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Chuck in the Morning 9/11 H2: Drew vs Sam, CFB and Dick Fain. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 4: I guess, trying to overcome this separation between them and
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  Speaker 4: the Houston Astros with a little over two weeks left
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  Speaker 4: Highlight there from Mariners TV. Aaron Goldsmith on the call
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  Speaker 4: of Julio's three-run homer. Really, they only had offense in
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  Speaker 4: one inning. Really, four batters in one inning. And yet
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  Speaker 4: that was enough to overcome Jacob deGrom's near perfection. While
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  Speaker 4: he was on the mound yesterday afternoon at T-Mobile, and
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  Speaker 4: the Mariners do hold on and win it by a
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  Speaker 4: final score of 4-3. They remain six games out, though.
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  Speaker 4: The Astros won yesterday as well. And there are only
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  Speaker 4: 15 games left to play.
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  Speaker 5: We're not dead yet.
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  Speaker 4: And Sacramento tonight to take on the Athletics. Jeffrey Springs
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  Speaker 4: has been bad all season long against every baseball team
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  Speaker 4: in the league except us. So we're going to face
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  Speaker 4: him again tonight. 640 is your first pitch. George Kirby
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  Speaker 4: will start for the good guys. But the good guys
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  Speaker 4: have got to do a lot of winning. Like two
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  Speaker 4: straight weeks of it. You hear me, good guys?
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  Speaker 1: Get it together.
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  Speaker 4: we have to discuss? We do have football on a
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  Speaker 4: football Friday to discuss. The Rams, they were destroyed by
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  Speaker 4: the San Francisco 49ers yesterday. 27-7 was the final score.
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco pulling off the upset in game number two
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  Speaker 4: of the National Football League season. But it wasn't that
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  Speaker 4: the 49ers won.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I picked the Rams to win, picked them for fact
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  Speaker 4: or fiction. But nobody saw them blowing the Rams out
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  Speaker 4: in the first game of the year in Australia. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: it's brought to light a lot of questions about the Rams'
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  Speaker 4: plans on how to get to Australia. They decided to
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  Speaker 4: arrive pretty much at the tarmac and go straight to
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  Speaker 4: the yard. After a 15-hour flight where San Francisco had
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  Speaker 4: been there for over a week, got adapted, got the
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  Speaker 4: jet lag past them. and played a much better football
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  Speaker 4: game than what the Rams did last night. So it's
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco that's off to the good start, not the
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  Speaker 4: undefeated Los Angeles. They're going to go undefeated this year.
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  Speaker 5: I guess they're not, though, now, right?
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  Speaker 4: Right. 27-7, the final score in favor of the Niners.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, we still have opening Sunday to look forward to,
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  Speaker 4: one of the great days of the entire sports year.
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  Speaker 4: Buffalo at Houston, Green Bay at Minnesota. The Cowboys at
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  Speaker 4: the Giants, that's Sunday night. That's your perfect lineup as
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  Speaker 4: far as I'm concerned, if you can only watch one
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  Speaker 4: game at a time. Tua is out for the Atlanta Falcons.
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  Speaker 4: Michael Penix is now ready to play, so they're going
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  Speaker 4: to start their QB3 against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 4: our QB1 is also looking like he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: out for week number two. against the Arizona Cardinals. How
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  Speaker 4: much will he be out beyond? I don't know. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to get into that conversation in a matter of seconds.
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  Speaker 4: College football, Ohio State versus Texas, 4.30 on Saturday. Huskies
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  Speaker 4: today at 9 o'clock this morning. Sounders Galaxy tomorrow night
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  Speaker 4: at 7.30. Kraken camp starts tomorrow, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy. Hockey season is upon us. Those are your headlines.
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  Speaker 4: And then I would also point out it is the
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  Speaker 4: 25th anniversary of 9-11 today as well. And so I
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  Speaker 4: know that hits home for all of us, but particularly
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  Speaker 4: a lot more for others. So certainly something that we
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  Speaker 4: should honor every single year. 25th anniversaries tend to take
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  Speaker 4: on a whole new level. Can't believe it's been 25
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  Speaker 4: years since that horrible day. But today is the 25th
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  Speaker 4: anniversary of 9-11. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it's crazy because every year that passes, every year
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  Speaker 3: on this day, you remember exactly where you were when
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  Speaker 3: you found out what was going on.
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  Speaker 4: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That was a really strange day.
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  Speaker 5: Really strange day. And scary, really scary because you didn't
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  Speaker 5: know what was going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: It happened at a really strange part of my life too.
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  Speaker 4: I won't get into it, but it made it stranger. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe I'll tell you off the air.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Also, before we get into our quarterback conversation, Seahawks quarterback
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  Speaker 4: conversation here this morning, no Greg Bell today. He's in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 4: He needs to just get away from us for a while,
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he needed a break from us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Or to visit his daughter, but one or the other.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he went to paradise to get away from all
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  Speaker 4: of us who have made his life paradise.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, they were going to say a living hell.
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  Speaker 4: All right. So before we get into that conversation, though,
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  Speaker 4: do want to let you know that Tulalip Resort Casino,
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  Speaker 4: they got a big concert on Sunday. There's going to
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  Speaker 4: be warrant. It's going to be a free concert. I
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  Speaker 4: can go hear a little cherry pie. Yeah, it's actually
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  Speaker 4: at Quilceta Creek Casino, not at Tulalip Resort Casino, but
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  Speaker 4: they're affiliated. So the Q rocks with a free concert
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  Speaker 4: from Warrant and also special guest Vixen. If you are wondering, yes,
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  Speaker 4: those were two of Santa's reindeer.
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  Speaker 5: I was wondering that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they were. Warrant doesn't get talked about nearly as
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  Speaker 4: much as Vixen. I don't even know if he made
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  Speaker 4: the song, Warrant. Probably not. Yeah, but he was one.
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  Speaker 4: Probably not. And a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: One of the best.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So Warrant and Vixen will be performing a free concert
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  Speaker 4: live this Sunday, September 13th. So what you can do
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  Speaker 4: is you can go watch yourself some football, and then
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  Speaker 4: you can go to the concert that night. That sounds
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  Speaker 4: like a heck of a Sunday for you. So take advantage.
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  Speaker 5: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You can add in some slots as well because those
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  Speaker 3: are my favorite. You bet on some games, watch some football,
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  Speaker 3: and go to a free concert.
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  Speaker 5: Sign me up.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about our quarterbacks. I mean, we
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  Speaker 4: didn't want this problem. It feels doable because we're 1-0
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  Speaker 4: and we watched Drew Locke play as well as he did,
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  Speaker 4: particularly in the second half on Wednesday night and helped
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  Speaker 4: guide the team to the victory. We do feel good
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  Speaker 4: about our backup quarterback. Drew Locke is, I do believe,
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  Speaker 4: one of the better, if not one of the best
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  Speaker 4: backups in the National Football League. And we happen to
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  Speaker 4: be facing a team that Vegas says is only going
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  Speaker 4: to win three and a half games this year. So
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  Speaker 4: if there's a time for this to occur, then there
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  Speaker 4: are a lot of elements that make us feel all
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  Speaker 4: right about this. Not certainly what we wanted.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's not an ideal situation.
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  Speaker 4: No, but certainly if it's going to happen, week number two,
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  Speaker 4: getting ready for the Cardinals, Drew coming off a confidence-building performance. Um,
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  Speaker 4: and the report also from Mike McDonald and others is
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  Speaker 4: suggesting that it's not going to be that long that
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  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold's going to be out. Um, and so really
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  Speaker 4: the story yesterday was we know he's out for week
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  Speaker 4: number two. We don't know anything beyond that. And when
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  Speaker 4: you say it that way, that means there's a chance
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  Speaker 4: he plays in week number three against Washington. Um, but
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  Speaker 4: under the circumstances, I mean, there was a lot of doubt.
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  Speaker 4: on Wednesday inside the stadium. Um, and certainly across the
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  Speaker 4: country as Sam Darnold's walking off the field, not in
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  Speaker 4: the blue tent, he went straight into the tunnel and
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  Speaker 4: then ended up leaving and having to go to the hospital.
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  Speaker 4: And it was a hip injury we find out. And
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  Speaker 4: then you start doing, you see, you start watching, you
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  Speaker 4: review that play and you're like, oh my gosh, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just the way it's jammed. The way it jammed in there.
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  Speaker 4: And a hip socket. And those things can be career-ending.
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  Speaker 4: And they might be season-ending. That's another scenario.
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  Speaker 5: It did not look good.
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  Speaker 4: It did not look good.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: So we arrive here at this place where I get
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  Speaker 4: the impression everybody's like, okay. Seems like I think the
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  Speaker 4: phrase dodged a bullet was used by the Seahawks. I
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  Speaker 4: think it was used by Mike yesterday. Um, and so
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  Speaker 4: from that standpoint, I mean, considering that your quarter, your
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  Speaker 4: starting quarterback played four plays, you know, you'd think that
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  Speaker 4: would be the end of the world, but it kind
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  Speaker 4: of feels like because it could have been so much
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  Speaker 4: worse because drew lock played so well. because you're facing
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  Speaker 4: the Cardinals this week. I think everybody's in a pretty
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  Speaker 4: good place with it all. That's my impression.
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  Speaker 5: I would think so.
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  Speaker 3: And I think obviously if we don't win that game
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  Speaker 3: on Monday night, we're having a different conversation. There's not
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  Speaker 3: as much confidence in Drew Locke and there's not as
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  Speaker 3: much confidence in Brian Fleury with Drew Locke. But I
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  Speaker 3: think you look at what the offense was able to
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  Speaker 3: pull together in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was a struggle in the first half, but it
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  Speaker 3: should have been, they were not prepared for that. And
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  Speaker 3: who would be prepared for your quarterback to go down
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  Speaker 3: the first three minutes of the game? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: not something that anyone's thinking is going to happen. It's
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  Speaker 3: not even on the radar. And so I didn't expect
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  Speaker 3: that it was going to be like drew lock comes
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  Speaker 3: out and he's.
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  Speaker 5: Just chucking the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you did it down the field.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying I had all those other synonyms at
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  Speaker 4: your disposal, but.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't, heaving i don't think it was just gonna
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  Speaker 3: be heaving the ball down the field um because it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna take some time to get used to it and
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  Speaker 3: you've got to be smart you got to at least
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  Speaker 3: keep yourself in the game and they did they were
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  Speaker 3: i mean the defense kept them in the game and
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  Speaker 3: the offense at least wasn't turning the ball over and
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  Speaker 3: they were keeping themselves you know in there till they
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  Speaker 3: could go into halftime and make some adjustments and come
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  Speaker 3: out and look good look great at times so i
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  Speaker 3: thought i think we're having a different conversation we're a
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  Speaker 3: and that Cooper Cup catch, you know, and all those moments. But,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, not ideal, but I'm not worried about
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  Speaker 3: it in this situation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, he was, in the first half,
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  Speaker 4: he was a Band-Aid. Okay, so we had a wound,
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  Speaker 4: and we didn't have time to run and get the
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  Speaker 4: medicine kit.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And so pretty much Drew Locke played in the first
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  Speaker 4: quarter like an ace Band-Aid. Let's just wrap it up.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Splinted with a stick till we can get help and
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  Speaker 4: then and then and then let's get to halftime so
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  Speaker 4: and he played like that he didn't he didn't come
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  Speaker 4: out firing but as cooper chucking the ball down the
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  Speaker 4: field as cooper cup uh pointed out you know how
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  Speaker 4: hard that is like cooper cup immediately rallied to drew
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  Speaker 4: lock's defense do you know how hard it is to
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  Speaker 4: not get any snaps first game of the season and
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  Speaker 4: then have to come off the bench that way four
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  Speaker 4: plays into the game with your buddy yeah having been
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  Speaker 4: injured and you don't know how badly. So yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: take that. He's a splint made in the woods with
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  Speaker 4: sticks and a leftover t-shirt that you had in the truck.
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  Speaker 4: That's what you had to do. Then in the second half,
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  Speaker 4: once you got to the medicine kit, once you got
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  Speaker 4: to the truck, got the medicine kit out, you were
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  Speaker 4: able to mend it a little bit. And now all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden, Drew Locke And I don't think he
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  Speaker 4: played great on Wednesday. He played great under the circumstances.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: I said Monday.
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  Speaker 4: But he did play well. He was good. He was
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  Speaker 4: good in the second half. I mean, 113 quarterback rating
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  Speaker 4: in the second half. And then under the circumstances, he
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  Speaker 4: was fantastic. And pull off the victory. But let's not
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  Speaker 4: get this twisted. We need Sam back. As Hugh put
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  Speaker 4: it yesterday, that's another cut of steak. Sam Darnold is
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  Speaker 4: a better quarterback than Drew Locke at this stage. And
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  Speaker 4: so what do I think? Because there are a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people that kind of made the suggestion on our
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  Speaker 4: text line yesterday, a lot of Seahawks fans. We're fine. No, no. Okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I'll acknowledge we're fine. But we're going to need
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  Speaker 4: Sam to be great.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We're fine in this moment right now in the way
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  Speaker 3: the situation lines up for this week.
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  Speaker 4: They'll be fine. With Drew Locke, I think the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: are going to be good. I think the Seahawks are
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  Speaker 4: going to make the playoffs even if Drew Locke has
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  Speaker 4: to start the rest of the season. I think Drew
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  Speaker 4: Locke can do that. He's more than just a serviceable backup.
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  Speaker 4: He can be really good. I mean, he beat the
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  Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles when they were a good team a couple
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  Speaker 4: of years ago, right? And he didn't have the surrounding...
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  Speaker 4: class of players that he has now so drew lock
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  Speaker 4: can get the job done in the playoffs and then
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  Speaker 4: you know we've seen backup quarterbacks lead teams to the
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  Speaker 4: super bowl before but i don't feel good about that
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  Speaker 4: no and i think drew lock has had enough experience
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  Speaker 4: has had enough shots at this that I'm not a
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  Speaker 4: believer that he leads us to the Super Bowl. He
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  Speaker 4: leads us to the division title. I don't think we
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  Speaker 4: can be great with Drew Locke at quarterback. That's my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: We need Sam. Sam's got to play. He's got to
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  Speaker 4: play this season. And I'm not saying that you rush
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  Speaker 4: him back. I don't think he's got to be there Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure he's healthy and ready to go. But that's
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  Speaker 4: usually what a backup does. The backup, a good backup
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  Speaker 4: can get you through the hard time, can get you
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  Speaker 4: through a week or two and maybe pull off a
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  Speaker 4: win or two in that span of time. That's what
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  Speaker 4: a good quarterback is. A very good backup, you can
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  Speaker 4: hand it over and keep most of your goals in check.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when you have the surrounding talent that this
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  Speaker 4: team has, yeah, I think Drew Locke can get you
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  Speaker 4: to 11-6, wild card, and then, you know, a great
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  Speaker 4: defense is very dangerous no matter what in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: And then you might be able to pull off an
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  Speaker 4: upset or two, and who knows? But to feel great
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  Speaker 4: about your chances, you have to have Sam Darnold. Another
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  Speaker 4: cut of steak. He is just a better quarterback. He
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  Speaker 4: is a more proven quarterback. And at this stage in
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  Speaker 4: his career, he is just better at the position than
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  Speaker 4: what Drew Locke is. So I'm glad we've got Drew.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad that he is the backup. And I trust
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  Speaker 4: him to get us through these rocky times and to
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  Speaker 4: captain the ship without capsizing anything. But if we want
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  Speaker 4: to sail as fast as we want to sail, if
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  Speaker 4: we want to explore championship waters again, Sam Darnold needs
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  Speaker 4: to get back healthy and be the captain of this operation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's who I trust to do it. Not
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  Speaker 3: that I don't trust Drew to get us through this,
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  Speaker 3: as you call it, rocky time, these muddy waters, whatever
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  Speaker 3: we're dealing with in this moment and however long it
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  Speaker 3: takes Sam to be healthy. But there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people who their instant reaction was, well, Drew Locke and
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold are the same quarterback. They are not the
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  Speaker 3: same quarterback. And I don't trust Drew Locke the way
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  Speaker 3: I trust Sam Darnold. But it seems like no matter
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  Speaker 3: what Sam Darnold does, people are constantly bringing him down,
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  Speaker 3: knocking him down.
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  Speaker 5: He hasn't won the big game. He hasn't done this.
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  Speaker 5: The Rams are his kryptonite.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, look, he goes down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Drew Locke's the same quarterback as he is. At
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  Speaker 3: some point, we've got to give Sam Darnold some credit.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know what it's going to take other
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  Speaker 3: than And I don't want this to happen. It would
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  Speaker 3: have to be Drew Locke not succeeding at this. And
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  Speaker 3: then everybody relying on Sam to come back and save us.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want that to happen. I want Drew
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  Speaker 3: Locke to be able to get us through this. But
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  Speaker 3: I just think that people are going to continue to
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: have the same thoughts about Sam Darnold.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I think the majority, large, large majority
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: believe in Sam and have believes he's checked every box
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: for us at this point.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I would hope so.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I think it's a small minority here in town that
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: still doesn't believe. And obviously it's a larger group of
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: people nationally that think he has something to prove. And again,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I think all of that stems from, no, I took
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: a stance that he wasn't any good and I took
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: a pretty firm one. Yeah. And I can't admit that
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I'm wrong. Yeah, that's probably true. I can't admit that
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: somebody can get better, but that But the absolute truth
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: is that Sam Darnold was a bad quarterback in the
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: National Football League. And I think even he would admit that.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: And now he's not.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Now he's a really good one.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: It's almost like how you start and what team you're
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: on doesn't determine how your entire career will go.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Rich Gannon didn't become a great quarterback until he was
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: like 35 years old, for goodness sake. That might be
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: an exaggeration, but he was older. So, yeah, you can improve.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Something can click in. If you do apply yourself, you
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: can get better. And I think everyone does need to
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: acknowledge that that can happen and that Sam Darnold is
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: an example of that. And we have not seen that
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: progress from Drew Locke. Drew Locke's had just as much
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: time and just as many opportunities. Sam Darnold seized his
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: opportunity in Minnesota to make people, to force people to
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: rethink Where he's at as a quarterback in his career.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: That time in Minnesota where he was given the starting
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: job because of injuries, he got the opportunity to show you,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not the same quarterback anymore. I'm much improved. And
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: then got the opportunity after doing that to come to Seattle,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: take over a franchise, and become a Very good to
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: great this past season. Drew Locke's been given the same
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: opportunities at about the same age, and he's not seized them.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Even here, he had the opportunity at one point. Remember
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: training camp?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Is it going to be Drew Locke or Geno Smith?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, that was debated.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Who's going to be the starting quarterback? And Drew Locke
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: did not win that battle and then was given opportunities
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: within the season at times. And he didn't play poorly,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: but he played like a backup quarterback that can get
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: you through things.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: And that's what we need.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: And that's what we need right now. But if he
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: were to have to take over this thing, no, I
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: don't feel great about that. I think that because of
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: the talent around him, he can get us to the playoffs.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think it can get us beyond that. We
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: need Sam back. That's the bottom line. Sam Dardle needs
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: to come back. As Hugh put it, third time I'm
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: saying it, it's a different cut of steak. So, you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: we trudge forward. If there was a time that this
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: was going to have to happen, now is probably the time.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: And I think Drew will play well. I think that
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: was a confidence builder for him. And I do believe
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: that they trust him in that locker room. So Drew Locke,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals this week. I think it'll be Drew Locke
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: versus the Washington Commanders next week. And my guess is
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: that you circle having Sam back for the Chargers in
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: week number four. And that's almost a full month because
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: you played on Wednesday. So that's almost a full month
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: from the injury. So the injury happened on the 9th,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: and then you play the Chargers on the 4th of
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: next month. That's almost a full month. even though it's
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: the fourth game of the season. My guess is that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: where we'll see Sam. I think we're going to have
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Drew Locke for the next couple of weeks, and I
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: think he'll win both games, frankly.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: I think we're going to be 3-0, and Drew Locke
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: will have led us to a 3-0 start.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: It's nice to have you.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Really good to have a reliable backup quarterback. It's even
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: better to have a bona fide quarterback champion starting quarterback
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: right and that's what we want back all right coming
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: up next uh factor fiction 735 um and of course
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: uh we're preparing ourselves for more blowouts in college football
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: sports radio 93.3 kjrfm All right, we got Factor Fiction
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: coming up here at 735. It's my pick here today.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry about last night. Kind of steered you in the
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: wrong direction.
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  Speaker 1: There, didn't I?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think a lot of people. I do
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: a pick-em lead where you confidence pool.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Only two of us picked the 49ers to win that game.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I only gave them one point, one confidence point.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I got a 91%. Yeah, everybody agreed with you. So 9%
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: of people.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Out there got a nice little leg up in the
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: early factor fiction by going 49ers. And then Anders, of course,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: picks the same game. He's the guy that runs this
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: operation and broke one of our standard rules. You don't
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: pick the same game somebody else picked because that's just
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: two picks for somebody out there. So there might be
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: some people out there that got two right from that game.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: If you factor fiction both of the picks. So a
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: few people, 9% of people got a leg up on
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: the competition with that. So we'll have a brand new
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: pick coming up for you here in two minutes. And
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: maybe I should take one of these college football games
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: featuring a powerhouse and a team that they should never,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: ever play and take the over. Because last night, we
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: may have reached the absurd level of of the non-conference
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: schedules that we have in college football. And I get it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: You have to have a homecoming game. You have to
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: have a guaranteed win somewhere on the schedule. You got
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: to have a cupcake. Okay, if you're making the schedule,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: you want to make sure that not every game is
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: just a difficult one.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: But there are enough in the ACC that Miami can
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: get plenty of guaranteed wins and blowouts. Without having to schedule,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Florida A & M. 77-7 last night.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: The score was 77-0 after three quarters. And you know
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: that the foot was already taken off the gas pedal
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: long before that. We're playing golf. We're playing these games
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: where a team can be 70, 100 points better than
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: the other team because they were on pace, obviously, to
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: beat them by over 100 points. And then they stopped playing,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: stopped trying. They had 430 yards rushing.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: 426 yards passing. Why are we doing this?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: And every time I bring it up, somebody always says, well,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Florida A & M needs that payday. Otherwise, they can't.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, if that's really all we're doing it for,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: then we need to figure out another way for Florida
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: A & M and all others like Florida A &
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: M to run their programs without the million dollars that
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: come from being embarrassed on national television. And maybe you can't.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe you can't operate. Then maybe Florida A & M
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: shouldn't have football. But that is absurd. We should not
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: be scheduling these games. And someday we are going to
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: get to the point where we're not going to have
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: these on the schedule.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: And I look forward to that day. Let's play some
• 25:16
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  Speaker 4: All right, my pick today. Got off to a great start.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I kicked that over-under's ass on Wednesday.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you did.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: You sure did. But then I got my ass kicked yesterday.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: So those were two. Neither one of those was, oh, man,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: one play goes one way or the other. Wasn't those
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: type of games.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: So I am a definitive clear-cut 1-1 so far this season.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: So we'll try to get back on the winning track
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: here today. And I'm going to take the Indianapolis Colts
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: at home getting three and a half points against the
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Baltimore Ravens. I'll tell you why I arrived at this conclusion.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: For some reason, Baltimore, I think, is getting way overvalued
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: here in the preseason. They did not have a good
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: year last year. And they have changed to a coach
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: who has never been a head coach in the National
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Football League.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: And for whatever reason, people think Mentor's going to have
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: the effect... on the ravens that mike mcdonald's had on
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: the seahawks but he's going to do it in his
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: very first year i just don't see it i'm not
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: saying the ravens aren't going to be good this year
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: i think they are going to be good but they
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: opened as at 11 and a half as their win
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: total on the over under so did the rams and
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: think about how hyped the rams have been yeah So,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: 11 and a half.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: That seems.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: It's dropped down since to 10 and a half.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: But they opened with the exact same over-under win total
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: as the Rams had.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: What have they done to prove that they could do that?
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: They couldn't play defense a year ago. Lamar Jackson had
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: his first bad year of his career. I don't know
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: why so many people are pumped about the Ravens. I'm
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: personally not. And I think people are sleeping on the
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Colts a little bit. The Colts started last season... They
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: were the best team in the National Football League for
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: the first five, six weeks of the year last year.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: They were just racking up points now. And then Daniel
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Jones got hurt. Well, they started to level out even
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: before he got hurt. But then once he got hurt,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: they obviously weren't the same football team. Bottom line, I
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: think the Colts are better than you think. And I
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: don't think the Ravens are as good as what they're
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: being advertised so if you're going to give a team
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: at home on opening day that might be just as
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: good as the other team if not better and you're
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: going to give me three and a half points especially.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: That half right that's the key yeah you lose by
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: a field goal you still.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Win you still win so i'm going to take the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: indianapolis colts plus three and a half at home against
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: the overrated overhyped overvalued baltimore ravens that is my selection
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  Speaker 4: You know how good our next guest is at talking
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: and stuff? That he and his friend Mike Gastineau can
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: make fish and peaches sound delicious.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you just told me it is good. I'm like,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: that doesn't sound like a great comment.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I bought that, and now I
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: can't wait to have it. So joining us now on
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: the radio program, fish and peaches himself, Dick Fane, is
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: with us. How are you, sir?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Preston.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: It's peach season. Yeah, peach season. Yeah, yeah. Sounds delicious.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I never thought that I would crave fish and peaches together,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: but now I do, thanks to you two.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Well, you eat the fish first, and then you have
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the peaches later with the slump. It's all about the timing, Chuck.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Well, we've got some business to take care of with
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: you today, but I can't resist asking you just a
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: couple questions. So let's play a quick round of feign
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: or fiction here. Um, the, the Rams were way overhyped
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: fan or fiction. What's your reaction?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Um, well, we always knew they were overhyped to some extent.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm going to hold off on way overhyped
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: at this point, because I do think that, you know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: there was only one way, uh, the one type of
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: game that we could have seen that would have put
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the blame solely on their travel plans. And I think
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: this is the type of game that we saw, uh,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: There's no way San Francisco beats LA like that in
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: a normal setting. So LA just shafted themselves by flying in.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: And I was a little bit. questionable about it because
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I've flown to, I've flown to Australia twice. And I
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: said this on the air before the game yesterday, I
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: had my most energy within the first eight to 10
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: hours after I landed. And then the least amount of energy,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the next 10 to 24 hours after I landed, which
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: is exactly when the Rams played that football game.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: And I guess McVay was very adamant last night saying,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: that's not the reason we lost. I think I would
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: say that's the reason we lost.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: I think I would own that. Yeah, you want to
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: own that.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: You don't want to say, I think the 49ers are
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: three touchdowns better.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Than we are. Exactly. Go ahead and own the mistake
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: on your travel plans and then chalk it up to that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: One more. Fainter Fiction question for you. Fainter Fiction. The
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Seahawks can accomplish everything that they sought out to accomplish
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: this year with Drew Locke at quarterback.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Well... How long is drew lock the starting quarterback? I
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: think that's the answer to that question. It's a, it's
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: a fiction. If we're talking about, you know, two plus
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: months and, you know, drew lock ends up going, you know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: even a really remarkable like five and three over.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Those two months. I mean, those, those losses rack up.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: And, and last I checked the only time the Seahawks
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: have ever made the Superbowl is when they have the
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: number one seed, uh, So I think if drew lock
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: is the starting quarterback for a short amount of time,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and then Sam Donald comes back, then yes, I think that, uh,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: that's totally possible that we can achieve all of our dreams,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: but if drew locks, the starter for, you know, two
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: plus months, I mean, I just think the losses are
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: going to mount up to the point where you're not
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: going to be the one seat anymore.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Even if you get Sam, Sam.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Donald back, I think you could win one road game, um,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. I don't know if you can win
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: multiple road games in the playoffs to get to the, uh,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: to get to the Superbowl. All right.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: I had to ask you those two things. Let's talk
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: about the business at hand. The primary reason to have
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Dick Fane on our radio program this morning because your Fridays,
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: you're doing a little throwback, going back to high school.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: What do you got cooking on Fridays this year?
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Well, Oh, that we did for gosh, 15, 20 years. Um,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: varsity football, varsity football live at, uh, you know, COVID
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: kind of killed it off and, uh, we're, we're resurrecting
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: it here about five years later. And, uh, it really
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: is very similar to what we've done in the past.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: It used to be a 90 minute show. So the, uh,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: The coaches interviews that we usually put between 930 and 10,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: we're going to put those on the website on the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: final score dot TV. I'm still doing the coaches interviews.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: You can just have those on demand whenever you want
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: to listen to them. But then the rest of the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: show from 10 to 11 really mirrors what we did.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: For a decade and a half plus, we've got our
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: big game of the night, which tonight is, oh, Ian Furness'
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Tahoma Bears. He's going to be excited to listen to
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: that at 10 o'clock today against Sumner, who was the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: state champions.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Last year in 4A.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And then we're going to do our trip around the state,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: where we head to every corner of the state of Washington,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: and we've got these reporters who just live and breathe
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the High school football and what's great about it, it's
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: the same guys that we've had for a long, long time.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: The Ian Copes and the Todd Millices and Jeff Rex,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Paul Valencia, all these different guys that have been covering
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: these teams and covering these areas forever and know everything
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: about their area of high school football. I kind of
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: see myself as just like the Scott Hanson and it's a,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: we'll do a little, it's a little high school red zone.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: And instead of, uh, you know, going to a live,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: you know, description of the game, we're going to be
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: doing it after the game to the people that either
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: wrote about the game for their local newspapers or called
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: the games on their local radio stations. Excellent.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Excellent stuff. I mean, I grew up in such a
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: small town. I mean, high school sports was everything. Um,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: but you grew up where you had the Huskies, uh,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: down the street from you. You had the Seahawks. I mean,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: you had professional sports, major college sports. So I'm curious,
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: just as a kid, how big of a role did
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: high school football play in your life?
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I absolutely loved it. We had a really good
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: high school football team when I was in high school.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: We went to the, it used to be called the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: King Bowl, Chuck.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: It was the King Bowl played at the King Dome.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: And, you know, we ended up making the state championship
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: game and losing to Tumwater. But it was a fantastic experience.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: And then, of course, I played high school basketball and baseball.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: you know, I think that the closer you get into
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the city of Seattle, the less buzz there is because
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: of the reasons that you talk about, you know, the
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Huskies and Seahawks, they're right there. You get out in
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the suburbs and certainly you get out into the, uh,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: you know, the rural areas, you know, just get 50
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: plus miles away from Seattle. And it, and it is
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: that small town feel it's that feel that you're talking about,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: but even some of the suburbs, the, you know, the,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the Sumners and the, and the Puyallups. And I mean,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: those are still urban areas and the high school football is, uh,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: is huge down there. And, uh, I was happy to see,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: you know, I went to just for fun, you know,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I don't have a kid playing on the team. I
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: got some of my basketball players playing on the football
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: team right now, but I just went for fun to the, uh,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Mount Rainier Highline game last week. And it was our,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: our entire side was completely packed. And so, uh, I
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: think the, the, the vibe is coming back for high
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: school football after, you know, what COVID did do it
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: over a couple of years.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: I got to embrace Woodinville. Got to become a Woodinville fan.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: That's a, that's, what's going to happen. All right, so
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: give me your 30-second pitch for tonight one last time,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: and we'll promote this sucker here.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Varsity Football Live, it's streaming. So if you
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: want to watch it, you can watch it on thefinalscore.tv
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: live and listen to it on 93.3 KJRFM. And we're
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: going to take you all through football season. We'll take
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: a little break for Christmas time and then we'll come
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: back hard in January for high school basketball season.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: So I'll be.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Doing some coaching and then getting my way to do
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the basketball. the basketball show after that. So 10 to 11,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: every Friday night, uh, going forward here for the next, uh,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: basically the next five months.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Awesome, man. Sounds like a lot of fun. Uh, appreciate
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: you joining us here today.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Dick Thane, uh, joining us here on the radio program.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Of course he and Softie together today, uh, at three o'clock.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: The Ocho is next. It is Friday. Your eight top
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: stories of the day on sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM.