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10-2 H1: What's On Tap, ICYMI & No Cliché Keys · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, great morning to you all. Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just any Friday. We are to that time
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  Speaker 2: of the year where the leaves are turning. Everyone's serving
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  Speaker 2: pumpkin flavored stuff. The temperatures are cooling. We are smack
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  Speaker 2: dab in the midst of the greatest month that we
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  Speaker 2: have on our calendar.
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  Speaker 3: It is the month of October and it is football season,
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  Speaker 3: which means today is football Friday. a Washington State Beef
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  Speaker 3: Commission's Football Friday. And so we welcome you into the program.
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  Speaker 3: Football Friday is brought to you by Washington's Beef Farmers
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  Speaker 3: and Ranchers Beef.
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  Speaker 1: It is what's for dinner.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Chuck Powell. Great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 3: Christopher Kidd is here as well. If you're like, wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute, Christopher Kidd.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, he's back. He's back.
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  Speaker 3: At Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM and a member of
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  Speaker 3: The Morning Show. And Anders Hurst is with us as well.
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  Speaker 3: You were just getting used to Anders Hurst and now
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  Speaker 3: you've got to adjust your... Sights to Christopher Kidd being
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  Speaker 3: added to the show as well.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: It's like you get a bunch of new and, you know,
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  Speaker 5: whatever is the new kind of new blood on the show.
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  Speaker 5: That's what you're going to be most excited for. New blood.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we should become blood brothers
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  Speaker 1: before the end of 10 o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We'll join the same wolf pack. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: What would that entail?
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know, but it just feels like a
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  Speaker 3: real bonding experience for the three of us.
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  Speaker 1: Apple cider.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm down. Apple cider.
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  Speaker 1: Apple cider. We all take a sip of that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we just take a, oh, we just take a, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Clink our glasses.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So cut open our hands and combine our blood and
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  Speaker 3: then wash it down with some apple cider.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the morning show tradition. We can build
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  Speaker 1: it up. You can see where it goes from there.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's some other things that we could incorporate.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe like the sacrificing of a large goat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm down for that.
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  Speaker 4: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not. I'm not. I can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know where we would find a large goat, but,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that's that's Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Lionel Messi is not really that large, so he wouldn't count.
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  Speaker 4: No, he wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: That would be too small.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, too small. Yeah, that would be cruel. Well, great
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  Speaker 1: morning to you all.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a lot of football here to discuss on
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  Speaker 3: the program today. In a little bit, we've got what's
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  Speaker 3: on tap for you, so we'll map out the entire
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  Speaker 3: show here on the radio program. But let us start
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  Speaker 3: with hockey again today.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah!
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  Speaker 3: Because we have a hockey team that obviously, everything they
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  Speaker 3: did in the offseason worked.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it was that they were doing with that audit
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  Speaker 3: where they looked every corner, every nook to try to
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  Speaker 3: find an advantage, it's very clear now that they found
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  Speaker 3: those hidden advantages and then exploited the Calgary Flames last
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  Speaker 3: night in Calgary by winning by a final score of 6-1.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness. I mean, all tongue-in-cheek, one game... What does
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  Speaker 1: it really amount to?
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  Speaker 3: But you'd rather win 6-1 than lose 6-1 on your opener.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't remember them coming.
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  Speaker 3: Out of the gates this strong at any time in
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  Speaker 3: their young franchise history. But six different guys scored goals
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  Speaker 3: last night. Joey Decord stopped all but one shot. Out
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  Speaker 3: of 25 faced. I mean, it was a complete dominant
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  Speaker 3: performance to start the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No empty netters, too. You would think, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you would score six goals. It's like maybe you got
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  Speaker 5: a couple empty netters at the end because they were
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  Speaker 5: trying to pull the goalie and get a couple goals with. No,
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  Speaker 5: it was like pure domination from really start to finish
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  Speaker 5: from the Kraken. And you have to definitely put into
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  Speaker 5: account who they're facing. Calgary probably will be one of
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  Speaker 5: the worst teams in the league as well. So you
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  Speaker 5: have to definitely put that in perspective. But I just
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  Speaker 5: think about it from from this way, the Kraken scoring
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  Speaker 5: six goals on anyone is kind of seeming like a
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  Speaker 5: little eye opening experience for me yesterday. And the fact
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  Speaker 5: that it was the first game of the season, they
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  Speaker 5: definitely had a little bit of a bleep you energy
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  Speaker 5: to them. We were kind of told that from Mike
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  Speaker 5: Benton for a while. He's kind of been selling that
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  Speaker 5: this team's a little ticked off, that everyone's overlooking them
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  Speaker 5: and that no one wants to come here. And I
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  Speaker 5: definitely saw a little bit of that yesterday, but it's
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  Speaker 5: definitely a good way to start the season. Like you said,
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  Speaker 5: six to one better be on the winning side of
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  Speaker 5: that than the losing side.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No doubt about it. But yeah, just complete. No question.
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  Speaker 3: They just kind of took it to the flames last
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  Speaker 3: night and Um, and left very little doubt in the contest.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I mean, good, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Be angry.
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  Speaker 3: I hope the Mariners come back next season with the
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  Speaker 3: same type of anger because they're going to be doubted, uh,
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  Speaker 3: next season, but the Kraken have earned that you've earned
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  Speaker 3: to be doubted. So, I mean, and I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to take any of the sting out of whatever it
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  Speaker 3: is you've concocted in your brains. If that is the case,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead. I mean, turn off the radio. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: if you're listening, go ahead. Be fueled by artificial anger
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  Speaker 3: toward all of your critics. But you deserve to be criticized.
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  Speaker 3: You just did not play well last season, and you
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  Speaker 3: didn't do much in the offseason to... it looks like
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  Speaker 3: on paper improved the team. So yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 3: the doubt is fair with this franchise, with this particular roster.
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  Speaker 3: And yet I certainly have my mind open to the
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  Speaker 3: possibility that the Kraken can and may surprise us all.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe you do find in the cracks of the cushion,
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  Speaker 3: Those secret things. Maybe you do discover that in year
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  Speaker 3: number two that this team gets more accustomed to Lane
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  Speaker 3: Lambert's style and can advance their games with more exposure
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  Speaker 3: to the same system, which has been changed over. repeatedly
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  Speaker 3: here in the last few years. Maybe you did discover
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  Speaker 3: health is a big factor. If this team's healthier to
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  Speaker 3: start the season, if they get off to a good start,
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  Speaker 3: and what can they build off of? I mean, there
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of ways to get there. There are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of ways to prove all of your doubters
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  Speaker 3: and your critics wrong. But it's going to take just
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  Speaker 3: game by game to do it. You know, you haven't
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  Speaker 3: won me over with a 6-1 victory, but it is
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  Speaker 3: a really good start. And certainly I think eye-opening to
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people that, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you're angry, if you feel like you're.
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  Speaker 3: Being overlooked, Well, what a great initial statement to make
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  Speaker 3: to the entire country, much less your fan base.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think the biggest thing for me that
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  Speaker 5: has yet to be determined, and I saw flashes of
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  Speaker 5: it last night, is because you didn't change over the
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  Speaker 5: roster very much. It's basically the same exact team. you
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  Speaker 5: re-signed a guy that had come here during the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 5: very Josh Naylor-esque, if you will, with Bobby McMahon. And
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  Speaker 5: they feel like having him for a full season, similar
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  Speaker 5: conversation that we had with Josh Naylor, having him for
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  Speaker 5: a full season will be an improvement on the team
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  Speaker 5: as a whole. The biggest thing for me, though, is
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  Speaker 5: the improvement in the youth, in the young players, whether
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  Speaker 5: it's Berkley Catton, Shane Wright, And Matty Beneers, I guess
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  Speaker 5: you could still consider young. He's still, what, 23 years old.
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  Speaker 5: So he could definitely develop some more as well. And
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  Speaker 5: that was something that I think was frustrating for me
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  Speaker 5: for the last three years or so. The fact that
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  Speaker 5: you had these supposed young talents that you're relying on
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  Speaker 5: to turn into superstars, to develop into... stars that can
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  Speaker 5: carry offense and really carry a team. The fact that
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  Speaker 5: it never really got to that point, I think that's
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  Speaker 5: more of where the audit comes from, is a lot
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  Speaker 5: of the player development stuff. And hopefully that's going to
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  Speaker 5: change the trajectory of both these players and this team.
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  Speaker 5: Because I saw, like I said, last night, Berkeley Catton,
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  Speaker 5: he doesn't get a point, but his line looked fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: Him and Shane Wright look like much different players. Matty
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  Speaker 5: Beneers definitely had a little bleep you energy to him.
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  Speaker 5: Him and Jared McCann, a little bit longer tenured guys
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  Speaker 5: that feel like they are getting slighted a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I just feel like if they can find ways to
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  Speaker 5: take just collectively all take their games, especially the younger
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  Speaker 5: players to that next level, which we hadn't seen in
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  Speaker 5: the last few years, that could change everything about personally
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  Speaker 5: my outlook on this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You get younger players. You can't really gauge. in an offseason,
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  Speaker 3: how much a young prospect's going to improve. We can't
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  Speaker 3: tell right now how much better Colt Emerson will be
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  Speaker 3: next season for the Mariners. I'm expecting him to take
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  Speaker 3: a leap forward, much like Cole Young took a leap
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  Speaker 3: forward from his first year to his second year, but
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of impossible to know. No one, even though
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  Speaker 3: Mike Trout was the number one prospect in baseball, no
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  Speaker 3: one really believed that he was going to go from, oh,
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  Speaker 3: struggle a little bit in your first 75 at bats
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  Speaker 3: of your career huh 190 yeah as a rookie maybe
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  Speaker 3: maybe not i mean he seems kind of swole looks
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  Speaker 3: like he's got some talent but it may take a
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  Speaker 3: little while no i'm gonna be the best player in
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  Speaker 3: the world this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know, in the second year.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that that's, believe me, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying I'm not comparing, uh, Berkeley cat into Mike Trout.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying you really don't know until you see it,
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  Speaker 3: how much a young player who, once he becomes comfortable
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  Speaker 3: at the highest level of the sport. I mean we
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  Speaker 3: don't know how much he might improve from last year
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  Speaker 3: to this we might we don't know how much Shane
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  Speaker 3: Wright might improve obviously there was some sort of mending
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  Speaker 3: of the fence that took place this offseason because he
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: was deep I mean he was like Jadarian Price get
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: out of the way I need to get into the
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: doghouse you're in my house yeah why you're They're not
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  Speaker 3: going to be here for very long.
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  Speaker 1: I own this place. You're not even renting. You're just
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  Speaker 1: spending the night. Get out of my doghouse. Lane Lambert
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  Speaker 1: put me here. For a year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I bought this place and all the surrounding property.
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  Speaker 3: So now that they've obviously mended fences to some degree,
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  Speaker 3: because he's still here, he's still in a Kraken uniform,
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  Speaker 3: how much does he improve?
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  Speaker 1: So those are factors. And so I say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of every single one of them. Of course.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Prove everybody wrong. Prove your sharpest, harshest critics wrong. This
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  Speaker 3: season and last night is a great way to get
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  Speaker 3: things underway.
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  Speaker 1: And that's all that it is.
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  Speaker 7: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: It's nothing more than that. It's just a good start.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we don't have to do the old, you know,
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  Speaker 3: why couldn't the Kraken drink champagne last night? Because they
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  Speaker 3: lost the opener. We don't have to do that tired-ass joke.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. After we can talk about, wow, six to one. Impressive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A good way to get things underway.
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  Speaker 3: And I have decided that I will reference the city
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  Speaker 3: as Calgary as they want them to.
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  Speaker 5: We should play a breaking news sounder because that deserves it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. But there's a but.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to call the hockey team Calgary. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: that's how you're going to separate it. Yeah, that's how
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: I always call the city what the locals want the
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: city called.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. But the brand, the Calgary Flames? No, it's Calgary.
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  Speaker 4: Calgary Flames.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to call the brand Calgary, but I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to call the city Calgary, as they prefer it to
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  Speaker 3: be pronounced.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Right,
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  Speaker 5: the city that they're in, even though it's, I get
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  Speaker 5: what you mean. But yeah, the Calgary Flames from Calgary.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Calgary Flames. Yeah, so take that, Calgary.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope everyone in Calgary is bitter and upset
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  Speaker 3: this morning because their Calgary Flames lost last night.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: See what we did there? Yeah, I did. So you
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  Speaker 1: can be traded to Calgary, but you will live in Calgary.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: See what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 4: I see you. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I got bad news for you. You got traded
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  Speaker 1: to Calgary.
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  Speaker 3: So pack your bags because Calgary is cold this time
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  Speaker 3: of year.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: See what I did there?
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  Speaker 5: I did.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 1: There is the distinction.
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  Speaker 3: And now I shouldn't have to ever explain it again
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  Speaker 3: because that's how we're going to proceed.
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  Speaker 5: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the competition does improve with the next game. Edmonton
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  Speaker 5: has scored 14 goals in the first two games of
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  Speaker 5: their season. So you're definitely going to see early tests,
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  Speaker 5: if you will, with the Kraken in their next games.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I think Calgary, like I said, yes, you
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  Speaker 5: would definitely want to win these games. But being able to...
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  Speaker 5: do that on your first game, even if it is
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  Speaker 5: against one of the worst teams in the NHL, is
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  Speaker 5: a good sign for the Kraken.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the show. May I have your attention, please?
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  Speaker 3: This is What's On Tap, brought to you by Emerald
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  Speaker 3: Six Flames won the final score last night.
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  Speaker 1: Three goals for Jared McCann.
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  Speaker 3: I am going to tire of having a McCann and
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  Speaker 3: a McMahon on the roster for an entire season, so
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  Speaker 3: I think Jared kind of owns that franchise, so maybe
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  Speaker 3: I can start calling Bobby... Calgary or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Just something different so that we can separate the two.
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  Speaker 5: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Since we're just separating names here this morning as a theme. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I might call you something different. We'll figure that out, McMahon,
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  Speaker 3: because that's going to get really bothersome. Vince Dunn also
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: had a goal and two assists last night. for the
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  Speaker 3: 1-0 Kraken, who will play again tomorrow in Edmonton, at
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  Speaker 3: the tree in Edmonton. They will take on the Edmonton Oilers,
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: who won 9-7 last night over Vancouver. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: goals in the first three nights of the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why that is, but there is a
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  Speaker 3: lot of offense so far this season.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of the opposite of what used to be
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: the NFL, where it's like the defenses are ahead of
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  Speaker 5: the offense. I think in hockey, it's the structured defense
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  Speaker 5: stuff is more defensively, and that kind of takes more
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  Speaker 5: time to get molded into.
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  Speaker 1: So this happens annually, usually? Frequently, yeah. Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Usually the offense is pretty hot early, and then as
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  Speaker 5: the season goes on is when you get more 3-2-2-1 games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, 9-7, it almost feels like you should throw it out.
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  Speaker 3: That's not really hockey.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's also Edmonton, who lost their first game of
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  Speaker 5: the season to what should be another bad team in Vancouver,
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  Speaker 5: which coming back in their second game and really trying
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: to prove a point. And they're playing against probably the
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: worst defensive team in hockey in Vancouver again. So there's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of factors going into that. But yeah, usually
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: the offense is ahead of the defense in the early
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: stages of the NHL season.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Sounders won. That's the good thing about soccer. There's never
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: a lot of offense.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 4: Two to one.
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  Speaker 1: You never have to complain and wonder if the offense
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  Speaker 1: is ever going to be ahead of the defense. It
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: will always, always be struggling to score goals. This is true.
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  Speaker 3: Sounders 2-1 over Sporting KC last night. They scored in
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  Speaker 3: the 90th minute. Christian Roldan for the victory. So that's
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  Speaker 3: three straight wins now for the Sounders who had gone
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Four months without an MLS win.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden.
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  Speaker 3: But then they trade for Dayon, and all they do
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  Speaker 3: is tie, and then he's not available, and then the
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: mad scientist figures out a way to win every match.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: And so here we go.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Jackson sort of told us when they made that trade,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: it's going to turn around, it's going to turn around dramatically,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: and this team's going to make the playoffs, and they're
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: going to be a threat to win it all.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: And so....
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: They've done nothing but tie or win since that trade,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: even without him on the pitch.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: So Sounders win 2-1. They will play next Saturday.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be a little while before we
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: see the Sounders back in action.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: MLB playoffs.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: The Atlanta Braves closed out the Philadelphia Phillies last night.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: 6-2 was the final score.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Man, it is crazy, the attrition already that both of
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: these pitching rotations showed, I mean, this is why they
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: have this three game series of the wild card. They're
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: trying to give advantages to the teams that posted the
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: better record.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: And one of those, uh, advantages is, is number one.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, the, all three games are hosted by the
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: same team in the wild card round to cut down
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: on travel and then secondarily, uh, you know, those teams
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: also more likely than not are trying to win in
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: the last weekend of the regular season. So they're doing
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: everything they can to get there. And so what it
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: leaves you is a game three where Philadelphia doesn't have
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Zach Wheeler available to them and have to pitch Aaron
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Nola and hold their breath because he's not been that
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: good this year. And the Braves go with a guy
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I've never even heard of. it's hard to get one
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: past me when it comes to Major League Baseball players.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: And here are the Braves with their season on the line,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: turning to some guy named Ray Kerr last night. And
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: this is baseball. The veteran who's been shaky, Nola, gets
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: rocked in the very first inning.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Game's over. Meanwhile, the left-handed 32-year-old rookie left-hander who no
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: one's ever heard of baffles the Phillies for several innings
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and never allows them to get into the game. And
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the Braves run away with it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we've said this before earlier in the season,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: but that's baseball. That's just kind of how these playoffs work.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: And just like that, the Phillies, who I agree with you,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: definitely had an outlook of, a team that can do
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: damage in the postseason. Season's done, just like that. And
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: the Braves, who I think have the tools to kind
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: of do it, they're going to have to go against
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers now in the DS. But yeah, I think
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: early on, these playoffs have been a ton of fun.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: I like a lot of these games. I know only
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: one of them really went down to the wire with
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: the wildcard series, but these divisional matchups are going to
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: look pretty nice.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think we're trying to find Ways to
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: not have the Dodgers or Yankees in the World Series.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: It's hard.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: But that's probably, I mean, it kind of looks like
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that's where it's going again. And I know that no
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: one's going to like that. But the Yankees starting pitching
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: and the. Just the Dodgers' overall excellence. Maybe it is
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: going to end up being those two teams. I think
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: maybe I talked myself into trying to come up with
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: a cute World Series scenario.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, me too.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: And both of those cute things got slapped down in
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: the very first round of the playoffs. So, yes, next
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: up for the Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers. There will
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: be a quadruple header. No baseball tonight. Nope. There will
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: be a quadruple header on Saturday. starting at 9 a.m
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: with the white socks and guardians uh the i think
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: it's nine uh the braves will take on the dodgers
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: saturday at one o'clock big news on the mariners manager
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: front um someone that i've talked about a lot they
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: seem to have emerged as the favorite i wouldn't say
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: a heavy favorite but a favorite to become the next
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Mariners manager is not going to be the next Mariners manager.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Tori Lovullo has signed an extension with the Arizona diamondbacks.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: And so just a two-year extension, which is a bit odd,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: but he's going to stay in Arizona. We'll certainly find
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: some time to talk about that later on in the show.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: WNBA playoffs last night, the aces close out the fever
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: and Caitlin Clark. Uh, and so the aces have proven
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: their championship caliber and, uh, and they do get the
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: job done against Indiana. Thursday night football, the Cleveland Browns,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: 27-24 winners over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Browns have won
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: three straight games, are 3-1 on the year. As for Pittsburgh,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: they fall to 2-2, and of course, they'll be spending
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: the entire day in Pittsburgh talking about Aaron Rodgers and
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy, their relationship since they bickered all night long,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: they don't like each other. They didn't like each other
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: when they hired Mike McCarthy. And I don't know why
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: the Roonies thought that that relationship was going to improve,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: you know, seven years after the fact when both of
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: them are older and grumpier. So there's a big issue
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh right now, and certainly in the Steel City.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It's all they're going to be talking about this morning.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: We will talk this morning about Seahawks Chargers. Greg Bell
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: will join us at 7.05 this morning. A great weekend
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: of NFL action. Actually, all the early games, that's where
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: all the action's taking place on Sunday morning. But the
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Seahawks Chargers will play at 125 in the afternoon. Huskies
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: USC will play at 430 tomorrow. For that game, it
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: sounds like from both fan bases, it feels like a
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: must win. for both fan bases, and not just to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: save this season, but maybe to save the current regimes
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: that are in charge at both schools. So it suddenly
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: feels a lot bigger than what it did just a
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. We'll talk about that later in
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the show as well. Alabama, Mississippi State, Florida, Mizzou, they
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: highlight the rest of a terrific college football schedule.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Which will take place tomorrow.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Speaking of college football, in case you missed it, Rick
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Neuheisel joined us on Tuesday. He joins us every Tuesday
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: at nine o'clock. And on Fridays, at some point in
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: the show, we replay a portion of that. Get his
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: thoughts on the Huskies and the Trojans next right here
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: at Sports Radio.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: 93.3 KJR FM.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, great Friday morning to you all.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Welcome into the radio show. It is Chuck in the Mornings,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Chuck Anders and Chris with you.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And on Tuesday, we have Rick Neuheisel on the radio program.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Many of you know that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: But not everybody can listen at 9 o'clock. And I
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: would imagine people at 6.30 that are on their commute...
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: can't always listen at nine again. So we do you
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: the service of replaying some of our conversation with Rick
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Neuheisel every single Friday. And so that's the point in
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: the show that we've reached. In case you missed it,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Rick Neuheisel, earlier this week, we'll play a portion of
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: that conversation for you right now. And we'll pick it
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: up when I asked him about the Huskies' surprising loss
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: to the Golden Gophers.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: Well, I underestimated the Golden Gophers. Having watched them play
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: against Mississippi State at home, they looked a little bit slow.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: But maybe that's just an indictment, not so much on
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: their defense, but an absolute exclamation point on what Mississippi
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: State has going with Kamario Taylor, their quarterback. They play
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: Alabama this week in what will be a great game
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: with two really fine young quarterbacks going head-to-head. But Washington
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: can't run the ball. Washington, 40 yards rushing, that's not
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: going to get it done.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: You can't take care of the ball. You put your
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: defense out on the field.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: They had to be on the field for 36 minutes
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: of the game.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: That's a bad recipe. So Jed's got to.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Figure out how to cobble together a running game. it
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: puts me in mind of where I was years and
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: years ago when we figured out we needed to use
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Marcus and put some beer in to get our running
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: game going. And it turned out to be a good decision.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: We'll see if Jed can find something similar.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Did you have the experience of Four games in with
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: a team you thought was pretty good, and yet you
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: hadn't seen any really examples of how good you thought
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: they were going to be and still figured out a
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: way to turn it around. I mean, can four games in,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: does that identify you and the team you're going to
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: be this entire season? Or did you find in your
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: experience that four games is just getting started? And what
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: did you have to find in order to kick it
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: into the right gear?
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: Well, I go back to that season where we, you know,
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: the first year I got there, where we realized that
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: our Colorado offense wasn't going to work. Now, remember, Jed
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: has got himself a fantastic quarterback. He's got himself... A
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: year ago, had a first-round pick, and I don't know
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: if you've seen Mr. Boston playing for Cleveland, but he's
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: pretty dang good, right? So you've had some really, really
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: good players, and Jonah Coleman is doing some great things
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: at the next level. So you've had some really good players.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: Those guys are gone.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: And the one thing about.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: This young quarterback, DeMond Williams, he's 5'9. He's Bryce Young, right?
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: That means you can't just drop him back at seven
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: yards deep and think that he can see everything. He
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: can see out to the sidelines, which you can throw
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: outs and stuff, but you're not getting big hits. But
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: what has to happen for him to get his sight
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: lines is he has to climb back up in the pocket,
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: which means, to me, you've got to cobble together a
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: running game that allows him to be part of it,
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: and you also have to move the launch point way
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: more than you currently are because he's not seeing where
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: he can get those throws off in time, and obviously
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: it's putting a lot of pressure on that offensive line.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: They call letdown games. They usually apply that to a
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: team that's coming off a big win. Washington travels to L.A.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: to take on the Trojans Saturday. Any chance that USC's
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: still reeling from that loss to Oregon over the weekend?
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't think there's any question that they're reeling.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: And here's what's going to be interesting. You know, that
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: coliseum was packed for the Oregon game. Will they come
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: back again? Will they come back and fill it and
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: have the same energy? Because those players are going to
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: be aware of that. And if Washington can get off
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: to a fast start and you can hear a couple,
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: you know, catcalls from the fans and where there's some
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: dissatisfaction being voiced from the fans, then you can see
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: that team kind of splinter. So that, to me, is
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: why it's critical that Washington get off to a fast start.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's no worse people than Oregon Ducks and
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: USC Trojans.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: You and I both know that, Coach.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I mean... That goes without saying, I guess is my point.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Only within the confines of their stadium. They're fine people outside, yes.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: But when Kraft's wearing those colors, yeah, they become a handful.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: But that show on Saturday, I mean, I give credit
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: to Oregon just to kind of get the forces together
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: after that controversial play and really hammer USC the rest
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: of the way. I'm not sure I love the way,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: or I know I don't.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I don't like the way either head coach handled that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: That hit on Dante Moore, the situation after the game
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: was over. I thought Lanning did a great job in-game
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: handling it, but I don't like the way he handled
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: it after the game. Man, to choose that moment to
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: pat yourself on the back seems kind of, well, narcissistic
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: But let's go with the play itself.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: What was your reaction in the moment of that play
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: and then the response by Stevens to sort of celebrate
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: that play?
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: So that's the whole problem with the response.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: That play unfortunately happens often because quarterbacks are late to
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: go to their slide and defenders, when getting ready to
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: make a tackle, often take their eyes off the tackle
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: and just commit their bodies. If you watch the slow
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: motion of that, The Trojan defender is looking away because
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Mother Nature tells you to look away when you're getting
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: ready to be in an.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Accident, right?
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: You close your eyes. You look the other way. You're
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: protecting yourself. And so the collision, while looking terrible, was
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: a collision. Had the defender gotten up and looked to
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: see if Dante was okay and offered some measure of
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: assistance and looking concerned....
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: We would not be having this conversation.
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: What ensued was a celebration, high fives from his teammates,
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: whether it be there or on the bench after he's
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: been disqualified. And it was going to be a galvanization
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: for the Ducks based on their fallen leader. But what
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: was ugly was the celebration of the big hit, look
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: at me.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: And that's why the kids suspended.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Are you critical of Dan Lanning or of Lincoln Riley
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: for the way that they conducted themselves post-game?
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: I think Lincoln Riley, I think both could have been
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: more thoughtful in terms of the situation and not adding
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: fuel to the fire, if you will. But I also
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: understand the competitive, you know, feelings that you have in
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: those situations. If I told you I was never defensive
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: as Lincoln Riley was defensive, I'd be telling you a fib.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: And if I told you I wasn't defiant as Dan
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: Lanning was once or twice in my career, I'd be
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: lying to you, too. So I can't fault them entirely
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: having been in that situation and probably having made the
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: same mistake. At my current age, I can tell you
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't have.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Rick Neuheisel with us Tuesday at 9 o'clock.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Good stuff from him on all of that. Great breakdown
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: from Coach. And if you want to hear the entire conversation,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: you can do so at 933kjr.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Com. Just check out the podcast.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: If you want Coach's breakdown of the big games that
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: are coming up tomorrow, we rattle those off in the
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: second half of that interview.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, go to our website anytime. Go listen to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: any old podcast podcast. that you'd like, it's available to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you there.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: We keep a chronology history of all of our shows there.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Coming up next on the radio program, it's something that
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: we do every single Friday before a Seahawks game.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: It's our No Cliché, Keys to Victory on Sports Radio
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJRFM.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: You want to redo the segment real quick and I'll
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: join in?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You're fine. You're fine.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I'm just expressing how disappointed and still furious at Travis
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: that I remain.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah. All right.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: It's time for our no cliche keys to victory.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: And the idea behind this is that we're all going
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: to have a key. We've come up with a key
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: to a Seahawks victory, but I do not want to
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: hear a cliche. I do not want to hear when
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: in the trenches. I do not want to hear all
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: three phases. I don't want to hear when the turnover battle.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Those are all cliches. Now, you can use a cliche,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: but you better have a specific reason why you're using
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: a cliche. Otherwise, I want a unique take on why
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks are going to win on Sunday against the Chargers.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Anders, get us started.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: A lot has been made about turnovers, obviously. I'm not
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: going that direction, don't worry, because that's a very cliche
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: in my head. But the other kind of big point
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: that people were talking about defensively was allowing touchdowns in
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: the red zone instead of holding them to field goals.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: I think that's going to be a big key for
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: this team going into this game against the Chargers. But
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: I'm also going to add on the offensive side of that,
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: who has been pretty mediocre in red zone conversion to touchdowns.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: So my key to victory is have a higher touchdown
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: percentage in the red zone than the Chargers do.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: And I feel like the Seahawks will win this game. Yeah,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I also think they're going to get in the red
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: zone more frequently.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, very uncharacteristic last week. I think that's the reason
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: they lost the game, more so than Mariota or anything else,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: is that a defense that normally stiffens in that moment
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: actually allowed touchdowns.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Kid, what's your one no-cliche key to victory?
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: Sticking on the defensive side of things, Mike McDonald is
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: a master at disguising things and confusing quarterbacks.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: So in this situation— And they have a very confused-looking
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: quarterback right now.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: So make Justin Herbert throw into the disguise game, making
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: sure that, yeah, he feels the pressure, but I want
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: him to hesitate and the picture changes with maybe bringing
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: the safety down. So Mike McDonald is going to have
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: to really force him to see one image, and then
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: snap it into something else, and that creates turnovers. I
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: think he has four interceptions through his first three games.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: Seattle's only allowed a 425 passing yard, so I'm looking
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: forward to getting Herbert to make the wrong read and
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: not just making him uncomfortable, make him make the wrong read,
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: and I think Mike McDonald's the best at doing that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, I think that Mike McDonald just loves that challenge
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: right there.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, he does. I think that he is like, oh, man,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I love facing confused quarterbacks. Because I love confusing quarterbacks.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see that. If they come
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: in pre-confused, oh my gosh. Even more fun.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: How much fun am I going to have rattling the
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: brain of Justin Herbert, who, from an intelligence standpoint, might
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: be the smartest quarterback in the entire National Football League,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: but man, does he not look like he's on the
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: same page with his new offensive coordinator. And Mike McDonald,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to be kind to him.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's like, oh, the poor guy. Let's
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: make it easier on him. Yeah, I think he's going
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: to turn that knife. All right, my no-cliche key to
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: victory is going to be... contain their run, because I
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: really think that's the only way that the Chargers beat you. Now,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: this is coming from somebody that didn't see a way
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: that the Commanders were going to beat the Seahawks, and
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: they did. But I think the only way that the
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Chargers can beat you, because they are running the ball okay.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: I think they're 12th in the National Football League in
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: yards on the ground and 14th in yards per carry.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: And Mike McDaniel's offense is actually a run defense. It's
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: not really a pass-first offense. It's a run-first offense.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: Comes from Kyle Shanahan, yep.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: So I think that if they can establish the run
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: and then run on you consistently, then that's the only
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: way that the Chargers are going to win this game
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: because of both of your keys. I don't see us
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: having the same issues stopping them in the red zone
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: like we had last week. And I don't see Justin
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Herbert coming in here suddenly, oh, I get it, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the light bulb goes on against a Mike McDonald defense.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: So the only way I think they win this game
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: is that they consistently run the football against the Seahawks.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: And so if you just contain it, I'm not saying
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: you have to stop it cold. Just don't let them
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: own the time of possession and own the field by
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: running the football.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And I don't think, by the way, they're going to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think they'll be successful, but I do believe
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: that's the only chance the Chargers have of winning on
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 36:29
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