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Furness Show 1-6: Best matchup for Seahawks, Chris Crawford, John Lund · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: A couple of things. I want to get to you
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  Speaker 1: before our friend Chris Crawford's going to join us at
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  Speaker 1: one thirty today just for a quick segmal do a
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  Speaker 1: daily power play one forty five. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: Chris on. The baseball team has taken a back seat,
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  Speaker 1: and rightfully so it's January, right, but we have had
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  Speaker 1: over the holidays in the last few weeks some news.
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  Speaker 1: There was a signing that was significant for a hitter.
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  Speaker 1: There was signing the trade. There's also there's also a
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  Speaker 1: signing by the Blue Jays that affected Seattle because the
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  Speaker 1: guy Seattle wanted. So we'll get to that as well
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  Speaker 1: with Chris at one thirty. A little baseball kind of
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  Speaker 1: half a Mollywop love it a little half Mollywop brought
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  Speaker 1: you by our good friends is simply Seattle. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you I'm going to talk about those guys in
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of seconds. So I got that going on.
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  Speaker 1: And then two o'clock, John LNN, have you confirmed with Lund?
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  Speaker 1: Is he good? Let's just I talked to him.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry I bothered him.
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  Speaker 3: It's better a ritual. I have nice conversations and it
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  Speaker 3: bothered John.
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  Speaker 4: Lont Andrews is right. He will be late, especially since
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  Speaker 4: the Niners lost. Are we kidding?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not gonna be next to me.
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  Speaker 3: Before I talked to him was nope, I'm out, and
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  Speaker 3: before I could respond, hah, just kidding, yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So we've got that going on as well. So
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a ton of stuff going on today. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to Mike McDonald in a second, and the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and the playoffs, and a couple thoughts that want
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  Speaker 1: to just kind of throw out there, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: toss around some some just historical things. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: in a heartbeat. I was thinking though about this last
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  Speaker 1: week and I went back and I made the mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Not a mistake because I did it intentionally. I went
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  Speaker 1: back and I looked at some of the old some
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  Speaker 1: old articles and some old quotes from people. Because last Friday,
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking out of Climate Plageria, and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: leave long after everyone else is gone. It's probably forty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes after the game ended, and they I leave
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  Speaker 1: through the suite level is where the parking is and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The only person left is Mike during the postgame. Oh
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  Speaker 1: by then, he's over at Tom's That's Fair, you know,
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  Speaker 1: eating food, telling him how great the nachos are. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking out, this gentleman comes up to me and
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  Speaker 1: he says, hey, what do you think about the game tomorrow?
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  Speaker 1: And the day before the CERX game? And I said, man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I said, I don't have a great
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  Speaker 1: feel for it. I think it'll be really close, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll be low scoring. But if you're asking
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  Speaker 1: me who I think is going to win, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's an absolute coin flip. And I don't know. But
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  Speaker 1: we that was so we kind of that conversation. He says, man,
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  Speaker 1: I need him to win. We a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: need him to win. I said why, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: because that's He works the sweet level at Climate Pledgerina.
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  Speaker 1: He also works in the suites at t Mobile Park
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  Speaker 1: and at Lumenfield.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to talking a little bit, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a really an interesting dynamic because you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is where I went down a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a rabbit hole, and I looked at some of the
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  Speaker 1: quotes and some of the things being said years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle City Council President Sarah Nelson, former councilwoman shan us
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  Speaker 1: A Want and others Sally Bagshaw who we bag on
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  Speaker 1: all the time, and others from the former council that
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  Speaker 1: are even no longer there. And you know, it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the twenty sixteen council's rejection of the street
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  Speaker 1: vacation for occidental which listen, I don't think there's any
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  Speaker 1: guarantee that we would have got the NBA back. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the NBA. My understanding is the NBA
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  Speaker 1: didn't really want to do business Chris Hanson the first place. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that so, but it was more symbolic of where our
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  Speaker 1: city stood. Because you remember the quotes. Sports aren't that
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  Speaker 1: they don't help economic development. They're not. They don't help
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  Speaker 1: the economy, they don't boost the economy, they're not great
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  Speaker 1: for business, et cetera, et cetera. So as I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to this gentlemen, hard working dude, you know, works at
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  Speaker 1: three different venues among other things, we have to thinking
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  Speaker 1: how big was that win on Saturday? Well, it was
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  Speaker 1: big from a football standpoint. You get the top seed.
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  Speaker 1: This happened three other times. To see going to the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl a three times, it's all good. So you get
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  Speaker 1: the top seed. That's great, you get home games. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get back to a second, but it gives you an
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  Speaker 1: easier path to the super Bowl. So well, from football standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: we're all excited, But what did that mean overall? So
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  Speaker 1: I kind of checked around a little bit when the
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  Speaker 1: Marriags went to the playoffs this season and actually played
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  Speaker 1: home playoff games unlike two three years ago, and they
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  Speaker 1: played one that lasted eighteen innings.
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  Speaker 4: They had two series worth of them. Yeah right, they
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  Speaker 4: when they played those games.
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  Speaker 1: And then on top of that, you have now at
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  Speaker 1: least one NFL playoff game coming up. In addition that
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  Speaker 1: you have the World Cup coming up here this summer
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  Speaker 1: as well. The impact to our small businesses in frankly,
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  Speaker 1: sorry frankly, a city that does nothing to help small businesses.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm talking about inside this city that I sit
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  Speaker 1: in right now, in Seattle. The economic impact is massive.
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  Speaker 1: More importantly, it's big for the people that work at
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  Speaker 1: those places. It's extra days of work. Just checking with
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  Speaker 1: some of our guys, Justin and Juice and Juice and
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  Speaker 1: Gary over at the beer halls they have. Each home
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  Speaker 1: game brings them in around one hundred thousand dollars. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: of additional revenue they wouldn't normally.
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  Speaker 4: Get right, that's not like total that's added on from
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  Speaker 4: the traffic of a seahawksy.
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  Speaker 1: So you ask yourself, Now, that's a small business, right,
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  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, but what about how about the people
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  Speaker 1: that work there. I remember talking to him by the
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  Speaker 1: crack and playoff run and what the servers were doing
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  Speaker 1: and making up at the queen Ane Beer Hall. They're
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  Speaker 1: making a livable wage, and not just a livable wage,
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  Speaker 1: a livable wage in our city, which is they can
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  Speaker 1: tell you what it is hard to get. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be six figures plus. They were making a livable way.
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  Speaker 1: It also trickles down to the other places, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to have yeah, home games, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: at least we know they have a better chance to win.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to my guys at the Silver Clout kJ band.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys down there, one hundred and fifty employees, many
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  Speaker 1: of whom this time of the year can't get full
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  Speaker 1: time hours. Why because it's a quiet time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have baseball until March, Sounders don't play until February.
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  Speaker 1: Those old a handful of games for those anyway, one
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  Speaker 1: or two Seahawks playoff games allows them to bring back
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  Speaker 1: their staff full time for the next month, a month earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that for a second. Simply Seattle, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to them will tell you about them. Molly
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  Speaker 1: wat fifteen. You can get your NFL playoff shirts there
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  Speaker 1: simply as hell. It is a massive boost for them
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  Speaker 1: as well. That's just the ones I know. There's others.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks did everyone a favor, is my point. Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: did everybody in this city a favor because he gave
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  Speaker 1: us home football to watch. But more importantly, he gave
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  Speaker 1: small businesses and our workers, people that rely on stadium business.
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  Speaker 1: He gave them more hours, more money, a better income.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. And I looked back and I started getting pissed.
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  Speaker 1: I had to finally hit the cancel the old Google
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  Speaker 1: search because looking and seeing these people that have these
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  Speaker 1: studies that I can't understand. When I got guys like
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  Speaker 1: kJ who's a GM at Silver Cloud, tell me, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, state gets four times more in what
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  Speaker 1: they would get as far as the tourism tax alone
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  Speaker 1: to these home playoff games, because they wouldn't have those
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  Speaker 1: games otherwise, full hotels, all that stuff. Think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Our football team did everyone a favor. Shout out to
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, huh. Shout out to Sam Darnold, Shout out
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  Speaker 1: to that defense, Shout out to the Seahawks. Sports are
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  Speaker 1: good for business, and more importantly, it's good for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that work in the sports business. For
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  Speaker 1: the teams, but around the periphery. And I'm just happy.
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  Speaker 1: The guy I've been sitting on that, I just was
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it. I wanted to kind of point that
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  Speaker 1: out because you know, listen, public funding and stadiums and
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  Speaker 1: all that is probably going away. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about that here in our city. T mobiles are
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  Speaker 1: We have a baseball stadium at a football stadium. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I know people sometimes talk about having to do something
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  Speaker 1: at the football stadium. I like it just the way
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  Speaker 1: it is. You know what, It's not by NFL standards,
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  Speaker 1: by any means of taj Mahall anymore. It's it's just
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  Speaker 1: a big loud football stadium. Fine, that's all we need here.
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  Speaker 1: Keep me the East end zone, give me the Hawk's nest.
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  Speaker 1: Let those guys get crazy f luxury suites. We're all
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  Speaker 1: good here. And oh, by the way, we have a
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  Speaker 1: state of the art basketball slash hockey arena concert venue
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  Speaker 1: up on Queen and two, and at some point we
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  Speaker 1: should hopefully see a trickle down up on Queen Ane.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen some few businesses open. We did see
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  Speaker 1: tsmq's clothes, which sucks. But places like you know, Buckley's
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  Speaker 1: are thriving, Places like the you know the beer hall pieces,
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  Speaker 1: places like Tom's, like they're all thriving right now. There's
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  Speaker 1: another game tonight, and they have one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: other events the year not named cracking or storm.
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  Speaker 3: So and notice the common thread between those. Those are
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  Speaker 3: all sports bars a sports right, but we're now talking
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  Speaker 3: about a Fancay Smith restaurant.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, whether it's a restaurant or a bar,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a hotel, we all benefit from sports in
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  Speaker 1: this town. And so I just I'm just thrilled when
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably see the guy later on tonight when I'm
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  Speaker 1: leaving it, And I'm just happy for the guys like that,
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  Speaker 1: because you're trying to make ends meet in a really
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  Speaker 1: tough world we live in right now, and I'm thrilled
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  Speaker 1: for those guys and thrill for all the small businesses
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  Speaker 1: and the people will feel small business. Okay, so let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about Mike McDonald for a second. I want to
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  Speaker 1: do this because I heard Hugh and MJ talking about
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  Speaker 1: him today and what he's done in the first two
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  Speaker 1: years with this franchise with twenty four wins and ten
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  Speaker 1: losses in the first two years. Remarkable, remarkable record for
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald. I did hear the comparison made between Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald is he you know, could he be the greatest
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  Speaker 1: Seahawk coach of all time? He could be? He could
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  Speaker 1: be or two years in. Here's the thing. Mike Holmgren
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  Speaker 1: came in, went to the playoffs his very first year
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  Speaker 1: nine and seven. They lost the wildcard round and it
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  Speaker 1: was four years before they went back. Lost two more
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  Speaker 1: wildcard games before he finally got playoff wins in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and five, losing the Super Bowl. Next couple of
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  Speaker 1: years right up there as well, lost division games, but
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  Speaker 1: he won playoff games. Pete Carroll, we all know he
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  Speaker 1: won a playoff game his first year. I think you
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  Speaker 1: guys might remember what happened. There's guy nowhere, number twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of went crazy. I lost my voice, danced
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  Speaker 1: down the sidelines through a four tat four.
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  Speaker 4: Name for that play, no, no one's ever come up
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 1: No one's ever come up with it. We should call
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  Speaker 1: it the beast quake or something. I don't know. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that's a great actam you call it that? But Pete
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  Speaker 1: Carroll won a playoff game his first year, didn't go
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  Speaker 1: to the playoffs the next year, won a playoff game
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  Speaker 1: the next year before losing the division round, went to
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and won it. Won two playoff games
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  Speaker 1: before losing the Super Bowl. Won a playoff game, won
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game. We can go through the list what
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  Speaker 1: defines the greatest coach? Which defines a great coach? Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's done a lot so far, and we're so early
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  Speaker 1: into his tenure. But make no mistake, you judge by
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  Speaker 1: winning playoff games. You I won't go as far as
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  Speaker 1: to say a super Bowl, but win playoff games. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a long time since they won a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: The last playoff game they won was twenty nineteen in
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  Speaker 1: do you remember that game? Do you remember where they won? Philly, Philly?
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  Speaker 1: The t Metcalf Game. The game Metcalf set a record
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  Speaker 1: that game for rookie receivers in a playoff game, and
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  Speaker 1: then they promptly went and lost to Green Bay the
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  Speaker 1: next week. It's been a long time since they won
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game. That's how you're judged. And this team
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  Speaker 1: has the ability not just to win a playoff game,
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  Speaker 1: but playoff games. So now we get to the point
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  Speaker 1: of who do you want to say?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you want to see in the postseason? Who
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  Speaker 1: do you want to see? I'll ask both of you, guys,
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  Speaker 1: who do you want to see? What do I want
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  Speaker 1: to see in the in the first in your first game? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, in the first game, I think, really, anyone but
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  Speaker 4: La I feel confident with it. And you know, I
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  Speaker 4: know Ali is kind of faltering, but they just feel
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  Speaker 4: like they're a sleeping giant right now.
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  Speaker 1: With Sean McVay.
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  Speaker 4: I'm confident in the Seahawks beating the forty nine ers too,
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  Speaker 4: especially you know how they dominated last week. And I honestly,
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  Speaker 4: with anyone else, I feel really confident.
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  Speaker 2: I want the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: Panthers is the easy choice, right, The Panthers are the
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  Speaker 1: easy choice. You would then you would then need the
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  Speaker 1: Bears and the Eagles. That both win. Yeah, and so
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  Speaker 1: if the Panthers beat their rangergy you need that to happen,
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  Speaker 1: and then you see the Panthers. I've been giving this
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  Speaker 1: a lot of thought too, and I came to the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion of it doesn't matter. Yeah, it's kind of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of doesn't matter. And here's why it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: You can chime in four nine, four to five one
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  Speaker 1: that is still the unrestricted. Do we get here, maybe
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  Speaker 1: back that wants to spend money because they screwed up
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  Speaker 1: in fantasy football. No, I'll set up sponsor it. I
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  Speaker 1: gave him my email though, Okay, I'll set that up layer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, anybody who wants to do that. Yeah, well we'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty It doesn't matter. And here's why there's an obvious choice.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers. They come in here, you're gonna feel great
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  Speaker 1: about it. Hell, they're double digit underdog at home to
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  Speaker 1: the Rams and they're in a home playoff game. But
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to beat two good teams. Maybe, just
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  Speaker 1: maybe you got to beat one. If the Panthers make
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  Speaker 1: it lucky somehow come here and then the Bears and
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles both win, maybe then you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about it. But even the Panthers were like, whit, Well,
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  Speaker 1: they just beat the Rams, like what's going on? Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what's gonna What's happened for the second time, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: But they won't worry. You're gonna have to be good
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  Speaker 1: teams because, wait for it, that's what the playoffs are,
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  Speaker 1: That's what the playoffs are all about. And Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: with his twenty four wins, I'm really excited to see
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  Speaker 1: how he handles things. And I think he's gonna handle
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  Speaker 1: him great because of this, his demeanor, his presence, how
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  Speaker 1: he operates that organization. Right now it is so buttoned down,
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  Speaker 1: but the buy in is through the roof. I think
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  Speaker 1: later this week we're going to play something from Sam Donald, right,
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  Speaker 1: are we gonna be that?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Thursday ish, Thursday or Friday. We went back as
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  Speaker 1: we talked to Sam Donald. We had the first interview
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  Speaker 1: with him on our station. We had him whenever he
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: signed back in this Marting was mar just already found it.
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  Speaker 1: I already edited it, but we asked him why and
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  Speaker 1: there's I mean, well, there's some insight there. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: We're not gonna ruin it now. But like like, why
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  Speaker 1: would you come here? Why did Mark Lawrence? Why did
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: you come here? You know we should get his cuts
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  Speaker 1: too when we had and we sat down with Dean
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  Speaker 1: Martin with the Marcus Lawrence because the same thing. There's
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  Speaker 1: a buy in factor with this guy. Jaren Reid telling
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  Speaker 1: me in the OTAs that why are you back, Jared?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you here? I asked him that point blank?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you here? You're You're Jared flipping Reed. You've
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  Speaker 1: been in the league for eleven years, Like, why are
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  Speaker 1: you here? Because even in the heyday, there is dudes
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  Speaker 1: not showing up, like there were dudes not showing up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't remember seeing a lot of fifty
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  Speaker 1: six or seventy two, Cliff and Mike thirty one, No, right,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine, No, maybe Wagner I can't recall. Maybe Bobby
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  Speaker 1: would have been the rare exception. Sure, I'm weren't going
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  Speaker 1: to be there unless he had to be there. Russ
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  Speaker 1: was always there to his credit. You're talking about OTAs ots, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the non mandatory stuff. These guys are all there from
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  Speaker 1: day one this year, day one. So the coach has
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  Speaker 1: won twenty four games but has yet to win a
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  Speaker 1: playoff game. His legacy isn't even the script. We're we're
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  Speaker 1: in the preface of the book right now. Long, yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's where we're at. We're in the introduction. We're not
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  Speaker 1: even close to it. He didn't take over a bad
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: football team. Keep that in mind either. They had gone
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  Speaker 1: nine to eight the previous two seasons. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: taking anything away from McDonalds. Don't get me wrong, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying to me, how we really judge Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald is going to start a week from Saturday or Sunday.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: That's how we judge Mike McDonald because regular season fantastic,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: fourteen and three, unreal. He's taken the team to the
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: next level. And here's why I really love the move
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: because at nine and eight back to back years, just
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: missing out of the playoffs the second year year nine
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: and eight. Cause the first year of the nine eight
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: they did get the playoffs, they went down and got
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: whipped up on by the forty nine ers. That was
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one s twenty twenty two season. But
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: nine to eighth the next year missed the playoffs by
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: one game. You could have easily stayed status quo. John
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Schneider didn't and it wasn't John Schneider. That was a
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Jody Allen decision. And we talked about it a little
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: bit yesterday. Softy and I didn't cross talk. Remember that, yeah,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: because there's people like oh like just waiting for her
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to sell the team and waiting for her to move
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the team. When I saw her in the suite on
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Saturday with Schneidy and the rest of the crew up
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: there getting crazy. I remember one thing about Jody Allen
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: that I've been told. She is a big fan, always
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: has been. It's kind of what drives the Blazer fans nuts.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: She doesn't care about basketball, she doesn't care about the Blazers,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: but she's a twelve. Does that make her great owner?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Not necessarily, But what it does do is she has
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: a passion and she cares and she does trust people
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to run the show. And she made the decision a
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago to let Pete Carroll go and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to let John Schneider run the show himself. Period and
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: a story. Chuck Arnold runs the business side. The separation
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Church and State happened Chuck business, which has always been
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the case because it was what was Peter McLaughlin's before
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: that Todd. Before that, Todd had a little bit more
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: say on the football side, I e. GM Morris firing
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: MI clng Rent tiring hiring a Pete Carroll. Todd had
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: a lot more of that. But Jody made the decision
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that we're going to move on from Pete Carroll. And
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you could have easily looked at the drafts the previous
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: few years and said, maybe Schneider's the guy that needed
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: to go. You could have made that decision a lot
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: of people, with a lot of people, but you could
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: have made that decision because you're probably gonna have to
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: make some sort of move. It could have turfed them both.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: But she said, I'm gonna make the decision. We're gonna
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: get keep John, get rid of Pete. I'll never forget
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the news conference. It was one of the strangest news conferences.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: We're talking to John, like what like you fired or
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: your boss got fired. Now you're the boss, but you
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: were the GM, he was the coach. It was an
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: odd thing. And John's like, yeah, you know, she called
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: me in. He had to sign off on getting Pete fired.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: He can't signed off on that. And he did and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: now we sit here with this franchise with twenty four
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: wins and ten losses in the ross two regular seasons,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: but not a playoff win. Yet they get it next week.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: They get it next week. I don't care who they
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: see in the divisional round. They're not going to be
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions and lose as the number one seed
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in the first round or in their first playoff game.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: They're not going to be that team. This guy, Mike McDonald,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: he's the guy. He's it, period. And of story, coaching
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: matters in sports. Tough decisions are hard. That's why they're
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: wait for it. Tough decisions very not everyone's willing to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: make those. The NFL lives in a world of black Monday,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: where we've guys got wiped aside yesterday. Right. Some are
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: really easy. Coach has been there for a year or two,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: you've got no loyalty to him, or you can be
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: just a grease ball like Bidwell was down in Arizona
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and you walk up to the coach the day on
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the final day of the game. You see in the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: warmups he's giving them a hug. How you doing. Everything's great,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They're smiling, they're laughing, he's fired the next day, so
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you can be phony too. No, no, but getting rid
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: of a guy that had been here, won a super Bowl,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that's a hard decision to make, but boy, you look
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: at it now, it was the right decision. And Hugh
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: had a great point with Mark today and I one
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: hundred percent agree with him. This is now John's team John.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know he kind of has anyway. Maybe John was.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: It's not as he said, he's sleeping in, as the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: term he you sleeping in. I don't know true or
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: not true. But I think there were some handcuffs and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: some seat belts and a governor on Schneider a little
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: bit like he's told to make certain moves Jamal and others.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: But they made the decision, and then he made the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: decision to go out and get the guy now Ben Johnson,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Or even just like a decision by committee where maybe
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: if he was just on his own, he wouldn't have
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: made that same decision, right, And that's why.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: So I mean, I give Jody Allen, I give Burt Coles,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: how much it pains me, I give, but I give
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: him credit. I give him credit because they made that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: decision and now you sit here with the number one seed.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: How will we judge Mike McDonald. Well, in two weeks,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: we'll start that decision. We'll start that judging, we'll start
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: really making Because you are in the NFL as a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: head coach, your success determined by playoffs. And ask Dan Campbell.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: That ask Dan Campbell, that's how you're judged. Can't wait?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: All right, let's do this a four pine four to
• 21:12
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• 21:16
  Speaker 1: We haven't talked baseball in forever. I this is actually
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a very selfish segment coming up for me because I
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: need to get caught up. I've been immersed in hockey
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and football, right I need to find out what the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: hell the Mariners are up to.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of people out there in
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: your boat.
• 21:29
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• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on. I mean, we're all
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: very football centric right now. Hockey team's red hot. Lots
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: going on, but flying under the radar the last few
• 22:10
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• 23:37
  Speaker 1: during the baseball season. Chris, what's our baseball team done?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: What have they not done so far in the last month?
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: It's been kind of boring, and I can't say I'm
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: completely surprised. But this doesn't mean I like it. Like,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: there's lots of boring things out there that I like.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: There's eight twenty four films that I really like, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: there's lots of boring stuff that I don't like. And
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: what I don't like is that. But Seattle Mariners really
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: haven't improved all of that much. And I know you
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: know that they did make the Josh Naylor move and
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: that's wonderful, and I do like the Rob Refschneider transaction
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: quite a bit. I think he's gonna be a big helper,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: but there's still major holes on his team and there
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: are major question marks about whether or not their infield
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: is going to be good enough to compete for a
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: World Series championship. And that's all I care about it,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: And literally the only thing I care about is this
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: team getting to a World Series and whether or not
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: this team on paper is good enough to get to
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: a World Series, and the move they've made right now,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I would say, no, they're not quite there yet, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: there's time. There's still a lot of good free agents
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: out there. There's still the chance for some trade, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I think there will be at least one trade made.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: But it's been kind of boring and a little bit disappointing,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: even if I understand and am not terribly surprised by
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: said boring.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Let's go through some of the moves specifically. Let's start
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: first with the trading of Harry Word for a right
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: hander from the Nationals. Let's talk about that one.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, totally. It's understandable. You hate left handed people
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: and you hate left politics, so I totally understand you.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Not only only none of those are true. Maybe one
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of them's kind of true. But my wife's left handed,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: so I like her a lot, at least today.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, well, fellow stuff thought here, so I once again,
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: your wife is a much better person then you are.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: I know that trade really took people by surprise, but
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: I really liked that move in part because Harry Ford
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: was a solid prospect. He was not this top twenty
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: five guy that some prospect Officionano's had, and if he was,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: he would have gotten a lot more than Jose Ferair
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: for him. But this is a guy who has elite stuff,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: has elite control of that stuff, just pounds the strike zone.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: You take a look at the era. Don't look at
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: realiever era, folks. It is such a volatile thing. You
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: have one appearance where you give up six runs over
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: a third of an inning, all of a sudden, your
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: era is screwed for like the next three months, if
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: not for the full season. He is a very solid
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: pitcher who is really going to help them, and the
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: lack of a second lefty really hurt the Seattle Maragers.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Game Spier was fantastic, but the Caleb Ferguson trade didn't
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: work out. Taylor Salas SAIDO, as much as we love him,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: just was not that answer for that second lefty. Having
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: that second lefty and having one that you can use
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: at high leverage is really going to help the Seattle
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Mariners has to have a lot more than Harry Ford is.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Will I be surprised if this is a trade they
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: regret because Perry Ford, I think can be a solid
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: starting catcher. Sure, but I think it makes them so
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: much better for twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: It's one of my favorite moves and more underrated.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Moves that the photos made.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, Harry Ford, there's a guy named cal Rawly
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: right that's ahead of him, so he's a backup catcher
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: or changing positions if he stayed here exactly.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they tried the outfield thing. I don't think
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: it went very well, you know, And Harry Ford is
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: a guy who has a chance to be, like I said,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: a starting catcher. But it's a lot of average tools
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: and that you know behind the plate. That equals a
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: solid player, but you're not talking about a future star.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: And Harry Ford just wasn't gonna play very much for.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: The Seattle Mariners.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: They sign Andrew Kisner to the role that Mitch Garver
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: was kind of playing. It'll probably be to a lesser
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: extent than what Garver was doing, but that's a totally
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: cromulent backup catcher that can help you give Big Dumper
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: a few days off. I hope they give Big Dumper
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: more days off. As much about as it was to
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: watch him play every day, it's just so risky to
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: put your catcher plays off and as he did, you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: and I would love to see him get a few
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: more days off in twenty twenty six. But yeah, Harry
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Ford just did not fit the Seattle Mariners in twenty
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: twenty six, didn't fit him in twenty twenty seven, probably
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: would to fit him in twenty twenty eight.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Who's Rob Rethschneider.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Rob Refsnyder is a really interesting one because he is
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: a guy who has just pounded, speaking of left handers,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: has eased the and for nets. He hates lefties as well,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: and he just hits the crap out of them, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: it's something that he has done for the overwhelming majority
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: of his career. Was a very effective player for Boston,
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: was one of their best hitters really in twenty twenty six,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: most of the damage coming against lefties. He's not completely
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: bereft of talent against right handers as well, but he
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: picks up the baseball really well against them. And he
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: is just that perfect platoon for dom can Zone. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: it looks like dom Canzone, it's going to be one
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: of your starting outfielders, maybe also a DH option there
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: as well, but the type of guy who can hit
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: fourth or fifth against left handers. You know you can
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: move him closer to the top of the lineup as
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: well because he has a really good approach at the plate.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: He's just a really solid player with a long track
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: record of just massing, mashing, excuse me, opposite handed pitching.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: This is not a star. This is not a guy
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: who I think is going to get more than three
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: hundred plate appearances in the year. But those three hundred
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: plate appearances are going to be effective because they're going
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: to use them against left handers, and based on everything
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: that he's done in his career, is just going to
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Rake South bast what.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Did they miss out on with the kid that the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Japanese player that Torontomodo.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so Alkamoto and then also Murakamio ends up
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: signing in Chicago. I was actually a little bit more
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: upset with the guy who ended up signing with Chicago,
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: just because I think his on base skills and power.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: I know there's a lot of stuff about ex of
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: velocity against pitches that are above ninety miles per hour.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: I think that guy's going to figure it out. He
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: has so much power, he has such a good approach
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: to the play a Kamoto is more of a jack
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: of all trades, master of none. I'm not sure that
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: have worked out great in Seattle. I don't know if
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: that bat's gonna play great and T Mobile Park, I
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: wouldn't have hated it, and it would have been an
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: upgrade on what they have there right now, which is
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: I love Ben Williamson, Nathan Bishop, I know you're listening
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: right now. You gotta love Ben Williamson. Ben Williamson is
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: a solid defensive player but has some real question marks
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: with the bat. But Okamoto is one of those guys
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: who you know and he could have fit in Seattle
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: because of the fact that they don't need him to
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: hit in the middle of the order, and Toronto doesn't either.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: But I think there's a lot of variance in that
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: skill set. I would not be shocked if the Seattle Mariners,
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: you know, if they were truly trying to get a Kamoto,
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: which I don't have real evidence.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: That they were.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Maybe don't regret that they didn't end up getting. I
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: wasn't a huge fan of that signing, so I'm being honest.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: So let's wrap it up with this, Chris. Just you
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: mentioned the start. They've done a little but not a lot.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And as we are, what a month and a half
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: or just over a month away from pitchers and catchers
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: reporting and all that fun stuff, what do they have
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: They have to get at least one more infielder and
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I'd be trying to get to and I'd still be
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: looking to upgrade at the DNH position as well, or
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: a left fielder and making Randier Rose Arena your everyday DH.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: I do want to say this, like, while I was
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: talking about how they haven't improved a lot, I don't
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: think we should ignore that the JOSSH. Naylor signing team
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: so early in the offseason. Yeah, and let's think about
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: the improvement of Josh Naylor for a full one hundred
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: and sixty two compared to the fifty four that he
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: played last year, so literally a third of a season
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: versus a full season. Having a full season of Josh
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Baylor is a massive improvement over what they got at
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: first base over.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: The last while. It feels like this.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: John Olerude, but since the last last year with Rodbie
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Files and Donovan Tolanto and those guys just not really
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: working out. So I do want to point that out.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: But they've got to go get another infielder. They the
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Brandon Donovan trade is what I think will end up happening.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: That the Cardinals are kind of being a little stingy
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: because they know they don't have to make this move
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: right now and asking for more than you're Angelo Saint
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Ja and looking for something on the major league roster.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: But that's a trade. I think that has to happen,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: and he's going to be a really solid player. I
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: would be surprised if he's not a Seattle Mariner by
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: the time we talk again. But you've got to go
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: get at least one more infielder. I'd still be looking
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: at an Aohenio Suarez reunion too. That market's starting to
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: dry up. I've heard some stuff about him potentially with
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: the Pirates, but like the fact that Aohennio Suarez doesn't
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: really have I would imagine he wants to play for
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: a contender. I imagine he wants to go to Pete
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: for a World Series. I'll due respect to the Pirates
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: and Paul Schemes and Livy Dunn, that's just not going
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: to happen in twenty twenty six. I would be looking
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: at that type of reunion, but you've got to go
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: get at least one more infielder, and I would be
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: looking to get another complimentary bat on top of it.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Donovan would be a second bit, your second baseman then, I.
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  Speaker 5: Think, so yeah, and he'd be a guy that you know,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: if something happens to somebody else, you can move him
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: if you need to. If Cole Young has a just
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: a fantastic spring training and you want to make him
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: your second basement, you can play Brendan Donovan somewhere else.
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  Speaker 5: You can figure out a way for that guy to
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: be in your lineup. Hit near the top of it
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  Speaker 5: or at the bottom of it. This is the nice
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  Speaker 5: thing about Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Light up.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: Now, It's like we're not talking about you have to
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  Speaker 5: go get this guy who hit second, third, or fourth
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: for you. You have those guys, you have the middle
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: of the order figured out. What you need to do
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: is figure out what you can do to supplement those
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: pieces to cotton to make sure you have the complimentary pieces.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: And Brendan Donovan, I think is a perfect complimentary piece
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: for them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Things.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: It will be a lot to give up just because
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: he's a top one hundred prospect and has a lot
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  Speaker 5: of upside. But that's the type of move that I
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  Speaker 5: think Colin jurn de Potto have to make.
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  Speaker 1: This is not don't freak out, don't be like this
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  Speaker 1: eight fifty years. What have you? And imposing fans come
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  Speaker 1: expect to see that a little bit tonight. But the
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  Speaker 1: Kracking on a roll seven oh one won the last
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  Speaker 1: few games. But Chris Crawford wanted some Jacob Mallanson. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know who Jacob Mallanson is, where's number
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  Speaker 1: sixty three? He is got called up about a month
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: ago from Coachella Valley. He's a draft pick for the
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  Speaker 1: crack and a couple of years ago. He just plays hard.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is every time he's
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: on the ice, you'll see a couple body checks. You'll
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: see a guy running around hitting people, making things happen.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: But had his first career NHL goal last night, has
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: a point streak now of four games as well forty
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: six hits in one hundred minutes of ice time. That's
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: almost impossible to do. I mean you think about every
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: thirty seconds you're hitting somebody. Now, a hit is considered
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: not just a bide check. It's bide check where you
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: dis lodged the pocket. So it's not like you're just
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: running into people and get credit for it. You actually
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: have to. Now, I think it's kind of a weird stack.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: And sometimes you'll see him a should not have been
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: a hit, But let's just call for what it is.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Give him credit. He's hitting some somebody every thirty seconds,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: two minutes, every two minutes, sorry, every.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Two only if the puck is just lodged.
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  Speaker 1: Right right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, with that definition, he's probably having physical contact with
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: someone every fifteen to twenty Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's he's he's just a ton of fun.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: The fourth line has been a ton of fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: H More importantly, the crack and they started out one
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  Speaker 1: seven and oh are better during the last that stretch.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: In the last three.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Weeks, it's been so weird. They went eleven, five and
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: five to start the season, really get stretched, then one
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: nine and one, and then they go to seven zero one.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: There's three different stretches of this season.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it either. I don't
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: know because they don't have high ends. Their leading goal
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: scorers Jordan Eberley, he's fifty ninth in the league and
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: goal scorer. Their playoff team as of today. You asked
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: me earlier, are they a playoff team? I think they are.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I think they are. I wouldn't have said that three
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. Not either. I'm not sure if I would
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: have said it. Even when they were eleven and five
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: to start the year, I didn't know if it's sustainable.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Lane Lambert and has staff done a great job.
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  Speaker 4: They've changed your mind then now I think they've found
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  Speaker 4: who they are identity. Yeah, they they're a lot like
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: the team that went to the playoffs three years ago.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: In the fact that they roll four lines. They play
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: for most teams will play three lines in the fourth.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: The fourth line gets like four or five minutes a night.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: The fourth line here is getting eleven. So they're actually playing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: now that ice time's gone up substantially in the last
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  Speaker 1: Why did I think THATX? I didn't think Phil Gruber
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  Speaker 10: Extremely difficult or they were so close.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to hit that, so I didn't need
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  Speaker 1: to hit that. I'm sorry that softies button bar. I
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• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Guys make fun of it. Didn't make fun of it,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was. It was the have
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  Speaker 1: nobody who could throw a football?
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: Oh that was That was Merril Reese when the last
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: time the forty nine ers went to Philadelphia, yeah rock party,
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: they literally had no one who could do that.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Oh that was the Johnson, Yeah quarterback.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: That was, yeah, a quarterback. Because I'm like, the first
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: play party gets knocked out, then the second or whatever,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, pe played later Josh Johnson, who can't
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: play anyway, he got knocked out and basically they had
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: party in there because he couldn't throw and he just
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: had to hand off.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Did they run some wild didn't they run some wildcat
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: with McCaffrey too, Yeah, yeah, what do we do then?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Just stack the boss and stock the stacked the box
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: and yeah, that was that was funny. I remember talking
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: to Homegun after that because Mike's always been a big proponent.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: He's on with us on Wednesdays, and he's always been
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: there need to be three quarterbacks on every roster, period
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: in the story, like, that's always an ad right, and
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent right. That was the best example ever. Uh,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: but the fact they scored the forty nine ers is
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: fine for us. Okay, let's uh, we'll get to this
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: weekend's games in a second. What's the talk down there
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: after after what happened on Saturday night?
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: I think they rocketed back to reality because you and
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: I have talked about this on a number of occasions.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: How are they doing it? How they doing it? How
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: they doing it? And and I really, this is the
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: worst thing you can say on Sporttreo. I don't know,
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know, mister hand he just were looking at
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: it saying how can they do this? Because they weren't
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: really good defense at least statistically, they weren't really good.
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: I mean it, party came back and their offense got
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: a lot better. This is the most amazing stat and
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: I'm sure you guys have talked about it. The forty
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: nine Ers before that game had punted twice in December twice.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: And we all know that Seattle's defense is really really good.
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: But I'm gonna give you a little bit of love
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: here because I get it. The Texans have a really
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: good defense. I get it. You know, the Rams do.
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: I get it, the Broncos do. I get it. But
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: the forty nine Ers had punted twice. And so with
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: all the injuries defensively to all the people that we
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: know we're hurt, that's one thing. But then, and I
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: know that we're missing Trent Williams against the Seahawks on Saturday.
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: I understand that that's a big deal, and the Seahawks
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: certainly took advantage of it. But to only punt twice
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: in the entire month and then to turn around at
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: home and have the Seahawks hold you to the three
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: points and it really was never that close. The Niners
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: really never got that close, tells you that, at least
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: right now, I think the Seahawks are playing the best
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: defense in the NFL, the best I've seen this year.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I guess the thing that is, that's the first time
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: that MC that Kyle Shanahan's been held to three points
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: in how long?
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like his first game actually in twenty seventeen. And
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: they were atrocious when their early quarterbacks are like Blaine
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: Gabbert and you know, I mean just terrible, terrible, terrible quarterbacks.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: And he was held the three points. Outside of that,
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: he can usually as you well know, you can usually
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: scheme something open. And like I said, defensively, they've been
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: devastated offensively now with Trent Williams and some of the things,
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: I get it. But they had Kittle, they had McCaffrey,
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: they had the majority of their offensive line, they had
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: Kyle Shanahan at full mental capability. I mean they, you know,
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: to only score three points. That's what was disappointing. Everyone
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: had been holding their bread down here. To answer your
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: question a really long way, everybody knew what the defense
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: was about. Without Fred Warner, without Nick Botsa with it,
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: you know what they had they that was kind of just, yeah,
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: it's not gonna work. But normally if they held the
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: Seahawks the thirteen points. Told me before the game, they're
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: gonna hold the Seahawks thirteen points. I'd say that that
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: the forty nine Ers had a good chance to win
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: that football game. And I think probably your only frustration
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: there in Seattle would be why aren't we winning by more?
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: Because it had the time. Yeah, they're I mean, first quarter, halftime,
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: they're possessing the ball, they're out gaining them, McCaffrey's getting nowhere.
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: And it was one of those games I think, and
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: I don't want to speak for Seahawks fans, but I'm
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: smarter than them. I'm sitting there going it's one of
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: those It's one of those games where you're like, they're
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: hanging around and they're doing nothing. How are they hanging around?
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: How are they stilling the game? You know, because you
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: thought at some point Kyle was going to be able
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: to scheme something that was going to work. Parties better
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: than you think, but they just held everything in check
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: and held everything down and the forty nine Ers never
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: got there. But it was you know, into the first
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: and certainly at halftime, you know the way that Jason
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: Myers was kicking, which was weird because it was weird.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: The gust the window were weird and gusty that way.
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: So I don't think he's going to turn into you know,
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: kickers are they get into some funk. I don't think
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: is going to get into some funk. It's just a
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: weird night. So I'll give him a pass on that one.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: But you know he's missing the field goals, the one
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: doing so off, all that kind of stuff, and you're
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: thinking yourself, God, they're hanging around. But it was from
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: a forty nine ers perspective. I get the Seahawks perspective,
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: but from a forty nine er perspective, you're sitting there
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: looking out and field going they're doing nothing, and unless
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: there's just a broken coverage or something which happened, there's
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: no way the Niners are going to score that. To me,
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: that ten point cushion that the Seahawks felt had felt
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: like twenty the whole game.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: John Lone joining us, all right, I need you to
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: say this again. You think the Seahawks, you like their defense,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: been in any of the defense you see in the
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: in the league this year.
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: Well, it's it's it's how they're playing now. Like everybody
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: gets stuck on numbers, right, Dva. You know, it's like
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: give me a break, man. Just I'm fond of a
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: term called watch the damn game. And when you watch
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: the damn game, they're fast there, they get to the ball,
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: they force turnovers. The only thing that concerns me about Seattle,
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: and again it didn't rear its ugly head, is you
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: know the second Like Joe, he made some nice plays.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: I thought j Josh Joe played a really good game,
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: and he had kind of been ifpy at times this year.
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: But I just think em and Warri played an unbelievable game.
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: You know, and you guys know this, but I mean
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: he is he is not only physically perfect for what
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: they use him for in fast and athletic and big
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: and all those things, but you can tell he watches
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: a ton of film. There was a and I'm sure
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: you remember the play, there was a screen to George
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: Kittle that always works, and he right away he saw
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: the formation, you could tell, and he just he just
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: broke on the play. And Kittle had children, had no chance,
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: and you just never see that. So, you know, even
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: the things that Kyle schemed up, it just seemed like
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Mike McDonald and the guys knew exactly what was coming.
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: And it wasn't just hey, we just made a shoe
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: string tackle. It was you lost three yards on that
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: play to Kittle and that never happens.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I think, yeah, I just wonder with the forty
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: nine ers, Like I know, Trent Williams wasn't there. I
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: get that, But I mean Sales without Charles Cross. I
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: know Charles Cross isn't necessarily going to the Hall of Fame,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: but they're also without their left tackle and their and
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: their third string left tackle. I had to play a
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: series when Jones got hurt. He was playing on a
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: bomb leg, So I think that kind of cancels it out.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I do think that Pearsall makes a difference for you guys.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I think that like, is he coming back for the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: playoff game?
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he will, and he's just he's just been so
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: banged up and it's it's, you know, he said, you
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: hate to call somebody injured prone, but he just you know,
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: between that and the shooting and the bad luck and
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: the and the stuff like that, and you're right one
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: hundred percent. I mean, they have Robinson in there's the
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: third receiver. Pierce All demands more attention than that. So
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: you know, I think once they get in the playoffs,
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: not that anybody into O cares, I think that they
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: have a good shot at knocking off Philadelphia. There's something
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: wrong with Philadelphia this year. And you know, I hear
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: all the East Coast people saying that, you know, they're
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: just gonna flip some switch. It doesn't work like that.
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: It doesn't work like that in football. There's something with
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: AJ Brown, there's something with Jalen Hurts. Hurts did not
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: complete a pass on the second half in Buffalo. I
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: don't care about the weather. He's just not the same guy.
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: And people in Philadelphia are acting as if he's gonna
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: flip the switch and he's going to become a championship quarterback.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: I think there's something wrong with Sirianni and AJ Brown
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: and Kalen Hurts, and there's just something wrong. So it
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: wouldn't completely shock me if the Niners went in there
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: and did that. From a talent standpoint, if you look
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: at Seattle and he said, Okay, who's your biggest you know,
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: who do you fear the most? And while the AFC,
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: I think is completely wide open, I think it's Seattle
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: to lose because Green Bay's got issues, especially since Parsons
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: got hurt. Philly is just not right. There's just something there.
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, I just think it comes down to the
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: Rams and the Seahawks again. But I do think the
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: forty nine ers can go into Philly and knock them up.
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: The big deal for Seattle because even though Philly's kind
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: of had a weird regular season, they could be one
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: of those teams that I don't think they can but
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: that could flip the switch because they're the defending chance.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: So based on defensive value over average, the DVOA, which
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: you love, let's look at all the games.
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, these nerds and come on to a point. It's
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: good to a point. But man, watch that game against
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: San Francisco, a team that had put it twice in
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: a month, and you're gonna tell me that Seattle doesn't
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: have the best defense. I'm sorry, I know the Texans
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: are really really good, but nobody's Nope, that was the
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: most let's put it this way, DVO, whatever, DBA, DBO,
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: dead on arrival, r whatever, whatever you want to say.
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: The seat that was the best defensive performance against a
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: quality offense that anybody's put up put together this year.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: That's now we're going into the playoffs. That well, that's
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: I think. That's the thing. I think, John, that's the
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: thing is like, like we can look at all the numbers,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: and we can look at early in the season, what
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: have you that you know, Mike McDonald's team went down
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: and pants Kyle Shanahan's team, and it wasn't that, it
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't the OtherSide of the ball. Like, it's one thing
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: if you're scoring points against a defense that doesn't have
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Fred Warner, doesn't have Boat, that doesn't have your first
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: round pick on the line, all those things that all
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: the issues you got going on. It's another if the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan defense just loose or the Kyle Shanahan team
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: loses because they get outscored like thirty one to twenty eight,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: but they still pull points up. No, they did nothing.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: McCaffrey did nothing. That's that's what's shocking. That's why you
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: say nobody cares about Eagles forty nine ers. But I'm
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: telling you right now, everybody up here cares about all
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: these games this weekend because I think, not to speak
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: for every Seahawks fan, I don't care who the necessarily
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks se in Week two. You have to play
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: good teams anyway. We'd all love to see the Panthers.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: That'd be great. Panthers upset the Rams and then the
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Eagles beat the forty nine ers. That would be ideal.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Probably not going to happen in that regard. So the
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers, Yeah, man, that's a that's a game
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: that people here care about because if the Bears win
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: and the Rams win, then the forty nine ers could come.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Like like, nobody wants to see the forty nine ers again. Two, yeah,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Like that's nobody wants to see the Rams.
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, right, well, and that's that's what I think. I
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: mean again, I'm not just giving this game to Philadelphia
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: because they're defending champs. Like I said, there's something wrong
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: with them. So if you say, you know, the forty
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: nine ers go into Philadelphia and they get a victory
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: over the Eagles, that wouldn't surprise me at all. And
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: like you said, then that becomes the team that is
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: the lowest highest. Has always confuses me because I'm a simpleton.
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: But the lowest highest remaining, and that's going to be
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: six at forty nine ers because I don't know that
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: the Packers is going to beat the Bears, although they could.
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: I mean you could see the Packers, you could see that.
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: You know the number of teams again, I think this
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: is open. Could you see the Packers beating the Bears? Absolutely?
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: You know you could see that. You could see the
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: forty nine Ers could beat the Eagles. There's no doubt
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: about it.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: John loun joining us. Uh. John Harbor I got fired. Huh.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh just got fired by the Baltimore Ravens.
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: That doesn't surprise me. He'll he'll have a job before
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: he hangs up the phone. But it was time.
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: I like John Harbaugh and I like the Harbaugh's and
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: we covered them up here and everything, and you guys know,
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: but that's he's gonna have a job, like incredibly fast.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: Because if there's a team that's smart like I gotta be.
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: If you're Tom Brady, to hire him with the Raiders,
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: if you're Arizona, if you're a team that needs a
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: culture reset, you hire him as fast as you possibly can.
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: Because he's not the hot O. See, he's not the
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: hot DC and he's not yet. He's a culture changer.
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: And what you guys have seen there in Seattle. But
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: it's you know, Pete is fine, but you know what
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: he did. He just the game passed him by and
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: what he was doing in those bits and that kind
• 55:10
  Speaker 6: of stuff wasn't working anymore. But John Harbaugh's sixty three.
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: He's still young enough to where he can change a
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: culture or a franchise, and the ones that are really downtrodden,
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: especially I'm thinking right of the top of my head,
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: the Browns, the Raiders, the Cardinals, those down trodden franchises.
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: He could change the culture of those teams. But it
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: was just time for him to leave Baltimore.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: It was part of me the things from the Jets.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I just fire Aaron Glann right now and go get them,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: you know, like as well, But.
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: Here's why wouldn't you. But here's the thing, Like they
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: need it worse than anyone.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: You talked about culture. I think the culture part's interesting
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: because we spend the first part of our show talking
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: about that today. Like Seattle made the decision to get
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: rid of Pete and keep John, and that was a
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: like that was Jody Allen had to make that decision,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: and frankly, I'm sure it gutted her. Like that's that's
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: not any like you're getting rid of Pete and you're like,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: you're making a decision either going to get rid of
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: one or the other or maybe both, right, But then
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: you look at it like we're notin an eight, nine
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: and eight, so there is some talent there, so they
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: make the decision get red Ofpeat. I'll go back with
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Kyle for a second, because I look, the Jets are
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: just the Jets. Like, I don't know, I don't know
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: how you changed the culture with just a head coach.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I think it takes more than that. It's got to
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: be ownership. It's got to be the GM. You guys
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: went through those years of Thomas Sulu, Tomas Sula, whatever
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: his name was. What was that guy's name? The guy
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: looked like, yeah, yeah, you look like Ron Jeremy. You
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: had him. You had the Chip Kelly horror show going
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: on down there as well. What changed the culture there?
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Was it? John Lynch?
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah? You know, Jed your owner. I mean, I think
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: that's the difference to what you just said. Jet You're
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: decided I'm going to get out of the way and
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: let football people do football things. And that's that's when
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: everything changed because he trusted John Lynch, and he trusted
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: Kyle Shanan and he didn't trust those other guys. And
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: so what he did was it was a clown show.
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: Like Harball left, it started to be a clown show.
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: Then it was a full clown show with those two
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: guys you just mentioned. And then he decided, you know what,
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: because he was tweeting and doing all that Mary Jones
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: stuff and it's really stupid and being too involved and
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: you'd never hear from anymore. And he put people in
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: place that were good. He trusted him and that was it.
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: And so what you just pointed out, like if you
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: know too much about the owner, that's a bad thing
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: as a fan. Like we know too much about Jerry Downes,
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: we know too much about Woody Johnson, we know too
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: much about Mark Davis and his haircut. We know you
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: know what I mean when those guys are front and
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: center because their ego is the only thing and they
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: can't get out of the way. Like honestly, I know
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: Mark Davis pretty well, and he's a clown. He's the
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: clown of clowns, He's the king of clowns. And until
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: he leaves, I don't care if Brady's making the decisions. Ultimately,
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: Mark is because I don't know why he has an ego.
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: He's never had a job in his life besides this one.
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: It's unbelievable. He's terrible at it. And same thing with
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: Woody Johnson and saying you hit around and said the
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: bid Wells in Arizona. These teams that are looking for
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: for leadership right now, they're all bad. The ownership is
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: all bad. And so I don't you know, you bring
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: up a great point, Harbaugh to me, John Harbaugh is
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: a slam dunk for any of these teams trying to
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: change culture. But if Woody Johnson still owns the Jets,
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: if Mark Davis still owns the Raiders, it's not going
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: to make a difference because everybody knows this. It doesn't
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: matter if it's sports, life, whatever business, it all starts
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: at the top and goes downhill.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's what yeah, look, look I look at here.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: What happened. I mean it was simple. You know, Mike,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: when they brought Mike hungdrin in, it rectified the years
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: the Ken bearing issues and Ken Barring owned the team,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Tom Floors, and then you know when Paul Allen bought
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: the team and Paul. You know Paul as well as
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: in John worked in Portland as well. Paul Paul didn't care,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna win and I'll hire the best people
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I can. I'll pay him aa zillion dollars. I don't care,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: I'll win. He goes out and goes I'm gonna go
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: get the guy that won the Super Bowl in Green Bay,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: which green Bay wasn't green Bay at the time. They
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: were awful until Mike got there. We'll bring Mike in.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: We're gonna win. The downfall was Tim Ruskell and then
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: they just cut the head off the snake. They said,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Ruskell gone Moragon, not Carroll Way, you go take it over.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: That was a change of the culture. And and they're
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: back to where they need to be. And obviously it's
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: more John. I look around like the bid Wells are
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: a joke, Like that's just an absolute joke. Every year
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: and every year I think that I think Arizona is
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: better than Seattle and San Francisco. They're pretty damn good.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: And oh they're not because again the culture's awful. Like
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: it's just it's not good. Let me get past all
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: that stuff, because hardball will be interesting. We'll keep it
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: on that So Eagles Tory Niners, I'm with you. See
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: the Eagles. I think it is twice this year that
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: he hasn't completed a pass in the second half. I
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: believe it's twice.
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's unreal.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: It's like and that's Jalen Hurts. I mean, I wouldn't
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: be surprised the forty Nineers be the Eagles, Rams, Panthers.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Rams should win easy, right, they should win easy in Carolina.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: I don't care what happened earlier in the year.
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they got surprised once and it's just not gonna
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: happen again. And so I don't think the Seahawks will
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: play the Rams, to be honest, because I think either
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: the forty nine Ers or the Packers or both are
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: going to win. Because I'm still not convinced to the Bears,
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: because the very even got reinforced this weekend. You the Seahawks,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: not you. But the Seahawks held the forty nine Ers
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: to three points the week before, they scored forty two
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: on the Bears, and Trent Williams wasn't in that game either.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: So the Bears defense is not a championship defense and
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: their offense is praying hope, and I like Ben Johnson,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: it's just Caleb Williams isn't there yet.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Do you think the Packers win that game play? Do
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: you think the Packers beat the Bears?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if if Jordan Love is healthy from the mighty
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: Utah State University, the greatest university of all time, maybe
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: outside Harvard Chips by a smidge. But if he's healthy,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: they win. And like I said, the forty nine Ers,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: Kyle will come up with something. There's something wrong in Philly.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprising the slightest Day won. So now
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: you're looking at six and seven, still in the playoffs.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: But more importantly to me, I just wouldn't want to
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: mess with Philly. I think the Seahawks match really not
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: really good with everybody but the Rams, and I think
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: that's probably what it's going.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: To come down to.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: And I think it would be a shame if the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: Rams on the Seahawks played too early in the playoffs.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: I think they're going to. I ain't gonna play, but
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: I would want it to be in the NFC Championship
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 6: game because I think those are clearly the best two
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: teams in the NFC.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: So if I'm hearing you right, I kind of tend
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: to agree. By the way, if I'm hearing you right,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: all three road teams in the NFC win this weekend Rams,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Packers and forty nine Ers.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: I can see it. I mean it's I know, it
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: sounds crazy, And probably the least of the three is
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 6: the forty nine Ers because they just don't have the
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: kind of defense that you need to take on the road.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: They normally would, but they just don't. So I you know,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: I could see it. But I also know that Kyle's
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: got stuff up his sleeve. I also know that Kyle
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: does well against Nick Sirianni. He just does the game.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 6: You just play. You had the you have the highlight
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: of They were very confident they were gonna win that game.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: I got blown out and they have a quarterback. But
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: the next time they played. By the way, I know
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: you're gonna find this hard to believe. That guy, that
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: broadcaster Merril Reees. I made fun of him one time
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: and he happened to be waiting on the line to
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: come on the show. He hates me, I mean hates me.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Nobody who could.
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  Speaker 6: Basically the only reason I said something about it was
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: Billy Sleepover.
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  Speaker 1: You're not losing sleep.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 6: No, I'm not Philly fans like they always do. They
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: treat they treated the opposing fans awful. And I went
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 6: to that game and I was going off on Eagles
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: fans and all this kind of stuff. And then I
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: don't know, we paid played some kind of a cut
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: and I go that old guy Meryl Reeves because he
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: is like ninety and then he then it was like, oh,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: Meryl Reese is on the show.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh.
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  Speaker 6: And he wouldn't talk to me. He would only talk
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: to Papa. He wouldn't talk to me. He would only
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: talk to Papa the whole interview, like like, hey, hey, Pop,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: will you ask Meryl Reeves if you know whatever? And
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: then he answered the question, but he would not answer
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: questions to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's very awesome. That is fantastic. It's fair fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: It was actually people thought it was really funny.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm I'm kind of I don't know. I want
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: to see carnage. I'd love to see five, yeah, seven
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  Speaker 1: and six win Hackers come here. Rams forty nine Ers play.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 6: God.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a that would be an incredible good
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: divisional round game. Rams and forty nine Ers at so
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: far let's go. Huh, wouldn't that be fun?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: You think? That's how I mean, based on the season
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: we've had, that's how you go. If I'm a Seahawks man,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: I'm just hoping and praying that the Rams lose. I
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: just I wouldn't want to see them again. That last
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: game was incredible. But I mean, your heart's beating through
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: your chest. I mean, that's what you live for as
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: a sportsman. But god, man, I'll tell you again. And plus,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: I can't stand McVeigh. No, can't.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: We just talked about culture though McVeigh yes, and less neat,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: you know, and I thought a couple of times I
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: thought Lesteves should have got fired a couple of times
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: over and they stuck with him, and him and McVeigh
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: have been I mean, they've they've turned that roster completely over.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: I mean when when Aaron Donald left, how many I
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: all raised my hand. How many people thought, Okay, well
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: they're going to take a massive step back because they
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: just lost a Hall of the Best defensive lineman. That's
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: an absolute game wrecker. Oh no, let's go draft Jared
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Versus and three other guys like that's cool.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm not in the practice of giving them credit.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: But it's it's the reason why Seattle is where they are.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: Ifeople at their last couple of drafts, you guys know that.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: But if you look at the Rams after they lost
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: Aaron Donald, they didn't have a first round pick from
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: like twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two or something, and
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: then when they got one, they took Jared Burst there.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: But they've done such an amazing job second round through
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: like this sixth round, and so when the Niners are
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: at their height, they did the same thing. When then Rams,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: now that's what they're doing. They're doing the same thing
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: all these you know, these people who are so obsessed
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: with the first pick in the draft. I get it,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 6: and the Raiders lost, and they're all excited they got
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: the number one pick. I did this a couple of
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: weeks ago. The number one pick. Of the last ten drafts,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 6: the number one pick has been the best player. Once
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: that was Joe Burrow. The other nine of the ten drafts,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 6: it's been another player who's been the better player that
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: was picked later. So it's these people get obsessed with
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: the first round. That's nice, don't get me wrong, But
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna do this off the top of my head.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: I'm wrong, but you can help me with this. The
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: year they took what was it, like Wilson and Sherman
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: and all, you know, a bunch of great Bobby Wagner,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 6: their first round pick was like Bruce Irvans, Right. Yeah.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: The Seahawks has crushed all the rest of the round,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: and then lately you look at their last couple of drafts,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: they crush every single round. It's you know, because everybody
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: thinks like free agencies, this big elector, it's gonna fix everything.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: It's about the draft, man, And it's not about just
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: the first round. It's about you know, two through seven
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 6: is where you get the heart of your team. And
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks have killed that. The Rams have killed it.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: They have such great young talent that this is going
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: to be a thing for a long time.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: It's funny. By like twenty eleven draft, which is the one,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: the second of the second Schnyder Draft. Twenty eleven draft,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: their number one pick was James Carpenter, tackle out of Alabama,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: who they moved to guard. He was a starter, you know,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: he started for him. He's finnie played was alright, he
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: was all right, but I mean he wasn't like the
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: number twenty five pick, John Moffatt was their second pick,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: who was just I don't know. I don't want to
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: say anthing because I think he's crazy. He might be
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: so listening who knows he's nuts, went went sideways, played
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: nineteen games. But listen to the rest of the draft.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: kJ Wright pretty good, pretty good player, kJ Wright. You
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: know Richard Sherman, Byron Maxwell and Super Bowl MVP Malcolm Smith.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, like they those those middle drafts, uh, they
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: know them. Okay, Well, let's root. I'm kind of rooting
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: for carnage. I wouldn't you know what this is sacrilege
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: to say in Seattle. If if it gets to this
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: point and you're not gonna like this, I'm gonna say it.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it. If if the Packers win, all right,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: and the Rams have already won, which I think they will,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: and if the Rams win and then the Packers beat
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: the Bears.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 6: I know where you're going.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the Niners. I'm rooting hard for the Niners.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: I want the Niners. I want the Niners and the
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Rams to beat the living you know what out of
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: each other. That's what I want. Give me that, give
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: me that.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 6: Plus if if the if the Packers win, then you
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: play the Packers. But if you get the Eagles out,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 6: And I think again, if you're a Seahawks fan, I
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: know there is blind hate for the forty nine Ers,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 6: I get it. There's blind hate for the Rams, I
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 6: get it. But I think you want the Eagles out.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 6: I think you want the Niners.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I think you want I think Seattle beats the Niners
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: without a problem the next time around, too. I'm scary,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: but I think that. But I think the four. I
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: think Kyle can. I think pile Kyle can go down
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: there and slap McVeigh in the face and knock them out.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: And I just want to see you guys beat the
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: crap out of each other, all right.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: He's had a lot of success beating meet McVay.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: In the regular season.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 6: They lost the Tennessee Championship game, but in the regular
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 6: season they beat up on the ramps.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: That's why I bring that up, my friend. Okay, where
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: could be able find you these days? What are you doing?
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 6: Oh man? I'm everywhere. I do a show Saturdays and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: Sundays on the New Westwood one sports network and it
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 6: might be carried. I was on. I didn't know this.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: I was on in San Francisco. It's like four hundred
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 6: radio affiliates, Serious XM three seventy five, and like all
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 6: these people are calling from northern California showing me Ian.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: I know you know that we would know this so
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 6: much love. I mean, they missed me so much, but.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Sure they were.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: But yeah, and then we're doing uh, we're doing Pro
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  Speaker 6: Football Wire PFB wire on all social media, YouTube, everything else,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 6: and that's going quite well, and lots of love from Seattle,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 6: a lot.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 10: Extremely difficult, so close, so close.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 6: But me, you know what's funny about that. I sit
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: right behind him for all those games. And of course
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: that's the playoff game, so I I see not only you.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 6: You're hearing the Anglish, I see the English. I see
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: the difficulty.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: So close, so close, I do, I do. Hey, in
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: all seriousness, I'm glad he's back. I'm glad is he
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: back this week? Good? Good?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely yeah he's back. So yeah.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: The NFL is better, angry, the NFL is better with
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: with bitter Papa. You know, they just it just is
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: a better league. Bitter Papa is awesome. I don't. I
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: think Softy played is the highlights yesterday on the opponent recap.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: So all right, I gotta go.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 6: I'm sure I loved it.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: All Right, I'm late. I'll see you bye. Talk to
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: you next week. That's John, all right, Yeah, mute him quickly,
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  Speaker 1: get him out of here. All right, let's come back.
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  Speaker 1: FM, Cracking Ticket Tuesday. Do we give away the second
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  Speaker 1: one two oh six. It won't ever happen, but I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I love where your mind's at two o six.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can get John Harbaugh's a thirty d
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  Speaker 1: consultant to McDonald. They're friends. God, Jeff, I'm Mike McDonald.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: I'm calling up John Harbaughs and dude, that sucks. By
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: the way, what are you doing for the next couple
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: of weeks watch tape with this hangout? You know? I
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: mean that isn't legal, right, He's not in a contract. No,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: in the building, just a consultants hanging out.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Buddy come in and wishes hel Holdrid walks.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Around there like he owns the place, which kind of
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  Speaker 1: he does. He helped Hilt the place. I know. Okay,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: let's see uh three to six. Oh, I know you
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: guys won't read this on the air, but no, I
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: see you, I hear you. I'm gonna acknowledge you. I'm
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: just not gonna read it on the air, all right,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: three six h But I see you. There is some
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: lun glove out there, not a lot, there's some.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a great idea.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: I have this nagging worry, says the two six. If
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: these are the twenty twelve Hawks, Part two where they
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: lost to Atlanta and it galvanized the team, the next
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: year is the year. The difference, guys, is this That
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: team was a wild card, yes, not number one seed.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: They weren't a fourteen and three football team. They got
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: in because they went on a roll and won their
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: last six games. Of the Year and got in went
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: to Washington, played on a sand field. Robert in the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Third's knee exploded. Her cousin hadn't taken many snaps that year.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Stephen Houshkin's knee exploded, Chris clemens knee exploded. And I
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: say that because it was just a joke of that field.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: But they then the next week they went down and
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: should have beat Atlanta and Matt Bryant remember he missed
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: the field goal, but the Seattle called the time out. Yes,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: I do remember that. But that team also remember they
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: made two big acquisitions in the offseason to get him
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: over the top. But fabe Michael Bennett, but favor Michael
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: Bennett took that next step. I think this, I know
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: I've and I'm listening. I'm guilty as hell. I do
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I make comparisons all the time. That
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: twenty twelve team, you could you could tell that was
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: a weird locker room because those dudes were ready. The
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: next year, Russ said it. I remember I talked to Gruss,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: I talked to Cam outside the Law, those guys for
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: our post game show, and they were I've remember come away.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: I'm like, damn like these guys are.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: Were like cocky, like they almost feel like they should
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: be there. That's what they were all saying that. You know,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: to a man, they knew. Part of that was Pete
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: put that belief in them too. Like Pete did a
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: great job.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: They also had incredible staff, as you're the Gus Bradley
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: and Dan Quinn on their staff. They made some coaches, well,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: let's see, is asking your assistant coach for interviews even
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: appropriate when he's going on a playoff run. Unfortunately, that's
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: what happens. In fact, I was just when we were
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: in d C. No where were we see No? I
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: think it was Atlanta when Gus was getting interviewed for Jacksonville.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: In fact, we yeah, I remember that because he comes
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: walking by us and he was we were doing it
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: was a Saturday morning and we were doing an interview.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: We're gonna sit down an interview with Pete for our
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: pregame show on Fox thirteen, and Gus walked by us
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: to go down the hall they had set up in
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: because you know how the NFL teams they cording off
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: my whole sections of the hotel ballrooms and all that.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: They had a room that the Seahawks. What Jacksonville used
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: to talk to guests that day. Wow, because guys walked
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: by way, Hey, what's up? Hey, how you doing? Like
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: I said, you're sticking around? He goes, uh, But that's
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: how the NFL works now, unlike college, those guys will
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: finish out the season, Unlike laying Kiffin making his assistance
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: from old miss head to LSU go back and forth
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: or then not only I think right now Charlie White
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Junior is the only guy back for the game this week.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Different he's getting interviewed. We'll talk about this with Danny.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: By the way, on Friday with Daniel Niel's on with us.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: He had a great tweet a moment ago, so true.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: I brought this up yesterday. He brought the same He
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: just tweeted the same thing we talked about yesterday about
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: how if this was college you know what we'll be
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: doing right now, worrying about Mike McDonald taking another job. Yeah,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: that's if this was college football. If this is college football,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: you'd be worrying about that right now. But in the NFL,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: because it's run like a business, you can't do that.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Plus Jody opened up the pea it wouldn't matter. You're
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: listen the Paul g Allen Fund. You ain't. You ain't
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: going over them, not unless Bezos spies the team anytime soon.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: That's true, and I don't think should do that.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: One thing I'm surprised about is why no one's talking
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: about how bad the Ravens got worse after Mike left.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: It's a great point. Yes, defensively they've been awful this year.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: They've been really bad, and they've had a couple of injuries,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: but they've not been the same defense, and in the
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: last year weird team. Like offensively, if I was Lamar
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Jackson was hurt, Lamar was hurt. They forgot that Derrick
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: Henry was still good at football. Sometimes it's like we
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: can still give him the football and he can beat
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: people up. Kerry team to victory. Let's see. Ian, Please
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: don't guarantee that the Seahawks will win the divisional game.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: The last guarantee he made was an ALCS winner with
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: the Marria run up to it all? Did I guarantee it?
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: I might have gante it.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: You use very similar language that you use just now,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: I do admit it. Are we uncomfortable with all that?
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: I'm not all right, some people are very superstitious. I
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 4: don't believe we have any effect on the outcome.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: You mean we're not exactly the same as the coaches
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: that in ninety hours players, all the work on the field,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: anything like that, anything step, the nutrition is the weight room.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: Finally, I hope who wasn't afraid of any other team?
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Bring on? The playoffs? Will destroy anyone who dares to
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: come into our house gap there we're talking about. You
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: have to face them anyway. Yeah, guys, any team that
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: made the playoffs is a good team. Just bring the
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: next victim. You're speaking my language, But do you do
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: you not trend with me a little bit?
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 6: Are you not?
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  Speaker 1: Would you not be a little bit okay? With the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers and Rams beating the hell out of
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  Speaker 1: each other and in the divisional und?
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  Speaker 2: I get we're going with that. Yes, I like that idea.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the Packers, but those two teams not each
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: other into next week. That would be a massively physical game.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Like I'm telling you right now, that would be a
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  Speaker 1: crazy physical game. Who are you more scared of? Forty
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: nine ers are equals? Oh? Who would you ratify a
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Seahawks guy that just Seahawks stafford that just sent me this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not guaranteeing anything, Relax, but but but I love you.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. You're one of my favorites that didn't
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  Speaker 1: go to my school. I love you. But relax. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not guaranteeing anything, am I.
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  Speaker 2: You're just very competent in this team.
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think doesn't matter who comes here, they're gonna kick
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  Speaker 1: the crap out of them in the I keep a swear,
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  Speaker 1: I've almost sworn like twice, they're gonna, they're gonna, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna absolutely pants whoever comes in here for the division
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  Speaker 1: and that place is gonna be rocking like it used
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  Speaker 1: to be. And then we're gonna see an NFC championship
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: game here and it's gonna be awesome. No guarantees, though, Relax,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: No guarantees. Finally, from Nikolkata former counselman, No, he and
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: professional sports provided close to zero culture value. That's right,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: no cultural value, no economic value. The guys at the
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: beer hall told me their business goes up two hundred
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: and fifty percent for a month with the Seahawk game.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: How about to help those local businesses, Safty's next. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll be rolling in here. I was gonna read
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  Speaker 1: another text here. Hang on a seconds. Well, Softy makes
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: his way in here. Come on in, fella, let's do
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  Speaker 1: a radio show here, will you? We got a radio show.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you. No, hang on a second. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just play this against I borrowed something today from you.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: I borrowed something from you today. Yeah, totally. But I
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: think you appreciate when I had John lundon today. I
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: borrowed this. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 10: Extremely difficult, Bulli. They were so close, so close.
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  Speaker 11: Did you play the package we put together yesterday? I
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 11: didn't remember the game. I did not on Saturday. How
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 11: long was it about three or four minutes?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I would have been actually good? Condensed it? You have
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: played the whole thing?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I think if you read your email, man,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 11: the producers do a big recap of every show every day,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 11: and it was on there from yesterday's show.
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  Speaker 1: I figure that's a pretty big assumption that I'm reading email.
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  Speaker 10: Extremely difficult, Bolli.
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  Speaker 1: They were so close, pay attention, so close, for god's sake.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Did you feel it now? Yeah? We got pampas back guy?
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Still there, man, She's still the lymphoma all summer, I
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: should say, so, how are you.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 11: I'm good, I'm glad, I'm good. I'm fired up for
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 11: today a little bit of a different show. Well, Ray
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 11: Roberts will join us today at four o'clock like that
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 11: to back offensive lineman Walter Jones was on yesterday. Ray
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 11: Roberts on today at four o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good get. Yeah for sure, that's a really
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: good yeah. I like that. I love her. I don't
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: know you. Okay, we're there. What are you doing? What's
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: going on you? We're live on the air right now.
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  Speaker 2: Right Well, I'm talking quietly.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Over here off mine too quietly. I can hear the
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: whole time. We both heard going okay.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 11: It's just like when you're in school and somebody brings
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 11: like a candy bars, like, did you bring some for
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 11: the rest of us?
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  Speaker 1: Is this so important that you can't share with the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: rest of have said?
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  Speaker 2: Because I misunderstood him, okay, and that was double yes,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 11: He speaks Canadians almost, you know what.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: For some reason I came close today to saying the
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: S word like twice. I caught myself and I usually
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: like we're able to turn it on and off.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 11: It's weirdn't I don't swear much off the ears, you
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 11: guys know, so you know it's never.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: It's it is, it is. It's one of the strangest
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: phenomenons in all of the world that radio hosts, specifically
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: the conversations when the mics are off. Oh my god,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden the red light goes on.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: You're just you're fine, that's right. And the best part
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: is purple sheet. He'll come in on the odd time
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: in the studio and even though the mics are off,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: and you know, when the mics are off, because we
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: hear the speaker, it's fine and we start talking.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 11: He's like, you just get like he loses his mind.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 11: I get it, man, hey, I get it. The food
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 11: in the studio, the drinks in the studio. Nobody wants
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 11: to pull a Curtis crabtree and fry the board. But
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 11: we have no board in the way we did like
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 11: five years ago. So I get that.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: You think a diet cocon an electrical board is bad,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: that's a problem.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that double extra as I came here.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think was huge.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 11: That is always when like the big gold McDonald just
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 11: like the extra value meal every single time. But I
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 11: h the other is only one person I know that
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 11: has a dirtier mouth than me. Who's at my wife?
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 11: Oh really, I can, I can attest horrible Gina. Sweet Gina,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 11: Sweet Gina has a real idea. It's even like offending me.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 11: I'm like, whoa, whoa. So he's like, I'm really uncomfortable.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 11: Are sure that my wife has a severe case of
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 11: Turette's that only turns on after she's done working every
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 11: night at five o'clock? Do you think any of that
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 11: comes from wait for it, not me, but her dad
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 11: is being come So I'm just gonna say, being.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Around you, it's part of me, but it's mostly her father. Yeah, okay, yeah,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: you'll blame your father in law, not herself. Taking no responsible.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 11: I had a pottymount before I met her, trust me,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 11: all right, When I met her, she had a potty mount.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Right when I first got here, nineteen years I asked
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: her out, why would I do that? Okay, well, and
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: she's asking herself correct. Right, nineteen years ago I got here,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: I met our great promotions director at the time, that
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: great Gina Gray, and I said, she is one of
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: the sweetest, nicest people I've ever met. And then I
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: find out, Yeah, she's dating him. That's right, that's right. Wow, yeah,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: what happened. I was a big deal back then. Man,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: not a washed up has been the way.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 10: I am out.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: It was a big deal. You were not a big deal.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: Now it's like, oh, well, I mean this is gross.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Gas and Mitchell married or what the depth chart? Gas
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: was married, You were married, Buckett was married.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 11: I wasn't a catch. I was the last on the
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 11: on the on the man. I just go with the
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 11: fat guy, the recently divorced fat guy. Just go go
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 11: with him. Maybe you'll buy an ice cream or something.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 11: What the hell. At the very least you're getting a
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 11: nice meal out of it, that's right. All right, Today
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 11: Robbers John Wilder will join us today. Obviously we're going
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 11: to continue to look forward to next weekend. I mean,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 11: this is just like paralysis by analysis, right, and when
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 11: it's ridiculous, I almost want someone that put me in
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 11: a coma and just wake me up over the weekend,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 11: wake me up on Sunday night when we know who
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 11: the Seahawks are playing.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: All right, I like it.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 6: I can't.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 11: The wait is killing me. Is the one thing I forgotten.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 11: You're actually not giving the number one wait? Wait is
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 11: sucking the life out of me?
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: Man, do you know this guy, the king of add
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: Like there's no change, Like yeah, he's.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 11: Patient, not given them until next weekend. They're playing Saturday.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 11: You think, right, you can play Saturday.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: Well that's there, the thought that they might.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 11: Have the last three number one seeds played on Saturday.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: But it's all dictated by TV, so it depends. It depends.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 11: All right, you're good, I am. I gotta wipe this
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 11: Duke's barbecue sauce off my face. The thing left is gone.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: It's all gone for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: the inverness. This is paddle day, saying so long everyone,