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10-14 H3: Mirror Mirror, Kraken Looking Good & Seahawks vs Broncos · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: I try to be fair at all times. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you, this is hard for me because I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: for the second year in a row like I'm dead
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  Speaker 1: wrong about the San Francisco 49ers. I thought they were
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  Speaker 1: going to show a serious decline a year ago. They
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  Speaker 1: ended up 12-5 until we beat the tar out of
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  Speaker 1: them twice at the end of the year. And this year,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, again, they were going to go on a decline.
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  Speaker 1: They're an old team that gets hurt all of the time.
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  Speaker 1: I know I wasn't right a year ago, but I
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  Speaker 1: am going to be right about it this year. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking very, very wrong about it. Right now at 5-0,
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  Speaker 1: you could argue they look better than any team in
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League so far this season, and that's
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  Speaker 1: with the injuries that I thought that they were going
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  Speaker 1: to suffer. I said it a year ago. I thought
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan should have been the coach of the year,
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  Speaker 1: the way that he managed all of those injuries and
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  Speaker 1: still finished with a 12-5 record, and that's over Mike McDonald,
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  Speaker 1: who pretty much owns him. And I still thought he
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  Speaker 1: should have been the coach of the year over Mike Vrabel.
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  Speaker 1: And so far this season, I don't think there's any
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  Speaker 1: doubt that he's the coach of the year so far
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  Speaker 1: this season. So I do want to be fair. I
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  Speaker 1: do want to give credit where credit is due. But
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  Speaker 1: I just think this ongoing national and even local narrative
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  Speaker 1: that the NFC West is over five games into the
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  Speaker 1: season is just utter nonsense. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to dig deep into history to find
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  Speaker 1: an example of how the season is never over after
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  Speaker 1: five games. I mean, just a year ago, the 49ers
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  Speaker 1: were in first place after five games. 4-1, not 5-0,
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  Speaker 1: but still were 4-1 in first place over a 3-2
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks team and over a 3-2 Los Angeles Rams team.
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  Speaker 1: They were already off to a one-and-a-half game lead in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC West. And what did they end up being?
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  Speaker 1: The third best team in the NFC West by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year. And by the end of the season,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald was taking Kyle Shanahan behind the woodshed, not once,
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  Speaker 1: but twice in the two games that really mattered. Not
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  Speaker 1: the first game of the year, but the two games
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  Speaker 1: that really mattered. So I think it's nonsense. I got
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  Speaker 1: lots of reasons why I've asked you and our Mirror
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  Speaker 1: Mirror segment to come up with your biggest reason why
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  Speaker 1: you think it's nonsense or the biggest reason why you
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  Speaker 1: think that it is indeed over. That the best that
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are going to be able to do at
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  Speaker 1: this point is a wild card berth Five games into
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  Speaker 1: the season, we're drawing that conclusion. Want to hear from
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  Speaker 1: you all on your talkback at 933kjar. com. We've got some
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  Speaker 1: texts that have rolled in. We've got some YouTube suggestions
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  Speaker 1: that have rolled in. And so we'll get this thing going. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get started, I just want your thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: if you were to say right now it is more
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  Speaker 2: likely that the Niners win the division or someone else
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  Speaker 2: wins the division, what would you say?
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  Speaker 1: Someone else. Okay. I think Seahawks and Rams are both better,
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  Speaker 1: and they will be better by the time we play
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  Speaker 1: 17 games. I think they'll finish third. All right. Again? Again. Okay. Now, look,
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  Speaker 1: I've admitted that I've underestimated them now for a year
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  Speaker 1: and change, but I will also argue I think I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of right about them, too. Yeah, in a
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  Speaker 1: similar way. I mean, by the end of the season,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't even in the same league. as the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think they were in the same league
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  Speaker 1: as the Rams either. They just didn't face them at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year. They just didn't get exposed
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  Speaker 1: by the Rams at the end of the year like
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  Speaker 1: they got exposed by Coach McDonald and the Hawks. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get rolling. Do we have a talkback to get
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  Speaker 1: us started, Christopher Kidd? All right, let's go to the
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  Speaker 1: talkback machine.
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  Speaker 3: Hawks are where they want to be. They're lurking in
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  Speaker 3: the shadows. The killer defense. Sam is still getting to
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  Speaker 3: a rhythm, and once he does... It'll help those turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: You get the running backs back, and that could be
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  Speaker 3: later in the year, but you get healthy at the
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  Speaker 3: right time. We saw what they did last year, and
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  Speaker 3: the defense is consistent. Avoid those penalties and stay healthy
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  Speaker 3: if you can, and they're going to be right there.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I agree with all of that. I
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  Speaker 1: think Sam Darnold, I don't think he's played nearly as
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  Speaker 1: poorly as what some have labeled him. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he played well this week against the 49ers. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's got to clean up the turnovers. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: know not all of them were his fault, but five
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  Speaker 1: through three games, we got to correct that. We got
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  Speaker 1: to improve that. There's no question about that. Um, but
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  Speaker 1: I do think that he does have a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of an excuse. Does he not? Yeah. He got injured
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  Speaker 1: on the first game of the season, probably rushed back,
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  Speaker 1: probably spent all of his time rehabbing to feel healthy
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  Speaker 1: enough to play. And probably understandably isn't in that rhythm
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  Speaker 1: that I think he'll get into and probably in the
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  Speaker 1: very near future. And then in terms of the running
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  Speaker 1: back room, certainly it's the weakness of the 2026 Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: But even if we don't do anything at the trading deadline, which,
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  Speaker 1: if it still is the weakness of the team at
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  Speaker 1: the trading deadline, we have the general manager that's going
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  Speaker 1: to assess it and pull off the trade that is
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  Speaker 1: going to make other teams weep. He'll pull off the
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor trade. He'll pull off the Saquon Barkley trade,
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  Speaker 1: which I heard rumored here this morning. He'll pull something off.
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  Speaker 1: If that is our weakness, he will use the cap
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  Speaker 1: space to satisfy that weakness. But even if he doesn't,
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  Speaker 1: even if that's not the move that he makes, we
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  Speaker 1: have a bad running back room right now. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: worst in the National Football League, but it could look
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  Speaker 1: a lot different three weeks from now. with a healthy
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  Speaker 1: Jadarian Price and a healthy Zach Charbonnet. I completely agree.
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  Speaker 2: All right, from the texter here, Niners have two wins
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  Speaker 2: in the divisions from Keith, and both are on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Our only hope is the substation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they beat the Rams and the Seahawks in
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  Speaker 1: their first five games last year. Yes. And they were
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  Speaker 1: a game and a half. And maybe, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to look it back up. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if those were both where those games were played. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the first one was here last year, was here. So
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  Speaker 1: we lost to them on the road a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Or excuse me, we lost to them at home a
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  Speaker 1: year ago in the first part of the season. The
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks were also 3-2 after five games. And coming off
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  Speaker 1: a lopsided loss, not a lopsided loss, but a high-scoring loss,
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  Speaker 1: an uncharacteristic loss against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I first wrote down we might win the Super Bowl? Yeah. Was...
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  Speaker 1: After week eight, Seahawks played seven games, went into the
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  Speaker 1: bye week on a two-game winning streak after the loss
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  Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay, had the bye, and came out and
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  Speaker 1: looked like, I mean, against the Washington Commanders. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like Alabama taking on Prairie View A & M.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my. NFL teams are not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: dominate NFL teams this thoroughly. And I wrote on my notes,
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  Speaker 1: this team might win the Super Bowl. And that's just
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  Speaker 1: three weeks apart. That's three weeks apart, Anders, from losing
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  Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and giving up 38 points
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  Speaker 1: at home to, I guess, four weeks apart. Four weeks
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  Speaker 1: later after the bye, saying, oh my gosh, we are good.
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  Speaker 1: We're better than good. And so things can happen fast,
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  Speaker 1: and Mike McDonald, everywhere he's been, all of his teams
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  Speaker 1: get better as the season goes along, and it's happened
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  Speaker 1: here in back-to-back seasons. Why would anyone think it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to happen again this season? And on the flip side,
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers are an old team that has a history
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  Speaker 1: of injuries, and it's the same guys that get injured
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  Speaker 1: every year, and we've already seen a couple of them
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  Speaker 1: knocked off the roster so far this season. Guess what?
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  Speaker 1: Those are the two facts that I think are important Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're not indisputable facts going forward, but that's two pieces
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  Speaker 1: of evidence that are indisputable. Two trends that are indisputable.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks under Mike McDonald get better every year as
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  Speaker 1: the season goes along. So did the Ravens defense, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. And so did Michigan's defense, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: when he was there. And the 49ers are old and
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  Speaker 1: get more injured as the season goes along. So even
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  Speaker 1: though right now we have to acknowledge, all right, you
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  Speaker 1: came in here. You won by three. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the best team won. I don't think the 49ers necessarily
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  Speaker 1: outplayed the Seahawks in the game. After all, they had
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  Speaker 1: 154 yards of total offense after three quarters. Kyle Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: winning that matchup with Mike McDonald, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: But Seahawks did some things to cost them the game. Lost.
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  Speaker 1: 49ers get the victory. But that happened a year ago
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  Speaker 1: after week one as well. A game that I thought
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  Speaker 1: the better team lost And what happened by season's end? Again,
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  Speaker 1: there was a chasm of difference between the quality of
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  Speaker 1: the two teams.
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  Speaker 2: And to answer your question of what you said earlier,
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  Speaker 2: you asked if they beat the Rams on the road
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  Speaker 2: as well in the early part of the season last year.
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  Speaker 1: They did. They did.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a very similar situation as it was last year.
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  Speaker 2: And this year's win was not a road win.
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  Speaker 1: That was a... Australia. It was in Australia where Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay has already admitted he screwed that up. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there's definitely, obviously, a long part of
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  Speaker 2: the season to be played. 360, Hawks have no running
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  Speaker 2: game at all, and it's having Sam Darnold look like
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  Speaker 2: Geno Smith.
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  Speaker 1: He does look a little more frazzled. I think that
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  Speaker 1: will calm down. And you are absolutely right. No one's
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  Speaker 1: disputing it. They don't have a running game. But does
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  Speaker 1: that mean they won't? That's what I'm saying. Through five weeks...
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  Speaker 1: If we entered the playoffs today, how are we going
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  Speaker 1: to win the playoffs without a running game? But how
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  Speaker 1: much different is it going to look? two weeks from now?
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  Speaker 1: I hope it does. Five weeks from now, eight weeks
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  Speaker 1: from now, when it really does matter. Two and a
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  Speaker 1: half game deficit. Not anywhere close to being insurmountable. And
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  Speaker 1: who's to say that we'll be healthy the next time
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  Speaker 1: we play them at running back and Christian McCaffrey's on
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  Speaker 1: the shelf somewhere. I mean, he's got some injury history himself.
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  Speaker 1: So I think the running game could look a lot
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  Speaker 1: different in just two weeks from now, much less by
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season. And if, like I said before,
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  Speaker 1: if there is a dearth, if we are horrible over
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  Speaker 1: the next two months before the trading deadline, or, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it comes earlier than that. We're now, like, what,
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  Speaker 1: three weeks? Six weeks, or, yeah, something like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Then.
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  Speaker 1: We have the general manager that will make the aggressive
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  Speaker 1: play to add to the running back. Right, right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's just it. Like, people drawing these conclusions now? Five
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  Speaker 1: games into the season when we just had the exact
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  Speaker 1: same situation a year ago? And we're already waving the
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  Speaker 1: divisional white flag? Like, well, maybe we can sneak through
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  Speaker 1: the back door and get into the wild card. Are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me? No, all the goals are the exact same.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not the record, but all the goals are the
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  Speaker 1: exact same. Here's where I'll kind of throw it back
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  Speaker 1: at you. At this time last year when they were
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  Speaker 1: three and two, did you have more confidence in them
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  Speaker 1: now or last year? That's what I'm saying. It was
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  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers game. That was the five. So it's the same.
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  Speaker 1: Same record. And we were one. Wow, that was uncharacteristic.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that's not a harbinger of things to come. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was the same thing. They weren't playing Seahawks football yet.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, complimentary Seahawks football, as Mike McDonald put it
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  Speaker 1: numerous times since Sunday. We're not playing good complimentary football.
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  Speaker 1: Base football, we're playing pretty well. The defense is number
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  Speaker 1: one in the National Football League in yards allowed. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, what? Sixth? I wrote it down this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of me. Sixth in
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  Speaker 1: points allowed. uncharacteristically, we've allowed the Washington Commanders to get
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  Speaker 1: into the end zone and didn't force them to kick
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  Speaker 1: field goals instead. Things like that. All of the after-the-play
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  Speaker 1: penalties against the Chargers. And that's a game the Seahawks won, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: And then this week, we're not going to turn the
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  Speaker 1: ball over four times a game. Hope not.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to fumble out of our own end
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  Speaker 1: zone again this year. You know, Stuff like that. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. There's just no way that we
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  Speaker 1: are to the point to be drawing conclusions about, well,
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  Speaker 1: are we going to start a magic number count for
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers? Are you kidding me? They just blew this
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  Speaker 1: a year ago. And here we are in the same position.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to the talkback.
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  Speaker 4: The 49ers are who we thought they were.
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  Speaker 1: And we let them off the hook. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to crown them, crown them.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not worried about the Niners, baby. Yeah. They got
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  Speaker 4: to play us again. They got to play the Rams again.
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  Speaker 4: They got to play the Chiefs. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 4: long season, man. Long, long season. We'll handle it.
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  Speaker 1: Always do. Always do.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I would not be shocked if they got
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  Speaker 4: beat by the Commanders on Monday night.
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Whoa. That would shake it back up. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah. It was the perfect time. For
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  Speaker 1: the Denny Green quote this week. There's no question. We
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  Speaker 1: are who they thought they were. They are who we
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  Speaker 1: thought they are. My only question would be. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to let him off the hook. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: crown they ass, crown they ass. I think I need
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  Speaker 1: to pull that clip. I know it's in the system somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: But I think the biggest thing I would say is
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  Speaker 5: the Niners finally run out of injury luck. Meaning they
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  Speaker 5: don't have that lingering problem anymore. It's actually like the
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  Speaker 5: Niners are healthy. They played 17 weeks, and sure, Deebo
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  Speaker 5: might be banged up, but they're healthy. That would be
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  Speaker 5: my only nincompoop with it, because for the last five years,
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  Speaker 5: it's been, eh, as you mentioned, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: But, Christopher, this isn't bad luck. No, it's just they're hurt.
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  Speaker 1: This is they're always hurt. It's the same guys. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel being hurt is not a surprise to anyone
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  Speaker 1: that has watched football in the last four years. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: every hairy Christian McCaffrey has. You cringe. 49er fans are
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  Speaker 1: hoping he gets up from it. Trent Williams is.
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  Speaker 3: 55 years old.
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  Speaker 1: We graduated together. Nick Bosa, again, is battling his way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what percentage of Nick Bosa's career has he
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  Speaker 1: spent trying to get back out onto the field? And
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  Speaker 1: every year, as a player, even when he's on the field,
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  Speaker 1: he gets a little less effective. because of the mounting injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Fred Warner's a guy that I think had injury bad luck.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling Fred's going to be fine this year.
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Pearsall. This isn't bad luck. We have older guys
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  Speaker 1: that have been hurt a lot, and older guys who've
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  Speaker 1: been hurt a lot the next year their chances of
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  Speaker 1: getting injured again are higher than what they were the
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  Speaker 1: previous year. They brought in Mike Evans, to your point,
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  Speaker 1: who is also old. And he was hurt this Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and still worked. He was hurt this Sunday and he
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  Speaker 1: still worked this over. But as the season goes along,
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  Speaker 1: is Mike Evans going to get More durable or less durable?
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think it's a bad luck thing. I
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  Speaker 1: think whether it's the substation or not, it is a trend. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I'll say about that is they already
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  Speaker 2: have that issue now, and they still look really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they did a year ago. Right. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: said Kyle Shanahan should have been the coach of the year. Right.
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  Speaker 1: They had far more injuries last year, and they still
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  Speaker 1: finished 12-5. But by the end of the year, against
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and this is what this is about, and
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  Speaker 1: against the Rams.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's even take the Seahawks out of the equation. If
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers are counting out the Rams or 49er fans
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  Speaker 1: or NFL network analysts who've been very impressed by the
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco 49ers are counting out the Rams, you're a fool.
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  Speaker 1: They're 2-3 right now. Oh, yeah. You are a fool
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  Speaker 1: if you think that the Rams... Even if they don't
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  Speaker 1: come back and win the division, which I think they
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  Speaker 1: have a chance, they still, I will tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams meet the 49ers in the playoffs, the Rams advance.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I think they're a better team. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Last one here, or one of the last few here. 2-5-3,
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  Speaker 2: 49ers schedule is much easier, and they are up two
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  Speaker 2: games already.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Niners will win the West. I've long
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  Speaker 1: standing had an issue. With just looking ahead and putting
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  Speaker 1: W's and L's on things, you have no idea how
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  Speaker 1: the schedule is going to play out the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the year. Just none. So I would say on paper, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it does look lighter. It's more favorable. Yeah, it is
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  Speaker 1: more favorable. But they still have Rams, Seahawks, Eagles, Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: on the road, Chargers on the road. Vikings. Vikings at home.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Cowboys on the road. Falcons are a better team now
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: on the road. And the Raiders are a better team
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: at home. I mean, it's looking like... Here's mirror mirror
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: for you. This is fairest of them all. It's looking
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: like they're going to once again be a good team
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: again this year. It looks like once again they're going
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: to post a double-digit win total. Looks like once again
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: we're looking at a 12-5, 13-4, 49er team, even if
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: they do suffer the injuries that I've... expect that they're
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: going to suffer. They have a terrific organization, they have
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a terrific coaching staff, and they've got a terrific nucleus
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: of veteran players that when they're healthy, my goodness, are
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they good. I don't begrudge them that at all. I
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: just think that we have far more evidence if we're
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: going to start drawing lines in the sands five games
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: into the season. We have far more evidence that they're
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: going to get weaker as the season goes along, And
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks and the Rams are going to get stronger
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: as the season goes along. And I don't see anything
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: bucking that trend. I think they're going to end up
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: in third place. Really? There you go. Okay. Third place.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: And they'll make the playoffs. They won't be as bad
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: as I thought they were going to be at the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year. They'll make the playoffs. But even
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: if they make the playoffs, I don't think Santa Clara
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: is some intimidating place to go play playoff games, even
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: if you have to face them on the road. And
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: all that matters is when it matters, you're the better team.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: And I think we will have the better team.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see, that's where I kind of lie. I do
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: think it's more likely than not that the Niners win
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the division at this point if I were to choose.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: any one of the three teams that are in contention
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: for it, I would say they are the favorites. I'm
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: not saying it's going to happen, but I would probably
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: pick them at this point in time. And that would
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: give them probably home field advantage in the playoffs. But
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I still totally agree with you that by the end
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of the year, both the Seahawks and the Rams will
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: be better football teams. And that's all that really matters, right?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: They need to go out and win. prove it in
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So that's really what matters after all of this.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: But it's by no means a foregone conclusion.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all. That's all I'm saying. Like, we need
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: to reassess our goals in Seattle? No. Wild card or bust.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: They're still the same goals. Yeah. No. Um, yeah, they
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: were 12 and five. They finished 30 a year ago
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and there was a game difference between where they were
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a year ago and this year and they're a year
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: older and they still keep getting hurt. One, you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: five guys a week end up on the new guys
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: on the week, end up on the training table. Um, and,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and they've earned that reputation. It didn't happen just by accident.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: They've earned that reputation. All right, good session. Nice work, everybody.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, all right, whatever it is, whatever you need
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to get you through the day. If it makes you
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: feel better to go ahead and accept that the 49ers
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: are going to win the division, because then when they don't,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it is that much more of a pleasant surprise. You
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: do you. Okay? I'm not going to stop you from
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: doing you. Mirror Mirror just sees things differently. You know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: fair and stuff. All right, coming up next on the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: radio program, let's check in on that hot local hockey team.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3, KJRFM. All right, so yeah, I'm sitting
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: at home, trying to sleep, and there's a truck running outside.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Reving or running? Just idling. Idling.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Okay. So at least they weren't revving. Okay. And then
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a bunch of, like, truck doors slamming. And I got up.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I must have got up six times. And I look
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: out the window to see, like, what is going on?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Do I need to chase these people off? And I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: never did because that would have required, like, putting stuff on.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I never did. But I am telling you, in the background,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the entire time. And this went on for, like, two hours.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And then you wonder why I couldn't sleep.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The laughter of children in the background. At 1.30 in
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the morning, from 1 to 2 o'clock in the morning.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Like how old? Young children. Oh, that's the creepiest. Not
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: like Austin Young, not like crying like babies, but playing.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: That's the creepiest. Like my bedroom was suddenly next door
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to a playground somewhere. Yeah. And you just heard like
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: children's laughter now. No, no. We're getting close to Halloween.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I think it was actually children and whoever these door
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: slammers were, their children were with them and they needed
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to occupy some time. So they were just running around
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: at one o'clock in the morning playing. I think that's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: what it was. I'm kind of going to trust that
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that's what it was, because if it wasn't. then we
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: got something spooky going on in the hood.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: See, for me, we talked about if you should have
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: gone to visit or gone to check it or not.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Chris says, no, I say yes, because for me, I
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: can't like my mind goes crazy. It's like, then I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: start thinking about what it actually is. And I need
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: to see it to make sure like, okay, it's not that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I have become far more confrontational. The older I get,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you would think it would go the other way. But I,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: if I was a little worried that if I went
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: out there, I was, wasn't going to be Calm enough.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Fair enough. At that time of night, I think that's fair.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: And with all the door slammers, I didn't know if
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I had two door slammers, four door slammers, who I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was dealing with. I didn't know. So if I went
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: out there, you know, not literally, but with my mouth,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: guns a-blazin'. You know, maybe I would have gotten beaten
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and thrown in a ditch. I have no idea. So anyway,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I decided it's not that intrusive into my life, so
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to let it go. That's fair. All right. Well,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: let's talk some crack and hockey. We've got Cam Cleland,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, coming up at 9 and Al Koniski
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to provide his insights at 930. But Anders, just got
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on this. This is three wins
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: in a row for this team all on the road.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And I realize they're not facing the league's juggernauts. That's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: coming up in Florida the next couple of days. But still,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to go on the road at this early part in
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the season, to put together offense and back-to-back games on
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the road, and then to win a shootout, which they
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: never win shootouts, or at least it feels like they
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: don't win shootouts. They're doing things that they weren't doing
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a year ago. Is that fair to say? Absolutely fair.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: And so far, of the games on their schedules, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: would say it's pretty easy to classify it as they're
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: winning the games they're supposed to. And they're losing the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: games that they're supposed to in terms of which teams are,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: you know, supposed to be the best teams in the league,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the Edmontons and the Vegas's of the world. But then
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you're beating the mediocre to bad teams. And a bigger test,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: like you said, will come this weekend when they play
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and further down the road when they play Tampa and Florida,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: who are supposed to be two good teams as well.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: So.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the biggest thing for me about yesterday, Philadelphia is
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: not a good team, right? They're still looking for their
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: first win. Kraken were up 2-0 going into the third period,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and it seemed like they were just going to cruise
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to another victory.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Grubauer was going great.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Within, I think, a six or seven-minute stretch, Philadelphia scored
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: two goals to tie it up. Previous versions of this
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Kraken team would have just completely folded and gone rogue
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a little bit and given up the third goal or
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: at least go to overtime and not find a way
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: to pull out the victory. But right after Philly tied
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: it up, like I said, they're trying to get their
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: first win. They're desperate at this point. The Kraken actually
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: were the much better team, which... Really surprised me. They
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: looked like the more likely team to go on and
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: win the game at the end of the third period
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: with constant pressure. Now, they didn't score in that third period,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: but that kind of told me that this team has
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: a little bit more resistance to them in those instances.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And like you said, winning in the shootout is another
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: big step for them because they have not done that
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: very well recently.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And Grubauer made some great saves in that shootout. Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: not just in the shootout, the whole game. He was fantastic.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: He was just stymieing them. It was like he was
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: reading it off the stick. Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think there is definitely a resilience to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: this team than the previous couple years of Kraken hockey
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: that we haven't seen before.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I would think that always happens at the beginning of
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the year. For any team, you're a little more resilient.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You still have all your goals ahead of you. It's
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: when you start to get to the middle of the season,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it's not going your way. That's when true resiliency gets tested.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: But I am seeing different things from them. Like I said,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a shootout win, to have... back-to-back four-goal games on the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: road to start a road trip, to be 3-0 on
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a road trip, regardless of who you're facing, these are
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: all things that we did not see a year ago.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: We might have seen them at times a couple of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: years ago, and we certainly saw them three years ago,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: but we have not seen this in a while, them
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: play this way. So it's at least encouraging. Certainly not
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: arriving at any conclusions, but it is at least encouraging. Also,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I was expecting a lot more that Trevor– Zegras. He's
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: like Jason White Chocolate Williams. He's like Javi Baez. He's
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: like the showboat of the entire league. Yes, yes. And
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: here he is. He gets the puck on the shootout,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the very first one. I'm expecting him to do a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: cartwheel back handspring, maybe a stick. Sure. Goes aflame. He
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: lights it on fire mid-skate. Yeah. Evil Knievels. Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And then like brings out a second puck that he
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: throws Grubauer off this game and then scores with the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: right hand while dancing on his left foot. I was
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: expecting that. And it was the most boring approach to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: any shootout shot I think I've ever seen shot.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you see a bunch of different strategies
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: with the shootout. And I think it is a common misconception.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of people compare it to the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: soccer penalty kick shootout, which it's almost like you're expected
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: to score. It's like usually the really good shootout artists,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I should say, are like 40%. Yeah, it's a lot harder.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: It's a lot harder.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: It's a wider man guarding a smaller net. Yes, you are.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: It's a lot harder.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: You are on the move, though, so that gives you
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: somewhat of an advantage offensively. But yeah, you're completely correct there.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: That's been kind of it's really a skills competition is
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: what it is. And the Kraken have been notoriously devoid
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: of high skill players.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: So.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: For them to go and get that win after surrendering
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: a two-goal lead in the third period.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Tells me a lot about where they're at.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: And as you mentioned Trevor Zegers, if you remember earlier
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: in the game, he had a little coming together with
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Philip Grubauer, which, A, you don't see goalies really get
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: involved in pushing and shoving matches that much.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: All goalies hate a hot dog.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. They really do.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And the other thing is what happened from that is
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Trevor Zegers shot the puck after the whistle.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Which is a huge no-no in hockey.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Like, big-time no-no, and that's what incited it all.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad Philip Gruvera got the last laugh. I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: love that purists don't like the shootout, and I get it.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I get why you don't like the shootout. But I'll
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: tell you what, as somebody that's not a purist, that's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: sort of more in the novice category when it comes
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to this sport, I sure like that someone's coming away
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: with a win. Yeah, I do too. Okay, the other
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: team got a point. Good for the Flyers. They forced overtime.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: They forced a shootout. They get a point out of that.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: They earned a point at home. They desperately need one.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: But I really need my sports to finish with a victory.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Take notes, soccer. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. All right. Coming up
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: next on the radio program, it's hump day. We look
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: ahead to the Denver Broncos tomorrow night and whether or
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: not Bo Nix is anything to fear. Sports Radio 93.3
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• 29:48
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• 29:52
  Speaker 1: take a little Thursday night football? Change up your little
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Seahawks routine a little bit. DraftKings Sportsbook, Seahawks Broncos. Then,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you know what? Surprise the spouse. Tap him or her
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: on the arm and say, Hey, let's get a room.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Let's knock those boots. Whoa! Yeah. You were looking fine tonight,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and I just won a whole $ 15 on my Seahawks bet.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: You're going to go a little higher than that, Chuck.
• 30:26
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• 30:30
  Speaker 1: know about. Tulalip Resort Casino. It's the place to do it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Gives you more of everything. And now, Anders and I,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: we've had some experience in the room. Not together. Don't
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: be ridiculous. Nope, nope, nope. But, yes, we've stayed the night,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: last Thursday night. Wonderful. Just wonderful rooms. I mean, so
• 30:51
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• 30:53
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• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Tulalip Resort Casino part of your new routine this football season.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: That's where you get more of everything. Oh, geez. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: see what you did there, kid. You transitioned into a
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: little sex you up talk. Just using that as an example.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Of something you could do. I'm not saying it should
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: be one way or the other. Better than arguing. Better
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: than turning to your spouse like, man, I'm really sick
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of you. I wish I could watch this football game alone. Exactly.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Or vice versa. All right, well, Seahawks-Broncos Thursday night. It
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: will be at Mile High. I think, as I mentioned yesterday,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: these two teams right now are on a pretty similar path.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Both have the same record. Both have huge expectations still
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: this year. Both have quarterbacks that I think are still
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: trying to find their rhythm. Neither team has a good
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: running back room at this point. Both are known for
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: their defense. Seahawks playing a little better defense than what
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the Broncos are, but Seahawks are also playing uncharacteristically. Something
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: different is popping up every single week with them that
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald cannot stand. He keeps calling it complementary football,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and that's just it. Functionally, they are putting points on
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the board offensively. Functionally, they are dominating for most of
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the games offensively. defensively to this point of the season,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that's how you get the number one ranked defense. in
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the National Football League. But the complementary football is, okay,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: we play dominant defense, but that doesn't mean when they
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: enter our territory that we give them a touchdown. We
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: got to fight all the way to every blade of grass.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner stuff here. We got to hold them to
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: field goals. That's how we play football. And if we
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: are going to move the football, we can't cough it
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: up four times in a game. If we are going
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to play aggressively, we got to know when to stop
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: at the whistle and not let the Chargers back in
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the game. So that's what he means by the complimentary football.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I think he is excited about the offense and how
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: it's playing. Certainly could play better. And the defense, it's just...
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: We're not seeing that complete Seahawk product that ended up
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: winning the Super Bowl a year ago, and we haven't
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: really seen it in a single game this year.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: No, and when you say complimentary football and Coach McDonald
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: says complimentary football, I think a lot of people just think, oh,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: that means don't turn the ball over.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It's much more than that, right?
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: It's picking up your team when they do turn it over,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: like you said, not letting them score a touchdown or
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: maybe turning them back over to get it back, right? Offensively,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: when you know your defense has been on the field
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: for a long portion of the game, let's have a long,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: sustained drive here where we run the ball a couple times,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: get things going, give them a rest. That's complementary football.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: It's helping out the other side of the ball, getting
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: a couple special teams big plays, all phases, all that
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: stuff that we always talk about.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, even special teams like we had a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: week this week against the commanders. I mean, Mike McDonald teams,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Jay Harbaugh teams have become famous across the league for
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: covering kicks and they were terrible that game. Yes, they were.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, Jason Myers gets things fixed and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: now we don't have as good a return game. You know,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: it's just always something that is providing the fly that
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and an otherwise wonderful ointment for Mike McDonald and the Hawks. Well,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: they're getting ready. I think the Broncos have the exact
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: same story that they're telling right now. We know we're
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: not clicking right now. And one of the biggest reasons
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: is Bo Nix. And Bo Nix is never going to
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: be some deep threat quarterback. He's never going to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, As much as people roll their eyes at
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, NFL teams are still looking for someone with
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  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert's traits, those abilities, because then you're limitless offensively.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing you shouldn't be able to do. Whether you
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  Speaker 1: can execute it or not is another question. With Bo Nix,
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  Speaker 1: you have limitations. There are just some throws he can't make.
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  Speaker 1: There are some things that he cannot do. But even
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  Speaker 1: the things that he's done well since becoming a pro,
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  Speaker 1: he's not even really doing them well. at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And he has become very predictable. He is 12th in
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League in yards. So because of the Broncos'
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  Speaker 1: running back room, they're throwing the ball a lot. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: 21st in passing yards this year. So what does that
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  Speaker 1: tell you? That means they're not trying to throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field. Or Bo Nix isn't trying to
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball down the field. 28th in the league
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  Speaker 1: in yards per pass. That puts you down in Cam
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  Speaker 1: Ward you know, Daniel Jones, worst in the league category.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's not pushing the ball up the field.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is he doesn't have the confidence right now
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  Speaker 1: to push the ball up the field. And as Greg
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  Speaker 1: pointed out at seven Oh five, even when he's throwing short,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be accurate. And he's not even accurate
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  Speaker 1: to this point in the season, completing fewer than 60%
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  Speaker 1: of his passes, which by today's standards is a really
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  Speaker 1: low figure. So he's not playing well right now. And
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  Speaker 1: more than that, because Sam's not playing his best football
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  Speaker 1: right now, but Sam still has not lost that gunslinger mentality.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to defend everything because he is looking to
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  Speaker 1: slice your throat. Bo Nix is just looking to pick
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  Speaker 1: your pocket. Dink and dunk.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you're just going to play that game,
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  Speaker 1: You become quite predictable, so you better be friggin' accurate
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to be that predictable. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: a game that is tailor-made for the Seahawks to just
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  Speaker 1: devour Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos, but getting back
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  Speaker 1: to our original point, they have not played. a complete
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  Speaker 1: football game so far this season. So we can't predict it,
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  Speaker 1: or we can't expect it, I should say. We can
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  Speaker 1: predict it, but we can't expect it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this might be one of those games,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things we always talk about when we're
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  Speaker 2: going up against, say, a Brock Purdy last weekend is like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to get pressure on him. And the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: that was one of the things that they weren't able
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  Speaker 2: to do as often as they would have liked. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they did for three quarters. They just didn't in the fourth. Right,
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  Speaker 2: later in the game when they needed to get a stop.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that even has to happen against Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 2: You just have to keep him in front of you
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  Speaker 2: and make sure he doesn't run all over you, which
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  Speaker 2: is kind of the only aspect that I see him
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  Speaker 2: having success in this game because of what you just said.
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  Speaker 2: If he just dinks and dunks all day, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: are going to tackle them for two-yard gains, and it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be third and four, third and five. depending
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  Speaker 2: on if you're able to get any sort of running
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  Speaker 2: game or not. So I just think that the key
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  Speaker 2: to success is continue what you've been doing on the
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  Speaker 2: tackling side of things and make sure Bo Nix doesn't
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  Speaker 2: run and have that threat with his legs as much.
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  Speaker 1: Even that he's not threatening. He has 35 yards rushing
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  Speaker 1: this year. That's seven yards a game. That does not
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  Speaker 1: sound like a threat. Not after what I watched Monday
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  Speaker 1: night with Josh Allen. That's a threat in the run
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  Speaker 1: game right there. I'm surprised. Seven yards per game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised that's as low as it is because that
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  Speaker 2: was one of his calling cards.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe that's the ankle. Maybe that is the rehab.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he just doesn't feel light on his feet at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Something's wrong with him. There's no question that
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  Speaker 1: something's wrong with him. He's not as good as what
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  Speaker 1: he was a year ago. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully he doesn't get right. by tomorrow, and I
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  Speaker 1: have a feeling that, man, he is just primed for
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  Speaker 1: a really rough day. Doesn't mean we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: an easy day, but I think Bo Nix is primed
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  Speaker 1: for a really rough day tomorrow night against the Hawks.
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