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Ian Furness 9/30 H3: Corbin Smith, texts, fact or fiction and a visit from Softy! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: Ian Furness with you. Seahawks getting ready for the Week
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  Speaker 2: 4 matchup of the Chargers on Sunday. Head coach Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald saying shortly in his news conference a little while
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  Speaker 2: ago he's expecting Julian Love to practice today. More on
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  Speaker 2: that with Corbin Smith here in just a couple seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Two overtime games, Panthers over the Hurricanes, 1-0 Canucks beat
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  Speaker 3: Hour number 3.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to take a deep dive into all things
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks with Corbin Smith, sports reporter for Emerald City Spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: Corbin Smith, here's Ian.
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  Speaker 2: Triple Option, Emerald City Spectrum for all your local sports coverage,
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  Speaker 2: including the Kraken. I just mentioned them a moment ago
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  Speaker 2: as they get things going tomorrow night in Calgary. He
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  Speaker 2: joins us right now here at the Virginia Mason Athletic
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  Speaker 2: Center where the Seahawks just hit the field a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes ago. We were out there. Can't really discuss what
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  Speaker 2: we saw yet. But we can sort of because Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald gave a precursor. Let's just go through the news
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  Speaker 2: of the day. First of all, Corbin, because we were
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  Speaker 2: talking to Graze Abel in here when Mike McDonald was speaking.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start first with Julian Love. They got to
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  Speaker 2: have him back this week. The good news is he's
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  Speaker 2: expected to practice in some capacity today. So that's always
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  Speaker 2: a good sign on the Wednesday practice that you're getting
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  Speaker 2: in bag.
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  Speaker 3: I will say this. Anybody that's blaming A.J. Finley and
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  Speaker 3: Rodney Thomas for the loss on Sunday, get out of here.
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  Speaker 3: That is not correct. There were some much bigger problems
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  Speaker 3: than that. But this defense needs Julian Love out there.
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  Speaker 3: They need the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: He's an integral part of what they do.
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  Speaker 3: He really is.
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  Speaker 2: What's the deal with DeAnthony Bell? What happened there? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's anybody's guess at this point, because I thought for
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  Speaker 3: sure that he was going to be called up this week,
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  Speaker 3: but then they chose Max and Hook instead. And I
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  Speaker 3: like Max and Hook. I think Max and Hook's got
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  Speaker 3: some upside, but that was the first time he'd ever
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  Speaker 3: played in a regular season game. I'm wondering, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald made it sound like, well, it was just
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  Speaker 3: a 70-man roster mechanism, but this... This screams like D'Anthony
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  Speaker 3: Bell's like, well, if I'm not getting called up for
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  Speaker 3: this circumstance, then why am I here? And it just,
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  Speaker 3: it's weird because he was the main guy replacing Nicky
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  Speaker 3: Manwari in training camp. And then suddenly he was, clearly
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't even part of their plans if they had
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  Speaker 3: a litany of injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was weird. I thought, I think we've all
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  Speaker 2: kind of wondered that with... He's a good player too. Yeah, like,
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  Speaker 2: and was the second even Manwari was hurt.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming back. And then when we saw the
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  Speaker 2: Bud Clark injury, you're like, well, D'Anthony Bell's on the 50th,
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  Speaker 2: not on the practice squad. He's on the 53 man.
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  Speaker 2: That's just it. That, that thing is just odd all
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 3: It's something weird's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if McDonald's say today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. He just said that it was, you know, part
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  Speaker 3: of the issue with the 70, they've got more than
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  Speaker 3: 70 players that they're looking at, you know, typical coach
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  Speaker 3: speak on that front, but it's, It's a bizarre situation
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  Speaker 3: because he's been really good when he's played for them,
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  Speaker 3: and he's experienced. I don't know. I'm assuming that in
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  Speaker 3: this case it was like we wanted somebody that was
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  Speaker 3: more rangy on the back end for insurance, which they
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  Speaker 3: must feel Max and Hook is going to provide that
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  Speaker 3: more than D'Anthony Bell, who's at his best when he's
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  Speaker 3: playing in the box.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look back before we look ahead at the Chargers
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  Speaker 2: and everything else this week. Let's look back a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably simple to say turnovers were the big reason
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  Speaker 2: why they lost. So let's just start there. Was that
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  Speaker 2: the biggest reason they lost?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if they have two of those three turnovers that
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  Speaker 3: they don't commit, they win that game by double-digit points.
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  Speaker 3: They just gave up some really, I mean, obviously six
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  Speaker 3: points off of the interception late in the game. The
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  Speaker 3: fumble coming at the 21-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: Short field.
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  Speaker 3: Short field. I don't care how great your defense is.
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  Speaker 3: When they get put in a situation like that, good
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  Speaker 3: luck winning that battle. I thought the defense played pretty
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  Speaker 3: darn well most of the game. It's just they got
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  Speaker 3: put in some horrible situations. And not just from the offense.
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  Speaker 3: This would be my other takeaway, and this is why
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  Speaker 3: I asked Mike McDonald about this on Monday on our Zoom,
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  Speaker 3: and he made it clear the special teams is not
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  Speaker 3: good enough right now. They have plunged from third in
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  Speaker 3: expected points added in special teams last year to 26th
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  Speaker 3: so far this year. And it's been most noticeable in
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  Speaker 3: their kick coverage. It's been bad.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all think highly of Jay Harbaugh, right?
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  Speaker 2: So is it personnel?
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  Speaker 3: They have most of the same guys back. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Dariq Young is proving to be a big loss on
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  Speaker 3: special teams. And not having Irv Charles to help replace
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  Speaker 3: him right now. And he's not going to be back
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  Speaker 3: practicing this week. They've got to clean up some things.
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  Speaker 3: I think they have the players in place, but they just...
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  Speaker 3: They have not looked in sync on special teams. It
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  Speaker 3: just hasn't looked like the group we saw last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you wrote about it on Monday in
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  Speaker 2: Emerald City Spectrum. The good news is Jason Myers has
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  Speaker 2: been good. He was not good in the preseason. That
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  Speaker 2: was the one special teams question. But this is what
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  Speaker 2: was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I know that there was rain on Sunday, but Tress
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  Speaker 3: Way was booting the ball. Michael Dixon, for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: He did not look good.
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  Speaker 3: I said this on our Seahawks triple option on the
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  Speaker 3: show yesterday that Michael Dixon looked like he needed his
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  Speaker 3: Snickers and he was hungry. He was just getting no
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  Speaker 3: power on the football. He just wasn't himself.
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  Speaker 2: It was odd because it's not often that you hear
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  Speaker 2: a commentator kind of say that, but Who's doing the game?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever's doing the game.
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  Speaker 3: Greg Olson mentioned a couple times. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Former teammate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, hey, he's normally Mr. Reliable. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he said he's having a really bad day today. And
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was like he looked like a high
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  Speaker 2: school punter out there. That's never been Michael Dixon.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, if the weather was impacting both punters,
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  Speaker 3: then it'd be. But Tress Way was booting it. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I just felt like this first three games,
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  Speaker 3: there's been at least one phase of special teams that's
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  Speaker 3: been bad in every single game.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk Corbin Smith with us at Emerald City Spectrum.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he's got a couple of really good
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  Speaker 2: stories up there, including special teams, a long story on
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  Speaker 2: special teams. You can read it at EmeraldCitySpectrum.com. Rashid Shahid,
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  Speaker 2: the return on investment so far.
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  Speaker 3: Not good, but I'm not going to say that it's
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  Speaker 3: his fault necessarily. The drop he had in week two
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  Speaker 3: would be on him. It's hard to get the ball
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  Speaker 3: to other guys right now because nobody can defend Jackson
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  Speaker 3: Smith and Jigba. Cooper Cupp was pointing this out today. Look,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to skip throwing it to JSN if
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  Speaker 3: he's open, and they're trying to take him away, and
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  Speaker 3: they can't. When you have a guy that's that utterly dominant,
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  Speaker 3: he is right now, I know this is diverting from
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  Speaker 3: the question, but I'll get back to it. He is
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  Speaker 3: playing at a Jerry Rice prime level right now in
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  Speaker 3: terms of I don't think that's hyperbole. There was a
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  Speaker 3: sequence in that second half where I just keep thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 3: he's had three straight catches. There's no way they're letting
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  Speaker 3: him catch. Oh, he caught another one.
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  Speaker 2: He's just on a heater right now. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just look at the numbers. 27 catches in three games.
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  Speaker 3: He's on pace for 34 touchdowns. 27 catches, 405 yards,
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  Speaker 3: and six touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: In three games.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those are video game numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Cubs got eight. I'm just going through the receivers. Cubs
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  Speaker 2: got eight. Shaheed's got six. Torrey Horton his first three.
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  Speaker 2: And no other receivers caught a ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say it was on Shaheed and some of
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  Speaker 3: those guys. But I just think, you know, when you've
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  Speaker 3: got a player that is that special and he's getting open.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold is going to throw the football to him,
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  Speaker 3: and he should.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go back. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: things we brought up earlier, Corbin, is I think the
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  Speaker 2: start to games has to– I mean, they've got 17
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  Speaker 2: first-half points in three games. They've got seven total. They
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  Speaker 2: got one touchdown in three first quarters. One touchdown in
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  Speaker 2: the second quarter plus a field goal. 17 total first-half
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  Speaker 2: points so far for this team. 31 for the opposition.
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  Speaker 2: 31 to 17, they've been outscored in first halves. They've
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  Speaker 2: been great in second halves. By and large, offensively, they've
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  Speaker 2: been really good in second halves. but part of it
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  Speaker 2: was helped by Drake May and his interceptions and going
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  Speaker 2: against Jacoby Brissett, but they've got to be better in
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  Speaker 2: first halves.
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  Speaker 3: They've got to run the football better in first halves.
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  Speaker 3: I'm working on an article. This will be up here
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit on Emerald City Spectrum because there's
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  Speaker 3: a balancing act with Zach Charbonnet. You don't want to
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  Speaker 3: rush him back too quick. But if he's ready for practice,
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  Speaker 3: then get him out there and open that 21-day window.
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  Speaker 3: Was he expected to practice today? No, he's not practicing today.
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  Speaker 3: McDonald made it sound like there was a chance he
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  Speaker 3: could have his window open tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about a guy that we know is not playing
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  Speaker 3: this week. We can bring him back on Thursday, and
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  Speaker 3: then that means you have three weeks from now until
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  Speaker 3: that Thursday to make a decision on what you're going
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  Speaker 3: to do with him. But they have been so bad
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  Speaker 3: in short yardage. This is based on stats that I
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  Speaker 3: got from True Media. Ian, they right now are converting
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  Speaker 3: on three yards or less opportunities, doesn't matter what down.
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  Speaker 3: They are converting first downs with a run 37.5% of
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 2: On three yards or less?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, with a run game. That is dead last in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL by more than 10%.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: They have just been extremely inefficient defensively. And I think
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  Speaker 3: one or two of those pickups are barnyard runs. Like,
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  Speaker 3: when they've done traditional runs, it just has not worked.
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  Speaker 3: And they also have no third and three or shorter
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  Speaker 3: conversions with the run game this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Barnard's got the one carry. So, yeah, so one
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  Speaker 2: of those would be a Barnard carry.
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  Speaker 3: But every time they've had third and three or shorter,
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  Speaker 3: they have not gotten a first down on those third downs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like, I go back, it's... It's not a stat
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  Speaker 2: that anybody that's worth their salt would look at normally,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm going to look at it anyway because through
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  Speaker 2: three games, they have one rushing touchdown, and it was Barnyard.
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  Speaker 2: A Barnyard touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I said this yesterday. I think Brian Fleury's
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  Speaker 3: done a really good job from the 20 to the 20.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's gotten way too cute when they've been
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  Speaker 3: in the red zone. He's gotten away from what his
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  Speaker 3: identity is to an extent, and he's been like the
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  Speaker 3: Arizona game, it was just run, run, run, run, and
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  Speaker 3: then this game, it was pass, pass, pass, pass, and
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  Speaker 3: they got stuffed on both times. There's no variance there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to utter words I never thought I'd utter.
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  Speaker 2: How much do they miss Anthony Bradford?
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  Speaker 3: A lot. They miss A, B, and this shouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: a surprise coming from me because you've heard me talk.
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  Speaker 3: I've been much higher than Anthony Bradford. It is the
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  Speaker 3: physicality and the nastiness. He brings a different play style
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  Speaker 3: than the entire rest of that line, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that everybody else follows suit. When they don't have him
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  Speaker 3: in there, though, it changes that complexion. The group just
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  Speaker 3: is not as physical. 75 is out there looking to
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  Speaker 3: kick somebody's butt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he'll whiff occasionally, but he's also going to drive
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  Speaker 3: guys off the ball and drive them into the turf.
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  Speaker 2: Well, their offensive line coach, John Benton, loves him.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a reason. And it might not just be
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  Speaker 2: for what he does physically on a play-by-play basis.
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  Speaker 3: That chemistry, that contagious effect that his nastiness has on
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  Speaker 3: the entire group.
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  Speaker 2: Well, with him, so now with him out, he's got
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  Speaker 2: three more games he's got to miss on IR. So
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  Speaker 2: you go last week, Christian Haynes played 60% of the snaps,
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  Speaker 2: Bo Stevens 40%. So they rotated those guys in.
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned this last week, you do it until it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't work. It didn't work this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the Cardinals game, they made it work, but
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  Speaker 3: most of the time when you try to rotate offensive linemen,
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  Speaker 3: it does not work. Maybe it does in college. It
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  Speaker 3: does not work in the National Football League. It just
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  Speaker 3: seemed like Haynes and Stevens, neither one of them were
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  Speaker 3: able to truly get in the rhythm because they were
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  Speaker 3: just coming in and out of the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it.
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  Speaker 3: To me, it's no different than if you have two quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have one. I think even with backup offensive linemen,
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  Speaker 3: if you have two right guards, you don't have one.
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  Speaker 3: I think you've got to have somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Who should it be? Haynes. Really?
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  Speaker 3: Really. I like Bo Stevens, but I thought Christian Haynes
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  Speaker 3: was much more effective than he was in that game
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday. You could tell the rookie kind of had
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  Speaker 3: some welcome to the league moments. Seattle may look at
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  Speaker 3: this like, we want to get Stevens these reps, and
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  Speaker 3: I understand that, but if that's your mindset, then just
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  Speaker 3: start him. But I think Christian Haynes has been the
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  Speaker 3: better player.
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  Speaker 2: Jadarian Price, their first round pick, 28 carries, 119 yards,
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  Speaker 2: averaging 4.3, but there's a couple long pops in there.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen the explosiveness, but I don't think there's a
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  Speaker 2: football coach at any level in the country that is
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  Speaker 2: okay with turning the ball over. Two turnovers in two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expect to see more Jadarian Price this week?
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  Speaker 2: I think we saw the limitations of Emmanuel Wilson, especially
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  Speaker 2: when they tried to go wide with him. And do
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  Speaker 2: we expect to see more Price?
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  Speaker 3: They've got to. They just don't have juice. George Helani
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  Speaker 3: and Emmanuel Wilson between the tackles, can be really effective runners,
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  Speaker 3: and Helani can run outside stuff. But neither one of
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  Speaker 3: those guys has the athletic juice and burst that Jadarian
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  Speaker 3: Price does. So they're going to give him, I think
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  Speaker 3: that Turbo and I disagreed a little bit on this.
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  Speaker 3: Turbo thinks that there's a chance that he doesn't start
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  Speaker 3: this week, just based on his experience from being an
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  Speaker 3: NFL running back. Like, that's how seriously, but I think
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  Speaker 3: the soft benching that they did this last week was
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  Speaker 3: probably the equivalent of I think he starts in this
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  Speaker 3: game and they try to get that confidence built back up. But, man,
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  Speaker 3: if he puts the ball on the turf again, if
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  Speaker 3: it happens again, he might not get out of that
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  Speaker 3: doghouse for the rest of the year. And Zach Charbonnet
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  Speaker 3: is going to be on speed dial here getting him
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  Speaker 3: back to start.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that's the thing is that, like, you
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  Speaker 2: see the ability. Like, you see what he can do.
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  Speaker 2: You see the flashes of it.
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  Speaker 3: The confidence, though, has got to be– that's got to
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: be tough. It's a trust thing, and I can tell
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: you this. I coached high school running backs, and I
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: was lucky. The seven years that I coached high school ball,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: I only had one of my star backs that had
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: some fumble issues. I had one I coached in Indianapolis
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: that he had some issues in training camp the first
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: year I was with him, and then he started sleeping
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: with his football. He had almost 400 carries the two
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: years I coached him. never put the ball on the
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: ground a single time. So I was blessed as a coach.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: I had guys that really took it seriously, and we
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: had some really fun drills that we did. But, like,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: the one guy that I had that was incredibly talented
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: and coached him here in Washington, and, man, there was
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: always in the back of my head, though, like, is
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: he going to get 10 yards downfield and then somebody's
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: going to cough the ball up out of his hands?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: And that's how these NFL teams view it, too. Like,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: there is a fear, and it goes into the player, too. Like,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Turbo was talking about this on our show. Like, you
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: start to have the psychological effects as the player, like,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: and it makes it you're not playing fast. And if
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: you're not playing full speed in the National Football League,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: forget it. Well, you're thinking about, I've got to hold
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: on the ball. Hold on the ball. Hold on the ball.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Hold on the ball.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: You're not thinking about which hole I'm hitting, you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: where I'm cutting back to. Like, all the things could
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: probably go through your mind. Corbin Smith, Emerald City Spectrum.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Triple Option Podcast joining us right now. Let's get to
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: the defense. They've, by and large, played well. I think
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: that's safe to say. They've given up this season just
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: 50 points. You take the seven off the board that
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: was a pick six. I mean, 43 in the three games.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: They've done okay defensively. They didn't get the stops at
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the end. Marcus Mariota with the big play. We talked
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: about Julian Love. But now they're going against, I keep
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: wanting to say San Diego. It's all these years later, right?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: It should be San Diego. It should be. Chargers team
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: that Justin Herbert has struggled. This team has struggled. They're 0-3.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Everyone's like, well, they're not going to go winless. They're
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: going to get some wins at some point in time.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I don't think this is the week they get one.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: But what are they going to see? What are they
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: looking at when they look across and see Justin Herbert,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Amari Hampton, etc.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Herbert can be one of those. He can be a
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: top five quarterback any given Sunday. He can be a
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: bottom five, ten quarterback any given Sunday. He is incredibly inconsistent.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Has all of the physical tools, and you can see
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: the athletic ability with him, but he just, something is
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: missing there, and something, I mentioned this the other day
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: with Rob Rang when we were doing our post-game show
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: and talking Chargers looking forward, like, It almost feels like
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel is.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Their new offensive coordinator, former Miami head coach.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: It almost feels like he's meshing with Harbaugh about as
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: effectively as Ryan Grubb meshed with Mike McDonnell. It just
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: has not worked so far. Now, maybe there will be
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: a light switch that comes on, but that marriage looks
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: like that might be one of those 90-day fiancé things
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: that just ends up blowing up in your face real quick.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: They don't have anybody that can... They have some good receivers...
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: They don't have any receivers, though, that you're like, okay,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: that dude can separate. He scares me. They just don't.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Labakaki's their leading receiver with 12 catches.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Quinn Johnson has the athletic ability, but he drops half
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: the passes thrown at him. They've got some good players.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: They just don't have anybody that scares you. They just don't.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: 20th in the league in total offense are the Chargers
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: right now. Their pass offense is 20th. They do run
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the ball okay with Amari and Hampton. I say okay,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: but They're just a team that seems to be lost.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: That new offensive coordinator is not working. A guy that
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: everyone thought, well, he's going to go there, turn around
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Justin Herbert. He's going to get another NFL coaching job
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: right away. Instead, it's going the opposite direction right now.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Now he's trending in what I call the Adam Gaze Club,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: where you go from head coach to being an OC again,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: and then, oh, wait, I don't have Peyton Manning anymore.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And in this case, I don't have Tyreek Hill in
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: his prime. It's incredible how much that's impacted, but I mean,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: this Chargers team doesn't have anybody like that on the outside.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: No, no. End of the day, and if you're sitting
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: in L.A. right now in the Chargers, you're like, yeah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: we're 0-3. Our offense hasn't been great. Justin's been so-so, blah, blah, blah,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: all these things. Oh, no, we're going against the Seahawks
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: defense this week. And they're coming off a loss. Coming
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: off a loss at Lumen. And Mike McDonald's probably red-ass
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: all week. That's probably not a good recipe for success
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: for the Chargers.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: No, and look, it's very similar to last week. If
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Seattle's turning the ball over, coughing it up, making mistakes
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: on special teams, then they could lose two in a row. Absolutely.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: The Chargers have some talent, but again, they look to
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: me like that just kind of middling roster of that,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: you know, I know they won 11 games last year,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: but they had some things that helped them out, like, oh,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes got hurt, and different things like that. I just,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I think they are a middling team at best.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Quick thought about the NFC West. Rams 1 and 2.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: No reason to be worried.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but 49ers 3 and 0.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, San Francisco looks great, but I'm going to keep
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: saying this every week that you ask me. How long
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: can they keep their guys healthy? And then every week
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: they have guys exiting games, and they got some good
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: news this week on Mike Evans and stuff, but it's
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: just like they've got a lot of older players. They
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: are top-heavy. They've already had a bunch of injuries. If
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: a few of their really good players go down, they
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: don't have Bosa playing right now. What Kyle Shanahan is
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: doing is, again, masterful. There's no question about that, but
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: it's a week-to-week thing with them. How healthy are they?
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Can they keep their guys? Because if they can, they
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: can beat anybody. Right, but if not, I mean, Bosa,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: they can't even put a guy on the IR right now.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: They're full. Like, no room at the end. It's crazy.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Well, to explain that, like, they technically can, but if
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: they put Bosa on injured reserve, they've exceeded the number
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: of players that can come back.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Come back, yes.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: So that makes it, they have to then pick, okay,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: who's going to be the one guy we know we're
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: not going to get back this year?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: We're not getting back, we don't want to, who's the
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: guy that we can afford to?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: And if your team ends up in that position in
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: week three or week four, you're in trouble, yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Emerald City Spectrum, and tell us about the great new
• 21:37
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• 21:39
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• 21:59
  Speaker 3: City Spectrum is the website. And, again, this is no AI, right?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: You guys just do your own stuff? If somebody's doing
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: AI on my website, they will not be employed.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I like that. I like that. And the podcast. The
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Seahawks triple option.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: We're rolling. We've actually been going seven days a week
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: because I'm doing Q & A shows on Saturday and
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: we're doing postgame shows on Sunday and we do seven o'clock.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Had to go six last night, but pretty much every
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: night at 7 p.m. Pacific time, YouTube. You can get
• 22:29
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• 22:34
  Speaker 3: wherever you get your podcasts.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Rob Rang and Robert Turbin with you as well, so
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: great stuff. All right, have a great week. I'll talk
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: to you next week.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Ian.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: That's Corbin Smith. We'll take a break.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Come back.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: We've got Factor Fiction and your text at 49451. Coming
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: up next. Just a real quick score update before we
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: get to text at 49451. Factor Fiction moments away. White
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Sox leading the Astros 4-0.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: In the first.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: In the first. In the first.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: This is because they booed yesterday because they were down
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: 3-0 in the first.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yep. And they just got out of a bases load
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: of jam. It could have even been worse than 4-0.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: That's unfortunate.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: 4-9, 4-5.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Ashley, do you have a couple of texts from yesterday?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: We're going to save a couple.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I do. I do.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: So we've got from the 360. I'm 55. I've bled
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Mariner's blue since the beginning. Listening to DePoto and Stanton
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: just solidifies the realization that we will never get there.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: That's that one.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: You want me to keep going?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Keep going. Yeah, give me a couple.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: We've got from the 206. Thank you guys for telling
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: it like it is.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: I'm heartbroken about the Mariners and so sick of ownership
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: that does not care about us or results.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Keep calling out the truth. I, I.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Levine had a great, Aaron Levine had a great tweet yesterday.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I retweeted it. Just when Stanton's line has been to,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: in the two interviews he's done with Sylvie and the,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: and the newspaper, uh, Hey, we've increased our payroll every year. Yeah,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: but not to the same level of other teams. Right.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, payroll goes up. Sports more so than even
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a normal rate of cost of living inflation goes up
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: even more every year. And there's no salary cap. So
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: you don't get credit for that. No. Ownership doesn't get
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: credit for that.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: It's almost like you're raising it just to tell everybody, see, look,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: we raised it again.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: That's kind of how it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Comes across at times.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: We've also got....
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: From the 360, the Mariners' ownership does not care about
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: standings or wins or losses. They only care about filling
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: the seats in the stadium as long as fans continue
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: to buy the $ 20 beers, a $ 12 hot dog, and
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: they keep going. The ownership is happy, and they get
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: what they want. The only way to hurt the ownership
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: is to hurt them in the pocketbook.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I never really fully buy into they don't want
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: to win, but I don't know. I think guys that
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: aren't owners, I think the people that don't have a
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: stake in how much money comes in, I think those
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: people really want to see the team win more than anything.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I think the people that have a bottom line is
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: their number one priority, then, yeah, I can dance with that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: So I think you have to separate the two along
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: the way. A couple texts on the text line today.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Charbonnet not going to fix the run game. He's slow,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: can't reach the edge on outside run zones. I don't know.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing with Charbonnet. It's great I know he's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: coming off an ACL. Now, I know it's an ACL
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: that these days it seems like those things get repaired
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and you're fine, but let's see. We still don't know. But, yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: that's it. Let's see. Another pathetic playoff crowd in Atlanta.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Let's see. What else we got? Who do we hate more, Ian? 49ers, 41ers,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: trash cans, or the Lambs?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I hate the Astros the most.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Do you really?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I think if I was... Who did they play?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Was that the.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers, that was the Dodgers that they beat. The
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: trash can year was the Dodgers in the World Series, right?
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I can't remember who they played.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I think it was. And if it was my team
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: going against them in a playoff series, I'd be really hating.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I don't like them. They're greasy. Most of them outside
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: of what Altuve have moved on. 49ers drive me nuts.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I don't like the Rams. I'll be honest with you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I'd go Rams, Niners, trash cans.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I feel like the Rams and Niners are even for me.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the Fact or Fiction. Here
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: We're set to go.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Glad you're with us.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: It's your shot at our weekly $ 1, 000 and the $ 10, 000
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  Speaker 4: It's Fact or Fiction.
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• 26:35
  Speaker 2: It's time to chase, Ash. Time to chase. Love it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: We're chasing. We are chasing today. Here we go.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Feeling comfortable about this?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: You know, it's wild. I know in the years of
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: fact or fiction, I've never gone down this road before,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: but I am today.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Following wins over the Buccaneers and Panthers, this particular team
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: is a home underdog, ladies and gentlemen. The Cleveland Browns.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Plus two and a half.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: The Cleveland Browns plus two and a half at home
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Fact.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Four, nine, four, five, one. Roger. Both teams are two
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: and one. But the Browns have back-to-back wins against playoff
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: teams from last year in the Bucs and the Panthers.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: No, wait.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: The Bucs didn't go to the playoffs, right?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Did they?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Panthers did. I think the Bucs got left out.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Back-to-back wins against those two teams. Deshaun Watson, at least
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: for now, passable.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: For now, that's the key part.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I hate Aaron Rodgers. Correct. No, and that does
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: not make me a Deshaun Watson fan.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, I hate Aaron Rodgers, but also not a Deshaun
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Watson fan, no.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Don't like either one of those guys.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: No.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: And I'm not even going to play. You can only
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: have one. I'm just saying, I think Cleveland at home
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: is a dog plus two and a half over the
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. Fact, 49451. I'm a Browns believer.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Flat out Browns believer.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I've always known that about you, Ian.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: This is also a thing. It's instant gratification. You will
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: have a win one way or the other. Either if
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: you text FACT49451 and they cover, or FICTION and all
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: of a sudden the Steelers decide they want to be
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: good again. Yes, they do have two wins this season. Yes,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: they did beat the Bengals, but that was at home.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: FACT49451. Browns.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Plus two and a half over the Steelers. Fact 49451. Yes?
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: No? I like it. Okay. I like it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I like the chase on a Thursday. I like getting... Yeah,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: get out ahead of it early. Because here's what's happened.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Every Monday, the first pick of the week at the
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: 735 window, the morning show has taken the Monday night game.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Every week so far.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: They take it every week. I know. Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Normally that didn't happen in the past. So I can't
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: even get a Monday. I need to get myself some
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: instant gratification. And the best thing is I won't be
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: stressing over the pick, whether I'm right or wrong, because
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: we have a cracking game tomorrow night at that exact
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: same time. You won't even be worried. Won't even be worried.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I'll look at it later and go, cool, fact. That's
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: a green little mark on our little spreadsheet, which I
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: need more green marks. I don't have a lot of
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: green marks. I only have two this season. I need
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: a green mark. So Cleveland plus two and a half
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: at home against Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Fact, 49451.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: If you disagree, it's fiction, 49451. Did you know the
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: leading receiver right now for the Cleveland Browns. Did you
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: know who it is?
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Is it Denzel Boston?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: It is. Go Huskies, right? There you go. Nine catches,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: 195 yards. a couple touchdowns this season. He's been very good.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Although he was really good in one game, and that
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: was the game I had him on my bench.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: That was the game, yes. I shouldn't say he's been
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: really good. He's been good in one game.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was good in that.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: I had him on my bench.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I put him in last weekend.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: And then not good.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: He wasn't terrible, but he wasn't great.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm in.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I'm in all the way. I'm a Denzel Boston, Deshaun
• 30:01
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• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, again, I've always known this about.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: You. All right. Cleveland Facts, 49451 plus two and a
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  Speaker 2: half if you disagree.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Fiction, 49451.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Here's what we're doing. We're playing for a $ 1, 000 weekly prize,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: $ 10, 000 grand prize. Every week we give away $ 1, 000 here
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  Speaker 2: on the radio station to someone who correctly says fact
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: or fiction to a pick. All it takes is one
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: correct pick, but the more correct picks you have, The
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: better chance you have to win that $ 1, 000 weekly prize
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: like our buddy from Bantucky did this past week. And
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: if you've been playing along, you get a chance for
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• 30:35
  Speaker 2: most correct wins, whether it be fact or fiction, it
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. The most correct picks that are correct at
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the end of the season. Someone also makes sure you
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: get your picks in. But $ 10, 000, who couldn't use $ 10, 000?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: At the end of the year in December. Huh? Who
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: couldn't use it?
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, I could use it at the end of
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: the year, the beginning of the year, the middle of
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: the year, whatever.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Today, the 1st of October, which is tomorrow.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Whatever. Tomorrow.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get them all days. Yeah, we need 10,000 hours.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: So fact or fiction, big thanks to Lucky Eagle Casino.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: One more time, Browns plus two and a half, text
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  Speaker 2: joins us next. All righty then, wrapping up here at
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the Virginia... Mason Athletic Center.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Alrighty then. Alrighty then.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: They're getting ready for a big tilt against the Chargers.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: It's a weekend. It's a weekend of California football. The
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Huskies at USC and the Seahawks hosting the Los Angeles Chargers.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Who's more dangerous? A pissed off Seahawks team or an
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: 0-3 Chargers team?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I think a pissed off Seahawks team. I think Mike McDonald.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: They've kind of changed things up practice time today. I
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: got the impression from Zabel that the walkthrough was pretty
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: good and tense.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I just.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: What happened last week was not Seahawks football. And I
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: think if we learn anything from hard knocks is Mike McDonald,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: a quiet nerd at times.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But if it's time to be a hard ass, he's
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: got no problem doing that. I think the Chargers are
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: flat out broken.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: Well, it's funny because here's the thing. Like we talk
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: about it not being Seahawks football.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: Not in context of the previous 12 games. But we
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: have seen that before. We saw it versus Tampa Bay
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: last year. When they were banged up and they gave
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: up a buttload of points and had some turnovers and
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: threw the ball way too much and couldn't win the game.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Well, remember that game? They couldn't get off the field.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield looked like the Heisman Trophy winner again.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: And what was the problem in this game last Sunday?
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: Third and nine, third and seven late in the game.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Can't get off the damn field. So that's why I
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: brought it up that like in the Patriot game, there
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: were those third and long, second and longs the Patriots had.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: That they overcame, and I'm not panicking. Trust me, if
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I'm panicking, you'd know I was panicking.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I would know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: But I do think it is something to just kind
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: of file away that in two of the first three
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: games of the year, the Seahawks defense has been in
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: very favorable positions, and they couldn't get off the field.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: And without a massively underthrown ball by Drake May in
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: the fourth quarter of that game against New England, who knows?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: Who knows?
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: More on that in just a second. Real quick, just
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: on the text line. The bounce-backs didn't work for the
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: first minute or two. If you were texting for fact
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: or fiction, the bounce-backs were working. Now you should have
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: got a bounce-back at 494-501. For my great pick of
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Cleveland plus two and a half at home against the Steelers, fact, 494-501.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Or as one guy says... As one guy says, love
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: that pick, but it's Ian, so now I'm torn. You
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: know what? I don't blame you for that, fella.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I don't blame you at all.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: Listen, this is the new version of the Magic 8-Ball
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: that used to shake up back in the day.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Let's ask Coach Baird what he thinks.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Stupid idiot! There you go. I mean, based on my
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: record this year, it's probably pretty accurate. I talked to
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: my guy, Stuart Mandell, today. It's not a game that
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the nation necessarily is paying attention to, although everyone cares
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: about USC, but That's a pretty big tilt there on
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon down in L.A., isn't it? I mean, one
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: of those teams is basically done as far as a
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: college football playoff is concerned. If it's USC, the coach
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: may be done.
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: Well, listen, if they had the money to pay him tonight,
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: they would pay him. But they don't because they owe
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: him $ 70 million plus probably another $ 10 million for the coaches.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's $ 80 million that they would have to
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: pay Lincoln Riley. And right now, and this is what
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: Petros and I will talk about at 4 o'clock today,
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: there's just not an appetite to throw more money at
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: bad at USC because they've been doing it. They did
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: it with Clay Helton. They did it with other coaches,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: basketball coaches, football coaches. And I mean, Jen didn't hire
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: the guy. He was already there for crying out loud
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: when she showed up, just like Pat Chun didn't hire
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: Danny Sprinkler, Jed Fish, you know, but she may have
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: to be the one responsible for cleaning up the mess.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Good luck.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Mandel wrote about, about Jen's connection to, and obviously with
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: the guy that's coaching at Alabama. Do you think, do
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: you think a better job right now today is USC
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: or Alabama?
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, you know what?
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: I would think USC potentially because they might have a
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: little more money than Alabama's got.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Because Alabama's not in great shape with NIL, right?
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: No, they're not. They're not.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: But they have a lot of passion. I mean, they're
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: going to pack that place no matter what, right? I mean,
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: you saw what Trojan fans will do when the team
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: falls apart. They find other stuff to do.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Or it's warm.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It's hot.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: Well, it's going to be 95 degrees at kickoff on Saturday,
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: by the way.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: So I'm not looking forward to that.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: I just went to Costco and got myself a Costco-sized
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: bucket of Gold Bond, and I might need the whole
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: thing for the game on Saturday.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Our new sideline reporter for the Huskies is going to
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: be sweating on Saturday.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: If you see a guy that looks like Pee Wee
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Herman with one of those construction helmets on with the
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: two beers or water bottles on each side with the hoses,
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: that's me on the sideline, man. So I will definitely
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: be reminding Elise of the comforts of the press box
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: that she'll be dealing with on Saturday. But thank God
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: it's a 4.30 game, not a 12.30 game, right?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: My God.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Such a game that has crazy importance. Everyone's talking about
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Ohio State, Iowa. I get that. I understand that. Especially
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: with USC. The Lincoln-Riley, if they lose to a Washington team.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: That just lost to a Minnesota team.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Not good. In the words of Rich Moore, not good.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: But here's the thing.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: Nobody's talking about UW-Minnesota because.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: They're all talking about USC and what happened a week ago.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: I just talked to Pete Arbogast, who's the longtime play-by-play voice.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just talked to him.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: How'd that go? It was fine.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: I talked to him for our pregame show. And I
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: asked him, I said, do you think differently about the call?
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: And he said, yeah, I blew it. So he blew
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: the call. He said he just, you know, it was
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: a mistake.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Well, that's good because, yeah, he did.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, he said he didn't see the targeting
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: or the taunting. Sorry, because he was watching Dante on
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: the ground. But he said it was a mistake. He
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: blew the call.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: He got it wrong.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, I put that on X, by the way,
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: so for the entire world to see.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I might have to go see that.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, go check it out, man.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: It's on the X.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: I think I spend way too much time on social media.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: What's your X handle? I don't know if I follow you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: At Big Deal, by the way.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Big Deal. At Big Deal. I'm going to type in that.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: At Big Deal. Actually, I'm not going to type that
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: in because I don't want to see what pops up
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: if I put that in. No.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Have Ashley do it for you.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: She's a mom. She's seen worse. On the company computer.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: What do you got coming up today?
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Florio Petros Harlan coming up today on the radio show.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Petros is four.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: By the way, Lane Lambert makes his debut with a
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: boy starting tomorrow against the Flames.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: He'll join us at 345. Sounds good. See you.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Later.