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Best of Chuck & Buck 7-1 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 5: This is Chucking Buck in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: the radio show. Here on a Wednesday, a home day.
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  Speaker 2: It is Chalking Buck in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 2: three point three KJR FM. Great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say us, I talk about Ashley Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: who's come with a cap on today. She's got a
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  Speaker 2: ball cap on. Yeah, bad hair day or just because
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  Speaker 2: they wore getting the sun out of.
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  Speaker 6: Your eyes as I wore my American flag sweater again
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  Speaker 6: today and then the hat was white and blue, so trashed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And so I went with that, you're just going patriotic? Yeah, said, we.
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  Speaker 4: Got a big match tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh do we know have you not heard?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Please tell Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: So there's this thing called the World Cup, which apparently
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  Speaker 6: a lot of people really like and like hundreds of
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  Speaker 6: thousands of people from all over the world. They travel
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  Speaker 6: everywhere just to go watch their soccer teams, and they're
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  Speaker 6: all here in North America to watch all of their
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  Speaker 6: soccer teams. And tonight our soccer team is playing.
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  Speaker 2: What a tremendous breakdown there. You have a people that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they call her the best in the business.
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  Speaker 2: That's the truth. Ashley Ryan Here, my name is Chuck Pal.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to have you with us on this Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: and yes, it is a bit of a historic day
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  Speaker 2: here for American soccer, which we'll get into in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of things to cover during the course of
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  Speaker 2: the day today, we got what's on tap. I will
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  Speaker 2: tune in here in a little bit as to exactly
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to discuss over the course of the
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  Speaker 2: next four hours together. But you know what, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: interesting because I do kind of want to start with soccer.
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  Speaker 2: I was on another radio station yesterday as a guest
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  Speaker 2: on a radio station, and I was asked about my
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  Speaker 2: relationship with soccer and everything else and then tie it
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  Speaker 2: into how it's going here in Seattle, and I was honest, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of the sport. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a fan of the sport. Just I'm let's not sugarcoat it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of the sport. But I cannot
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  Speaker 2: tell you how cool it's been here in Seattle, how
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  Speaker 2: great the event has gone off, how excellent has been
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  Speaker 2: to see those who are soccer fans, even if a
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  Speaker 2: little bit kind of get kind of get hyped, and
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  Speaker 2: those that are soccer fans a lot of it getting
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  Speaker 2: over hyped. And there's just been a great feeling here
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle, and I have a feeling that's the way
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  Speaker 2: it's been in Monterey, Mexico, and Los Angeles and Canada,
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  Speaker 2: the cities that are hosting in Canada as well. It's
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  Speaker 2: just it's been great. There's no getting around it. It
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  Speaker 2: has been a great event to this point. I think
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  Speaker 2: North America has shined to this point. I think I
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  Speaker 2: know that Seattle has. I can tell you that firsthand.
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  Speaker 2: It has shined. Our team is playing well, all of that,
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  Speaker 2: and so so you know. Those are those are my feelings,
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  Speaker 2: Those are the things I'm saying behind your back as
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  Speaker 2: KJR listeners, just so you know. But my objective has
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  Speaker 2: been through all of this, I'm not going to introduce
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  Speaker 2: any sour notes unless forced to. Yeah, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to do that because this is sort of Christmas for
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  Speaker 2: the soccer fan. We're getting soccer fans to listen to
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM in ways that
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  Speaker 2: they've not listened before because they want to hear Brad
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  Speaker 2: Evans talk about tonight's game today at eight o'clock with us,
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  Speaker 2: which is exactly what's going to happen. So I hope
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  Speaker 2: we've been a conduit to some degree for your lust
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  Speaker 2: for this event, and for those that are not really
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  Speaker 2: big soccer fans, we're like, yeah, I got to admit
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  Speaker 2: this is pretty cool, like I've been. Then, hopefully this
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  Speaker 2: has been a good source for you where we're not
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  Speaker 2: hitting you over the head with it here in the mornings,
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  Speaker 2: but we're also not ignoring it, because I think that
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  Speaker 2: is malpractice to be ignoring it and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: And so I got an example of why I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to approach it this way. Why I have approached it
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  Speaker 2: the way I have with soccer since I came to
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  Speaker 2: town for goodness sake, because I don't want to ruin
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  Speaker 2: other people's Christmases. From Kirkharb Street yesterday, who went on
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  Speaker 2: a rant just out of the blue, right in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of summer, this fool, this arrogant fool, goes off
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  Speaker 2: on a rant about Major League Baseball yesterday, which hits
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  Speaker 2: home for me. Yeah, it's my favorite sport. But right
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the season, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: this talking head who makes tens of millions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: at ESPN and does a really good job. He's very
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  Speaker 2: good at what he does.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the time, he's very good.
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  Speaker 2: I realized that he annoys people, but he's very good.
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  Speaker 2: He studies, he knows what he's talking about. He presents
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  Speaker 2: it well. I mean, he's very good to great at
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  Speaker 2: what he does. But he's really annoyed. Started to annoy
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  Speaker 2: people a lot here as of late, and he just
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  Speaker 2: decides to send out a random text which had absolutely
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  Speaker 2: no basis for anything about how stupid baseball is, how
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  Speaker 2: bad it is. Where's all the athleticism? What happened to
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  Speaker 2: the sport I grew up with, why is no one bunting?
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  Speaker 2: Where are the pitchers hitting? He just goes off on
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  Speaker 2: this rant, and it's and it was just the height
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  Speaker 2: of ignorance, is what it was, because he clearly has
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  Speaker 2: not watched the game in a while. But he decided
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  Speaker 2: to come down from his you know, clueless castle on
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  Speaker 2: top of Mount ignorance and then decree to all of
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  Speaker 2: the people in the world, you need to hear my
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  Speaker 2: thoughts about how displeased I am with another sport that
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  Speaker 2: I not only don't cover, I clearly have not watched
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  Speaker 2: in a quarter of a century. So here you go,
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  Speaker 2: and then spends the rest of his day like defending
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  Speaker 2: himself against logical people who are like, where are you
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  Speaker 2: coming from with all of this? Number one, why are
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  Speaker 2: you doing it? And then number two, could you make
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  Speaker 2: it more clear that you don't follow the sport at
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  Speaker 2: all and you don't know what you're talking about? And
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  Speaker 2: so uh so, yes, I'm I kind of am glad
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  Speaker 2: that I've approached it this way, like I've said before,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think there's any other way to approach it,
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, and that is, don't ruin everybody else's Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: just because you kind of followed the sport and you've
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  Speaker 2: got some problems with it. Yeah, and yet that's what
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  Speaker 2: he decided to do on just a random Tuesday yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: kind of showed his ass to the whole world about
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  Speaker 2: what Kirk Herbstreet is made of.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and I thought the silliest thing he said was
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  Speaker 6: that the game is dying with the youth of America.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, then, you are clearly not.
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  Speaker 6: Out in the spring because baseball and softball are thriving.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're thriving again, And the truth of the matter
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  Speaker 2: is their back young players are now more choosing base
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're not overtaking football, no, no, no more are
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  Speaker 2: playing more. Parents because of the concussion thing, are saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know what this baseball thing. Yeah, yeah, if you
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  Speaker 2: really want to get serious, it's longer careers, it's fewer injuries.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you make it to the majors, the
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  Speaker 2: contracts are better. You may want to get on this, Jimmy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you might want to get on this junior, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're starting to we're seeing a shift. So
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  Speaker 2: not only is it not dying, it's actually grown exponentially
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  Speaker 2: massively and grown exponentially in urban communities and grown exponentially everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And the popularity certainly isn't vast on the national scale,
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  Speaker 2: but from a local perspective, people just soak it up
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  Speaker 2: like a biscuit. They can't get enough baseball in their
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  Speaker 2: local communities. And it has its problems like everybody else,
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  Speaker 2: and it certainly can be picked on. But to just
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  Speaker 2: pick to be that big of a face for another
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  Speaker 2: sport because he is the face of college football, and
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  Speaker 2: to just pick a random Tuesday to slam another sport
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  Speaker 2: and then just come across as ignorant as you could
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  Speaker 2: possibly come across about a sport, like saying, where to
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  Speaker 2: all the athleticism and the sport, where did base stealing go?
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  Speaker 2: There's been more base stole bases stolen in the last
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  Speaker 2: two years than in the history of baseball.
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  Speaker 4: That was my favorite.
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  Speaker 6: All the people adding the community notes, like, no, all
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  Speaker 6: of these things you're saying are wrung, They're all.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong, and like and you want to come down from
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  Speaker 2: on high because college football's been taking some shots, taking
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  Speaker 2: some heat, deservedly so. And you decided just randomly during
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  Speaker 2: the summer, probably after five cocktails, that I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: rip on another sport that my network covers. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 2: so I'm I'm glad I'm not him to put it
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  Speaker 2: that way. And he's he's richer than me and handsome
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  Speaker 2: and everything else, but what a toolbag. And so I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad that we've not done that. I'm glad we've not
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  Speaker 2: taken that approach during this because I know how much
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  Speaker 2: fun people are having. I have a lot of fun here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting here on a twoday. Man, I got baseball
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  Speaker 2: in front of me. Oh joy, you know harmony. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I got an entire evening. I got nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: but watch Mariners, Unicorns even out of town. Oh I can,
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  Speaker 2: I can? I just watch all baseball all night long.
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  Speaker 2: I'm having the time of my life. Tird.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he put it right in your punch bowl, right.
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  Speaker 2: In the punch bowl. I'm not going to be a
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  Speaker 2: turd to the punch bowl of so many soccer fans
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  Speaker 2: out there, and neither is Ashley Ryan. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: way that we've operated here today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think as far.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, when we talk about regular season soccer, yeah
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  Speaker 6: we can be a little turny, but not on purpose.
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  Speaker 4: It's just we don't get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a few things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like, I.
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  Speaker 6: Don't understand why there's a season with tournaments in the
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  Speaker 6: middle of a season and I can't follow it and it.
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  Speaker 4: Makes no sense. Like those things confuse me.
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  Speaker 6: It's not that I'm trying to be a jerk or
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  Speaker 6: turd about it. I just don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get there ever with that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: No, and I'm not going to be different.
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  Speaker 2: And we did a little segment yesterday about unnecessary soccer
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  Speaker 2: riving usw's I like to call them, and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm never gonna get there. I think that needs to
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  Speaker 2: be faded out. But I don't stretch. Johnson told us
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't like that either, and he's biggest soccer fan
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  Speaker 2: I think I've ever met.
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  Speaker 6: There are are a lot of soccer fans who don't
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  Speaker 6: like it, because it's one thing when a player is
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  Speaker 6: actually injured.
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  Speaker 4: It's another thing when a player is just like, oh
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  Speaker 4: it's the rough coming.
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  Speaker 6: Oh God, that aren't so bad, Like that's ridiculousous.
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  Speaker 2: In the bone. But anyway, today is a day for joy.
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  Speaker 2: Today is gonna be a lot of fun. We have
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  Speaker 2: the game for you tonight at five o'clock US versus
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  Speaker 2: Bosnia Herzegovina. And on top of it all, Seattle is
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  Speaker 2: hosting again today. It'll be one o'clock. Aaron was wrong
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  Speaker 2: about that. Yesterday is one o'clock. Yes, so that's the
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  Speaker 2: time for the match between Senegal and Belgium today. And
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  Speaker 2: and so a lot of soccer action, I mean, there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot last night. Apparently Mexico took over cities.
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  Speaker 2: Mexicans took over cities the last night. Man, have they
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  Speaker 2: had a great run through this thing. They have been peerless.
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  Speaker 2: They have had four matches, they've won them all, and
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  Speaker 2: they haven't really been that close. They outplayed they've smoked
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  Speaker 2: everybody that's coming their vicinity. So they're having one hell
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  Speaker 2: of a tournament in Mexico. And the US was kind
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  Speaker 2: of right there on the same path until they decided,
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  Speaker 2: let's sit all of our starters. We really don't need
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  Speaker 2: to beat Turka, so let's go ahead and sit all
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  Speaker 2: of our starters. But hopefully that didn't ruin any momentum,
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  Speaker 2: because the US was flying just as high as Mexico
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  Speaker 2: prior to that loss to Turka. And now we get
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  Speaker 2: into the knockout stage, Polissic's gonna be healthy and ready
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  Speaker 2: to go. All those guys that sat are gonna be
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  Speaker 2: ready to rip and roar. And yet it kind of
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  Speaker 2: feels to me, like Ashley, that we're kind of just
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  Speaker 2: counting on this victory here in America, like we've already
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  Speaker 2: moved past this stage against Bosnia, and that does worry
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  Speaker 2: me a little bit. And you know, we're used to
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  Speaker 2: being knocked out of the World Cup. We're more used
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  Speaker 2: to not making the World Cup than we are to
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  Speaker 2: going deep in the World Cup. And yet we've gotten
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  Speaker 2: a little taste of it. We've had analysts, not just
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  Speaker 2: American analysts, but international analysts talking about how great the
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  Speaker 2: US looks, and we're sort of built up right now
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  Speaker 2: to expect that we're getting to at least the next round,
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  Speaker 2: and if we lost the next round, will be disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: At least that's the feeling that I'm getting from people,
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  Speaker 2: and we're we could be potentially setting ourselves up for
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  Speaker 2: a fall, because I don't know if anybody's even entertaining
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  Speaker 2: the thought of what if we lose tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I think you're right, I don't think anyone is.
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  Speaker 6: I think if we watch that game tonight and the
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  Speaker 6: US does not win, it will be just blank stares
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  Speaker 6: at a television, jaws on the ground, and massive disappointment.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, by the way, every I think if you
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  Speaker 6: would have said, oh, the US made it to the
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  Speaker 6: round to thirty two and lost before the tournament started,
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  Speaker 6: everyone would been like, all right, well, we didn't really
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  Speaker 6: expect a lot from him. But when you saw them
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  Speaker 6: in the first two games, everybody he immediately got pretty
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  Speaker 6: hyped on this team, and rightfully so. And so to
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  Speaker 6: now go. I mean, I'm hearing people say, well, if
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  Speaker 6: they make it.
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  Speaker 4: To the round of eight, that'll be a good run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like, wait, we went from yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: had two more wins.
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  Speaker 6: We went from getting me kind of getting mocked for
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  Speaker 6: picking the US in our green Jacket draft too. If
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  Speaker 6: we make it to the round of eight, it'll be
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  Speaker 6: a good run, not a great run. A good run
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  Speaker 6: is what I heard this morning. I was like, I
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  Speaker 6: think that would be pretty great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be great. I would think, yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: certainly would have taken that at the beginning of this process.
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  Speaker 2: But now the expectations and they've earned it. They played
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  Speaker 2: really well in the first two rounds and again I'm
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  Speaker 2: not an expert. I'm going to rely on the experts
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  Speaker 2: who tell me how impressive the US looked, and not
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  Speaker 2: American analysts, but analysts from other countries who are complimenting
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  Speaker 2: how well the US has played and looks like they
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  Speaker 2: might have turned a corner. I think this is the
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  Speaker 2: most athletic roster that the US has ever feel for
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  Speaker 2: a World Cup, So I think that could come in
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  Speaker 2: pretty handy here as we as we go. But if
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  Speaker 2: I've provided any kind of personal and analysis, that's worth
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  Speaker 2: a damn throughout the course of the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I asked Brad Evans the first time I
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  Speaker 2: talked to him, like people act like that there would
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  Speaker 2: be a huge upset if Team A or Team B
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  Speaker 2: or Team C lost somewhere along the way. I said,
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  Speaker 2: how could it be a huge upset when so many
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  Speaker 2: matches are played within a bad bounce of the match
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  Speaker 2: going the other way? And so that's a great point.
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  Speaker 2: So there we go. Good for me, made a great
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  Speaker 2: point about soccer. But I think that's played out, especially
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  Speaker 2: since we've started this knockout stage. I mean, yesterday sort
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  Speaker 2: of went as scripted with France advancing and Norway advancing
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  Speaker 2: and Mexico advancing yesterday. But we've already had shot upsets
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  Speaker 2: to this point in the knockout stage. Germany's not around anymore, right,
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  Speaker 2: Morocco was, as Andrews told us, that might be the
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  Speaker 2: best most even matchup of the entire round. Yea, so
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  Speaker 2: maybe that wasn't such a huge upset. But the Dutches
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  Speaker 2: Netherlands is considered just a powerhouse in this sport and
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  Speaker 2: they're gone, And so I'm not sure you can count
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  Speaker 2: on anything in any sport at this level, with this
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  Speaker 2: big of a stage and this much at stake, and
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  Speaker 2: how much passion is going to be poured into these
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  Speaker 2: matches tonight. But then you put on top of it,
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  Speaker 2: most games are played two to one, one to nothing,
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  Speaker 2: and a bad bounce or a bad call by the official,
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  Speaker 2: or an uncharacteristic meltdown by a player that gets a
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  Speaker 2: red card or creates a penalty kick in front of
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  Speaker 2: the goal, anything like that, and you're done. It's over.
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  Speaker 2: This is the knockout stage. You can't hope to get
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  Speaker 2: in by points in the next round. You know this
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  Speaker 2: is a lose and you are out. And then we've
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  Speaker 2: seen how much stress and pressure is on penalty kicks
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the match if you end up tied.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, I feel like we've set ourselves
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  Speaker 2: up for this expectation that if big, if if you lost. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how devastating that would be to US soccer,
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  Speaker 2: to us interests in soccer, because it seems like it's
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  Speaker 2: growing by leaps and bounds right now. But another early ouster,
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  Speaker 2: especially when people have already convinced themselves we're going to
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: at least the eight round of eight. I mean, that
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: would be crushing.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: I would think, yeah, and you're playing in your home
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: country too, so I mean, just the expectations did pile
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: on there. It is funny because you're talking about the
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: weird bounces and things. Watching that Morocco Netherlands game the
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: other day when the guy that ended up scoring the
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: winning penalty kick, when he got hit in the eye
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: and was bleeding literally everywhere, and then they walk him
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: over to the side. He doesn't leave the game. He's
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: standing on the side while they fix his eye and
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: the game's going on without him. I thought, what other
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: sport would they have someone standing still on the field
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: of play getting medically attended to because obviously he can't leave.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Or he can't come back right and and the game.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: So now they're playing one man down while he's getting
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: his eye glued to keep playing.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I just thought that was the weirdest thing. I thought.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: So, now, what if Netherlands goes down and scores because
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: this poor guy got his head split open?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Even worse, what if the trainer scores the winning goal?
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, that would have been crazy.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Maybe they put the trainer in while his eye, the
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: extra trainer, assistant trainer, while his eyes getting What if.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: The medic stabs another player?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's allowed.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with you know, with his scalpel.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: It's always a possibility.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: He always carries crazy crazy. All right, let's find out
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: what's on tap for the rest of the show today.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here's what we got on tap today. Brad
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Evans gonna join us at eight o'clock this morning to
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: provide the best preview in town Us versus Bosnia. The
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: match starts at five o'clock and you can hear it
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: We fully committed to it yesterday. Norway, France and Mexico
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: all advanced and as long as England gets the job
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: done today against Congo, that's your next matchup for Mexico.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Mexico versus England, that's going to be all the battle
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: in the round of sixteen. Meanwhile, Belgium and Senegal will
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: be played here today at one o'clock. In Seattle, NBA
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: free agency got underway yesterday, but the only real free
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: agent news is that Lebron James, and it's big news.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: He is leaving the Los Angeles Lakers, to the celebration
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: of Laker fans as they never really did embrace Lebron James.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: So we'll talk a little bit about where he might
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: end up and reckless at breakfast today at seven forty five,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard was traded away for a boatload. Oh man,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: was that a stunning amount of draft capital to ship
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to Los Angeles in exchange for a guy that I
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: don't think anyone even Toronto can trust to not just
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: one day wake up in the morning and say I
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: don't want to play anymore.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: I would believe that I would too.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's now, he's well past thirty now, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't surprise me at all. Of Kawhi Leonard halfway
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: through the season was just like, you know, just not
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: in me anymore. And the Raptors just gave up our
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: King's ransom to bring Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto. So
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: a big, big gamble on their part, and most analysts
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: are giving the Clippers an A plus on what they
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: got for Kawhi Leonard. WNBA Alissa Thomas has called out
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: the WNBA commissioner because after the Caitlin Clark incident, she
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: received a lot of heat on social media and she
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: thinks that the WNBA commissioner has the power to stop that.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, and isn't doing her job. Okay, you can't
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: keep yourself from choking out the person that is responsible
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: for your pay raise, but you think your commissioner can
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: stop social media.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: She needs to learn about social media.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I think weird. Yeah, we'll talk about that if we
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: get time. Zach Warinsky veto's a trade to Dallas. So
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: how about that. How about when the tables turn? Doesn't
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: that turn the tables?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Oh my, how the turning tables have turned.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: So Zach Warinsky might be the best defenceman not named
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Cale mccarr in the world. And he apparently Columbus Bluejack.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to leave Columbus. But apparently everybody that is
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: a are in the league wants to give everyone a
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: short list of I only want to play for these
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: two or three teams. That's it. So Dallas apparently traded
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: for Warensky and that would have been a blockbuster, and
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: he said, nope, I don't want to play for Dallas.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: That's not a bad team. That's a pretty good organization
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: right there.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: They're playoff contenders every year.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Weird stuff going on. We'll talk about that. At six
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: forty five, Serena loses in her return to Wimbledon, but
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: oh what a lot of credit, a lot of respect. Yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: battled it out there. I mean, how many years was
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: she away? Four and just goes right back out there
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and yeah, shows she's the best of all time. And
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: finally Mariners win. I didn't mean to bury it, we
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: actually have joy. So Mariners went over the Angels eight
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to three last night, But of course we're going to
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: break it down in Mariners Morning After, which is coming
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: your way next. We'll also have ABC's Baseball Brunch and
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: More today, and Hugh Millan will stop by. It's the
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: final final Seahawks one series installment. Hugh is gonna break down, uh,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Nick emon warr for us today. It just didn't feel
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: right not to have Emon Warri broke down for you
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: in our Seahawks one series. We extended it a couple
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: of days, but this is the last day we're not
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: doing it after today. Coming up next Mariner's Morning After
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: on kJ R.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: Told him the Colts a parachute down the line, Julio
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: and Randy's scar and Cole Emerson gets two runs back
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: for the Mariners.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: That looked like hot dogs from heaven dropping down in
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the left field seventh three. Hey, great morning to you.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: It is a Wednesday, hum day. It is chuck and
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: ash with you as we get started with our number
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: two here on this hump day. A lot to cover.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Reckless at Breakfast comes away a little bit later on
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: this hour, plus our Seahawks one series recap as well
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: coming up later on this hour. Plus more on last
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: night's victory over the Los Angeles Angels eight to three.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: The final score Mariners TV with the call Colt Emerson.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: That was one of three hits for Colt on the day.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: That a little bit of a bloop shot, and we're
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: starting to get some of those little bloop shots that
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: we weren't getting earlier in the year. It all averages out. Yeah,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: so we're not going to apologize for getting them now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: That's not even a little bit, not one ounce. Thirteen
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: hits for the team last night. No home runs. They
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: had twelve singles, which just doesn't happen for the Mariners
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: all that frequently. Maybe they're getting going offensively.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: What is that?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Five runs, six runs and eight runs in their last
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: three games after having gone thirteen consecutive with three runs
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: or fewer.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: You knew we could get more than three. That's fun.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Thought it was a rule.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't think we had a chance.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Eight to three. The final score last night, a big
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: five run explosion in the sixth, and then when the
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Angels came back with three and the seventh, Mariners counter
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: in the bottom of the seventh with three of their
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: own regain that five run lead. And then close it
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: out by a final score of eight to three, so
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: they are a game over five hundred again at forty
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: four and forty three. They will not play today. They
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: have a day off. The World Cup takes over today
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: in Seattle and tonight a lot of people will be
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: watching the US play at five o'clock. So Baseball decided
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: why go up against that. They're going to give these
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: two teams a day off in the middle of the series,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and then they will play game three Thursday night, Thursday night.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: So more on that a little bit later on World
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Cup US Bosnia tonight at five o'clock. Brad Evans will
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: join us at eight o'clock to cover that. Norway won yesterday,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: France won yesterday, Mexico on yesterday. Mexico's making this thing
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: look easy.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there was something weird though, So I put it
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: on TV last night and it was halftime and then
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: there was the thunder or lightning delay and the game
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: just never came on the channel I had it on,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: so I just was waiting. We were like, how is
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: this game not coming back yet? And then the next
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: thing we know, they're doing the national anthems and starting
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: all over. So somehow we missed the entire second half.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: They never put it back on the channel the games,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: or at least on ours. I don't know what happened.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: We were so confused, really, England versus Congo today at
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock, Belgium versus Senecal today at one o'clock, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: then US Bosnia at five. NBA free agency is underway.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Norman Powell just signed a contract with the Chicago Bulls
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Man just going back to Illinois, that's all, just another Powell.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Just another home to.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Rooster, going back to Illinois. Lebron said yesterday, I'm not
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: going to a Laker anymore. You can move on without me,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: and Laker fans rejoice. They really did reckless At Breakfast
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: comes your way today, we're gonna talk about that. At
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: seven forty five, Kawhi Leonard was traded for a boatload
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: of trade compensation. He is thirty five years old and
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: has played more than three quarters of a season twice
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: in the last ten years.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's what I can't understand.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Why.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: I was like, Okay, how do you ever know he's
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: gonna be healthy? I wouldn't trade anything.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: How do you know he's gonna be healthy. How do
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: you know he's even gonna care tomorrow morning? He may.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: He's the type of guy that could wake up after
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: scoring forty four points and a big win over the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Knicks on you know, Wednesday night National television Basketball and
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: just says, you know, I'm not gonna come into work today,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go backpacking in Luxembourg.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Didn't he not even want to be in Toronto the
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: first time he was there?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he loves it now. He said it's the
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: only place he would have he would even consider a
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: contract extension. That's part of why they gave up so
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: much for him. But it doesn't change the fact that
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: he's oft injured. He's thirty five years old, and he's unreliable. Yeah,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: even though he's a great player and a champion, no
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: question about it. But very strange the Toronto that's a
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: go for it move like we've rarely seen. Serena lost
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: in her return to Wimbledon yesterday, but was very competitive,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: which I think is a victory in and of itself.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: And yes, we will continue with our Seahawks one series
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: extended edition today the final final episode with Hugh Millen
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: today at nine o'clock as we break down nick Emon Warri.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So there you go. Those are your headlines. They are
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• 28:44
  Speaker 2: all right. So Mariners win at eight to three is
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the final score, and good for them. Thirteen hits unorthodox
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: victory for them. Twelve singles back to back innings of
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: putting up crooked numbers, very crooked numbers en route to
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the victory, and then had a chance to sort of
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: put feet up on the desk, bring munos in just
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: to get some work. And the ninth inning so nice
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: when hopefully there on track. Brian Wu clearly has not
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: lost it. He's still excellent. Whatever is happening with him
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: on the road I think is completely between the years.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Right now, he's getting psyched out when he gives up
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: undesirable traffic that he doesn't feel earned its way on
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: and then he ends up having a bad inning. So
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong structurally with Brian Wu. There's nothing wrong
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: with his his stuff, and there's nothing wrong with Brian
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Wu other than the fact that he's got some sort
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: of psychological hurdle he needs to clear on the road.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: It's nice to see that andres Munos. There's nothing wrong
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: with Andres Munos. He wasn't getting enough work, and it's
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: very clear that now that they've started to get him
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: more work, now that they're not giving him, I mean,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: he could have had he could have had to last
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: night off. It wasn't a safe situation, and then he
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: would have been four to have tonight off, and then
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you don't ever know what's gonna happen. On Thursday, we
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: lose eleven to one. There's no reason could have been
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: on another week without Andres Muno's pitching. And so the
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: next time that he shows up on the mountain gives
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: up three runs. I wouldn't want to hear anybody crack
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: on Andres Munyos. It's very clear. He's made it clear.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: We've made it clear he needs to pitch consistently. Not
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: every night, certainly, but he needs to pitch every no
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: more than every third day.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: He can say every two to three, that's it.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's when you're gonna get the best version
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: of him. So I think that's one less thing we've
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: got to be worried about. Mooney looks back on his
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: game and that's fantastic. So a lot of things to
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: celebrate last night. But Ashley, I just can't help myself.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I think Dan Wilson screwed up the bullpen again last night,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: so we so at least, you know, I'm just not reacting.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: We lost. It stands full. Yeah, we won. It's stand's
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: full well, and it was Yeah.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: This is two days in a row, two wins, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: you're questioning the decision. I questioned it yesterday. I'm curious
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: what your solution would have been last night.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: And I admit that I'm nitpicking a little bit. I mean,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: there's not one way to do this right. I'm just
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: saying I just don't think, as I'm playing armchair manager,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: that he's making the right decisions even in victories. Not
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: even the big picture decisions are the right decisions, which
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: is usually what cost him trouble. Is that he's thinking
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: more big picture rather than what's most important in the moment.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that's Jerry and Justin's influence and a
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: lot of the rules that they've given him for how
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: to use his bullpen, and I just think that he's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: like a piece of rope and a tugglwer with what
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: he feels he should do and what he wants to do,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: and it ends up Blu just puking all over in
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: the mud. He's playing tug a war and he's ending
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: up in the mud. Okay, even in victories, I think
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: he's ending up in the mud. And so here's what
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I would done differently. Last night, You're through six innings.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Brian Wu's had a fantastic bounce back game. Not that
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: this matters, but he's got this scoreless streak going on,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: which is great. I mean, it's not what's important, but
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: it's great. And he ends up he's at ninety pitches
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: and that's usually when Dan takes starting pitchers out of
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the game. If you finished the previous inning between eighty
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: five and ninety five pitches, he usually takes you out.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: That's how he's operated. I think that's one of the
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: rules from on high that he subscribes to. So Brian
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Wo's at ninety pitches at that point, Well, then the
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Mariners have a five run bottom of the sixth. They
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: saw forty two pitches that inning, they saw a pitching
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: change that inning. Yeah, they sat on the bench. Brian
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Wo sat on the bench for forty five minutes, and
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: by the time it was time to go back out defensively,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: you were up five runs. I'm taking Brian wou out
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: of that game on a chilli night. Let him finish
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: on the highest of high notes. My offense is built
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: for me the rare five run lead, and now I'm
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: taking him out of the game. I'm not gonna put
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: him back in after resting for four what four? Like
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the moment he gave up a base runner, you were
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: thinking about taking him out, but you weren't committed to
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: him getting through the seventh, So why send him out
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: there at all just to try to steal an out
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: or two, or maybe he has a ten pitch inning
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: because you weren't gonna You get uncomfortable the moment a
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: starting pitcher goes over one hundred pitches, So you normally
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: take starters out after not after eighty five to ninety
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: five pitches, when they've completed an inning. And then after
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: a guy sits for forty five minutes, we're gonna go
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: back to him on the mount. That was your perfect
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: time to throw a Mike Rucker in the seventh. Up five,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Now let's throw Rucker out there. Yeah, you don't necessarily
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: have to go to one of your high leverage guys,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: because a five run lead is not considered a high
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: leverage situation plus and this is very important to the equation.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: The problem I had with Mike Rutcker was that you
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: used him in the eighth on Sunday, and you would
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: used him when you didn't have Ferrer and had already
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: used Bizardo for one out and Spire, so you had
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: no safety nets left. Your only safety net left was
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Andres Munos. On Sunday last night, you had all your
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: safety nets. Ferrer was even he was even warming up.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: So you had Ferrer, you had Spire, you had Bizardo,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: and you had Munos. So if you throw out Rucker
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: in the seventh, get Woo out of the game, throw
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Rucker in the seventh, maybe we rebuild Rutger's confidence a
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: little bit after that ghastly outing on Sunday, and if
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: he gets into any trouble at all, I then I
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: can go to one of my four, probably Ferrer frankly,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to get me out of the inning there in the seventh.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: And then I still got Bizardo, Spire in the eighth,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: one of the two, and Munio's for the ninth if
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I need him, so to me that was the opportunity
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: to use Rucker to start the seventh inning, and if
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: he got into any trouble, you had all four of
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: your safety nets available to you. And I mean any
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: trouble because you don't blow that game. You don't blow
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: that five run lead last night. So so I think
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: that's mistake number one. Then let's or actually one and two,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: it's mistake number three. You're bringing Bizardo in in the
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: middle of an inning.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Again.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: He is not even a good middle of the inning guy.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: He's a very good reliever. He's very reliable. I like
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: him a lot. The breakthrough he made a year ago
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: was fantastic. Shouldn't have been him on the mount against Springer,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: But he made a breakthrough a year ago, and this
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: year he's been just as good. I don't think better
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: as some people are characterizing, but just as good. But
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: he's not really a middle of the inning mop up guy.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Middle of the inning mop up guys guys that come
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: in with traffic and get you out of the inning,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: are guys that strike people out. He averages less than
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: a strikeout for inning or induce a ground ball. He
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: is in the lowest he's in the bottom eleven percentile
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: of ground ball inducement in the entire sport. He's a
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: fly ball pitcher. That's the last guy that you bring in. Well,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: not the last guy. There are a lot worse guys,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: but of the four at your disposal, he's the last
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: one I would choose to pitch you out of traffic. Now,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Matt Brash is the best. But we don't have Matt
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Brash right now. So it's as if they just said, well,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: we don't have Bizardo's the guy. But are you even
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: looking at the data? Are even looking at the numbers?
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: You seem you seem paralyzed by the number, right, I.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: Was gonna say, which seems so odd considering that's their
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: big focus.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: So I want Bizardo if I can't, I want my
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: relief pitchers to dart with a clean inning. That's why
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I think Rucker was the choice in the seventh. And
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: if he gets into any trouble, I'm bringing I got
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: all four of my safety nets to get him out.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: And then I still have Bizarre Doo or Aspire to
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: work from scratch in the eighth, and then Munnos in
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: the ninth. So I don't even think that that is
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: right so even in victories, it just feels like and
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: then not to mention, once again, you're not getting if
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: you're struggling getting through a series with bullpen and you're
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: wasting Like if WU would have gotten Josh Lowe out
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: instead of giving up the single, you were going to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: take him out anyway, because he was up to one
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: hundred and five pitches. So once again you're going to
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: be trapesing Bizardo out from the bullpen to get out
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: one out, and then again you've wasted resources, a valuable
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: resource because you weren't going to let him pitch the
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: very next night. So even in victory, I just don't
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: think he's got his finger on. I'll give him this.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: At least he went to Munos in the ninth inning,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: because that's one thing I've been preaching on this show
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: quite regularly, So at least that's soaked in.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: But I still don't think that he's managing this even
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: in victories the way that you should. And frankly, I
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: think that there's a lot of hypocrisy that's involved in it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Stuff that you swore by just yesterday and now today
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: we don't live by that rule anymore. So I think
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: he's caught in between. I don't think he's got a
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: real good feel for his bullpen management right now, and
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: even in victory, I don't think he's making the right decisions.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Well, and yeah, that's what I was going to say.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: When you're you know, setting up all of these scenarios
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: and why we shouldn't have gone back out, I mean
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: that is one hundred percent you're not taking into account
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: the feel of the game and what's actually going on
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: in the game and how long WU sat out and
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: should doesn't make sense for him to go back in.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: I mean, those are all the things that the numbers
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: aren't gonna tell you, right, That's just what's going on
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: in the game, what is going on around me. And
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: it seems like he can either well, it doesn't seem
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: like he can do that. It just seems like it's
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: almost like a who do I have available?
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, EENI meeni miny mo. I'm gonna go with Bizardo.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I think he's turned Bizardo into his guy to get
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: him out of the inning, which is the of the four,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: the last guy that I would choose because he's not
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: a strikeout right.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: No, And yeah, you what your numbers on his strikeouts
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: and your numbers on his ground balls.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Those that's ridiculous.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: That's suddenly what he's become for him. So that's what
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: we do. Now, that's what we do. Now, we send
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: our starting pitcher out to try to steal another outer
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: two even though he's by your own standards, maxed out
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: his pitching limit, right, So we're gonna go send him
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: out there. We know we're not gonna get him through
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: the inning, and yet we're gonna try to steal an
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: outer or two and then waste an out or two
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: from bizarreo. It just that doesn't that does not make
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: sense to me. And I don't know if you saw
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: the graphic, and I don't know if it was done
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: strategically by one Aaron Goldsmith, who I think questions Dan's
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: pitching decisions as much as I do. He's just not
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: as loud about it for obvious reasons. But they flashed
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: up that graphic number one in baseball and fewest innings
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: pitched out of our bullpen, number one and all of baseball,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: And yet I think we struggle more than any other
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: team to get through a series and trying to figure
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: out who pitches when and where and how much it.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: Sure seems like it seems like that's our biggest struggle,
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: how sides from the sides from offense?
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: How is that even possible? And it's because we're we're
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: acting like we're so thin in our bullpen when we're not,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: and then we do we commit acts that fly in
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: the face of fearing that we're thin. We're trying to
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: stealing out from Brian Wu we're trying to with Then
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: bizarre too, we waste two outs from him that he
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: could have given us that night because we're going to
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: use him to get out of the inning. And we
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: do that same thing with Spire and then we want to, well,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: we got to get Rucker used to this because right
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: now he's our fifth most, he's the guy we trust
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: fifth most on the team. And then that was a
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: great opportunity to kind of reintroduce and he ended up
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: pitching the eighth, walked the first guy, but got out
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: of the inning with a double play. But seventh was
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the time to use him with the bases empty. Every
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: pitcher wants to come in with the bases empty. They
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: don't want to inherit somebody else's mess, and they don't
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: want to blow Brian Wu's scoreless streak because they couldn't
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: get out of the inning. So, I don't know, it
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: just feels to me like this is our biggest issue
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: on this baseball team. This is the way that we're acting,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: this is the way we behave this is how he manages.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: What could I do? I was out of pitchers, and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: yet our relief pitchers have thrown the fewest innings our
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: bullpen is I mean, there aren't a lot of teams
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: out there that have four reliable guys. We have four
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: reliable guys even without Brash. This should not be this difficult.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Even things like last night are making it more difficult
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: to manage the very next game. It's as if we're
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: always thinking about the big picture and not winning the game,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: but then the things that we do don't even address
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: the big picture. I mean, I don't mean to do
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: a fifteen minute rant on bullpen management after two straight wins,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: But I also don't want to be the guy that
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: just picks it a scab after losses, right, I mean,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: to me, if it's.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Still an issue, it should still be an issue.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Two nights in a row. He's made the wrong decisions
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: with his bullpen even a night with George Kirby gave
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: some eight innings. I don't think he did the right
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: thing in the ninth.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you should have put in mood Us.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, I'm done ranting, done ranting.
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: I mean everything you said it makes sense that the
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: reasons of why he shouldn't have taken or put Wu
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: back in, why he shouldn't have brought Bizardo in, all
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: of that, and why Ruckers should have done all of
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: it makes sense. I don't understand why it seems so
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: complicated for the Mariners.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Well, they seem just like, what can we do? We're
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: painted in the corner.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: All it all seems.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Everything he's just laid out right there makes perfect sense.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Well I hope, I hope I'm making sense.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Makes sense to me.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: So I don't know why it would be difficult for
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: people whose job it is.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I don't either. Seahawks one series recap comes your way. Next,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: you gotta hear Greg Bell's breakdown of the Big Cat
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: I'm going to dip into the Lebron James waters here
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: this morning. Where would it be interesting that he land
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: or would it be most interesting that he land now
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: that he is a free agent, he's gonna be ready
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: to turn forty two.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: That's crazy. Then he's like, yeah, I still got more
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: in me.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: He's definitely got more in me.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: He put on a fourth season in the NBA.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: He took a back seat to Luca and still was
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: like twenty one, seven and six as averages this year.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: So he's still got a lot. He's still rated a
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: top twenty player in the entire world, and that's after
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: having taken a back seat to another player for the
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: first time in his career. So he's got a lot
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: left in this. Brian Winhorst and I know that Brian
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Wenthorse is his guy. That hasn't That isn't lost on me.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: But he said that the demand is through the roof
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: of teams wanting Lebron to come play for them, particularly
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: since Lebron has said now for the first time in
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: his career that money will not be a factor. I'm
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: going to go where I want to play and play
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: with who I want to play with. That's going to
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: be the motivating factor of finance will not get in
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the way. That's really big of you to say, billionaire.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: All right, Sony is not an object I will.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Put I'm I'm gonna pretty much put every single one
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: of the teams in the NBA in a category. First
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: of all, not going to He's not going to Brooklyn,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: not going to Utah, not going to Portland, not going
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: to Sacramento, not going to Phoenix, not going to Memphis,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: not going to New Orleans, not going to Dallas, not
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: going to Charlotte, not going to the Clippers, and all
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: for the same reasons. Hey, there's no reason to keep
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: playing if you're not going to try to add to
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: your legacy and try to win another championship somewhere else.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: And none of those teams are ready, none of those
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: teams are at Lebron James away from contending for a championship,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: So not going to the list is pretty long. I
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: would also say there's a list of you can't go here.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: In one of those teams is Boston. Hey, Laker fans,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: if you want to have any kind of love with
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Laker fans, Yeah, and apparently you're leaving with a really
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: strained relationship. But apparently he also wants his number retired. There, Well,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: you want to get your number retired, promise revoked is
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: go from the Lakers to the Celtics overnight. So nope,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: I say, you can't go to Boston. You can't go
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: to the Knicks. For a long time, the Knicks wanted
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: you to take them to the Promised Land. Well another
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: guy did it, Jalen Brunson did it. So there can
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: only be one Moses.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: And Moses has already spoken, and he's six foot tall
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: and four foot wide. So you can't go to the
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: New York Knicks. You can't now just jump onto a
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: championship bandwagon, say I'm here.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: New York, celebrate me, here to save you.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: I finally made it here. You've been waiting for twenty
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: five years, and I'm here.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: You want to have a parade after a championship, I'll
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: give you that.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: Oh wait, what you had that last year.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I also say, because of I would assume respect for Cleveland,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: you can't go to any teams in their division. You
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: can't go to Detroit and try to win a championship
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: against Cleveland. No, you can't go to Indiana. You can't
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: go to Milwaukee, not that you would. And you can't
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: go to Chicago, not that you would. So I say
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: you just can't go to any of those teams, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: you can't go to the Knicks, and you can't go
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: to the Celtics. Now a list of interesting teams. Denver Nuggets.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'd like to see Yokichen Lebron for a year.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: I'd like to see how that dynamic worked. That's pretty fascinating.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: They're looking for a shakeup right now, probably gonna move
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: on from Aaron Gordon. Probably gonna do a couple of
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: things in the offseason if Lebron's not needing money and
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: just wants to be a piece, So that'd be pretty fascinating.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: I said, that's two of the best team players, at
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: least on the court. Maybe not for headlines we've ever
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: seen in the NBA. The Atlanta Hawks, they're not that
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: far away. They gave the Knicks more trouble than anybody
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: not the San Antonio Spurs in the playoffs this past year,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: and so they're not that far away. They're young and promising.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: What could a Lebron James do for that young team
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: that doesn't know how to get over the hump. Maybe
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: he's got a trick or two. The Orlando Magic. I'd
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: love to see Poolo get some Lebron tutelage to kind
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: of take him to the next level, and Lebron's already
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: learned to take the back seat with Luca. I think
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: he'd be a great asset for Powlo. I think that
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: would be interesting Toronto. Does he want to play with
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Kawhi now that the Raptors are all in on trying
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: to win? Now, that'd be interesting him and Scottie Barnes
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: and Kawhi Leonard on the same team. Maybe Minnesota. I
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: don't think Aunt is willing to give up any of
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: his spotlight. I don't think that would work, but it
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: would certainly be interesting if he went to the Timberwolves
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Philadelphia. Maybe maybe good guard, play a big man,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: solid big man. If he stays healthy, they could use
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: a Lebron James in Philadelphia. I think it would be
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: interesting at the very least. Yeah, that would be an
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: interesting matchup. But the most interesting the five most interesting
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: I will rank in order number five Miami going back
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: to Miami. It doesn't have the same heartfelt feeling of
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: going back to Cleveland, but he does have a history there.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: He goes back to Miami, they are cap strapped and
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: yet they've gone for it with Giannis. If he's not
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: looking for a big salary. What a fine addition to
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Bam and to Jannis Lebron would be at this stage
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: in his career. So I find that the fifth most
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: interesting landing spot for him, the fourth most interesting san
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Antonio really, I mean, I think they're going to be
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: able to do it without him. They don't need him.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: But in terms of like a final piece, again somebody
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: that has already said I don't need to be the
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: number one. Wimby can be the number one. But maybe
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: there are a couple veteran things. I mean, you wouldn't
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: kick him out of bed for eating crackers if you're
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: a San Antonio Spurs fan. For what he can bring
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: to the table, I think that'd be fascinating. It It
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: might seal the doom of Oklahoma City, especially if he
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: takes very little for the next two years of Bron
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: James added to the San Antonio Spurs might be an
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: unbeatable force. Number three Cleveland Cavaliers still would be interesting.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, what a way to kind of round it
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: all out, this wild crazy mister Toad's wild ride you've
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: gone on and taken us through that if you finished
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: it off a third stint in Cleveland, they're not that
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: far away. Maybe you could provide the difference to get
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: them over the hump at least in the East. And
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: then who knows what could happen in the NBA finals.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: That said, when they extend James Harden, that guy's never
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: gonna win a championship. So I don't think it would
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: work out. I don't think he would go there, But
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: in terms of just like putting a bow on this
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: career of Lebron James, I think Cleveland would be pretty interesting.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Number two, I'm gonna say the Golden State Warriors, which
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: is the biggest rumor out there. If all the old
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: heads got together to try to stemy the new powerhouses
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: in the NBA. A dream team of old farts would
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: be rather interesting. Steph Lebron playing together once in the
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: NBA and not just for Team USA at Anthony Davis.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: If you could work it out, that'd be interesting. Uh
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: and Draymond Green that would at least be very interesting.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I don't think you'll get it done, but I think
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: that would be very interesting. And then finally, maybe the
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: most interesting place he could land the Washington Wizards. Oh
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: you want to compare yourself to Michael Jordan. Oh gosh,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: put yourself ahead of him by going to Washington for
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the last two years of your career and actually making
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: it look successful.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, actually decent and not something no one wants to remember.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: But Devonsa and Anthony Davis are there, and sar who
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: is the number two overall pick a couple of years ago,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: and Trey Young. I mean, there's some actual talent there.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Go to Washington and be a success in your last
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: two years. That's one thing Michael Jordan has never done.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: That is very interesting. I like that. I like that tactic.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Brad Evans next on Sports Radio ninety three
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM, Come do it the American way for
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: your chance at twenty five hundred dollars of American cash.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: That's right, USA giveaway. Happy Birthday, America. Let us celebrate
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  Speaker 2: it with a victory on the pitch tonight against Bosnia,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: who are not Americans.
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  Speaker 4: Darn right there, the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us now on the program, American Brad Evans is
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: with us here today. He's been with us throughout the
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: entire World Cup, joining us once per week to talk
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: some soccer and it is a pleasure and an honor
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: to have him back again this Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning sir, Good morning guys in Lake Shelanne. It
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: is sunny as could be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, why are you there? Why are you there?
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Why you're a family?
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: Family vacation every year, family vacation over here, you around
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  Speaker 5: the same exact time and twenty twenty five people get
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: together and just call tavok lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to have a television to watch tonight?
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: Of course? Yeah, everyone's going to be glued tonight. And
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: you said every week I've been coming on and I'm
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: just hoping to extend it another two weeks beyond this
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: to keep the us in this thing right, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You're not getting rid of us. We're going way beyond
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: the World Cup. Now you're in our blood now, Brad,
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Now you've got to join us for the rest of
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: your life.
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  Speaker 5: We're in.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Look at that. You were easily convinced right there. Didn't
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: you want to negotiate to be.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: Also probably thinking, oh crap, how do we get out
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: of this?
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm now now tonight I'm going to be picturing
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: the family get together and you guys all huddled around
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: the TV rooting on America against Bosnia.
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  Speaker 5: And so.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about this team and the state of this team.
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  Speaker 2: Does that lost to Turkey a in any way slow
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: down the momentum that they had through two matches of
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: the World Cup.
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  Speaker 5: No, not at all. A perfect opportunity to rest guys.
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  Speaker 5: And important stack came out today Actually that I didn't
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: even realize. But every game, every player throughout the World
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: Cup and every league in the world where GPS units attracts,
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: you're running. The USA in those three games had run
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: the most of any team in the World Cup. So
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: when you think about resting players, that were obviously thinking
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: of that. So the team in total ran seventy five
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  Speaker 5: miles over three games, right, And so when you run
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: that much and put that much effort into a game,
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: a perfect opportunity to rest your starters, give them a break,
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: an extra game off, and now you have them fully
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: REVVD up. And that I didn't know that that was
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: going to be part of the DNA of the team. Yes,
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: historically it has. The USA has always tried to outwork
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: there opponent, but I didn't know to that extent. So
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: when you kind of look at the stats, and where
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: this team lies. It makes sense that the group sat
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: those guys, there was still you know, some continuity issues
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: are always going to be there when you put together
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: eight or nine guys that really have never played together.
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  Speaker 5: And then you add on top of that it's a
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: World Cup game. But to score two goals in that
• 55:20
  Speaker 5: game was important. You keep the goal scoring street kind
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: of alive in the tournament. You rest guys, and now
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: you get an opportunity to play against a Bosnia team
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  Speaker 5: that's going to provide its own challenges.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into Bosnia. Because it seems like the
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: natural question now to ask the way you finish that answer.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: As an aside, you talked about seventy five miles, running
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: seventy five miles as a team in a match, and
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: yet this is the time in the World Cup where
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: a lot of soccer critics come out and say we
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have penalty kicks. Why don't you just play until
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: you score another goal like they do in hockey. What
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: is your answer to those critics.
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  Speaker 5: Well, well, it's just not possible. It's seventy five miles
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  Speaker 5: cumulative over the three games. Right, So as you start
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: to advance in this tournament, the load that gets put
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: on your legs. If you were just to play until
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: you couldn't play anymore, you're just going to pick up
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: unnecessary injuries. Right, we push our body to the max
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: at high intensity, the risk for injury is just too
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: high and the only way to solve that is penalty kicks.
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: And yes there's a lot of pressure, but that's part
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: of the game. Right. We won our first MLS Cup
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: with the Sounders in Toronto. We didn't have a shot
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: on goal in the game, but we were defensively tight
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: send it into penalties in Toronto and then we win
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: an MLS Cup. So it's also about mental fortitude. And
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: when you talk about Germany just got knocked out right
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: one of the perennial teams in the world historically, they've
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: had a real good opportunity to win this World Cup,
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: some people said, and now it's starting to come out
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: that the coach couldn't even find anyone to raise their
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: hand to take the six penalty kick because there was
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: so much pressure. And at the last minute the center
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: back step up and says, okay, what's he do? He
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: sends it over the bar and they're on a flight
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: the next day so it's more it's a mental game
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: at that point, right, you can equate it to a
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: last second free throw that's going to win the game.
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: In the NBA Finals, it's that same exact thought process.
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: There's pressure. Yes, you've done it a million times before
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: in practice, but until you're in that moment that is
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: it's got to be the ultimate pressure situation in all
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: of sports. I love it. Who makes a penalty kick
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  Speaker 5: taking one?
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  Speaker 2: Who are Yeah? I was going to ask who are
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: you in that moment? The first guy to raise your
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: hand or the last guy to raise your hand.
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: It didn't matter to me. Really, I'll take the pressure
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: at the end of it. I kind of liked being
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: like number three because you if the first person misses,
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: you make one, and then you make another one at three,
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: you hopefully keep yourself alive. At the MLS Cup, I
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: took the first penalty kick. Coach Metzer said, we want
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: a sure thing to start this thing off, so you
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: go in and you put your best penalty kick taker first.
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: But other teams, other players had different but for me,
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: it didn't matter, right. I mostly took them in in
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: game situations, only two or three times in penalty kick shootouts,
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: But I love the pressure. Stick with what stick with
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: your spot? I always say, like a good long run
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: up because you want pace behind the ball in my opinion,
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: just in case a goalkeeper gets a finger on it,
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: it'll come off the finger and hit the back of
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: the net. But for me, there's just no other way
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: to solve the issue.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, Brad Evans is whether it's former sound or great.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: And it's been with us every week throughout the World Cup,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: not just talking about Team USA, but also the entire
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: World Cup tournament, which we'll get to in a moment,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: but let's get back to tonight's match. You are on
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: the verge of discussing what makes Bosnia Herzegovina dangerous tonight.
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  Speaker 2: What are those things?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Height, power, speed, pace and determination. They're not necessarily
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: the most skillful team, but what they've shown throughout this
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: tournament is that they're willing to fight and battle. They're
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: not going to play like a Paraguay or Columbia Argentina.
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: They're going to play more like the opponents that the
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: USA has already faced, similar to Australia, powerful, big, They'll wait,
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: they'll sit and wait for the counter attack. Edin Jecko,
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: who's forty forty one years old, is their big target
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: striker up top. So they're a team that's not afraid
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: to play a long ball. But they do have some
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: skillful players, a couple of young players, one that actually
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: could have played for the US men's national team but
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: decided to play for Bosnia. So they're a prideful country.
• 59:37
  Speaker 5: I actually played in Bosnia with the USA team ten
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: years ago. We ended up winning four to three, and
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: it was an absolute battle. As soon as we thought
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: we had it in the bag, they would come down
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: swing a ball in edin Jeco gets up for a
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: header and it's in the back of the net and
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: we're chasing. So we faced it before in the past
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: and it will be no different tonight. But in saying that,
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: Christian Polisic healthy, I think that is the X factor,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: Sir Genio Desk. On the other side, this USA team
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: should be able to find some serious moments of success.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: And you've already seen Canada advances. That's a host country.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: Mexico advanced last night, that's another host country. If the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: USA doesn't win tonight, they're going to be looking left
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: and right at Canada and Mexico saying, what if it's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: all about finishing your chances tonight, using the crowd and
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: doing what they did in the opening game, same energy,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: Run until you can't run anymore, bring someone off the bench,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: and hopefully that's a game changer. If the game's tied.
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  Speaker 5: You just really don't want to see this one go
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: into overtime and penalties, because as these games start to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: add up, like we said, they've put some serious miles
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: on their legs, you'll start to get tired later in
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: this tournament. You want to be as fresh as possible.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny you brought that up. That's how Ashley and
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I started the show today was the conversation about is
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: anyone considered that we might lose because this thing here
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: in America has gone from you know, it's not really
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: our sport. I mean, if we get to the eight,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: that'd be a phenomenal run. To all of a sudden,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: global analysts, not just American analysts, are singing the praises
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: of our US team and talking about how dangerous they look,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: how fast they look, and I think it's talked the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: American soccer fan, especially the novice, into having much higher
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: expectations than we had just two or three weeks ago.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody's really considering what happens if
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: we lose tonight, how big of a crushing blow that
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: would be to all of the hype that's been generated here.
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  Speaker 5: Now, You're right, if they don't win tonight, you kind
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: of just kick the train off the railroad tracks. There
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: has been so much hype every commercial what this team
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: can accomplish, the miracle on ice, stories and every commercial
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: equating it to something like that. It wouldn't be a disaster,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: I would say, because all these players are going to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: go on to have amazing club careers and work towards
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: the next World Cup. But the USA has been given
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: a gift here. They didn't have to qualify for this
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: tournament as a host country. Same with Mexico and Canada.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: You're automatically in this tournament. But they're they're not necessarily
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: playing with house money right now. But they did. They
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: found their way into a tournament that in normal years
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: they had to qualify for and fight and scrap. But
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: what they've showed in the first three games is that
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: they can do that in a high pressure situation. Another
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: caveat the US hasn't beaten a European opponent in the
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: last ten games, all losses pretty much, So there's a
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: lot stacked up against this team that within the group.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: Yes there's a lot of hoopla on the outside, but
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: they're feeling pressure on the inside. Can they kind of
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: write the shit? The story is set up perfect with
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: the press zero wins in the last ten games against
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: European opponents, it's a great opportunity for them to flip this.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: And I think you're right. I think if they don't
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: win this game a massive disappointment, and I think that
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: they know if they do advance and at least make
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: a good run in the quarterfinals, that would be a
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: huge success. We can talk about winning this tournament all
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 5: day long. It takes a lot of luck to win
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: a tournament. In general, US as Americans, we think that
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: we deserve everything. Every sport has to be the best.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 5: We have to be the best. Why aren't we the best?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: And the reality is the whole world plays this sport
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: and has been doing it way longer than we have,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: So we have to temper expectations, but also like it's
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: time to go. It's time to push and take this
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: sport to the next level. Selfishly, that's what I want
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: to see.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to be in Chlanne. They're like our
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: lakes the best, Our wine's the best, our cheese is
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: the best. That's just the way we are in Americans.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: We just want the.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: Best around us, right, that's right, that's right.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: Brad Evans is with US Sounders legend, soccer legend, and
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: he's been our go to guy throughout these World Cup
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: here on the Chuck and Buck to break it down
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: for us, and we'd greatly appreciate it. All right, So
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the entire tournament before finishing with US,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: Bosnia and the keys Man. How good does Mexico look?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, has anybody had an easier and better ride
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: through this thing? Four matches into the tournament?
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they've been phenomenal. But a lot of questions were
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: asked early on, even in Mexico about the style of play. Historically,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 5: you've seen the Mexican team's very skillful, willing to push
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: in attack and in the first three games and even
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: pre coach of Gire have been criticized in the Mexican
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: pressing are you actually going to play this game or
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: just sit back and defend and try to counterattack, because
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: it's not what Mexico usually does. And even after the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: games he said, yes we won, but we haven't played well.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: But last night they played amazing. I mean, Ecuador is
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: a team that qualified in the South American qualification second
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: place even after getting DOC three points, so that was
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: no slouch of a team. And what I saw in
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: Mexico last night was the Mexico of old, the Mexico
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: that continues to pressure. They're playing with passion every single
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: tackle they've got. There, the little nuance to the game
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: where it's slowing the game down, trying to take fouls,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: commit fouls when it's appropriate. They just really really looked good.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: And yes they're playing at home, and they're playing in
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: Mexico City in Azteca. Historically that is, you know, one
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: of the meccas of soccer throughout the world. They used
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: every advantage last night, and I mean at this point,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: they could make a deep run in this tournament as
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: well using that home field advantage because when they people
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: don't know the casual listener, when they come to the
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: US and play against the US, there's it's seventy five
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: percent Mexican fans. I've played in the Rose Bowl against them,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: ninety five thousand fans and there was maybe fifteen twenty
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: thousand USA fan and the rest were all Mexicans. So
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: even playing in the US is a massive home game
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: for the Mexican fans and they know that. So this tournament,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: it's a good path for them if you talk about
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: home field advantage, whether or not it's in Mexico or
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: game in the US. Yeah, they're off to a flyer
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: and really impressed by them last night.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: What's been the biggest shocks so far in the knockout
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: stage Germany, the freaky diky Dutch losing or something else.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, both of those, I mean both of those games.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 5: Germany and the Netherlands, historical powers. The Netherlands I thought
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: were world beaters in this tournament watching the first few games,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 5: and they just playing against a really, really good Morocco side.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: Morocco we don't realize, but they won the under seventeen
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: World Cup, under twenty World Cup, they did really well
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 5: in the Olympics, African Cup of Nations champions. People slept
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: on them a little bit, even though they did make
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: a deep run at the last World Cup. They've continued
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: to bring in young talent. They have a young eighteen
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 5: year old that'll be one hundred million dollar transfer at
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: some point in the next year or two. He was fantastic.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 5: They have really invested in their youth and they're reaping
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 5: the rewards of that right now, and I'm excited for them.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: This could be the World Cup where we kind of
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: flipped the script and, like we said, tilt the access
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 5: of the world powerhouses. Brazil just squeaks by Japan. Netherland's losing,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: Germany losing. I hope it's it's that way that we
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: get a first time World Cup winner in this tournament.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: I hope it's that that setting. But those those two teams,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 5: Germany and the Netherlands, really surprised that they haven't advanced
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: out of the first round.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Give me somebody other than Polisic who is key for
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: the US tonight.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: Wes and McKinney. Honestly, you could with this team, you
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: could run up and down the roster. It's that good
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: wesn McKinney plays at Javentus in this area, a key
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: piece for them. He was fantastic this year at a
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: club level and when you watch him play. He's big,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: he's bulky, he's not necessarily fast, but his ability to
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: cover ground in the game and get out of tight
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: situations is fantastic. Sergenio Desks on the right hand side
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: is the most skillful with the ball, most technically gifted
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: player for the US team, and he combines really well
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: with Weson McKinney and then Tyler Adams plays in the
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: Premier League. He's your defensive midfielder that has to lock
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: everything up tonight. When you talk about Bosnie up, they're
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 5: gonna sit back, They're going to look for the counter attack,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 5: play long balls into edin Jeco. Hopefully our center backs
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: get up and challenge. Then it's Tyler adams job to
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  Speaker 5: win the second ball and then go forward for the
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  Speaker 5: US and catch them in the attack. So there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of key players to this one, but for me,
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  Speaker 5: it's really that midfield four or five Tillman in there
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  Speaker 5: as well. With those guys, they're going to be massive
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  Speaker 5: tonight if the US has to move the ball quickly
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  Speaker 5: to get four or five opportunities on goal, and they've
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  Speaker 5: showed that they can be lethal, so give them chances
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  Speaker 5: in the game. That's the job and then Bulligan hopefully
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  Speaker 5: gets one or two once again.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, So who advances US Bosnia, Belgium, Senegal which
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  Speaker 2: will be played here in Seattle. Who's going to meet
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  Speaker 2: up in the next round after tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the US should advance out of this
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  Speaker 5: game for sure, if you're talking about world rankings, quality
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  Speaker 5: of player, where they're playing in their club teams. Belgium
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  Speaker 5: has underwhelmed. They kind of squeaked out of the group
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  Speaker 5: a little bit from from what I saw my you know,
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  Speaker 5: professional analysis. They didn't look like world beaters or matching
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  Speaker 5: their ranking in the FIFA rankings. But you can't you
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  Speaker 5: can't sleep on Belgium with Kevin de Bruyna and Lukaku.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, these guys are seasoned veterans. I still think
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  Speaker 5: Kevin de Bruynan is the best passer of the ball
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  Speaker 5: in this entire World Cup. And you know Senegal, though,
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  Speaker 5: on the flip side, is going to be extremely athletic.
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  Speaker 5: They're going to be fast, they're strong, and that that
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  Speaker 5: is a a that'll be a fun fun game today
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  Speaker 5: to watch. But you know, it's all about the US today.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care about the other games. It's just really
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  Speaker 5: all about this US men's national team and getting that
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  Speaker 2: What are we eating tonight? Apple pie and hot dogs?
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  Speaker 5: Last night we kind of blew it out. My I
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, have a blast, man, Thank you very
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've had one year of experience with this guy,
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  Speaker 2: and man, how special was that? Yes? Your general thoughts
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  Speaker 3: I think I think the thing for me is you
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  Speaker 3: this you go back to the the I believe eighty
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  Speaker 3: history to be a six three year taller and run
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  Speaker 3: a sub four four. All right, He's the only athlete
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  Speaker 3: at any position to have a forty three inch vertical
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  Speaker 3: over two hundred pounds and oh, by the way, he's
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty pounds, and you know, it's one
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  Speaker 3: of four safeties in the history of the combine. Seventy
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  Speaker 3: eight inch wing spanner more and twenty plus reps on
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  Speaker 3: the bench, like we can be here all night just
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  Speaker 3: doing these combo things. You know, he's an athletic freak.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's that, you know, you go back to
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald and he's looking at Okay, I want to
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  Speaker 3: have a guy with this kind of versatility, and and
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  Speaker 3: he acquired an athlete that he figured could he could mold.
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  Speaker 3: But Isaiah Simmons, you remember, you may have been in
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  Speaker 3: Phoenix at the time, but the Cardinals drafted a similar
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  Speaker 3: type of athlete Isaiah Simmons a few years back to
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  Speaker 3: play linebacker, and it just never came together for him.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not just that he's a freak athlete. He's
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  Speaker 3: got to be put in the right system, coached well,
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  Speaker 3: and he had a brilliant rookie year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what does I mean? It's one of things. And
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  Speaker 2: then they're all great athletes. It's the National Football League
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  Speaker 2: for goodness sake. But to separate yourself from your peers
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  Speaker 2: like he did at the combine athletically, what does athleticism
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  Speaker 2: like that allow the Seahawks to do defensively.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of things. Let's just start first with the personnel.
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  Speaker 3: So the Seahawks they were in terms of their use
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  Speaker 3: of nickel, and and you know, he just lines up
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  Speaker 3: as a SAM linebacker. What's a sam. It begins with S.
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  Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. It's the strong side linebacker.
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  Speaker 3: Mike begins with M, so it's the middle. Will begins
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  Speaker 3: with W, so it's the weak side. So he's SAM linebacker.
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  Speaker 3: The Seahawks were number two in the NFL in terms
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  Speaker 3: of their use of nickel at seventy six and a
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  Speaker 3: half percent. The forty nine ers were number one. But
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  Speaker 3: when the you know, there's thirteen personnel that the Rams
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  Speaker 3: were throwing at everybody, which is one running back, three
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  Speaker 3: tight ends where they tried to play hardball. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: were not going to be dictated to. They stayed in
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  Speaker 3: their nickel. And in fact, against thirteen personnel, the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 3: they were seventy two and a half percent staying in nickel.
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  Speaker 3: That was not only number one in the NFL, the
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  Speaker 3: NFL averages eleven percent. The Seahawks were at seventy two percent.
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  Speaker 3: Number two was the forty nine Ers at thirty three percent.
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  Speaker 3: So think of that, the gap between you know, forty
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  Speaker 3: nine Ers and thirty three percent and the Seahawks at
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  Speaker 3: seventy two percent. So they just they and by the way,
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  Speaker 3: they would play a soft box in that they would
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  Speaker 3: have both safeties back. And in fact, the Rams had
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  Speaker 3: forty four rushers against the Seahawks, where the Rams had
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  Speaker 3: thirteen personnel and the Seahawks had their nickel. Now, let
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  Speaker 3: me explain explain what that means. If you go back
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  Speaker 3: to kind of before the personnel groupings, where you had
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  Speaker 3: what's what's called twenty one personnel regular personnel on offense,
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  Speaker 3: that's two receivers, tight end, two running backs. This is
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  Speaker 3: going back decades and forty nine are still play that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like it's gone. Then you'd match that with
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  Speaker 3: four dbs, so that the dbs are plus two and
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  Speaker 3: then you say, okay, offense goes Nickel. They take a
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  Speaker 3: running back off the field, put in a receiver, got
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  Speaker 3: three receivers well our receiving. The offense goes eleven personnel.
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  Speaker 3: The defense matches with Nickel. So now that it's still
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  Speaker 3: a two plus two dB advantage for the defense in
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  Speaker 3: terms of personnel. When when you we're going what I'm
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  Speaker 3: describing thirteen personnel, that's only one receiver, and the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: have five dB. They're in a plus four, not a
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  Speaker 3: plus two, which is standard plus four dB, so they
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  Speaker 3: are extremely light. But the Rams tried to rush forty
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  Speaker 3: four times against that. They had a four point one
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  Speaker 3: average and twenty eight or three yards or less. So
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  Speaker 3: and by the way, the NFL average for all runs
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  Speaker 3: all teams four point four. So the Rams with the
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  Speaker 3: most advantage you could possibly get from a personnel standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: if you're matching this, the Seahawks held them to well
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  Speaker 3: below the NFL average and close to their own average.
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  Speaker 3: The Seahawks led the NFL at three point seven and
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  Speaker 3: just they only allowed four point one when they were
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  Speaker 3: in this quote unquote disadvantage. So having Em and Worry
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  Speaker 3: out there and that front seven allows them to do
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things from a personnel standpoint, to not
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  Speaker 3: be dictated who's going to be on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that he's different and he can be
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  Speaker 2: moved around.
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  Speaker 5: That.
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  Speaker 2: You were saying all season long that he's a Sam linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: He's a Sam linebacker, and yet there were people sort
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  Speaker 2: of reluctant to sort of acknowledge that for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: But Mike McDonald by the end of the season, he
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  Speaker 2: made it pretty clear. I mean, we've just got a
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  Speaker 2: really gifted Sam linebacker, right am, I right about that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he said that before the forty nine er playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: He just said, you know, we got that he's a
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  Speaker 2: Sam becker. And what I was saying was from a
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks perspective, if I'm studying Seattle the way they played him,
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  Speaker 2: he's a Sam linebacker, and he now that would that
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  Speaker 2: would generally play him to the more often than not,
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  Speaker 2: to the field, to the wide side of the field.
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  Speaker 2: Not the not the close boundary. When the Seahawks went dime,
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  Speaker 2: and they were doing more dime through the season. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: they had thirty six plays of dime in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Then they would bring Witherspoon inside. He would generally play
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  Speaker 2: to the field and Emon Worrey would play to the
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  Speaker 2: weak side. But when they played their standard nickel, you
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  Speaker 2: had Emon Worrey generally to the field, matching either formation
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  Speaker 2: and field, and they generally correlate. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get to X, E and O in this, but and
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  Speaker 2: then you have Drake Thomas on the weekside that great
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  Speaker 2: interception he had against the McCaffrey in the Week eighteen game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the ball was on the right hash Thomas
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  Speaker 2: was into the into the short boundary.
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  Speaker 3: Emon Worey was to the wide side. And what this
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  Speaker 3: does is it allow how's the Seahawks. Here's another part
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  Speaker 3: of it. The seas what's called cover four Cover six,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll get to that. Those are two high safety
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  Speaker 3: that's with both safeties back. That's not your Cam Chancellor
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  Speaker 3: in the box, that's both safeties back. The Seahawks were
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  Speaker 3: number two in the NFL to Jacksonville in Cover four
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: or Cover six, but not surprisingly when they were in
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  Speaker 3: nickel and Cover four and Cover six. Uh, you've got
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  Speaker 3: both safeties back. Now what that means I want you
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  Speaker 3: to imagine, uh that think of it like a baseball
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  Speaker 3: outfield and infield. We got four infielders three three outfielders
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  Speaker 3: that that would be what's called Cover three, Cover four,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: and Cover six. I'll just kind of meld them to
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  Speaker 3: that side of the field. They're identical. Imagine if you
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  Speaker 3: take the short stop and you put them out in
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  Speaker 3: the outfield. That's actually what softball does, right, But now
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  Speaker 3: you only have three infielders.
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  Speaker 2: So in this.
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  Speaker 3: Analogy, it's the three linebackers that are close to the
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  Speaker 3: line scrimmage that Okay, now we've got one fewer guy,
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  Speaker 3: So imagine get back to the baseball The middle linebacker
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: is going to stand on second base. Now, some of
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: this baseball football analogy is going to break down, but
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  Speaker 3: I want you to imagine, now we're going to pinch
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  Speaker 3: our first basement and our third baseman in close to
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  Speaker 3: the second base. Because when we align back to football,
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  Speaker 3: when we align on the slot in these coverages, that
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  Speaker 3: Eamon Worry has to line up inside. He has to
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: be in what's called an apex defender or an overhang defender.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: When there's a slot receiver out there, he has to
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: be inside of him.
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  Speaker 2: But now, what did I.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: Say, He's on the wide side of the field, so
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: he's got to line up inside of the slot receiver.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: But he's got the wide side of the field. Are
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: you starting to see the ground that he has to cover?
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: And get back to baseball. If we take our first
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: and third basement and we we we have to line
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: them very close to second base, You'll say, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: a groundball near first or the third base is going
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: to be a sure base hit. Well, that's where football
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 3: differs from baseball. You have to guard the middle first
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: and then react to the wide stuff. So imagine Emon
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: Worry lining up as a first baseman almost you know,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: near second base, but he's got to cover all that
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: ground to the first base side. So the scheme of
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: this when we take okay, his athletic profile, his length,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: and then we say, all right, we want to be
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 3: number one in the NFL in cover four and cover six,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: those are the that's what where where reducing the number
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: of defenders we have near the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: Well, whose is that tax?
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  Speaker 3: If you just asked me before they even draft Nick Emminoy,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: throw me up on a whiteboard and say draw cover
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  Speaker 3: four and and I and I and I say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: what for Mason you want to three by one or
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: two by two whatever, and and and I'll draw you
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: all the alignments that the safeties have to have and
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: what have you and the responsibility for the sam backroun
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: And you know, essentially, I say, well, the same he's
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: got to match the final number two. What is final
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: number two? That means the second guy counting outside in.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: Well it might h I say, final, It might be
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: the running back he who aligns as the initial before
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: the ball snap number three again counting outside in. So
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: you tell im and worry, you got to match number two. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta line inside in number two and you got
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: to match final number two. So so let me let
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  Speaker 3: me put it into a practical terms. They're playing the
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  Speaker 3: forty nine ers Emon, Worry, it's he's on the wide
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  Speaker 3: hash he's got he's he's aligned inside and over the
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  Speaker 3: slot receiver.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a give ground.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: He's got to redirect so that that slot receiver doesn't
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: have fast access.
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  Speaker 2: Now the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 3: Create a McCaffrey in a final number two by even
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  Speaker 3: though he lined up in the backfield, he's he's out
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  Speaker 3: in the flat. They throw the ball to McCaffrey. Now booms,
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  Speaker 3: freeze the tape. You're going, whoa, that's a lot of
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: space for em and worry to have to bring down McCaffrey. Well,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 3: he flies like like he's got a turbo button again
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  Speaker 3: to the white side of the field. Inside out. Beautiful
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: technique comes in. It was a flood concept and quarterback
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: checks it down and it's like a two to three
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: yard gain with a brilliant tackle and open space. But
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: it's it's him using that athletic profile that he showed
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: you at the combine, the length, the long arms, the
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: ability to make tackles even if he doesn't get a
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: clean hit on you. Beautiful open field tackling. And then
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you say, that scheme works because
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: you got a freak who is the sam linebacker? Because
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: what did we do in this coverage? We took one
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 3: guy away from line scrimmage to put him in the back
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  Speaker 3: end to stop the deep pass. That put the burden
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: on the stambacker. That's what I would have drawn up
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: on a whiteboard with you before they even drafted Emon Worrey.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: So when you talk about Kyle Hamilton for the Ravens
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: and you talk about Emon Warrey doing this stuff, he's
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: able to make these plays. And oh, by the way,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: he had fifteen passes defensed that that was tied for
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: fourteen in the NFL. I looked at the list. Every
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: one of them above him was a cornerback, every single one.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: He was the hot He had more passes defense than
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: any safety in the NFL, and he missed three games.
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  Speaker 2: Now I get, well, he's a rookie. Yeah, Now I
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: get while you compared him to Margot Robbie, no matter
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: who you match him up against, he's always gonna look
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  Speaker 2: like the better one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Marcot Robbie's a little dated like my kids.
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  Speaker 2: He said, come on, man, you're that's so five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 3: But well, let's talk about Nick even Worry the Uh yes,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: it's man, this is dB porn right here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you got me going, thank you? Yeah? Even
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: Orri Yeah, what else we got? All right, let's talk
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: about him the pass rusher. Because I have a feeling
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: if Pete Carroll would have used him like Jamal Adams
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: was used. He'd had forty sacks uh in a season.
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  Speaker 2: So on what does he bring to the table as
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: a pass rusher. Let's get beyond his coverage skills and
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: talk about that extra element that he brings to this defense.
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  Speaker 3: He had sixty two pass rush snaps. He had a
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 3: twenty nine percent pressure rate. I didn't know this until
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: I did some studying for this segment. He was number
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: two in the NFL in pressure rate. Now, they're generally linebackers.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 3: And there's a little bit of an asterisk because Drake
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 3: Thomas is number nine and I filtered and watched the
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: entire tape of all of his pressures and and you know,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: it's it's that's a lot of scheme stuff. Again, Drake
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: Thomas is number nine in the NFL, And it kind
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: of makes sense because what did I say. I didn't
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: say total number of pressures. I said pressure percentage the
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: highest def you know, Miles, To put it into context,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: Miles Garrett and Aden Hutchinson were tied it for seventeen
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: and a half percent of there because they just have
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: a lot more snaps, right, But Amon Wore's sixty two
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: pass rush snaps and uh. You know, probably my favorite
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 3: pressure that he had in the forty nine or week
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: eighteen game. Uh, the Seahawks, they ran a zone pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Ultimately they disguise it, but it ends up as a
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: just three deep, three under five man pressure.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: In his zone pressure and Emon Worry, he it's his job.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: He lines up like a middle linebacker over the ball,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: but it's his job to go slam the left guard
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: of the forty nine ers and then have Leonard Williams
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 3: loop around. So it's it's like a pick in basketball, right,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: and uh, but a very aggressive pick because Emon Warr
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: is gonna slam that left guard.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: In the process of the forty nine ers, not to.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: Get into details that their communication wasn't good and they
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: didn't handle the pressure well. Now all of a sudden,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: even Warr's on blocks, so from that position he has
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: a starting and his acceleration is just insane. And and
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: you know when we talk about a forty three inch
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: vertical being the highest of anybody over two hundred pounds,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: that that's the that speaks to your explosion. You know
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: what It was explained to me in the UW weight
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: room that these you know, the vert and and your
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: your power cleans. You know, that's strength over time, that's power.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: And so to be able to get your body at
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: forty three inches, that just shows the explosions in his body.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 3: Back to the play against the forty nine ers, he
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: finds himself unblocked and now he accelerates and it's like
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: he got shot out of a slingshot and he just
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: in about four steps it seems like he's going seventy
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: five miles an hour right into the chest of Rock Purty.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, just a wicked hit. And this was on
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: third down and Purty dirts it over on the sideline
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  Speaker 3: five yards, bounces it, you know, punt forty nine ers
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  Speaker 3: and that you know, those type of plays, that ability,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: you know from scheme to be able to confuse the
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: forty nine ers, but then that closing ability and with
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 3: all that strength, you know, you know, he has the
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: chance to be lethal and and and really just even
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: even create more. You know, he only had two and
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: a half sacks, four quarterback hits, but I think that
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: there's opportunities to really up that.
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  Speaker 2: He was just great.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, on the coverage piece, you know,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 3: I mentioned, you know how the Seahawks.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: I touched on it in zone.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: Let me backtrack for a second, Chuck, if I can
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: about it allows them to play those those two high
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: safety structures that we call Cover four and Cover six,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: and and his role in man and man. He the
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: way they they would just put him in an alignment
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 3: and it didn't matter who it was. It was generally
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: the tight end. But he covered Christian McCaffery several times
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: on option routes and they didn't even throw to him.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: He had a pass defense in the in the NFC
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: Championship game, he had three passes defense. He's the only
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: rookie or sorry, he and Craig Woodson. There's only two
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: Key's in this entire decade that had three pass defenses
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: in a playoff game. But but uh Emon Worry had
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: it against the Rams. He had one against Pooka Nakua
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: and DeVante Adams, and earlier in the year he had
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: a past These are all in man and man situations
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: where the Seahawks they they put him on these on
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson, he gets a pass defense and he's a
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: mad he didn't get an interception. So his versatility as
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 3: a quarterback, I'm looking at You know, there's a play
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: against the Rams where where Eman Warr is lined up
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  Speaker 3: on the tight end in the slot, and then the
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: tight end he shifts out outside. Well, Eman Worry, Uh,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: he he aligns with the tight end. Well normally you say, well,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: if they if the defense bumps that zone, if if
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: they matched the way they did, that's man and man.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm a quarterback there, if I if I'm Matthew Stafford,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, that's a that's a man indicator. But
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: then they play Emon Worry. They play it looked like
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: it was gonna be man. They disguise a snap of
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: the ball, two safeties run back, and now you got
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: Emon Warry what's called cloud coverage where he's the zone
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: in the flat and and for anybody, any quarterback would
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: have said, well, that's a man indicator. No, it was
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: a cover two zone. It was almost the opposite of man.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: So that there he's got pass defense, uh, pass defenses
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: against the best receivers on the planet, and and the
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: versatility he has it allows.
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  Speaker 2: Him to do this.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: Now, I heard some chatter that they had they had
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: played him at defensive end. I can't remember the Viking
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: game or the Colt game. But whatever that chatter was,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: I went back and watched it every I said, no,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: I don't remember that. I would have remembered that. He
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: didn't play it down a defensive end. Now, he played
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: a lot of linebacker. He had, uh uh, he had
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: outside linebacker.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: He had.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: He had fifty eight to the right side and fifty
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: nine snaps to the left over the course of the season.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: But that's not that's not a defensive end. And by
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: the way, in the NFL stat portal war, I'm getting
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: all this stuff, you know, I line it up and
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: I go, all right, just defensive end. Show me the
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: snaps on defensive end zero. There's nothing so so as
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 3: versatile as he is, let's not get carried away. He's
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 3: a sam linebacker that can cover and match anybody in
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: the slot, no matter whether it's Dvante Adams or Puka Nakua,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: and so there's incredible versatilility there. He's got the strength
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: to play hardball in the middle with the with the
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 3: with the soft cover, with the two safeties back, and
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: they can stop the run. He can run to the
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: flat because he's such a great athlete and his length,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: the way he takes on blocks on bubble screens in
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: the on the wide side. I mean he took Kyle Yuschek,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: who might be a Hall of Famer. He's the best
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: fullback of his generation. Yushek was standing on the forty
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: yard line even where he came up and cracked him,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: and and Usk's heels went back to pass the thirty
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: eight yard line knocked him six seven feet back. So
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: he's got a physicality using that explosiveness in his body.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 3: So so I'll talk all day long about his versatility,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: but in the context that I'm describing, and he may
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 3: be a defensive end in the twenty twenty six season,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: but he wasn't last year.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, as we get ready for twenty twenty six,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: I mean I'm already like two three minutes over, so
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: quick answer on how good is he going to be
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: this year? How much better?
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: Softy we were talking about right off the season. I said,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: you know, take a bet on Emon Worry to be
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: the NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Now, it's probably
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: not going to happen. I'm not forecasting that, but I
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: said it's sixty to one odds. Well, Softy, he bought
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: a hundred bucks. So he wants to know how does
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: he get his six thousand on a one hundred dollars
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: bet based on that? Well, it's got to be splash plays.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: And I'm reading right out of the portal of the
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: NFL player defensive splash plays. That's their term, not mine.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: He had twenty eight splash plays, which are nine tackles
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 3: to lost fifteen pass defenses. I said, four quarterback hits,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: two and a half sacks, one interceptions, zero force fumbles.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: He's gonna have to have something on those charts. He's
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: gonna have to up his splash plays somewhere, more sacks,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: more intercepts, Like he only had two and a half
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: sacks and one interception. So even though he was first
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: in safeties and fifteen pass defense, one of those stats
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: is got gotta raise. One or more of those stats
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 3: have got to raise. People are gonna talk about him
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: because the Seahawks defense, they're defending champions and everybody knows
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: they're the best defense on the planet, at least they
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: were in twenty twenty five, and so he's gonna have
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: that going for him. But he's gonna have to show
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 3: some numbers in those categories.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: All right man, great stuff, Thank you very much. Love
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: it right. Okay, here mellan about pumpkin pie.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: Next time, I'll tuckle.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: Anything anything fun. All right, There he is, Hugh Mellan
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: joining us to wrap up, and that is it. That's
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: a final Seahawks one series. We had to get em
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: and more in and turns out he was the guy
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: to assign that job to. All right, coming up next,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: ABC's of the M's on Sports Radio ninety three point
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: three KJRFM, Chuck and Ashley with you. We allow the
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: alphabet to be our guide through a daily Mariner segment.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: Doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the game last night,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: but maybe it will. Last night's team did win eight
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: to three, that had a five to nothing lead, nearly
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: blew that and then answered a three run Angels seventh
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: with three runs of their own, so a thirteen hit
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: attack last night, eight runs scored in a moderately comfortable
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: victory over the Angels to push them back over five
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: hundred on the season at eight to three the final score.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: But we'll see where the alphabet takes us. We left
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: off of the letter g geus for Greg Maddox. Greg Maddox,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: This is what he was famous for. He was a
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: master and there was at the height of his career
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: and you can go look it up. Wait, he had
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: hitters so in the palm of his hand as a
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: pitcher that he would go stretches of games where hitters
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: would swing at all of the balls that he threw,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: the pitches outside of the zone and take all the strikes.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: That's how messed up. He had hitters that they were
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: sure that the balls that he was throwing, the balls
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: that he was intentionally throwing outside of the zone, were
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: going to be strikes, and then they would float out
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: of the zone. And then the guys, the ones that
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: they were sure were going to miss outside, they would
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: cut back and cut into the strike zone. I mean,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: he didn't do it every pitch. He didn't do it
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: like every it wasn't anything like that, but he did
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: it so regularly to hitters that that sort of became
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: his mo. Now let's bring this back to the Mariners,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: because this is a Mariner's segment that saw really geous
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: for gross moment for cal Rawley last night because he
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: hadn't at bat. That was the anti Greg Maddox. He
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: was the hitter who check swung at a pitch that
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: was hitable but outside of the zone. Then he swung
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: out of his ass on a pitch that wasn't anywhere
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: close to the strike zone, and then he took for
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: strike three a pitch right down the middle.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: Oh man.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: So the point is, Greg Maddox, he had you on
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: a string when you were swinging at the pitches he
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: was throwing outside of the zone and taking the ones
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: that he was throwing inside the zone. So, as a hitter,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: what is the opposite of that? When you see your
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: best player, your MVP runner up last year, your sixty
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: homer hitter last year, who can't get out of his
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: own way this season, stuck on eight home runs, stuck
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: in the one sixty batting average range, and you think
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: that he's starting to make progress. You have Ryan Healey
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: telling you on Tuesday, I see progress. It's going to
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: start clicking soon. And then he has an Ozero for
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: night last night and he hasn't at bat, which is
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: an anti Greg Maddox at bat. I'm worried about this.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: I'm really worried about this. We're not gonna be able
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: to get where we want to go if this guy
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't get on track.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 4: I would agree with that.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: And he has certainly not been to this point in
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: the year, and last night's game looked like a backslide
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: for him, back to old habits again. So I'm a
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: little worried right now about Cal and we need him.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: He needs to be good at least gias for good,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: even if he never reaches gas for great this year.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: He needs to be gas for good at the plate
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: otherwise we might not be able to pull off the
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: season that we anticipate.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think it's definitely fair to be worried.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 6: I'd think that he's probably worried about it because it's
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 6: very uncharacteristic of him. I mean, even before he'd had
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 6: his sixty home run season, he wasn't having a season
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 6: like this.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: No, no, ever, not even back to his rookie season,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: as he had a season like this as a hitter.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: All right, h is for.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 6: Hell?
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you tarps off guys. You're a bunch of copycat weirdos,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: and I think you really just want people to see
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: your nipples. I think that's your motivating force behind what
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: you're doing. And so I don't like the tarps off.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: I don't I think it's a copy of what the
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: Cardinals have done this year and started. I don't like
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: roll call. Yankees fans have been doing that for forty years.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: Let's not start doing that. That's Yankee territory. Let's not
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: be copycats. You didn't come up with anything original, But
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: what you did accidentally stumble upon as you were showing
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: off your nips last night was the potential for a
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: phenomenal chant that everyone should adopt this moment forward. Can
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: you imagine how much the Woo chant could grow by
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: the end of the year. Take a listen to this.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 8: Got a do chant going on here?
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: I got the tarps up, guys with the Norway chant
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: going on up there. Nope, Nope, that's not what they
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: were doing. They were starting to row.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they were starting it's champs.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the WU chant. They were starting the roll call,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: and they started with the pitcher. Now abandon the entire
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: roll call. But I mean, think about the noise that
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: that generated last night in the broadcast, and that was
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: just you know, forty shirtless teenagers, you know, up in
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: the upper deck. Can you imagine if we start doing
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  Speaker 2: this when Wu's in big games ahead in the count
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  Speaker 2: two outs, two strikes late in the inning, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the entire crowd starts building.
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  Speaker 4: Whoo, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Who like guttural? And we got forty five thousand people
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  Speaker 2: doing that during the playoffs. That'll be the most intimidating
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  Speaker 2: thing that's ever happened to it. Hitter, I say, we
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  Speaker 2: embraced this one. We got to give the half nude
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  Speaker 2: boys credit for this, even though they stumbled upon it
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  Speaker 2: and Aaron didn't pick up on.
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  Speaker 4: It, but been taking over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think this is what I think. I
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  Speaker 2: think we gotta take. I got we got to run
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  Speaker 2: with this one. I want to see this thing build
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  Speaker 2: and grow during the regular season, and I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: what kind of noise it will create in a stadium
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  Speaker 2: come playoff.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, picture out loud.
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  Speaker 6: It would be two strikes, two outs in the top
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  Speaker 6: of the six that T Mobile Park in a scoreless
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  Speaker 6: game October.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine it starts in the very first inning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, every time he's got two strikes.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, it just builds throughout
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  Speaker 2: the game. And then the later the game gets, the
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  Speaker 2: stronger it gets. Yep, oh boy, something, yes we are Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm all in tarps off. Guys. You may have
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  Speaker 2: come up with something and you did it purely by accident,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll give you credit for the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: season if this takes off. Because the woo woo woo
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  Speaker 2: chant could end up being special.
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  Speaker 4: I would agree.
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