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10-19 H2: Gregg Bell Joins, Fact or Fiction & Kraken Are Playing Well · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into the radio program. It is Chuck Anders and
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Kidd with you here on this Monday. Hope you
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  Speaker 2: had a fabulous weekend out there. Greg Bell's going to
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  Speaker 2: join us. We missed him on Friday, so in about
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  Speaker 2: three minutes from now, we'll check in with our Seahawks insider.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of things to discuss, even though the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: haven't played since Thursday. A weekend without the Seahawks. Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and Sunday without Seahawks or Huskies. It was odd, and
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  Speaker 2: yet I watched a ton of football.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, welcome in. We do have a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of breaking news from the National Football League. The
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  Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts coming off a loss to the Tennessee Titans.
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  Speaker 2: They've seen enough. Chris Ballard finally fired as the general
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  Speaker 2: manager of the Indianapolis Colts here this morning. That, according
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  Speaker 2: to Tom Pelissero, I don't know how he's held on
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  Speaker 2: for this long. But finally, I guess that with her
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  Speaker 2: headphones on and her notepads on the sidelines... Mrs. Gordon
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  Speaker 2: Ursay has finally seen enough of Chris Ballard, and he
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  Speaker 2: is out as general manager.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe she thinks she could do a better job.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think she operates that way. But I think
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  Speaker 2: her notes compiled to suggest someone can.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably a good conclusion to draw at this point.
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  Speaker 2: NFL Week 6 is nearly in the books. Tonight, Monday
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  Speaker 2: Night Football, right here on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. The
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  Speaker 2: Commanders at San Francisco to take on the 49ers. 5-15
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  Speaker 2: is your kickoff. Wild week in the National Football League,
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  Speaker 2: but not wilder than the college football weekend. where most
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  Speaker 2: of the top-ranked teams in America suffered losses, including Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, and Georgia. The new No. 1 is Miami,
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  Speaker 2: who really lost. The new No. 2 is BYU, who
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  Speaker 2: kind of lost. Probably should have lost. Ohio State is 3,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame is 4, Georgia 5, and Indiana 6. is
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  Speaker 2: sixth in the latest college football poll. The Huskies, boy,
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  Speaker 2: did they need a win on Friday. They got it
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  Speaker 2: over Purdue on the road, 38-26. And Elijah Brown looked
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  Speaker 2: pretty effective, pretty efficient. And so we'll talk about the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback situation for the Dawgs a little bit later on
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  Speaker 2: in the program. The Kraken return home after a highly
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  Speaker 2: successful road trip. Yeah, they lost their last two on
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  Speaker 2: the road trip, including an 8-3 loss to Florida on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night. But Anders, they come away with three wins
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  Speaker 2: and a point in Tampa Bay. I'd say they got
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  Speaker 2: the job done.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, with beating the teams you're supposed to and then
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  Speaker 4: maybe sneaking a point or two against the really good teams,
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  Speaker 4: which is exactly what they did, especially on a big
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  Speaker 4: road trip like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a win. Sounders played to a drool. Let's call
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  Speaker 2: it a drool. Against Montreal on Saturday night. Meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Rays are now one win away. From a
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  Speaker 2: World Series date with the Milwaukee Brewers, and the ratings,
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  Speaker 2: I'm already preparing myself, are going to be terrible for
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  Speaker 2: that World Series, but they shouldn't be. Those are two
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  Speaker 2: very good teams, great teams, who play a very fun
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  Speaker 2: brand of baseball. And yes, watching Tampa play in that
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  Speaker 2: warehouse they call a baseball stadium is not enjoyable, but
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  Speaker 2: the team is good. The Brewers are good, and it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a good World Series. Of course, Guardians
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  Speaker 2: still have a chance to come back. They do have
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  Speaker 2: to win Game 6 tonight and then Game 7 tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: in Tampa in order to pull off the upset. WNBA
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  Speaker 2: playoffs are underway. The Valkyries up 1-0 on the Dream. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: we are on the eve of the brand-new NBA season. Man,
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  Speaker 2: there is a monster tripleheader tomorrow on NBC. We will
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  Speaker 2: preview the season at 9 o'clock this morning. Our showdown
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  Speaker 2: draft comes your way here on Chuck in the Mornings.
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  Speaker 2: But right now it's time to chat with Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 6: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. How was your weekend? It was good, finally
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  Speaker 2: at home. Yeah, without a football game to cover.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was unusual, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Did you take advantage? I mean, the Bells, they are adventurers.
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  Speaker 2: Did you end up in Greenland over the weekend or
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  Speaker 2: something like that?
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  Speaker 5: No, we stayed close to home.
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  Speaker 3: I've been gone so often, it was good to be home, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I bought a mattress.
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  Speaker 2: Well done. Were you just sleeping on the floor before that?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's just a mattress that needs replaced. It's almost
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  Speaker 3: as old as our kids.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was time. Got a new mattress.
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  Speaker 5: Good, good, good.
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  Speaker 3: Officiated some football games, high school football. One that ended
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  Speaker 3: on the final play of the game at the goal line.
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  Speaker 3: That was kind of wild.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of wild stuff in football over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the Seahawks didn't participate. They now get ready
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  Speaker 2: for the Kansas City Chiefs who are undefeated this week,
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  Speaker 2: and I know we usually put off previewing the next
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  Speaker 2: opponent until a little later on in the week, but
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  Speaker 2: I have a feeling, Greg Bell, that it is going
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  Speaker 2: to be Ken Walker week on these airwaves. The conversation
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  Speaker 2: about Ken Walker returning, what the Seahawks are missing in
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  Speaker 2: their running game, and the fact that Ken Walker looks
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  Speaker 2: like the best running back in the National Football League
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  Speaker 2: now that he wears a red jersey. This is going
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  Speaker 2: to be topic number one all week long, so we
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  Speaker 2: might as well get your thoughts on it right off
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  Speaker 2: the bat this week.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's rattle off what Ken Walker has done with
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  Speaker 3: his first five games as a chief. 173 yards, 23 carries.
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  Speaker 3: 24 carries, 117. 18 carries, 70 yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: 22 carries, 177 yards, two touchdowns. 19 carries, 128 yards,
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  Speaker 3: two touchdowns. He has two more touchdowns as a pass receiver.
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  Speaker 3: So that's six, eight touchdowns in five games, and four
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  Speaker 3: of the five games he's rushed for at least 100 yards.
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  Speaker 3: 17 yards, none of that's happened in Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: It's a value proposition they made back in March. We
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  Speaker 5: talked about this.
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  Speaker 3: They actually made this value proposition pretty much last September
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  Speaker 3: when they decided to job share Charbonnet and Ken Walker.
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  Speaker 3: What's interesting is they have this same decision coming up
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  Speaker 3: with Zach Charbonnet, who's coming off a major knee injury
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  Speaker 3: and hasn't played yet, who might get half a season to.
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  Speaker 5: Prove what his worth is on a new deal.
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  Speaker 3: And their precedent has been to do exactly what they
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  Speaker 3: did with Walker. Don't re-sign running backs who have wear
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  Speaker 3: and tear and injury history, and instead draft them and
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  Speaker 3: have them for four years under minimum, well, relatively inexpensive
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  Speaker 3: rookie contract salary. That's what they did with Price. That's,
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  Speaker 3: in fact, what they did with Walker. That's what they
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  Speaker 3: did with Chris Carson.
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  Speaker 5: So this is a pattern.
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  Speaker 3: And it's backfired, to say the least. The man they
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  Speaker 3: drafted to use a first-round pick to replace Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 3: is Jadarian Price is on injured reserve. We're not sure.
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  Speaker 3: McDonald hasn't given indication of when he may return. November
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  Speaker 3: 2nd is the first time he can against Chicago. That
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  Speaker 3: would be after the four games he has to miss
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  Speaker 3: as a minimum. So at this very moment, this was
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  Speaker 3: a mistake, of course. And we've all talked about can
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  Speaker 3: Andy Reid keep up the pace of using Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 3: for 80% of the snaps and 90% of.
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  Speaker 5: The touches and running back? Can they do that?
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  Speaker 3: And the Seahawks surmised no, they couldn't do that. That's
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  Speaker 3: why they split time with Charbonnet last year and didn't
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  Speaker 3: think Walker could get through 17 games using him as
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  Speaker 3: the number one bell cow. It's working out splendidly for
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  Speaker 3: undefeated Kansas City so far.
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  Speaker 2: Do the Seahawks know how to stop him? Because they
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  Speaker 2: are going to have to face him. I mean, forget
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  Speaker 2: the offseason transaction. Do they have an answer for Ken Walker?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've been playing terrific defense this season. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if Mike McDonald and John Schneider were all
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  Speaker 2: right with letting him go, then I would imagine they
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  Speaker 2: feel like they can bottle him up on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Evidence shows Mike McDonald knows how to stop every running
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  Speaker 3: back in the league. Nobody in two years has run
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  Speaker 3: for 100 yards against the Seahawks, and that coincides with them.
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  Speaker 3: winning the Super Bowl and having the number one defense
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  Speaker 3: last year. They have a top defense, Super Bowl-caliber defense
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  Speaker 3: again this year. They have an offense that subverts that
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  Speaker 3: defense with turnovers and short fields and giving away points.
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  Speaker 3: The answer, I think, is yes. Nobody knows Walker as
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  Speaker 3: much as the Seahawks do, and McDonald has stopped every
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  Speaker 3: running back he's faced with scheme and players. That would
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  Speaker 3: be a departure if Walker gets a 100-yard game on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday night That would be opposite of what's happened.
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  Speaker 5: The last two years to Seattle's defense.
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  Speaker 2: I did see Mike McDonald publicly discuss not having Ken
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  Speaker 2: Walker on the Manning cast, and I know you guys
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  Speaker 2: have asked him, but when's the last time John Schneider
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  Speaker 2: spoke about the decision that they made in the offseason?
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  Speaker 3: A better question is when's the last time John Schneider spoke?
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  Speaker 3: It was at the league meetings in March.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think... I'm trying to remember.
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  Speaker 3: He may have spoken... At the beginning, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the preseason.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, he did.
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  Speaker 3: In the indoor practice facility, I'm mistaken. So, it was
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  Speaker 3: late August.
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  Speaker 5: Um yeah we we are we have.
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  Speaker 3: Less access to most than most teams due to their
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  Speaker 3: general manager who the colts just fired there's this morning
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  Speaker 3: by the way chris ballard unusual in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: the season firing of a general manager it's how about
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  Speaker 3: it's going for the colts they're already trying to get
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  Speaker 3: ready for the draft next year and it's only october.
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  Speaker 2: They don't even have a first round pick Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: That's part of the reason that he got fired.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, we don't have to ask John Schneider about Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 3: We know what happened. Those of us in the building
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  Speaker 3: know that they were never going to pay a running
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  Speaker 3: back $ 14 million a year. And the way Andy Reid
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  Speaker 3: uses a running back, he was fine with that. Because,
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  Speaker 3: like we've talked about, he's using him 80-some percent of
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  Speaker 3: the snaps, and he throws to running backs... not as checkdowns,
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  Speaker 3: but as weapons down the field. Running backs in the
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs offense and Andy Reid's offense have a route tree.
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  Speaker 5: They have nine.
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  Speaker 3: Patterns just like a wide receiver does. And that's part
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  Speaker 3: of why he wanted to pay top dollar to a
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  Speaker 3: lead running back. He knew he was going to use
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  Speaker 3: him on three downs, and he was going to use
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  Speaker 3: him on all aspects of his offense. All of that
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  Speaker 3: is not what Seattle was doing with Kenneth Walker. He
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  Speaker 3: was in a 40% snap count job share with Zach Charbonnet,
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  Speaker 3: and often coming off the field on third down.
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  Speaker 5: And it was almost always.
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  Speaker 3: Much to his chagrin, coming off the field in the
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  Speaker 3: red zone. Charbonnet had 12 rushing touchdowns last year, the
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  Speaker 3: most for the Seahawks since Marshawn Lynch. Basically, Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 3: got him between the 20s, and then inside the 20s
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  Speaker 3: it was Charbonnet.
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  Speaker 5: And that's more the reason why, if.
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  Speaker 3: John Schneider had just said, you know what, I'm changing
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  Speaker 3: my mind, we're going to pay $ 15 million a year
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  Speaker 3: to Kenneth Walker, I don't think Walker would have stayed.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was so turned off by the jobs
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  Speaker 3: here in the middle of his contract year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, then he would have no choice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: That's also not what Schneider has done in his 17 years, typically.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think Walker was coming back no matter
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  Speaker 3: what they'd offered him.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm. Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider. You
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  Speaker 2: can follow him at GBellSeattle on X. He joins us
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  Speaker 2: almost every day here at 7.05. Well, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: something other than.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Can I say one more thing? Yeah. Because there's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a narrative all week that the Seahawks chose
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  Speaker 3: Rashid Shaheed over Kenneth Walker.
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  Speaker 5: That's not true.
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  Speaker 3: They could have afforded easily both, both in cash and cap.
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  Speaker 3: They decided the value proposition of running back, They much
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  Speaker 3: more value the kick returner and wide receiver, but it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't an either-or proposition at all.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right. Well, let's talk about something. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we have all week to talk about Ken Walker. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure a lot of different angles. But the other big
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  Speaker 2: topic over the weekend, Sands, a Seahawks football game, was
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  Speaker 2: should they replace their starting quarterback? That was the national topic.
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  Speaker 2: conversation about the Seahawks. I think every single host that
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  Speaker 2: I saw asked the question. And fortunately, the people they
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  Speaker 2: were asking, the response was absolutely not. They have never
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  Speaker 2: considered replacing Sam Darnold. So I think they were getting
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  Speaker 2: the right answer, even though they were asking the question
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  Speaker 2: all weekend long. What is the mindset, as you can tell,
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  Speaker 2: inside the building as to whether or not the Heat
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  Speaker 2: as turned up on Sam Donald's seat in any way?
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  Speaker 3: Well, of course the Heat's turned up on his seat.
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  Speaker 3: That's the nature of the position. And when quarterbacks lose
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  Speaker 3: and turn the ball over, they get blamed. That's just
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  Speaker 3: part of the deal.
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  Speaker 5: That's why they make the money they make.
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  Speaker 3: The vibe inside the building, and McDonald made this clear
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  Speaker 3: from the very first public comments the day after the
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  Speaker 3: loss in Denver, is let's rally behind our quarterback. Let's
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  Speaker 3: not have any doubt who our guy is. Let's not
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  Speaker 3: have the locker room guessing as to whether we're committed
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  Speaker 3: to this guy.
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  Speaker 5: Let's just nip this in the.
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  Speaker 3: Bud now when we still have nine days until we
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  Speaker 3: play again. McDonald took it head-on so that this wasn't
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  Speaker 3: an issue over the weekend for the players when they
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  Speaker 3: were off to think about and wonder, what are they
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  Speaker 3: going to do to a quarterback? I mean, he easily
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  Speaker 3: could have said, we're evaluating everything, right? Everyone's got to
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  Speaker 3: earn their spot, and we're looking at everything to fix
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  Speaker 3: the offense. He could have said that, but he made
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  Speaker 3: a point of saying, nope, Sam Donald's starting. We're not
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  Speaker 3: even thinking about this. He said that on Friday morning.
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  Speaker 3: so that the team in the locker room knew that
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  Speaker 3: they were not wavering from that and that they didn't
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  Speaker 3: have an idle weekend of wondering. So they want to
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  Speaker 3: be in the same direction at that position. What's far
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  Speaker 3: more interesting to me, guys, is what this means for
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  Speaker 3: after next year. Because until now, until this last three weeks,
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  Speaker 3: it was not– Will Sam Donald be the quarterback beyond 2027?
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  Speaker 3: Will he make $ 50 million a year to be the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks quarterback beyond 2027? It was done that he was
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  Speaker 3: going to get a new deal.
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  Speaker 5: Well, not now.
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  Speaker 3: This has to make John Schneider and Mike McGonigal go,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute. Do we want to commit $ 50 million
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  Speaker 3: a year into the 2030s on this 29-year-old quarterback who,
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  Speaker 3: let's face it, yes, he won a Super Bowl because
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  Speaker 3: he had four consecutive.
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  Speaker 5: Games and no turnovers last year in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Do we want to commit to the future to a
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  Speaker 3: guy who led the league in turnovers last year and
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  Speaker 3: is leading them again this year? That's a giant question
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  Speaker 3: because Drew Locke's contract ends too. And are we going
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  Speaker 3: to say Jalen Milrow is the quarterback of the future
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  Speaker 3: in Seattle? There's no indication of that either. So all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, it's not so much will he start
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  Speaker 3: against Kansas City, it's what are the Seahawks going to
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  Speaker 3: do at quarterback beyond the end of Sam Darnold's contract
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the 27th season. It's typical for
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  Speaker 3: them to redo contracts, as we all know, in the
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  Speaker 3: summer of the final year of that deal. And for Donald,
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  Speaker 3: that would be next summer. And I can't see how
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  Speaker 3: they would say, well, sure, let's go all in on
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  Speaker 3: 50-plus million a year at this point. Let's see where
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  Speaker 3: it is at the end of the season. But I think,
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  Speaker 3: at the very least, these last three games since his
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  Speaker 3: return from injury have given them some pause to reconsider
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  Speaker 3: what they'd be willing to do for that.
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  Speaker 2: A little house cleaning item. Anthony Bradford, he can return
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  Speaker 2: against Kansas City, correct?
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  Speaker 3: Correct. And Mike McDonald said that it's likely he will
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  Speaker 3: play on Sunday, that he looks good, and that means
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  Speaker 3: right guard would be back to where he was at
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  Speaker 3: the beginning of the season, and the offensive line would
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  Speaker 3: be whole again.
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  Speaker 2: And then the running back room looks like what, depth chart-wise?
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  Speaker 3: It looks like a bunch of dudes off the street,
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  Speaker 3: to be honest with you. It's Emmanuel Wilson, it's Robert
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  Speaker 3: Henry Jr., it's George Helani, who actually emerged in the
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  Speaker 3: second half. He was determined how he was running, especially
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  Speaker 3: the goal line on those consecutive runs against the Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: And it's Ellis Jones Jr., and that's pretty much it.
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  Speaker 3: And there's all kinds of trade rumors. Okay, the Eagles
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  Speaker 3: lost four in a row. Does that mean they're going
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  Speaker 3: to trade Saquon Barkley? Saquon Barkley has four and a
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  Speaker 3: half years and 60-plus million left on his contract. That's
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  Speaker 3: very hard to trade and very hard for an acquiring
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: team to absorb. Even though the Sears could afford that,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: that would be opposite the value proposition they made at
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: running back when they decided to leave Ken Walker to go.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: So I'm not sure that's the answer.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, it will be an interesting week. There's
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: no question about that. All right, man. What do you
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: got on the show today?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: We're going to talk about a little college football. We'll
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: talk about the quarterback situations that are at two major schools.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: It's the Elijah.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Brown era, beginning at UW after the win at Purdue,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: and did the Washington State Cougars find a new quarterback
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: in defeat when they scored 30 points at Oregon State
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: with a redshirt freshman, Eshelman. Jessamyn was there, and Corvallis.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that. Yep, I'm sure Kenneth Walker will
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: come up once or ten times.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: This week and today, I'm sure.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Are you guys going to celebrate your four-in-one week and
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: your lead in Factor Fiction? Are you going to brag
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Well, the lead is just normal.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Let's just call it day that ends in Y. Wow.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, we're going to talk about four-in-one.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: You are talking to the show that won the Factor
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Fiction battle last year.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Well, you know why you won Factor Fiction last year?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Why is that? You weren't there?
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Because I wasn't hosting a show last year.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: In 2024, I had the most wins on the station.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I know they gave Anders the trophy for having the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: best percentage because he picked five games.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but our show has won two years in a row.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: I haven't been there.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: It'd be like winning the Super Bowl without the Chiefs
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: and the Seahawks.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Oh, you're the Chiefs and the Seahawks all
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: of a sudden. Okay. I like this. A little spice.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Facts matter.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Okay. Facts matter.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Army wins again.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Facts matter.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, it is. I say the same thing every Factor
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Fiction 1135 check. I say if you want to win $ 1, 000,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: text FACTA49451 when I pick. If you don't want to win.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: $ 1, 000, text FICTION.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: It's pretty clear.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Something about that seat where people really brag about their picks.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I tell you what. And somehow the slow tortoise in
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the morning wins every single year.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: All right, Greg.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Thank you. We'll be listening for your pick at 1135.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Happy Monday.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Happy Monday.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Greg.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, and I did not realize
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: such a cocky gambler.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Seriously, man.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Wow, look at that trash talk. Give an inch, he
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: takes a mile, right? You gave him a little proposition, like, hey,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: you got four and one. Right, right. And you got
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the lead right now, which you've never had before.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: By the way, I also found a little bit of
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: that was, my picks were fine, but the show itself
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: doesn't win, so it's someone else's fault. Very Jed Fish
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: of you, Greg Bell.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about that next. It is Chuck in the Morning,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. the things you learn about your coworkers.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Seriously.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: So complete doper, huh?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Good morning to you all. Chuck Anders and Chris Kidd
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: with you. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Factor Fiction coming
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: your way at 7.35. Your chance to win $ 1, 000. Morning
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Show did go 3-2. I mean, not as good as
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, apparently the best Factor Fiction player of all time.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: He didn't bow down to the king at 10 a.m.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: But we're pretty good at it, I guess. You can't
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: laugh like that. So we'll play some fact or fiction.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: It is Anders Pick, and it's coming your way at
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: 7.35 this morning. Yeah, we had an NFL weekend without
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks playing. We technically, I guess, the actual weekend
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: without the Huskies playing, even though they played Friday night.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: But they did get a win. I mean, if the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: NFL had a lot of storylines, college football just blew
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: it out of the water on Saturday. And for Seattle,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, the storyline was... that the Huskies needed a
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: win desperately. Not just, I mean, they can't save their season.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: The goal was to make the playoff. They're not going
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to make the playoff. That's over. But then you have
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: to start focusing on, is the program salvageable under its
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: current direction, under its current leader? And Friday night went
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: a long way towards saying, hey, maybe not all is
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: lost here. Maybe it was a quarterback not getting rid
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: of the football because they threw– I mean, what did
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: they lose? The turnover battle? Five to one? Yeah, they did.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And still won by 12 points in the game. So
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: they obviously did a lot right. Clean up the turnovers,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and who knows how much better you could possibly play. Certainly,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: you could apply that to a better– competition. And, and man,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: if you're playing efficiently without turning the ball over the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: way that they did Friday night, then maybe, maybe all
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: hope is not lost at this stage of the Jed
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: fish program.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: And it's the thing that's kind of damning on the
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: side of the demand. Williams conversation is how different the
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: entire offense looks. It's one thing to have, you know, okay,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: we're able to throw the ball on time and, a
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: little bit more often, but you're still not having a
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: running game. You're still struggling to keep long drives together,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: but that's just not the case. It looks completely different
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: with Elijah Brown at quarterback. And I don't think Elijah
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Brown looks great at quarterback, by the way.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: No, that's the thing. I mean, he's limited. I will
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: give him credit for this. I mean, he gets rid
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: of the ball. He does not take sacks, even though
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: he's not anywhere near the same stratosphere as... Demond Williams,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: in terms of athleticism and quickness, I've said it before,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I've never seen anybody that quick, that elusive. get tackled
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: more easily than what DeMond Williams did. And then here
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: you have Elijah Brown that comes into the situation and
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: he does not have elusiveness. He doesn't have speed. He
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: doesn't have quickness. What he has is the ability to
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: pre-snap read and to get the ball to the first
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: open receiver that he finds versus wait for the most
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: open receiver to emerge and And by playing that way,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: which is what you have to do in football a
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: lot of the times, take a profit. First read. Then
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: you are having far more success in the last week
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and a quarter. than you had with DeMond Williams really
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: at any time in the last two years.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's looking more much like, and Mike McDonald
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: always talks about complimentary football, right? You add a little
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: bit of running game in there, which it seems to
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: get a little bit better.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: You're getting your receivers more involved, Roebuck, and who's the
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: second guy's name? I keep forgetting.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Williams. Yeah.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Lawson.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Lawson as well. All three of those guys seem like
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: they're getting more involved in the offense, whether it's just
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: quick throws, getting them out in the space and having
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: them run, but... The offense looks more complete when he's
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: under center.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Chris Lawson looks great, by the way. He's impressed me
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: all season long. It just looked like a different operation.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It was 5-2 the turnover battle. You lose the turnover
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: battle by minus 3, and you still win by 12
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: on the road against a team that had actually been
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: playing some pretty good football. It was just a night-and-day
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: sort of experience since Elijah Brown took over in the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: second half for an injured DeMond Brown against Iowa. But
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: we chalked that up. Elijah Brown for DeMond Williams. We
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: chalked that up to, well, you know, Iowa's in prevent, defense,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and everything else. And lo and behold, you go out there,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: put up over 300 yards passing, suddenly you have a
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: running game. Yeah. Because if you're not taking the bad
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: loss all the time, it is amazing how much more
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: effective everybody else can be.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: They can't just tee off on you, right?
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, it's a night and day sort of turnaround.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, better competition lies ahead. There's a lot more
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: proving to do. But certainly the offense looked like it
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: can operate, where for most of this season it has
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: looked dysfunctional.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: But it has looked operational since Elijah Brown took over
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: at quarterback, and I don't see a specimen there. I mean,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I don't see Josh Allen playing quarterback there for the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Washington Huskies. I mean, he looks completely limited, but it
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: shows you what you can do if a quarterback can
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: just avoid the sack, get rid of the ball, and
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: take a profit when it's there. All right, so we'll
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: talk more about that a little bit later on in
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the show, but right now it is time to turn
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: our attention to a little fact or fiction. We're set
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: to go. Glad you're with us.
• 25:57
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• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Oh man greg might have a point he's 18 and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: 12 as a show they're doing pretty well wow And
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: we're second place at 13 and 17. You look at
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the afternoon shows.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Yikes.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Didn't we have like four and one three weeks ago,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and then we had three and two?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Huh.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: We've had three, one, and four weeks, haven't we?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the tough part.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Well, we get it turned around right now. I'm over 500.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Kid's got his first win since he's returned to the station.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: It's up to you, Anders.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: You were looked upon as a valuable commodity in the
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: factor fiction department. It's time to turn your season around.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: It is. Get it going.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Get cooking. And I'm chasing, which is something you should
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: never do when you're gambling.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: But I'm chasing. Monday Night Football. Oh.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: We got Commanders 49ers today. I like instant gratification. I'm nervous,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: but go ahead.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Why are you nervous?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: We're about to find out.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Commanders are on the road. They are getting seven and
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: a half points. So they could lose by a touchdown
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: and still be good to go. You know me, I'm
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: not a hedger. I don't like to go into games like, okay,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I can either win Fact or Fiction or get the
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: team that I like to win to win. I like
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: to go all in. Okay. So I'm picking the Washington Commanders.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: You're going with the Commanders. Plus seven and a half.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I think... Oh, okay. Kid's knees just buckled. He's not
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: liking it. He's not liking it. Which is fine, you know?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't say that. We're good. But you thought it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: You thought it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to delve into what I thought.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: It's okay. You know what?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Jaden Daniels is back. I think Dan Quinn's going to
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: have these guys fired up and ready to play after
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: their debacle at the end of the game against the Giants.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: They put together a decent game against that Giants team.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: They just weren't able to finish it off like they
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: should have. Their defense isn't great, but I still think
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: there has to be some come down with the Niners
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: at some point.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: And plus seven and a half. Better not to come down.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I'm really hoping.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: The Seahawks did it to this exact same team, so
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: it could very much be the case. But I also
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: just want some instant gratification, and I want the Niners
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: to lose, so. Even if they don't, they can win
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: by a touchdown, and the Commanders would still cover. So,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Washington plus 7.5 on the road versus the San Francisco
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: 49ers on Monday Night Football.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Look here, pal. I'm rooting for you in every way
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: possible right here. I don't like it. Yeah.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that. Okay. I'm just saying. But you
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: thought it. I hope you're... I don't mind.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: It's all right.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I hope you're right. Yeah. I hope you're right. You know,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I'd love for the Commanders just to pull a shocker.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: win the damn game let's go love that all right
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: so seven and a half points that means the 49ers
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: would have to win by eight points or more tonight
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football at home near the substation point
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and another good point in order for Anders to have
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: misfired on his fact or fiction pick today so it's
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  Speaker 2: Again, the pick is... the Washington Commanders, to cover the
• 30:31
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• 30:50
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• 30:53
  Speaker 4: We'll find out.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll find out. The other shoe drops a lot
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of the time. Long season there, Army boy. All right,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: coming up next on the radio program, they have come
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  Speaker 2: top of the hour. In the meantime, coming home to
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: a hero's welcome, I suppose, your Seattle Kraken, Anders, as
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: they got the job done on the road, even in
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: the last two games in Florida. They don't get a win,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: but they got a point in Tampa Bay.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: And look.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of everybody in the sports world knows that the
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: last game of a long road trip on the opposite
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: coast is not usually going to go well. Getaway game.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Especially when you've already sort of socked away some money
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: in the bank. Right. So, I mean, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to call them out, but Pete Rose used to always
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: tell me when I worked with Pete Rose, yeah, you
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: always want to bet on the second game of a
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: doubleheader and the last game of a road trip.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Good to know.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Because the mindset's just not there. The mindset is like
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: you're thinking about getting home, especially when you've had success
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: on the road. So I'm not surprised. I mean, eight
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: to three is a little gross, but I'm not surprised
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: by it. I'm not bothered by it. To me, it's like, congratulations.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Nice road trip. I'm actually very encouraged by the way
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: this season has started. Me too.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: And a lot of people will have that last game
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: as the last taste in their mouth from what they've
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: seen from the Kraken, which understandably, I'm not getting any
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: delusions of grandeur here that we're a Stanley Cup contender
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden. That's not what's going on.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: But.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: We've talked about this many times with the Mariners. Win
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: the games you're supposed to, you'll be in the playoffs, right?
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: And that's exactly what the Kraken have done so far.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Maybe sneak a couple points here and there against the
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: better teams, and you'll find yourself with a really good record.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: That's exactly what has happened. Brandon Montour also didn't play
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: against Florida, which is a big like you saw how
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: important he was to the team as well. He's supposed
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: to be back, if not by next game, definitely by
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: at least by the end of the week. So it's
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: not like that's a long term issue. This team, I think,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: has had a really good start to this season. They're
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: scoring goals. Their goaltending has been good. They're good on
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: special teams. They're doing the things that when you don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: have the top end talent players to have that You're
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: doing the right things to become a winning team.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we're seeing things that, frankly, they just
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: have not done here in the last couple of years.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: And that's consistent offense. We haven't seen that at all
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: in the last couple of years.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Since they went to playoffs, yeah.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: You know, a power play that's not a weakness. Exactly.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: That has not been there. Going on the road and
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: taking care of just the things that you said, winning
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: against teams consistently that you are supposed to beat, that's
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: not been there. uh a calling card of theirs here
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: in the last couple of years both goaltenders being okay
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: at least yeah yeah and they're not lighting the world
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: on fire but um i mean last year grubauer struggled
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: for a while and decord struggled for a lot longer
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: of a period of time so We're just seeing things
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: from them that, frankly, we didn't see a year ago. Hell,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: a head coach that doesn't have gel in his hair
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: is another thing that we're seeing this year.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: That's a change.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: That is a huge change. Doesn't he look like the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: same person?
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: You're telling me it's 2026 now all of a sudden?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because it looks like 1994 for a little bit. Yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: I really thought, you don't know this, but I really
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: thought Lane Lambert was a vampire based on the way
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: he looked when he met us. I thought that That's
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: what he did. He was a child of the night.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: But now that he doesn't have gel in his hair,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I don't really get the vampire vibe from him anymore.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: It's like a normal Canadian human.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, yeah, we're just seeing things from them. And
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: then that picks up. Like, you come off of a
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: road trip. This is sort of like with a pitcher.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: When you, as a pitcher in Major League Baseball... How
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: you respond that next inning after your offense has supported
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: you really says a lot about how the game's going
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: to go. If you get three runs of offensive support
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: and then the next inning you give back two versus
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: three up, three down, it kind of changes the whole texture.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: So here you are, you've gotten road support, you've gone
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and had a good road trip, but you can give
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: it all back if you don't come home and take
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: care of business. And that starts tomorrow with a very
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: beatable Detroit team right here in Seattle. We've got to
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: get a lot larger sample of the 2026-27 Seattle Kraken.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: But the sample that we've gotten.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Sort of suggests that things are different.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Not going to run away with the division, not going
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: to be putting any bets for Stanley Cup championship, but
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: it does feel like they are a different team than
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: what we watched last season.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and a lot of that reasoning is because of
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: what we talked about needed to happen, that I didn't
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: have a ton of confidence could happen, and that's the...
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: The development of the younger players, Berkeley Caton looks real.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Shane Wright looks like a different player. Goodrow looks like.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: A different player.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I wasn't counting on that at all.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: No, the fourth line looks like the fourth line from
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: the playoff year, which you got a bunch of scoring from. So, yeah,
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, this team's doing the things that needs to happen.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: for them to be a playoff contender this year. Let's
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: hope it continues. Another beatable team in the Red Wings
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: at home tomorrow at 640.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, Steve Weiss will join us.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: It's Chuck in the Morning Sports Radio, 93.3 KJRFM.