2: visit of the year with Ross Tucker, who's going to
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  Speaker 2: be on the Texans and Bills call for CBS on Sunday. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Ross is brought to you by Northwest Handling Systems,
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  Speaker 2: and he pointed out there's no better sponsorship for a
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  Speaker 2: former offensive lineman than Northwest Handling Systems, handling warehousing needs, forklifts,
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  Speaker 2: pallet racks, all that fun stuff, right? There's no better
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  Speaker 2: Friday sponsor, in my mind. for a football Friday for
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  Speaker 2: a sports radio station than the Washington State Beef Commission.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like they do this on purpose, Ian.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like they do it on purpose. Big thanks
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  Speaker 2: to them. Welcome back to them. It's a football Friday. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: our first real football Friday where we have it all
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  Speaker 2: going on this weekend of the year. That's why we're
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  Speaker 2: here at Hawks Peak at Snoqualmie Hotel and Casino. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, the sports book is there for all of
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  Speaker 2: your stuff. Hmm. Tua. Not playing. Hmm. That might be
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  Speaker 2: an interesting one. Pittsburgh and the Falcons. Steelers. Also might
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  Speaker 2: be interesting later at 235. Anyway, this is our first week.
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  Speaker 2: We've got it all today. Our Friday lineup, to me,
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  Speaker 2: I just love it. Absolutely love it. All football season long.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Cosell will join us at 1220. We've heard Greg
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  Speaker 2: already this week previewing the Patriots game. And the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Greg's going to wrap up that game for us. Normally
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  Speaker 2: what we do is we preview the game coming up
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday. And we would do that with Greg. And
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  Speaker 2: we would say, okay, who's, you know, get the matchup
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  Speaker 2: that only the tape can tell him. Tape does speak
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  Speaker 2: to him. And so that's what we do on Friday normally.
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  Speaker 2: That's already happened. So we're going to review it, which
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  Speaker 2: is going to be kind of fun. Because normally we
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  Speaker 2: don't do that with Greg. We don't review the games.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to do that today.
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  Speaker 5: The tape's talking to me.
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  Speaker 2: It does talk to him. Well, he's coming up here
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  Speaker 2: in just a few minutes, so stand by for that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll ask him a little bit about the Rams, too. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: the Matthew Stafford thing last night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hoo-wee, man. Tired or not, 15 of 25, 155, an interception,
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  Speaker 2: a rating of 61.2.
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  Speaker 3: Who had a worse, which MVP candidate had a worse debut?
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  Speaker 2: Him or Drake May?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is that your question? Yeah. Probably Drake May because he
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  Speaker 2: had a chance to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's fair. And he actually, like, and I forget, maybe
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  Speaker 3: Ross said this yesterday, but the first three quarters, I
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  Speaker 3: actually think Drake May looked okay.
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  Speaker 2: Drake May looked good the first three quarters. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: think who had the worst, just the worst opening night,
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  Speaker 2: it would have to be Drake May because all he
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  Speaker 2: had to do was not throw an interception at the end. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's true. It's true. Stafford just never got going. That
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  Speaker 2: offense never, that team never got going last night. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we were joking all week. We had London
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  Speaker 2: early this week. We're like, hey, you know, can't wait for...
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  Speaker 2: To root on the 49ers, and then it just became like, God,
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  Speaker 2: they're kicking their ass.
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  Speaker 3: I am now scared that the 49ers might be really
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  Speaker 3: good this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Purdy looked pretty good. No doubt about that. What
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  Speaker 2: they're doing with the running backs, McCaffrey and Black, was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: They both had over 60 yards.
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  Speaker 3: Having a nice, good second guy is important for them.
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  Speaker 2: They really managed McCaffrey yesterday. They really managed McCaffrey. With
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  Speaker 2: only 10 rushing attempts, he had 5 catches on 7 targets,
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  Speaker 2: or 8 targets, 5 catches. So he had 15 total
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  Speaker 2: touches yesterday, McCaffrey. But that's probably, unless you have him
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  Speaker 2: in fantasy.
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  Speaker 3: I was going against him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he had a decent day, but unless you're
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  Speaker 2: that guy, you're like, that's probably a brilliant move. So
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  Speaker 2: it's been a good week for Seattle. If you're a
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks fan, outside of the Sam Darnold injury, it's been
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  Speaker 2: a good week. You get a win with your starting safety.
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  Speaker 2: And you're starting safety slash Sam Linebacker out in Imanori
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  Speaker 2: and Okada. You get a win last second. And then
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  Speaker 2: the team that you're probably most fearful of gets beat
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  Speaker 2: in the opener and gets beat down badly. And that
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  Speaker 2: would be the Rams. And maybe Sean McVay. I'm the
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  Speaker 2: smartest guy in the world. I'm not the smartest guy, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Should have got here earlier. They just, that was just
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  Speaker 2: a bull race, man.
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  Speaker 3: Fact, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Anders. Well done. Thank you. Well done. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And just for the record, that stays with our show. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it does. It does.
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  Speaker 3: The pick was made on your show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Okay. More on that later today. Okay. When
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  Speaker 2: we come back, our guy Greg Cosell is going to
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  Speaker 2: join us. I'm really excited for this because, Greg, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, normally we preview games. It's not often that
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  Speaker 2: we look back on a game. So this will be
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  Speaker 2: kind of fun to see what his thoughts were after
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  Speaker 2: New England and Seattle the other night. We'll do that
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  Speaker 2: with Greg Cosell coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
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  Speaker 1: and the 12th man. Brought to you by Seattle's closest
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  Speaker 1: Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here he is, Greg Cosell, joining us, NFL
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  Speaker 2: Films ESPN matchup show. As I look at him right now,
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  Speaker 2: I know the matchup show must have got filmed today,
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  Speaker 2: taped today, because I see the suit. He's got the
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  Speaker 2: A suit on for week one. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you are correct.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't just put this on for you, even though
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  Speaker 6: that's what Anders probably thought. But yes, we shot the
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  Speaker 6: matchup show today.
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  Speaker 2: Anders, did you think that, Anders? He put it on
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  Speaker 2: just for us.
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  Speaker 3: For a second, I thought there was a chance, but
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  Speaker 3: then I realized that he has more important things to do.
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  Speaker 2: If it was Jess was here still, and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be Ashley next week, by the way, it would
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  Speaker 2: probably be fun. That would be it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, next week I.
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  Speaker 6: Won't be in a suit because we're shooting the show.
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  Speaker 6: on a different day, so next week I'll be in
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  Speaker 6: my normal crappy duds.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, alright. Well, there's a lot to get to, and usually, again,
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  Speaker 2: for people joining us, and by the way, we're at
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  Speaker 2: Snoqualmie Hotel Casino in the Hawks Peak Sports Bar and Lounge,
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  Speaker 2: and they open up at 9 a.m. on Saturday and
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  Speaker 2: Sunday this weekend for college and NFL games. More on
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  Speaker 2: that later, but Normally, if people are new to the show,
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  Speaker 2: new to what we've been doing, Greg and I have
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  Speaker 2: been talking for years, decades and decades, or at least
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  Speaker 2: a decade and a half or so. And on Fridays,
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  Speaker 2: what we do is we break down. I don't. We don't.
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  Speaker 2: Greg does. Breaks down kind of the Seahawks opponent for
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  Speaker 2: the coming weekend. We talk about the matchups on both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the football. It's one of our most popular segments.
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  Speaker 2: We love doing it. And Greg does a handful of
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  Speaker 2: these across the country, mostly national shows and a few locals.
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  Speaker 2: And we're thrilled to have him on every week as well.
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  Speaker 2: So this week's a little different because we already played
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  Speaker 2: the game. We talked about them last week. We actually
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  Speaker 2: replayed a little bit on Wednesday. Yeah. Before I get
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  Speaker 2: to your thoughts on, because normally we don't do this,
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  Speaker 2: recap what you saw from Seattle and New England. Real quick,
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about it a little bit today. It's
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  Speaker 2: a big topic here. Obviously, we care more. as much
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  Speaker 2: sometimes about what our neighbors in the NFC West are doing.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw the game last night, the 49ers just
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  Speaker 2: kind of took it to the LA Rams. We won't
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  Speaker 2: get too deep into that, but I think everyone's got
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  Speaker 2: their takeaways and their thoughts on what they see. You
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  Speaker 2: tell us what the tape says, and I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to ask you just a point blank question, because I
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  Speaker 2: think one of the biggest surprises was what went on
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  Speaker 2: on the LA Rams side of the football offensively, or
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  Speaker 2: what did not go on with Matthew Stafford in that offense,
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  Speaker 2: and Devontae Adams not really involved. Puka not a huge factor.
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  Speaker 2: The tight ends weren't a factor at all, which is weird.
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  Speaker 2: Running game was so-so, but Stafford really kind of looked
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  Speaker 2: like he struggled. That was a surprise to everybody. What
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  Speaker 2: did you see from them?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, well, the 49er pass defense, first of all,
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  Speaker 6: they played more than 70% of their coverage snaps out
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  Speaker 6: of what we call shell coverage, meaning with two safeties deep.
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  Speaker 6: But there were times where the 49ers' corners pressed, which
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  Speaker 6: is not something you saw very often under Robert.
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  Speaker 5: Sala in the past. They did not blitz.
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  Speaker 6: They only rushed five on three of Stafford's 25 dropbacks.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't sack him, but they were able to generate
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  Speaker 6: a good amount of pressure. They squeezed the pocket multiple times.
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  Speaker 6: Stafford was uncomfortable. And I thought the mix of coverage
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  Speaker 6: and the four-man D-line pressure, Ian, was really good because
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  Speaker 6: there were times where Stafford dropped back and did not
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  Speaker 6: feel that he had a throw, a clean, defined throw
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  Speaker 6: within structure. and normally that's the way Stafford plays. He
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  Speaker 6: drops back, he hits that back foot, the ball comes out,
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  Speaker 6: and there were too many times in that game last night,
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  Speaker 6: and I watched the tape, that side of the ball,
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  Speaker 6: where he just didn't really feel in his mind that
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  Speaker 6: he had a clean throw, and therefore he would hold
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  Speaker 6: the ball. Like I said, he didn't get sacked. He'd
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  Speaker 6: end up throwing it somewhere, but He was an uncomfortable player,
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  Speaker 6: and I thought that it was a really good mix
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  Speaker 6: of coverage and four-man D-line pressure. And for someone just
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  Speaker 6: looking at a box score, because the Niners last year
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  Speaker 6: only had 20 sacks, which I think was the lowest
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  Speaker 6: in the league, people might say, oh, the Niners, they
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  Speaker 6: still don't have a pass rush because they didn't have
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  Speaker 6: a sack. But that's not what the game showed on tape.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, what I'm about to say, and
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  Speaker 6: then we'll move on, is not profound. But they have
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  Speaker 6: two guys, Nick Bosa and Fred Warner. They're pretty good,
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  Speaker 6: by the way. And they showed up real quick in
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  Speaker 6: the game. Bosa and Warner on the first play, but
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  Speaker 6: throughout the game. These guys are impact game-changing type players.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you there. It's interesting that you mentioned Bosa
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  Speaker 2: specifically because coming off that bad injury last year, you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of wondering what he's going to have, what kind
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  Speaker 2: of juice he's going to have. And I heard somebody
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  Speaker 2: talking about it pregame. I don't even know who it was. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I saw Bosa. He was going half speed,
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  Speaker 2: didn't look too explosive. And I'm like, wow. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he put to rest any issues about health or how
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  Speaker 2: he's going to bounce back. He was an impact player.
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  Speaker 5: And now he has time off.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, because they play on a Thursday night, so
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  Speaker 6: he's got a little extra time.
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  Speaker 5: They'll fly back.
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  Speaker 6: They probably won't practice until Tuesday or Wednesday, whatever the
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  Speaker 6: schedule is. So he's actually going to get more treatment,
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  Speaker 6: more time off. I mean, look, the first play of
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  Speaker 6: the game, he just tossed McClendon the right tackle. And
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  Speaker 6: then he did hit Stafford, and then Warner made a
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  Speaker 6: great play on the thrown ball. But, I mean, right
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  Speaker 6: from play one, it was evident that Bosa looked pretty
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  Speaker 6: dynamically quick.
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  Speaker 2: You've told me over the years that Fred Warner is
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  Speaker 2: a good football player. I think we saw that again
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  Speaker 2: last night.
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  Speaker 5: Fred Warner.
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  Speaker 6: I've been saying for years he's the best linebacker in
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  Speaker 6: the game, and he's so good. I mean, he's so good,
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  Speaker 6: you know, in every way. I mean, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing that he really cannot do at a high level.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he had dominant snaps in the run game
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  Speaker 6: last night. He's got this hand strike shed strength, and
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: he's got natural power. He can play off blocks. He
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: can attack downhill with force. He's unbelievable in the pass
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: game as an underneath zone coverage defender. maybe as good
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: as there is in the league. He's just a really
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: dominant player. And he's 6'3, 235, so we're not talking
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: about a guy that's 6'2, 220.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: This is why I love having you on, because then
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I've got just one more for you on that regard,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: because over the years, since you and I have been
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: doing this, we've watched some great middle linebacker play in
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: this division. Two of those guys are with the 49ers.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Patrick Willis is in the Hall of Famer now, and
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: obviously what we're seeing with Fred Warner, and then I
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: think about what Seattle's had all those years, and Bobby Wagner.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just, it's kind of remarkable. This division
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: is going to produce basically three Mike linebackers that are
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: hall of famers all in the course of a generation.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: And, and, and Wagner and Warner are different kinds of players.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, Warner's not as explosive an athlete as Warner is.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: I mean, Wagner was a great player.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: You know, it's funny.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: I remember doing Wagner coming out of college. Was it
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: Utah state?
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Utah state.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Utah state.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: And I remember, you know, I don't have my notes
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: in front of me and it was a long time ago.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: I just the point i was trying to make those
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: he was all over the sort of draft gurus evaluations
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: i remember some people saying well this guy's a second
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: round pick i remember some people saying oh no this
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: guy's you know going to be a sixth seventh round
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: pick because he's not a truly explosive athlete when you
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: watch him move i mean which i think you would
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: agree with watching all these years you know he's not
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: he's not that kind of player but he was a
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: great player in other ways he's just you know you
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: You watch him, and I'm sure a lot of people
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: thought when he came out that, well, he just doesn't
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: have the true athletic traits to be a great NFL linebacker,
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: but he was a great NFL linebacker.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. All right, Greg Cosell joining us,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: watched by the EQC. All right, let's get to it.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: We've got the Seahawks. We'll just start with the Seahawks
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: side of the football, and after just five plays, we
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: see Sam Darnold leave, and he's out. Drew Locke comes in.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: You've watched a lot of Drew Locke tape over the years,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: but Drew Locke came in and was able to navigate
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: his way around in that offense for Seattle and navigate
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: his way to a win. But let's just start there,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: what you saw from Drew Locke.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, I thought that as the game progressed
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: and that it was pretty clear to the Seattle coaching
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: staff and obviously Mike McDonald's making the general philosophical call
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: as to how we play. But I thought it probably
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: became clear to them that this was not going to
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: be a high-scoring game. that Locke did not need to
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: drop back 35 times. So we're going to pretty much
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: play somewhat conservatively. Don't forget, they only ran 48 offensive plays.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: That's a very, very small number.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Now, if they ran 70, obviously Locke would have had
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: more than 22 attempts. But the way the game played out,
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: they did not really need to ask him to drop
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: back and start tossing the ball at the intermediate and
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: vertical levels. I thought the throw that really got him
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: in the game was that– was it third and 21
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: or 22? And he drove the deep dig right to
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Smith and Jigba.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was in the second quarter. It was against–
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Soft cover, too, because it was third and 22, yes,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: now that I remember it. I thought that was the
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: throw where, you know, pretty much, you know, okay, Locke
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: kind of said, okay, I can make some throws now,
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: and we can go play some football. But they didn't
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: really drive the ball down the field very often. I
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: thought the run game was solid. I mean, early in
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: the game, they came out running the ball. You know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: they played a lot of 21 personnel to start the game.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: The first four plays came out of base personnel groupings,
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: 21 and 12 personnel. You know, both Saubert and Arroyo
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: were the second tight end with Bonner. You know, the
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: first snap of 11 didn't come until the first position,
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: but it was third and six. So then you're going
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: to go to 11, obviously, with three wideouts. Holani was
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: their third down back. He played every third down. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: I thought Price looked good. I mean, Price, you know,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: you could see the movement that Price has. You could
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: see the cutback ability. You could see that he's got
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: some natural power to him. I mean, obviously, because they
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: only ran 48 plays, he didn't have, you know, 20 carries.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: But I thought he looked good.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just going to ask you about that, Greg,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: because we talked about it a week ago, talked about
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Jadarian Price and kind of referred back to the draft.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And I think you were the one that made the
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: comparison just in terms of running style. He's not the
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: same body type, but I think you made the comparison
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: to Sean Alexander, right? No, I didn't make that comparison.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Okay, it wasn't you.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Somebody else would have. Okay.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: But I like Price, and I thought he showed some
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: good cutback ability, which usually stems from good vision.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I really like what I saw.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Like I said, just because they didn't run that many plays.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: But the other thing, and again, the thing, here's what
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: we don't know. We don't know because Darnold got hurt
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: if this was the way they were going to play
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: the game, even with Darnold, or if once Locke came
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: in and the game settled into being kind of a
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: low scoring game, if they decided to play, you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: a pretty high percentage of base personnel offense, because they
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: only played 42% of their snaps with three wide receivers
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: on the field. So they obviously made it a base
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: personnel offense game. I mean, the fullback Russell played 17 snaps.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I don't know what you thought,
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: but I would not have expected that going like, like
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: last week while we previewed the game, I wouldn't have said, gee,
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: we're going to see Russell play a lot of snaps.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't have thought that that was going to happen.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: No, I would not either. And, and, you know, I mean,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: we were kind of waiting to see what Brian Fleury
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: was all about. Right. And, and in the first time
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: role as a play caller in the NFL and how
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: he's going to handle things and, You know, in a
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: regular season game and then all of a sudden he
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: loses his quarterback right in there. So maybe still hard
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: to evaluate, but it kind of felt like he got
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: his juice going.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why we don't know, because we don't know
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: if this is something Flory will do because he came
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: from San Francisco, who for years always has the highest
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: percentage of 21 personnel in the league with use check.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: And of course, the Niners did the same thing last night.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: playing a high percentage of 21 personnel. So we didn't
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: know if Fleury did that because that's going to be
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: his MO or did he do it just in this
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: specific game because Darnold got hurt and, you know, they
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: saw how the game went. You know, it's funny. So
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: many people make these evaluations of games, you know, now
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: as if the whole season, you know, this is the
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: whole season evaluation.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: You know how it is.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: And I've been around a long time doing this, Ian,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: as you know, and I've talked to coaches, you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: All you're trying to do every week is win that game. Obviously,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: every team has a foundation and certain staples that, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: that they work on all offseason and through training camp.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: But you know what? The goal was to win that game.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: And when they lost their starting quarterback, you know, I
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: don't know if McDonald got in Fleury's ear and said, hey,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: you know, let's just talk this through and let's see
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: how we want to play this.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Or if this is the way they're going to play
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: every week. We don't know the answer to that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Greg Cosell joining us, weekly visit. Kind of a recap.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Normally we'll do a preview, but a recap of Seattle's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: win on Wednesday against the New England Patriots. Greg, I've
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: got to give you some credit. I do know one
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: guy you talked about last week. We discussed it. It
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: was Josh Jobe. I do believe you like Josh Jobe.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Do you know who really likes him now? Seahawks fans.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: After that play, after that interception.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and, you know, it's funny because, you know, by
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: the way, I thought obviously that play ended the game.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: but I thought the love interception was, and there's been,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: you've probably seen it. There's been a ton of talk
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: on social media about what the coverage was. I mean,
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: I know what I think it was. And I know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: I know that Luke McCown and Adam Archuleta agree with me, which,
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: you know, that doesn't make us right, but that's, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: there are guys who would know. I thought it was
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: a brilliant way to play. What I believe was quarter
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: quarter half, because what they basically did.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Is they showed a middle open defense. So in the
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: middle open defense, you think that you have a seam
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: in the middle of the field because the middle's open.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: But they took Thomas. Drake, by the way, we talked
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: about A.J. Barner last week. Drake Thomas is the guy
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: on defense that people should be talking about. On a
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: defense that has a lot of really, really good players.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, Leonard Williams played a ton on the outside
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: in this game, you know, at the end. more so
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: than I can recall last year. But Drake Thomas is
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: a really good player, not just a guy that fits
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: into a defense, but is a good player. But anyway,
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: so what they did is they took Drake Thomas and
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: they walked him out over the boundary X receiver. So
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: the boundary X receiver had a release outside. So what
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: that did is it allowed Love, who was the boundary safety,
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: to essentially kind of lean inside and do what we
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: call poach. So he almost became kind of like a
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: lurk defender. So it appeared that the middle was open,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: but the middle wasn't really open. Is this making sense?
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I hope I'm explaining this clearly.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: To Josh Joe, now Love could kind of poach or
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: shove inside and basically take away the middle scene. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: thought that was just brilliant.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Drake Mays getting a lot of criticism, but as you
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: explained that play, that sounds to me like just great scheme,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: great coverage, great design by Mike McDonald. And, I mean,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, he kind of forced
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: May into that. And, I mean, again, May's getting a
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: lot of criticism. Maybe that was the play that you
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: can kind of forgive him for, whereas the tip by
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Thomas to Pritchett interception and then the throw, the inexplicable
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: decision to throw in the end zone when a field
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: goal ties it and Joe gets the interception.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: That was a really bad decision because he actually had
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Henry wide open on the quick out cut, you know,
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: versus Love, who was playing kind of off coverage. And
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: Henry was right at the stick. So all he had
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: to do was throw it there. And if he put
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: it right on him, Henry's going to run out of bounds.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: And then this clock is going to stop because I
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: think there were 35, 38 seconds at that point.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: But yeah, that that that was really bad. I thought
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: the other interception by Pritchett, who, by the way, had
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: a very nice game. I don't know what you thought.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: I thought Pritchett played well. It certainly was not a liability.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: But I thought the interception by Pritchett, I thought that
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: May was late with that because he was going for
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: a deeper hole shot in cover two, and he was
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: a good second late on the throw.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: And that allowed....
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: The safety Thomas Thomas Thomas not a liability either that
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: allowed the safety Thomas to come over and and get
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: involved in the play and obviously it became a jump
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: ball and it was tipped in the air and Pritchard made.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: The pick the just overall the defense they they only
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: allow 10 points the one thing that we were kind
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: of discussing this week that was odd that we thought
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: was odd and this is far be it from anybody to,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: to try to ever criticize a Mike McDonald, right? I mean,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: this guy's a, he's, he's what he's done, but they
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: kept bringing Witherspoon on, on a blitz. And, and it
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: felt like, yeah. And it felt like it never worked either.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: There was someone behind him where he would have been,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: he didn't get there. What have you, what was your
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: read on the, on the Witherspoon blitzing?
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: Well, don't forget it worked on the first series. I mean,
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: you know, uh, They did it on the first series.
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: It was the first, third and long. And they went
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: with kind of a staple concept that you do see
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: with a lot of teams in the league where you
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: line up in what we call a double mug front
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: where you put. And of course, they didn't play any
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: dime in this game because Emanuari was out. So there
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: was not one snap of dime. It was all nickel
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: as their sub defense. So they put the linebackers, Jones
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: and Thomas, in the A-gaps. That dictates protection because it
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: becomes a six-man front. So now your back has to
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: be involved in accounting for one of those guys. So
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: what they did is they then bring Witherspoon from outside
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: the box, and the offense has nobody to account for him.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: So it worked on the first third and long. They
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: did this on the third and long, and that was
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: the one where Witherspoon from the field slot blitzed, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: he forced May out of the pocket, and he threw
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: it away. So, I mean— Look, Witherspoon's a good blitzer,
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: and that's part of what they do. Obviously, he didn't
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: get there again in this game or really impact May,
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: but that's kind of something they do. So I don't
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: view that as a problem. That's part of their pressure scheme.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: That's one of their pressure schemes.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I'm watching on TV. You watch the
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: All-22 tapes. You see different things. Did you see a
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Tyrese Knight or anybody trying to fill that kind of
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I guess for lack of a Sam linebacker, Eamon Worry
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: roll at all.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: The other thing is, yeah, with Eamon Worry out, they
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: played 4-3, a true 4-3 defense. Because Knight, you know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to remember how many snaps he played, you know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: but I think Knight probably played 15, 17 snaps. I mean,
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: they played 16 snaps of true base defense in a 4-3.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: And obviously that was due to Eamon Worry being out.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: just like they didn't play any dime, which was also
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: a function of Emanuari being out.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the thing. I mean, Emanuari, we're thinking,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: will be back. And it's just, you've articulated it before,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: but I don't know. For me watching, and I think
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: for Seahawks fans, I'll wrap it up with this, Greg.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: It feels like you get a win against that team.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: You forced Drake May to three fourth-quarter interceptions. You only
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: allowed 10 points. And you were missing your starting safety
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: in Okada. A massively impact player in Imanwari, just on
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: your defensive side. You brought up Rodney Thomas off the
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: practice squad. Nehemiah Pritchard had more playing time than he's
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: had in his three years here. Had to step up
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: in a big role. Job stepped up in a big role.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I've got to think
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: that is just a huge win all the way around
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: for Seattle with all those things. And maybe you get
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Imanwari back. Who knows about Okada? But with all those
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: pieces missing, guys that you've talked about in glowing terms
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: over the years, especially Okada and Imanwari. That's a nice
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: victory for Seattle.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Well, that's why I say you can't look at this
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: game as a template for the Seahawks for the whole season.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: They had to win this game. The starting quarterback got hurt.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Imanwari was not playing. You have to win the game.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: This is not a template for the whole season.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Look, we know that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Darnold in the past game that they pushed the ball
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: down the field. Darnold's yards per attempt last year was
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: among the highest in the league and in play action
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: was really high. They didn't go that route in this
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: game because it wasn't necessary. Now, granted, when you play
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: a game close, obviously one play, you can lose the
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: game too.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: We know that.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: But they knew the way this game was going to
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: play out, that it was going to be a hard fought,
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: tough game. and they were relying in many ways on
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: their defense.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: They were not putting the game in the hands of
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Drew Locke.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: One final quick thing, just general terms.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Even the touchdown to Smith and Jigba. I mean, you
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: could argue that's really poor tackling. I mean, the guy's phenomenal,
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: as we know. That's not the point. And they blitzed,
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: and Locke immediately read it, and he threw it to
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Smith and Jigba, who, again, I'm sure people in New
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: England are discussing this and saying it's bad defense because
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Smith and Jigba was wide open because they blitzed. So,
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: you know, they'll have that conversation up in New England.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm not having that conversation. But, I mean,
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: you know, that was just a great play. I thought
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Smith and Jigby showed a lot more juice on that
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: than I thought he had. It's just pure speed.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's one of the things that surprises
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: people with him sometimes is that there is that there.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: He just doesn't– you look at him and you see
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: these other guys around the league that are bigger, longer.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: You think they're faster, all those things. And this kid,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: just all he does is make catches and make plays
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: and do what he did the other day. And that's
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the main.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Thing– We know as a separator he's got unbelievable quickness,
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: as good as anyone in the league. But just that
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: kind of straight line burst and accelerating speed, that surprised
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: me a little bit. But he's a great player.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: That's who he is.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I've got one more quick one for Greg, and that's this.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And that's a really good point. What we saw on
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Wednesday is not a template for what Seattle's defense is
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: going to be. And part of it was the injuries
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and then obviously Darnold going down. In general terms, in
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: your years, you've been doing this for a couple years,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: looking at tapes and guys and games all around the league.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Week one on a Sunday, like this Sunday coming up
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: week one, people love to make rash decisions and things.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: How much different do teams look in week two than
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: what we'll see on week one? Just for an NFL
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: fan watching a game and all of that, how much
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: difference is there from week one to week two and
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: what you've seen in your experience over the years?
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, that's a hard question because You don't
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: necessarily it's not going to be dramatic in terms of
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: like all of a sudden team has a whole different philosophy.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: But it's like, look, I heard a lot of people
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: on Thursday yesterday talk about, oh, well, Drake may not
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: as good as we thought. I mean, that's a ridiculous statement.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: Just like the Rams last night, obviously laid an egg.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: I mean, they flew the day before and I'm not
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: knocking anybody. You know, they made a choice. They're not
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: going to be a bad team. I'm not going to
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: sit here and say they're going to go 15 and two.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Who knows what they're going to do? But you know, Ian,
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: you've been doing this a long time. There's going to
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: be a couple of games on Sunday that we just go, wow,
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: I didn't think that was going to happen. But that
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: doesn't mean that that's going to be the way the
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: whole season plays out.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: And that's why I wanted to ask you that. Because
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I think that's sometimes the rash. We come to a
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: rash judgment after one game. And I think that's why
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I brought it up. A lot of guys don't play
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: in the preseason. Now, all of a sudden, it's real football.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Everything's faster. Everything's different.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: It's like going from the regular season to the playoffs.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: Everything is just faster. Then you get to the Super
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Bowl with all the hype and everything that goes with
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: the Super Bowl, and all of a sudden, that's faster.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, you can't make these rash judgments based on
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: week one.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: That's why we have you on, sir. That's why we
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: have you on. If there's a rash judgment to be made,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: you'll do it or you won't do it, and that's
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: why we love having you on every week because.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: It's where the tape tells us.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: I don't say stuff just to make a bold, controversial statement.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: A lot of times from watching tape, because most fans
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: are obviously not doing that, people might view it as
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: bold and controversial, but it's not.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Well, that's why we like you. That's why we have
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: you on, among other reasons. Plus, you dress well. You
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: come on dressed well. You're dressed well today, too.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I figured we needed a little class today, Ian,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: you know?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: You do. I've got my Wazoo sweatshirt on. That's it. And,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: you know, that's away we go. Greg, next week we're
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: going to talk about the Arizona Cardinals and more than
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: likely Drew Locke facing the Arizona Cardinals next week. It
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: appears so.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: They pretty much announced that Locke's going to play week two.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: Has there been any further report on Darnold? Do we
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: know what the injury really is?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: We're waiting to hear. We're still waiting to hear. Apparently
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: it takes a long time.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: They ruled out the fracture of the hip, but that's
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: That's about it. So that's what we're waiting to hear.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Some sort of muscle strength.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: I hope he can come back, you know, maybe even
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: the week after. Certainly not much longer after that because
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: I like watching Darnold, and I think their offense is
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: really good with Darnold.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know who else is hoping that is
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald. I think it's Brian Fleury. Great stuff, Greg.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next week. Thank you, sir.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: All right, thanks. Appreciate it, Ian.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: That is the great Greg Cosell. We'll come back. We've
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: got much more to come. Rob rang at 2 o'clock.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: And don't forget, 1 o'clock hour, Danny O'Neill's weekly visit.
• 34:19
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• 34:22
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• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
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  Speaker 2: No better place to watch football this weekend. They open
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  Speaker 2: at 9 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, by the way,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: for college and NFL. Anders, I got a lot of
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: football on my mind today.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think everyone does.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: But I do believe we'll do the obligatory Mariners mention
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: real fast.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, okay. Have you given up yet?
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the term I'd use. Okay.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Even if I had. I don't know if I... I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: would say losing interest would be a better way to
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: put it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Like losing interest. Also frustrated because I'm kind of, and
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: this is where baseball is so different than any other sport.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: It's so long. We talked about this the other day.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Like how worthless would it be if you sleepwalk through
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: 150 games and then find your way in?
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: But it's also a product of the horrible league and
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: even worse division you play in this year. Nothing that
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: you've done, right?
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: So have I given up? No. Am I losing interest?
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: And, you know, they win a game, they win a series,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: winning the game yesterday when they really, frankly, felt like
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I had no business winning it. One swing of the bat,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: but that's who they are. I don't know. Have you
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: given up?
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I've been pretty vocal on it for
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: a while that it's more about how they look and
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: they look dead.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: And I'm not going to change my tune on them,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I think, them having a chance until they look different, right?
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: And they, even in a... It's just so Mariners that
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: in a time where people are starting to give up
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: and starting to move to football season, they win an
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: important series. Even though, yes, you needed a sweep, you
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: do win two out of three against Texas, but it's, what,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: 100 games too late, guys. It's just too late.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just, I think that, honestly, that's the thing.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: It's a very Mariner thing. Very Mariner-like, is it not?
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Very Mariners-like. Like, oh, hey, hey, look at us. We're
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: back in it.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I kind of wish it would be one or the other. Like,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: last year we knew. Last year was great.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: And that's when you have momentum going into the end
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: of the season. People are starting to hype.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Fans are jacked. Everyone's excited. You know, all those things. Yeah. No,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I'm with you on that. Instead, what you've given everybody
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: is just kind of a frustrating season.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Like, I don't know any Mariner fan. I don't know
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: any Mariner fan. And I'm just talking friends. And even
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: people we hear on the text line.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Right? Sure.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: So.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: People I know personally, people that are just listening to
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: the show, we appreciate all of you guys. 49451, we'll
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: check your text later. I don't know anybody who feels
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: good about the baseball team right now. And it doesn't
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: mean they're not rooting for them. You know what I'm saying?
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: No one has a good feeling about the baseball team.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: And yet they could still pull off a miracle, I guess.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: It would almost take that right now, right? It would
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: almost take that. Again, you're going to have to go
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: 12-3 to finish 500. Just to finish 500.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: And that's hoping that the other teams don't play 500 baseball.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, for that to matter, and I'm going to
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: take the wild card out for a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: That's assuming if you go 12-3 and finish 81-81, then
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: at that point your chances are this. Either Houston finishes
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: 500 itself because you have a tiebreaker, or the Rangers
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: finish less than 500. Because if they're 8, they'd have
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: to be 80 and 82 because they have a tiebreaker on.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: What I mean is for their games the rest of
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: the season, they have to play like way below 500
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: just to make it matter.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying? Like for Seattle. So
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see. They got the A's this weekend. And,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: you know, you got your Angels coming up and all
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: those crap teams. Rockies to finish it off. You got
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: the Houston series, which will be big. I guess that
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: probably will determine it, right?
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Sweep Houston, you're probably in it sort of.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Just two games, though.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Even if you do win those two games. I just,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: All right. Enough of them. Yeah. Enough of them. Let's
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: get to some football. Also, we'll talk. I'll tell you what.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Danny O'Neal called them quitters last weekend. Good. He said
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: they quit. He'll join us coming up at 1.20. Rob
• 39:12
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• 40:12
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  Speaker 2: He's got some Seahawks thoughts. He's got some Drake May thoughts. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: about how the Mariners quote-unquote quit last weekend in that series,
• 42:12
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• 42:14
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• 42:18
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• 42:21
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• 42:24
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• 42:38
  Speaker 2: thoughts as well. 25 years ago today, our country changed forever. 9-11,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: those two numbers, 9-11 will live on forever. In the
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: history books and in many of our memories who were around,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: old enough to remember, I wish in some ways I wasn't.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: For sure, I wish I wasn't, and we all wish
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: it didn't happen, but it did. Our country was changed.
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  Speaker 2: The world shut down for a while. You know, twice
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: in the last 25 years, our world has shut down
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: for two very different reasons. I say our world, our world,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: especially in this country, shut down for very different reasons.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: We had no sports for a long time with the pandemic. About, what,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: seven to ten days, 9-11, 2001, because of what happened
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: in New York City. Pennsylvania and the Pentagon with all
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: those flights and the terrorist attacks on our country. It's,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: you know, Anders, I think, and we always joke about
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: how young guys are, how old guys are on our station.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: You were what, five, maybe four, five, four years old.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Four years old. So not something you remember at all.
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• 43:54
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  Speaker 2: country and, and what happened that day. I choose to
• 44:03
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  Speaker 2: not only to think about those whose lives were lost
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• 44:16
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• 44:20
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• 44:26
  Speaker 2: police officers, firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, All of those who we
• 44:32
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• 44:36
  Speaker 2: a time now where some of those, especially the police
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: officers in our world, are not appreciated in my mind enough.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: And this isn't a time to talk about those in
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: the police forces that aren't good people or take advantage
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: of their power. No. This is the day you think
• 44:53
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• 44:58
  Speaker 2: that also goes to our military and the military members.
• 45:00
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• 45:11
  Speaker 2: well with Fairchild. We have a lot of folks that
• 45:14
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• 45:17
  Speaker 2: whom are not from here, but they are they are
• 45:22
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• 45:24
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• 45:26
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• 45:29
  Speaker 2: if you are one of those folks listening today that
• 45:32
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• 45:36
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• 45:40
  Speaker 2: that just finished basic training, flights, airborne school. So a
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: shout out to Ike. McMillan, my nephew, who has chosen
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: to serve his country. And by serving his country, he
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: serves all of us. All those that had to go
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: fight the wars after 9-11. Thank you. The ultimate sacrifice
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: was paid by many during those wars. It was the
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: worst of times for our country. And yet, Anders, I
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: can tell you this. It was also, in some ways,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: the best of times. We came together as a country
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: like we never have. And unfortunately, have not since. It's
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: probably a good time to reflect. And it should not
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: take those types of catastrophic events for us to come together.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Our country right now has never been so divided. I
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: think we can honestly say that. And if you want
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: to debate me on that, feel free. But honestly, our
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: country is very divided today. And it's sad to see.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Because 9-11-2001 and the days, the months, the years that
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: followed that, that was not the case. It didn't matter
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: what side of the aisle you resided on. George Bush,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: President Bush, was a leader. He led our country and
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: then literally handed the torch to President Obama to finish
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: it off when they got bin Laden. But our country
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: was together then. There were those that would be protesting
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: the wars and so forth, but by and large, we
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: came together. A lot of it was through grief, unfortunately,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: but That day I'll never forget. It was something I
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: never want to have to go through again. Also, I
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: don't know what this station did. I was on the
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: radio in Salt Lake that day. And I think back
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: to what we did on the air in Salt Lake City.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: I actually, Anders, you can appreciate this as someone who
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: has worked with me for now four years. And we
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: taped some interviews. There's certain things you have to tape
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: because of coaches' schedules and other schedules. I taped an interview.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: An hour after the second plane hit a tower, and
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: shortly before the towers collapsed, I taped an interview with
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Fisher DeBerry. He was the head football coach at Air Force,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: at the Air Force Academy. They were scheduled to play
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: the University of Utah that weekend, and we were doing
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: stuff for our shows and our pregame shows and everything
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: else for the Utes. I pre-taped an interview, and I
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: remember talking to Fisher DeBerry. I go, do we know
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: what's going on? He said, we don't know. We don't know.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: He goes, our campus, Air Base, everything's been locked down.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: But we've got, like, basically they've got planes taking off,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: fighter jets going. He says, it's nothing I've ever seen before.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: At the same time, we didn't understand the severity of it.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: He's like, all right, well, I'll see you after the game.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: He's a great guy. We talk to him all the
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: time on and off the air. He said, I'll see
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: you on Saturday at the Ute game. That obviously didn't happen.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: None of us realized the gravity of it until probably
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: much later in the day. If you watch some of
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: the replays, the news networks also, again, the media just
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: gets crushed these days in so many ways. And again,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: probably rightfully so for a lot of reasons. But whether
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: it was CNN, ABC, CBS, I thought NBC was just
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: phenomenal in their coverage. Walked us through everything. I saw
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the second plane hit live. We were in Salt Lake City.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: I want to say it was like 7, 15, early
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: in the morning. And my wife comes up and says,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: look what's going on. What happened? I'm like, I don't know.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: We watched the TV and we see this smoke coming out.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: At that point, we had no idea. And then literally
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: watched the second plane hit. Watching NBC. And, you know,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: living in Salt Lake City was also odd because we
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: were a Delta hub airline wise and seeing all the
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: planes that were there parked for a week every hotel
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: full Park City hotels full people stranded and it seems
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: odd because that's just a minor blip but it wasn't
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: because we didn't know when what happened much like the
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: pandemic this was just so much worse in so many
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: different ways end of the day here we are 25
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: years later and honestly Anders I can tell you this
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that feel like it was
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: a long time ago that it happened this was such
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: a significant event that it doesn't feel like it was
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: that long ago I feel like it happened yesterday Every
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: year at this time. And it didn't matter if it
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: was the 5th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 15th, or 25th anniversary.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: It's always hit me hard. Some of the things I
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: won't get into, but it's always hit me hard. And
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: I just think today is a good day for all
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: of us, no matter what your feelings are, no matter
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: what your political affiliations or beliefs are. I think today
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: is a day that you sit back and you thank
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: those who protect us and serve us. Think about the
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: firefighters and the police officers that ran into the towers
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: and didn't come back out. Think about the EMTs and
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: the paramedics whose lives were changed forever, having to deal
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: with the trauma that they saw. Today's a good day
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: to thank our first responders, to thank our firefighters, our paramedics,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: our ambulance drivers, our EMTs, our police officers, and especially
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: our military. Today's a good day to thank them. We
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: live in a great country that certainly has its flaws,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: but I do like to say two things. Thank you
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: to them, and also, God, I hope someday we can
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: come back to being a lot more unified, as for
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: the most part we were. Not 100%, but a lot
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: more unified we were back then, the night that George
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Bush took to the podium to speak, and in the
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: ensuing weeks, months, and years afterwards. I thought the Mariners'
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: legacy project last week was really well done. I should
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: point that out. you know, having Mark McLemore and Mike
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Cameron talk about it, what they did after that win
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: and then get to 116 wins and the flag and
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: how they had kind of a subdued celebration. And I'm,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: you know, tip of the cap to Kmart and the
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: folks down at the Mariners. When I first saw a
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: legacy thing and it's these guys, I wasn't quite sure
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: what it was all about or what it meant. Now
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I do. And that's a fitting tribute, fitting tribute to
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: that team. We can make fun of 95 and 116
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: wins all we want. I think that little That little statue,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: that little thing out in the outfield there, out in
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: the Legacy Plaza, I think that's really well done. And
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: that probably captures the spirit and the essence of it
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: more than anything. So we move on. All right, we'll
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: come back. Danny O'Neill joins us coming up next. He's
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: got some thoughts on Drake May. He's got some thoughts
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: on the Mariners. We're not going to be that nice
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: to the Mariners, are we? No. Of course not. And
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: much more. That's next.
• 52:24
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• 52:53
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• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I got a bonus this week. I got not one,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: but two dang apostrophes in my email inbox, which I appreciated, Danny.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that. It is no problem.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: It's my pleasure.
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: Were they good?
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, really good. Gave me good talking points for our
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: conversation today. But listen, before I get to that, I
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: just spent some time talking a little bit about 25
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: years ago today. probably be appropriate to let you have
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: a say as you were here then, I believe, but
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: at the same time, you're now in New York City,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: where I imagine it's a fairly solemn day. But I'll
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: let you just kind of give a quick thought or
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: two on what 25 years ago today means to you.
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it has been a pretty solemn day. The weather
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: is incredibly clear. It's hard to put into perspective. I
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: was in Seattle on 9-11. And I came out here,
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: I guess it would have been about a month later
• 53:52
  Speaker 7: for the American league championship series. Um, and so was,
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: was out here and saw kind of the aftermath of it.
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: And the feeling here in New York is it's very
• 54:08
  Speaker 7: much an acknowledgement of the incredible sacrifices that the first
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: responders made. And, uh, The fact that so many people
• 54:20
  Speaker 7: rushed into buildings to try and get people out, even
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: in the midst of seeing that this was, they were
• 54:30
  Speaker 7: throwing themselves directly into danger. And the city won't ever
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: be the same. I think that when you go down
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: there to the monuments that exist today, the fountains that
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: are there and the it's, it's just really hard to
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: put into perspective how much the skyline and the, the
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: entire city kind of will always have a scar from
• 54:58
  Speaker 7: what happened.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Well said. And I spent some time just talking about
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: what you just said, and that would be the, the,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: the first responders. It's, you know, you see, you see
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: all the, The documentaries and the video and even some
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: of the raw news footage from that day and the
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: devastation for those first responders that did make it out
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: or weren't in the buildings when they collapsed and knowing
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: what has happened. I mentioned this to Anders. I don't
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: think any of us fully grasped at the time until
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: maybe late that day or in the days and weeks
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: afterwards the gravity of what happened. Like it was just
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: hard to just comprehend what actually happened that day.
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: And for the people that were here in New York,
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: the uncertainty that lingered for a little while because so
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: many people were missing and you didn't know, but you
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: pretty much knew what had happened. And it was, it's like,
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: I did not live through the Vietnam War and I
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: know that America has no sort of they're not alone
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: in having suffered tragic, massive events such as nine 11,
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: but it was, it's the closest thing I've ever seen
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: to that kind of scale of catastrophe and just devastation.
• 56:23
  Speaker 7: And I, I will, I will always remember coming back
• 56:27
  Speaker 7: here and it was more than a month later and,
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: and you could, it's spent the city smelled different. Um, it, it,
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: it did. And that, that will always, that will always
• 56:36
  Speaker 7: hang with me.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: It's, It's interesting, too. You pointed out it's a beautiful,
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: clear sky day in New York City today, and that
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: was exactly the case 25 years ago when you see
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: the video of that morning.
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: I remember I had not watched TV that morning. I
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: was working at the Seattle Times, and I got up
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: and came into work. It would have been about 10 o'clock.
• 57:02
  Speaker 7: As I walked in the doors of the newspaper, I
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: did not know what had happened. By that time, both
• 57:08
  Speaker 7: towers had been hit. And then by the end of
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: that day, I was taking part in some of the papers,
• 57:13
  Speaker 7: newspaper coverage, and trying to talk to, to different people
• 57:16
  Speaker 7: who had, who had connections back, back in New York
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: from the Seattle area. And yeah, it's just, it was,
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: I just remember it being so seeing the replay of
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: what had happened and just in utter disbelief. And then
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: that night there were no planes in the sky. It was,
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: it was just the most surreal thing I've ever, I've
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: ever experienced.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I lived in Salt Lake at the time. It
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: was a Delta hub, still is. And, I mean, where
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: we lived, we saw planes all the time. And then
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: not to see any was weird. And, you know, I
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: told the story earlier. I did an interview that morning
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: an hour, maybe a half hour after the second plane
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: hit with Fisher DeBerry, who was the head coach at
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Air Force Academy, you know, on campus, an active Air
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Force base. And even he at the time, we're not
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: really sure what's going on, but there's fighter jets leaving and,
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: you know, place is shut down but i'll see you
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: saturday for the game against the youths and as it
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: turns out obviously he did not so uh we we
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: waited and the world got shut down and uh and
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: away we go so uh i just said this earlier
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: i'll say it again just this is a good day
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: to thank your thank our first responders in our military
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: no matter what your feelings are about different things going
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: on in the world politically and everything else and the
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: anti-police sentiment that many have and other things like that
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: today's not that day today's the day to thank those
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: that that you know what frankly come running when we
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: call 9-1-1 Or protect us in the military, you know,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: and with JBLM and others. So that's, to me, that's
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: what today is about.
• 58:45
  Speaker 7: There's an awful lot of people who volunteer and sacrifice
• 58:49
  Speaker 7: of themselves to keep us safe. And it is a
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: good day to remember that and to be grateful for
• 58:55
  Speaker 7: that and to acknowledge the loss that so many suffered.
• 58:58
  Speaker 7: And really just an unspeakable tragedy.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Well said, Danny. Danny O'Neill joining us. Dang apostrophe. We'll
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: try to pivot here real quick. Let's start first. Did
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: you watch the 49ers? get the Netflix 49ers and Rams
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: extravaganza last night, sir?
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, I did.
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: And I realized early in the game that I was torn.
• 59:20
  Speaker 7: And the reason I was torn is because on the
• 59:23
  Speaker 7: one hand, I've taken a specific interest in watching one
• 59:29
  Speaker 7: of the 49ers reporters get destroyed on Twitter, David Lombardi.
• 59:35
  Speaker 7: I really take delight in watching him get nuked because
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: he's got fairly stilted coverage, I would say. I think
• 59:43
  Speaker 7: he's fairly understood. And on the other hand, you had
• 59:46
  Speaker 7: Bill Plaschke, a longtime columnist from the LA Times, and
• 59:49
  Speaker 7: a guy who I know and like a great deal
• 59:51
  Speaker 7: who had written... column proclaiming that the Rams would go 17-0.
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: So I was like, which person do I want to
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: get pants publicly more? And it came out, I was
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 7: rooting for the Niners. I really wanted to see the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: Rams get destroyed. And it was just delicious how it happened.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: They looked so bad, so bad.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: And Mr. Big Brain, oh, yeah, awesome.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, we're going to go out there and do
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: 30 hours of red flags and two different 16-hour flights.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 7: and it looked like they'd just gotten off the plane
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 7: from a 16-hour flight. Dude, your quarterback score, how did
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 7: you think that was going to go?
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: That whole, yeah. The smartest guy in the room wasn't
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: the smartest guy in the room, as it turns out,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: Sean McVay. You know, like that's– I'll tell you what
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do. In 30 hours, it's going to
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: be right there. Go ahead, play football. Let's go. No,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: you know what didn't work, buddy? It didn't work. You
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: got boat raced. You got pummeled by a team that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: is closer to retirement in general terms than any other
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: team in the NFL. They are the closest team to
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: going to a senior citizen's home, yet Bosa looked like
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: he had his legs back. Everyone who's watched him practice said,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: like just talking to my buddy Len the other day,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: he's like, Everyone's, like, thinking Bosa's not coming back. Like,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: he's out there, but he looks slow, right? Nope, didn't
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: look slow against the Rams. Looked pretty damn good, especially
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: in that first play. And in a way, you know,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: weird old Puka Nakua, you know, out there biting people
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: and stuff. I mean, he wasn't much of a factor. So, yeah,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: the whole– it looked good on the Rams. It looked
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: good on them. I don't– we haven't mentioned this. Okay,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: you know what? We go from serious to absolutely petty,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to be petty for a second. Anders,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: you can jump in, too. Does anybody know what the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: hell was with Al Duncan's gloves?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Like, what were we doing? And they weren't, like, fashion gloves.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: They looked like they were, like, food server gloves, like black,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: you know, rubber gloves or plastic gloves.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: It looked like O.J. Simpson's glove from the trial.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, God, yes. If the gloves don't fit, you've got
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: to acquit or whatever.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 7: I was thinking more mime. I was thinking it was
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 7: more like a mime. that there was going to be
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 7: like a man in the mirror dance that was performed.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 7: That was strange. The kangaroo coats were also strange. There were,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 7: there were a lot of unusual things in, in the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 7: overall game apparatus that was there.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: It was, it was odd. It was, it, I love
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: watching people who think and know that they're really smart get,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: sort of shown in front of everybody that they're not
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 7: all that. So I really, I really enjoyed that. I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: look forward to seeing the promos for the 60 minutes
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: special in which less need gets out and says, I
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 7: wouldn't trade five first round picks for our coach. Like, okay,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: you guys enjoy that. Hang that on your own one.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 7: And Miles Garrett, who's a player I really like.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: He didn't really do anything. And it just, I, I
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: don't like super teams. I've never liked super teams. And that,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: that whole, I didn't like it when LeBron went to
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: the heat. Look, I cheer for the Warriors and I
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: didn't like it when Durant went there. That was not fun.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: When you have, there's something that just chafes against the idea.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: The three best kids in the class don't get to
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: get allowed, aren't allowed to get together and join up
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 7: on the same team. Like there has to be some
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: sense of fairness there. But the other side of that
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 7: is a lot of times when teams do this, it
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: doesn't work. It didn't work with the Lakers when they
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: got Gary and Karl Malone to add to Shaquille and Kobe.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: There's zero guarantee that this works. So it was great
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 7: to watch them take it in the short term.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: I like your term, McKay getting pantsed. I think that's perfect.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Danny, it's this Rams Super Bowl hangover,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: so we should give them a pass. Oh, wait a second.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, because they did win it last year, right?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: I keep forgetting.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 7: They brought their Super Bowl trophy down there, just a
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: whole nine yards. It's It's been a lot. It's been
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: a lot with the Rams. People like to say the
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: Rams have no fans. And that's not entirely true because
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 7: my uncle Randy, who I grew up with, was one
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: of the great guys I learned to be a sports
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 7: fan from. He lived in Los Angeles and he liked
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 7: the Rams. So it's not that they have no fans.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: They just don't have many actual fans. They don't have
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: many actual fans. And it shows, like, the general bandwagon
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 7: hopping that has occurred. Yeah, I enjoyed watching him take
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 7: it in the shorts. The only downside was that now
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 7: we have to listen to the 49ers fans talk about
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 7: how we're back and our run game is so awesome.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, we'll see. Your time's coming.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your time is definitely coming. Daniel Neal, brought to
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  Speaker 2: or give them a call, 425-255-0500. Danny, remember when they
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: said Sam Darnold, like the seeing ghosts thing and that
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: big thing that got overblown for so many years? He
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: hasn't said it, but is it safe to say Drake
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: may actually be seeing ghosts? And they all wear Seahawks jerseys?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 7: He really started pressing in that fourth quarter, it looked like.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 7: It looked like he really got impatient and just decided–
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 7: I I've got to start forcing it. Yeah, that was,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 7: that was really bad. And watching new England's collective freak
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 7: out over that is pretty enjoyable because I thought on
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: that final drive up until the pick, I thought he'd
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: actually played really well on that drive. He's he's a,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 7: he's a problem because he is mobile enough to be
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 7: able to run and convert, especially on third down and,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 7: I do think that he's got a good arm and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 7: pretty good touch, and he was. For the first three quarters,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 7: he was patient. But, yeah, watching him come undone and
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 7: then that– I still don't know what they were doing
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 7: on that third down play. I do not understand how
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: that play was supposed to work. Did the receivers run
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 7: the wrong route? Was May trying to throw it out
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 7: of bounds and he just couldn't because– it was the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 7: Morgan Moses, who is the Patriots right tackle. He chopped block.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 7: Or tried to, I'm sorry, tried to cut block. Tried
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 7: to cut block DeMarcus Lawrence on that third down play.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 7: Lawrence hurtled him, but there's, I don't understand what that
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 7: was supposed to pair with. Was it supposed to be
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 7: this out to the tight end? But that seems weird
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: that you tried to cut him to do that. I
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 7: don't know. It was, It was hilarious. It was one
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 7: of the funnier endings of a football game you're going
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: to see.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: It just, yeah, and I thought of all those things
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: that took place in the game, that throw on, that
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: throw by May is just, it doesn't have the same ramifications,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't quite as egregious as a certain throw
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: in Glendale years ago with the same two teams involved,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: but boy, that's pretty bad. A pretty bad decision. Like,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: just pretty bad decision, and We'll take it all day
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: and every day. Someone should tell Chris Collinsworth, too, because,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know they were missing A.J. Brown at
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: a point in the game and everything else. Sam Darnold
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: was gone. Even Worry wasn't there. Ty Okada wasn't there.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: And these guys, Mike McDonald showed his brilliance once again.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: All right, Danny O'Neill joins us. I've got to get
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: to this before we run out of time. You wrote
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: a very scathing column about our local baseball team on Monday. Danny,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: they just took two or three from the Rangers. If
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: they go 13, what is it, Anders, 13-3? If they
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: go 13-3 the rest of the way, they'll finish 500, Danny.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're saying.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah. That Saturday game was pretty bad. I try to
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 7: be very measured in talking about when teams have quit
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 7: or haven't shown optimal effort because I think it's possible
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 7: to misread things. But that Saturday game and then reading
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 7: an Adam Jude story that none of the hitters after
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 7: they lose six to two singles to the starting pitcher
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 7: who had the highest ERA in the American League and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 7: nobody's in there after the clubhouse. Yeah, that was it's
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 7: not just disappointing because I think the question becomes like,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 7: what what are you going to do? Because it's I
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 7: recognize it's possible that they're going to come back and say, hey,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 7: we believe in our process and this was a down year.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 7: We got hot at the end of 2025 and we
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: went in a tank at the end of 2026, but
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 7: we're sticking with our overall approach. Maybe you have a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 7: new manager, but I just look at it. There is
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 7: something that has been off with this group all year long.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: And you get to enough evidence that there is either
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: a lack of focus or a lack of– there's been
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 7: so many mental mistakes. And then just that lack of accountability.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 7: Like somebody in the lineup has to go out and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 7: answer the really uncomfortable questions about why did you guys
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: manage just two singles against And instead, everybody bails. It's telling, man.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 7: It's really telling.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: It's also the easiest. It should be really easy. Because
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: if we're being honest, in terms of coverage of this team,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: there's really only one full-time beat writer. And it's whoever
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: it is from the times that day, whether it's Divish
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: or Booth or Jude. Daniel Kramer works for MLB, so
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't really count him in the group. It's not
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: like the days when you had a TNT report, like
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Larry LaRue's in there. What was Grumpy Bob's name? He
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: was in there. Finnegan was in. Finnegan. Jim Street was in.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: There's like four or five newspaper guys. Those guys have
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: to answer questions like one person. It's a Saturday night.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: No TV station staffing it. It can't be that hard, guys.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: It just can't be. It reminds me of those really
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: bad teams when the only guy that would ever talk
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: postgame was Willie Blomquist, even if he didn't play.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 7: Yes. Willie was accountable.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: He was a champ.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 7: Do you remember the movie Swingers?
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 7: They're in Las Vegas. They end up going home with
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: the waitresses. And as they're driving back, Mikey is explaining
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 7: how it's not that easy for him. He doesn't have
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: a way with girls like Trent does. And Trent just
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 7: looks at him and he goes, oh, Mikey, do you
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 7: even think I understand what they're talking about half the time?
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 7: I just wrinkle my eyebrows. I nod my head. And
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 7: as a player, that's all you have to do. All
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 7: you have to do when you're asked, this was unacceptable.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 7: We've got to find a way to focus more. It's
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 7: nothing about, like, you don't even have to think about it.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 7: You just have to go and look serious.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 8: That's it.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 7: Just go look serious for two minutes. And it's all over.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 7: And they can't even get anybody.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: To do that. No, no.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: They, well, we'll see. I tend to think they're done, but,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: you know, Anders had a great point earlier. This would
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: be the most Mariner thing ever. Everyone's just basically been
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: pissed off and giving up on the season and not
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: an enjoyable regular season. And it'd be very Mariners-like to
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden rack off like 10 straight wins
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: and be right back in it. But it seems far-fetched.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 7: This team can't hurt me anymore, Ian. It's been a
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 7: month this way now. I was like, yeah, that could happen.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 7: It's theoretically possible.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, Danny.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: I also might hit the Powerball. I don't think that's
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 7: significantly less likely.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get in the break here and see
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: what I can get for them to win the division.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: What kind of odds?
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: Ian, stop it! Stop it!
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: What?
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: You don't think that's a good bet?
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: You can try to.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah! Yeah!
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: You've been trying to convince yourself that they can for
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: a month now.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: I know. I know. No, don't do it.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: Don't do it.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 7: Protect yourself. Don't listen to Anders. He's leading you down
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 7: the path of pain.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: No, it's the opposite. I'm trying to lead him away
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: from the path of pain. I'm telling him not to
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: Boy, you're handing out this 13-3 as if that's even
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 7: a viable possibility.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, they're plus 9,000 to win the pennant. Oh, God.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 7: There's a reason they're plus 9,000. They've watched the season.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: I'm better off putting my money in a slot machine.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: You're probably right. All right, Danny. Exactly.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 7: We got pole tabs around?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Up at Goldie's? No, I'm at the Snoqualmie Casino in
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: the sportsbook here. What would be a better bet? DeMond
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: Williams for the Heisman or the Mariners winning the pennant?
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 7: But Jermon Williams, because at least they're undefeated. And while
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 7: the first three quarters were forgettable, he had a memorable
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 7: scramble that could be sussed up, though I believe the
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 7: quarterback from Miami might be running away with this thing.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: Actually, here's the problem, and I just remember this. I
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: have a Heisman vote, so I can't bet on that one.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: So that one I've got to stay away from. So
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: what I just said, drop that from the podcast. All right, Danny,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: tell us about the dang apostrophe.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 7: It is a newsletter that originates out of New York
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 7: City covering Seattle sports and the occasional observations about life
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 7: in this dirty, filthy, rotten metropolis. You go to dannyoneal.com,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 7: you enter your email address, and I send you periodic misses.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 7: This week you got two of them.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: Maybe next week three.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 7: We'll see.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or none. Who knows? Hey, great stuff, my friend.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: I'll talk to you next week. Thank you.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: Sounds good.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 7: Take care.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: Danny O'Neill joining us. We'll wrap up our number two
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: coming up next.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: with Ian Furness on your home for the NFL. Sports
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: Great stuff with Danny O'Neill there. Appreciate him. It's a
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: football Friday. We'll get back to that. Our friend Rob
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Ryan is going to join us here in about 10 minutes' time.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Big college weekend coming up, Anders, huh? Big college weekend. Yeah,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: a couple great games. Big college weekend coming up. Here
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: we go. What do we got? Well, Texas-Ohio State tomorrow.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Huskies will have a very easy time this weekend. Yeah,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: they will. It pains me to say that, but they
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: will have an easy time this weekend.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: I'm intrigued by the Coug game. What's your kind of
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: read on that?
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of a great unknown because I think,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: I believe, Washington's better than Kansas State. All right? So
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: if I start there, I think Washington's better than Kansas State.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: And that was a seven-point game with a third down
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: and nine and three timeouts left against the Huskies for
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: the Cougs. Now, the Cougs' offense is not good. At
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: least it wasn't the first week. But I'm not going
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: to be that guy. Listen, I think Washington's defense is legit.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: And all I heard in the offseason and going into camp, hey, Washington,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: great D coordinator, great defense, blah, blah, blah. You know what?
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: They looked the part.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: And maybe part of that was our quarterback isn't great.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: They can also make him look that way. See the
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: Seahawks with Drake May.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: And I'll go the other side of the ball. I
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: thought the Coug defense was far better than people thought
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: it would be. And I think Trent Bray makes a
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: difference as a D coordinator. Their front line was really good.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: Their front four was really good. And, you know, I
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: know everyone, UW's offensive line coach loses his mind. We
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: were bad, but, you know, the other guys are okay, too.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: So if I'm going through all those premises, yeah, Washington
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: is better. I think Washington is a better team than
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Kansas State. I think DeMond's better than Avery Johnson.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, so maybe a close game.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe a close game. It's on the road.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: It's an early start. A couple tough factors there, but
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: I'm intrigued. I think they can do it.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Texas-Ohio State is really what I was thinking about. Do
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: we put juice on that? That thing is so tight.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: I like Texas in that game to be completely honest.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that like Texas. There's a
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: lot of people that like Texas in that game. So
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of in the thought of prove me wrong, Texas. Yeah, okay. But, yeah,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: we'll see. We'll see.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: Even if Ohio State is maybe the better team, it's
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: like Texas, they could be coasting at this point in
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: the season, Ohio State.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that with Rob Rang coming up
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: in a minute.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: Good point.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. We'll talk about that coming up in a second.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: Let me tell this guy something real quick.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, fella. You dropped your money.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: See?
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: That's what happens. Yeah. You know what? That's got to
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: be good for some good karma. Absolutely.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: You tell a guy he dropped his money?
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: I can see him digging through his pocket. He's sitting
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: in the bar. He's like, all this money from his pocket,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: all this cash. We've all had that feeling before. Of course. Like, oh,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: my God, where did it all go? I lost my wallet. Oh,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: it's right there. Oh, okay. But I can see the
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: panic in the poor dude's face. He's like, yeah, yeah,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: just sit back down. Yeah, yeah, you're good. All right. Oh,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: my goodness. Rob Rang's coming up. Quick tease, by the way. 235.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: My final pick of the week. Let's go. Factor Fiction.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: I'm 0-1 already. Big thanks to the little hook in
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: that Seahawk game. So I need to get back on track.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: Anders is 1-0.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: Already.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: So the show is 1-1. We are 1-1 right now.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: We're at 500, and that's okay. It's a better start
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: than last year. So we've got Factor Fiction at 235.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: Your chance to win a $ 1, 000 weekly prize, $ 10, 000 grand prize.
• 1:17:30
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• 1:17:32
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• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: we'll check your text, 49451. Talkbacks as well. But Rob Rang,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: previewing the college football weekend next.
• 1:17:44
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  Speaker 2: as the Rockies. There it is. Had to get it
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: right for your final one here. All right. Rams get
• 1:18:03
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• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: in the world is happy about that, except for Sean McVay.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now. Anyway, they get a win.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: Seahawks win. 49ers win. Rams lose. They're not going to
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: go 17-0. Shocking development in the NFL. Another shocker. Two
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: is hurt again. That never happens. Penix is out. He's out.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: Cooper Rush will start for the Falcons on Sunday against
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Roma Dunze is listed as questionable for
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears game against Carolina. Kyle Shanahan celebrating after
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: getting the big win against the Rams last night, according
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: to various reports, has received a contract extension from The 49ers. Now,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: did York give him that, or is he still out
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: soliciting a prostitute? Do we know?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, God.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: We'll ask Lund about that on Tuesday as well. Mariners
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: tonight start a series against the Athletics, 640 first pitch.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: They are the Mariners. Still 69-78. My math tells me
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: that's nine games under.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: 500.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: They'd have to go 13-3 to finish. 500 this season.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: give themselves a chance to win or get in the postseason.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: That would be a bare minimum probably to get into
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: the postseason. Cougs, early game tomorrow, 9 a.m. on TNT
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: against Kansas State. Huskies against Utah State. 12.30 kickoff at
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: Husky Stadium. That's on the Big Ten Network and, of course,
• 1:19:19
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• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: some college football right now. Rob Rank, standing by.
• 1:19:25
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  Speaker 2: well at Farrelly's Pizza. Rob Rang, how are you, my friend?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing very well, sir. How are you?
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good. Before we get to the college
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: games this weekend, just a real quick thought for Seattle
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: Seahawks fans. We finally got to see Jadarian Price carry
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: a football in a football game. We did not see
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: that in the preseason. We barely saw much at all
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: in practice during the training camp as well. All said
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: and done, he ends up with just the 10 carries
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: but a couple catches as well. What did you see
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: from the first round pick that you, I know, are
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: very high on?
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that he was outstanding. And then, in fact,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 4: that was actually one of my only real, I guess,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I would want to say complaints,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: but questions, certainly with Brian Fleury, is why didn't he
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 4: get the ball more often? And I understand why. I mean,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 4: you want to preserve this young man. You don't want to... uh,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: you know, beat him up in the very first game
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: against a very physical defense. But I thought that he, the,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: the vision, the acceleration, uh, the, the, the cuts back
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: against the grain, the balance through contact, all those things
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: that we had been talking about. And I thought that
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: he demonstrated, uh, Against the Patriots, I feel very strongly
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 4: that Jadarian Price is going to be a star in
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: the NFL, very much in the offensive rookie of the
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 4: year conversation, and a big part, maybe even a bigger part,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 4: of Seattle's offense, considering the injury to Sam Darnold.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: Producer Anders is pumping his fist when he said more care.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: I think every Seahawks fan is saying, let's get more
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: It's getting more Jadari in price, and hopefully we'll see
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: that in the coming weeks as they kind of, I guess,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: probably in fairness, ramp him up as well. All right.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: For those that are new, every Friday, Rob jumps on
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• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: the top college games and the ones that really kind
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: of matter as far as the NFL draft is concerned,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: because our guy, our draft insider, our man, Rob Rang,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: he knows all these guys, and he gives you a
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: little hint as to kind of a viewing guide as
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: we get ready for college football. And then, of course,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: the NFL draft next spring, the guys to keep an
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: eye on. We'll go by priority in terms of games.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: We didn't have much last week. There was only one
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: game with ranked opponents last week. That's not the case
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: this week. We start, let's just go, 430 on Saturday, ABC,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: Ohio State, number one in the country at number four, Texas. And, Rob,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing there's one or two of your top-rated prospects
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: in this game.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: It's funny. Half of my top ten players in the
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: 2027 NFL draft are going to be playing in this game. And,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: you know, and buddy, you and I have been doing
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 4: this show for, you know, I don't know, almost 20
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: years now. And I'm going to say something unique, something
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: that I don't think I've ever said as a guest
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: on your fantastic program before. And that is this, the
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: Buckeyes are actually less talented than than the team that
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: they're going to be facing Saturday in the Texas Longhorns. Now,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: if you are not a fan of Steve Sarkeesian, and
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 4: of course there's a lot of University of Washington fans
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: who would be in that area, then maybe I'm jinxing
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: them a little bit with this statement. But the Texas Longhorns...
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: have four of those top five prospects. I mean, the
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: only exception would be the superstar wide receiver for Ohio State,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 4: Jeremiah Smith, that we've talked about, everybody has talked about
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: as the presumptive, maybe even number one overall candidate. And
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: if certainly, if he's not number one, just because of
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: the value of the quarterback position, then he is going
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: to be a top three lock as much as I've
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 4: ever seen.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 8: But otherwise, I think the conversation.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: Really is about the University of Texas. And especially on offense,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: Steve Sarkeesian, of course, is known for his offensive exploits,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 4: and I don't think that he's ever had the talent
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: that he has this year. Everybody is going to talk
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: about Arch Manning at the quarterback position, but I think
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: that you have to really look at the wide receiver,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 4: Cam Coleman, number eight. Coleman is transferring to Texas from
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: the University of Auburn, where he didn't have a lot
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: of talent around.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: Him, but he's 6'3, he's 210 pounds.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: I've used the comparison to Julio Jones for Jeremiah Smith
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: from Ohio State. I think that Cam Coleman might be
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: the second coming at AJ Green. We're talking about two
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame caliber comparisons I'm using here, Ian. Again,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: there's other talent on the field, but I think that
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: the quarterback position with Julian Sand, Ohio State, and Arch Manning,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: and that the wide receiver position with Jeremiah Smith and
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: Cam Coleman, my goodness, that is everything that college football
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: fans and NFL scouts need to watch the game, as
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: you mentioned, 430 on ABC.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: Can you jump back in a little bit on Julian
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: Sand for me for a second?
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: When I watch him, I'm like, eh. But I kind
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: of was that way watching Ty Simpson as well. But
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: what am I missing with Julian Sand?
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: I don't think that you're missing anything. I personally have
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 4: him in that kind of second to third round range.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 4: And that may even be a little rich because it's
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: a little difficult. And that's actually the article that I'm
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 4: going to be writing for FoxSports.com this weekend. It is
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: a little difficult to... to evaluate Julian saying federally, just
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: given all of the receiver talent that he's had at
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: his disposal. I mean, this is only a second year
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: as a starter. And obviously we're only in week two
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 4: at this point, uh, you know, he's for the Ohio
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: state Buckeyes. Um, and there were a lot of throws
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 4: that he made this past week, uh, That's basically where
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 4: I like to call ballpark accuracy. I mean, they're in
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 4: the ballpark, but they're not like they're really allowing his
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 4: receivers to catch the ball in stride. That said, he
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: really does have that pillow soft touch to layer the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: ball in between the linebackers and the safeties. That to
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: me is where he is at his best.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 7: He isn't.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: The biggest guy is 6'1, 215 pounds. He's not the
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 4: fastest guy. Arch Manning is a much more impressive athlete
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: just in terms of the size, his straight line speed,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: the velocity at which he throws the football. But I'll
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: tell you what, Julian Sand just puts the ball where
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: it needs to be. He doesn't, again, always lead his receivers.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 4: And so sometimes they have to stop and adjust or
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: they have to reach way outside the uh, of where
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 4: they should, but, uh, but he does read defense as well. Um,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 4: and he, uh, and he layers the football very well.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: So I just think that that combination is going to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: allow him to have a lot of success in the NFL,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 4: but I'm with you. I think that he's more in that,
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: that day two conversation, despite that Ohio state pedigree, arguing
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: that maybe he should go even earlier.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: Uh, and Rob Ryan joins us. There's some, also some
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: other guys that we talked about, the skill guys with
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: Coleman Smith saying, and Manning, what about the edge rushers?
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness. I mean, that's the thing. For Texas,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 4: I got to start there with Colin Simmons. I mean,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: he's 6'3.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 8: He's 250 pounds. He's number one, and.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: It's not just because of the fact that he's the
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: best edge rusher and arguably in all of college football.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: You know, he's number one, I think, in... In a
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: lot of ways that, you know, they just kind of
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: translate into NFL success. I mean, I think that he
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: has the best initial burst of any edge rusher in
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: this year's draft class. He's got great flexibility to kind
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 4: of dip and get around offensive tackles. He is going
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: to be challenged by Ohio State, certainly. But I think
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 4: that he is very much going to be somebody who
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: kind of just drops your jaw at times. It's just
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: his pure athletic ability to You know, we think of
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: this past year, and we saw guys like David Bailey
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: go number two overall. Colin Simmons, had he been eligible,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: he's only a third-year junior, he would have been selected
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 4: over David Bailey, who wound up going number two overall,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 4: of course, to the New York Jets this past season.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 8: So I think that he is spectacular.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 4: For Ohio State, they've got an edge player as well
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 4: who's getting some first-round buzz. Frankly, I think that he is, again,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: more in that day-two conversation. But my goodness... Kenyatta Jackson Jr.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: wears number two, is 6'5, 260 pounds. He's a fifth-year
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: senior who is still kind of waiting for the light
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 4: to come on for him really to develop all of
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 4: his skills. But he's got traits worth gambling on. I'm
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: curious to see if this is the big showcase game
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: in which he is able to truly demonstrate his skill set.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: What a great game. There's a couple of safeties. We'll
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: get to those guys in offensive linemen later on. We'll
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: talk about those teams all year. I want to jump ahead.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma at Michigan. That's the big Fox game. 9 a.m.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: early game. game at the big house. Clock issues aside,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you're going to talk to me about John Mateer, right?
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: We'll start there with John Mateer from Oklahoma.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of like those Husky fans talking about
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 4: Steve Sarkeesian here. Hooger fans don't want to hear much
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: about John Mateer. And frankly, until he shows more improvement
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: as a pocket passer, I don't know the NFL scouts
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 4: want to talk that much about John Mateer.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 8: But I will say this.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 4: At 6'1, 230 pounds, Ian, he is the most physically
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 4: ripped quarterback ever. And this should be a very good
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 4: quarterback class. And we're seeing it. Quarterbacks that can be
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: a dynamic mover of the football with their feet. We
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: saw it with Drake May last night or two minutes
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 4: ago against the Seahawks and how many times he was
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: able to convert those third downs just because he is
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: a quick scrambler. You know, that's one of the things,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: of course, that the John Mateer can do. And again,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 4: when you get him into a room and you look
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: at it, that's a big part of the evaluation process.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 4: Who looks the part? Gump here has the traits that
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 4: do translate to the NFL, except the most important one,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: and that being consistent accuracy from the pocket. That said,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma's got some talent around him. I'm eager to see
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: if he can build upon some of the scratches of
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 4: success that he's had at Oklahoma. Clearly, he's not.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 8: Been as good with the Sooners as he was.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 4: At Washington State. But again, this is a primetime opportunity
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 4: to go up against a Michigan team that's reeling a
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 4: little bit. but does still have some talent on the
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: defensive side of the ball that's going to make this
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: a formidable test for the Sooners.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: All right, let's stay.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Give me some other names, but let me ask you this.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: You said Texas is more talented probably than Ohio State,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: which we've never heard you say before. Let me get
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: to Oklahoma and Michigan. Michigan come off that really goofy win.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: Who's the more talented team? Michigan's not ranked. Oklahoma is.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: So who's the more talented team?
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 8: You know, it's funny.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: I would have said Michigan a couple of years ago,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 4: just based on their reputation. Harbaugh, of course, did an
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: incredible job of recruiting there. But a lot of that
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 4: talent has now since transferred out. Now, I'm a huge
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 4: believer in Kyle Winningham. I think that he is going
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 4: to turn Michigan back into Michigan. But it's going to
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: take some time. I'm not a big fan of their quarterback,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: Bryce Perkins. I think that.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: Bryce Underwood. Just Bryce Underwood, right? Bryce Underwood, yes.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: I apologize.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 7: No worries.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 4: But I also, I do think that Michigan's most impressive
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: NFL caliber talent right now are a couple of day
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: two players. I like the cornerback, Jair Hill, number zero.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 4: He's six foot two. He's 190 pounds. He was recruited
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 4: by Harbaugh. And so I do see legitimate NFL starting
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: talent with him. I'm a big fan of one of
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 4: their defensive linemen that Kyle Whittingham actually brought Wow. Used
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: to there being a list of 15, 20 guys at
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: Michigan that were evaluating. I think the actual, the better
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 4: talent was Oklahoma.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 8: And you got to give some credit certainly to their.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 4: Head coach, Brett Venables. But I also think that former
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 4: senior bowl executive and former Seahawks scout. Jim Nagy, they
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 4: did a great job of just developing the talent.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 8: There in Norman, Oklahoma.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 4: John Mateer, the quarterback position, of course, is going to
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: get the attention. For my money, their best players are
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 4: actually on the defensive line. I really like a guy,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 4: David Stone, who wears number zero, so he's definitely going
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 4: to stand out considering he's 6'3, 3'15. That zero looks
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 4: awfully odd.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 8: For a big defensive lineman.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 4: Of that size. But he's got lightning-quick first step for
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 4: a big man.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 8: And they've got an edge player, Taylor Wine.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: Number 44, 6'4, 265 pounds. He's actually the more productive
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: of the two. But David Stone's got the traits that
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: NFL teams are always willing to gamble on.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: Rob Rang, FoxSports.com, CFLBC Lions, Scout. Of course, our draft
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: insider joining us, Chris, here at Farrelly's Pizza, Farrelly'sPizza.com. Oregon-Oklahoma State.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: I'm expecting Oregon to have a fairly easy game. Oklahoma
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: State's been awful. Eric Morris is their new head coach,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: but he brings with him a quarterback. There's also a
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: pretty good quarterback in Dante Moore. Do you want to
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: just talk about the quarterbacks in this one?
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's the real storyline here.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, Oregon, of course, is loaded.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think that they are a legitimate playoff contender.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: They've got NFL-caliber prospects literally at every single position on
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: the football field.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 8: But this game.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: To me, is all about the quarterbacks. We've talked a
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  Speaker 4: lot about Dante Moore. I thought that he showed real
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 4: poise and that elite accuracy this past week. Even though
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 4: they were challenged by Boise State, I thought that he
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: played well down the stretch and guided them to that victory.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma State's Drew Mestemaker, to me, is really the story here.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 4: As you mentioned, he followed Eric Morris from North Texas
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: to Oklahoma State. And he's only a redshirt sophomore, but
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 4: he's 6'5, he's 220 pounds, he's got a cannon for
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 4: an arm. He's got all the traits that you're looking
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 4: to develop. But again, he's a redshirt sophomore, and this
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 4: is a guy that actually didn't even start much at
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: either the high school or even middle school levels. He
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 4: was a punter for much of his life. before college,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: high school.
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  Speaker 7: Career, prep career.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 4: And so he is a guy that, again, was incredibly
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 4: flashy at North Texas, plays.
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  Speaker 8: In the same offense now under Eric Morris.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think they're going to put up numbers.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't know that that he is as polished
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  Speaker 4: as you're expecting of a guy who is being talked
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 4: about as if he's a first or second round pick.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 4: For me, that's way too rich for now. He struggled
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 4: a week ago amid all these expectations. This is a
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 4: great opportunity to go up against a very talented team.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 4: I think a year from now, we might be talking
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 4: about Drew Messermaker, but right now it feels a little
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 4: bit too early to put that type of pressure on
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: this undeniably talented but still pretty raw young quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw that last year. If you're a Wazoo fan,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: he can put up some numbers and some points. Let's
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: wrap it up with the game. You want to talk
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: about Minnesota and Mississippi State. Not teams we talk about
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: all that often, but what are you watching in this game?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: That's a 1230 game on CBS.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's just a fun matchup. I mean, how often
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 4: do you talk about Minnesota and Mississippi State, you know,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 4: Big Ten, SEC, you know, and there's a couple of
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 4: players similar to what we talked about there with Drew Messamaker,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: the young quarterback at Oklahoma State. Minnesota has a young
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: quarterback that I'm intrigued by. He's among my top 15 quarterbacks.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: I'm in the entire country for the 2027 NFL draft, though,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 4: like Drew Mestemaker, who is also among my top 15.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 4: I do think that this young redshirt sophomore quarterback or
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 4: third year sophomore quarterback, Drake Lindsay for the Golden Gophers.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: Still has some room to grow, but again, see his size,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 4: he's 6'5, he's 230 pounds, he's a bigger, more physical quarterback,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 4: also has a big arm, but he is still learning
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: how to read defenses and properly place the ball where
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 4: his receivers can make big plays after the catch. Their
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 4: actual best prospect for Minnesota is their left guard, Greg Johnson.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: He's a strong day two candidate. Six foot five, 330 pounds,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 4: can move people. Also has good agility and path protection
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 4: as well. That's one of the things that we've seen
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 4: with Minnesota is their ability to develop offensive and defensive linemen.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 4: And quickly with Mississippi State, they have a track record
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 4: of producing a great number of defensive-backed. And that pathway
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 4: is still running strong here. Number one, Kelly Jones, 6'4, 205-pounder.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 4: If the Seahawks are indeed looking for a future Reek-Woolin
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 4: type of cornerback, then Kelly Jones is one I think
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 4: they should be keeping an eye on. It's interesting. He
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 4: only received third-team All-SEC votes from league coaches a year ago,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 4: and he only allowed 11 total receptions. all year long.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 4: So clearly there is evidence that he can shut down receivers,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: but at the same time, SEC coaches didn't give him
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 4: enough attention. So I'm fascinated to see him go up
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 4: against a quarterback who has legitimate NFL talent and see
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 4: if he can make a little bit more splashy plays
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 4: to get himself a little bit more all SEC, all
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 4: college football, all American kind of consideration.
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  Speaker 2: Well, bottom line is this, my friend. I mean, there's
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: a lot going on this weekend. That headline, the biggest
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: one that I can't wait to see is obviously, like
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: most of us, is Texas-Ohio State. But some good football,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: better than week one for sure, week two as well.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: I mentioned all the stuff you're doing. I forgot about
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: mentioning the Seahawks Triple Option podcast hosted by... You, Robert Turbin,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: former Seahawk and a Super Bowl champion, and Corbin Smith.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: You guys can find that at the iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia app.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: Go to the little iHeart app and just type in
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: Seahawks Triple Option. You guys are part of the iHeart
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: family now as well. Of course, Rob's with us all
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: the time, too, every Friday, courtesy of Farrelly's Pizza. So
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: go make sure you check out the Seahawks Triple Option, foxsports.com.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: Sounds like Rob's got some stuff up there as well.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: You're staying busy this time of the year, my friend.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 4: I certainly am. And what's exciting is that as eager
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 4: as I am to watch Ohio State, Texas, like the
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 4: rest of the country, I'm actually going to be going
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 4: up north. My BC Lions are hosting the Montreal That's
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a rematch. And, um, I'm excited
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 4: about this game. This is going to be my first
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: game this year, actually in DC place in person, uh,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 4: expect to be on the sideline and hopefully, uh, be
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 4: rooting on my lines for a much needed victory.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: Love it. Have a great week.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 8: Rob.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next Friday, my friend.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 4: Looking forward to it as always, buddy.
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  Speaker 7: Take care.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: That is Rob Brand, courtesy of Farrelly's Pizza, farrellyspizza.com. Go
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  Speaker 2: check it out. We'll take a break. Come back. We've
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  Speaker 2: got Factor Fiction, my final pick of the week. That's
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  Speaker 2: coming up next.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beat Commission's Football Friday
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  Speaker 1: with the Inferness on your home for the NFL. Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
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  Speaker 4: He and my family went to.
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  Speaker 7: New York that summer, just before September 11th.
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  Speaker 3: It's my first time to New York.
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  Speaker 5: We did Ellis Island, all the touristy things.
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  Speaker 6: We went to the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 1: And to wake up on that morning, September 11th.
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  Speaker 3: 2001, my mom telling me, get to the TV, look
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  Speaker 3: at this.
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  Speaker 5: It's a horror of watching that unfold.
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  Speaker 1: My heart is out to everybody that was affected.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: The world changed that day.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 4: And really, honestly, it will never be the same.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: Well said. Well said. We've got one more. Ancient Mariner here.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I've seen a lot of disappointing seasons, but
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 9: I've never seen a season where the club quit on
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 9: the city.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: Strong words.
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  Speaker 2: Strong words.
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  Speaker 3: That's from the Ancient Mariner.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get some text. 49451.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: 2-0-6.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: You're 0-1 already this week, Ian. Chase, Missouri, minus 4.5
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: at Kansas tonight.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 3: There's some mad trash talk between those two teams.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: By the way. Factor Fiction's four minutes away, and Anders
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: actually tried talking me into that game already. I did.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: I kind of like Kansas, plus 4.5.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: Where are we going, Ian? You get a hedge bet.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: Washington minus a 27.5 versus the fighting Bobby Wenders.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: I also tried talking him into that one.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, I think Washington's going to kill them. 206. As
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: a 43-year-old Husky fan, there's no reason to hate Sark
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: at this point. We beat him in Texas in 2022
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: and 2023. He's also young and dumb with a Husky.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: Sounds like he's definitely grown up. Can't hate on that.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: All right. We've got a ton. I've got a lot
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: on the 9-11 stuff. I've got a lot of them
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: to get to that. I'm just going to hit the
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  Speaker 2: off here so I don't lose it in the middle
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: Here we go. 49451. I was in my 20s when
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: it happened. I've been to the memorial, very moving. Thanks
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: for acknowledging the day. Ian, 206 as well, says on 9-11.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: Thousands of people ran for the World Trade Center, true safety.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: 400 first responders, approximately 60 police officers, 344 firefighters ran
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: into the danger and lost their lives that day. Yes,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: that was my point earlier.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: Keith has a great point here, Keith Miller. I agree
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: with Keith. I hope our country can come together again
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: without a tragedy like 9-11. Imagine how much greater we
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: could be together.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, those tragedies are what usually brings us together. But
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 3: I agree. I hope we can find a way to
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: do that without having something bad happen.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: 360, I agree. It feels like yesterday. I was listening
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: to 950 KGR that day while working. It was hard
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: to work, but the on-air guys helped me get through
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: the day. Yeah, I'm assuming that they did the same
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: thing here that we did in Salt Lake that day.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: Our morning show, David James, Patrick Kinahan were on the
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: air at the time and they kind of pivoted and
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: started talking about what was going on. Kind of giving
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: David's work some TV news. Just kind of giving real
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 2: time here and here's what's going on. Kind of helping
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: fill people in. I came on at, I think I
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: was doing the noon show then. I came on around
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: 11 or 12 and We kind of did the same thing.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: Just talked about it and let people just vent, cry
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: on the air, whatever it was. That's what we did
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: that day. I think it's, you know, if I'm being honest,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: I think it's also why sports, or not sports, why radio,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: live radio was important for things that happened and to
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: be able to connect with the community, you know, during
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: the worst of times and the best of times as well.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: I'll end it on a better note. Ian. This is
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: from Ryan in Scottsdale. Ian, you inspired me to make
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: a bet when we were talking with Danny. Mariners win
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: the division at $ 1, 500. What the hell? I threw down
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  Speaker 2: $ 20 on FanDuel. $ 300 payout if magic happens. Happy Friday. Cheers.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: Ryan in Scottsdale. What the hell? $ 20? I mean, good call.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: $ 300 payout? Yeah, if they win. Plus $ 1, 500? Sure. What
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: the hell? Let's go.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: There's a reason why the odds are that long. I'll
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: tell you that.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you're right. Let's get to it. Factor Fiction.
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  Speaker 2: it up with this. UCLA at home, coming off... A
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: big win against Cal at Cal. Everyone loves Bob Chesney,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: the new head coach. The Bruins might be broke, but
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: they're 1-0 on the season. They're taking on San Diego State.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: San Diego State is a 13-point underdog. UCLA favored by 13.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: Lots of pretty things in Westwood, California, UCLA. Here is
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: the head coach of San Diego State, Sean Lewis.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 9: Plenty of experience where There's a galaxy of stars and
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 9: talents on the other sideline, and I'll take me and
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 9: mine against them. All their polos, all their khakis, all
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 9: their resources, all that.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 3: Put the ball down.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 9: Let's go play.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: Let's go play.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all in on Sean Lewis just going to punch it.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: UCLA in those powder blue jerseys in the face. Give
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: me the 13 points. San Diego State plus 13. Fact, 4-9-4-5-1.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: If you disagree, fiction, 4-9-4-5-1. But I'm all in on
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: Sean Lewis and San Diego State. The new Pac-12. Shoving it.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: Just shoving it on UCLA. Do you remember my good
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: friend Gabe Marks? He's the all-time leading receiver in the Pac-12.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: Gabe Marks is a stud. And before they played at UCLA,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: I think it was his last year, he made fun
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: of the powder blue jerseys. People got all upset. Oh,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: you can't say that. That's not nice. You can't say that,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: Gabe Marks. You know what? They went down there and
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 2: kicked their ass. Gabe Marks is a tough guy. Sean
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: Lewis is a tough guy. San Diego State's going to
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: walk up Interstate 5, take UCLA's lunch money, kick them
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: in the khakis, punch them in the polos, walk out
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: of there. Even if they don't win, just cover. Minus 13,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: or plus 13, I should say. Plus 13 all day,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: every day.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 3: And they're going to go back to the better Southern
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: California city.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: Way better. Southern California City. Way better. They're already winners
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: because they're from San Diego.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 7: It's true.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: But Sean Lewis just talking smack to a Big Ten team.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: I'm 100% in because if he's saying that publicly, what's
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: he saying behind the scenes? And in all seriousness, he's
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: got that program on the up and come. And they
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 2: play tough football. Big dudes up front. Good lines. UCLA was,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: and I'll be honest, UCLA was very impressive last week.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: Give them credit. They were impressive against Cal. Tosh Lapoi's
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: first game, though, at Cal. We'll see. Cal's still Cal.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: They're in the ACC. Not very good. I'm all in.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Lewis, San Diego State, plus 13, fact 49451. Text
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• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: that sound bite one more time. This is Sean Lewis.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: Tell me you're not betting on this guy.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 9: Plenty of experience where there's a galaxy of stars and
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 9: talents on the other sideline, and I'll take me and
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 9: mine against theirs. All their polos, all their khakis, all
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 9: their resources, all that.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: Put the ball down. Let's go play. Put the ball down, Anders.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: Put the ball down. Let's go play.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 3: I love that. It's a little bit of a, hey,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: we're going to talk trash, but also let's go meet
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 3: on the field.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: Let's go do it. Let's go do it right now.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 2: Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. I love that.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: One more time. It is San Diego State plus 13
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: at UCLA. Anders asked me, is that a home game
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: for you? It's a home game for you. Does it matter?
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: There's like 12. people there.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 3: Are there home games for UCLA?
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: It's like the Chargers playing at SoFi. Very much a
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: neutral site. 49451 facts, 49451 fiction. Hey, real quick before
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: we get to a break, let me just point out tonight,
• 1:48:32
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• 1:48:37
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KDRFM. Awesome we're bringing that show back. Really cool,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: to be honest with you, we're bringing it back. I'm
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: excited for that. Those guys, they do a great job,
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: trip around the state and all that. So if you're
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: out and about, you're a high school football parent, fan,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: what have you, after your game tonight, 10 o'clock, make
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: sure you flip on KJR or just get the iHeartRadio app,
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: listen to it live, clean feed, wherever you are. and
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: Dick will take you around the state and find out
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: what's going on in all your teams' games and all
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: the teams, your rivals and so forth. It's a really,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: really fun show. I'm glad we're bringing it back. That's tonight,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: 10 o'clock. All right, San Diego State, plus 13, fact, 49451.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: We'll wrap things up next.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: with the Inferness. On your home for the NFL, Sports
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: Radio 93.3, KJR-FM. Hi, we're back here.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: First of all, big thanks to my friends at the
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel. We're at Hawks Peak Sports Bar
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: and Grill, 60-plus televisions. And the great thing about this place,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: opening early on weekends starting tomorrow. Love that. Tomorrow, 9 a.m.,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: they'll be open for the college games. Cougs play at 9,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: by the way. And then Huskies play at 1230. But
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: they'll be open at 9 a.m. Saturday for college football,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: all football season long. 9 a.m. Sundays for the NFL
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: as well. 60-plus TV. Sportsbook is right next door. There's
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: a kiosk right outside Hawks Peak Sports Bar and Grill
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: here at the Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel. So you're all
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: set to go. Great food, by the way. Terrific food.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: Breakfast served all day if you're into that, which I am.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: So check it out here at the Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: No crosstalk today with Softie. I can tell you coming
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: up on his show, Mike Florio, Rick Neuheisel, and Hugh
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 2: Millen coming up from 3 to 6 with Softie and
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: Dick Fain. If you're listening to the morning show this morning,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: with Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan. In the 9 o'clock hour,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: you might have heard some stuff. You might have heard
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: some things. We've been insinuating it throughout the week as well.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: But some changes coming to our radio station and our
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: shows specifically, the morning show and my show. And those
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: changes start on Monday. And we have a... I should
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: have hit the ESPN thing. We have a trade to announce.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: We have a trade.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: We have a trade to announce. And we are making
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 2: a trade. We're making a move. And it was good
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: to hear Bucky on this morning with Chuck and with
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: Ashley and hopefully find a way to get him back
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: involved with the radio station at some point. But the
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: change we're making is without Bucky there anymore on a
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 2: full-time basis and so forth, maybe just to shake things up,
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 2: do some different things. My guy, Anderson Hurst, is moving
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: to the mornings, starting on Monday. Ooh, it's an early,
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: early start for you, my friend.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 3: Bright and early.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: Bright and early. And we have a trade to announce.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan is coming to join our show.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 3: Hey, there you go.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: Upgrade for you. Listen, we're lucky we have some really
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: good people at our station and some great people that work.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: And I don't say behind the scenes because you guys
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: are all, most of you are in front of a
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 2: microphone a lot of times too. But we have some
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: great folks that work there, some talented people. And kind
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: of time for a little shakeup in a lot of ways.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: And this has been in the works for a while.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: The cool thing is, is no one's leaving. We're just
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 2: making some changes and moving some people around. Before I
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: get into Ashley, let me just say, in October, early
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: October of 2022, Kevin Shockey left. And Kevin and I
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: had worked together for many years. Funny story, Anders, you'll
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: appreciate this as the producer at times, is when I
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 2: was doing the night show with Elyse Woodward, now the
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: voice of the Huskies, we were doing the night show.
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 2: I was getting moved to middays, and I was getting
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: moved to a 1-3 slot. And we're going through the
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: process of doing that. Some things are changing, and Purple
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 2: Sheet tells me about this. Kevin had just started. He
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: had just replaced Josh Zebrowski as our producer at night.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: on the night show with Elise and I. And Kevin's
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 2: calling me, Hey, you know, we should do this. What
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 2: do you think about this? And I'm like, uh, yeah, sure.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 2: Sounds fine. And he was getting more and more pissed.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: Cause I wasn't involved. Cause I was like, Rich had
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: to tell him like a couple of days later.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: Uh, but then later on, fast forward, I worked with
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 2: Kevin many times in different roles. And then he ended
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 2: up being a big part of my show for many years, uh,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: moved on to become a program director down in Denver.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: And they're doing really well in that station down there,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: Stan Crocky station. And, uh, Kevin left. And it happened
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: easily at the worst time of the year, right in
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 2: the start of football season, a month in, right in
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: the start of factor fiction, which is what Kevin oversaw.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 2: That was a huge part of his... That was his baby.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: And it's probably one of the most important things to
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 2: do on the station. He leaves October 5th, 2022. And
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: Rich goes, let's put Anders in there with you. And
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: I'm like, who? Anders?
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 3: These young guys?
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: What the hell has he ever done before?
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 4: And.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 2: You jumped in four years ago, and a couple things. One,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: factor fiction. I don't know exactly. All I know is
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: I see you grinding on it. There's a lot there.
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: You got thrown into the fire, and you did a
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 2: hell of a job. You've always done a hell of
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: a job with factor fiction.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: More importantly for me personally, you came on this show,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: and I like to think that you grew a lot
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: on the air, and you found your way, and you
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: got under your skis a little bit, and And found
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: a role and found a passion for this crazy, stupid
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: format that sports radio is. And have developed into a really,
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: really good on-air talent, Anders. And you have been an
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 2: integral part of what I've done on this show. You've
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: also done your own things on your own with the
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: Locked On Postcast. And all the stuff you do in
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: the off-season with Chuck. The Stove League stuff that you do,
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: filling in for Mike Benton on the Kraken pre and
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: post intermissions, you do a hell of a job with that.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 2: You've accepted all these roles and these new challenges, and
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: you've flourished. And frankly, now is the time for you
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 2: to move on and have a role on the morning
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: show with Chuck, who you have a great rapport with.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: And I couldn't be a happier for you at the
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: same time sad I'm losing you. And you know that.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this off the air. I did not
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: want to lose you, but The fact that you're getting
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 2: this opportunity is really cool for me to see you
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 2: get that chance to move on and do something a
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: little bit different. And at the same time I get Ashley,
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 2: I'll speak on her in a second, but I would
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: just say thank you and congratulations and can't wait to
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 2: listen to you in the morning starting on Monday. Yeah, thanks.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 3: Everything you said was something that I've been thinking about
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 3: for a long time there and how I would want
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 3: to mark my goodbye with this show, but I feel
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 3: like with all those opportunities, I wouldn't have been able
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 3: to take those steps if I wasn't under the mentorship
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 3: of someone who has had as much experience in the
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 3: business as you have. You did an amazing job in
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 3: showing me what works, what doesn't in this business, and
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 3: when the opportunities to jump in and grow my role versus...
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 3: kind of step back and let you do your thing.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 3: And I appreciate everything that you've given me in time
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 3: on the mic and helping you with your show and
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 3: just allowing me to grow as a person and as
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 3: a person in sports radio here. So I wouldn't have
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 3: been able to do any of those things without the
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 3: guidance of yourself. So I wanted to kind of reply
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 3: with your thanks as well.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 2: This business is hard. It's hard to get in. And
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: I think those of us who have been in it
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: for a while, we owe others the chance and the
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 2: opportunities that we were given years ago. And those are
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: hard to find sometimes. And it's hard to get experience.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: It's hard to get those opportunities. And a lot of
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 2: times people are giving them and it just doesn't work.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't work. And, you know, you find out. Well,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: for you, you know, it worked sometimes. And I think
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 2: if you listen to stuff that you did way back
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 2: when compared to now, you'd be like, whoa.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 2: But you've understood and you've figured out the format, and
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: you're going to do great with Chuck.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 2: And I'm just excited for you for that new opportunity,
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: and it's something different. And it's kind of good to
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: shake things up. I've known Ashley since I got to
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: KJR 20 years ago, I think roughly this week. And
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: when I first got there, she was working in the
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: promotions department part-time and doing some different things. And so
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 2: I've known Ashley forever. and I've always enjoyed her, always
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 2: thought she was kind of like you. There was a
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 2: talent there, and we started using Ashley a lot when
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 2: she was doing traffic updates as well. That was kind
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 2: of her first thing, and then she went over and
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: got into the FM music industry world, doing mornings, FM
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 2: music mornings on it. I think it was Warm or something,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 2: and really developed. When we had the opportunity to bring
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: her back, it was really cool for the station. I
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 2: love having a knowledgeable female voice as well on the station.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: I've been a little jealous because Chuck's had her for
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: the last five years, but now she moves here, and
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. She's fun, knowledgeable, has opinions, great personality, very,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 2: very fun on the air, and I think everyone's going
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 2: to really enjoy the show. It's been hard because, if
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: I'm being honest, we had a really fun thing going
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 2: with you and Jessamyn.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 2: We had a really fun time for a couple years
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: with the three of us together. We had many laughs,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: like a lot of laughs, on and off the air,
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 2: and I thought, wow, this would be a really fun
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: show if the three of us stuck around together forever.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 2: At the same time, I knew in the back of
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: my mind that wasn't going to happen. Jess has other
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 2: responsibilities as the assistant program director. And you were at
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: some point going to move on. And I'm glad you're
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: moving on with us and not someplace else. You got
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 2: a young family and you're just starting your career, buddy.
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 2: And big big things are ahead for you so thank
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 2: you uh thank you so much and i can't wait
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: for ashley to join us on monday her first venture
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 2: in will be the mollywop show god bless you and
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: good luck on that have fun with that but she's
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 2: gonna be a great great addition we'll talk about her
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 2: and talk with her more on monday but uh congrats
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: buddy thank you so much for the last four years
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: it was a tough situation to get thrown into and
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 2: you just flourished all the way every step of the
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: way and I love the fact that we're keeping everything
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: in-house here at KJR. Yes, I agree. We have a
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: trade to announce.
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 3: We have a trade to announce.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: We have a trade to announce. Ashley, Ryan, for Anderson Hearst,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 2: straight up.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 3: Straight up.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 2: Actually, I think there was cash considerations too, but I
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: won't tell you guys.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 3: Which one went which way?
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 2: Not telling you. Not going to tell you. Not telling you. Anyway,
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: that's it. Get up early. Get some sleep this weekend, man,
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: all right?
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 5: I will.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 2: I'll still see you around. You're not only a great,
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 2: great on-air addition and part of the show, but you're
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 2: a great friend as well. And I can't wait to
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 2: listen to you guys on Monday with Chuck Powell in
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 2: the morning.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 2: Along with Anderson Hurst.
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 3: I'm going to miss you.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. Thanks, buddy. Dave Softy Mauler is
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 2: coming up next.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: You guys done yet, by the way?
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 2: Why do you turn his mic on?
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: That's the only thing.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 2: That's the only thing. My God. I've got to whack
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 2: this slobber up the walls in here. Turn it off, Anders.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 2: Turn it off. I love you, man. I love you. No,
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 7: Turn it off.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Is he off? Is he off? Here's
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: the thing, Anders. None of his ex-producers.
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 5: Have thanked.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 2: Him. I love you, man. I'm so excited to see you.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 3: Please, I love him.
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 2: You know who's the most disappointed?
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 4: Jackson.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 3: Hey, what can I get in trade for Jackson? That's
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 3: what I want to know.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: You're trading Andrews for Ashley.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 3: What's on the table?
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: For Jackson?
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: What's available?
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 2: Ashley's got a no trade clause. She's like every NHL player.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 3: I need to know what I can get for Jackson.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 4: See you later.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 2: Have a good weekend.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: Bye.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 6: For the mild-mannered and marginally objectionable Ian Furness, this is
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 6: Paddle Day saying so long, everyone.