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Best of Chuck & Buck 10-30 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Pleasing gentlemen, ladies and gentleman.
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  Speaker 2: In six one guard from Brighton, Illanois and former high
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  Speaker 2: school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Jumped any conclusions?
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  Speaker 2: Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 3: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to
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  Speaker 3: pl I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes. And former will
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  Speaker 3: just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champion.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of useless crap up here.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan. What to you buy to.
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  Speaker 4: Leado Casino Resort and quil ceda Creek Draft King sports
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  Speaker 4: book where the action never stopped.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning and welcome into the radio program. It
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  Speaker 3: is Chuck Them Back in the Morning.
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  Speaker 1: have you with us here on this Thursday. We've got
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  Speaker 3: So welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 1: You are most welcome into our show and into our
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  Speaker 1: hearts and into our minds. Stay out of there, by.
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  Speaker 3: The way, you don't want to be there. Yeah, get
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  Speaker 3: out of there.
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  Speaker 1: You're really messing with my stuff. Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobson,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan with you here on this Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 3: Great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 1: It is Halloween eve, so all Hallow's Eve eve. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and let me just on behalf of decent human beings everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you were chill, and you as well,
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  Speaker 1: since you're going to be in charge of your children.
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  Speaker 1: I would assume the next couple of days here as
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  Speaker 1: they put on costumes and try to steal candy from
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  Speaker 1: people with a smile on their face, they we hope
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  Speaker 1: that you get the weather that we got yesterday and today,
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  Speaker 1: because I hear there's an atmospheric river coming again on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Another one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when I heard a sad one. I'm done. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing for sprinkle on Halloween. It's
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  Speaker 1: another thing to get an atmospheric river dumped on you
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  Speaker 1: while you put thought and time into a costume idea.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, come on, now, I don't mind an atmospheric
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  Speaker 5: river in general, but like two weekends in a row
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  Speaker 5: one when I've got to be outside all weekend for
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  Speaker 5: softball and now Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: I have long had a problem with atmospheric rivers at
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  Speaker 1: all times, and look this hurts personally. An atmospheric river
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  Speaker 1: stole my mom from oh make sense? Yeah, they ran
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  Speaker 1: off together during some really impressionable years for me, like
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  Speaker 1: eleven twelve years old. I just didn't see my mom
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of years because, I mean we kept
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  Speaker 1: getting pictures of her and atmospheric river like celebrating all
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  Speaker 1: the Disney World, you know. So I guess I gets
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  Speaker 1: kept in contact with them, but I've just always had an.
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  Speaker 3: Extra grind, makes sense, Yeah, I get it. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think you maybe should talk to the
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  Speaker 3: folks at you know, the news stations, and you have
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  Speaker 3: to bring it up. I mean, can you not just
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  Speaker 3: call it heavy rain because your mom didn't cheat with
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  Speaker 3: heavy rain?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: We did just.
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  Speaker 1: Invent weather terms, didn't we when we had to come
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  Speaker 1: up with something scarier like rainstorms just not effective anymore.
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  Speaker 5: But that's what everybody thinks. But they've all actually been
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  Speaker 5: around since like the seventies.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard of an atmosphere.
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  Speaker 5: They used to call them pineapple express like that's basically
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  Speaker 5: what they call them here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really, because it's.
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  Speaker 5: Usually something that he that because usually yeah, like it
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  Speaker 5: comes from Hawaii and then it travels across the Pacific
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  Speaker 5: Ocean and you get all this, yeah, and it's usually
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  Speaker 5: like but I guess that might make it a little
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  Speaker 5: bit warmer.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway.
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  Speaker 5: It's been around for a long time because the cyclone
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  Speaker 5: is the other one that everybody freaks out and it's like,
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  Speaker 5: you just made it up.
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  Speaker 3: I think they did. They didn't.
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  Speaker 5: It's actually been around since like the seventies.
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  Speaker 1: Well maybe they didn't used to use it because it
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  Speaker 1: was too scary, and now television crews are.
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  Speaker 3: Like, no, we've got to scare people. That's what gets
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  Speaker 3: them to watch us.
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  Speaker 1: Haboobs. I lived in Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a thing. Haboobs. Yeah, they just made up
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  Speaker 3: a word. It's a storm. But it is scary, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it can be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I wouldn't go try to play
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  Speaker 1: you know, volleyball in it, but yeah, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I as far as like storms go, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's the least scary one of the hurricane cyclone
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  Speaker 1: you know, bomb cyclones. Family, I'd probably take a hoboob
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  Speaker 1: over anything else. Just get some goggles and don't drive.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just pretty much hair my face in a haboob.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it sounds like.
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  Speaker 1: The point is I want your kids to have a
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  Speaker 1: good Halloween tomorrow, and it doesn't look like mother Nature
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  Speaker 1: is going to cooperate. Mother Nature is gonna basically turn
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  Speaker 1: out the lights on her porch so that nobody bothers.
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  Speaker 3: Her, which is like, come on, yeah, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think mother Nature gives a rip about Halloween. But then again,
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  Speaker 3: if you live in Seattle, I mean, if you really
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  Speaker 3: don't go trick or treating because it's dump and you
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  Speaker 3: just don't do it as long, I think that most
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  Speaker 3: people in there in there, uh, that they're sitting there
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  Speaker 3: giving out candy. If I'm giving out candy, nobody comes
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  Speaker 3: to our neighborhood. It's not a road you walk up
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  Speaker 3: and down at night, and so I but I would
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  Speaker 3: just be given like handfuls, like, hey, kids, you're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be out here as long as normal, Okay, you're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna hit So here's handfuls of stuff. We're still
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  Speaker 3: going ripping down their face. Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, here's Kate, like I work so hard on
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  Speaker 1: that wrestling costume, you know, and now all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden she's got to watch it, like melt off of
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  Speaker 1: her pride and joy, Yeah, right off his shoulders. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about everybody. I'm trying to think about everybody right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, considerate, I think.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, last year, I remember it poured too.
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  Speaker 5: I remember we went after we'd done all the most
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  Speaker 5: of the trigger treating, we went to another neighborhood where
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of our friends were all gathered around by
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  Speaker 5: the fire pit, and the kids were all in the neighborhood. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: the parents were having a blast. They're all dry under tents,
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  Speaker 5: sitting by a fire pit. The kids all come back
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  Speaker 5: just drenched from trick or treat them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I was just sitting there thinking last night
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  Speaker 1: as I was walking around and I did a little
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  Speaker 1: trick or treating last night. I went to Target to
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  Speaker 1: get some socks, and apparently I had to pay for it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you know, I said, a trick or treat it
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  Speaker 5: seems weird in the spirit Barnes.
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  Speaker 1: And Noble and got a book and apparently I had
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  Speaker 1: to pay for that too.
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  Speaker 3: They're not in the spirit of things treating wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I was walking around like, man, this is
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  Speaker 1: the night to go trigger treat. It's a perfect fall evening.
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  Speaker 1: Uh And I guess we're gonna get another one of
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  Speaker 1: those today. So but Friday atmospheric river time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Ready, Yeah, I've done a rain on us. Put
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  Speaker 3: on your rain jacket. Yeah. Luck. That's the part that
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of one of those like my kids are
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  Speaker 3: still going to put their costumes on, We're still going
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  Speaker 3: to go out in it. But you can't just let
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  Speaker 3: them just get soaked. Yeah, I mean, so you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have over the top of it. So what are you
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  Speaker 3: dressed as? I'm dressed as a wrestler in an atmospheric river.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good way to do it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they can't hold umbrellas, candy bags.
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  Speaker 3: You still get to dress up. You just have to
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  Speaker 3: in an atmospheric river.
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  Speaker 2: On the end of it.
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  Speaker 3: That's on the back of everything. And what are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a witch.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a zombie tennis player in a an atmospheric I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna tell my kids to.
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  Speaker 1: Say, I guess that's true. It's just layered. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a layered costume.
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  Speaker 3: That's all.
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  Speaker 1: I once went as Hannibal Lecter in a Snuggie.
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  Speaker 3: That was the outfit.
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  Speaker 1: See that was a costume. Yeah, I went as animal,
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  Speaker 1: but I wore a Snuggie because they were really popular
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  Speaker 1: at the time, which just dated myself. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we've got some sports to talk about today as well,
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  Speaker 1: and man, it is crazy, Like I was just thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this last night as we keep getting updates on
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  Speaker 1: different injuries with the Seahawks Commanders game on Sunday. Looks
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  Speaker 1: like Julian Love might not be playing this week against
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders. Looks like Terry mclaarin won't be playing. Not
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  Speaker 1: just looks like he's out for the game on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: He just got back for them. Jaden Daniels was full
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  Speaker 1: go at practice yesterday, so that's as strong an indication
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to play Sunday as you can get
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  Speaker 1: if he's full go at practice on a Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: But man, it just how.
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  Speaker 1: Much this sport, this league, I mean it, You know,
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell talks about just all the seventeen car crashes
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  Speaker 1: a year, but just the injuries, Like how much a
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  Speaker 1: football player just lives with pain just all the time
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  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out you know, is this something
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  Speaker 1: I can play through or not? And so that crossed
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  Speaker 1: my mind yesterday. But injury is gonna play a really
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  Speaker 1: big part in Sunday's game. It looks like there's some
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  Speaker 1: on both sides. But certainly the Seahawks coming off a
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  Speaker 1: bye week with a health one hundred percent healthy quarterback
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  Speaker 1: certainly are gonna have the advantage heading into Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: From that standpoint, well, yeah, I mean, I think the
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  Speaker 3: razor's edge of what it takes to win and then
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  Speaker 3: win over the course of a full season, there's so
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  Speaker 3: many little things. Now, obviously, you lose your quarterback and
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  Speaker 3: you don't have a decent backup quarterback, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: go backwards. Whether it's one step or two steps or
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  Speaker 3: ten steps, who knows. But I mean, just still, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna lose guys. It's not a matter of if. There's
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  Speaker 3: never been a time that an entire team has everyone
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  Speaker 3: stay healthy for the entire season. Yeah, and even the
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  Speaker 3: guys that go out there and play, I mean there's
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  Speaker 3: tons of guys that have something that they're dealing with
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  Speaker 3: in the training room that you don't even hear about
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  Speaker 3: or see on the injury report. What I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: tell them that, you know, really we don't need to.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't missed any practice time. Go ahead and go
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  Speaker 3: and yet it it can be the ebb and flow
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  Speaker 3: between your season, you make in the playoffs and not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's been quite a few times the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 3: it seems in the last few years that they played
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  Speaker 3: against a team when their quarterback was out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And so it's just you kind of have to that's
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  Speaker 3: the I guess the that's the vision of you get
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  Speaker 3: to see how good is your fifty three? Right, you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to have to use all fifty three, but
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  Speaker 3: how good are you is how big of a fall
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  Speaker 3: off when you lose somebody that's important, like this defense,
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  Speaker 3: for example, without a couple of their their big studs
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  Speaker 3: in the backside have still performed very well against the pass,
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  Speaker 3: They performed very well against the run. Even so, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think that you got it kind of shows you
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  Speaker 3: how good your team is when you can go without
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  Speaker 3: a couple guys. But it's unfortunate because.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you better have depth in the national football Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. I Mean, a general manager's job is
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  Speaker 1: not just to put a starting lineup out there on
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  Speaker 1: the field.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's very clear.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's an obvious thing to say, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were just I was just yesterday just so excited
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  Speaker 1: about seeing the secondary together really for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: We got to see it for four plays before Nick
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  Speaker 1: emn Wari got hurt in the opener, and now he's
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  Speaker 1: been back, but we haven't seen love in Witherspoon for weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and so the thought that all three of them were
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  Speaker 1: going to be back, and now it doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: Julian Love at least it's not a sure thing. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it's fifty to fifty. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where I would put it. He might not be returning
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, but you do look just you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to go far as you're sitting here feeling sorry for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Because the Commanders in.
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  Speaker 1: The offseason had a holdout from Terry McLaurin, their top receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there was some hesitance. Are you really a thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars year receiver?
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  Speaker 3: For you are?
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  Speaker 1: But you are our best guy, and we are coming
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  Speaker 1: off a good year, and we do have a young
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that really clicked.
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  Speaker 2: With you a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll give you thirty two million dollars will.
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  Speaker 3: You play for that?
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  Speaker 1: And then he shows up and disrupts training, has disrupted
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  Speaker 1: training camp with his holdout and hasn't been healthy since,
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  Speaker 1: comes back for two quarters, makes two spectacular plays that
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  Speaker 1: wets the Commander's whistle and find out, oh, he reaggravated
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  Speaker 1: his quad injury and who knows how long he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be out going forward. So the Commander is certainly
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  Speaker 1: a lot more beat up than us and coming off
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  Speaker 1: not coming off of a bye week, and Jade Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: but it looks like he's going to be good enough
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you were to ask Commander fans if
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  Speaker 3: you can only have one of them back, which one
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  Speaker 3: would you say, They're gonna all say Jamie Daniels. But
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  Speaker 3: that said, still Jadan Daniels would like to have Terry
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  Speaker 3: McLaurin out there. I mean, he hasn't done a whole
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  Speaker 3: heck of a lot, but you still have to give
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  Speaker 3: him the attention that he deserves. So yeah, next man
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  Speaker 3: up type of thing. I can't imagine what it would
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  Speaker 3: be like, the wear and tear on your body being
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  Speaker 3: an NFL guy, because it just seems like it's inevitable
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to get dinged up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I watch a dominant piece of a football season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a reason why you sit there on Thursdays.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Greg doesn't get the injury report until Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: and so sometimes we jump the gun and ask questions
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  Speaker 1: because it's so important. There's the reason why we close
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  Speaker 1: every Greg Bell Monday conversation with what's going on with injuries.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just such a dominant piece of an
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  Speaker 3: I mean, think about.
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  Speaker 1: How much time we dedicate to football, and then how
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  Speaker 1: much time within our dedication to talking about football that
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  Speaker 1: we have to spend on injuries.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it is as.
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  Speaker 1: Big a I mean, I would say getting a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and getting a coach, Yeah, those are the two most
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  Speaker 1: important things. Getting the right quarterback, getting the right head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Third thing might be staying healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know the conversation we have with Hugh about how
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  Speaker 3: he's like, I don't think that special teams is in
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  Speaker 3: a third of the game, right offense, defense, special teams.
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  Speaker 3: I think that there's you know, six different kinds offense,
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  Speaker 3: and you know how he breaks it down. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: like it's it's like in baseball the five. I think
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  Speaker 3: that an injury where you at you know, the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of the season, you can just say, okay, what's our
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  Speaker 3: offensive like, what's our defense look like? How's our special teams?
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  Speaker 3: How do we feel about it? But after one week
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  Speaker 3: it should be how we feel about the offense, how
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  Speaker 3: we feel about the defense? Maybe next how are we
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  Speaker 3: feeling about our injuries? And then how are we feeling
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  Speaker 3: about our special teams. It might be in that orga right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with one and two being the same offense
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  Speaker 3: and defense. So because you're right, it is. It's a
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  Speaker 3: game changing, possibly season changing thing. And it could be
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  Speaker 3: if you just miss a guy for a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 3: it could be the difference between at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the season you make in the playoffs and not making
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs. You could be one of the best teams
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  Speaker 3: come week seventeen, but if you dropped four games in
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  Speaker 3: a row because you didn't have any of your secondary healthy,
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  Speaker 3: now all of a sudden you're on the outside looking in.
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  Speaker 3: Even though it's like you're sitting at home going, man,
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  Speaker 3: we could have compete it against these guys if we
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  Speaker 3: were healthy.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why it's such a bummer too, is because
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  Speaker 5: that part is so based on luck, like just being
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  Speaker 5: lucky enough to stay healthy to not get injured. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you look at how many injuries are just little fluke
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  Speaker 5: things that happen of stepping the wrong way or you know,
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  Speaker 5: being just in that wrong fraction of a second, and
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  Speaker 5: that injury is a big damn deal. So the teams
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  Speaker 5: that are able to actually stay healthy and be healthy
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  Speaker 5: at the right times, that is an incredible amount of luck.
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  Speaker 1: Well there's even even beyond that though, Like, yes, most
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  Speaker 1: injuries are sort of timing, but then you also have
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  Speaker 1: guys maybe prone to injury and they have a resume.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think about Frank Gore. Frank Gore was
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  Speaker 1: injured all the way through college. It's the reason why
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't drafted higher. And then in the NFL he
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  Speaker 1: plays twenty years at running back and shows up every
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and plays. I mean, it's just crazy how that works.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: And then Jane Daniels is a great example. Why why
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: were people what were if anything you were to worry
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: about in his game? What was it coming off of
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: a Heisman final season at LSU. Well he's so skinny,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: but he didn't really have an injury history. Yeah, but
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: he's going to right, I mean, Lamar Jackson Baltimore was
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: confident mostly. I mean they kind of dragged that whole
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: contract extension thing out, trying to figure out like can
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: he really still you don't thy being that thin and
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: playing running the football that much, And they decided to
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: give him the money. And then what happened He started
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: having a few injuries. Is that injury this year? So,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I mean it's just such a huge part. I mean,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: you are strategizing constantly for.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: It against it, knowing that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: It's just going to be such a dominant part of
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the sport. You wonder like, why do we love it
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: so much? Why do we love it so much that
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: we are watching all of these car recks take place?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: And then on top of it, man, with so much
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: of our happiness is based on whether or not these
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: guys can avoid getting hurt in the car res Yeah,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: but then it's the game, man, And I think Bucky
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: put it the right way. Maybe it's not a third offense,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: a third defense, and a third special teams. Maybe it's
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: a third offense, a third defense, and a third injuries
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and special teams. Really doesn't matter. For special teams, I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: don't even care if our kicker and punter get hurt.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding, well, what's on tap? Here we go?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: What's on tip? What's on tap?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: If you do sit there though, and you're like, I
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: can't get our quarterback hurt, I don't mind. If we're
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: gonna kicker hurt, probably means it's not a third of
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if one's if one's a lot more important.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: All right, So Seattle at Washington Sunday Night Football twelfth
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Man Roundtable coming your way today with Greg Bell and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millin from eight to nine on the show. Thursday
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Night Football Tonight, Baltimore will be at Miami and Lamar
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Jackson will be making his return to the Ravens lineup.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: And of course everybody's jumping back on the Ravens bandwagon
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: after they won last week and have Lamar coming back
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: this week, and I kind of am as well. I
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: certainly would not count them out going forward. A matter
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of fact, if you held a gun to my head
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: right now, I'd pick the Ravens to win their division.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Mike Sando about that coming up
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: at nine thirty today. A plus NFL trade deadline is
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: now just five days away, another topic we can bring
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: up with our NFL insider Mike Sando.
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  Speaker 3: Huskies are on by this week.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: We were all ready to week number ten of the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: college football season. My how time flies. Softie will join
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: us today. I'm not sure how much he's going to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: talk baseball today, but I would imagine a little bit.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Maybe not as much, yeah, probably still some though.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Well we'll see, I mean, so we'll see seven oh
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: five today Softy joins us. It's a bye week for
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the Huskies, but we'll still have our Thursdays with Softy.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: College basketball season starts in four days. If you didn't
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: have enough on your plate as a sports fan, well
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: we're getting ready to add college basketball to it as well.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And here in you Dub there's pretty much a quiet
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: confidence in town that Danny Sprinkle, who killed it in
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal, might have pieced together a pretty good
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: team for this upcoming year. We'll ask to coach ourselves.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: He's going to join us at nine o'clock this morning
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to usher in the brand new college basketball season that
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: starts on Monday. Speaking of Monday, Sounders and Minnesota United
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: will play game number two of their three game series
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to start the MLS Playoffs. Sounders have to win the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: next two in order to advance, but the Mad Scientists
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to usually Concox something pretty special this time of the year,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so I'm not going to doubt him. World Series. The
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays are up three games to two, so they
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: head back to Toronto, having to only win one of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: two against the Los Angeles Dodgers to pull off the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: World Series upset. Last night, behind Trey you Savage, they
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: dominate the Dodgers. Six to one is the final score.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: We'll certainly find some time to talk about World Series
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Game number five a little.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Bit later on in the program.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: And yes, it is the eve of Halloween, so get
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: your costumes together. Don't just wear a football jersey to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: work tomorrow and say you're in costume.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a costume. It's not you're not paidon Manning.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: You're not dressed as Peyton Manning.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: If you want to dress a paid many wear the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: jersey and then get like an extended forehead.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: You got to practice all his commercials and.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Say nothing but omaha, yeah, yeah, do some makeup like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: give yourself like a higher forehead and sing nationwide is
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: on your side.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just got to do more than just put
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: on a number eighteen.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Yea.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: You know jersey. Yeah, you got a baggy football pants,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: like where your butt looks saggy in them too. Maybe
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: that's a maybe that's a good idea.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And we wear a three quarter zip sweater underneath the jersey.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I mean you got, I mean, be creative. Gosh, I'm
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: tired of helping you, all right. Coming up next, one
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of the big topics that we've had this week is
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the college football coaching firings. So we dabbled into this
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: topic again yesterday with Rick Neuheisel, but there's more to discuss.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Something that Cam Cleveland told us yesterday really stuck with
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: me overnight. So we'll talk about the biggest story happening
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: in college football right now.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Next.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, seven o'clock hour
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: here on this Thursday, Welcome in. It is chuck them
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  Speaker 1: back in the morning Sports Radio ninety three.
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  Speaker 3: Point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, we will hear from the legendary David
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Softy Maller. Thursdays with Softy right here on KJR. But first,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: your headlines brought to you by Frost Brewed Corse Light.
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  Speaker 3: Choose Chill.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: The Toronto Blue Jays moved one game closer to World
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Championship status. Yes, they defeated the Dodgers in a bit
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of a blowout last night, six to one.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Ray Y Savage was wealthy.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: He was outstanding yesterday, striking out twelve batters in the game.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers could not touch him. And suddenly Toronto gets
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to go home to close out the World Series and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: they'll have two cracks at it against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Game six will.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Be played on Friday night, so a day off today.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Other news, Sounders will be an action against the Minnesota
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: United Monday.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: That will be game two of a three game series.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: The Sounders will have to win back to back matches
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: against Minnesota in order to advance. I'm sure the mad
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: scientists will cook something up. College basketball season is just
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: four days away. Trade deadline is just five days away.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson expected to go tonight for the Ravens. He's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: back on the field to take on the Miami Dolphins,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and of course, the Seahawks will be an action Sunday
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Night against the Commanders.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Julian Love we thought was going to be playing in
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: this game. There's a chance he may not.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin is definitely out for the Commanders and Jade
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and Daniels was a full participant at practice yesterday for
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the Commanders, And that's as strong an indication as any
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you're going to get that he is going to play
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Sunday Night for Washington.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: So we'll have to deal with that guy. Huskies are
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: on buy this week.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's time to talk with David Softy Maller
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: about his beloved dogs.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: With something in his mouth. I have no idea what.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: That is, Okay, us aid.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Is Bucky there by the way, Oh yeah, okay, Bucky.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Do you have that problem with your kids that you
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: look at him and you have no idea what's in
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: their mouth? Or he just ingested or Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: My daughter likes to just like, for whatever reason, like
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Carrie toys around her in her mouth, yeah, which is
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: fine as long as it's not a choking hazard. But
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: she likes to put even like like small things in
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: her mouth. I'm like, do you stop about those kids?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: They put things in their nose, They like can't stop themself.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: They can't keep themselves from doing it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I want to start a rubber band down my nose,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and my mom had to call the doctor who lived
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: down the street to come over and take it out.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: A rubber band.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the way up my nose. My nose is huge.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I would see it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I could see being experimental, like what would happen if
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I put this up my nose? But then once your
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: rush to the emergency room, you would think that that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: would end. But there's some kids out there that can't
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: help themselves. They just keep putting stuff up their notes.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: That's a great topic, by the way, what what what
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: did you experiment with when you were a youth? You
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: know what? I'd rather talk about that than talk about
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the World Series.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, you can't get into it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I'm good, am I into the World Series? Yeah? What
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: do you think? Well?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: And I'm trying to set you up to go off.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I mean you brought it up.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I want to go off. Yeah, I'm tired of going
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: off at seven o'clock in the morning. I'm tired, man,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of being angry. I'm tired of being bummed out.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of being bitter. I mean, Jackson's wife is
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: a is a psychologist or therapists, whatever the hell they
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: call it, And I need help. Man, this is like,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: what is this now? Almost two weeks going on? This
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: coming Monday, ten days since Game seven? Is that what
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: it is?
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: And I'm not even close to getting over it. Yeah,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: and I'm afraid it's getting worse. Really, Am I the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: only one here that feels that way? Or am I
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: just on like you know, idiot island by myself here?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I think Ashley's not capable of watching the World Series. Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I was hesitant for the first time in my life
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: to whether I was wondering whether I would last Friday.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, man, if you're not watching the World Series
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and you're wondering if you're into the World Series, then
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: humanity is doomed because you're the baseball guy.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I watched a professional You're.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Like, I love baseball, and we gotta get over it
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and we gotta move on, and don't deprive yourself of
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: the greatest stage for the greatest sport. If you're the
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: one that won't watch and you're a little miserable, then
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: we're all just left.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I've watched, I have watched. I was reluctant on Friday.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I wasn't my heart wasn't in it, but I put
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: it on. Uh And then I did watch.
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  Speaker 3: The eighteen inning game.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and well I watched them all so but I did.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I did really enjoy the eighteen inning game.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I turned that on the bottom of the ninth just
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: to see if the Dodgers could win it because I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: wasn't watching, and then just kept watching. I was like
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Forrest Gump. I just kept going, you know, figured, I
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: come this far, Mayswell, keep going. Got just fifteenth inning,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: figured I come this far, Mayswell, keep going. And thank god,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers at least won that game. And I was,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you know, I was talking about like Bouja fans sitting
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: up in Canada two thirty in the morning, you know,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: watching that thing and having to go to bed at
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: three o'clock after a loss, and was maybe as good
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: as it got for us as far as the shadenfreude.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: And that's serious because the Dodgers, I mean, they look cooked,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: don't you guys.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Think I wouldn't say they're cooked, but but yeah, I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: would say, yeah, Toronto looks like they're gonna win the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: World Series.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Toronto just looks like they have the recipe to win baseball,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: which is it's not really new, it's just kind of
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: bringing back Oh, put the ball in play, that works, Bucky.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, then, why don't we
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: have that recipe?
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I think we're moving in that direction.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Brother, can't we have that recipe?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, just a little bit of therapy for you. I
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: would say one thing to try to help you get
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: over is think about what you have and not what
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you don't have, because you're right, it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Sucks about that. You got the game, guy, You know what,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Paul Moyer, get over.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: It you No, No, I'm not saying to get over it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying to get over it. It hurts. I'm
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: right there with you. I just I'm just looking forward
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: to the future because that's the only thing we have.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: That past is over. I can't change it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: We have we have we have both. We have the future,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and we have the misery of history. And I'm embracing that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, well you do you, yeah, you do you?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: This for me, this is cathartic and I appreciate you
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: guys giving me a chance to vent a little bit
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: here on the on the radio program. Yeah, I mean
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: it was the biggest gut punch I think I've ever
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: taken as a sports fan, and you know, even bigger
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: than Super Bowl forty nine. And I know people will
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: call or they'll tax so they'll tweet and say, you're
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: how could you think that football is play more popular
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: than baseball? Hey, that's not the point. This isn't about
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: comparing sport to sport and the popularity of one sport
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to the other. When you're waiting fifty years for something
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and you're eight outs away, I mean, you guys get
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the point. You don't need me to rehash everything.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: But it is so hard to win a World Series.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, oh, because it's not like other sports. Other
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: sports more more often I'm not gonna say always, but
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: more often you got the best team, you're gonna win.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: But that doesn't really happen.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So even if you do craft over one hundred and
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: sixty two games, sure, best season, and even if you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: do dominate in the first two rounds of the playoffs,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you won't show up in the World
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Series or the ALCS and just completely lay an eggainst one.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Of the Dodgers right now, Yeah, exactly. Hell, they're spending
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: four million dollars. What are the Braves of the nineties,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean they fell short a ton. You know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: they they got there and they won one, but they
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: probably should have won more than one. Dodgers, you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: they've been to how many World Series?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Is this for Dave Roberts's at five or six World
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Series for Roberts whatever it is now, I don't know.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Some folks would argue they've fallen even a little bit short.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're totally right now. You're going back to
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: the beginning and we can have fun and dominate the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: regular season and always know, right Bucky, at the end
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: of the road, there's that five game sample or that
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: seven game sample, or anything can happen, and it doesn't
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: matter what you did in July, or it doesn't matter
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: what you did in September. Anybody can get you. Anybody
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: can step up and bite you in that seven game series.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: And that's what stinks about this year is that you're right,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: it's the hard. It feels like the hardest thing to
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: do in a lot of ways in sports. I used
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: to think winning a college football national title was the
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: hardest thing to do in sports. I think this is harder.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I think Toronto's good, but I think the Dodgers are better.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And I think we're better than the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: But look who's getting ready to proverbially cut down the nets.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It's damn Toronto forgot.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Well, let's hope the Dodgers can wake the hell up.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, my god, there I'm trying to figure out
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: whose offense has been worse, the Dodgers or this Wisconsin team,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the Huskies playing next Saturday. How about that for a transition.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let me.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Ask you in your current state, I mean, a win
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: over Illinois puts you at six and two and you
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: can see a path to the tournament at this point,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: do you allow yourself to think about that? Or is
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: your pain so great right now that you're not going
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to set yourself up for any expectation.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: This was This was a Husky football team in twenty
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: twenty two that was six and two and they were unranked,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and they finished the year eighth in the country. Remember
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: that because they beat Oregon State they were ranked. They
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: beat Oregon they were ranked, and then they beat Texas
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: in the Alamo Bile and they finished in the top ten.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: So I think the point is you can make a
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: significant jump from the end of October to the end
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: of the year. Hell Ohio State when they won the
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: title in twenty fourteen, first year of the CFP, I
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: think they were like fifteenth in America when the initial
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: rankings came out and they won the championship. Man, So yeah,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: you can, you can make a huge jump. I mean,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the problem for Washington is they don't have really a
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: lot of opportunities left to prove themselves. They only really
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: have won and we know who that's against Bucky, don't
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: we in late November Atluski Stadium. So you got Purdue,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: you got UCLA, you got Wisconsin. Three let's face it,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: terrible football teams. I mean, guys, Wisconsin is averaging their
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: last seven games, They're averaging six point eight points per
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: game scored, not allowed, scored. They're like three and eight
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: in their last it at home. They want fickles head
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: on a freaking spike in Madison. I mean, it's unbelievable
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: how bad things have gotten out there. So they should
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: win these next three. They should be nine and two
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: and then Bucky and I can tell each other how
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: stupid we are before they ordon get.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: I kind I mean, I kind of am looking forward
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: to that, but I kinda also wouldn't mind you guys
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: dropping one before because I don't want all that on.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Your Yeah, there's a part of you that's a little
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: nervous though.
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: No.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, normally I don't get very over the top.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: With it, but here you bring them heavily in the
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: back a little bit. It okay.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: On that note, then I hope you guys do win
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the next three so that there's more on the more
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: on the plate for it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Well, there'd be way more pressure on you guys than
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: there would be on U DUB. I mean, you Dub
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: goes nine and two, and they're gonna be people. Let's
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: face it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: There, you guys do ten and two and you're in
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, you'll be doing the same thing. You just
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: will know you're not going to win.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's a confirmed thing for sure that
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: they'd be in the playoff. Would only have one win
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: at that point over a ranked team, and that'd be
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: the Oregon Ducks unless Illinois and Ella together, Yeah, climb back. Well,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: they're not ranked now, which is just the stupidity of
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: the eight people, which I've been yelling about the entire year.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I am so done with the eight people, guys, just
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: done forget it. I mean, Notre Dame where they're ranked
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: because of where they started, Texas where they're ranked because
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: of where they started. I mean, I was probably got even,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: you know, a bigger complaint than you, Dub. I mean,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: they're they're six and two and they lost to Indiana
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: by like three points. I mean, what the hell? And
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: they can't get into the top twenty five. So yeah,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: they go nine and two, there's gonna be chatter, you
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: know about Dub making it in. They're still gonna need
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: some help, there's no question about that. But I would
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I would. I would love for that Oregon game to
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: to mean a little something something and have have people
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: like Bucky just squirming around.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: My friend, You'll be swirming.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: You're already squishy over there, Yeah, yeah, heard you, squishing
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: in your pants.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Don't normally talk with ultra confidence in this topic because
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I just think it's bad, mo Joe, but I am
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: going to right now.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Softy is well, it's Thursdays with Softy here on Chuck
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and Buck in the mornings. You know, I saw your partner,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: radio partner, Dick Fane, and he tweeted out something about, well,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: he tweeted out something about like twenty twenty seven national champs.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, and what sport I'm not in? The Huskies?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: The Huskies twenty twenty seven. Yeah, college football. And my
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: thought was he's reading in that Demon Williams is going
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to be our senior quarterback and you know, maybe you've
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: already won a Heisman, and so I'm not bringing it
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: up to you to critique whether or not this is
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a national champion. I'm bringing it up then this era
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of transfer portal and you know, guys being able to
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: zip ahead to the National Football League when they feel
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: their stock is right. Do you see Demon Williams being
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: here for four years as the Huskies quarterback?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: If I had to bet something that made me nervous,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I'd say no. I'd say no, but I wouldn't be surprised.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: That's a lame answer. I know that, Chuck. Here's the deal, man.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I just think that people that run around dismissing anything,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I don't understand that attitude whatsoever. I think if you're
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: a college football fan, if you're a Husky fan, Oh,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Demon's not going anywhere. Jed's not going anywhere. That's ridiculous,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: totally ridiculous to just dismiss that. I mean, you may
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: be right that Jed's going to be here next year,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: you may be right that Demon's going to be here
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: in two years from now, but now more than ever,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: just completely dismissing the idea that Jedfish could go take
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: another job and take Demon Williams with him. Do I
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: think Demon's gonna leave early for the NFL? I mean,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be harder for him because of
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: his stature, right, I mean, five ten, one hundred and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: ninety pound quarterback leaving early for the NFL. He would
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: have to be like Kyler Murray's special honestly to take
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: off and be able to do something like that. And
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's there yet. He's got a chance
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: to be there, but he's not there yet. But Jetfish
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: leaving you Dub and taking off and coaching somewhere else
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: next year or the year after that, and bringing Demon
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Williams with him, To just dismiss the idea of that happening,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I think is pure stupidity, I mean it's ignorance to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: just dismiss something like that. I mean, look at all
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the jobs that are opening college football, and look at
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: all the quality candidates out there. Man, I mean, there
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: is an absolute dearth of candidates out there. We're talking
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: about bringing guys like ed Orgeron back off the shelf
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: to take some of these college football coaching jobs, talking
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: about you know, guys like Steve Sarkisian leaving college and
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: going back to the NFL because of just the lack
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: of quality candidates even at that level. It's unbelievable. Man, Like,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: nobody wants to be president, nobody wants to be a
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: football coach where they out of all these people go,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I don't understand. So I just think again, dismissing any
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: of that talk to me, is totally naive, absolutely naive.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'm with you. I think dismissing it is silly,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: especially the coaching part of it. I mean, there's so
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: much time before demon Williams in the NFL still for
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: sure have another year to find out if he's going
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: to be that special. But yeah, I mean is there concern.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: I mean it's I mean, how how what is your
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: heat check as far as you're concerned about fish leaving
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: for that as a fifty to fifty deal, yeah, right now.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I mean it could go either way, you know.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, man, I've told the story on the air,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: and I think you guys already know when Troy Dannon
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: tried to have me and Dick thrown out of his
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: press conference. You guys are wear that that's you. Okay.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: So this is this is a guy that's getting introduced
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: and we're doing the midday show that day, and we're
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: sitting there on the air and we're talking about his resume.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: It's like, man, the guy's moved around a lot. He's
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: been at twelve spots in whatever years, and Dan and
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: overheard it and got pissed off and sent one of
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: his lackeys over to kick us out, which would have
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: been a horrible look for you, dub. And So if
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I'm if I was concerned about it on that day,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I'm certainly concerned about it now with the fact that
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: he's six and two and having a little bit of success.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And I think ads and presidents are smart enough to
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: look at everything in context, right, Like, you know, a
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: guy goes to Vanderbilt and he wins eight games, like
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: going to Alabama and winning forty you know, I mean,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: look at what he's done. He's rebuilt the offensive line
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: to a point where they were getting recognition from the
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Joe Moore Award Committee halfway through the year before Carver
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: and John Mills got banged up. He's got he's done
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: great in the portal. He's got maybe the best defensive
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: back trio or excuse me, twosome in the country, if
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: not at least the Big ten. He's got a star
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: in the making, and Demon Williams. He's got a star
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: in Joanah Coleman. He may have a number one you
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: first round draft pick, and Denzel Boston. So I think
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: he's done great in context. I mean, look at what
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: he took over, you know, the garbage dump. I mean,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: this thing was a mess when Jedfish took it over.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: So I think he's done great in context. And then
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: you couple that with all the coaching jobs are open
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: and the quality of jobs that are open, the big
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: name jobs that are open. I think, Bucky, it's fifty
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: to fifty right now.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, all right, what's your go to Halloween movie?
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: My go to Halloween movie? You know, I really don't
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: have one. I'm not a big horror movie guy, to
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: be honest with you, you know, I mean, can I
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: just name, like my favorite corny is how horror movie
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: of all time? Sure? You ever see Microwave Massacre?
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: No? No, I'm not one.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Of these d level movies from the seventies where it's
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: they're still corny. You're kind of laughing at it. You know,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: blood's squirting out of a guy's neck and it's clearly
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: like ketchup right, Okay, I got really a big Halloween
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: movie guy.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, well I just thought of it asked the season,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're asking me what my favorite scary
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: movie is, I mean probably that one. But the movie
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: that scared the crap out of me the most was
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: called The People Under the Stairs.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, you remember that one? Okay, I know of it.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I know of it.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, broke me.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Well, you already sound a little better than you did.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: At the beginning of this.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, so hopefully our therapy session helped little.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Just to announce, I'm pissed off again when I see
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: something crawl across my screen from some jackass Blue Jay
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: fan sneaking his way into my Twitter mentions. But by
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: the way, these people there's up human. Yeah, real they are.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I mean they like mobilize and they go after people
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: like us. I see more people on my timeline that
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: don't follow me that are Blue Jay fans than any
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: other sport, even the Ducks. By the way, Bucky, and
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: I will tell you this real quick. I know we
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: have to run, Bucky. I'll give a Oregon fans credit
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: for one thing. When they talk smack and they talk
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: mess on social media, at least they have the guts
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: to show their name and show their face. Toronto Blue
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Jay fans biggest group of keyboard warrior cowards I've ever
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: seen on social media in my life, not even close.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: So congratulations they actually made Duck fans look good.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, I'll win, all right, Thanks man. Appreciate you guys.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Softy joining us every Thursday here on the Chucking Buck Factor.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Fiction coming your way next Bucky's Pick. Today we will
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: also talk about the World Series Game number five. Sports
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kh A r f M.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: It's eight o'clock here on a third day, and it
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: is time for our twelfth Man roundtable. We have assembled
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: the best out there to talk Seahawks football. We do
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: it every single week. Hugh Millan, our QB one former
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. Don't know if you knew that about him, buggy,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: h you mean like the National Football the National Football,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: highest level, highest level QB.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, listen, I'm gonna start listening.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think he studies much anymore, but at at
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the time, Yeah, he really really did.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: He just wings it.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: And then we got our Seahawks insider Greg Bell over
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: twenty years following the Seattle Seahawks, seems to know a
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: thing or.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Two about Sewks. He's been doing it that long. Yeah, yeah,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna start listening to him. To an army like
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: dedication to his craft. Who would have thought, Yeah.
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: I know, so we're pretty you listen long enough, I'll
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: prove you wrong. Just keep listening. I'll step on enough
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: rikes to change your mind. All right, Well, let's do
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: this thing. A lot to catch up on. We're coming
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: off of a bye week.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: We spent last week's roundtable sort of discussing how we
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: feel about the team. But now this is about looking
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: forward to the second half of the season. Should have
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: a healthier roster, but the same can't be said for
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: the Washington commanders on Sunday, Greg, I just update your
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: reaction to the news about Terry McLaurin being out and
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Jade and Daniels practicing yesterday and looking like he's on
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: track to play Sunday night against the Hawks.
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: Well, the Seahawks have been preparing all week that Daniels
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: was going to play. That was the assumption when he
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: missed the Monday night game against Kansas City. McLaren's that
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: was news to McDonald yesterday when we told him during
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: our time talking with him before practice he re injured
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: his leg in the Kansas City game Monday night, so
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: he won't play it. Washington's missing both at starting defensive ends.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: It's missing it's starting safety. They are not at all
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: what they were at the NFC Title Game last year Philadelphia.
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: They don't have a running game. Austin Eckler was supposed
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: to be a big part of their offense and he's
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: on injured reserve. Offensive linemen on injured reserve. Every team
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: has injuries, yes, but Washington has not responded to it well.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: Their offense only scored seven points even though they drove
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: into Chiefs territory Monday night, five of their eight drives
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: were in Kansas City's end of the field, and they
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: only got seven points with Marcus Mariota as the quarterback.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: Suffice to say, Jane Daniels playing is a big, big
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: deal in this game. If he wasn't playing, it would
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: be swinging into Seattle defense's favor. Daniels another run pass
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: threat who last year as a rookie was just really
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: almost beyond his well, he was beyond his years of
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: reading defenses and reacting to what was seeing in front
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: of him. A lot of talk about the virtual reality
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: training he's had since way back at LSU and how
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: it's got him defenses. But if you don't have the
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: Rookie of the Year Heisman Trophy winner who got you
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: the NFC title game at full strength, that's in Seattle's
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: favor for sure. So health is as always an NFL,
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: especially in October November, heals the factor in this game,
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: for sure.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Big factor. We'll get to some of the Seahawks news
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: here in a moment as well, but before we get
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: off the topic of Jaydon Daniels, let's ask our QB
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: one what a year he had. Is a rookie hasn't
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: quite worked as well here in his sophomore campaign. What
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: do you see in Jaden Daniels Hugh that keeps defensive
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: coordinators up at night.
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: Well, he's a beautiful athlete and maybe maybe second to
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson in terms of speed and long long strikeability
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: from the quarterback position. I think he has a very
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: fluid passing motion, much much better than Lamar Jackson's. To
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: my eye, I think he has more velocity. I think
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: it's just more effortless. But you know, I was I
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: think there's a really important h thought that I have
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: about the commanders that I'll try and share quickly. So
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: I'm on this thirty third team that think tank and
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: we zoom every week. And there's a guy named Mike
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: Giddings who is the president of Pro Scout. They consult
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: to the NFL. They don't have websites for us to jump,
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: they can sell to the NFL. And he picked it
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: up from his dad, who they like was they were
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: hired by Paul Brown and Don Shulin what have you.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: And as as.
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: As it was stated, they have like actuarial tables. They
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: go so far back and they have this when they
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: advise teams He says, you want to be a playoff team,
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: you have to be below twenty strikes, and strikes are
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: generally acquired by aging players declining players x number of injuries. Well,
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: the Seahawks had seventeen strikes, so they were in good
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: in good position. He had the Commanders as a declining team.
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: You might have thought, hey, they're on the rise with
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: Jane Daniels. He had the Commanders as a declining team.
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: They had forty four strikes, wow, entering the season. And
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: you know it's not just the defense Von Viller, you
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: know Bobby Wagner, but you know all the targets. Zach
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: Ertz is thirty four years old, Chris Moore is thirty
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: two years old, Terry McLaurin is thirty, he's injured. Austin
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: Eckler is thirty. So this commander's philosophically, they have said, hey,
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: we're all in now and there, and they've acquired a
• 46:30
  Speaker 8: lot of veterans. It makes sense to some people, but
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: a guy that has been advising NFL teams for literally
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: sixty years in a family business.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: They say, whoao, WHOA. That is the wrong formula for success.
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: And you know, now I'm kind of wishing that I
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: had taken it to Vegas because he called this stuff
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: back on the summer.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: I think it's there's a lesson.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: There, so there's some legitimacy. This isn't just the slow
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: start that they're off to, you know, that might be
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: representative of the actual team that they are.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, Jade Daniel is going to be an issue.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: But I know a day.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Ago, Greg, I'm on the airwaves jumping up and down
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: with excitement about seeing Spoon and Love and Emon war
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: he finally together in the same secondary. Is that gonna
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: happen or not?
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Sit down, Chuck, It's not gonna happen. Ah, you can't
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: jump up and down.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I was, yeah.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Jolaine Love had a setback, is what McDonald termed it,
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: in his return from his hamstring injury. I saw him
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: running around in cleats on Monday and the practice they
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: had and apparently the setback was then because he didn't
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: practice yesterday and McDonald said injured reserve is under consideration
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: for him. They still even with Witherspoon coming back. He
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: did practice Fool yesterday for the first time since Week four.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: Even with Witherspoon coming back, still on Sunday night. With
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: bub being out, they are not going to be whole
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: in the secondary, which they have not been since the
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: fifth player of the year when Nick Emon Worry got hurt.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: So we're going to see more at.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: Tai Okada, who at the beginning of the season when
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: he had they o'catta has had an interesting season of
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: just growing within the last month and a half. I
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: wrote a story in the News Tribune this morning about
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: him and how he's representative of the entire defense playing
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: not at all. How Mike McDonald planned for this year Ocatta.
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: At the beginning of the season, when Emon Worriy went
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: out the game won. Mike McDonald had a plan of
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: using big nickel with a safety to combat the San
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: Francisco run game, and when Emon Worriy went out, he
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: tried to put o'cada into that role, and the forty
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: nine ers picked on him immediately. We got a first
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: down with Kittle, They got a touchdown with Kittle on
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: the third play, and then they tried McDonald tried blitzing
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: o'cada like he would have even Worry, and Ocatta was
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: at five eleven, two hundred pounds just running in the
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: lineman getting swallowed in effect eventually got benched in the
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: middle of that game, and the Seahawks went more to
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: what they always had done last year with Witherspoon, which
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: is go a corner to nickel, not big nickel, regular
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: conventional nickel with Witherspoon inside. Well, then Witherspoon got hurt
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: late in that game running into Josh Job on Job's interception,
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: and ever since then they've been shucking and jiving at
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: nickel and extra safety until even Worri came back a
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: couple of weeks ago. In the meantime, Okata has gone
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: from a big role of a failed nickel to a
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: starting safety because of Julian Love's injury, and in that
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: starting safety role he's excelled. His blitzes against Houston got
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: home for a sack and a half. He hadn't had
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: a sack in his career in three years last year
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: week he had the sack and a half. He had
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: the great play in the end zone tipping the third
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: down pass as part of that goal line stand when
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: it was a two score game with five minutes left.
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: He is part of McDonald's not going a script for
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: this defense as well as they're playing number one in
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: the NFL against the run, seventh in scoring defense. They
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: are not playing how McDonald wanted to They are night
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: he probably knows these numbers. Twenty one percent in sub
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: packages on defense, which is exactly how McDonald intended to
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: play with Emon Worry and the Gang together, that's number
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: one in the league. They are seventeen percent in blitz rate,
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: that's the third lowest in the league. And that is
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: not at all how he was supposed to play, he said.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: McDonald said yesterday, frankly, we had detoured pretty significantly from
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: how I planned to play schematically this year because of
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: the injuries. And I said, is pressure rate one of
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: those detours? He said, yes, he was gonna blitz fifty
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: percent of the time with Emon Worry and Witherspoon. He's
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: in seventeen percent because he hasn't had those two guys
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: for eight of the game so far this season. So
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: they're winning not much like on offense. This team is
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: winning on defense, not how they were designed to be
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: this year. We'll see if Witherspoon comes back increases the
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: blitz rate a little bit. It's a little dicey proposition
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: to blitz Jalen Daniels posed to some other quarterbacks.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: They're faced all.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Right, So Hugh loves not coming back, but at least
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Spoon is What does that mean in your opinion of
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the secondary?
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm very intrigued to see how this plays out
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: because if you go back Witherspoon came out of Illinois,
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: as you know, at the combine was one hundred and
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: eighty one pounds. Look, he throws his body around, You
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: love that about him. But at Illinois he played in
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: the slot or in the box, you know where all
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: the big bodies are playing hardball. He was in there
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: less than seventeen percent, sixteen point eight percent of his snaps.
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: But now as a Seahawk last year he was at
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: sixty five percent in the box. And it just it
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: begs the question, Hey, yeah, he's a great nickel player,
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: but right now he's only played two games this year,
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: So is it more wise to put him outside at corner?
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: And then emon worry is going to be your nickel?
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: And so now how much dime they played the Seahawks
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: right now just under eighty eight percent. They're number one
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: in the NFL in terms of using nickel five dbs
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: their dime use at three and a half percent is
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: twentieth and that's where you get to the numbers. Greg
• 52:13
  Speaker 8: just sided. So they may up their use of dime,
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: which would put Witherspoon in an overhang position down in
• 52:22
  Speaker 8: the box and Emon worry on the other side of that.
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: But I think that there's gonna be a substantial move
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: to the outside by Witherspoon.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: That's what I would do.
• 52:35
  Speaker 8: You know, given that you have Emon worry, given the
• 52:39
  Speaker 8: nickel numbers, and that's been dictated by by by health concerns.
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: But I think there's a big philosophical discussion you had,
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: You had Emon worry, go to the combine at sixty
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: three and exactly two hundred twenty pounds versus as I mentioned,
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: one hundred and eighty one.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: You got to you.
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: Got two guys, who are you're thinking about playing nickel
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: one is thirty nine pounds heavier. Not factors in my opinion.
• 53:03
  Speaker 8: And you know, we're we're talking about Jayden Daniels being
• 53:06
  Speaker 8: banged up skinny guy. We're talking about Witherspoon, Witherspoon getting
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: banged up skinny guy. Like this is the thing. And
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: so I think that Seattle should address it in that way,
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: and we.
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: Talked about this earlier this week, Chuck. That's exactly the
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: decision they're going through this week. And because even Worry
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: has been so good at Nickel, I can't see them
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: moving them out of that spot. He's going to play
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: ninety plus percent of the snaps and it's going to
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: be inside against the run of the Nickel. If they're
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: doing what Hugh's saying they should do and put Witherspoon outside,
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: somebody's got to go, and that to me is Greek Wolan.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: So Wolan may get benched, as he was almost bench
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: before Witherspoon got hurt in week two. He probably would
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: not have started that Pittsburgh game if Witherspoon had not
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: missed it.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: But now they may be.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: Benched him, and it's because of Nick even Warrey's emergents
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: inside as Nickel, he's playing a lot closer to line
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: of scrimmage, and he did it off Carolina. He talked
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: to me yesterday about how that has been an adjustment
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: for him. The action happening quicker, the block's on any
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: more quickly, But with everything else McDonald and the coaches
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: have thrown at him, he's past it.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: I'm with you.
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: I put Mitherspoon outside where he's a natural corner, and
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: put just stick Eman Woorry in and played ninety percent nickel.
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: And I think an important part of that is that
• 54:24
  Speaker 8: Emon Warry. I've been very keen to watch when they
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: play man to man, who is Seattle willing to match
• 54:29
  Speaker 8: him up against? And I've seen the willing to put
• 54:32
  Speaker 8: those little slot receivers, you know, you know, oftentimes the
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: shift of your guys are in the slot where he is.
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: He's you know, he's a nickel Sam. He he's basically
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: a Sam linebacker, which is a strong outside linebacker, you know,
• 54:44
  Speaker 8: in the in the form of a person who's a safety.
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: So that makes him a nickel Sam in man to man.
• 54:51
  Speaker 8: If he has to cover a little guy, then if
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: that's a problem, you're gonna expose it and you can't
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: play man to man, you can't put him on, and
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: then that reveals theverge and have but they have been willing.
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: Now he in some cases he's not as quick in
• 55:05
  Speaker 8: and out of his break, but he's quicker than I
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: thought he would be, and the length and his catchup
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: speed allows him to play man and man against those
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: in a quick note on on a Kata because we
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: were talking about him, Greg, You remember when you guys
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: were handicapping who's going to make the roster, was Jerrick
• 55:22
  Speaker 8: Reid or somebody other than Tylecotta. He had that incredible
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: interception in the last game in the preseason, that one
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: handed interception against the Packers that if it was Larry
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: Fitzgerald running down the millfield on a post, you just said,
• 55:36
  Speaker 8: that's a Sports Center Top ten play. It wasn't so
• 55:39
  Speaker 8: much that play that got our attention the next series,
• 55:42
  Speaker 8: on a dual run where the running back went to
• 55:46
  Speaker 8: the backside in a lot of space, Okata came from
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: the back end and he just came up like a
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: meteor and just chopped down whoever the running back was.
• 55:55
  Speaker 8: And I go, WHOA, that is probably going to impress
• 55:59
  Speaker 8: the Seak coaching staff more than the interception. I think
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: he made a late run to make this team. Kind
• 56:07
  Speaker 8: of a little spotty the first, you know, regular season game,
• 56:11
  Speaker 8: but he's improved in his performance. So he's a guy
• 56:15
  Speaker 8: we need to talk about until Julia in Love gets
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: his hamstring straight round. But I think it's been an
• 56:21
  Speaker 8: interesting story for him in twenty twenty five.
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: He's a guy who was on and off the practice
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: squad in twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four from Montana State.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: He's in his third year.
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: He's another guy McDonald has put up in front of
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: the team and say, you practice well, you study and
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: know the game plan you play.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: Josh Job was like that last year.
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: They have bettered themselves with examples of that across the
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: two years that McDonald has been here, and that resonates
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: in the locker room. If a guy who's been on
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: the practice squad and not even on it the whole seasons,
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: on and off of it for two years can be
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: a starter and accept.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, got freeze from Greg. I got a freeze
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: from Greg. All right, we'll try to get Greg going again.
• 57:04
  Speaker 8: Go ahead here, Yeah, I can pick up on on uh.
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: Greg is right to mention Okada and Josh Job in
• 57:11
  Speaker 8: the same category in the sense of of how you
• 57:15
  Speaker 8: how you approach the game as a professional and you
• 57:18
  Speaker 8: come on and you can impress. I do think there's
• 57:20
  Speaker 8: a distinction to be made in terms of of their
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: skill set. Like Tyle Katta strikes me as an overchiever,
• 57:29
  Speaker 8: like you are, You're You're smallest. You don't, you don't,
• 57:32
  Speaker 8: you don't run great, what have you? The only way
• 57:34
  Speaker 8: you're gonna make it is if you're smart enough to
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: be in the right spot and tough. But but there's there,
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: there's a limited toolbox. Josh Job, on the other hand,
• 57:43
  Speaker 8: out of Alabama was a top self recruit and you
• 57:48
  Speaker 8: look at his body style, He's run all the measurables
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: that you Josh Job that that's not an overachiever. That's
• 57:55
  Speaker 8: a guy that that likely you know. And Carl Scott
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: was his is the current defensive secondary coach and defensive
• 58:05
  Speaker 8: past coordinator he was at Alabama.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Carlscott is a tremendous coach.
• 58:12
  Speaker 8: There's a reason Josh Job is playing well that goes
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: beyond just overachieving.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: He's got a toolbox that is be fitting.
• 58:20
  Speaker 8: An NFL starter in a manner that in my mind, Greg,
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: if you're back, is different than Ocada, who I think
• 58:26
  Speaker 8: is an overachievement.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: The parallel is that.
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: Josh Job came in midstream at the end of the
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: training camp last year after the Eagles waived him and
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: was not in their plans, and neither was Tyle Cotter
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: for this season. But You're right. Job is the reason
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: of large reason why Witherspon played sixty plus percent of
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: the snaps. You talked about it nickel last year, because
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: I didn't want to take Job off the field. He
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: eventually became a starter as the third corner. They love
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: Joe McDonald loves Job. He loves how he tackles, he
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: loves how he plays the ball in the air. I
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: think that's why Rick Willing if they stick Emon Worry
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: in the middle and keep him a nickel and they
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: put Witherspoon out against Washington Sunday night, that they will
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: play less of Greek Willing unless they go dime and
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: then they could keep all of them on the field.
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: But then you only have one linebacker, it would be
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: Ernest Jones, and you'd be taking Drake Thomas off the field.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: And Drake Thomas has had a good season.
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: Another unexpected guy who's earned his playing time.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell, Hugh Millen with us here twelve man roundtable.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: It's interesting here.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: We're going to get into the offense, the return of
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Robby Hoots in our next segment. But you brought up
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: skinny guys a little bit earlier. We were talking about
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: the injuries being a big part of this game, like
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: they are every single week, and how much has to
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: go into keeping.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Guys healthy and.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Scouting four guys that you think will be healthy at
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the next level. Maybe have to have warning flags around
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: skinny guys, and Bucky challenged a little bit of your Matthew.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you sometimes will go the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: typical thing is a third offense, a third defense, a
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: third special teams. And then you say, well, it's actually
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: more like, you know, how do you pass offensively and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: run offensively? I thought that was a great point, but well,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: I'm just wondering if it's like, okay, still to your point,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, how do you pass, how do you run?
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: How do you stop the run? How do you stop
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: the pass? How do you keep guys healthy? Shouldn't that
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: be part of the equation you It feels like it's
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: a third.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: It feels like it's everybody as valuable you as offense
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: and defense is how well you keep people?
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: Sure, well we can have cohesion on this in the
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 8: following way. And first of all, I had credit Don
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: James who said that it's offense, defensive, special teams are
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: all a third. I respectfully because I respect Don James
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 8: more than any man I've ever known in my life. Sorry, Dad,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: you may be listening from up there, but it's not
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 8: the truth. Yes, but no, I don't know. You keep
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 8: working at it, But I think it's it's a special teams.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 8: I think is more like twenty percent. I think how
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: you've run it, how you throw it, how you the run,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: how you defend the past. I think I think they're
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: all about twenty percent of the game. Where injuries, I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 8: don't think that they've become a separate category. I think
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: that how you are, let's say, running the ball, if
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: you take on injuries, now all of a sudden, that
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: twenty percent is still twenty percent. You're just not going
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: to be as good at it because of the injuries.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 8: So we can agree that injuries are going to take
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 8: a substantial portion. I just think it eats into your
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: your your quote, your calculus in each of those phases.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: That makes sense, Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: I guess that's my way of saying that athletic trainers
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: and strength coaches are more important than kickers and punters.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Another thing that we want to break down as we
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: are just four days away from the start of the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: college basketball season, and the Washington Huskies have a lot
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: of new faces taken the court under second year head
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: coach Danny Sprinkle this year, and so joining us here
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: on our radio program, Coach Sprinkle is with us.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: How you doing, coach doing great?
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: How are you guys doing? We are terrific.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: By the way, I got a great Halloween costume idea
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: for you around the office. Jetfish those jetfish for Halloween.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: Danny, I'm sure you do.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you do.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 7: No, it's that time of year and that means his
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 7: basketball season.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: That's the best thing about it.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about your team. Obviously, last year you
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: coined as unacceptable a thirteen and eighteen record, four and
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: sixteen in conference play. Even though I think a lot
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: of Husky fans were perfectly willing to let you get
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: your legs underneath you as first year head coach, you just.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: Were adamant right here on our radio.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Waves that that's just not going to be Washington basketball.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: We got to get better and get better immediately. So
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: what is the big lesson you learn from year number
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: one and tried to apply in the off season.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, obviously you know, you learn how good
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: the Big Ten is.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: You know, it's obviously the best basketball conference in the country,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: and you know, you even look at it this year,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: you know, there's probably seven or eight teams ranked in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 7: the preseason top twenty five, including three in the top
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: five with Purdue, Michigan and UCLA, and so you know
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: you're competing against the best night after night, and it
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 7: is you know that the Big Ten schedules a bear,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: you know, like we had a we had a solid
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: non conference, you know, you know, we tripped up a
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 7: couple of games, but you know, we we played pretty
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: well in the non conference, but then once once conference hit,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: our depth, our depth got exposed, you know, especially at.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: The big spot.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: You know, we had some injuries, you know, with Big Frank,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: you know, he only was able to play the last
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 7: you know, ten eleven games, and just by that time,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 7: you know, Great and Willhelm where they were just worn down.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: And it's not a league where you can play small
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 7: against very many teams, and so really attacking the recruiting
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: from a depth stand point, you know, just in getting
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: the best guard play you can get. You know, I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: was really happy with Zoom his freshman year and the
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 7: progress that he's made, but I know he needs help too,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 7: like you know, and obviously Tyler Mackay. You know, they
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 7: finished the year, you know, very strong, and obviously they're
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: at different institutions now, but we had we had to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 7: stockpile some guards. And I really like the crew that
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 7: we brought in. They all kind of bring different things,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: but it's just kind of a fresh start. And I
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 7: love the personality of this team, Like they're fun to
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 7: be around. They have good energy every day.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: Danny, you guys, I mean the basketball seasons here kind
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: of snuck up on me with the baseball season and
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: football season and stuff going on, and yet I did
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: end up catching part of your guys, is a little
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: tune up against UNLV where you kind of dominated in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: the paint. And the newcomer, the young kid, Hans Steinbach
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: just starts off his career in purple with a double double.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: What's this kid all about?
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, he's he's six or eleven. He's tremendously
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 7: skilled for you know, being you know, he just turned nineteen.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 7: You know, he's he's still a young pupp but he's
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 7: he's got he's got extreme talent. Uh, he's he's a
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: great worker. He's he's one of the smartest players I've
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 7: coached from a standpoint of like we can correct something
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: on the floor and it could be like a scout detail,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: it could be how we're guarding a different action. And
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 7: he never screws it up twice, like he may screw
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 7: it up the first time you correct him and then
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 7: he's got it. And so his his processing is elite,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 7: you know, which that's why he's a he's an elite player.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 7: And he's on draft board right now and things like that.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 7: But he he really rebounds the ball. It's almost like
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: he's got magnets in his hands, like literally the ball
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 7: just comes to him, and uh, you know, and he's
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 7: he has a chance to be a special player.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Are he and Debtla Trump getting together for Schnitzel and
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Broughtwurst the routine?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: You know it, you know it, you know it.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 7: Hopefully hopefully you can have the career, Debtl.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be good for Danny Sprinkle. I'll tell you
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: that Danny Sprinkle with would right here on checking Buck
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Uh about that pipeline that you had
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: with the USC Claude and Yates just exactly Uh, what
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: a boon it was for you in your program to
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: be able to lure both of those guys into uh Seattle.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, obviously we're very fortunate. Uh you know.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 7: With Wesley, you know, once he went into the portal,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 7: you know, he he was obviously here his freshman year
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: and so he had a lot of friends here and
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 7: and he loved it here, and to be honest, he
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 7: didn't want to leave in the first place, you know,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 7: and then after I think that year he just he
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 7: missed it, and so he was actually pretty easy to recruit.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: And then obviously, you know, a couple of weeks later,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 7: obviously Quincy Pondexter joined our staff and that's his cousin,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 7: and so that, uh, you know, that was a bonus.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 7: And obviously getting Quincy back, you know, just a former
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 7: Husky that has a tremendous amount of pride and uh
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 7: in the program, and he's just he's a great developer
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: on the court, like with his experience and all that,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: he's been tremendous for our guys. And then with Desmond Claude,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 7: you know, to be honest, and I've said it, you know,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 7: numerous times on record, you know, We recruited him right
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: the day he hit the portal. We jumped in hard,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 7: just like everybody in the country. You know, everybody thought
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: he was going to Florida. I don't know what happened there.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 7: Then everybody thought he was going to Alabama. Don't know
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: what happened there.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: And then it kind of came down like it was crickets.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: For about a month recruiting him, we didn't hear from him,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: his dad, nobody for about three and a half weeks.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 7: And so I actually tried to call him twice to
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 7: tell him like, hey, like we're out, you know, like
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 7: we're done, you know, And thank god, he didn't pick
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 7: up the call or answer the text, and so I
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 7: didn't even get a chance.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: To tell him yeah.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 7: And uh and then he uh he called us back.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 7: You know, I think some things fell through with you know,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: Tennessee and Oregon and and uh in Alabama and uh, obviously,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 7: you know, I may look dumb, but I'm not stupid.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to pass up a great player.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, how is it gonna work with Zoom coming back?
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: And then Claude and Yates and Peterson?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: How is the playing time at the garden and wings
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: gonna work between those guys the balance.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, they like they've they've gotten along since day
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 7: one in the summer. They actually play really well with
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 7: each other. It's fun having two guys that can really
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 7: get the ball to the paint, you know, Zoom and
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 7: Desmond can really drive the ball, you know, and get
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 7: to the rim, you know. And then you got guys
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 7: like Wesley and Kamari who can really shoot the basketball,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 7: you know, and JJ, our other freshman point guard who's you.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: Know, tremendous. And then a kid Bryce and Tucker a.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 7: Six to seven wing from Indiana's had some had some
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 7: great moments, you know, and and really getting him to
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 7: be aggressive and really you know, hunt his shot and
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 7: hunt offensive rebounds and so like like I said, like
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: our guard play. You know, I think I can play.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 7: We can play four guards at times and you know,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 7: and be dynamic and play really fast. But I think,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 7: you know, they're really playing together and sharing the ball,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 7: and they all have to realize like that they're not
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 7: gonna all average seventeen and ten and twelve or fifteen
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: whatever they average last year, because there's only one basketball
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: and so that's we have to we have to share
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: in each other's success, and we'll go as far as
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: our guards take us.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, bryceon Tucker was who I was wanting to
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: ask you about. What is it about his aggressiveness that
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: you're talking about. You're wanting him to hunt and shoot
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: his shots. He looked good in that tune up in
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: that tune up game, So what is it in particular
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: you were saying that you really want him to work
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: on to where he can be an explosive player for you.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean the biggest thing I want him to
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 7: work on is just his defense, his physicality and rebounding
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 7: because he is he's probably our best fast twitch athlete,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 7: you know. I mean he's six seven and he can
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 7: run like the wind, and he can he can really jump,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 7: you know. I think he caught a lob actually against
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 7: It might have been against UNLV, it might have been
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 7: the other Scrimmish, but he's a tremendous athlete. But now
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 7: it's him exerting his force on the game, you know,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 7: Like I don't want him to kind of float around.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 7: I always want him driving with some force, going to
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 7: the offensive glass with force, because when he does, like
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 7: he's really really hard to guard, and offensively, he's he's
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 7: an unbelievably talented mid range shooter, you know, and even
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 7: though a lot of people don't do that nowadays, he's
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 7: he's so talented at it, whether it's in the short
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 7: corner or getting to the elbow and raising up and
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 7: shooting over guys. Uh, that's kind of one of his gifts,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 7: and uh, you know it's something that you know, we
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 7: want him to shoot.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Danny Sprinkle is with US head coach of the Washington
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Osky basketball team program. They're gonna debut on Monday against
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Arkansas Pine Bluff.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: And you've been dealing with some injuries.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: So how healthy are you going to be by Monday
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: and maybe more importantly by Sunday against Baylor.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I mean hopefully by Monday, you know, hopefully.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 7: You know, Dead Claude's been out with a sprained ankle
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 7: here for almost three weeks. You know, Zoom just came
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 7: back from a concussion. He was out for three weeks. Uh,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 7: Kamari Peterson's been out for almost a month with a
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 7: tweaked hamstring. I can go down the list, you know,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 7: Jacob and Maddy. You Maddy's out for the year. Jacob's
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 7: out till you know, mid January, and I know I'm
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 7: missing somebody else because we haven't been able to practice
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 7: five on five until yesterday.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 7: We haven't been able to play practice five on five
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: for the last almost months, and so it's been hard
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 7: to really like grind them in practice. Like that's that's
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 7: where you kind of want, you want to have your
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 7: training camp. You know, it'd be like football not being
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: able to really practice at all in August, you know.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: Before they first came.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 7: And so you know, we'll we may be a little
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: bit behind, especially on rotations and you know, different guys
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 7: playing time and things like that, just until we get
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 7: everybody healthy. But by by Monday, you know, hopefully at
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 7: least they can you know, I imagine Desmond and Camario'll
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 7: be back. But now it's just getting those guys into
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 7: game shape.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: How much more comfortable are you? I mean, just you know,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: getting your feet under you kind of you know, I
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: mean you don't have to get directions probably to your
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: office anymore. But really as far as just you get
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: to now it's you're not trying to put your stamp
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: on the program. It's your program. So how much more
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: comfort are you feeling going into this year?
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: It's night and day, you know, and you know, just
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 7: you know, fans, everybody, like nobody knows how hard it
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 7: is to take another job, like the energy that it
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 7: takes to start back up year one. And it was
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: my third year in a different program. You know, it
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: was emotional leaving Montana State and building that thing up,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: then Utah State building up, leaving like the emotions of
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 7: leaving players that you care about and leaving programs and
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 7: fan bases that you love. Like it's hard, you know,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 7: and it took an emotional toll on me last year
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 7: that I didn't even really realize until probably this June,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 7: you know, and like I was spent. You know, I
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 7: just was like you just you just go. You just
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 7: get through today, You get through the day, You get
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 7: through the day. And then it actually felt like home
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 7: probably the end of June. Like honestly, once the spring
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 7: quarter got over and kind of had a week you know,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 7: before the guys the new crew came in for the summer.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: And once the new crew came in, it was like
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 7: I was refreshed, you know, it was like okay, let's go.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 7: You know, all the lessons we.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: Learned in year one.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: Okay, I actually feel comfortable here in Seattle. I know
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 7: where I'm going, I know where my home is, yo
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 7: out stuff out of storage, like I'm not living out
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 7: of Will Disley's house, and you know, like until like that,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 7: that was like the comfort level. It's like, okay, like
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 7: I can breathe. Let's go, let's go.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: Best of luck this season.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: Coach, thank you so much for your time, and we'll
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: buggy again real soon.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 7: All right, appreciate you. Hey, we need the fans do
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 7: a last airlines arena. We got to get displaced rocking
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 7: again and make it the hardest place to play in
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 7: the West Coast.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Let's do it, all right, Danny Spring come out, Go dogs,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: all right, go dogs. Danny Sprinkle joining us right here
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck in the morning as he's getting
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: ready for a second season.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: That's I don't find that refreshing. I really do. I
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: like people that have self.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: Awareness and and and also awareness of those around them.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: And for him to just say, you know what, I
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: got to admit I was spent. I mean it was
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: an emotional toll leaving Utah State, trying to catch up
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: here at Washington season didn't go the way that we wanted,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: and by the end of the year, I'm not sure
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: I even realized how broken and beaten down that I
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: was by.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: The entire process.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: So I love that, and then I also love the
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: idea of it's very clear that he didn't spend too
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: much time pouting about it, because you want to talk
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: about going to work, and I'm sure he had some
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: help in IL wise, with some alums out there, probably
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: even Detlith.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling we got that German young kid
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: for a reason.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: But he went to work because to be able to
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: turn the roster over as much as he did and
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: to have people giving him votes for preseason Top twenty five.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: Didn't quite crack the top twenty five, but they're getting
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: votes for it. They're getting recognized that watch out for
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: this team if they can put it together. The individual
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: pieces are good enough to be a tournament team, but
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: they got to now put it together and show that
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: they can play together.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: I think that's very impressive.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: I think that's very encouraging for Husky basketball fans out
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: there that somebody could look in the mirror and say
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: that season broke me down, but it did not defeat me,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: and I needed a little bit of a breather, and
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: then I went to work. Man, I rolled back the
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: sleeves and went to work and rebuilt this entire roster.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: And they are in much better position right now than
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: they were a year ago.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: One hundred. The I mean, whenever you're playing a sport
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: and it's the same coaching and you you either get
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: told of a change that's happening in your life or
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: you choose to make a change. Regardless which one it is,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: it still is something is changing drastic, and yet you
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: don't have the time at that point in time to
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: not only not worry about it, you just flat out
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: you just gotta do what you gotta do. You gotta
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: take care of business. And it's only afterwards that you realize,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, that was Mayhem. And so I mean
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: to come from Utah's to hear uh and then try
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: to you know, you look at what you have, and
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: then you're trying to bring in what you can, and
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: you know, you bring a guy or two with you,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: and then, like I said, just trying to figure all
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: the new names and new places and all that stuff.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: It seems it's a daunting task. And yet you don't
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: have time to worry about it in the moment. It's
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: only afterwards when you stop and breathe and you realize, wow,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: that was a whirlwind going on around with that entire time.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 5: I just like how Candidy is when he speaks about everything.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 5: And I really like that he was living at will
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: Disley's house.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, about that.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 5: I'm like picturing the two of them as roommates, even
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: though Disley probably wasn't there, but that's how I'm picturing it.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: I mean they didn't just bring in new parts. I mean,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: Desmond Claude averaged sixteen points per game for USC last year.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: I mean that's in the conference that you're playing. That's
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: a sixteen points per game score that you're just adding
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: to your team. That's a significant number. I know most
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: people usually think a leading scorer on a team twenty
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: twenty five points. Not a lot of teams have a
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: leading score that averages.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five points. Sixteen.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: You just added a leading scorer onto your roster that
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: you probably didn't really have a year ago. I mean,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: technically you did, but this is like a legitimate number
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: one score to have added through the transfer portal for
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: his final year. So I like that about what he
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: was able to pull off in this offseason. And so
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: I mean there's just a lot to like right now
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: about the way that this roster is constructed. And I
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: think it's a feather in the cap as well. I mean,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's such a great sign that
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: you get done with your first year and everybody leaves
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: the fact that Zoom decided to come back and kept
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Nang decided to come back. At least there's something there
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: that suggests that, you know, there's some sustainability with your
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: coaching and people want more of it.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: And those are two of the.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: Biggest names from last year's roster that had a choice
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: to stay or go, and they decided to stay.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: And then you also killed it in the transfer portal.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think the reason why they're getting
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  Speaker 3: some attention, you know, nationally as far as the rankings
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  Speaker 3: and stuff go, is because of some of the moves
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  Speaker 3: that he made, and then also some of the youth.
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  Speaker 3: It's this Hans Steinbach kid, I mean, big and polished
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  Speaker 3: for being a kid that just turned nineteen years old.
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  Speaker 3: He just talked about the Bryce and Tucker, how twitch
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  Speaker 3: he is, how crazy athletic he is, He's going to
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  Speaker 3: be new to Husky fans. I think that off all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden. If those guys become good, really good
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  Speaker 3: for being only freshman and a sophomore, and then they
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  Speaker 3: gel together and sprinkle kind of leads them into what
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  Speaker 3: they they're capable of being. I think they easily could
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  Speaker 3: be a tournament team.
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  Speaker 1: All right, if we can get Hans's brother, Franz oh Man, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to tump you up. Oh yeah, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be I keep wanting to call him Hans Solo,
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  Speaker 3: so that's probably.
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  Speaker 2: Not all right.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us next, that's Hans Sando will be with us
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  Speaker 3: on the horn and call now with Mike. Here's Chuck
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  Speaker 3: and Bud Ah. Yes, Mike Sander, we're NFL and.
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  Speaker 1: Signer joining us every Thursday at this time to talk
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Michael, Good morning, how are you? Howard?
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  Speaker 1: Great are you like me one of the many jumping
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: on the Ravens bandwagon to come back and actually win
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  Speaker 1: the AFC North this year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they could.
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  Speaker 3: Because the rest of the division.
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  Speaker 4: I still think they have issues, though I do. I
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  Speaker 4: think they have issues. There's something not quite right with them.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to reserve judgment until I see Lamar
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  Speaker 4: Jackson make it through this whole game and play well,
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  Speaker 4: because there's something off with this team to me a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well then in that division, I mean, really the
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  Speaker 3: nice thing about them having the injuries and just looking
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  Speaker 3: a little off, because I'm with you on that, even
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  Speaker 3: when Lamar was in there, they didn't look quite as
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  Speaker 3: dominant as they have in the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that the Steam are legit? I mean
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  Speaker 3: they are a couple of games on, don't you think that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is it still there or their division to
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  Speaker 3: go out and win if they can write the ship
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  Speaker 3: a little.
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  Speaker 4: Bit, Yes, I do think that. I think it's ripe
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  Speaker 4: for the taking. I don't think Pittsburgh is that great,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and I've had some reservations about it. Just
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: Rogers making it through the whole year. It looks like
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  Speaker 4: he might but there they've got some issues too, and
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: you know some of that. DK Metcalf Rogers a little
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: back and forth. It was mostly just Rogers complaining during
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: the game that stuff gets amplified if they if it
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  Speaker 4: does start slipping away, right, So, I think I think
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers will be okay if no one else pushes them.
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  Speaker 4: I think if someone pushes them and it slips away
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  Speaker 4: from them, then some of those things we were wondering
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  Speaker 4: about before the year, about all the personalities and that stuff,
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  Speaker 4: I think will become interesting there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't have you peg for a Raven's believer,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't like the Dolphins. So where are you
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  Speaker 1: at with Ravens Dolphins tonight? What kind of game we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it should be, you know, it should be the
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  Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson show you against the defense that really you know,
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  Speaker 4: the Dolphins in their life cycle sort of peaked a
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  Speaker 4: year or so ago. They spent a ton of money,
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  Speaker 4: they pulled back, They've changed a lot of their defense
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  Speaker 4: over The chemistry isn't there, the the you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: not as good as the talent is on their defense,
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  Speaker 4: and so Baltimore should be able with Lamar playing to
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  Speaker 4: have its way a little bit, that's to me the
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  Speaker 4: key matchup in the game now. I think Baltimore's offense
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  Speaker 4: defense was a little bitter last week. They got a
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  Speaker 4: couple of guys back, So I'm going to lean towards
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  Speaker 4: Baltimore in this game, but maybe it's not quite the
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  Speaker 4: route that it normally would be.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Sanda was with us our NFL inside. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to quickly just point out, I mean, I get it,
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens don't look like the Ravens. They haven't all
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  Speaker 1: season long, but they did score forty, forty one and
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  Speaker 1: thirty points against the Bills, Browns, and Lions the first
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  Speaker 1: three weeks, and then Kansas City roughed them upquite But
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Mike, Kans City looks like maybe
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  Speaker 1: the best team in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think? Yeah, I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 4: They've had, you know, six straight games of really really
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  Speaker 4: pretty good offense. So that's something that they didn't have
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  Speaker 4: as much last year and it was harder for them.
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  Speaker 4: So I love the fact that their offense is rolling
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  Speaker 4: a bit. I think they've got some confidence some of
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  Speaker 4: the guys. They've got back. Have made a difference. Mahomes looks,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like he's having an easier time. It's not
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  Speaker 4: just you know, thirty two play drives, you know, every
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  Speaker 4: single time, so they've had, you know, I think they
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  Speaker 4: look pretty good and I've always trusted them to get
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  Speaker 4: a little better as the season went on, and I
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  Speaker 4: think they're in position to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Sando. I mean, the Ravens getting Jackson back is kind
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  Speaker 3: of similar to the Commanders getting Jayden Daniels back. That's
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  Speaker 3: through the Seahawks will face on Sunday night. How big
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  Speaker 3: of a of a a shot to the arm is
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  Speaker 3: that for Washington?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't feel like it's quite as big as
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  Speaker 4: getting Lamar back. I just you know, I think Jaden
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  Speaker 4: Daniels is along in this process. I think there's still
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  Speaker 4: questions about his ability to hold up physically, whereas Lamar,
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  Speaker 4: I mean had a hamstring, but he's been you know,
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  Speaker 4: rolling with the punches for a long time and when
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  Speaker 4: he and it's such a proven year after year guy,
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  Speaker 4: that if the game plan for so, I think Seattle
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  Speaker 4: likes likes his chances.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: One of the interest things about Washington is the way
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  Speaker 4: they run their offense, like Mariota is not a bad backup. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel like that drop is as big as
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  Speaker 4: it should be based on how much better I think
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  Speaker 4: Jayden Daniels is than Mariota, if that makes sense, just
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  Speaker 4: because of the way they can kind of play. So
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  Speaker 4: I like Seattle in the matchup. I think that they
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: match up really well with Washington and are going to
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  Speaker 4: be the younger, more vibrant, more violent team in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I's coming off two weeks of rest, far
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  Speaker 1: healthier than what the Commanders are. And even though it
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  Speaker 1: kind of looked like the Commanders were going to roll
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: from the postseason last year right into this year, it
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  Speaker 1: just hasn't happened. He brought up some good data that
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  Speaker 1: I won't go over. Were with you, but maybe this
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: Washington team isn't a byproduct of a lot of injuries.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe they really are just a three to five football team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, They're probably a little bit better.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: If Jayden Daniels plays the whole year, you know, they
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: probably have a better record than they have now. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you that there's you know, it's it's gonna
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: be a year to think of reassessment for them and
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: maybe they get hot in the end and maybe they
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: win a playoff game. But you know, the way they
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: built that team was to add a lot of older
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: guys and veteran guys that were familiar with the defensive staff.
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  Speaker 4: And I think they are going to get to a
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 4: point at some point where they, you know, may need
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: to retool that sete of the ball. And the interesting
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: thing about that is they could get that done. Go
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: young on defense, and then hey, is Cliff Kinkson, We're
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 4: going to figure out an offense that's sort of been
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 4: an issue at times in the past too, So they're
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  Speaker 4: in an interesting spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, how concerned are you or would you
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  Speaker 3: be if you run the Seahawks defensive staff about this
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  Speaker 3: jickcor Ry krossky merrit kid.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd be a pretty concern. But I like my
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  Speaker 4: chances the way, you know, our team defends the run
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  Speaker 4: from a Seattle perspective. So I think you're wary of him,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: and you know that he's good, but you know, you've
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  Speaker 4: you've played Christian mccaffee, you played some you know, decent
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 4: backs before. So I think wary, but not afraid.
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  Speaker 1: What's going to happen at the trade deadline, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get a big name or is there going to
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: be a lot of this little nickel dimes stuff We've
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: been saying there.
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  Speaker 4: Could be one, Yeah, there could be there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there's gonna be a lot. There's always
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  Speaker 4: a chance so that there's one. But you're right, most
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  Speaker 4: of these trades are involving seventh and sixth round picks.
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  Speaker 4: You know that it's rare to have somebody give up
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  Speaker 4: a two or a three or o one, But I
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 4: think it is always possible. I think you can't say
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 4: that it's not going to happen because the dynamics of
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 4: each one of these years and trades are are different,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 4: and sometimes it may teams may get close to doing
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: it and not do it, but it still can come together.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that I think there's more willing gms
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: and people willing to make a move that you know,
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  Speaker 4: the deadline is at least worth watching to see if
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 4: it does happen. And we've seen some you know, some
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: decent players a Montes Sweat or some guys like that
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: have have changed teams to shoot. Leonard Williams was a
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: very good player who changed teams. So I do think
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  Speaker 4: there could be players like that.
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  Speaker 1: But no, Miles Garrett, No, Trey Hendrickson, No, Max Crosby.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see that big of a name going huh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would not, No, I don't think so, Max Crosby,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Trey Hendrickson, I would lean towards not.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then who's the last one, you said, Miles Garrett?
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  Speaker 4: Miles Garrett, I mean, you never know with Cleveland, but
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  Speaker 4: I think doing that when they paid him the way
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 4: that they did, you know, I think they knew that
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: they weren't going to be a juggernaut team this year.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: So I don't know that their playing I don't know
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: that their season is going any differently than they thought
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: it would when they sign them, If that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I do have to ask you going
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: back to Kansas City and Buffalo. I mean, I mean,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: this might be the regular season game of the year
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: for goodness sake, feels like that's been the case for
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: the last five years in the National Football League. What
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: do you expect in that matchup?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would like to see a little bit more
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: of a pulse from Buffalo. I just feel like they
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 4: haven't been on their a game for a few weeks now,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: and Kansas City, coming off of buy should really get
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: their attention. I just you know, I feel like Kansas
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: City for once is playing better offensively than the Bills
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: going into this matchup. So I want to see the
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: Bills offense. Let's see what they can do and if
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 4: they can keep pace, because I don't think they're going
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: to stop Kansas City.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 3: Isn't it funny?
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: They could win by a thousand and the story afterward
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: will be You've still got to beat them in the postseason.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: By now, I know.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: That's truly true for all these teams in the AFC.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: Kansas City, could you know? Kansas City just is like,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: you know, its own recognissance, right, I Mean, they're just
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: kind of you know that they're probably going to be
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 4: there in the end, and you got to beat them
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: when it really matters to to really prove yourself.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: All right, you as always true to your reputation of
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: being the man. Thank you, Michael. We appreciate it. Thank you,
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: appreciate it all right, enjoy the football.
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  Speaker 3: Mike say our NFL insider. You can follow him at
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  Speaker 1: Of course you should be. He's got podcasts, he's got
• 1:28:06
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